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"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
The borrowed hooks and unstable grooves behind Michael Jackson's Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
We put one of MJ's best-loved tunes under the musical microscope and explore the unlikely origins of its iconic hook
Ride's Mark Gardener: "I’m definitely a gear nerd, but I had to stop otherwise I’d have gone bankrupt"
The Ride frontman chats to Danny Turner about the shoegaze tag and the driving force behind their seventh album, Interplay
"Songwriting for me, at the time of Rubber Soul, was a bit frightening because John and Paul had been writing since they were three years old": How The Beatles raised their game in 1965 to create a masterpiece that "broke everything open"
The Beatles' sixth album Rubber Soul was a colossal creative leap and marked the point at which albums began to be viewed as works of real artistic merit