Latest articles by Will Groves
"People are going for the sure shots": Music publishing giants and songwriters score big at Super Bowl 2024, with ad sync fees garnering millions
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
Other, hopefully keener, 2024 nominees include Ozzy Osbourne, Sinead O’Connor, Jane’s Addiction, and A Tribe Called Quest
“All I want to do is keep doing this”: Taylor Swift makes Grammys history, as female-dominated awards also honour Boygenius, Miley Cyrus, SZA and Billie Eilish
Jack Antonff, accepting Producer award, says "Taylor Swift kicked that f***ing door open for me"
"Brother Wayne Kramer was the best man I’ve ever known": Tributes for MC5 co-founder Wayne Kramer, who has died aged 75
Tom Morello says he "basically invented punk rock music", while Jack White calls Kramer "definitely part of the solution"
"TikTok’s tactics are obvious: use its platform power to hurt vulnerable artists and try to intimidate us": Taylor Swift and The Beatles' label UMG goes to corporate war with "bully" TikTok, saying it will pull its entire catalogue
Universal Media Group accuses social media giant of - amongst other things - "sponsoring artist replacement by AI"
"F**k it – let's go do it": On this day in 1969, John Lennon gave the final green light to The Beatles' legendary rooftop performance
Celebrating an iconic gig on its anniversary: "Someone called from the police station saying, ‘You’ve got 10 minutes'... there was a whole chorus of toilets being flushed.”
Women in the music industry have had "their lives ruined and their careers destroyed by men who have never faced the consequences for their actions" finds scathing report
Misogyny is "endemic" and "the tip of the iceberg"
"A way of harnessing the brain’s agility and resilience": New study links playing an instrument to better memory in older age
Music making shown to boost executive function
"Music time's over": The sad story of the 145-year-old Martin acoustic that Kurt Russell destroyed on Quentin Tarantino's orders
NAMM 2024: On display for the first time, this sad pile of wood was a historic 1870s parlor on loan from the Martin Guitar Museum
NAMM 2024: "Practice anytime and anywhere" with Vox's amPlug 3 range of 7 classic bass and guitar amp-cloning headphone amps
"Reinvented" range aims for classic AC30 sounds, boutique vibes, versatile bass tones and more
NAMM 2024: "The perfect practice partner"? Korg's cute new KR-11 drum machine's mission is to make beats for players, with minimum fuss
Battery-powered beat machine looks a lot of fun
"I developed an AI clone of my own musical brain," claims techno star Reinier Zonneveld
Dutch star's B2B DJ buddy is apparently "able to play together with me and create music on the spot"
"Rather naively, we thought we'd write a song that could be played by machines and all we'd have to do was press the button": The real reason New Order made Blue Monday, and the gear that powers it
The birth of a landmark track. Plus, learn how to recreate that famous Moog bassline
"A trailblazer, spirited, adventurous, fearless, hilarious, smart": Annie Nightingale, influential DJ, dies aged 83
Tributes pour in for first female Radio 1 presenter
"We want to empower people to regain control": New AI-powered app promises to alleviate tinnitus suffering
Mindear combines sound treatment with chatbot-guided cognitive behavioural therapy
Del Palmer, Kate Bush's bassist, engineer and long-time collaborator dies, aged 71
Palmer contributed to every Kate Bush album between 1978 and 2011
Pete Townshend talks Clapton and more: "I remember Leslie West saying to me, ‘I prefer your licks to Eric’s. He seems to be playing things that he’s learned, that he’s picked up from other blues players’"
Who legend goes on record in extensive magazine interview
Slipknot sued for “callously” profiting from Joey Jordison’s death by drummer’s estate
Lawsuit alleges band used former drummer's belongings for profit and promotion
Hear the first known recording of Eddie Van Halen playing Jump's iconic, band-breaking synth part: "If I want to play Bavarian cheese whistle, I will do it"
Best of 2023: "This is something I did last night"
Eddie Van Halen on how he discovered tapping watching Led Zep: "I never claimed that I invented it! But I do know how and when I figured out how to do it..."
Best of 2023: "I never really heard anybody do with it what I did, which is actual pieces of music"
"Hell, let’s do it": John Lennon wrote and recorded Instant Karma in one day. Here's how it happened
Remembering Lennon: "It was like all hell breaking loose. Tape machines, tape loops, tape delays, echo chambers, you name it!"
Meet XLN Audio's AI-powered "happy accident machine": Life is a potentially highly addictive field recorder and plugin that makes instant beats from found sounds
Plugin/mobile combo takes any sound and turns it into music
RØDE acquires rival Mackie to create audio powerhouse: "Their origin story is uncannily similar to ours"
Firms join forces under the Freedman Group umbrella, with "big announcements" promised ahead of NAMM '24
