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“Martin Gore brought along his synthesizer – we thought, this is a lot easier than learning chords on a guitar and you only need one finger to play it”: Vince Clarke on the early days of Depeche Mode and his first synth memories

Vince Clarke spoke to MusicRadar a few years back and reminisced with us about those foundational days with his Depeche Mode cohorts

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“What makes a modern sampler? We found many answers to this question and decided to implement all of them”: Bitwig Studio 6.1 launches with “radically updated” Sampler device

The German developer promises its overhauled Sampler device will "invite you to sample in ways that weren't possible before"

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“Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages”: Music legend Dolly Parton dies at 80

The prolific artist behind the timeless Jolene and 9 to 5 sadly passed away today of undisclosed causes

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“We have carefully preserved these items for decades, not because of their value, but because of the memories they hold": A Yamaha C3 grand piano and AKG C414 EB mic used by Freddie Mercury are heading for auction

Reinhold Mack, a former engineer at Munich’s Musicland studios, is selling up

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Johnny Marr reacts to British PM Andy Burnham playing a Smiths song on a guitar for soldiers in Ukraine: “I can’t quite get my head around it... for me, it’s like a victory for the guitar”

The prime minister busted out a few bars of the Smiths classic Rusholme Ruffians during his visit to Kyiv

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“I don’t think Liam even realised there were cameras there for the first week”: Don’t Look Back In Anger film makers reveal how they secretly filmed the first Oasis rehearsals in 15 years

Documentary hits cinemas on 9 September

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Gene Simmons confirms why Kiss can never play live again without permission: "They own the makeup and everything”

Band sold their catalogue and publishing to Swedish firm Pophouse in 2024

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Get ready to go back to Back To Black: Amy Winehouse’s 2006 blockbuster to get the 20th anniversary deluxe reissue treatment

Album went 15 times platinum in the UK alone

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“I sat on the toilet, with a copy of Playboy in my left hand and my sax in my right hand and we did the takes there”: The genius 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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“Jimi was always searching for a sound that did not yet exist”: Marshall gives the Studio Vintage a cosmic makeover as it expands Jimi Hendrix 60th Anniversary Collection

The JMH Studio Edition offers a more portable 20-watt take on vintage Plexi mojo – and there is a special edition Emberton III speaker and Royal V headphones too

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"People have tried to copy those licks. But it’s impossible": How Paul Simon courted controversy and channelled a midlife crisis to create his biggest and most vibrant '80s hit

Graceland, the album it came from, was released 40 years ago today

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AI models can identify iconic jazz pianists based on their recordings, while also revealing their "musical fingerprints"

Research could be used to suggest possible authors of unattributed works, say its authors

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“We’re finding that void in culture and then imagining what we want the world to hear”: How Jack Antonoff gets the best out of the globe’s biggest stars

From Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter via Lorde and Florence and the Machine, Jack Antonoff is the man that has realised some of the 21st century's most popular music, MusicRadar spoke to him to find out more about his process

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"I guess some of you probably know there’s a new man in town”: ZZ Top get back on the road just days after drummer Frank Beard’s death

Michael Monahan is behind the kit on their current US tour

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Dr Dre has words for those who oppose the use of AI in music: "You sound like the person that would have been against the drum machine when it came out. Or synthesizers"

Jimmy Iovine, meanwhile, believes that it's just that the AI companies have “terrible communication skills”

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"I'm really jealous of people like The Stones or Paul McCartney who are going well into their 80s. I wanted to do that. But it looks like I can't": Ex AC/DC drummer Chris Slade reluctantly announces his retirement

He suffered small stroke seven years ago, but says that it's "got worse"

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“He was divorced, drinking, and involved with drugs a little too much – and yet he was this beautiful soul who we got to know”: How Rhinestone Cowboy became an everyman anthem for the ages

It rebooted Glen Campbell’s career and became his signature song

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“There’s nothing more threatening than a girl with a guitar”: The classic ’80s hit that topped the US chart for seven weeks and turned Joan Jett into a rock icon

“If people want to call the song an anthem, I think it’s wonderful”

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“I was in a position where I could maybe put a deposit on a house or I could do this crazy experiment. I chose to go all in on the music”: Meet the singer-songwriter who’s playing a gig every day in 2026 in an effort to make it

It’s costing him an estimated £27,000

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“There isn't one thing about the gear that we’re using now that we don't understand”: Autechre on their diligent tech-learning ethos and very first workflow

The iconic Warp Records’ duo spoke to us back in 1994, and shared their attitude when it came to getting to grips with the initial gear they relied on to concoct their influential body of work

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“In ’70s post-Vietnam America there was no album that better captured the fall from Eden, the long slow afterburn of the ’60s”: Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne’s golden years – by Bruce Springsteen and Browne himself

The Boss spoke of the “emotional power” in Browne’s songs

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“I’ve released music that I’ve only monitored on laptop speakers”: Chris Lake on his mixing secrets

We spoke to the house music heavyweight a few years ago, and he shared his honest perspective on why music production doesn’t always require top of the range tech

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"There's no barrier to capturing a performance that's happening on any instrument in any part of the space": Inside Hot Chip's London studio

Al Doyle, Joe Goddard and Alexis Taylor invite us into the band's studio and pick their synth highlights

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“Ahhh, what a tune! It has more melodic genius and simple power than I ever realised”: The melancholy classic that made Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel the world’s hottest songwriting duo

Recorded in '64 then remixed and rereleased by popular demand in '65, The Sound Of Silence gave the songwriting duo their first number one and a track beloved by generations

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“I said, 'Dad, what you did with The Beatles was kind of amazing, wasn’t it?’ He looked at me and said, ‘Not as amazing as Brian Wilson’”: Giles Martin on the overwhelming talent of Brian Wilson

In a lengthy conversation MusicRadar had with the heir to the Beatles’ production legacy, Martin told us about his father’s boundless respect for the man who crafted some of the most innovative music of the 1960s

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