Will Groves
I'm lucky enough to be MusicRadar's Editor-in-chief while being, by some considerable distance, the least proficient musician on the editorial team. An undeniably ropey but occasionally enthusiastic drummer, I've worked on the world's greatest music making website in one capacity or another since its launch in 2007. I hope you enjoy the site - we do.
Latest articles by Will Groves
"The crowd erupts every time": The Killers' Dave Keuning on the birth of the band's signature tune
By Will Groves published
How a cosy closet and experimenting with voicings birthed Mr Brightside
"I’ve finally been able to make my dream a reality": MidiWrist Unleashed offers MIDI control wizardry from your Apple Watch
By Will Groves published
Wrist controller now untethered from its previous iPhone gateway
Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood is bringing church organ music to the modular masses
By Will Groves published
But, says the thinking fan's rock star, “I think a lot about Never Mind the Bollocks"
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"
Kenny Aronoff recalls his terrifying Jack and Diane fill experience
By Will Groves published
How extreme stress birthed the iconic heart of John 'Cougar' Mellencamp's smash hit
"I’d never made a guitar before": Now Prince's Cloud 3 is expected to hit up to $600k at auction
By Will Groves published
"It’s amazing what you can do if you’re put on the spot", said Luthier Dave Rusan
Influential music, film and tech festival SXSW is coming to London in 2025
By Will Groves published
Events will take place across Shoreditch, London for a week in June next year
The samples from every Prodigy album track have been found and clipped in this YouTube masterpiece
By Will Groves published
Hats very much off to Eightminutesupsidedown for this frankly staggering piece of work
Tributes paid to "Sultan of Twang", Duane Eddy, who has died aged 86
By Will Groves published
Rebel Rouser instrumentalist was massively influential founding father of rock 'n' roll
"Check your attic": Lost Lennon Help! guitar tipped to beat the current $2.4m Beatles auction record
By Will Groves published
Could it eclipse the $6m bill for Cobain's MTV unplugged acoustic?
Jacob Collier calls Rick Rubin's creative manifesto "absolutely false"
By Will Groves published
Musical polymath takes issue with bearded superproducer
"The biggest free music-making weekend of the year’: Learn to Play event returns for 2024
By Will Groves published
UK-wide extravaganza will offer 1000s of free taster lessons to players and singers
Win a residency at a top London studio and the chance to perform with Amy Winehouse's band
By Will Groves published
Hurry though - entries for this potential big break close this week
"I never intended the statement to mean 'Paul McCartney quits Beatles'... It was all a misunderstanding": The day the world learned the Fab Four were over
By Will Groves published
McCartney spilled the beans on this day in 1970
"I named it when I was drunk but I don't remember what the catalyst for that was!": Gibson reveals the Slash “Jessica” Les Paul Standard
By Will Groves published
Slash's go-to live weapon gets a faithful repro outing
"What a talent. What a character": Tributes to Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel star, who has died aged 73
By Will Groves published
World Party and The Waterboys star Karl Wallinger has died, aged 66
By Will Groves published
Waterboys' leader Mike Scott leads tributes, writing "You are one of the finest musicians I've ever known"
"Brit was Blackberry Smoke’s True North, the compass that instituted the ideology that will continue to guide this band": Blackberry Smoke drummer Brit Turner dies, aged 57
By Will Groves published
Atlanta stalwart's death following cancer battle confirmed by band
The 'difficult' Police hit based on a 1980 Casiotone synth preset: "The first song written by AI," reckons Stewart Copeland
By Will Groves published
"Those little riffs that they had on them are really cool"
The redcoats are coming: Vox launches "extremely limited" British amp invasion
By Will Groves published
'Classic vintage red' livery coming to the Vox AC Custom range very soon
Four fab Beatles biopics are on the way: Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr will each get a full Sam Mendes movie
By Will Groves published
Oscar-nominated Bond and American Beauty director aiming to "challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies"
"The one that Johnny gave me in 1994 was always one of my favourite guitars - it carries a lot of history": Gibson and Noel Gallagher reveal strictly-limited run of 20 hand-signed Les Paul Customs
By Will Groves published
All proceeds will go to the Teenage Charity Trust
The Paul McCartney Beatles song John Lennon hated: "He made us do it a hundred million times. He did everything to make it into a single and it never was, and it never could've been"
By Will Groves published
Paul McCartney: “I remember the guys getting pissed with me... I was trying to get what was in my head.”
"People are going for the sure shots": Music publishing giants and songwriters score big at Super Bowl 2024, with ad sync fees garnering millions
By Will Groves published
Billboard Pro sources put even the lowest sync fees at $150k each
"I don’t need some w**k award by some geriatric in a cowboy hat": Liam Gallagher is less than bothered about Oasis' Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination
By Will Groves published
Other, hopefully keener, 2024 nominees include Ozzy Osbourne, Sinead O’Connor, Jane’s Addiction, and A Tribe Called Quest
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