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- December 25
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- The 12 days of riffmas: learn Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name Of
- Ben Hayes: 5 things jazz taught me about making electronic music
- Reverb reveals its best-selling synths and drum machines of 2019, and the results are surprising
- On the anniversary of Metallica’s St. Anger, we ask, was the snare really that bad?
- Floating Points: “Recording at 96kHz is definitely not cool… it’s completely pointless!”
- The 5 best music tech personalities in the world right now
- December 24
- December 23
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- The 12 days of riffmas: learn the classic riff to Derek & The Dominos' Layla
- NAMM 2020: Electro-Harmonix debuts affordable EHX 2020 mini tuner pedal
- NAMM 2020: Schecter announces new Silver Mountain and PT Pro guitars
- Navigator is a 4-voice analogue polysynth that could be more powerful than it looks
- The Who's Pete Townshend: "We sort of invented heavy metal"
- This hands-free metronome app could change the way you practise
- December 20
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- The 12 days of riffmas: learn the riff to Pixies' Where Is My Mind?
- Massive Tidal sale: 5 months for only $5/£5
- It looks like Behringer is about to launch a free online gear marketplace
- Sylosis and Architects guitarist Josh Middleton: my top 9 tips for players
- The 5 best record producers in the world right now
- Cableguys’ CrushShaper plugin will “inspire you in ways that no ordinary bitcrusher can”
- The best new studio gear of 2019
- December 19
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- The 12 Days Of Riffmas: learn the riff to the Top Gun Anthem
- Slipknot's Jim Root releases signature guitar strap with DiMarzio
- NAMM 2020: Fryette makes big upgrades to its new Deliverance Series II amps
- TrackLib’s 2019 sampling report says that drum breaks are out but The Sound Of Music is in
- The 10 best electronica, ambient or underground DJ/producers in the world right now
- Francis Rossi's classic Status Quo Fender Telecaster sells at auction
- Yes, Klevgrand has made a singing Santa plugin… and it’s free!
- Watch: Mooer announces affordable GE250 multi-effects modelling unit
- Bitwig Studio 3.1 is here, bringing a tuned-up selection of pitch features
- December 18
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- Faith Guitars releases its first baritone acoustic model
- The 12 days of riffmas: learn Guns N' Roses – Welcome To The Jungle
- The best new Eurorack gear of 2019
- Is Moog preparing to launch the Subsequent 25 synth?
- Is Behringer “done” with 2019? It doesn’t look like it…
- Free Native Instruments plugin: the Raum reverb “sounds out of this world”
- The best new audio interfaces of 2019
- Arturia’s new Rev Plate-140 reverb plugin is totally free, but only for a limited time
- December 17
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- Buy any virtual instrument and get a second for just $1 – today only at Waves
- The 10 best new hardware synths of 2019
- The best hip-hop, R&B or grime producers/DJs in the world right now
- Me in my studio: BT - "Roland made an actual unicorn here"
- Madeon: “FL Studio is objectively the most advanced DAW”
- The 10 best bass music or DnB producer/DJ in the world right now
- December 16
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- Has Jean-Michel Jarre just leaked a Korg ARP 2600 synth clone?
- ESP LTD unveils phase 2 of its new guitar releases for 2020
- The 10 best metal guitarists in the world today
- The 10 best house producers/DJs in the world right now
- Me and my guitar: Adam Dutkiewicz, Killswitch Engage
- The 10 best techno producers/DJs in the world right now
- "Utterly surreal" - Chris Buck reacts to being voted our blues guitarist of 2019
- December 15
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- December 13
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- Make big Apple savings with $200/£259 off the new 16-inch MacBook Pro
- Tom Oberheim: "Thanks to the dance crowd and the Eurorack guys, analogue is back and better than ever"
- Blast from the past: Yamaha CS-40M
- Giorgia Angiuli: “Lately, I realised how important the acoustics are to get good results in music production"
- The 8 best online guitar personalities in the world today
- December 12
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- The 10 best acoustic guitarists in the world today
- Arturia releases the Pigments 2 synth plugin: “To say we’re proud is an understatement”
- Behringer channels Stranger Things as it announces the Eurorack Go case and teases Moog-style modules
- Download IK Multimedia’s $100 Black 76 compressor plugin for free!
- Why the Yamaha THRII is the ultimate home amp for all guitarists
- The 10 best new acoustic guitars in the world today
- December 11
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- The new Mac Pro is here… but you definitely can’t afford it
- Klevgrand’s Hillman plugin is a combo organ, string machine and synth all in one
- Auddict’s PercX is the drum instrument that doesn’t make you choose between loops and samples
- Mixed In Key’s Captain Beat plugin is here to give you complete control of your beatmaking
- Everything you need to know about FL Studio 20.6 in 60 seconds
- December 10
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- Watch: Alter Bridge's Myles Kennedy plays Hallelujah in Paris with Jeff Buckley's Fender Telecaster
- Roland’s “ultimate sound module”, the XV-5080, is now available in the Roland Cloud
- The 15 best new guitar effects of 2019
- Celebrate Green Monday with an extra $10 off your plugins order at Waves
- The 7 best new signature guitars of 2019
- Save $200 on a Microsoft Surface Laptop 3: get this slick music-making machine for less
- AudioKit’s L7 puts a Boss RC-505-style looper in your iPhone or iPad
- deCoda could change the way that you learn to play songs
- The 15 best new electric guitars of 2019
- December 9
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- Save $400 on the music-friendly Dell XPS 13 laptop – just $799.99 for today only
- Product spotlight: Natal Walnut Original
- Sugar Bytes boots up DrumComputer, its new synthetic drum machine plugin
- Ozzy Osbourne offers $25,000 reward for the return of stolen Randy Rhoads gear
- LANDR releases a free sample pack inspired by the Pantone Colour Of The Year
- Moogfest 2020 has been cancelled: does this mean we won’t get a ‘Moogfest synth’?
- Faith Guitars launches its first ever nylon model, The Lyra
- 10 of the best ‘new’ guitarists in the world right now
- December 8
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- Orange Amplification's Wish Granted Christmas giveaway returns
- Dimebag day: learn the riff to Pantera's Walk
- Dimebag day: a guide to Dimebag Darrell signature gear
- Welcome to Dimebag day
- Dimebag day: "He was like Santa Claus with a pink beard" - Zakk Wylde remembers his friend
- Dimebag day: Dime's longtime tech Grady Champion talks guitars, amps and tone
- Dimebag day: "He was a natural, but he put tonnes of time into it" – Slayer's Kerry King remembers Dimebag Darrell
- Dimebag day: "He was masterful at seizing the moment" – Phil Anselmo reflects on his years with Dime
- Dimebag day: classic interview with Dimebag Darrell, July 1994
- Dimebag day: Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell on Dimebag and Pantera
- December 6
- December 5
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- Lyndsey Parker and Mindi Abair announced as co-hosts for the 2020 She Rocks Awards
- Mojotone's Premium Historic Limited '59 PAF set winds the clock back for vintage Gibson-style tone
- Boss’s Waza-Air puts a guitar amp and effects into a set of wireless headphones
- All killer, no sandwich filler! Way Huge cooks up the Pork & Pickle bass overdrive/fuzz in a smaller enclosure
- Tommy Thayer's new signature Epiphone Les Paul Outfit is a bolt from the blue
- Is Korg about to bring back the Triton synth? Here’s the evidence
- Boss reveals 'most powerful ever' SY-1000 guitar and bass synth
- December 4
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- Insider tips: what underrated studio tools are other producers missing out on?
- Snarky Puppy keyboard player Bill Laurance says that the Osmose synth sounds “100% original”
- Playtime is a free VST/AU plugin full of toy instrument sounds
- J. Cole shares his production secrets behind the album Born Sinner
- December 3
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- Jamiroquai keyboard player Matt Johnson takes you on a synth funk odyssey
- Amazon AWS DeepComposer is “the world’s first machine learning-enabled musical keyboard”
- The best live session drummers in the world right now
- Rig tour: Stone Temple Pilots
- "A lot of the solos are on acoustic guitar" – Stone Temple Pilots' Dean DeLeo talks new album Perdida
- The 6 best new snares in the world today
- Could these be the cheapest 10.2-inch iPad deals of Cyber Monday?
- December 2