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“The world mourns a genius today”: Bandmates, friends and stars pay tribute to Brian Wilson

Dylan, Elton, Sting and many others mourn his passing

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“There is really only one chord in the whole song. E… something”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind Sly & The Family Stone's Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

Following Sly Stone's passing, we explore how one of the funk icon's most enduring grooves turns minimal harmony into maximum impact

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“The recording of Appetite For Destruction eventually cost $365,000. It was an outrageous amount to spend on a debut. I worried that we would never dig out of that hole”: Guns N’ Roses’ former manager Alan Niven on the making of a rock classic

“Axl sounded like he had overdosed on helium at certain points”

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Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys and one of the most influential writers and producers in pop history, has died aged 82

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“I’ve actually performed it with him, and I’m afraid to say that during the soundcheck, I broke down”: The story behind The Beach Boys’ timeless masterpiece God Only Knows, a Brian Wilson co-creation that had a profound emotional impact on Paul McCartney

How Brian Wilson hooked up with an LA advertising executive to pen one of the most majestic and moving pop songs ever created

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“A fresh, distinctive kind of guitar that feels like the perfect introduction for those that only know us for our acoustics”: Orangewood teams up with TreeTone Guitars for its first-ever electric, and it’s a baritone semi-hollow offset priced just $695

Designed alongside Josh Forest of TreeTone, the Del Sol Baritone is a P-90-loaded model based on Forest's golden era-inspired original, and it has a 27.5" scale and ships in B standard

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Paul McCartney unwittingly met the girl who’d later inspire the Beatles’ She’s Leaving Home years before writing the song

She’d later crop up in a newspaper story and trigger Paul to pen the Sgt. Pepper classic - but did he remember that he’d already met the girl in question?

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“If you see me in my music, I haven’t done my job, but if you see yourself, my job is done”: Brandi Carlile reveals the songwriting maxim that Joni Mitchell lives by

“Joni has a knack for speaking the unspeakable and for making us all feel seen and uniquely understood,” she says

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Teenage Engineering's TX-6, TP-7 and CM-15 are back in black

New sleek, matte-black versions of Teenage Engineering's TX-6 mixer, TP-7 field recorder and CM-15 microphone are now shipping

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“I’ve personally taken a lot of inspiration from the UK dance music scene": Mixwave just captured Sleep Token’s drummer – II – and trapped him inside a plugin

Get the distinctive sound of Sleep Token’s drums on your track, whatever your music style or DAW

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“I get anxiety because I believe guitars should be played”: Metallica’s Kirk Hammett has too many guitars and has been anonymously selling them online

One owner, gigged in stadiums, used on the recording of a Grammy-nominated metal album. Serious offers only...

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“The engineer was so happy with the sound, he was not even mad about it. You know if an engineer likes a piece of gear, it must be pretty good”: Jack White says his new Fender amp sounded so good that he rerecorded half of the guitars on No Name with it

The Pano Verb's weird and wonderful concoction of tube amp mojo, 10" and 15" speakers, reverb and tremolo, had White so excited that he ripped up the No Name recording schedule

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"I wanted to sit down, open any plugin, and just start turning knobs": Dialr takes the headache out of MIDI mapping with "world's first" AI-powered plugin controller

"No menu diving stealing your time. No manual mapping killing your flow. Dialr is always mapped and always ready"

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“I just do want to say that I know I can never, ever, ever, ever, ever attempt to replace or imitate Amy. I’m in awe of her”: Raye on her decision to work with Amy Winehouse producer Mark Ronson, and dealing with those inevitable comparisons

“I really just wanted to be like, ‘Do you know what? I just need to forget what anyone else is gonna say about this’”

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Neil Peart called him 'the Wood Whisperer' and now he's blended metal and timber in DW's new SonicPly shells

Fusing up to 12 plies of wood with two plies of aluminum they promise presence and power like no other

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“We’re celebrating the fact that we survived this! What remains is the true essence of what this music is about”: Ozzy Osbourne's '80s bandmate says it was "a blessing" to work with the singer

And he owed it all to Randy Rhoads

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Piano basics: the black notes - what are they for and how do you use them?

Fear of a black key?… Don't be afraid. Adding flats and sharps to your music will give it a new lease of life.

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"They’ve got 13 songs they’re happy with and they are discussing when they can release it”: The Rolling Stones are busy recording a new album in London

No UK or Euro tour this year (or ever?) so how about some new material instead?

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“Let’s go nefew! It’s time!”: Snoop Dogg’s biopic is flying high with a young Netflix star set to step into the seminal rapper’s sneakers

After years of planning, it’s all systems ‘yo’ at Universal Pictures

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"Up there as one of the better value for money metal guitars that you can currently buy": Spira S-450 TPP review

From the team behind JET guitars comes new brand Spira. Created to serve the heavier side of music, and applying an impressive spec in a budget-friendly, metal package

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“It features a smaller, parlour-sized body that is reminiscent of a scaled-down SJ-200 in overall shape”: Gibson has just unveiled a new Les Paul like no other

It’s a Les Paul, sure, and with a bookmatched AAA flame maple top, too. Only this one is reimagined as a parlour-sized acoustic guitar

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“And so the first thing I do is put it in the middle position and play Oh Well”: Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr on that time he brought Duane Allman’s 1957 Les Paul to a Metallica show and ended up playing Kirk Hammett's Greeny

Starr's first Metallica show was in 1989. His second was in 2019, and involved two of the most iconic Les Pauls of all time, and it was the day he learned Hetfield sounds the same through a Princeton

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“He’s now going around making up lies because I threw his band off the bill”: A band just got booted off the line-up for Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Sabbath Back To The Beginning megagig… But who?

A new interview with Sharon Osbourne reveals that she had to give one act the boot. And fans have been quick to speculate as to who’s out of favour

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"A tape delay plugin that finally sounds like the real thing": Heritage Audio takes on the legendary Echoplex with its TAPEoPLEX plugin

Favoured by Brian May, Jimmy Page and Joe Satriani, the Echoplex is one of history's most iconic effects units

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“Pigments is becoming so powerful it risks making the V Collection look obsolete”: Arturia Pigments review

With physical modelling and a vocoder among the additions for Pigments 6, we explore why Arturia’s flagship softsynth is very much worth your time in 2025

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