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How many keys are there on a piano? – and why are some keyboards bigger than others? Here's everything you need to know about keyboard sizes but were afraid to ask

Looking for the perfect keyboard? Does size really matter? 88, 49, 32?… Here’s the full guide to navigating the keys-world

MusicRadar · Aug 14

How Pete Townshend’s drunken night with two Sex Pistols inspired The Who’s last classic song with Keith Moon: “I used to go to clubs and get insulted. Just stand there and endure these snotty little kids saying, ‘Boring old fart!’”

Townshend took punk seriously but refused to be cast off as an irrelevant rock dinosaur

MusicRadar · Aug 14

Check yourself (before you wreck yourself): It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #17!

It's time to test your knowledge of this week's music news with our regular weekly quiz

MusicRadar · Aug 14

Travis Barker’s new doc is out today - here's 8 other drummers whose incredible stories deserve to be told on screen

From overcoming severe adversity and industry exploitation to battling stage fright, sexism, and sudden loss, these stories demand to be seen

MusicRadar · Aug 13

“I don’t want to say The Beatles cleared it, but somebody at EMI or Apple. So whoever you were that did it, thank you. Thank you, Sir Paul”: Mike D on how the Beastie Boys got away with sampling five Beatles songs on Paul's Boutique

Ahead of the release of his debut solo album, Mike D looks back at the audacious, anything-goes sampling ethos behind the Beastie Boys' magnum opus

MusicRadar · Aug 13

“Our producer worked with Ozzy Osbourne, so I said, ‘What if Ozzy sang on this song?’ But then I said, ‘How about Rob Halford? The Metal God!’ They all went, ‘Nah, that’s a crazy dream’”: When the Judas Priest legend teamed up with Five Finger Death Punch

“Rob is really into heavy metal, like really into it. After all these years, he just loves heavy metal”

MusicRadar · Aug 13

“Music has always been my first language. Justice has always been my inheritance. Contra-ICE is where those two lineages meet”: Ad-Rock, Tom Morello, Kathleen Hanna and others team up for Anti-ICE benefit album

Plus there’s a live event in LA in October

MusicRadar · Aug 13

“As a bona fide guitar nerd this is the epitome, this is the high-water mark”: Martin unveils a pair of Joe Bonamassa signature acoustics based on a 1937 pre-War vintage unicorn

The 00-18 Joe Bonamassa and its more affordable 00-10E Retro are based on a '37 shade-top of incalculable mojo

MusicRadar · Aug 13

"My goal was, get it out before I die! If I live another 20 years, I'll hit everyone with part two!": Travis Barker in 2012 on his memoir, becoming sober and why he's never really changed his kit

An archive interview with the Blink 182 drummer

MusicRadar · Aug 13

“It’s a sick, twisted song. I thought it was a love song. Just like all those people that get married to it not realising it’s a dark, demented track”: Stewart Copeland on The Police’s double-edged classic

Stewart Copeland spoke to MusicRadar back in 2019 and gave us his honest take on some of The Police’s most celebrated work

MusicRadar · Aug 13