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“The biggest live performer of all time is Taylor Swift. But without the female audience – no Taylor!": Kiss star Gene Simmons says the music industry ain’t what it used to be – and blames “the fans” for putting young bands out of business

"There is no minimum wage for songwriters," he says

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"Some fresh and inspiring sequencing ideas, paired with an underwhelming sound engine": AlphaTheta Chordcat first look

AlphaTheta returns to the studio for a chord-focused sequencer and groovebox. We've had a preview, and have mixed feelings...

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“We set out to not just create the greatest day in the history of heavy metal…”: Black Sabbath’s final Back to The Beginning mega-gig just raised £140 million for charity

Great bands a great show and a great amount of money for some great causes

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“It’s the ultimate in shrednology!” Periphery’s Misha Mansoor spills blood as he turns home shopping TV presenter to unveil new state-of-the-art 7-string Juggernauts from Jackson

Make some room, people, we've got three new Juggernauts coming through... And can someone get Misha a Band-Aid?

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“I can teach a kid that is 10 years old how to beat match in a couple of hours”: David Guetta says that he’s never played a pre-recorded DJ set, and can’t understand why anyone would think that he has

"I think it's absolutely ridiculous, because beat matching is so easy," he argues

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“This is the most natural-sounding modelling amp on the market today”: Blackstar launches next-gen ID-X combos – complete with 6 amp voices, more than 35 effects, CabRig IR tech and an OLED display

Can Blackstar's feature-packed 50W and 100W combos make themselves heard above the competition? There are a lot of features here

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"Please stop sending me messages telling me to contact their management": Don’t expect Pearl Jam’s Dave Abbruzzese to get back with the band any time soon

Following the departure of drummer Matt Cameron, fans have already begun barking up the wrong tree for his replacement

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“It has been reimagined as a straightforward, yet versatile and functional instrument relevant for today’s working musician”: Gibson celebrates 50 years in Nashville with limited edition twist on an cult electric played by Adam Jones and Paul Stanley

The Les Paul Music City Special 50th Anniversary is like a Marauder only with set neck and dual '70s Tribute humbuckers.... And different hardware – and they're only making 650 in each finish

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“From the very beginning, they never asked me to play more like Duane”: Warren Haynes on what Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts told him when he joined the Allman Brothers Band

Haynes knew the significance of stepping into the Allman Brothers Band but he had the chops, he knew the material inside and out, and he had been playing with Betts for years

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“We have worked for two years to get the guitar just where we want it”: PRS remixes its vintage-inspired NF 53 for the SE line – and it's a serious workhorse electric for under a grand

A pair of Narrowfield Deep Dish humbuckers, bolt-on build, three finish options and some birds, too. What more could you want?

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“They thought he was too short. He wore a beret, and it was just very kind of corny; he sang on one knee! But he had ‘it’ - I saw it’”: How Billy Joel ended up joining the little-known ‘60s band that gave him his break as a recording artist

“All of a sudden, it came to me. I said, ‘So look, if you join The Hassles, I’ll give you this brand-new B3 Hammond,’” says drummer Jon Small

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"The same pocket-sized powerhouse that earned a cult following, recast for deep-space missions": Arturia's MicroBrute returns from the cosmos in limited-edition UFO version

The compact analogue monosynth makes an extraterrestrial comeback with "space-black design and Martian green detailing" as MicroBrute UFO Edition

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“It’s not very heard of. It was the coolest thing ever”: Olivia Rodrigo put her entire Guts touring crew into therapy

During her year-long tour the superstar ensured that her team was on their A-game thanks to a therapist on tap 24/7

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“He would do a fill where you’d think, 'Oh no, there's no way he's going to land on 1' – Jimi would just laugh because they were so silly”: The magic of Mitch Mitchell, the drummer who landed a spot in Hendrix’s band on a coin toss

On what would've been his 79th birthday, we explore the legacy of one of history's most underrated drummers

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"We’ve built something better, designed with musicians in mind": Vochlea wants to reinvent Voice Memos with new AI-powered app Dubnote – and it's free for the next 24 hours

Anyone downloading Dubnote on Wednesday 9th July will get lifetime Premium access for free

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“Her love for ornamental melodies and hypnotic lyricism fit perfectly into my sound world”: Producer Danny L Harle enlists “dream collaborator” PinkPantheress for Starlight, a song inspired by ‘90s Eurodance, '00s trance… and Elizabethan madrigals

“Starlight reaches for a kind of euphoric melancholy - a guiding light in all of my music,” says Harle

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“The Downward Spiral became a self-fulfilling prophecy. I wound up distorted – someone I didn't know”: As Nine Inch Nails’ classic album was selling by the million, Trent Reznor was losing his mind

"I was really in a low emotional place," he said

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“It’s become clear that I need surgery to avoid permanent damage”: Joe Trohman to miss remainder of Fall Out Boy’s 2025 shows as he requires operation on injured right hand

Trohman says he will be out of action for the rest of the year but is "on track" for a full recovery

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Why you should care about music theory - and 5 reasons you maybe shouldn't

From half diminished chords to phrygian modes; music theory can be both a help and a hindrance to many, but do you really need it in order to be a great musician?

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“I could tell that he was very proud… ‘This is my guy, my guitar player. I found him under a rock in Belfast!’”: Vivian Campbell on his complicated relationship with Ronnie James Dio– and what Dio told Ozzy Osbourne about his playing

Campbell says working with the late, great Ronnie James Dio wasn't always easy – and it didn't help that Campbell once likened him to Tom Jones

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Richie Hawtin produces short film inspired by '90s Detroit techno scene

Kids Like Us centres on one of a series of illegal raves Hawtin hosted at the city's abandoned Packard Plant, an event that saw the debut of the producer's legendary Plastikman alias

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Visco 2.0 turns the boundary-pushing drum machine into a polysynth – and makes one of last year’s best plugins even more of a must-try

Forever89’s free update adds a new tonal engine to its resynthesis-powered drum machine – we get hands-on

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“Ultimately, I believe it will be the end of mankind”: We catch up with synthpop legend Gary Numan to talk sampling, running a record label and the future of music

Following the reissue of his 1984 album Berserker, Gary Numan reminisces on the demise of Numa Records and the dangers of AI

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“Music is medicine. It can heal you. It really can”: Shinedown’s Brent Smith on finding inspiration in a hurricane, the “genius” Rick Beato, and why you don’t need to be play guitar to write a great rock song

The Shinedown frontman checks in to talk about the beauty of songwriting, the power of a song like Three Six Five, and to share his "most profound" advice for aspiring writers

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“We were getting more popular. It was a different level of fame. Alex and I seemed to be able to block those things out. But Neil couldn’t. He was struggling”: Why a classic Rush album spelt trouble for legendary drummer Neil Peart

“I didn’t want to be famous," Peart said. "I wanted to be good!"

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