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“Somehow all of these songs mean more to people now than they did when they were first released": Britpop becomes the latest genre to get a classical makeover, courtesy of Blur's Alex James

Reef singer Gary Stringer, Saffron from Republica and good old Phil Daniels are also attached to the project

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“I didn’t write any of these chords or anything – this just came straight from a sample”: Bon Iver and Jim-E Stack break down the making of Day One

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon also reveals the vintage instrument behind the song's bassline, which he says is his "favourite synth ever"

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“My dad would say the best solos are the ones you can hum and sing. It’s fun to have shreddiness, but at the end of the day the melody has to come first”: Wolfgang Van Halen on the art of soloing – and why he’s still inspired by Smells Like Teen Spirit

“I think there was one moment on this album where I used the whammy bar"

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“I actually auditioned with True Colors for America’s Got Talent when I was 13": Chappell Roan to induct Cyndi Lauper into the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame in November

The Pink Pony Club singer is a long-time fan

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“Promises a lot and mostly delivers – although it’s not without a few teething issues”: Roland TR-1000 Rhythm Creator review

Roland’s flagship drum machine is its first in 40 years to offer analogue sounds – but that’s only part of the story

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"I had to learn so many songs so quickly, and I don’t think I ever really did learn them properly”: Paul Rodgers opens up about his time fronting Queen, and why he decided to leave

He also says he’s likely to perform with Bad Company when they're inducted into the Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame next month

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“People would ask me, ‘What's it like to replace Keith Moon?’ I said, ‘I didn't replace Keith Moon – I replaced Kenney Jones!’”: How a legendary drummer followed in the footsteps of two other legendary drummers in The Who

“I saw The Who live with Kenney – and he was absolutely fantastic"

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“Not only did I get it back, not one thing had been taken out of the car and all my songwriting books were there untouched": Raye has found her lost musical jottings, paving the way for her second album

Where the hell are my notebooks? Your notebooks are coming

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"This synth remains one of the rarest and most revered instruments in music history": Korg launches Collection 6 with PS-3300 and Trinity emulations

Collection 6 also features SGX-2, an acoustic piano instrument based on the SGX-2 Premium Piano Engine from Korg's Kronos and Nautilus workstations

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“Occasionally I've been worried that I've poisoned myself but it's always turned out fine”: We speak to the artist who has just made an album from dangerous plants

Oram Award-winning electronic artist Helen Anahita Wilson tells us how she generated the music for her new album from poisonous plants and hallucinogens

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"It is not about ticking boxes. It is about rewriting the rules": UK Music launches 'Five Ps' to inspire "cultural shift" towards a more diverse and inclusive music industry

The new framework is designed to help the music industry create enduring change.

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“When I found out how funky these things can get, with the twang and everything, that made me get into it”: Christone “Kingfish” Ingram introduces his new Delta Day signature Telecaster Deluxe and explains how the Tele won him over in the end

You've seen his Mississippi Midnight signature model, now introducing the modern blues phenom's Tele Deluxe in Delta Day – or is it Daphne Blue?

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“The legendary JB tone, now reimagined for Telecasters”: Seymour Duncan might just have dropped this year’s must-have mod for your Fender Telecaster

One of the greatest rock humbuckers of all all-time, slimmed down to single-coil size to drop into your Tele's bridge position. Meet the JB Jr For Tele

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“Yes, I know, I have no respect for an instrument. To me, it’s a piece of wood until you make it into a useful tool”: Steve Morse on the time he took power tools to his guitar so he could play a Deep Purple show with a broken wrist

Upper-fret access, the DIY way... Do not try this at home. But as the former Deep Purple guitarist explains, you can't stand on ceremony when you need your guitar to play how you want it to

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“The Level Of Concern USB drive carries significant meaning for the band and its history”: Twenty One Pilots are hit by gear theft... again

It was taken at a fan event in LA

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“When we wrote the piece, it was a warning. I didn’t, honestly, in my heart, think it would ever happen”: Heaven 17 to release new updated version of (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang

The song was recently covered by LCD Soundsystem and has become an anthem of resistance in the US

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Florian Schneider's Kraftwerk instruments go up for auction – including an EMS Synthi AKS likely used on Autobahn

The collection includes a "treasure trove of synths, drum machines, and vocoders" alongside an extensive number of historic woodwind and brass instruments

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“It’s like the Hummingbird only evil”: Kirk Hammett’s new Custom Shop signature Raven dresses up the classic Gibson acoustic for Halloween

This collector's item is limited to 100 units worldwide, has a soundhole label signed by Metallica guitarist, and has aesthetic updates that just the thing for the horror superfan

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Legendary producer Trevor Horn makes a surprise live appearance as he joins rising star Sophie Grey for a performance of Buggles hit Video Killed The Radio Star, singing lead vocals and playing bass guitar

Grey has also released a cover of the song

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Antelope Audio drops free EQ plugin to celebrate the release of individual perpetual licenses for 75+ plugins

MG4+ is Antelope's take on a popular 500-Series six-band analogue EQ renowned for introducing top-end shine and clarity

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“Nobody knew you could do that, we always try to do things to break the normal order”: More than 30 years before Teenage Engineering, Kraftwerk saw the future of portable music-making and released a pocket calculator instrument

Marking an album that foresaw the 21st century’s computer-addicted society, Kraftwerk dropped their own branded handheld synth decades ahead of the trend

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"Michael picked up the music stand and threw it at the wall. He picked up a chair and threw it, too, then angrily pushed over a baffle": New book claims that Michael Jackson "trashed the studio" as he was forced to re-record lines in a 1996 hit single

The original lyrics in They Don’t Care About Us had caused a media firestorm

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“To my knowledge, no one else has tried a project like this”: Reinier Zonneveld is playing B2B with an AI clone of his “musical brain”

The Dutch DJ/producer is reimagining the future of live electronic performance with his R² AI technology. We find out how he does it

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“Huge sounds in the vein of an artist at the forefront of the progressive metal scene” Neural DSP Archetype: Misha Mansoor X review

Neural’s digital expertise combines with Misha Mansoor’s renowned ear for excellent tone to bring us a plugin that serves up everything a player may need to record epic, Periphery-inspired modern metal guitar tones

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“If I want a sound, I usually feel better if I've chased it and killed it, skinned it and cooked it”: The DIY attitude that led to Tom Waits’ finest album

Waits’ gritty Rain Dogs depicted a dark vision of New York’s underbelly, and was shaped by its ‘junkyard orchestra’ of inventive instrumentation

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