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“Once you own a Nuno guitar, you are part of my family. Let’s ride!” Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt leaves Washburn to launch his own guitar company and debuts two new S-styles – but the N4 isn’t going anywhere

If Bettencourt can make 'em as well as he can play them then we are all in for a treat. “These are true workhorses built with the same passion I’ve put into every note I’ve ever played” he says

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“The essential building blocks of any ‘board”: Fender adds vintage analogue heat to the Hammertone pedal lineup with the Breakup Drive and Boost, both with switchable modes and a budget-friendly $99 price tag

The Hammertone Breakup Drive and Hammertone Boost have abundant tone-sweetening powers with lots of bang for your buck

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You can now buy Ableton Live 12 Suite on a rent-to-own plan

Spread the cost of Live over 24 monthly payments with no extra charges

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“He’s on all of the songs, including one that’s 13 minutes - we just didn’t want Pino to ever stop playing": Miley Cyrus pays tribute to legendary bassist Pino Palladino as he’s honoured with the Welsh Music Inspiration award

“If I only had one person to choose to play bass with for the rest of my days, I would choose Pino Palladino,” says Questlove

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“Due to a specific condition called a vocal fold hematoma”: Avenged Sevenfold postpone Latin American tour after M Shadows reports a ruptured blood vessel in his vocal cord

Dates are set to be rescheduled for January

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“Designed to deliver versatile, authentic sound for amp modellers and compact amp-simulation pedals”: Line 6 introduces multi-voicing for active guitar speakers as the Powercab CL offers ups the ante for digital rigs

Available in 1x12 and 2x12 formats, the Powercab CL offers players the choice of six switchable virtual speakers based on classic drivers, and you can turn them all of if you prefer

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“I think I ran nearly every piece of audio on the album through it. It took forever”: Alex G on the ultra-rare vintage compressor that shaped the sound of Headlights

We sit down with the Philadelphian indie rock auteur and co-producer Jacob Portrait to hear about the making of his tenth studio album and major-label debut

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“They had Coldplay and U2 and all the big rock groups there. So we came on and did our thing and David Lee Roth saw it and said, ‘I want Kool & the Gang to be my support act’”: How Van Halen ended up choosing an unlikely opening band for their 2012 tour

"We have the song Jump and you came up with Celebration - let’s go out and have a party," Roth told bassist Robert 'Kool' Bell

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“He would always say to me, ‘Listen to Led Zeppelin and tell me what the loudest thing is’. And me, having my confidence, I’d be like, ‘it’s the drums. John Bonham.’ He said, ‘Nope…’“: Andrew Watt on what Ozzy Osbourne taught him about mixing

“He was a literal genius”, says producer

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“Where established artists can share their creative process with emerging talent in an intimate setting”: Tom Misch launches Wildflower 2025 workshop

Applications close today

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Celebrated violist appeals for information in the case of the stolen bow collection

Norbert Merkl’s collection plus three instruments were locked in a safe

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“It centres on deep-seated emotions – jealousy, ill-will, anger – and then a deep desire for reconciliation”: Upcoming Oasis tour film promises 'deeply-moving' scenes of the Gallaghers repairing their relationship

Plus Familiar To Millions live album is being reissued

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“One evening, late, I found myself in my studio sat down at the keyboard. I played a C chord, put my head back, and immediately, without thinking, I sang the first two lines of the song”: Labi Siffre on the origins of (Something Inside) So Strong

Siffre has issued a cease and desist order to far-right activist Tommy Robinson in a bid to stop him using the song

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"We went to Memphis, ate a lot of barbecue, went to Al Green’s church on Easter Sunday, made some hot jams!”: Sonic Youth are teasing activity of… some kind in 2026, revolving around their Washing Machine

Band have shared fond memories of recording the 1995 album

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“Violinists have their Stradivarius', guitarists have their Strats – and producers have Massive”: How Native Instruments’ Massive became the go-to bass synth for a generation of music-makers

This is the history of Native Instruments’ massively influential wavetable instrument, from development and release to its recent rebirth as Massive X Player

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“Schools with little or no existing music provision can bring entire classrooms together to play... ensuring that the project inspires future rock ‘n’ roll stars worldwide”: Oasis launch project to fund music education by selling prints

But be quick - they’re only available for two months

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“That song was a game-changer for me. It led me to think, ‘Let’s go to rehab and see if I really am an alcoholic’”: How a guest spot on a ’90s banger was the salvation of a rock legend

“They took me into the vocal booth, and said, ‘Be Glenn Hughes!’"

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“It was all getting a bit nasty”: The struggle to make the Tears for Fears masterpiece that closed out the '80s on a creative high

Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal would acrimoniously split shortly after the release of their most musically inventive record

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One year on, I’ve finally clicked with Ableton Move – all because I’ve stopped trying to make music with it

We revisit Ableton's mini standalone sketchpad following 12 months of refinements and firmware updates

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“The Super series knocks politely, but DMNO kicks the door down”: UDO’s DMNO is two synths in one – and one of a kind

DMNO is a new polyphonic, multitimbral hybrid analogue/digital synthesizer from the British manufacturer behind Super 6 and Super Gemini

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"This change is about strengthening trust across the platform”: Spotify admits that it's removed 75 million AI tracks

“It’s not about punishing artists who use AI responsibly"

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"A versatile, brilliantly engineered machine that will have your back, no matter what the gig": Strandberg Boden N2 Original review

Strandberg makes key tweaks to its Boden blueprint, aiming to create an instrument to suit any genre - mission accomplished?

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“We all adored BB, and he asked us to write something for him. But when we listened back to the demo we agreed we should keep it. Sorry, BB!”: The classic song that Whitesnake wrote for the King of the Blues – but didn’t give to him

And they later did the same thing with Tina Turner

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“He comes up to me and says ‘you cannibalised my instrument! Why did you do that?’”: Herbie Hancock reveals what Harold Rhodes said to him when he saw that he’d fitted inputs and outputs to one of his pianos

But in the end, Hancock convinced him to include I/O in all Rhodes models

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“You actually had to be good at your instrument – that doesn’t seem to be a necessary requisite these days”: Roger Taylor and Brian May remember Bohemian Rhapsody

We were taking up “where the Beatles left off”, says May

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