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“I’d rather go in and just be Jaco. I improvise all the time. I never play the same thing twice”: The genius of Jaco Pastorius in one of the greatest jazz songs of all time – performed with fusion legends Weather Report

“One take, man! One of the greatest tunes ever”

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“I didn’t need all the extra crap. Just give me a single-P-90 guitar and a Tube Screamer and I’m ready to play the Royal Albert Hall”: Jared James Nichols on why he took the Klon off his pedalboard and what players get wrong about drive pedals

Not everyone is expanding their pedalboards. Nichols explains why he prefers to keep it simple – and to leave the super-rare high-value pedalboard gold at home

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“It was so surreal. Have we done anything that would create such a horrible atmosphere that a fan would take their own lives? Are we responsible for that?”: Rob Halford recalls Judas Priest’s darkest days – on trial after two fans died in a suicide pact

“We couldn’t understand it. It didn’t make sense”

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“As much as a sterling job Arturia has done, there are some unfortunate casualties in the downsizing”: Arturia AstroLab 37 review

The AstroLab line has a new entry in its ranks. Can the baby of the group hold its own, or will it wilt under the seismic pressure of its otherworldly siblings

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Universal Audio is giving away the new native version of the 610 Tube Preamp and EQ Collection for free

NAMM 2026: The plugin promises to offer music-makers the same "musical tube warmth and character" heard on recordings by Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, and Neil Young

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“Because it’s that ‘just right’ size. It fits so many players, across so many different styles of playing”: Taylor expands Gold Label Series and refreshes flagship acoustic with a trio of game-changing features

NAMM 2026: Taylor’s Next Generation Grand Auditorium cutaways are updated with scalloped V-Class bracing, Action Control Necks and the all-new Claria pickup and preamp system

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“The SG that I had at the Ozzy gig, that guitar needed a louder pickup but I still wanted that true-to-life guitar sound that I like”: Slash and Seymour Duncan dial up the raunch with the Guns N’ Roses legend’s signature 3.0 humbuckers

NAMM 2026: Hand-wired in Santa Barbara, they're not just for Les Pauls or SGs. Slash has one in his BC Rich Mockingbird – and they'd work a treat in a hotrodded S-style

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Apple expands Logic Pro’s AI features with a Synth Player and a “personal music theory expert” that can generate chord progressions from any audio or MIDI recording that you play it

Both the Mac and iPad versions will also be available on subscription as part of the new Creator Studio bundle

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“They said, ‘Go to LA, you're going to the NAMM show.' I said, 'What's a NAMM Show?'”: Ahead of NAMM 2026, we get to know the man in the hot seat of the industry’s biggest trade show

NAMM 2026: This year will mark 125 years of the premiere music technology expo, and its CEO is keen to put people first

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“I think I was pretty naive, and I didn’t see that side of Gram. I must’ve known about it, but I will say that when we were working together, he was on. He was so focused”: Emmylou Harris on working with Gram Parsons

Singer starts her final European tour

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EHX’s new Effects Interface is a stompbox-shaped device that lets you integrate your pedalboard with your DAW

NAMM 2026: Electro-Harmonix’s pedal-focused audio interface “handles your signal and delivers it with care between your hardware and software”

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“The people who like that song aren’t actually fans of The Cure. They’re not the ones who buy my records”: How Robert Smith took a rare trip to “happy land” to create one of The Cure’s greatest hits

“I thought, why don’t I do a song about that Friday feeling?”

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“Is there a more iconic guitar player on Earth? For more than six decades, the ‘Human Riff’ has been the heartbeat of The Rolling Stones”: Gibson launches jaw-dropping Keith Richards Collector’s Edition 1960 ES-355, signed by the man himself

NAMM 2026: A meticulous replica of one of the most famous (and coolest) ES-355s of all time

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"Please take a moment to check in with your loved ones so we can stop this happening to our young men": Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, Black Midi guitarist, dies aged 26

The co-founder stepped away from the band in 2021 to focus on his mental health

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“A one-stop shop for almost everything a guitarist might need”: Universal Audio Paradise Guitar Studio review

Universal Audio curates a wide selection of its renowned amp models and effects to create a plugin that is a near-complete guitar studio

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“It’s a song that I love, because I didn’t compromise when I wrote it at all. I wrote exactly what I felt, and put a melody to it that was perfect for the words”: The making of Lana Del Rey’s classic sleeper hit

“I felt happy and started writing about how sad and gorgeous the summertime felt to me”

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“He’s been releasing the same song for the past 10 years”: Bruno Mars bites back at social media user who questions the originality of his new single, I Just Might

The song serves as a prelude to upcoming new album, The Romantic

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All the hottest new guitars, synths, drums and other gear from Anaheim 2026

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“I said, ‘That will get us pigeonholed as a Christian band, and that’s not what we want to do.’ I remember thinking, ‘This is the kiss of death!’”: The singer who had a bad feeling about a song – before it ended up going all the way to No.1

Plus: why this singer would have refused an audition for Toto

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"There is no final curtain here, not really": Bob Weir, Grateful Dead co-founder, dies aged 78

Influential rhythm guitarist succumbed to lung issues following cancer battle

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“I opened the door... he had the guitar in his hands. It was him playing the jazz. I had no idea that he was that good”: Mark Tremonti on Alter Bridge’s “secret weapon” and his soloing strategies for avoiding the same old pentatonic patterns

The self-confessed Dumble “addict” talks all things guitar

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"Steve Lukather said: ‘Here’s a record that some DJ turned into a No 1. I can’t stand it.’ He got 90% of the publishing rights, so he can’t have been that mad!": How Roger Sanchez turned an '80s Toto ballad into a 2001 dance anthem

Among the canon of ‘80s-sampling chart hits, few have pulled off a transformation quite like Roger Sanchez’s Another Chance

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“It’s like this little country tune, played with triads on the piano... I thought, ‘how do I make those chords bloom with this very simple melody?’": How Prince and The Revolution turned the bare bones of Purple Rain into a lighters-in-the-air epic

Thanks to Stranger Things, a whole new generation of listeners is now getting to appreciate this 1984 mega-ballad

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“This song sounds like a group of friends going their separate ways forever”: The story behind the 2015 dream pop gem that TikTok can’t get enough of

It might be over ten years old, but nothing soundtracks an emotional pivot quite like Space Song

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"Did not establish that they ever owned the copyrights to their sound recordings, let alone transferred them to anyone else": Salt-N-Pepa lose battle over ownership of masters to Universal

Label had withdrawn their first three albums from streaming

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