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- “Bono took me aside and asked if I was sure I wanted him to sing this line”: Bob Geldof remembers what the U2 singer said to him before he recorded his vocals on Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?
- “He didn't want his credibility blown by being named on a Def Leppard album!”: The rockers’ secret weapon was a synth pop boffin
- “It's equivalent to 12 songs identified for every person on Earth”: Shazam exceeds 100 billion song recognitions
- “Every show is designed for the space, so every show is different”: Max Cooper explains the workings of his unique 3D/AV live shows
- “A musical union that sold more than 220 million records”: The new Fleetwood Mac documentary hailed as “definitive”
- “It came out exciting, almost attacking, which fit the James Bond image”: Vic Flick, who played the Bond theme guitar riff, dies aged 87
- Paul McCartney is joined by Jack White and St Vincent for five-guitar pile-up in Mexico City
- Easy to set up, great to play and beautiful to look at: Here’s why Arturia’s KeyLab Mk3 is the premium MIDI keyboard you need in your life
- “The importance of scales cannot be understated”: How to easily grasp scale theory
- November 19
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- “With the room calibration and support software, it's the most flexible mini monitor we’ve tried”: IK Multimedia iLoud Micro Monitor Pro review
- “Maybe I’m writing a song and it doesn’t follow the exact rules of songwriting. Or maybe this word doesn’t make sense next to this one, but that’s how I speak”: Beabadoobee says that “missteps” are more important than perfection in songwriting
- “It’s been road-tested, dropped on its head, kicked around, x-rayed, strummed, chicken-picked, and arpeggio swept!”: Fender and Chris Shiflett team up for signature Cleaver Telecaster Deluxe
- “I’d like to win these lyrics because I think it’s about a guy I know a little bit and I’d love to put that on my wall”: Billy Corgan enters auction of handwritten lyrics of Courtney Love’s song... about him
- I didn’t think online guitar lessons were for me until I tried Til - get $20 off your first lesson with a professional guitar player
- "If creators are using these technologies... we should let people listen to them": Spotify co-president says AI-generated music is welcome on the streaming platform
- “I co-wrote most of everything on the Beastie Boys album”: Rick Rubin on his greatest hits of the ’80s - from the Beasties to Roy Orbison
- Did someone say free guitar? Bag a Taylor BT-1 free of charge with this fantastic Black Friday acoustic deal
- “Seeking a well-mannered, affable individual. Flashy chops are wonderful, but groove and the ability to listen, react, and contribute to the musical conversation is a must”: Primus put the call out for potential new drummer
- “We are honoured that our company’s relationship with the legendary guitar player continues to this day”: Dunlop salutes wah pedal pioneer Eric Clapton with a gold-plated signature Cry Baby
- “Teenage Dirtbag has always felt like a bit of a queer anthem to me, even if it wasn’t meant to be - I love that I didn’t have to change a single lyric”: Cat Burns releases “unapologetic” cover of Wheatus’s 2000 hit
- “Back at that time, Rolling Stone was promoting Limp Bizkit and Korn, two overtly misogynist bands”: The Mars Volta tell their story in revealing documentary
- “These amplifiers set a new standard in high-performance amplification”: Blackstar unveils the St James 100, its state-of-the-art flagship tube amp and “world’s lightest” in its class – featuring switchable power tubes, CabRig tech and more
- “The contribution from these shows will keep venues open”: Katy Perry to donate £1 from every ticket sold on her 2025 UK tour to small venues
- “I’m working late, because I’m Santa”: Sabrina Carpenter brings A Nonsense Christmas to Netflix, and Chappell Roan, Tyla, Shania Twain and Kali Uchis are coming along for the ride
- “I'd rather listen to two foxes shagging in the bushes at 5.30 am”: Guess which classic British band Liam Gallagher is talking about?
- How to create satisfying lo-fi chords and progressions
- “It’s the best guitar in the world”: The Silver Sparkle Gibson Les Paul Florentine that Noel Gallagher played on Be Here Now fetches over $280,000 at auction
- Tame Impala's new instrument company reveals Orchid, a chord-generating keyboard designed to help "songwriters and musicians find what’s on their mind"
- “I feel like I’m not even making a record - I’m just tuning guitars!”: Myles Kennedy and Devin Townsend talk gear ahead of their joint tour
- November 18
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- “Axl did a great job”: But is the Guns N’ Roses singer about to rejoin AC/DC for a 2025 tour?
- "This might be the most affordable guitar from Strandberg, but you wouldn’t notice": Strandberg Boden Essential review
- "I'm like, I'm freaked out right now. I'm scared. I feel like I'm drowning on stage and I feel like I'm failing”: SZA on that misfiring Glastonbury headline set
- “It sounded so amazing that people said to me, ‘I can hear the bass’, which usually they don’t say to me very often”: U2 bassist Adam Clayton contrasts the live audio mix in the Las Vegas Sphere to “these sports buildings that sound terrible”
- "Even if people think it is ludicrous, it's an entry point. And people were just ready for a bit of fun”: Blossoms explain why they named their album Gary
- “A powerful, semi-autonomous co-creator”: Bastl’s Kastle 2 FX Wizard is a pocket-sized box of patchable effects
- Slate + Ash's Primaries / Strings brings together breathtaking solo strings with a powerful sound design engine
- With up to 80% off, Sweetwater currently has the biggest Black Friday savings musicians will find online right now – and the deals are even better than last year!
- “If I had the choice I would have respectfully declined the use of my vocals”: Ed Sheeran says he didn’t want to be on new Band Aid record
- “I love Bowie, but I was a kleptomaniac. I couldn't help it!": Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones remembers the night he stole David Bowie’s gear
- "Unexpectedly and unceremoniously terminated": Dave Mustaine must pay his ex manager over £1 million
- Here's the Black Friday deal DJs and home producers can't afford to miss - score up to 50% off hardware and software in Native Instruments' epic Cyber Season sale
- “It didn’t even represent what we were doing. Even the guitar solo has no business being in that song”: Gwen Stefani on the No Doubt song that “changed everything” after it became their biggest hit
- “I looked back, and Paul's got one of my guitars, and he's kind of messing around with it, right? And I'm mixing, so I said, 'Well, if you're going to be in here, why don't you help me mix this?'”: Richie Sambora on the day he met Paul McCartney
- “What am I doing there singing a ballad? I’m a rock singer!”: Lou Gramm, the original voice of Foreigner, blasts the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- “65% of Gen Z identify as creators, and 8% consider themselves 'Professional Fans' - earning money from their fan activities”: How self-releasing artists can build a dedicated audience in the 2020s
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- “I think that a specific drawback of this guitar could make it unsuitable for regular live use, but it’s still an inspiring acoustic for the home”: Yamaha TransAcoustic TAG3 C review
- “I hope the future guitarists who acquire these items are able to move closer to the genius who played them”: Over 130 of Jeff Beck’s guitars and amps headed to auction, including his Tele-Gib, Yardburst Les Paul and 'Blow By Blow' Oxblood Les Paul
- “When faced with whether to buy food or pay for another month of access to plugins, it’s the plugins that are probably going to suffer”: An alternative pitch to the monthly subscription model for music software
- The history of Korg in 21 synths: Inside Korg's new London museum
- “For players wanting to push boundaries and explore uncharted musical territory, this guitar becomes the perfect partner”: Harley Benton unveils the Nashville Nylon Plus Black – a cutaway nylon-string electro to rival Tim Henson’s Ibanez?
- Korg’s PianoRec gives you a simple way to make high-quality recordings of your digital piano, and the built-in mic means that you can capture your voice, too
- “An affordable entry point for fans of the most iconic electric solidbody design of all time”: Behold the $299 Les Paul, as Epiphone unveils beginner-friendly Tribute and Express versions of three Gibson classic guitars
- “If it sounds like I’m standing over a body that’s just been stabbed to death, then it’s perfect.” The brutal heavy metal masterpiece that had producer Rick Rubin yelling: “More Satan!”
- “I’d like to think that there's a big studio in the sky”: Shel Talmy, legendary producer of The Who and The Kinks, dies aged 87
- Calling all recording fanatics, you don't want to miss this epic Black Friday interface deal - bag up to $800 off select Universal Audio devices from Apollo to Volt
- “He’s on my turf, he’s going for Mick... I caught him with that Telecaster. Wallop! It was a good shot”: When Keith Richards took down a fan on stage
- Thomann just got Black Friday moving with their early Cyberweek sale - save up to 70% on select gear
- MusicRadar deals of the week: The official Black Friday sales are rolling in – save hundreds off everything you need to make music
- “Can you guess how small a 'hemidemisemiquaver' is?”: How to understand rhythm when reading music
- November 14
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- “Honestly I’d never even heard of Klons prior to a year-and-a-half ago”: KEN Mode’s Jesse Matthewson on the greatest reverb/delay ever made and the noise-rock essentials on his fly-in pedalboard
- “A wealth of features not seen before in a Klon-style pedal”: Walrus Audio’s Voyager MKII overdrive/preamp takes Centaur stage – equipped with footswitchable parametric mids, it promising “mythical magic” and absolute clarity
- “What we are after is not perfection. You’re looking for the flaws… the noise… earth hum. You’re looking for the arm-tight playing… the human aspect”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on inspirations, intuition, shred, and the problem with modern metal
- “They were the first white group that I’d ever heard in my life who said ‘yeah we grew up listening to black music”: Smokey Robinson and others describe huge cultural impact of the Beatles' first visit to America
- “Male bowerbirds spend the majority of the day creating elaborate and beautiful nests... in music, we can build a sonic ‘nest’ to capture ourselves”: Brian Eno to share creative ‘avant gardening’ tips in new online workshop
- “With proper playing dynamics, this creates a very cool effect that can sound like an exploding amp coming in and out of life”: EarthQuaker Devices and Lee Kiernan of IDLES introduce Gary, a drive/fuzz wildcard for maverick tone-seekers
- Donner’s MEDO puts creativity in your hands
- “Jim took the melody from Rita’s song and didn’t give her credit for writing it”: The piano that was used to record the famous coda from Derek & The Dominos' Layla is up for sale, but the writing credit for it remains controversial
- All aboard: New documentary charts the rise, fall and rise again of yacht rock
- “The Gretsch allowed me to create, what I think is the most important thing for any guitar player, and that is to find your own sound and your style”: Gretsch and Billy Duffy’s collaboration takes flight with a signature Falcon for the Cult guitarist
- With up to 50% off everything from guitars to drums, PA systems to keyboards, the Guitar Center Black Friday sale is one your whole band can shop
- “I have never heard a better ‘rock’ piano”: From The Beatles to Bowie, Queen to Elton John, how the rich, distinctive tone of the Trident Studios house piano graced the grooves of some of the finest songs ever recorded
- Lots go crazy: An Oberheim OB-8 synth from the Purple Rain sessions and the Amek mixing board that Prince used to record Dirty Mind in his home studio are both up for auction
- “It was playing when I first met Priscilla at a college party, so every year we listen to it on our dating anniversary”: Mark Zuckerberg has made and released an acoustic cover of a hip-hop record, as a romantic gesture
- “An ultra-rare, Golden Era signature model, now available for everyone”: Gibson celebrates one of its original guitar icons with the Mary Ford Les Paul Standard – a stunning Goldtop with vintage Cherry back, floral armrest and pickguard
- “More music is being released today (in a single day) than was released in the calendar year of 1989”: How the music production industry has taken note of the huge number of self-releasing artists
- “I used it to build harmonic drones to start my live set, which then evolved into songs like Across the River”: Peter Gabriel on the classic ‘80s digital reverb that’s just landed as part of Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 and Logic Pro for iPad 2.1
- Teenage Engineering's OP-XY is a hybrid of OP-Z and OP-1... and costs more than the two of them combined
- “Yes, we’re aware that an overdrive pedal this tiny is a bit ridiculous”: Olinthus has just made the world’s smallest stompbox and it’s a $99 TS clone that fits in the palm of your hand
- “Don't be scared to load in a track you like into your DAW as a reference”: New to making tracks? Start here
- "Biggest ever show": Coldplay to play the world’s biggest stadium in January
- November 13
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- “Delivers an interesting mix of retro flavour, and contemporary functionality”: Heritage Audio i73 Pro 2 review
- "A guitar that looks a million bucks and is sure to turn heads": Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Jimi Hendrix 'Love Drops' Flying V review
- “I was totally floored!”: Myles Kennedy hails the “genius” of his touring buddy Devin Townsend
- “The human manifestation of the word ‘hip’... Always in the moment, always in this time, eternal and classic and at the same time totally nonchalant about it”: Jazz legend Roy Haynes dies aged 99
- SampleRadar: 139 free dream pop samples
- “Cliff was the strongest of the four of us emotionally”: Lars Ulrich on how Metallica recovered from the death of bassist Cliff Burton
- Zildjian at Recording Week 2024: Introducing the ALL-NEW lineup of Zildjian ALCHEM-E Series electronic drum kits
- “The bass solo in My Generation is one of the classic bass things of all time. And John Entwistle said it was the bane of his life”: Rick Wakeman explains the problem with recording a classic solo, and how he experienced it with Yes’s Close To The Edge
- "I'd rather have my immortality while I'm alive. I don't care if it lasts beyond me at all. I'd just as soon it didn't.": But Jerry Garcia Foundation teams up with AI company to create Garcia voice model
- “The music industry is directly responsible for 540,000 tons of carbon emissions each year”: AIR Studios set an example by embracing climate sustainability
- “The true identities behind Sleep Token are immaterial”: How these masked men became the biggest cult band in the world
- IK Multimedia’s revered amp-modelling stomps are getting a Black Friday boost: Score 100 FREE metal-ready patches when you purchase a Tonex pedal
- “What you’re about to play should be influenced by what you just played”: 5 tips for better solos and cover versions by master guitarist Greg Koch
- "Still stands as a rebuke to that period in which it was first heard": Bob Geldof announces new remixed version of Do They Know It’s Christmas for single’s 40th anniversary
- “DON'T bathe every sound in cathedral-sized decay”: 10 ways to make lo-fi sounds
- TIDAL will "part ways with a number of folks" and needs to operate “like a start-up again” as parent firm announces it will “scale back” investment
- November 12
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- “That guy was hitting wrong notes with such authority that I just fell in love with it!”: Devin Townsend gives a troubled singer a much-needed boost
- Spitfire Audio’s Cells captures the beauty and unpredictability of Ólafur Arnalds' music in your DAW
- “It’s a beautiful instrument that suits many different styles of playing”: Lerxst celebrates 40 years of Rush’s Grace Under Pressure by unveiling Grace – a limited edition replica of Alex Lifeson’s Hentor Sportscaster
- “An irresistible blend of Fender and Gretsch DNA”: Gretsch Electromatic Jack Antonoff Signature CVT Double-Cut review
- "For me (it’s) the last, most egregious oversight in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”: Tom Morello says he’ll “chew” his leg off to get this band in
- IK Multimedia have gone mad with amp modeling discounts this Black Friday - get 75% off the Amplitube 5/Tonex bundle
- "A late contender for 2024’s best new synth": Polyend Synth review
- “Capture the sound, feel and quirks of one of history’s favourite combos”: Origin Effects promises ‘50s Fender amp tones for your 'board with the Deluxe55 Tweed Recreation
- “I get paid, so why not?": Sting says he’s fine with other artists interpolating and sampling his music, and that Every Breath You Take hasn’t been “tainted” for him
- “Even on our bad day we’ll still wipe the floor with majority of bands out there”: Oasis still have it, claims Liam Gallagher
- “It gives people an opportunity to feel what it's like to hold a Golden Era 000-45”: Martin brings a unicorn vintage acoustic back to life with stunning $19,999 recreation of Joe Bonamassa’s 1941 000-45
- Wave Alchemy's Magic7 emulates a $4,000 Bricasti M7 reverb - and it's giving the plugin away for free
- “He said, ‘Simon, Duran Duran are the last of the great British R&B bands.’ ‘R&B?’ I said. He said ’yes, you know what I mean - like, Beatles, Rolling Stones”: Simon Le Bon thinks that the “golden era” of the band is over
- “Good thing the custom shops are up high!”: Guitar Center in Sherman Oaks flooded after car ploughs into fire hydrant
- “We’d all heard the myth of Miles Davis – the scary Miles Davis. But he liked us skinny little white boys!”: How the jazz legend ended up on a Toto record
- “In 5 minutes, I could write you something that would sound like a song that would’ve been a Siamese Dream song in ‘92”: Billy Corgan on how he could write old Pumpkins' songs any time, if he wanted
- Roland’s new AI ‘technology preview’ claims it can “freshen ideas, remove writer’s block, and discover the undiscovered” – and you can try it right now
- “Having a little knowledge of music theory can open many doors”: The quick guide to reading music
- “It’s about more than just a guitar – this is about giving players a platform to express their individuality”: Fender celebrates 50 years of Hello Kitty with super-kawaii Squier Strat, fuzz pedal and collectible accessories
- November 11
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- “The overall quality of sound, not least for the price, is exceptional": PRS SE Custom 24 Semi-Hollow Piezo review
- Are you a sampling genius? Win $10,000 and have your track released on Ninja Tune with Tracklib's Sample Breakdown competition
- "I fell in love with the Squier Paranormal Jazzmaster XII when I reviewed it, so much so I bought it": Grab your own for 20% less in Fender's Early Black Friday sale
- “There was some madman running around inside the hall with a meat cleaver, chopping into people!”: How Angus Young remembered AC/DC’s scariest gig
- “Gonna make sure the block gets lifted man, hit my squad up early this am”: Tyler, The Creator gets copyright strikes lifted so fans can discuss new album
- “Somebody needs to occasionally slap Rick Rubin”: Pete Townshend criticises producer’s mixed messages about creativity
- “The first time we played together it was stunning!”: The words of John Bonham in the forthcoming Led Zeppelin documentary
- Capture the sound of renowned composer Max Richter's piano with SRM Sounds' free Dark Mode instrument
- “I asked him if he played air guitar. He said, ‘Why would I when I can play real guitar?’”: Eric Clapton had a perfectly logical response when comedian Frank Skinner asked him if he ever plays air guitar
- Say goodbye to buyer's remorse this Cyber Weekend with the Andertons Black Friday Price Promise
- Taylor Swift, Tyla big winners at the MTV Europe Awards in Manchester
- “I bought a serial killer’s record collection!”: North Carolina YouTuber reveals its lurid contents…
- “You can easily construct your own bespoke beat rather than relying on stock loops”: How to make fresh lo-fi beats
- “One of my kids comes up to me years later and showed me a picture of me – I think at a Knebworth concert – with a great big joint in my hand”: How David Gilmour was caught out over his claim he never smoked
- November 9
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- “I made him an offer of about half of what it was really worth”: The million-dollar guitar that George Benson bought for peanuts!
- “There’s warmth and there’s grit, it’s really quite incredible… and I actually recorded with this amp. I love it”: Orianthi and Orange Amps join forces for the White Crush 20RT – a 20W solid-state combo with onboard tuner
- “I made this pedal because I wanted it in my own rig, but I'm betting you'll love its range and usability too”: Wampler Pedals unveils Catacombs, a programmable pedal packing 11 delay/reverb sounds to “redefine your relationship with time-based effects”
- “I’m all about Dimebag and Zakk Wylde!”: Tetrarch guitarist Diamond Rowe salutes the giants of metal
- “I had moments where I thought, ‘I am in a great place. I can make music… then somehow, everything would fall apart. That’s what the song was about”: Brian May on how The Night Comes Down was born of depression – and the desire to prove people wrong
- "The crown jewel of grand pianos": Native Instruments' Claire captures the sound of the world's largest grand piano in production
- “I know we’re making twice as much money as Metallica, but can you please put ’em on after us, because they’re killing us?”: How a hair metal band’s dream gig turned into a nightmare
- “If you’re looking for deep, low-end growling in a sleek, no-nonsense design…”: Harley Benton expands Agufish series with two high-performance single-cuts and a 28” scale baritone for monster riffs
- “Kids are definitely going to do this at school and get beat up”: Fortnite introduces Snoop Dogg as a new non-player character
- “It’s like there’s another guitar player there - he’s just not actually there!”: How one metal guitarist sounds like two
- “To be honest, when Bruno first sent me the demo I thought it was kind of cheesy. But he just knew, and he said - in the nicest possible way - ‘It’s this way or the highway’, and he was completely right”: Mark Ronson on the making of Uptown Funk
- “It just dropped down and my skin fell down with it. People would vomit when they saw it”: Slipknot’s Shawn Crahan on his ‘worst’ injury
- “A company built on industrial-scale copyright infringement”: Universal Music sue digital distributors to the tune of $500 million
- “All subscription models are from Satan and there is a special place in hell for those people in charge that went for this business model”: Are music software subscriptions really as bad as some people say?
- November 7
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- “That was the first time that I knew that I recorded the song incorrectly. Because I remember, when she said that, I wanted to crawl into a hole”: Luke Combs on being told by Tracy Chapman that he’d made a mistake in his cover of Fast Car
- Across the Spooniverse: Meet Hunter and Abby, the Spoon Man and Spoon Lady at the forefront of the spoons revival
- “An amazing sounding product, and very capable thanks to its augmentation in operation, geared towards ultimate creativity”: GForce Oberheim OB-1 review
- “I was leaving the studio, but they were like, ‘we’re doing country, man!’ and I was just like, ‘that’s different, let’s go.’ We did one country idea, then we started Texas Hold ’Em”: Killah K on the making of a lead single from Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter
- “This is like Buddy Rich saying Ringo couldn’t drum. Because, coming from Buddy Rich’s sensibility, Ringo can’t drum”: What Paul McCartney said about that beef with Quincy Jones
- “There’s constant hype about the instruments, synths, speakers and computers that producers use - but will your music sound better because of that?”: Gábor Lázár on sound design, generative techniques and designing his own instruments in Max
- “If you master just 10% of its power, you'll be able to create pro tracks in no time”: New to DAWs? Start here
- Waves is teasing a free plugin to be dropped on Black Friday - sign up today to be first in line
- November 6
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- “The beauty of Anti is that it is way more than just a 5150 emulation”: Universal Audio Anti 1992 High Gain Amp pedal review
- “Beyoncé is a scientist of songs. I’ve never seen anyone work the way she works”: Why Beyoncé's Lemonade remains an enduring 21st century classic
- “That’s a part of the story that suckers some young people in, you know... Dying young is good for the record company, but what’s in it for you?”: Springsteen on the pressures of fame
- “He’d be like, ‘Let’s throw Lukather in there.’ The next thing I knew, I’m in a room with Stevie Wonder and all these guys. It was like a childhood dream come true”: Steve Lukather on Quincy Jones’ ability to create “magic” in the studio
- Found! The artists behind ‘the most mysterious song on the Internet’ revealed at last
- "This is a very impressive neck experience for a guitar at this price": Harley Benton TE-62DB review
- "Make composing, producing and mixing more inspirational than ever": Steinberg launches Cubase 14 with new pattern editor, drum machine, effects, modulators and more
- “Musicians that have invested in the platform over the years deserve more than this”: Maschine 3.0 software review
- “An easy door into film score creation, and a wealth of creative possibilities”: Sonuscore The Score review
- The long and winding history of Rhodes: New Anthology plugin leads classic electric pianos to your DAW
- "We can't quite believe that this is free!": 7 of the coolest free plugins we discovered this month
- “He gets up on a high horse on that part... He rides the horse!”: What Green Day would sound like without guitars and Jon Batiste on piano
- Waves just launched 3 massive early Black Friday software offers - and you can get your hands on one of them for absolutely nothing
- “I’m not getting any sound from one of my pads!”: 10 common electronic drum set issues and how to troubleshoot them
- “It was very, very warm and wonderful. I was crying at a certain point because I felt that I had hurt him”: Simon and Garfunkel have patched up their old friendship
- "It's what the overwhelming majority of us listen to first and foremost": How to become a master of melodies
- November 5
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- “As soon as he is in the studio, he hears his voicing come back at him through the speakers and says, ‘No, I don’t like that’”: Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor on how “manic goat” Freddie Mercury found his voice and became rock’s greatest frontman
- “You can actually play something like a digital horn, for example”: Archive BBC footage reveals the wonders of MIDI music making in 1990
- “For guitarists and bassists looking for a portable solution to bring along on their travels…”: Meet the JAMster series, the $42 desktop guitar and bass amps from Harley Benton you can take anywhere
- “You have these silly lists that come out about the greatest guitar players; I usually don’t even make them... or they’ll put me behind somebody who I could play circles around”: Billy Corgan feels he’s underrated as a guitarist
- Dreadbox unveils Artemis, a 6-voice analogue poly inspired by the Typhon monosynth
- “I did a demo. I had Sheila E playing on it and Michael sang on it. I played it for Quincy and he said, ‘No.’”: Greg Phillinganes on the Michael Jackson song arrangement that Quincy Jones rejected because it wasn't "sexy" enough
- “The core thing to remember is that your beats are slow - 90 bpm maximum - and they are filthy”: Unpacking the dark, sample-based sound of trip-hop
- “Kurt was sitting in the bathtub with a Walkman on, listening to the song, and when the tape ended, he kissed me and said, 'Oh, finally, now I don't have to be the only songwriter in the band!'”: Dave Grohl's evolution as a songwriter
- “Limited mentally – a megalomaniac, narcissistic. I can’t stand him”: The late Quincy Jones on Donald Trump
- “Using this pedal is like adding a new and ultra-flexible distortion channel to your favorite clean amplifier”: JHS Pedals and Lari Basilio join forces for Violet, a versatile overdrive/distortion with a powerful EQ
- Online fraudsters scamming 100s of Oasis fans: Lloyds Bank reveals £1,000s are being stolen via fake ads and social media posts
- “He was one of the weirdest bass players in the history of rock”: 5 basslines that capture the genius of The Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh
- “Will breathe some vintage life into any sterile DAW and has some quality components all wrapped up in a tidy and easy workflow”: Harrison/SSL 32Classic Channel Strip review
- November 4
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- Black Friday is fast approaching, but we think the best deals are happening right now - get $700 off a Gibson Les Paul at Guitar Center
- “I am about to delve into P-90 world pretty hard... whenever I pick up a guitar with P-90s in it I get some inspiration”: Warren Haynes says he has been working with Gibson on two prototype signature guitars and one is a Firebird with three P-90s
- “Carefully designed to add masterfully crafted saturation, distortion, and tone”: Supercool Pedals unveils The Barstow Bat, a deluxe Rat-inspired distortion with 3-band EQ and switchable silicon/LED clipping
- “You only live 26,000 days, and I'm telling you, I'm gonna wear all of them out. They're gonna know we came through here”: The life and legacy of Quincy Jones
- “We went back to the dressing room. He said, ‘Yeah, it stays in tune great! But if you could make it a little slinkier’”: Gibson’s master luthier Jim DeCola reveals the Leo Fender-inspired mods he made to Randy Rhoads’ guitar just hours before showtime
- Teenage Engineering's OP-XY is on the way - but what could this OP-Z successor look like?
- “A great value phaser plugin with movement, powerful peaks, dirt and drama”: Minimal Audio Ripple Phaser review
- “We've taken the iconic pedal to new heights with hand-wired craftsmanship, premium components, and a boosted output”: Ibanez rolls out the upgrades on its flagship overdrive pedal for the launch of the TS808HW V2 Tube Screamer
- "There will never be another like him": Quincy Jones, titan of pop, jazz and film music, dies aged 91
- 5 Quincy Jones songs producers need to hear
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- "If you're not joining in, you're out… I got my P45”: How the Bee Gees, Burt Bacharach and coke derailed the first attempt at recording Oasis's Definitely Maybe
- “Attentively crafted in Japan and exquisite in style”: Charvel expands its high-end MJ series with a trio of stunning S-styles with wenge necks and primo features
- “At full bore, it’s brilliant fun for doomy metal riffs and speaker-blowing Stooges-style punk”: Beetronics Tuna Can Fuzz Pedal review review
- “Michael Stipe said it was his favourite dance album – he used to put it on and then write his lyrics for REM to it”: Rave icons Utah Saints on their legacy, sampling Kate Bush, and the challenges of making their debut album
- “All of these things that I do on record using a few guitars, I've all got it in the one guitar that I can carry around with me”: Martin unveils 7-string Johnny Marr signature acoustic with an octave G string for added jangle
- “That’s all I had. FL Studio and four plugins made Midnight Request Line”: Skream on how he made his biggest track, why he doesn’t mix his own music, and dropping his 13-year-old son’s tune in a Boiler Room set
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