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"It's not just another recreation of the Jupiter-8": Cherry Audio goes "beyond Jupiter" with the Mercury-8 soft synth

This long-awaited Jupiter-8 emulation builds on the creative potential of the original synth with expanded polyphony, enhanced modulation capabilities and a powerful effects engine

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In 2015, JHS Pedals released what it called the “ultimate dirt pedal” – now it has made it better with a revised circuit featuring a heap of player-requested features and more headroom

What’s up yet Kilt? On JHS Pedals’ 10th anniversary limited edition, it’s a whole lotta mods to make it even more versatile, and amp and mix friendly

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“Famous musicians are indeed at risk of a premature death”: New study shows fame knocks on average four years off your life

But being in a band does lower the risk of early death

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"This isn't just a new keyboard – it's a new era": Arturia releases small but mighty 37-key version of its AstroLab stage keyboard

AstroLab 37 packs the musical firepower of its larger siblings into a sleek and portable 37-key model that Arturia says "redefines what a compact performance keyboard can be"

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“I keep hearing people ask, ‘What have you done to Liam’s voice?' I’ve not done anything! He’s got to turn up with that voice in the first place”: How Oasis brought Noel and Liam’s touring crews together for their triumphant Live ‘25 reunion

“When a band the size of Oasis splits, it generates its own touring entities and reintegrating that is always going to be an interesting exercise”

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“I said, ‘Andy, I can you build me an amp? I’ll send you a speaker…’ he built me one of these ODS models, and, to be honest with you, it blew me away”: Joe Bonamassa teams up with Fuchs Audio for a signature amp offering Dumble tone without the price

This 100-watt 1x12 combo has heaps of EQ options, top-shelf digital reverb, a series/parallel effects loop and signature Celestion speaker – all without the six-figure vintage price tag

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“It’s exquisite. It’s a gift from someone, somewhere, that it fell into her lap”: Singer-songwriter Matt Maltese says that he doesn’t really know how one of his songs ended up on Rosalía’s new album, Lux

The first time he heard the finished version was on the day the album came out

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Rave culture meets the first mass-produced electric guitar – Fender teams up with Palace Skateboards for limited edition Telecaster with “high-energy” graphic

The Big F and the cult skate and streetwear brand also unveil guitar picks and strap

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“I'm sure that sound influenced the Daft Punk song Get Lucky, because it uses the same trick”: The fascinating music theory behind the kicked-around track that Prince shaped into a hit

What happens when you write a hit for another band, but you want it back? We find out as we trace the complicated history and intriguing theory behind an iconic Prince classic

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“I hit the drum maybe five times. That was it. Concorde flights, 14 days in a 5-star hotel. The most expensive bit of drumming in history”: When stars of Duran Duran and Chic formed a decadent ’80s supergroup to rock out like Led Zeppelin

“I had to be, like, strapped to the desk if I was gonna get a bass line finished," John Taylor said

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“They say everybody has two lives, and the second life starts when you realise you have one”: Childish Gambino reveals he had a stroke in 2024

He opens up about his health problems live on stage

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“We’re seeing the future of music take shape in real time”: All three majors link licensing deal with AI start up

Plus Suno raise $250 million to develop “full-stack music ecosystem”

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Who Wants To Live Forever? Brian May says Queen are looking at a possible hologram show: “I’m very taken with the idea that we can be the original Queen again”

He says it “wouldn’t just be playing old footage”

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Billie Eilish plays the final show on her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour… then immediately confirms the release date for the live concert 3D film that she’s directing alongside James Cameron

It’s coming to cinemas on 20 March 2026

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“A true cultural giant… His music lifted people through hard times, inspired generations, and helped to shape the global respect that Jamaican culture enjoys today”: Jamaica and the world mourn Jimmy Cliff

Reggae icon has died, aged 81

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“It doesn't seem to have affected my piano playing - I still seem to be very capable of hitting the odd wrong note here and there”: Rick Wakeman shares positive health update after brain surgery

He’s confident his rescheduled US tour will go ahead in March

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“It’s bittersweet, of course”: Soundgarden’s final album is “pretty close” to completion

But Morello says don’t expect unreleased Audioslave music any time soon

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“We weren’t getting paid that much, so our only solace was whupping his ass on stage”: Jellybean Johnson, drummer with Prince associates The Time, has died, aged 69

“Bean was a consummate musician,” said The Time frontman Morris Day. “All he ever wanted to do was play and talk music”

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“You can shake your head and say, ‘This isn’t real rock ‘n’ roll.’ Or you can look at it another way”: Joe Perry says that when Aerosmith recorded with Yungblud, "there wasn’t a single song that we did where we actually all played together”

“Music has changed so much,” Perry says

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"With a DI box and some time to learn the layout, it's a robust, reliable and ridiculously well-equipped powerhouse for the stage and studio": IK Multimedia TONEX Pedal Bass Edition review

The sonic power of TONEX, ported to a bass-friendly version of the TONEX Pedal

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“I don’t want to talk about it anymore, if that’s all right. I feel like the dust hasn’t settled”: The devastating personal pain behind one of Radiohead’s most affecting songs

The melancholy masterpiece was a highlight of the group’s last album to date, and was accompanied by a surreal Paul Thomas Anderson-directed video

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“Everybody used to say how great Clapton was, but I remember saying to Eric, ‘You try playing that one riff for eight minutes!’”: How rock legends Status Quo stole a riff from The Doors and built an entire career out of it

"That song is where the Quo twelve-bar boogie shuffle came from"

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“People would say, ‘OMG, if this guy is in the back of a guitar store, teaching, what does it say about the music business?’ But, of course, within a few years, everybody would know his name”: Testament’s Alex Skolnick on what he learned from Joe Satriani

When a teenage Skolnick studied under Satch, he found a man who was “like the equivalent of studying with a classical piano or classical violin teacher” – except this guy could rock

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“I got woken up at 3 AM by a fan spamming my DMs. I looked at the stream and was like, ‘no way!’ I’m still in disbelief”: UKG phenom MPH on featuring in Thomas Bangalter’s comeback DJ set

MPH is at the forefront of a new wave of producers reshaping UK bass. He joins us to talk about the making of third album Substance, his stripped-back studio set-up and how it feels to get a cosign from one half of Daft Punk

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“John called us and said he thought that we were the best stuff that he had heard since the Beatles… To hear that from John Lennon was like, ‘What?’ It was a wonderful compliment”: Davey Johnstone on Elton John’s smash-hit Beatles collab with John Lennon

How a visit from John Lennon during the sessions for Elton John’s 1975 masterpiece Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy yielded an impromptu Beatles cover and another number one hit

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