Welcome to Young Guns our series exploring the most notable guitarists from the next generation of six-string legends For more interviews with the guitarists inspiring us right now click here WHO Chris Letchford frontman of the instrumental progressive metal group Scale the Summit didn’t mind sacrificing his social life for guitar practice while growing… Source    

While on tour in his native Australia last week Keith Urban stopped by the Monash Children’s Hospital in Melbourne to meet with some of the patients The “Somewhere in My Car” singer who returns to the United States with a July 11th appearance on Good Morning America’s summer concert… Source    

The final concert of Queen’s first headlining tour will be released as the live album Queen Live at the Rainbow ’74 on September 9th The group recorded the 17-song set on March 31st 1974 at a sold-out gig at the 3000-capacity London venue the Rainbow where they were playing songs from… Source    

It isn’t quite the reunion Genesis fans have been pining for but it’s still a reason to celebrate The beloved quintet lineup from the band’s classic prog-rock era (Peter Gabriel Phil Collins Tony Banks Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford) has joined forced for a new feature-length BBC documentary Genesis Together and… Source    

She’s one of the most successful and powerful women in Hollywood so it’s hard to imagine Rita Wilson getting starstruck — especially not in a strip mall in suburban Nashville But inside the tiny 90-seat Bluebird Café the actress looks around a room of country music songwriters like she’s a… Source    

Five years to the day after the release of The Beatles in Mono a box set of the group’s monaurally mixed catalog through 1968 the band is issuing a vinyl version of the box set Although the quartet put out stereo versions of their albums concurrent with the mono ones… Source    

In 2009 Pancake Mountain the alternative children’s television show that became a cult hit among adults for its performances by musicians such as Arcade Fire the White Stripes and Metric premiered on a local cable access show in Washington DC Starting today the show will return online with a new episode… Source    

Jay Z is changing the game again adding his spin to World Cup fever The rapper has contributed lines about soccer stars and Rio de Janeiro to “Jungle” the heavy-hitting anthem by British rocker Jamie N Commons and Brooklyn group X Ambassadors that accompanied the Beats by Dre Solo2 ad… Source    

Hip-Hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa’s records are the most important in the history of the genre; the patient zero whose breadth of genres influenced knowingly or not every subsequent DJ and hip-hop producer While Cornell University continues to digitally archive Bambaataa’s 40000+ record collection DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist will embark… Source    

“Weird Al” Yankovic will be back next month with his first new album in three years The veteran pop parodist announced over Twitter Saturday that the record will be released on July 15th after teasing the news with several hints of a “big important cryptic announcement coming” The final tweet… Source