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“I’m from dance music – there’s nothing wrong with staying on one note for 6 minutes as long as it’s a really good note. So I said to her: ‘I don’t think I’m the right person to do this’”: Stuart Price on the start of his working relationship with Madonna

Price's first role was as musical director on her 2001 Drowned tour, but he says he initially tried to turn it down

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“The promoter knew a dangerous storm was brewing but still had the crew set up the stage and told the band to get ready to perform”: B-52s criticise French promoter who they claim put band and crew at risk

Fred Schneider describes evening as a “total disaster”

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“Let’s get clear: a lot of the white men in suits loved Jagged Little Pill and got excited about female artists for myriad reasons, one of them being ‘women make us money now’”: Alanis Morissette reflects on how the music industry has changed for women

“I was kind of crafting my own scaffolding the whole time, and it was cardboard and water,” she says

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"It is an impressive and genuinely pleasurable keyboard to play, and arguably one of the finest key actions available on any digital piano today" Kawai CA901 digital piano review

The CA901 blurs the line between digital and acoustic in ways that will surprise even the most seasoned pianist

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“A guy approached me one night after a concert. He had a map, he had all the times, and he had a stopwatch. And he showed me how it was impossible”: The story of how the classic song By The Time I Get To Phoenix found the right interpreter

“It's a kind of fantasy about something I wish I would have done” said Jimmy Webb

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“He has poured his passion, creativity, and relentless commitment into Gibson”: Cesar Gueikian steps down as Gibson CEO after three years

Gueikian refocused company on its core market: guitars

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“People sometimes say ‘I’ve got a formula’ – well, yeah, and you've just stopped 700 songs coming your way”: Haircut 100’s Nick Heyward reflects on the group's moment in the sun in the early '80s

We speak to Nick Heyward about the forty-four year journey to follow-up Haircut 100's chart-stealing Pelican West with Boxing the Compass

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Is your track in the datasets that are being used to train AI? The Atlantic unveils a way you can find out

But that’s not proof they’ve been stolen...

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“We discovered pretty early on that we were not going to succeed by trying to emulate the likes of Bob Dylan. There are some very strange things on ZZ Top records”: Billy Gibbons on ZZ’s blues roots, ’80s mega-hits and their unique “sense of weird”

“In Texas there’s still a little of that gunslinger mentality in the air”

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School's out for summer: It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #11!

Each week we spin back the hottest music news and put you to the test

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“For about six months, we were the coolest band on the planet”: We talk to Embrace about the extraordinary song that put them on the indie map

Embrace announced their arrival with one of the most memorable songs of the post-Britpop age, we catch up with its creator to discuss its legacy

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“What we learned from Steve was don’t overthink it. It’s a performance, a vibe, a take, and sometimes the accidents and mistakes add to it”: How Neurosis nailed their epic sound with Steve Albini

With Albini in the control room, the experimental metal titans learned how to track live and make huge epics in just a week

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“When I heard Wes, it killed me. The guy played with his thumb, and it’s all downstrokes, which means it’s twice the effort, but he was still so fast it just smoked me!”: The jazz classic that Nile Rodgers named as his favourite guitar track of all time

“It made me realise that the guitar was something unique and special”

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“I think he altered his perspective after working with us. He did some wonderful stuff after that. He got out of just heavy metal, and that's a good, good thing": John Lydon and Bill Laswell remember the making of Rise - with a little help from Steve Vai

"I think it’s one of my best pop songs" says the singer

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"The baritone format might just be the CVT’s natural home": Gretsch Electromatic CVT Baritone review

Forget surf, this baritone is designed to deliver at the meatier end of the rock spectrum

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Has Kramer ever looked better? The shred brand's golden era arrives as it celebrates 50th Anniversary with metallic gold makeover for its high-performance lineup

Six shreddable S-styles, with a Floyd Rose 1000 Series vibrato as standard – all in Anniversary Gold for a limited time only

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“The ones who were there want to go back. The ones who weren't want to understand what the fuss was about”: There's no Glastonbury this year, but this newly restored movie is here to show you what it looked and sounded like in 1993

You can also watch more recent Glastonbury sets on the BBC iPlayer

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“A very impressive all-in-one audio recording solution aimed at music and multimedia users”: Hisong AirStudio S1 review

Crowdfunded startup Hisong wants to simplify mobile recording. Let’s see if it has succeeded

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How to re-create Drake’s smooth Burning Bridges sound using plugins

He’s one of hip-hop’s biggest stars, but his globally successful sound is easily replicable with the right software - and the right know-how…

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“We strongly believe that in the coming years, writing code manually won't be a thing”: Inside the new wave of AI vibe coding tools turning prompts into plugins

AI-powered plugin generators like Amorph and Pluginmaker.ai promise to democratiSe development – but is vibe coding really the future of plugin design, or just hype?

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“I was like, ‘Taylor, what songs do you want me to sing? This is your night.’ And she was like, ‘No, you choose.’ So I was like, ‘Seriously?’”: Sombr reflects on being asked to perform in honour of Taylor Swift after she called him "the future"

“I picked two songs, and I suggested them to her and she was like, ‘Perfect.’ So, I was like, ‘OK’”

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“An incredibly exciting instrument that's capable of some pretty clever party tricks”: Expressive E Osmose CE review

Expressive E has MPE running through its core, and now we have the opportunity to transplant some of that MPE tech into our DAWs, with the Osmose CE controller

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“This is actually rock music written on electronic equipment”: How to replicate the sample-based sonics of a gnarly Prodigy classic

Dissecting one of the big beat heavyweights’ most iconic bangers, and learning how to recreate its sound ourselves

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Free music samples: download loops, hits and multis from SampleRadar

UPDATED: free drum 'n' bass, hip-hop, dubstep, house, techno sample packs and more

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"I just felt something come over me and I said, ‘Now we're gonna do our first number one record. It's called Baby Come Back – hope you like it": The story of the classic yacht rock single that Clive Davis rejected but the world fell in love with

"He goes, ‘Yeah… you guys look good, you sound good, but I don’t hear a hit,’ and so that was the end of our chances with Clive Davis," says co-writer and singer Peter Beckett

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