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“Fran knew Barry, and I knew Fran, and Fran had played with Sib, and Sib had played with Tom, and Barry knew Tom, and Tom knew me, but Fran didn’t know that I knew that he knew Barry too”: The strange tale of Boston’s record-breaking debut album

A sophisticated sound that eight million Americans fell for

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“You wouldn’t work with a racist. Don’t work with somebody that’s destroying the job that allows you to feed your children”: El Estepario Siberiano urges fellow musicians not to collaborate with Suno users

And he’s selling anti-Suno T-shirts

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“I've been to a couple of Bob's shows and I couldn't tell what the song was that he was doing. Now, that's a bit much”: Paul McCartney gently suggests that Bob Dylan could give a little more thought to the needs of his audience when he performs live

“I get it if he doesn't want to do Mr Tambourine Man. Maybe he's fed up with that. But I would like to hear it. And I've paid”

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“Getting a noise complaint is essentially a death sentence for a grassroots venue”: The precarious state of Britain's small venues in focus

Whether it’s turning a profit, rising drink prices or the fear of receiving just one formal noise complaint, small venues face more jeopardy than ever in 2026

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Gretsch reinvents a cult classic loved by Jack Antonoff and Rory Gallagher as it expands mid-priced Electromatic range with a pair of sweet baritones

The CVT and Jet Baritones take That Great Gretsch Sound into lower registers, and at a nice price too... But one question remains. Has Gretsch just made a metal guitar?

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The Seymour Duncan Custom Shop just released a stunning hand-wound replica an OG humbucker from the dawn of the high-gain era

This 50th Anniversary release sees the Duncan Custom reverse-engineered and offered as a signed, limited edition set with a hand-wound '59 neck humbucker

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“I didn't think I needed a drum machine, so I gave mine to one of the road crew”: Phil Collins reveals that he gave his brand-new Roland CR-78 to a roadie, then got it back and created "the record that people think of when they think of me”

“It was very basic. It was really a cocktail drum machine, you know, for people that play piano in bars”

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“The head of LA’s Mexican mafia was in a cell next to me. He passed me a note and asked for an autograph for his daughter”: The hair-raising adventures of ’90s rock icons Stone Temple Pilots and their doomed singer Scott Weiland

“I could not seem to put more than 30 days of abstinence together”

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“It’s like, so raw; his passion and that bluesy piano… I couldn't get enough”: Alicia Keys is joined by Raye to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her debut album, Songs In A Minor, which featured a notable cover of a Prince b-side

“I’ll just never forget the way that landed on me when I first heard it, because he's playing the piano and he's just stomping his foot on the floor”

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This is definitely, maybe your best chance to nail Oasis guitar tones – Noel Gallagher’s pedalboards have gone up for sale

Built for Gallagher by touring gear guru Mike Hill, these 'boards come straight from the Chief's collection

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"There are producers who make hit records. Then there are producers who leave a lasting mark on people’s hearts and lives. Jack did both": John Lennon and Aerosmith producer Jack Douglas has died

He also produced Cheap Trick, Patti Smith and Supertramp

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How do you like your ES-335? Gibson’s gives its iconic semi-hollow the Les Paul treatment, offering ‘50s and ‘60s versions with “decade-correct feel, look, and tone”

The ‘50s ES-335 comes strapped with Custombuckers, the ‘60s model has T-Types, and we’ve got classic finishes, vintage-inspired specs too

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“I knew it was a better song than I’d written up to that point. I’d turned a corner as a songwriter. But in terms of thinking it was a hit, I had no idea”: How a pilgrimage to the crucible of rock ’n’ roll inspired the ’90s classic Walking In Memphis

“Me and the piano – that’s all I cared about”

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“I ended up at Klek’s mother’s place making music in the basement, and we started doing that for… for ever”: Meet Angine de Poitrine, the polka-dotted alien ambassadors of math rock

Duo have been playing together for 20 years

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“Sometimes I try to pretend that someone threw mud on the fretboard of my guitar, or thick syrup! It’s a funny thing to imagine but it changes the way you play”: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit's Sadler Vaden reveals his approach to slide guitar

Don't sweat the action, keep it in standard tuning and just pretend you're a trapeze artist with syrup on the fingerboard... Wait, what!?

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“I knew I was good. But they wanted Lindsey. They wanted somebody to play like Peter Green. They did not need another woman in the band”: Stevie Nicks on Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham and a whole lot of drama

“You can be in love on stage and that’s fine – but when the affair comes off the stage, that screws up the band more than anything”

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“You just can't put bass on a song like this. What would you put? We tried to have bass in there. It just doesn't work”: Teddy Riley on how he took a single bar of a classic Bill Withers song and turned it into one of the greatest R&B records of all time

“That's the grits, right there. So I had to turn it into grits and eggs"

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“Track a performance through your favorite tube amp while simultaneously capturing a dry signal as a safety”: Warm Audio’s Reamper is an analogue “creative routing hub” that could be the recording tool you’ve been waiting for

This all analogue signal convertor could be a real hard-working piece of gear in your studio setup, with silent recording, tracking two amps in one take, and more

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“We built the amps, Hendrix made them scream”: Marshall celebrates 60 years of Jimi Hendrix with “cosmic” anniversary collection including hand-wired amp, Fuzz Face and more

Finished with a "cosmic" black-and-purple design, the JMH head is joined by a matching cab and Dunlop Fuzz Face, and an Acton III Bluetooth speaker

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From stochastic sequences to a ‘render farm’ of drums: 8 of our favourite Eurorack releases from Superbooth 2026

We wade through a sea of new modules to pick a few highlights from the Berlin synth show

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“Lots of people say that song is gibberish. It's not. It's totally about that”: How Thom Yorke channelled his tour exhaustion into the track that saved Radiohead from oblivion

Bored of the band’s guitar-oriented songbook, Thom Yorke disappeared to Cornwall and came back with a song that opened the door to Radiohead's more adventurous future

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“We were supposed to open that place”: Adam Jones reveals that Tool were meant to raise the curtain on the Sphere in 2023

Instead, U2 took their place

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"If you want a pair of low-latency headphones for DJing or instrument monitoring, the Studio Max 2 ticks all the necessary boxes and a few more besides": OneOdio Studio Max 2 headphones review

High-quality audio without any discernible delay?

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Keep Dancing: New study shows it provides “vigorous” exercise and lowers stress

The DJ is “guiding the nervous system” says academic conducting the research

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“There are so many special memories within the walls, not to mention the rooftop”: Apple Corps to throw open the doors (and roof) of the Beatles' London HQ as a visitor attraction

The Beatles At 3 Savile Row will open sometime in 2027

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