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“Camaraderie, chaos, and resilience”: Trailer for new Take That Netflix documentary is online

But will it be as candid as 2005’s For The Record?

MusicRadar · Jan 20

“A good combination of comfort and sonics in a lightweight design”: Rode NTH-50 review

One model has dominated the on ear headphone market for years. Let’s see what these new arrivals have to offer

MusicRadar · Jan 20

“A new benchmark for professional DJ performances”: Rane’s System One is a standalone DJ system with motorised platters aimed at scratch and open-format DJs

NAMM 2026: Rane's new flagship two-channel DJ device runs on Engine DJ and includes a built-in touchscreen

MusicRadar · Jan 20

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“Represents the evolution of everything we've learned from decades of innovation in music production”: Akai’s MPC XL is its new flagship – watch our first look review

NAMM 2026: The MPC XL massively ups the power of the MPC X; but is it better than last year’s Live III? We get hands-on and find out

MusicRadar · Jan 20

“Simple design is its key: just the straight-up, high-voltage voice of a masterfully designed single-channel amp”: Orange Amps rolls out the OR60, a single-channel 60-watt tube powerhouse officially approved by Down/COC’s Pepper Keenan

NAMM 2026: Orange says it is the most versatile single-channel amp it has ever made

MusicRadar · Jan 20

“A bad faith effort to distract from publishers’ and songwriters’ legitimate right to enforce against X’s illegal use of their songs”: Elon Musk is suing US music publishers association

He says they’ve used ‘monopoly power’ to force him to license music

MusicRadar · Jan 20

“I told Céline that if she recorded the Titanic song, it would ruin her career. I didn't like the song - I still don't. So I didn't produce it. I turned it down”: Music legend David Foster says that he passed on producing Céline Dion's biggest hit

"If it ever gets around to Céline, it's, ‘Oh, I love that Titanic song.' Then I have to say, ‘Well, I didn't produce that'"

MusicRadar · Jan 20

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“We’re the Ozempic of the music industry – everybody is on it and nobody wants to talk about it”: Co-founder of Suno defends the use of AI in music

AI music is all a matter of taste, he says

MusicRadar · Jan 20

“It gave us loads of publicity. The kids who did want to buy our records were like, ‘Oh cool! The religious right are burning their records! I better buy half a dozen!’”: The controversial Iron Maiden classic featured in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

“Six six six, the one for you and me!”

MusicRadar · Jan 20

“Heard on recordings by icons like Rory Gallagher, Brian May, and Marc Bolan, this pairing helped define the sound of rock’s formative years”: Vox unveils “re-engineered” treble booster with all the tone and none of the inconsistency of vintage units

NAMM 2026: Vox's VTB-1 Treble Booster in inspired by vintage Rangemaster units but remixes the circuit recipe and promises lower noise and a more robust performance

MusicRadar · Jan 20

AlphaTheta’s DJM-V5 is a compact and more affordable take on its flagship V10 DJ mixer with advanced effects that “enable entirely new styles of performance”

NAMM 2026: The three-channel V5 comes equipped with four-band EQ, channel compressors, send effects and multiple filter modes

MusicRadar · Jan 20

"I remember all the guys learning to play it and everybody thinking how cool a rhythm it was. I remember everybody in the studio just loving that song”: How Dolly Parton created a country classic later covered by The White Stripes, Beyoncé and more

“I was playing guitar pretty seriously back then,” Dolly said

MusicRadar · Jan 19

“Whether you’re chasing that famously haunting Wicked Game intro or carving out a completely new sound, it gives you inspiration from the moment you plug in”: Silvertone resurrects the cult guitar loved by Elvis Costello, Hubert Sumlin and Chris Isaak

NAMM 2026: A long-lost catalogue classic is back from the dead and it might be the coolest release you'll see all year

MusicRadar · Jan 19

“It’s all anyone is talking about on the Strip”: Deal for Metallica Sphere residency is “90 per cent” there

Plus new, smaller, Sphere announced for Washington DC

MusicRadar · Jan 19

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MusicRadar · Jan 19

“Emotional and soul crushing”: Aphex Twin has more Youtube listeners than Taylor Swift and this is the reason why

QKThr seems to be a go-to track for Youtube shorts

MusicRadar · Jan 19

The Leviasynth rises! Hydrasynth’s successor is finally here. Has ASM created one of the decade's best synths?

NAMM 2026: The anticipation was high, but will the Leviasynth be a worthy follow-up to ASM’s incredible 2020 debut?

MusicRadar · Jan 19

Squier unveils huge expansion of its Sonic Series, offering super-affordable, beginner and child-friendly versions of classic Fender electric guitars and basses

NAMM 2026: There are Sonic Mustangs with dual-humbuckers, vintage and modern colour finishes, classic Strats, HSS Strats... A 3/4-sized Strat too. But you'll have to wait until July

MusicRadar · Jan 19

Dubreq wants you to "sample the world" with the Stylophone Voice portable sampler

NAMM 2026: The Stylophone takes another evolutionary leap forward with Stylophone Voice, a pocket-sized sampler equipped with the same style of touch-sensitive, two-octave keyboard as its synthesizer cousins

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MusicRadar · Jan 19

"I see 8-year-olds playing Right Here Waiting on the piano and posting videos on TikTok. Are you kidding me? That song’s almost 40 years old. That’s a privilege": Richard Marx says he no longer cares about being labelled a balladeer rather than a rocker

“It took a while for me to look at myself and go, ‘Really, dude? Just relax, just chill’”

MusicRadar · Jan 19

“All of these guys were behind the glass looking at me like, ‘You better bring it, kid’: Steve Lukather remembers his high pressure first solo for Toto

He nailed Hold The Line in one take

MusicRadar · Jan 19

“It’s the exact same model Paul McCartney played on Yesterday during the Beatles’ ’65 Ed Sullivan TV appearance. I’ll always treasure that guitar more than anything”: The heavy metal star whose most prized guitar is an acoustic

Peter Frampton also played this legendary acoustic guitar on a number of classic tracks

MusicRadar · Jan 19

“There’s a truism that ‘a band is only as good as its drummer’. Any band that Josh graced with his presence on the kit was fortunate indeed”: Josh Freese to be given a Lifetime Achievement Award by Drum Workshop

NAMM 2026: Award to be presented at the NAMM show this week

MusicRadar · Jan 17

“I realised then that everything could tumble, and when you're in Colorado, and you're surrounded by these incredible mountains, you think 'avalanche'": How being alone in snowy Aspen inspired the sleeper hit that saved Fleetwood Mac

Landslide Is back in the charts due to Stranger Things

MusicRadar · Jan 17

“It does not have the right to be on the top list”: Sweden bans AI-generated song from its charts

Jag Vet, Du Ar Inte Min was credited to ‘Jacub’

MusicRadar · Jan 16

“Pretty sure that's the SexyBack snare. Timbaland, thank you": Producer Ryan Tedder on the classic Justin Timberlake drum sound he used in Tate McRae's Greedy - and the Omnisphere preset that features throughout

“I used to do these beats all the time because I was signed to Tim for two years,” he explains

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