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“Being able to go into a sacred space like that and start the process was a dream come true”: Alter Bridge’s Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti on recording at the studio that Eddie Van Halen built – and the 5150 amp that gave them their fire-breathing tone

“It was literally, the minute we walked in the door, it was very Wayne’s World. ‘We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!’”

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“I would come into the studio with my guitar and notepad and people didn’t want to listen to me. They tried to just give me songs – and I hated that”: Avril Lavigne’s fight to create the smash hit that would inspire Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish

It also kick-started the career of production team The Matrix

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“Anything I could spit out of my mouth - ‘Try this! Do this!’ – Sam could do it and do it a thousand times better than I could hear it in my head”: Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst hails the "magical" powers of late bassist Sam Rivers

“Such a gifted, unbelievably sweet and wonderful person"

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“People come from all over the world, and everyone is supportive and encouraging. For 60 seconds you’re allowed to be free, silly, the biggest rock star in the world”: The World Air Guitar champion talks about how he won his title

The championships’ motto is ‘make air, not war’

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"Rest in Power": Anthony Jackson, six-string bass ace, dies aged 73

Jackson played for stars across the jazz-fusion-pop spectrum, including Buddy Rich, Al Di Meola, Madonna, Chaka Khan, Roberta Flack and more

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The history of virtual analogue synthesizers

From the Nord Lead to the MicroKorg, virtual analogue powered some of the most beloved instruments in synth history. We tell the story of the tech that bridged two worlds

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“You will lose out on generations of esoteric, risk-taking, creative, adventurous weirdos, rebels, agitators, and provocateurs. You’re gonna get white bread”: Shirley Manson takes aim at the music industry, Spotify and Ticketmaster

She expands on reasons behind Garbage’s decision to “curtail” touring

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"She was in that cavewoman outfit, doing her dance with a big wig and the two dancers going at it. I’m like: ‘This is really not me.’”: Heaven 17 on their unlikely role in Tina Turner’s comeback

The soul legend recorded Let’s Stay Together in one take

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“A tantalising and cost-effective entry point to one of the great synthesizers of our time”: Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave 8M review

Groove Synthesis’ latest module has much of the power and sound of its expensive siblings for half the price

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“Each of our albums had a synth that really excited us. The first was a Prophet ‘08, the second was the MS-20, and this time the Moog Matriarch is on every track”: Maribou State on Hallucinating Love

On their third LP, Hallucinating Love, Maribou State return with a revitalized sound after battling mental health issues

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“For about three days, just listening to this thing, I was looking at Kevin and the other two guys saying ’What have we created? This is brilliant’“: The difficult bossa nova birth and enduring brilliance of 10CC’s I’m Not In Love

10cc’s classic turned fifty this year

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“All I did was crank it up to 10 and start to rock and roll. When you stand in front of a Marshall stack and crank it, nothing sounds better!”: The 10 greatest Ace Frehley songs from his glory days with Kiss

Subjects include boozing, electrocution, rockets and torpedoes

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“It was just like ‘Oh my God, this is everything I want an album to be,’ and it was unlike anything I’d ever heard before”: When Rick Rubin and Eric Clapton got to hear D’Angelo’s Voodoo album before it was released, they were completely blown away

“I can’t take much more. Is it all like this?”, said Clapton

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“Don't get trapped by writing all your loops on a four bar cycle”: 7 great house and techno tips from Don’t Be Afraid boss Semtek (aka DJ Persuasion)

The producer, DJ and founder of one of the UK's most respected underground labels revisits a 2012 release to explore what he's learned in 15 years of releasing house and techno

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“That song wanted to be written! You don’t plan something like that”: Nena speaks to us about the making of her era-defining classic 99 Red Balloons

We catch up with Nena on a song that reflected both the 1980s’ geopolitical tensions and the era's underlying optimism - and took some inspiration from Mick Jagger

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“A light, open sound with exceptional stick definition and a gentle, airy wash": Zultan unveil new ALARIS cymbal range

There are a 14 of them in all, all handcrafted in Turkey

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“When the record company heard it, they said, ’This is a number one smash record. Let’s not put it on a B-side and lose it’”: The low-budget recording story of one of Madonna’s most iconic hits

It might seem an obvious winner now, but Madonna’s Vogue was at first the speedily and cheaply-built flip side to an entirely different single

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Meet the AI 'artist' that's earning four times the average wage in the UK

Blow Records has made £123,000 this year on Spotify

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“He moved from instrument to instrument as quietly as possible and blew my mind with his vocal performance and the beauty of that piece”: Prince’s collaborators on how he embraced The Beatles and recorded one of the most vulnerable ballads of his career

“He’d moved past the pop simplicity of Purple Rain - this was Gershwin-esque," says drummer Bobby Z

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“We lost our minds at various stages of this”: How the Avalanches gradually constructed the stunning follow-up to Since I Left You over 16 years

Lifting the lid on the lost years, creative blocks and colossal sample-clearing process that resulted in the immaculate Wildflower

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Teenage Engineering is letting you pay what you want for the OP-XY

A new 1.1.0 firmware update brings sample slicing and sidechain-style ducking to the monochrome synth/sampler

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“I hope the fans realised that I’m for real. All the stuff I’ve done was not contrived or remotely premeditated. It was always spontaneous”: Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley inspired a generation of rock stars – including Pantera, Pearl Jam and Tool

"His legacy will live on in the hearts of the KISS Army," says drummer Peter Criss

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“As soon as I've just finished a song, I'll double the lead part right away, while it's still completely fresh in my mind”: Four big-name guitarists spill their recording secrets

With insight from Paul Gilbert, John 5, Adam Dutkiewicz and Marty Friedman on their approaches to the recording process

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“I have a button on my iPhone that goes straight to voice recording because the ideas come fast. My list of voice memos is in the thousands!”: Wolfgang Van Halen discusses his songwriting process for his new Mammoth album

"I make this music for myself – it’s what I want to hear!"

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“Connect microphones wirelessly to PA systems, mixers, or audio interfaces, without complicated setup or risk of interference”: Positive Grid’s Spark LINK XLR offers cable-free and fuss-free connections for live performance

Free up your performance with the $169 wireless XLR transmitter that gives you up to 70 feet of line-of-sight transmission

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