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"This might just be our most ambitious series yet!”: Harley Benton is making hand-aged relic'd guitars for under 250 bucks

Hitherto the preserve of custom shop and boutique makers, the German budget gear company is bringing us vintage mojo on the cheap – and there are five models to choose from

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“Paul hits this chord and I turn to him and say, ‘That’s it!’ I said, ‘Do that again!’ We really used to write like that - both playing into each other’s nose”: The creation of the pivotal Beatles single that would grab America by the hand

It was the winning Beatle song that finally unlocked the fabled American market. Life - for both band and fans - would never be the same again…

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“The Queen guys were great but their fans just threw things at us – cigarette lighters, shoes, car keys, a loaf of bread, whatever”: How INXS endured a trial by fire to become a stadium rock band in their own right

“We learnt a lot from that whole experience”

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“Literally for two years, I had one piano with a GoPro that I mounted on it. I didn't touch one synthesizer. I didn't open any machines”: Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter on his reaction to the huge scale and success of Random Access Memories

He also explains how the direction for the album was set by Daft Punk's work on the Tron: Legacy soundtrack

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“That song has so much voodoo in it. It sounded like it was written under a full moon. It gets straight to the darkest parts of one’s psyche”: Kirk Hammett on the Fleetwood Mac classic that defines heavy music

The Metallica guitarist says he is in awe of The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown) and explains why metal owes a huge debt to the late Peter Green

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Kavinsky, the French artist behind Nightcall, dies aged 50

The producer, DJ and synthwave legend was found dead at his Parisian apartment on Tuesday

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“Traces the evolution of a century of sonic experimentation, underscoring the ideas, technologies and cultural movements that shaped electronic music as we know it today”: Jean-Michel Jarre has written a history of electronic music

Machines features contributions from Hans Zimmer, Gary Numan and many more

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"I cycle through the presets to see what’s what, and…they’re not great": Mooer GE150 Max Li review

Mooer's battery-operated multi-effects unit delivers all the tools a beginner needs to get up and running, though some features fall short under DSP constraints

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Beatbox your ideas into reality with Vochlea's DubBox, an app that converts your voice into drum loops

"DubBox is for the beatmaker whose beat is already in their mouth. Beatbox in, finished drum loop out"

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"It’s going to be definitively the most real experience ever of us, Queen, in our glory days. I think people will get lost in it and even forget they're watching a film": A restored and remixed version of Queen's final filmed performance is on the way

Queen Budapest will be in cinemas and then released to watch and listen to at home

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“I don’t have an anti-semitic bone in my body, I never did and I never will have”: Rogers Waters answers his critics as he discusses his new version of Comfortably Numb, which features Palestinian singer Mona Miari

It's been released in a bid to raise funds for the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund

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“It is as though the part of the brain that sends out invitations to participate in life has temporarily misplaced the guest list”: Carly Simon opens up about her battles with Parkinson’s, depression and apathy

Singer-songwriter releases her first album in 17 years next month

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“This pedal records what you play and reshapes it into a shifting blend of tones and timbres”: Introducing Textures, the granular synth pedal from MXR that dreamy ambient tones are made of

Textures could not be any more on trend for guitarists making soundscapes, film scores, or creating noise-rock chaos

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"Stop looking at the screen, start feeling the patch": Mach Devices' MD-7 is an open-source mini-synth with motorized haptic controls that "talk back"

Those discs look a little familiar...

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“Everything you need to crank out massive riffs and searing solos without breaking the bank”: Gretsch puts high-gain sounds on the menu as it adds the $249 CVT to entry-level Streamliner series

The CVT is fast becoming a modern classic in the Gretsch catalogue and with high-output humbuckers it players with some serious firepower at an unserious price

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How to start recording pristine picked acoustic guitar in just three simple steps

You can create a great guitar track using just a single microphone and it's simpler than you think…

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"One of the most important legacies in electronic music": inMusic donates vast collection of over 4,400 items to Bob Moog Foundation Archives

The donation includes vintage synths and prototypes as well as rare letters and schematics

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“It was one of those scary, scary moments. But we pulled it off. And you know, ELP always liked a bit of pressure!”: Carl Palmer sets the record straight about Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s landmark 1977 tour

“The rumours said we were broke. That is not true”

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“We had long debates about how long we should keep George's bum on screen”: Director Mike Christie tells us how his revelatory new Wham! film exposes a lot more than just a moment of cultural change…

Wham! 10 Days in China balances footage of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in their mid-80s pomp alongside some fascinatingly intimate scenes

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"It's magical": Dhani Harrison and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich form new band and announce debut album

The new group, called Dragonflies, will drop their self-titled debut record in September

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"This is the real deal": $500k Yamaha CS-80 claimed to have belonged to Vangelis goes up for sale on Reverb

The seller claims the vintage synth was Vangelis' first CS-80 and can be heard on his 1977 album Spiral

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“I always said I was a genius, but nobody listened”: Previously unseen archive of pre-Smiths Morrissey correspondence heads to auction

The collection of letters were penned by the future Pope of Mope between the ages of 14 and 20, and expose the young Morrissey’s flair for the written word

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“I think every guitar player spends a fair amount of time trying to figure out how the hell he did that”: The eternal power and strange magic of Jimi Hendrix’s debut album – explored by modern blues star Samantha Fish

Beginning with this album, Hendrix reinvented guitar

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"The NES is basically held together with chewing gum and paperclips – it was a brutal experience": Emo band release chiptune remix album that’s only available on a retro video games console

Daydream Plus reprogrammed their entire album using 8-bit tracker software and released it on a NES cartridge

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“I’m really bored of music that sounds like privileged melancholy”: We catch up with Liverpool’s indie legends The Coral

Made famous for their 2002 indie-pop staple Dreaming of You, the Coral continue to create spirit-lifting music decades on

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