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“No one's listening to a song going, ‘I used to like this, but he didn't make that sound’. And if they do... those aren't the people you want to be serving anyway”: Barry Can’t Swim has no time for people who have an issue with artists using synth presets

“I'm really not one who kind of gets in and builds a sound from scratch," admits the musician/producer

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“By doing maybe one Doors show a month we can fill a hole in our dire finances”: Mercury-nominated UK band Field Music are working as a tribute act

“Any embarrassment I might have felt about doing this has dissolved," the band explain, while thoroughly detailing their predicament

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“Your new best bud for silent shredding!” The Easy Listening from EarthQuaker Devices is an analogue amp simulator mini pedal designed for headphone practice – and it can do amp-less recording too

Easy Listening has a circuit inspired by a 65 Deluxe that is designed to work with your pedals

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“We were still wearing our ‘More Me’ T-shirts, but we have both matured enough to (very) occasionally ask for ‘Less Me’”: 50 years after leaving Genesis, Peter Gabriel has reunited with Tony Banks for a Dolby Atmos remix of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

“It brought back many good memories of being in a band,” says Gabriel

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“I have the physical ability, and I have the opportunity. I wish I had the desire, but I don’t”: Miley Cyrus explains why she hasn’t toured since 2014

It’s really hard to keep mental wellness on the road, she says

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“What you’re getting here is a perfect melding of vintage sound with modern practicality”: Strymon EC-1 Single Head dTape Echo review

Strymon’s standalone emulation of an Echoplex offers ahost of adjustable parameters to tailor your sound

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“It embodies everything I love about Fender and condenses it into one instrument”: Ariel Posen’s new Custom Shop signature Strat is A) a thing of beauty, and B) inspired by a… Jazzmaster?

This, you've got to see and hear. Featuring new custom-wound AP90 pickups, hardtail bridge, and cupcake control knobs, Posen's new Strat is a limited edition cracker

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“If I was a painter, I wouldn’t tell myself,‘I can’t use these colours’”: System Of A Down guitarist Daron Malakian on how the synth leads the guitar on his new Scars on Broadway album – and why he doesn’t stick to one style

Addicted To The Violence drops on Friday 18 July and finds Malakian freewheeling through his musical vocabulary

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“I dedicate the album to his memory. I miss him every day”: Fred Armisen says that the late Steve Albini was “instrumental” in the creation of his new record, 100 Sound Effects

He also had a helping hand from Dave Grohl

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“He always had a kind word and a quick wit that would slay you where you stand. Then he'd make you smile doing it!”: Bandmates pay tribute to Spinal Tap’s David Kaff

He played Tap’s keys player Viv Savage

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“I’ve been incredibly busy making music... I suppose I’m going to have to share some of it soon”: Damon Albarn teases a new Gorillaz album "in four languages"

Plus he shares his thoughts on the Bob Vylan furore

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“But seriously, you know the truth”: Stevie Wonder addresses conspiracy theory that he isn’t actually blind

He gives short speech at Cardiff gig

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“Experience one of the rarest and most coveted vintage amplifiers ever”: Mesa/Boogie puts ‘Crunch Berries’ on the menu as it releases the holy grail amp used by Metallica

Mesa/Boogie launches the Mark IIC++ head as a limited edition production model

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“I invite everybody to go on YouTube and tag ‘Taylor Swift Kiss band’. You’ll see Taylor and her band coming out in Kiss makeup and doing a song. Oh yeah!”: Why Gene Simmons loves Taylor Swift, Radiohead and – of course – his son’s new music

"You could pay what you want for a Radiohead record? That didn't last long, did it?"

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“I love, love, love, love, love, love, love the guitar parts, specifically in those songs, specifically Friday I'm in Love”: Olivia Rodrigo’s lead guitarist says that she cried after learning that The Cure’s Robert Smith would be joining them on stage

“Our music director came and told us, and was like, ‘This is very secret – you cannot tell anyone,” says Arianna Powell

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Irreplaceable: Thieves break into car and steal unreleased Beyoncé music

Robbery occurs before star’s run of Atlanta dates

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“Listen carefully, and you’ll even hear members of the band talking on the tail end of the drum loop!”: Exploring the quirky production and music theory choices of Grace Jones’ classic Slave to the Rhythm

We take a closer look at one of the most iconoclastic songs of the mid-80s era; Slave to the Rhythm

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“Nothing really big happens in the song. It stays in A-minor, there’s no singing, drums or guitars, and it was a smash hit. That’s pretty wild”: Tributes paid to X-Files composer Mark Snow

He died on Friday, aged 78

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“He’s searching. Anything that comes out of his mouth: that’s pop music. You can really do pretty wild stuff behind that”: Mk.gee’s collaboration with Justin Bieber has arrived on Bieber’s surprise new album, Swag

Mk.gee’s frequent collaborator Dijon is also on the record

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“$199 for a synth that retreads the well-worn VA path is a big ask”: Universal Audio Anthem review

This new softsynth makes UA's Spark subscription even more tempting, but is it worth its high asking price as a standalone purchase?

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“Love in an elevator? Yeah, I've done it!”: Steven Tyler and Joe Perry on the making of the Aerosmith classic Pump

Plus: the Aerosmith song that Slash said was "too pop"

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"Somebody said to him, 'Did you have a click track?' He said, 'Yes, we did. Ringo, his name was'": Ringo Starr names his proudest moment in The Beatles

And he still feels the slight of not playing on Love Me Do

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Beyoncé parks her flying car and saddles up an airborne golden stallion for her last few Cowboy Carter dates

It replaces her malfunctioning red Cadillac on 16 Carriages

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“You sacrifice things you love. I love my guitar”: How a journalist’s joke led Jimi Hendrix to set fire to his guitar for the first time

It was a ritual that would symbolise Hendrix’s esoteric allure, but the first night he did it, the incendiary act was quickly thought up backstage

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“Uptown Girl… it could’ve been a Mozart piece”: Billy Joel reveals the classical music origins of one of his biggest hits in new documentary trailer

“My own history as a musician started with me hearing classical music,” he says

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