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"The NES is basically held together with chewing gum and paperclips – it was a brutal experience": Emo band release chiptune remix album that’s only available on a retro video games console

Daydream Plus reprogrammed their entire album using 8-bit tracker software and released it on a NES cartridge

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“I’m really bored of music that sounds like privileged melancholy”: We catch up with Liverpool’s indie legends The Coral

Made famous for their 2002 indie-pop staple Dreaming of You, the Coral continue to create spirit-lifting music decades on

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"I pulled up the sound, played this chord and thought, 'whoa, I’ve never heard a crazy organ sound like that before'”: Rogét Chahayed on how a Kontakt preset based on a '90s Casio toy keyboard made the intro to Travis Scott's Sicko Mode

From the eerie opening of Scott's biggest hit to Bruno Mars and Rosé's record-breaking APT., Rogét Chahayed breaks down the stories behind some of the most successful songs he's worked on

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"It’s trivialised multitrack recording in the field in a number of ways, most impressively through its diminutive form factor": Tascam FR-AV4 field recorder review

The Tascam FR-AV4 is a location-shooting dream of a field recorder, with some serious I/O and some incredibly quiet preamps

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“I wrote those songs before she died – with the exception of Sleep’s Dark And Silent Gate. That was written after. I guess that song could be considered cathartic”: Jackson Browne on his classic album The Pretender and its tragic backstory

“Her death was a total surprise. Maybe it should not have been, but it was”

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“You wouldn't write it down as an idea – let's have gentle falsetto vocals referencing a Batman film and try to be inspired by UK garage and Prince”: How Hot Chip made an electronic pop classic

As they reissue breakthrough albums The Warning, Made In The Dark and One Life Stand, we sit down with the UK band to break down the making of Ready For The Floor

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“The only way to keep it in time was to take a piece of tape with the sound on it and measure it with a ruler. You would take the exact length of tape and then splice the next exact length of tape to it”: How Pink Floyd made Money

How this unmistakable Dark Side of the Moon classic, which started life in a garden shed, works

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"If the WTF is a sign of things to come, I can’t wait to see what these mad scientists cook up next" Morley X DOD Wah-OcTo-Fuzz review

A fantastic, wacky, and eccentric three-in-one stompbox that harks back while creating something fresh

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“There’s something really powerful in making something very simple. There’s a slightly demented feeling of how far you can push it”: Jim Adkins and Zach Lind on the making of Jimmy Eat World’s Bleed American – the record that changed their lives

They had no label, no management and the money was running out, but they had the songs, and a hit that would catch the ear of Taylor Swift, Prince and the rest of the world

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"Put some diapers on next time, y’all": Singer-songwriter Noah Kahan urges fans to take precautions or control themselves amid a growing rise in cases of people relieving themselves at his shows

Other artists, including Olivia Rodrigo, have shared their concerns about performing to fans who have lost control of their bladders and bowels

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One more time: It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #15!

Round off your week with our 10-question quicky on all the hottest music news

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"You feel the music through your whole body. It's incredibly physical": Sander de Keere reimagines the church pipe organ as an 'ancient synthesizer'

The Belgian artist's new composition blends minimalism, spirituality, and electronic experimentation

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“This one tip could change your musical outlook forever”: 10 music theory tricks every producer and songwriter should know

Spruce up your chords and snazz up your scales with these simple but powerful techniques

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"Every note delivered as intended": Technics drops limited-edition wireless earbuds in collaboration with the Rolling Stones

Technics releases limited edition wireless earbuds in collaboration with The Rolling Stones

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Ever lost a great idea because you forgot to hit record? GhostTape is here to make sure that never happens again

This app for macOS continuously records up to 60 minutes of audio in a circular buffer in your RAM, so you never miss out when inspiration strikes

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“If you understand the workings of a single channel then you’ve got the basics of the entire desk”: How to use a mixing console

Faders, knobs, buttons, sliders and sockets explained: Here’s how to find your way around a modern mixing desk

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“It was such a cliché. I knew I had to use it”: How a joke comment led Neil Young to create the rock anthem that inspired Pearl Jam and started a beef with Trump

The song has more in common with hard rock than the folk scene Young had been part of

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“We go back a long way with Martin, and there’s always a sense of adventure whenever we get together": U2 join forces with DJ and producer Martin Garrix for new single, Fireflies

The song comes as the band gears up for a first new studio record in almost a decade

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“In loving memory of the Prince of Darkness”: Sophie Lloyd pays tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with a blazing shred cover of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid

The Machine Gun Kelly guitarist and YouTube superstar marks the first anniversary of Ozzy's death by giving a Sabbath classic the full-shred treatment

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“It was a wild situation Bruce threw me into and I think he knew what he was doing. He’s the only actual genius I’ve ever played music with”: Jay Weinberg on the Bruce Springsteen test that left him “deathly afraid” when sitting in with the E Street Band

It's one of the great rock stories. E Street Drummer Max Weinberg couldn't make a Springsteen tour. His teenage son replaces him

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“What really sets the Beam Mini apart is that you also get access to a humongous range of amp captures”: Blackstar Beam Mini review

Blackstar expands its Beam series with afeature‑packed ultra-compact amp

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“My plan, which Andy probably didn't like, was based on when Prince wrote Nothing Compares 2 U and no one knew it was a Prince song until it became this big hit”: Razorlight’s biggest song was originally intended for another artist, says Johnny Borrell

He also wanted it to borrow the drum beat from a Billy Joel song

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SampleRadar: 493 free Moog synth samples

Everything from arpeggiated loops and filtered beats to experimental FX and acid-tinged multi-samples, all made with a Moog

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“They weren’t the best band in the world, but they were stars. That’s what you look for in bands. ‘Boy, I wish I was a member of that club’”: Kiss legends Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons remember the New York City rivals who were doomed to failure

“They just exuded this flamboyant glittery rock ’n’ roll”

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“We were running around the studio with as many things plugged in as possible just doing the worst sounds, trying to find the ugliest things”: How Charli XCX's producers ran a jam session through an AI sampling plugin to make No One Lasts Forever

AG Cook and Finn Keane appeared on the Tape Notes podcast with Charli to talk through the making of three tracks from new project Music, Fashion, Film

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