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"I always think this is the closest anyone has ever come to making the perfect record": The story of The Undertones' punk classic Teenage Kicks
By Rob Laing published
Guitarist and songwriter John O’Neill on how a young band from Derry created a classic: "I can’t believe someone didn’t come up with it before me"

"An effortless command of musical time”: A music professor breaks down Amy Winehouse's Back to Black
By Ethan Hein published
With Winehouse's biopic in the cinemas, we put her best-loved song under the musical microscope

Let It Be director Michael Lindsay-Hogg on that Paul vs George row and his restored "break-up" movie
By Will Groves published
"For them it was business as usual"

"Rap purists wouldn't dig us as we weren't straight-up rap. We weren't an indie group, or a rock group": Stereo MC Rob Birch on the making of classic '90s album Connected
By Roy Spencer published
Connected was the sound of the Stereo MCs' summer, but it became the soundtrack to dance music's year

Dweezil Zappa to finish all-star guitar track featuring epic “greatest hits” Eddie Van Halen solo
By Jonathan Horsley published
Zappa has been working on this instrumental piece for over 30 years and it features Joe Walsh, Eric Johnson, Angus and Malcolm Young and more, and two solos from Eddie Van Halen

The contender for instrumental guitar album of the year is arriving on 1 May
By Rob Laing published
Nashville stringers Tom Bukovac and Guthrie Trapp together on record at last – "We kept a lot of first takes"

"Plugins get tricky because you start to hear with your eyes. Some of them have flashy interfaces - they make you think they’re doing more than they’re actually doing": St. Vincent on self-producing All Born Screaming
By Kate Puttick published
As Annie Clark releases her seventh album, Kate Puttick learns why the studio is both her heaven and her hell, and why there’s still a place for drum machines even when you’ve got Dave Grohl to hand

"We are each other’s Rick Rubin": Justice on keeping production in house for new album Hyperdrama
By Matt Mullen published
Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé lift the lid on their creative process in a new interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe

New album of unreleased Johnny Cash songs announced – first single Well Alright streaming now
By Jonathan Horsley published
Songwriter is out 28 June and features songs the Man In Black first tracked in '93, produced and restored by son John Carter Cash and David “Fergie” Ferguson in the company of an all-star band

"We referenced The Cure a lot while making it": Stone Gossard reveals Pearl Jam's new album influence
By Rob Laing published
"You could be the greatest guitar player in the world but a ten-year-old could learn to play that in an hour", he says of the "magic" melodic moments he loves to discover in songwriting
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