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“I’m drifting, broken, shell shocked, just watching one foot fall in front of the other”: Gary Numan opens up about his brother’s sudden death

He is dedicating current UK tour to him

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“Every metal component – from the silver-nickel covers and baseplates to the screws and springs – has been expertly aged”: Gibson cooks up “holy grail” PAF mojo with the 1959 Humbucker Collector’s Edition Series 3 – the ultimate Les Paul tone hack?

Limited to 1,000 units, available exclusively direct from Gibson, this PAF humbucker set has been reverse engineered to give you golden era tone – and they even ship in a brown Lifton case

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“Very worrying to see him so emotional”: Fans voice concerns after Gary Numan breaks down during Birmingham gig after hearing "worst news ever"

He says he’ll share more when he’s ready

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Fender just launched its Black Friday sale and I can't believe the Player II Stratocaster is this cheap - save up to 30% off a range of Squier and Fender guitars

The Fender sale has some amazing deals on guitars - here's 7 of the best for you

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"Why don't we take a moment, a little quiet, think about him looking down on us”: Kiss pay tribute to Ace Frehley at Las Vegas shows

Plus, director of upcoming biopic says that "every young actor in the world wants to be a part of this movie"

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Babyface's recording studio – home to "125 Top 10 hits, 45 No 1 R&B hits and 13 Grammy wins" – goes on sale for $7 million with $800,000 worth of gear

The Los Angeles recording facility has hosted Michael Jackson, Ariana Grande, Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder and more

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“As close to perfect as we have ever heard”: ValhallaDSP’s new plugin is the product of eight years of research and development

ValhallaFutureVerb combines pristine, modern reverb with creative delay tools

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“I've spent 20 years of my life learning how to be good at music. To hear someone get rewarded so quickly for something made by AI is just so disappointing”: BBC Introducing under fire for featuring artist that uses AI

Plus, Paul McCartney adds his contribution to silent AI protest album

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“No, your uploaded files do not earn royalties”: Tidal launches Tidal Upload, an artist-aimed free route to get independent music on its platform. There are cash incentives - but don’t expect any royalties

Tidal’s new upload service is currently offering ten independent artists $100,000 for publishing directly to the platform

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“Their argument is: ‘Well, you signed it.’ I’m like: ‘Yeah, I signed what I was told, and I was too young and too stupid to double-check it.’”: Kelis and the complicated story of Milkshake

Singer claims she was ‘swindled’ by its producers

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“I'm getting on an airplane, I'm listening to a song and it has my sound in it”: How DECAP's Drums That Knock became the must-have sample pack for modern producers

With his astronomically popular samples featuring on hits by the likes of Charli XCX and Kendrick Lamar, DECAP is launching a new plugin that distills years of expertise into an easy-to-use drum production toolkit

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“My legs began to shake and my fingers cramped. My lips started bleeding, but I told myself not to stop playing”: Nigerian musician tells what it’s like to play the trumpet non-stop for 25 hours

Joshua Olusanya broke the World Record for longest continuous trumpet gig

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“He said ‘Look, I want you to take all those albums and destroy them and I’ll pay for whatever cost was incurred in manufacturing.’ And he actually paid us out of his royalties”: What made Prince abruptly pull his new album days before release in 1987?

A record allegedly driven by supernatural forces, Prince swiftly disowned the stark funk of the Black Album - but what caused him to pivot so dramatically?

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“Marc is criminally underrated as a guitarist. All rock ’n’ rollers love T. Rex, and there’s a little bit of T. Rex in every rock ’n’ roll band”: When T. Rex opened the floodgates of glam rock with the riff-driven groove of Get It On

T. Rex's signature song was written and recorded while on a hectic US tour, and would be their only stateside hit

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“I'm quite interested in AI... getting some of my songs that didn’t quite work and putting them up onto Suno... there might be hits”: Why Pete Townshend is interested in using AI

But then the Who guitarist has never been afraid of tech

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“Tim wasn’t feeling good, and then Jeff said something derogatory, and Tim just punched him in the face!”: The dramatic story of Jeff Beck’s explosive ’70s supergroup and the song that Stevie Wonder gifted to them and then reclaimed

An eye-witness account from drummer Carmine Appice

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“I send this mix to Rick Rubin and he says, ‘Anthony sounds old. Make him sound younger.’ And I'm like, ‘Oh, I wish there was a knob for that’”: Red Hot Chili Peppers mix engineer Ryan Hewitt recalls Rick Rubin's unusual request on 2006's Stadium Arcadium

“No one's ever said like, you know, ‘turn down the age knob’, you know what I mean? And so you get this challenge to try to come up with a solution to something"

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"This pedal excels at delivering a completely clean volume boost - and there's plenty of volume on tap": Fender Hammertone Boost review

Hammer your solo tone into shape with Fender's hard-hitting but affordable boost pedal

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“I was afraid. The idea of being unable to sing and perform was horrifying. All the things you take for granted suddenly taken away from you. It was a very troubling time in my life”: An epic interview with rock legend and Whitesnake star David Coverdale

The highs and lows of an extraordinary career

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“One of the greatest electronic music songs of all time”: Disclosure give an official release to their updated edit of a ‘90s club classic

It was first heard during the band’s 2024 Glastonbury set

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It’s now nearly impossible to detect whether a track is human or AI-made, new survey reveals

But Deezer study shows that consumers want clear labelling of AI content

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How innovative minds are developing new technology to support music makers with disabilities

Issues of accessibility present ongoing challenges for disabled music-makers, but a range of different organisations, artists and innovators are aiming to bring about industry-wide change

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“I said, ‘Before we start, you know that if I audition I’ll get the gig. But be warned – I’m gonna be a pain in the arse!’”: Bruce Dickinson recalls his audition for Iron Maiden – and his crazy times with his previous band

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“I was smashing a guitar at every show. I had to use this special glue called Cascamite – it’s a powdered glue and I managed to string them back together. I got very good at putting guitars together”: Pete Townshend remembers The Who’s first US tour

"I was just making sure I left my mark"

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“I certainly got a new appreciation for the Megadeth stuff… it was amazing to see how far guitar quality had come in our genre of music”: Alex Skolnick on the time he was on standby for Megadeth – and what to do when you can’t match a player lick for lick

With Kiko Loureiro's wife pregnant, Megadeth needed an understudy for emergency cover. The Testament guitarist answered the call but admits Loureiro's solos were impossible

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