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“Would I take this to gigs and use it with confidence, knowing that my pedals are being powered sufficiently and safely? Absolutely”: Harley Benton Spaceship Power 40-B review

The classic four-bar pedalboard with a comprehensive built-in power supply

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“All I hear is ‘Auto-Tune sucks’, ‘drum machines have no soul’ and ‘you can’t make hip-hop on a laptop because computers have no swing’”: Flying Lotus on the backlash against AI music – and why he's staying out of it

FlyLo weighs in on Suno and talks us through the making of BIG MAMA, a chaotic speedrun of an EP that zooms through chiptune, breakcore and jazz fusion without looping a single bar

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“I didn't get it at first. Then I visited my friend's studio. The way he was using it opened my eyes”: House icons Alan Braxe and Fred Falke on embracing AI in the studio

As they reissue the cult classic Intro for its 25th anniversary, the French producers tell us how they see AI reshaping sampling culture

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“Loving this cover!”: Tears For Fears give Harry Styles’ performance of their biggest hit the seal of approval, but was there a more appropriate version he could have sung?

Given his love of marathon running, he might have missed a trick

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“I don’t think we would’ve found any success had I not written any songs or had someone else been the lead singer. Me and the fellas would’ve been playing down at a local club somewhere”: The story of a rock classic that’s now hit over two billion streams

How John Fogerty created Creedence Clearwater Revival’s best-loved song

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“The Matrix hack song to clear your debt and get wealthy”: Is Anita Ward’s Ring My Bell more than just a disco classic?

TikTok users are claiming that the ‘abundance frequency’ contained within the song can help you with your manifesting

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“I’ve spent so many thousands of hours wasted on plugins – it just doesn't matter”: Fred Again on how "getting into the weeds" with software can distract from songwriting and make you less creative

"In terms of your reverb, compressor, EQ, all these things – it doesn't matter what you choose. They're all great"

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“It was horrifying. All week, we were rehearsing. It was perfect. I don’t know exactly what happened”: Alex Warren on his Grammys night in-ear monitor mishap

At least Chappell Roan offered some consoling words

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Gibson unveils the Songwriter Recording Artist acoustics, dreadnoughts with a little bling and a top-tier build – and quite possibly the makings of a future player favourite

It would take a pretty special instrument to pull focus from the Hummingbird, Dove or J-45... And yet, these acoustics, available as a cutaway or non-cutaway, have got something special

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"A massive expansion of its abilities as a modulation and automation powerhouse": Bitwig Studio 6 review

This sizeable update to Bitwig Studio expands on its strengths, and locks it in as the creative sound designer’s ultimate home base

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"For a guitar that comes in at this price, the overall build is impressive, with a level of attention to detail that’s more than respectable": Harley Benton Custom Line King-12 CE NT review

The German brand is looking to be crowned as the best budget 12-string acoustic, but does it deserve the title?

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Get a FREE Bitwig 6 8-Track license exclusively with MusicRadar

To mark this week’s release of the latest version of Bitwig Studio, we’re offering MusicRadar readers a limited supply of codes for the 8-Track version of the DAW. But be quick!

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“I remember David reaching over to John and saying, ‘No, don’t do it like that’, and John going, ‘Excuse me? I’m the bass player, right? This is how I do it!’”: The tense night David Bowie and Queen spontaneously came up with a classic

When Bowie went for a hang with Queen, a song for the ages was born. But assembling it was fraught with no short supply of pressure

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“I just think it’s more important that kids learn how to actually play the guitar. It’s a tough instrument. It’s not easy”: Unlike Guns N' Roses, Metallica and Aerosmith, Prince never allowed his music to be used in Guitar Hero – here’s why

“To play music is one of the greatest things,” he argued

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“I was 28 or something and he was 80. He’s like, ‘Here, son, this is how you do it.’ How sad is that?” Joe Bonamassa on the time BB King taught him how to use an iPod (and what made him blues guitar’s GOAT)

Bonamassa pays tribute to the undisputed king of the blues as a road dog who "knew everything" and was pretty handy with newfangled technologies, too

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“I have a little bit of a love-hate relationship with my Prophet ’08”: Art School Girlfriend on the synths, software and studio secrets behind new project Lean In

Download the stems for Art School Girlfriend's track The Peaks and create your own remix

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“The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band”: Why this cult classic was hailed as one of the most influential albums of all time

“A savage series of atonal thrusts and electronic feedback”

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“It’s my song… I wrote it”: Watch Paul Rudd and Joe Jonas going from friends to foes in the trailer for Power Ballad, the new musical movie from John Carney that centres on a songwriting dispute

Carney previously gave us Sing Street, Begin Again and Once

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As a pro guitarist, I think Boss makes the most reliable pedals around, so with 26% off everything from the DD-8 to the Waza Metal Zone in Amazon's Spring Deal Days sale, it's time to stock up

Amazon might usually be the home of cheap guitar pedals, but the Spring Sale has unleashed a slew of savings on Boss stompboxes

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Always crashing in the same car: Major album releases lead to increased traffic fatalities

When smartphone use rockets, so do RTAs

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“I said, ‘Sam, I’m gonna tell you what I told Alex, which is, I don’t really play like Eddie’”: Joe Satriani says he told David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen to call Nuno Bettencourt when they called about EVH tribute tour

Satch says the tribute tour got close to a show, but after it all fell through, Sammy Hagar came in with an offer he couldn’t refuse, and he needed a new amp to nail Eddie Van Halen's tone

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“Normally, people were happy to take his tracks, because he’s Prince. But we wanted to do the song our own way": When Prince gave the Bangles Manic Monday he assumed they would just sing over his demo, but the band had other ideas

“Luckily, Prince liked what we did," says Vicki Peterson

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“A lot of people got a hard drive full of music and they don’t know how to finish… just tell everybody, ‘Hey, that’s what I got – hope you like it!’”: Watch Saba, No ID and Jimmy Douglass build a track from scratch

Universal Audio documents Chicagoan rapper Saba's free-flowing session with two veteran producers

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Bitwig Studio 6 is here with improved automation, Clip Aliases and tons of workflow enhancements

Promising users a "big step up", Bitwig Studio 6 builds on core DAW functions to help music-making become faster and more intuitive

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“I was cacking it, I really didn’t know if it was going to work or not. We did Creep by Radiohead and I noticed I was crying halfway through": Alex James on Britpop Classical, Blur and the prospect of returning to Coachella

Bassist plays the Albert Hall tonight

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