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“They're French. I would say it's a kind of techno prog band”: Elvis Costello reckons that the Brooklyn warehouse gig he saw Justice play was “one of the great shows I've ever been to”

He’s also been doubling down on his decision not to get into a songwriting spat with Olivia Rodrigo

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"When it comes to performance and playability, Casio goes to great lengths to recreate the grand piano experience, achieving impressive results": Casio AP-S200 digital piano review

The new addition to the premium Celviano family just might strike the perfect balance between grand piano authenticity and affordability

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“When I quit my job as a scientist to be a songwriter, I was waiting tables and bartending and needing to write songs for a living”: The art of songwriting with rising country star Stephen Wilson Jr

"The bus driver only played country music, so that was three hours a day, five days a week, listening to country music. I called it emersion"

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“Understand your genre and use some suitable references”: Cleaning up muddy recordings

The best methods to make those swamped, boxy recordings pristine

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How to recreate classic recorded drum sounds from The Beatles, Metallica, Nirvana and more

ArtOfDrumming shows you how to make your drum recordings sound like the greats

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"It has been a bit bewildering for us that Herb would so abruptly opt out": Primus left “in complete shock” by drummer’s sudden departure

Primus drummer quits, for the third time

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“It stands out for being HEAVY!”: Jerry Cantrell reveals his favourite Led Zeppelin song

Plus: what he learned from Jimmy Page

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“Justin said, ‘I’m working with this artist you may or may not know’”: Bonnie Raitt confirms that Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon contacted her personally when he and Charli XCX wanted to sample Nick Of Time on their Brat remix track

Raitt also reveals how Taylor Swift reacted after she beat her to Song Of The Year at The Grammys

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“Who wants to tell him?”: Busking drummer unknowingly performs Chili Peppers song in front of Chad Smith

Busker performs RHCP song in front of an audience of one: Chad Smith

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“Now I realize how little you really need to create good music when you just pick the right sounds - whether that’s on purpose or by accident”: How Darude created Sandstorm, the meme-worthy trance anthem named after a synth preset

Love it or hate it, Sandstorm’s relentless lead synth line must be one of the most recognizable melodies in dance music. Darude tells DJ Mag how the iconic track was made

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“She didn't move from the sofa and she sang two takes of Rolling in the Deep and that's what we used”: Adele, Daft Punk and Taylor Swift are among our picks for the best recorded albums of the 21st century

For your Recording Week pleasure, these are the are the most notable albums of the last 24 years…

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“‘Where's Carlos?’ ‘He's in that room.’So my parents and I, we knock on the door, and he's, ‘Oh, you're the kid I heard about… do you want to play tonight?’”: How a 9-year-old guitar prodigy ended up jamming with Carlos Santana

Julian Lage recalls a “surreal” experience

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"There was water dripping onto the gear and we got interrupted by a cave diver": How Mandy, Indiana recorded their debut album in caves, crypts and shopping malls

"There was water dripping on to the gear and we got interrupted by a cave diver"

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Roland’s new Earth Piano instrument puts “50 years of piano development” into your DAW

Grand, upright and felt pianos are all here

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"They just went in there and bang, bang, bang – three takes or so and nailed it”: Why Oasis’ Definitely Maybe was recorded twice

The Sawmills Studio team have shared memories of the sessions that became the band’s dynamite debut

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“A commanding new effects pedal that merges aggressive octave fuzz with earth-shaking analogue synth tones”: Third Man Hardware joins forces with Eventide for the Knife Drop – featuring Jack White’s presets, it’s designed for “sonic chaos”

This unholy union of octave-fuzz and analogue synth combines Third Man's radicalism with Eventide Audio's functionality, and might just be the wild card your pedalboard has been waiting for

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Ticketmaster clamps down on unauthorised resales of Oasis tickets as 50,000 for next year’s tour are cancelled

Ticketmaster carry out threat to cancel Oasis tickets resold on unauthorised sites

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“The drummer broke his snare-drum skin, the bass was in a different tuning, Gilmour’s guitar wasn’t working properly…”: Bryan Ferry remembers Slave To Love’s chaotic live debut

Bryan Ferry on how difficult Slave To Love was to get right

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“Making that record was like pulling teeth!” Rock legends Rush remember the album that drove them half-mad

It wasn’t easy being the high priests of conceptual rock

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“People think of Prince and they think ‘vocalist, songwriter, guitarist'. But his bass playing: bar none”: Questlove on the Prince production with the ‘David Garibaldi LM-1 drum beat’ that he calls “one of the most daring funk songs of all time"

How Tower Of Power’s Squib Juice fuels the groove that drives The Time’s 777-9311

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How to build a complete mastering chain in Ableton Live using only stock plugins

There's no need to draw for expensive third-party plugins when you're DIY mastering. Here's how to build a versatile mastering chain using Ableton's ample selection of processors

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“He ended up with a fully-fledged, pro studio - it just happened to have an engine and some wheels underneath”: David Gilmour, The Rolling Stones, Timbaland, Depeche Mode and more in nine of the weirdest recording studios ever built

Who needs a boring static building to record in when you can have one on wheels?

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“Simple to use and versatile enough for any style of guitar playing”: Fender unveils the Champion II amp series, a trio of affordable solid-state modelling combos with onboard effects for players of all levels

Priced from $129, the Champion II series presents a dozen or more amp voicings in 1x8, 1x12, and 2x12 formats, with effects including reverb, delay and echo, chorus, tremolo and Vibratone

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“I would love to do another album and I may try to bully him on that": Pete Townshend on future Who plans and the possibility of new music

The Who will definitely "do something" in 2025, according to Townshend

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“We recorded that song in a toilet with quite a cheap microphone, a Shure SM58”: Phil Oakey lifts the lid on the birth of The Human League’s Don’t You Want Me

In 1981, the band were enjoying their first flush of commercial success

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