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“Brian Jones was the first steel slide player I heard. He was really in front of that game, and that’s what I really admired about him when we first started playing together”: Keith Richards pays tribute to Stones guitarists past and present

“Once I heard Brian playing Elmore James, I thought, ‘I’ve found a guy here who I can mess with’”

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"It's like being in a toy shop": Abbey Road is reinventing itself as it brings in the "most comprehensive collection" of gear in its history

The historic recording studio is on a mission to inspire the next generation of music-makers

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“I might not be good at making streaming numbers but I can make music that is emotionally engaging. That’s more important than just getting a hit on a digital platform”: We speak to Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor

The bespectacled frontman of one of the 2000’s most influential synth-pop acts continues to pursue fresh sonic frontiers on new solo record, Paris in the Spring

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“She has perfect pitch. If she hears a song, she’ll be like, ‘Play it again,’ and then she’ll teach herself”: Jay-Z says that his daughter Blue Ivy is a “crazy pianist” who has a rare musical gift

He’s also been addressing the hip-hop feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar

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Want to finally finish that track? Here’s how to escape the 4-bar loop trap and actually make some music

Transform your unfinished projects into release-ready records with our proven creative hacks

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“I remember the fracas. Simon stood in the middle and said to Rodgers, ‘If you want to hit anyone, hit me’ – so he did”: The multi-million selling supergroup whose last big hit was the punch that the singer stuck on the drummer

Bad Company made some of the greatest rock music of the 1970s

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“A fantastic one-stop shop of all that you need in a synth”: Knobula Monumatic review

Monumatic promises to be the one synth voice to rule them all and we think Knobula might be underselling itself

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At a ridiculously low price tag, Harley Benton unveils three entry-level T-styles with Bigbsy-style vibratos and vintage mojo to burn

Ideal for beginner player with a taste for old-school guitar design

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Freaky Style-AI: Hillel Slovak’s voice on new Chili Peppers documentary has been AI-generated

Film looks at the band’s early years

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"The closest thing Akai has released to a vintage MPC in decades": Akai MPC Sample review

The MPC range gains a fun, affordable sketchpad with a fair few tricks up its sleeve

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A much-loved reverb plugin that we called "one of the most creative we've come across" is free for a limited time

UVI Sparkverb 1.5 is free for KVR Audio members until April 12th

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“A few years ago, I decided, ‘I'm just going to play trumpet every day, no matter what. And after a couple of years of doing it, I'm going to make a record’”: Flea covers Frank Ocean and explains why he’s scratching a long-standing itch on his new album

Watch him doing double duty on trumpet and bass in the company of Jimmy Fallon

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“We’ve got these little satellites”: Thom Yorke will release another solo album “later in the year”, says Ed O'Brien, suggests Radiohead is “the mothership”

And says they can all “co-exist”

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“I had vocal polyps. It was really intense. I didn’t sleep for an entire month. There was no sound coming out. But I learned how to talk again. I learned how to sing again”: How Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan found her falsetto and made her comeback

“The craziest thing about it is that people could hear I’d had polyps on my previous albums”

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"This was my girlfriend for a long, long time… And I’ve got a lot of success with it”: Richie Sambora was so desperate to track down his stolen Explorer he hired a private detective – now after 41 years it has been returned to him

Sambora played this heavily modded Explorer as Bon Jovi rose to fame and has been looking for it for decades. Matt's Guitar Shop in Paris tracked it down

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"Apparently it was the one song that got John recording again. I think John just thought, ‘Uh oh, I had better get working, too’”: The story of the last entry in Lennon and McCartney’s musical conversation

Track apparently inspired Lennon to record Double Fantasy

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“Damon’s got two sides to him. He’s that guy who plays with musicians all around the world. But he’s also got a really hard side...”: Phil Daniels on Blur, Quadrophenia and the solo album he’s recorded

Album is “a cross between Ian Dury and a sort of theatrical night out”

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“Although the songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars Smith stole was real. Millions of dollars in royalties that Smith diverted from real, deserving artists and rights holders”: US Man pleads guilty to industrial scale AI fraud

Michael Smith stole over $10 million in royalties

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“What are you planning to actually use it for?”: Back in 1984, Midge Ure appeared on BBC TV to reveal our MIDI guitar synth future with his box-fresh Roland GR-700

“I think I’d have to spend many a long hour sitting in the studio working with the thing before I take it out on stage,” he admits

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Klang.io says Transcription Studio is the "world’s first" AI music tool that can transcribe multiple instruments simultaneously

The software promises to convert any recording into sheet music, tab or MIDI

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Shares in BTS parent company Hybe fall 15% after ‘disappointing’ attendance for Seoul comeback gig

A mere 104,000 fans showed up

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“Prince had rented out the theatre with free popcorn, snacks and drinks for everyone. Then we found out he wanted to watch Finding Nemo!”: Cory Wong on the night Prince broke up a Paisley Park jam session to guffaw in front of a Pixar family classic

“People never knew what they were going to get”

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“Super Hans said he’s come up with a bass loop for our new track that is so good, when he tried turning it off, he literally couldn’t”: 5 things Peep Show taught us about music production

The trick is to use multiple musical ideas simultaneously and give your tracks a powerful sense of dread

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“To get into the personal details, of why that didn’t necessarily sync up, just didn’t seem like it was going to benefit anybody”: Nate Mendel of Foo Fighters explains why the reasons for Josh Freese’s sacking were kept vague

But Freese says “no one should feel sorry for me”

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“The little idiot”: Dave Davies hits back at Moby calling Lola “unevolved” and “transphobic”

And he quotes Jayne County’s thoughts about the song

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