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“Rick Rubin's mansion wasn't a studio –it was a house that got wired up to sound incredible”: Will Yip explains to us how he built his dream studio with a little influence from Rick Rubin

The engineer behind Turnstile's Grammy-winning Never Enough, Will Yip has now created his perfect music-creation zone

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“Would prog music have happened without the synth? I’m not sure it would”: Rick Wakeman on the vital significance of the synthesizer to music history

One of the synth’s most celebrated and foundational figureheads, the great Rick Wakeman told MusicRadar back in 2020 that the effect of the instrument’s birth was felt across genres

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"I still feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of what is possible with this pedal": Hotone Freqlux Tri-Pitch Engine pedal review

An impressively versatile and modern take on pitch shifting

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“The pair discuss key influences, formative experiences, and his singular approach to artistic innovation”: Jay-Z and Rick Rubin to team up for new documentary series

JAŸ-Z In 8 to start streaming in September

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“I told her it was very unusual for an agent not to be doing that”: Garbage's Shirley Manson explains how Olivia Rodrigo brought the personal touch to her Daisy Chain Fields festival

Event with all-female bill is on this Sunday

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“These guitars are sacred things to me”: Guitar Center unveils its latest Eric Clapton charity collab, with the 2026 Exclusive Crossroads Guitar Collection featuring stunning Martin acoustics and the return of the Blind Faith Tele

Martin unveils a Brazilian rosewood $24,999 Custom 000-42, PRS paints the Silver Sky blue and more – all exclusive to Guitar Center with a portion of sales going to the Crossroads Centre

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“I sat on the toilet, with a mag in my left hand and my sax in my right and we did the takes there”: The genius - and unusual recording story - of Supertramp’s greatest song

Supertramp's biggest hit was a damning indictment of boarding school and featured some inspired toilet-based sax playing…

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Extreme, the Rolling Stones, The Cure, Paramore, Weezer, Slipknot and Radiohead are all heading to Stage Tour, the new Guitar Hero-style game that's now available for pre-order

It'll be released on 10 December

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“The room was full of smoke… I said, ‘Bob, my name’s Ronnie.’ and he just looked through me”: Ronnie Wood’s strange encounter with Bob Marley when they jammed together in California

The Rolling Stones guitarist answered Al Anderson's call for help and played an encore that lasted “an hour and a half”

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"If we do this correctly, I think this could be one of the best blues songs ever!": How Joe Bonamassa and Kevin Shirley took an obscure Tim Curry track to a whole new level

Bonamassa was one of many who paid tribute to Curry after the actor's death was confirmed yesterday

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“We know you want it, but do you really (really) need it?”: Native Instruments Komplete 26 review

Fresh from InMusic buying Native Instruments – NiMusic anyone? – the Berlin company's mega bundle, Komplete, arrives with its yearly update, including more than a few new faces, and even a name tweak. But is it all just a bit too much?

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“In the ‘90s, I was eager to demonstrate that samples were a legitimate form of making music – I wanted to articulate that in as many ways as I could”: DJ Shadow on his original mission statement and why he no longer puts the MPC on a pedestal

Over the years, DJ Shadow has shared much wisdom with MusicRadar across a range of interviews. We found that his attitude toward tech - and sampling - has evolved considerably

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John Mayer honours Dolly Parton with a tender electric guitar cover of I Will Always Love You: "This is what a life well-lived looks like, feels like, sounds like"

Harry Styles and Kesha also pay tribute during live shows

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“I said, ‘Hey, guys - we’ve got a visitor’. They looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’ and then Joey Ramone walked in and went, ‘How’s it going, guys?’ Everyone’s jaws hit the floor”: We speak to Primal Scream legend Bobby Gillespie

The Primal Scream frontman reflects on the group’s politically-charged turn of the century trilogy of albums, and collaborating with the legendary Robert Plant

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“It fundamentally changes how quickly musicians can build sounds”: Neural DSP adds Device Presets and expands Quad Cortex functionality in huge update that’ll help you spend less time tweaking

CorOS and Cortex Control 4.1.0 expands plugin compatibility, adds eight new virtual devices and supports multiple device management – but are Device Presets the game-changer?

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“My dad’s favourite musician was John Mayer… so I put them on a song together”: Alex Warren busts out his air guitar as he reveals the touching reason why the big-time bluesman is on his new album

Singer has posted clip of himself miming Mayer’s guitar part

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Say goodbye to the hefty space requirements of gigantic orchestral libraries as Dreamtonics’ Instrument X provides a range of classical instruments - and expressive control over them - with a tiny footprint

The Tokyo-based company, best known for Synthesizer V and Vocoflex - has a new instrument that uses advanced neural acoustic modelling to caress the perfect performances from a range of classical instruments

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Day Tripper without the guitar riff? Listen to a rare recording of Lennon and McCartney working on a Beatles classic – before its most famous musical motif was written

Fluffed lyrics and laughter are included, though

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Jackson and Charvel’s Sleep Token signature models are officially here – and are officially kind of insane: “We’re always looking for artists who redefine what a signature instrument can be”

Okay, so guitarist IV's monster 30” scale baritone arrives tuned a whole octave down – while bassist III has a heavily customised Charvel 5-string multi-scale. Fishman pickups for everyone

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Polyend’s MIDI and QWERTY keyboard hybrid looks like such an elegant design concept that we wonder why no one thought of it before

The prototype of this spiritual successor to the Creative Prodikeys is about to go on show, and it’s heading for production

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“He was known as the best guitar player in town... He actually gave me a little tip": Brian Fallon on the Roy Buchanan trick that Bruce Springsteen taught him on guitar

The Gaslight Anthem frontman assures us the Boss “can really rip” on guitar and taught him how to play pinched harmonics just like Roy Buchanan and Eric Clapton

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“Rock and roll is for senior citizens now – However strange one feels, you can just look at the Stones who are far older and further down the path to oblivion”: Robyn Hitchcock reflects on his many decades of innovative songwriting

The psychedelic pop pioneer shares the story behind his latest record and the enduring legacy of his band The Soft Boys

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“The gritty bark of a P-90 up front, and the roar of a humbucker to back it up down south”: Harley Benton’s new $195 single-cuts have got a touch of the Nik Huber boutique vibe about them

As budget electrics go, these smart new plain-top models from the German gear brand offer versatility and no shortage of style

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“You were the barometer. The north star. Bold and brilliant. Talented and tenacious. You taught so many lessons on how to be uniquely oneself”: Beyoncé, Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift and Jack White join the tributes to the late great Dolly Parton

Singer-songwriter and cultural icon died yesterday, aged 80

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Dolly Parton’s unique creative process remembered: “Dolly said, ‘Can you just make it, like, reds and greens and sparkles?’ I played as many notes as I could while the other hand was working the transposer. She was going, ‘Yeah, yeah, that’s it. Whee!’”

In a recent interview with the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan legend, Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter remembered Dolly’s way of expressing what she wanted from her musicians

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