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“It felt like every song was 20 minutes long. It was not comfortable”: Suzanne Vega explains why she had to play her groundbreaking 1989 Glastonbury set wearing a bulletproof vest

Suzanne Vega explains why she had to play her 1989 Glastonbury set wearing a bulletproof vest

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New to synthesis? This free synth plugin can help you learn how it works

Developed by the makers of synth training app Syntorial, Primer can be used to learn the fundamentals without getting bogged down in advanced concepts or distracting additional features

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“It’s really weird: 400 students asking questions, and I’m the only person there - and I’m the instructor - who can’t read music”: Acoustic guitar hero Tommy Emmanuel plays The Beatles and Oasis as he discusses the glaring gap in his musical knowledge

“I can read a chord chart and follow the chords, but I can’t read notes,” he explains

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“I remember saying, ‘Come on, you’re gonna edit it down to, what, four bars?’ Harold goes, ‘No, we’re gonna keep everything.’ And they did!”: How a guitar hero's epic 64-bar solo lit up a classic movie theme

"We got the whole thing done in three hours"

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“Prince was really excited and kept pumping us up, saying ‘We’re making history tonight’”: How Prince summoned one of the greatest guitar solos of all time from thin air

The heart-rending heights of Prince’s most affecting piece of music were conjured largely on the spot, during a now mythical performance

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“If you’re a singer, you’re totally reliant on your body. You can't put a bit more distortion on your amp or use effects. You can’t compensate. You’re very exposed”: Why Iron Maiden had to change their singer to reach the next level

Guitarist Adrian Smith remembers a pivotal moment in Maiden’s history

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“The effects of these sudden and unpredictable tariff actions will have a long-term effect on musicians worldwide”: Guitar industry leaders to meet with Trump in a bid to avert “devastating” impact of tariffs

Many small-to-medium producers could go to the wall

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“The only difference for me between me calling it an album and a mixtape is what I went into it thinking it was”: PinkPantheress on why her new project, Fancy That, is a mixtape rather than an album

“If I went in thinking it was an album, it probably would have been different in some ways”

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"A versatile jack-of-all-trades, with some excellent displays of mastery at times": Fender Player II Modified Precision Bass review

Fender’s workhorse-series P-Bass gets some performance-enhancing additions, as well as a tone control that works in passive mode

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“John said, ‘I don’t know where to go from here.’ So Paul said, ‘Well, I’ve got this other song I’ve been working on.’ They joined the two bits together to make one song”: The story of the greatest thing The Beatles ever recorded

How Sgt. Pepper's epic finale was created

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"While being dubbed the ‘Metallica Quake’ online, it actually posed no danger": Metallica’s Enter Sandman triggers mini earthquake on its American Football ‘homecoming’

As the walk-out music for the local football team, Metallica nearly brought the house down when they played it for real

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“I had a bit of a shock because I’d just come from working with Yes, who had done 1,000s of live shows and were all brilliant players. Frankie Goes To Hollywood had done 5 shows and they could barely play”: Trevor Horn on the making of Relax

“We thought that all the record labels would be after them. Nobody wanted them”

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“I was hypnotised when I was a little boy - by my dentist who was experimenting with hypnotism”: Pete Townshend reveals why he always does his best on stage, as The Who announce final US tour

The Who have just announced another ‘farewell’ tour. And all the signs are there that this one really will be their last

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“We may jump up on stage and jam. It's very loose”: Gene Simmons tells Kiss fans to expect the unexpected at the band’s upcoming Las Vegas event

He adds: “We’re very open to guest stars jumping up"

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“You sir, are an absolute madman. I can't imagine how long this took”: You have to see this astonishing Lose Yourself movie mash-up

They've recreated Eminem’s Lose Yourself from 331 clips

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Can you fix your guitar's frets yourself? We try three innovative approaches from MusicNomad to investigate how they might conquer a major cause of fret buzz

Uneven frets are a common issue with our guitars, but MusicNomad has come up with different ways to empower players to deal with it themselves

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Novation’s Bass Station II has officially entered its Swifty era, thanks to a new collaboration with a highly respected British designer

And it’s still tailor-made for beefy low-end sounds

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“It is an absolute phenom for us to be able to present to you now our teenage aspirations in this song”: Joe Satriani and Steve Vai are living out their teenage dreams in the video for their new single featuring the ‘Voice of Rock’ Glenn Hughes

I Wanna Play My Guitar is a love-letter to the instrument from two maestros on top of their game

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“We’ve carefully considered what matters most to musicians and sound designers”: Groove Synthesis announces a more compact and affordable version of its superb 3rd Wave synth

Superbooth 25: “A more accessible entry point to the 3rd Wave sonic universe”

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Why are parts of the Melvins’ old touring van being sold for up to $40,000?

They’re part of Julien’s latest Music Icons auction

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L-Acoustics’ new DJ-aimed stem separation software can pull apart any stereo source and fire its elements across a 360 soundstage in the blink of an eye

Could this astounding tech be the cornerstone of future immersive DJ live set-ups?

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Roland releases free update to the SH-4d bringing new oscillator models and the ability to pattern chain

Superbooth 25: The update widens the scope of Roland’s punch-packing modern classic

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Novation's Launch Control XL 3 boasts updated hardware and sleek new design, along with MIDI connectivity for DAWless music-makers

Superbooth 25: The popular DAW controller can now be used with hybrid and hardware-only set-ups thanks to MIDI I/O

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Phase8, Korg’s ‘acoustic synth’, is finally confirmed for release, and it looks and sounds awesome

Superbooth 25: After a couple of years of prototypes, we get now to see the finished product

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Superbooth 2025: all the latest synth news from Berlin, as it happened

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