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“I tried to write a love song that wasn’t corny, that didn’t sound stupid or lame the way many do. I think I succeeded”: How Talking Heads crafted the delicate beauty of This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

Both one of Talking Heads’ most out-of-character compositions and their most emotionally resonant, This Must Be the Place continues to cast its spell over listeners

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“I created the guitar parts. I was super jet-lagged and loopy, but I was able to focus, and we created the song. Natalie’s version is extremely similar”: How Paul McCartney’s guitarist Rusty Anderson helped to shape the sound of a classic ’90s hit

Plus: Rusty's early years with Van Halen, the Bangles and more

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“It’s not for the faint of heart. You need to know what you’re doing to play that guitar”: Derek Trucks reveals what it’s like to play Jerry Garcia’s record-breaking $11.56mn Tiger guitar

Trucks got the chance to put the ultimate Grateful Dead guitar through its paces during The Tedeschi Trucks Band's residency at the Beacon Theatre in New York City – and he says it's a “beast”

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“Fans are consuming music from the artists they love in more ways than ever”: US vinyl sales hit the $1 billion mark for the first time in over 40 years

It’s the 19th consecutive year of growth

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"The numbers are going backward": New report finds that 2025 saw "no progress" for women in music

The percentage of women credited as songwriters in the Hot 100 decreased from 18.9% in 2024 to 14.5% in 2025 – a ratio of 5.8 male songwriters to every one woman

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“I had just finished a Christmas album; he had just finished a Metallica album”: It might have been “a bit of a whiplash” for some of his fans, but Josh Groban says he has no regrets about his “ballsy” decision to make an album with Rick Rubin

“I found myself bored, so I wanted to learn again, get the good fear again," he says of 2010's Illuminations

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“We do not ever want it to be like we’re going through the motions or we’re having to run on empty. We’re going to do 20 shows each year. No more, no less”: Radiohead suggest they’ll play short-term residencies in other continents

But not until 2027, says Ed O’Brien

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“He wrote some of the best parts of Hotel California and Desperado. He wrote some pivotal lines that I wouldn’t have thought of in a million years”: Don Henley’s praise for his Eagles bandmate Glenn Frey

“We wrote the soundtrack to a lot of people’s lives”

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“I urge them to reconsider and step up to help the next generation of talent”: Minister’s message to Live Nation’s dawdling over £1 arena and stadium levy

Otherwise, the government will legislate, says Ian Murray

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“People never believe me that Kraftwerk created Atomic Kitten”: OMD’s Andy McCluskey says that it was an electronic music legend who advised him to form the ‘00s girlband who would hit number 1 with Whole Again

“He took me by surprise that he actually did it!,” said the Kraftwerk member in 2022

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“Was Courtney impossible, difficult, a drug addict, terrifying, and even mean sometimes? Yes, she was. But it took me one second to understand that she was also a survivor”: Melissa Auf der Maur on her time in Hole and why she’s “proud” of Courtney Love

She has a memoir out this week

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“At least three albums with people who are a few of my favourite artists of all time... I’d say 95 percent of the work I’ve done was unpaid”: James Blake on the hit and miss nature of his production work

“You’re throwing stuff at a wall and seeing what sticks” he says

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"I picked up the acoustic guitar and noodled around, and Bruno was freestyling and singing along. That started the whole idea, and we were like, 'OK, this is where we go'": Why Bruno Mars' new single Risk It All could have ended up sounding very different

“Most of the other versions were more up-tempo," says co-writer/producer D'Mile

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“There’s plenty of output to use the pedal as a conventional boost with tonal options. And there’s a whole area of dirt to be explored”: JHS Pedals 424 Gain Stage review

The latest from JHS Pedals captures the sound of plugging your guitar into the input stages of a vintage multi-track recorder, aka, the mk.gee approach

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“I find it amazing that people are singing along in such a celebratory way about being involved in a car crash”: We speak to The Smiths’ producer Stephen Street and learn how their most beloved song came to be

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out remains one of The Smiths’ most heartbreaking songs - a near-perfect example of the potency of Marr and Morrissey’s songwriting partnership

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“At least I'm a record holder of something!”: Songwriter Diane Warren is out on her own as the most nominated person not to win an Oscar as KPop Demon Hunters’ Golden wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song

She's now lost out 17 times

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"How real can drums feel inside a plugin?": Klevgrand promises to "redefine what a drum sampler can be" with OneShot 2

OneShot 2 features a new Motion Engine designed to create phrases that "breathe and evolve" by morphing through multiple samples, such as cymbal swells, brushed textures or foley elements

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"Lot after lot, we felt like we were making history”: John Lennon’s Broadway piano goes for a record-breaking $3.3 million

He used it to write A Day In The Life

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“We didn’t want to be the kind of band that came out with a big song and then went away. But when that song came out, it changed everything”: How Stone Temple Pilots created one of the great alternative rock anthems

Singer Scott Weiland called the track “a metaphor for a lost, obsessive relationship”

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“To me, it was like being asked to tour with the Beatles”: Paul Gilbert on why he turned down the gig of a lifetime – and why not maintaining his “Whitesnake haircut” was a barrier to career progression

When Todd Rundgren called and invited Gilbert to tour with him there was only one answer, even if it pained him to say it

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“This is actually rock music written on electronic equipment”: How to replicate the sample-based sonics of a gnarly Prodigy classic

Dissecting one of the big beat heavyweights’ most iconic bangers, and learning how to recreate its sound ourselves

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“When Tarantino first sent me the script I hated it. I didn’t want my music associated with that!”: Why Neil Diamond refused to have his song used in Pulp Fiction – and ended up regretting it

The legendary singer-songwriter also turned down Jay-Z

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“I thought Motörhead was just a load of noise, to be honest – but good noise. I’d never heard anything like it. It was like a spaceship had come down to land”: A classic interview with former Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell, who has died aged 64

His motto: “Never interrupt an old woman playing bingo”

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“I understood it as a great pop song, but I wasn't sure on the very first listen as to whether I liked it or not”: How Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke bottled the sound of heartbreak with Only You

Clarke had created Just Can't Get Enough with Depeche Mode, but Only You would be his most important song

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“It would be way better if drummers weren’t reduced to nothing”: Eric Johnson on the one thing he doesn’t like about modern pop music

The Texan guitar phenom says contemporary pop has got loads going for it, but the human element from having a live drummer would be a “win-win”

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