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May 31
- 10 questions for David Andersson
- NI is promising an intense, cinematic Thrill in its latest plugin instrument
- Hits decoded: 3 things that make the rhythm section of Bruno Mars’ That’s What I Like worth your time
- Elektron Digitakt - MusicRadar hands-on
- Dan Maines talks Clutch, Psychic Warfare and tonal minimalism
- Thought Korg Gadget for Mac was too pricey? Well, now there’s a free version
- TC-Helicon revolutionises the talk box with hoseless TalkBox Synth pedal
- Ovation reissues Glen Campbell signature acoustic guitars
- Joyo releases affordable BanTamP Jackman Bluetooth mini tube guitar amp head
- The playlist: AFI's Jade Puget
- Martin Chambers talks getting fired, mourning friends and enjoying 40 years with the Pretenders
May 30
- 20 electronic artists set to smash the 2017 festival season
- Electro-Harmonix prepares for Battalion with new bass preamp & DI pedal
- The Workshop: how to service drum hardware
- Is this George Harrison's first ever guitar?
- Victory releases V130 The Super Countess 100W guitar amp head
- Avenged Sevenfold talk playing hang-ups, practice philosophy and guitar rigs
- Propellerhead’s Reason 9.5 released, adding VST plugin support
May 29
- Doug Phelps talks Kentucky Headhunters and sweet country tones
May 28
- Gregg Allman, southern rock giant, dies aged 69
May 26
- Roland drops SPD::ONE series electronic percussion pads
- Gibson's Modern Double Cut finally surfaces, along with six new black-and-gold Custom guitars
- Stella Parton on her independent spirit, custom acoustics and Dolly
- Longtime ABBA guitarist Janne Schaffer picks his career-defining records
- TC Electronic unveils Hall Of Fame 2 reverb pedal with shimmer and innovative MASH footswitch
- Pirupa's favourite music software
May 25
- Black Stone Cherry's Jon Lawhon on playing 'lead bass', his signature Dean and recording with Bob Babbitt
- Wait a miniMO - an 8-bit modular synth that’s both open source and open hardware? Yes please!
- DragonForce's Herman Li: my top 5 tips for guitarists
- PSP Audioware’s “analogue-like” preQursor2 marries a preamp and an EQ
- 20 must-see guitarists at 2017 festivals
May 24
- Review round-up: semi-hollow and hollowbody guitars
- Less Than Jake's Chris DeMakes: 10 guitar records that changed my life
- MMO-3 is teeing itself up to be the ideal drone synth
- Studio One 3.5 offers low-latency performance that “eliminates the need for hardware DSP”
- 10 questions for Tricot's Motoko 'Motifour' Kida
- Dada Life’s Endless Smile lets you create build-ups, risers and transitions with one knob
- Lewis Watson talks new album Midnight, alternate tunings and slow-cooking songs
- Novation isn’t running short of new ideas for its Circuit groovebox
May 23
- Is TC Electronic about to drop a next-level shimmer reverb pedal?
- Larrivée unveils limited 03 Series Silver Oak acoustic guitars
- Rig tour: Twin Atlantic
- Overloud releases EQ84, an emulation of a “legendary” British EQ
May 22
- Watch I Prevail tear through Scars guitar playthrough
- Dude, where’s my Bastl mini mixer?
- John Corabi on his staggering work ethic, Mötley Crüe and Dead Daisies’ new live record
- Moiré on the kit that got his juices flowing for No Future
- Watch ace bassist play Red Hot Chili Peppers with an actual red hot chili pepper
- Dan Owen talks Patrick James Eggle, Mick Fleetwood and conquering adversity
- On the radar: Fronteers
- Roland is going to spend the next month launching new synth, guitar and drum products
- Fender set to replace rosewood fretboards on Mexican-made and American Elite guitars and basses
May 19
- MusicRadar hands-on gear demos
- SampleRadar: 167 free krautrock samples
- Watch Decapitated's Michal Lysejko tear up the kit in Never drum playthrough
- It’s morphin’ time as Klevgrand releases Syndt
- Angie Bowie: how Mick Ronson and David Bowie made music history together
- Pioneer DJ AS-1 synth - MusicRadar hands-on
- Matt Bellamy's son is forming a band with Trent Reznor's kids
- Experimenting with ideas in NI’s Maschine just got easier
- The Corrs' Jim Corr talks signature Avalon acoustic, gear tragedies and T Bone Burnett
- Brooks Wackerman on making his mark with metal masters Avenged Sevenfold
- Jerry Garcia's 'Wolf' guitar up for auction
- Novation’s Peak synth has an analogue heart but a digital mind
- Beatskillz Max1 is a free auto-compressor plugin that promises instant loudness
May 18
- PRS unveils CE 24 Satin Nitro Limited Run guitars
- Chris Cornell dies aged 52: stars react to untimely passing of legendary singer
- Chris Cornell, 1964-2017: no-one sings like you any more
- Erica Synths’ Fusionbox blends multiple analogue effects
- Moog’s Subsequent 37 CV synth is designed to play nice with your Eurorack rig
- Chris Cornell dies, aged 52
May 17
- Ultimate Freeware – Computer Music issue 244
- StiX CM – Get the free drum machine plugin with Computer Music magazine
- This is how you get a song in the charts
- 10 questions for Do Make Say Think's Justin Small
- The new 4000 G Bus Compressor UAD plugin comes with SSL’s seal of approval
- Eventide launches PitchFuzz H9 pedal algorithm
- Vox's AC30 Radio is old-school in every way
- Dream Theater's John Myung: my top 5 tips for bassists
- Vox unveils “fully featured” AC2 RhythmVOX mini guitar and bass amps
- Get ready to feel old, as the Korg microKorg turns 15
- Vox launches “the ultimate multi-purpose 50W amp and audio solution” with Adio Air desktop amps
May 16
- Talking Shop: Tom Adams
- It’s all about the bass in Steve Lawson’s ACM masterclass
- Sub Focus: 10 tracks that blew my mind
- Hands-on with zplane reTune 1.2
- Review round-up: hardware loopers
- Meet Jammy, the digital guitar with a telescopic neck that fits in a backpack
- Magix promises several new versions of Sound Forge this year
- Dr Z's EMS crams three generations of classic British rock tones into one amp head
- G&L drops the Kiloton 5 five-string bass guitar
- Pay what you want for the Fluoresynth plugin, or just play it in your browser
- Take your sample collection anywhere with Loopmasters Loopcloud
May 15
- Raise your IQ with J Rockett's new EQ-equipped compressor pedal
- TC Electronic launches plugin versions of classic effects with Vintage Guitar Pedal Bundle
- AC/DC's Brian Johnson returns to live action
- Thievery Corporation's Eric Hilton talks musical roots and changing technology
- Papa Roach's Jerry Horton talks Crooked Teeth, pop producers and making it to album nine
- Is the MP3 format about to be consigned to history?
- Manu Katche on TV stardom, A-list sessions and groove-writing tips
- Get your bass in a bag with the Baserock vibrating backpack
- On the radar: Margaret Glaspy
- Matthews Effects' Alchemist pedal will “purify, perfect and transform your guitar signal”
May 12
- Could Psychic Modulation’s EchoMelt be a hot new multi-effect plugin?
- Total Guitar 293 on sale now: Take the lead!
- Mooer Ocean Machine - MusicRadar hands-on
- Classic album: Machinedrum on Now You Know
- T-Rex reveals Replicator Junior Tape Echo pedal
- Quinn Sullivan: the blues guitarists that blew my mind
- Take back control with the Brexit Means Brexit distortion pedal
- This electromagnetic spray turns your entire guitar into a touchpad
May 11
- Kevin Saunderson on techno, growing up in Detroit and the reforming of the Belleville Three
- Rig tour: Venom Prison
- Computer Music get hands-on with zplane's élastiqueAAX plugin
- Sacha Robotti: 5 things I've learned about music production
- Me and my guitar: Aynsley Lister
- Seymour Duncan releases Andromeda dynamic digital delay pedal
May 10
- Blast from the past: E-MU Emulator
- Gene Simmons: the 10 tracks that blew my mind
- Cort goes for Gold with new torrefied acoustic guitar range
- DJs pay tribute as trance producer Robert Miles dies, aged 47
- Frank Turner: the records that changed my life
- Audio Damage’s Eos 2 is a complete rebuild of its algorithmic reverb plugin
- Black Peaks and Heck talk live gymnastics, tour stories and toasties
- Allen Hinds talks teaching, technique and Jeff Buckley jazz jams
- EarthQuaker Devices' Erupter fuzz pedal “will blow your mind”
- Waves is offering you the sound of the Adele ‘Hello grand piano’ in a $29 plugin
May 9
- New gear galore: The hottest drum products coming your way
- Watch part one of Wideboys using Cubase in the studio
- Me in my studio: Anneka
- Akai MPC Live - MusicRadar hands-on
- 6 of the best VST/AU kick drum plugins
- This is what a 12-string bass solo sounds like
- The Black Angels talk fuzz selection, Phil Ek and crafting Death Song
- D16’s Tekturon is a multitap delay that works like a step sequencer
- 10 of the best acoustic bass guitars
May 8
- Meet the programmers: oeksound
- New drum gear of the month: review round-up (May 2017)
- Seether's Shaun Morgan: 12 records that changed my life
- Between The Buried And Me's Dan Briggs: my top 5 tips for bassists
- Super Audio Boy delivers free Nintendo Game Boy sounds for Kontakt
- On the radar: Balance And Composure
- OWOW’s mini MIDIS 2.0 controllers are in tune with your body’s movements
- Sugar Bytes presents its Unique take on what an iOS synth should be
May 7
- JBL Professional announces major UK singer songwriter competition
May 5
- Greg Phillinganes plays 21 classic electric piano tracks using Spectrasonics Keyscape
- Fancy a pair of Adidas/Roland 808 sneakers? Tough, they’re not for sale
- Genelec says that ‘The Ones’ are “the ultimate point source monitors”
- Beth-Ami Heavenstone talks Tomi Rae, the Graham Bonnet Band and The Book
- Old gold: 1952 Gibson L-5
- In pictures: Booka Shade’s live setup revealed
- Gurus Amps is bringing SexyDrive back with MkII pedal
- GHS extends short-scale bass string length
May 4
- Issue 318 of Future Music is on sale now
- Bowling For Soup talk pop-punk evolution, going acoustic and keeping the band alive
- Kaz Rodriguez talks viral hits, hybrid drums and A-list fans
- TC Electronic has built a lightsaber out of 66 PolyTune Clips - and you could win it
- Magnatone debuts Varsity Reverb guitar amp
- Django Reinhardt's Levin Deluxe guitar is going up for auction
- On the radar: Teksti-TV 666
May 3
- 10 questions for 3Teeth's Chase Brawner
- Keeley releases That Pedal Show D&M Drive overdrive pedal
- Epiphone unveils Johnny A Custom archtop guitar
- The M Machine: 10 records that blew our minds
- Overloud’s Tapedesk promises a “full analogue mixing workflow” in a plugin
- Stone Sour's Roy Mayorga: my top 10 tips for recording drums
- New tech gear of the month: review round-up (May 2017)
May 2
- Metallica replace tribute band's stolen gear
- This guitar vending machine serves accessories 24 hours a day
- KISS's Tommy Thayer: my top 6 tips for guitarists
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (May 2017)
- Waves’ Smack Attack plugin lets you tame and tighten your transients
- MANIC DRUM - The future of drumming
May 1
- Hits decoded: 3 musical elements that define Kendrick Lamar’s Humble
- Sign up for the MusicRadar newsletter
- Fender unveils wi-fi, Bluetooth-enabled Mustang GT guitar amps - world-first hands-on video demo