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“Access to the upper frets means you can fly even higher”: Gibson reimagines its iconic songbird as the Hummingbird gets a cutaway body and LR Baggs electronics as standard

Evolution comes for us all. Just ask Charles Darwin. And it has arrived for the Hummingbird

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"I’m not making this up. There is no joke in this”: Billy Corgan thinks that comedian Bill Burr might be his half brother, but an unearthed video suggests that Burr was no great fan of The Smashing Pumpkins

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“I know I can bring out something great in you... I hope to bring out the same kind of greatness in all of us”: Newly unearthed Lennon letter to Clapton reveals plans for supergroup

Ex-Beatle hoped group would “bring the balls back in rock 'n’ roll”

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Cherry Audio's P-10 captures the sound of "one of the most desirable flagship analogue polysynths ever created" - and brings that synth into the 21st century

This emulation of Sequential Circuits' "10-voice, 20-oscillator, bi-timbral behemoth" boasts a faithful recreation of the Prophet-10's sound alongside a handful of contemporary flourishes

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“If you had suggested this in 2015, you would have been laughed out of the room”: Music is now reportedly bigger than cinema globally

Former Spotify and PRS Chief Economist Will Page has run the numbers on music copyright, with some surprising results

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“A song puts words into people’s mouths to drunkenly sing and they might not even realise what they’re singing”: Irish legends discuss the controversy around a Christmas classic

The 1987 Christmas mega-hit has been the subject of discussion around its use of a homophobic slur

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“Sometimes you don't want to be overtly happy or sad and a suspended chord strikes that perfect balance”: How to understand and use suspended chords effectively

"Sometimes you don't want to be overtly happy or sad and a suspended chord strikes that perfect balance"

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“Karen manages to get across both sadness and silliness”: How the Carpenters wowed Lennon and McCartney with an emotive yet absurd No 1 hit

Macca’s verdict: “The best female voice in the world”

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The open-source Minichord looks like a pocket-sized Omnichord, and there’s a chance it might go into production

Chord playing device has a subtractive synth engine

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"Tackling ableism, inaccessibility and discrimination should be a priority for the entire music industry”: The startling systemic issues facing disabled musicians highlighted in new report

"Tackling ableism, inaccessibility and discrimination should be a priority for the entire music industry”

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Nvidia says its new AI tech can create sounds that have never been heard before: "Make a trumpet bark or a saxophone meow"

Described as a "Swiss Army knife for sound", Nvidia's AI model can also be used to separate stems and transform existing music

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“Some of the things that come out of her mouth, you’re like, ‘What? How did you even get there!?’”: Songwriter Julia Michaels on being in the room with Sabrina Carpenter when she comes up with her nonsense lyrics

“A lot of the time I feel like it’s hard to tell someone’s personality through their music, and with her you know exactly what you’re getting,” she says

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“It’s rumoured to have been used by everyone from Björk to Aphex Twin”: The history of making music with video games consoles

For many of us, video games were a potent point of introduction to the world of music production. We take a look back at the games and consoles that have inspired music-makers over the years

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“Jimi was brave, beautiful and powerful!”: On Hendrix’s birthday, a tribute from modern blues master Eric Gales

Gales says: “Until the end of time, we’re going to be wondering how Jimi came up with this stuff"

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“A simple programmed sub bass synth sound simply won’t cut it”: How to make a trip-hop bass part

"A simple programmed sub bass synth sound simply won’t cut it"

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“Dance lightly on the strings for a cleaner tone or really dig in to make your guitar, and amp, roar”: Behringer unveils a $69 Klon clone –but is the Centaur Overdrive better than the original?

Behringer gets serious with a replica that looks the part, has germanium in the circuit, and promises that its dual-pot gain knob makes it easier than ever to find the sweet spot

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“Bono and I are working on some crazy kind of sci-fi Irish folk music”: The Edge confirms new U2 activity, with Larry Mullen Jr back and Brian Eno "involved", is afoot

Band haven’t released a new album for seven years

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“You get to a point where you’ve gotten good enough so that nothing is good enough”: Billy Joel explains to John Mayer why he gave up on songwriting

“The writer thing is a curse you take with you throughout life, and when I listen to material or listen to other people’s songs the writer is always at work,” he says

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"Delay doesn't have to distract": iZotope's Cascadia brings a contemporary twist to vintage-inspired tape delay

Cascadia is the third instalment in iZotope's affordably priced series of "intelligent" plugins designed to help you address common mixing pitfalls

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Rod Stewart to “pleasure and titillate” Glastonbury 2025

He says he’ll be playing the prestigious Sunday afternoon ‘legends’ slot

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“It has been such a long time coming. I’ve wanted to make a Chapman amp for years”: Rob Chapman is branching out into tube amps and promises buttery cleans and “heavy, chewy, saturated gain”

The Cloudhammer is a high-end 40-watt all-tube head that's hand-wired in Belgium by AmS Amps' Ben Genot, and the prototype looks and sounds pretty sweet

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“An outstanding selection of delay tones in a budget-friendly and space-saving enclosure”: Nobels’ DEL-mini offers three delays and the width of the stereo spread all from a super-compact $99 pedal

Analogue, tape and digital modes plus full stereo operation and tap tempo, the DEL-Mini makes the most of its modest pedalboard footprint

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"A campaign to manipulate and saturate the streaming services and airwaves": Drake starts legal action against Universal and Spotify over Kendrick diss tracks rumpus

The rapper says they “illegally” boosted his rival’s streams

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"When the worst instrumentalist in your group is John Lennon, you’ve got a pretty good group”: Was John Lennon a good guitarist? And does it really matter?

"When the worst instrumentalist in your group is John Lennon, you’ve got a pretty good group”

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Sculpt your sounds on a spectral level with Manatee, a multitimbral, MPE-equipped desktop synth from Fred's Lab

Following a successful Kickstarter campaign last year, Manatee is now available to order

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