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“Playing with your fingers has something to do with immediacy and soul. You’re absolutely in touch with what’s going on”: How Mark Knopfler combined sublime fingerpicking and Shakespearean tragedy in a Dire Straits classic

The early ’80s hit featured his iconic National Style O resonator guitar

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Misstra know it all? It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #9

Have you been paying attention? Well?

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“Sounds you'll never have heard from a guitar before”: Strandberg x Jamstik Chameleon review

Class-leading MIDI tech meets a top-rated ergonomic guitar – the perfect combination?

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“Playing music should always be fun. It should feel like an escape”: Ed Sheeran teams up with Orange to create the “ultimate busking amp” and launches grassroots music campaign to encourage young players to get out and play

Sheeran and Orange unveil the Outlowd ES series, featuring a trio of busking friendly acoustic amps – and Sheeran's Play It Home campaign aims to support grassroots music across the globe

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“They’re not really football people who are performing anyway, are they?” Noel Gallagher on the artists playing the first World Cup Half Time Show

He’s talking about Chris Martin, Madonna, Shakira and BTS

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"In this very broken moment of my life, my little grandson Bear looked at me and said, ‘Try again’”: Billy Ray Cyrus on the moment he was inspired to overcome the vocal paralysis that had stopped him from singing

“Up until that moment, he had never spoken to me at all. I wasn't even sure if he knew my name. In that moment I thought, ‘He's telling you something’"

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"A first step in making sure that these ‌tracks ⁠don't dilute the royalty pool in any significant way": Deezer to launch an AI sniffer for users on all platforms

They cite survey saying 80% want AI music “clearly labelled”

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“Almost nobody seemed to realise it was him. There were no crowds and you could really tell just how much fun he was having”: Mick Jagger turns up and sings at an Oxford pub folk session

Plus there’s a plethora of Foreign Tongues limited edition vinyl

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“You’re supposed to be a big pop producer, give me some pop!”: We just got a track-by-track breakdown of The Boys of Dungeon Lane with Paul McCartney himself - here's what he had to say

The event, at London’s legendary Roundhouse was packed to the rafters with Paul’s devotees

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“Say goodbye to unravelling cables, trip hazards on stage, and restricted movement”: The t-bone launch new series of wireless mics

The 300 series can run six systems simultaneously

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“He had to have his privacy. He had to be completely alone. We did not have visitors in the studio”: After the brutal firing of his Purple Rain band, Prince worked in isolation to create a foreboding masterpiece

The song was a sparse, stripped-back amalgam of electro-funk, soul, psych-pop, blues and rock

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“An affirming, beautifully written testament to art, life and sound, Music is a lasting gift from a true musical great”: Ryuichi Sakamoto’s autobiography to be published in September

The electronic and soundtrack music doyen died in 2023

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“A natural fit for industrial, techno, noise and experimental electronic music”: Erica Synths Xenodrive review

Can the latest desktop effects box from the Erica Synths and 112dB partnership deliver full-flavoured distortion with depth?

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"The addition of NAM profile compatibility pushes it well beyond your average multi-effects pedal": Nux MG-50Li review

Nux's battery-powered amp modeller promises over a quarter of a million different amp tones in a compact and gig-ready chassis

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Is Synplant 2's new prompt-based patch generator the future of synthesis?

Describe a sound, texture or instrument, and Synplant's new PhenoType feature will attempt to recreate it using the synth's text-to-patch sound engine

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Dweezil Zappa shredding in a skate park? That must be Charvel’s all-new American Neo-Classic Series – doublecuts loaded with Seymour Duncans, built for speed, and made in the USA

Charvel goes back to Cali with US-made range of hot-rodded S-styles with pro specs and classic finishes

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“The ES-355 has always been a really special guitar for me – it’s got this incredible balance of elegance and power”: Epiphone and Alex Lifeson team up for an Inspired By Gibson Custom replica of the Rush guitarist’s iconic 1976 ES-355

Complete with Gibson T-Type humbuckers, gold hardware, a Varitone and an Alpine White finish, this replica 'Whitey' pays tribute to the guitar that's near ever-present in the Rush catalogue

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“For engineers mixing on small studio monitors, these will be a huge asset for checking the bass and sub bass”: Sennheiser HD 480 Pro review

Sennheiser's new cans offer reliable low-end translation that goes where your studio monitors can't

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"When he died, I cried. And I actually jumped into the ocean at San Francisco. And let me tell you, the ocean at San Francisco is cold": Bass legend Jaco Pastorius

We salute a true bass guitar virtuoso

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“Thank you for the kind words. I deserve them”: Randy Newman playfully accepts Taylor Swift’s praise as they sing You Got A Friend In Me together at the Toy Story 5 premiere

“He is the king of making us feel the absolute most and pulling at our heartstrings and making us laugh,” Swift had said

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Chili Peppers' Dani California, Ghost, Extreme, BABYMETAL and Weezer all confirmed for Guitar Hero successor game: “Our ultimate goal is not only to bring the rhythm game back but bring it back better than ever before”:

Plus Gibson and Kramer are also involved

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“The violin bow was laying on the floor of the studio. Just to be class clown, I picked it up and tried to emulate Jimmy Page from The Song Remains The Same”: How The Cult created their classic signature song

“The words give hope, which marries well with the uplifting nature of the music”

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"She’s banging out songs, saying ‘what do you think of this?’ And I’m like, ‘it’s great’. I’m not really sure, but it took me 16 years to do the last album!'": Robert Smith can't match Olivia Rodrigo's work rate but teases 'dismal' and 'poppy' Cure albums

"I’m slightly in awe at how easy she finds it all. It’s not really comparable to how I do things"

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“I said to Guy-Man, ‘Let’s wear ski jackets – if we get through that anything will be easy.’ And that’s what we did – it was the worst ever”: Thomas Bangalter reveals Daft Punk's extreme preparation for the heat of their iconic 2006 Coachella set

“I was one of the robots, but now I’m just a human without any superpowers," he says

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“We never wanted David to write the score. It would have been a cliché”: Why Ryuichi Sakamoto’s spellbinding theme from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence remains so captivating

We take a deeper look at the theory underpinning Ryuichi Sakamoto’s gorgeous, award-winning theme from the movie that gave him his acting and scoring debut

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