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Is Tame Impala about to launch his own synthesizer?

The Australian artist has set up a new musical instrument company, but details are scarce - the less we know the better, apparently

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“After careful consideration, we are revising our sponsorship model”: South By South West ditches sponsorship by Army and defence contractors

South By South West drops US Army as sponsors

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“I heard some ruckus outside… It was Kurt and Dave from Nirvana who had a note for me, saying, ‘This is not a joke, call Buzz about playing with the Melvins’”: Joe Preston on Thrones, Sunn O))) and life as the underground’s first-call bassist

Bass legend Joe Preston breaks cover to reflect on his career with Melvins, High On Fire, Earth and more, and admits that trying to make a living from music was his biggest mistake

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"The smaller PRS members are subsidising the larger members to get these preferential conditions”: Fripp, Mary Chain sue PRS

Robert Fripp and Jesus and Mary Chain are suing the PRS

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“We got into the early Cars thing and began to notice a musical similarity between us and them": The story of Weezer's Buddy Holly

The melody was in time to my steps: ‘ooo-we-ooo I look just like Buddy Holly’

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How to make country-style EDM like Avicii

Time to buckle up and get on your horse as we look at some methods of making country-style EDM

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“We’ve made it feel like you're playing a tube amp”: Laney rolls out the Lionheart Foundry series – can these feature-packed solid-state combos compete with their tube-driven counterparts?

Laney reignites an age-old debate with portable, gig-ready two-channel combos with all the “the power, dynamism and response” of the original Lionheart, and footswitchable boosts

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"Leave notes to the imagination": Chromeo reveal the secret to bringing funk to electronic music

“You're never going to sound as good as a Kool & the Gang record – so what’s the point?”

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“Derek, you could play slide with a ham sandwich and make it sound good”: Watch Derek Trucks use a drumstick as a slide and still make his guitar sing

Most players have a preference for brass, glass, or maybe something ceramic, but the Tedeschi Trucks Band slide guitar maestro proved that anything goes when you've got the chops

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"We knew that something about it was really special, but we could not figure it out. Was it the key? Was it the verses?”: Producer and songwriter Dan Nigro on finding the gold in Chappell Roan’s Good Luck, Babe!

“It's a song we wrestled with for a while. We laid down a demo, and the two of us felt like it wasn't right,” he says

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“Now let’s check out the weird knob”: Shabat built Dweezil Zappa a new signature guitar and it is an HSS S-style “rock machine” like no other

Zappa's new guitar is a hotrodded Lynx with Lollar pickups, a Vega-Trem, and it has a weird but brilliant secret mode that sounds like an octaver. Watch him put it through its paces

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Away from the crowds, rare backstage footage shows Amy Winehouse covering a classic Beatles song at Glastonbury 2004

The then 20-year-old star performed a rearranged version of All My Loving in the year that she shared the bill with Paul McCartney

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"She wants this set to go down in history": Dua Lipa rumoured to be joined by Calvin Harris, Tame Impala and Cyndi Lauper in surprise Glastonbury appearances

Harris is reported to be joining the star during her headline set for a performance of their 2018 hit One Kiss

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“Noise-free operation for even the most demanding pedalboards”: Harley Benton launches the mothership of budget pedalboard power supplies, offering 12 isolated outputs for under $150

The PowerPlant ISO-12AC Pro Modular is a beast, with dozen isolated outputs, four with switchable voltages, a high-current non-isolated output, LED status indicators, and it'll even charge your phone

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“I miss him every minute, of course. I talk to him every day”: Avicii’s father talks about his grief as footage of last ever gig gets wider release

New footage is uploaded on Youtube of Avicii's last Swedish gig

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“It’s MIDI, don’t get mad at me! If I could play bass like that, I would!”: Producer Ian Kirkpatrick on the bassline for Dua Lipa’s Don’t Start Now

"It's a little Bee Gees and a little Daft Punk... a little bit Alan Braxe and Fred Falke"

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"It’s just $50, and it’s the best reverb for the buck, in the world": Composer Jason Graves on his go-to reverb plugin

After scoring Dead Space and Call of Duty, Graves' latest video game project takes him offshore to a monster-infested oil rig

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Issue 411 of Future Music is out now

Ambient Synthesis. Plus: Moby, Tourist, Moog Spectravox, Korg KingKorg Neo, MachineDrum, MIDI tools masterclass, u-Ziq & much more!

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How to craft the perfect synth bassline

Get the lowdown on low-end with our guide to bass synthesis

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How to play mono synth properly: all the skills you need to master

How playing mono synths differs from standard keyboards

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"In reality, it looked... odd, with its spare front-panel occupied almost entirely by graphics and sporting two vertically stacked wheels on the left edge": 12 synths that should have been classics, but weren’t

Inventive and inspiring, but doomed to fail. These are the often-innovative electronic instruments never received the love they deserved

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“Whether you're upgrading from the SM7B or exploring professional microphones for the first time, the SM7dB is a compelling option that stands out in its category”: Shure SM7dB review

Iconic speech and vocal mic gets a welcome boost. The same, but better?

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"Casio has created a high-quality digital piano that provides real bang for your buck, and it’s managed to do it with a certain level of sophistication and style": Casio AP-750 Digital Home Piano review

Casio blends innovative features and traditional looks as it aims to create another mid-range winner

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“We are still not fully recovered, so sadly our great tour will have a big unplanned break”: Mystery illness forces Neil Young to cancel shows

Neil Young cancels July and September shows

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How to use an amp simulator with an audio interface

Turns out we may have all been using our amp simulator plugins completely wrong. Let's clear up the matter once and for all

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