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"Music in general right now I feel has lost the art of dynamics. There’s so much storytelling that can be embedded in a song through just having it very soft and then growing it": In an era of loudness, Laufey is flying the flag for light and shade

Her spine-tingling cover of Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now suggests she might be onto something

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"I've never been interested in it because it's a digital synthesizer": Mike Dean shows off the "crazy rare" wavetable synth that everyone wanted in the '80s – and still sounds great today

The super-producer and analogue aficionado praises the "messed up" sound of the PPG Wave 2.3, one of the few digital synths in his extensive collection

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“Wu wouldn’t have come to fruition without Power. His passing is a profound loss to us all”: Wu Tang Clan mourn the death of their associate Oliver ‘Power’ Grant

Grant was executive producer of their debut album

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“An intimate look at their uncompromising vision and unwavering connection with their global army of fans”: A career spanning Iron Maiden doc is coming to cinemas this May

Band also recommence Run For Your Lives tour that month

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“I got a call from Burt Bacharach: ‘Can you come to the studio right now?’ So my friend has to move his car so that I can get out – and he runs over my dog!”: How a singer’s beloved pet cheated death during the making of a star-studded ’80s No.1

A dramatic story also starring Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder and Elizabeth Taylor

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“Together, Bruce, the E Street Band, and I are going to turn a spotlight on the current threats to democracy and human rights happening all around us”: Tom Morello to join Springsteen on the Land Of Hope And Dreams tour

Though he’ll only star on ‘selected’ songs

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“I wasn’t told I shouldn’t listen to the Beatles. At the same time I was exposed to this incredible Motown music, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and all of that”: Living Colour’s Vernon Reid on inspirations, unsung heroes and the emotional power of a sample

The visionary guitarist walks us through the memories, sounds and people who shaped him as a player – and the sounds we hear on his bravura solo album, Hoodoo Telemetry

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“Merely a commonplace ‘circle of fifths’ chord progression”: Miley Cyrus’s lawyers bring music theory to the fore in a fresh attempt to show that her hit song Flowers doesn’t copy Bruno Mars’ When I Was Your Man

Cyrus and her co-writers are facing a copyright infringement claim not from Mars himself, but Tempo Music Investments

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Google's ProducerAI can create customized instruments and effects in your browser

ProducerAI is a chatbot that generates songs, album art, music videos and even music-making apps

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"I'm totally uninvolved. I'm like the dad that wants to be there and know everything and she's just totally doing her own thing”: Dave Grohl says he had nothing to do with daughter Violet’s record deal

Foo Fighters are currently in UK playing two intimate shows

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“What’s the worst part about being dead? You can’t listen to music”: Liquid Death and Spotify have come up with a solution - The Eternal Playlist Urn

Now you can groove beyond the grave

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“The guys from Guns N’ Roses split down the middle politically. There was a song we wanted to use, and one of the guys said, ‘You got it. Go.’ And the other one was basically like, ‘There’s just no way’”: Melania producer discusses music rights issues

Marc Beckman says that they were also denied permission to use songs by Prince and Grace Jones

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“I didn’t know garage very well, so I made a slightly skewed version of this sound – which is what ended up being my USP”: MJ Cole on the making of UKG classic Sincere

Producer and UK garage legend MJ Cole charts his journey from classical music to the club and unpicks the production behind the genre-defining Sincere

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“Lars and I saw him headbanging at the Whiskey. ‘Let’s get that guitar player… oh, he’s playing bass!’ This skinny dude with bell bottoms, playing a wah solo. ‘Wow, we need him!’”: James Hetfield on the life and death of Metallica legend Cliff Burton

“I feel like Cliff was my ally in the battle”

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“She carved out her own path with unparalleled freedom and vision”: Tributes paid to electronic music pioneer Éliane Radigue

She worked with Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry

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“The breadth of control, countered with the joy of random probabilities, is simply fun”: ADDAC System 511 VC Stochastic Voltage Generator review

If you want happy accidents and repeatable madness galore, the 511 is the module for you

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It’s funny because it’s true: Soulseek is suddenly full to the brim of crazy Homer Simpson covers

All created via AI

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“I have never been to the Grammys in my life… it means less than nothing”: John Mellencamp isn’t impressed by awards

He plays the hits again this summer

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“I think Mick would be totally astonished that he’s still being talked about in such a positive way. This guitar just adds sparkle to an already legendary life”: Gibson unveils Murphy Lab replica of Mick Ronson’s Bowie-era 1968 Les Paul Custom

With the ebony finish stripped to reveal its two-piece plain maple top, mismatched controls, custom-wound pickups, this limited run reproduction is the spitting image of Ronson's original

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“I’m looking at this ‘hot chick’ who's got everything going on – or at least that’s what you think – and she wants the song about being Beautiful? How vain is that?”: How Christina Aguilera ended up recording a Linda Perry song that she's now reclaimed

"Christina, she’s not me, you know? And I’m not Christina"

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“The synths only let you play one note at a time, which was great as we couldn’t play chords anyway”: How Depeche Mode launched their career with one of the most important synth-pop records ever released

One of the band's biggest tunes marked the end of their first chapter, but became a springboard that would propel both them and its writer to legendary status

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“The beating human heart of those incredible men and women, the struggles and sacrifices they are making every day for the most sacred thing on this planet – freedom”: New U2 video features footage taken from behind the frontline in Ukraine

But new album contains “more songs of celebration than lamentation”

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“I don’t think we’ll have to go out into the desert and take peyote and puke like we did in the old days – when we were the hip young LA cowboys”: How Don Henley and Glenn Frey remembered the Eagles’ wild years as they created the band’s swan song

“Certainly, we don’t want to fail. We’ve never really known much failure”

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"There's nothing quite like it": The singular genius of Laurie Spiegel's Music Mouse, with Eventide's Tony Agnello

40 years ago an idiosyncratic piece of software opened new doors for electronic music. Now Eventide has revitalised Spiegel’s classic Music Mouse instrument for a new generation

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“When you've been in a band you’re always, in the back of your head, thinking, 'Well, maybe this is it.' And I don't mind that feeling. I don't see it as a sad thing”: Mike Patton on feeling closure at the end of Faith No More

Band haven’t played live since 2016

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