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“I could tell that he was very proud… ‘This is my guy, my guitar player. I found him under a rock in Belfast!’”: Vivian Campbell on his complicated relationship with Ronnie James Dio– and what Dio told Ozzy Osbourne about his playing

Campbell says working with the late, great Ronnie James Dio wasn't always easy – and it didn't help that Campbell once likened him to Tom Jones

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Richie Hawtin produces short film inspired by '90s Detroit techno scene

Kids Like Us centres on one of a series of illegal raves Hawtin hosted at the city's abandoned Packard Plant, an event that saw the debut of the producer's legendary Plastikman alias

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Visco 2.0 turns the boundary-pushing drum machine into a polysynth – and makes one of last year’s best plugins even more of a must-try

Forever89’s free update adds a new tonal engine to its resynthesis-powered drum machine – we get hands-on

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“Ultimately, I believe it will be the end of mankind”: We catch up with synthpop legend Gary Numan to talk sampling, running a record label and the future of music

Following the reissue of his 1984 album Berserker, Gary Numan reminisces on the demise of Numa Records and the dangers of AI

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“Music is medicine. It can heal you. It really can”: Shinedown’s Brent Smith on finding inspiration in a hurricane, the “genius” Rick Beato, and why you don’t need to be play guitar to write a great rock song

The Shinedown frontman checks in to talk about the beauty of songwriting, the power of a song like Three Six Five, and to share his "most profound" advice for aspiring writers

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“We were getting more popular. It was a different level of fame. Alex and I seemed to be able to block those things out. But Neil couldn’t. He was struggling”: Why a classic Rush album spelt trouble for legendary drummer Neil Peart

“I didn’t want to be famous," Peart said. "I wanted to be good!"

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“An extremely well-thought-out and all-encompassing piece of drum education”: Millenium Legendary Drumbook review

Get ready, you've got a lot to learn

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"After 27 fantastic years, I have taken my final steps down the drum riser": Matt Cameron leaves Pearl Jam

Grunge drumming star leaves behind 'a lifetime, one filled with friendships, artistry, challenges and laughter'

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“You end up doing different things with a plugin versus a hardware synth, even if they’re relatively similar”: Rival Consoles on why he still uses a Prophet emulation – even though he owns the real thing

We sit down with Ryan Lee West as he returns with his ninth studio album, Landscape From Memory

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“I think it’s dodgy to do something like that, to be someone’s friend, and then buy the rug they’re standing on”: How a shrewd power move from Michael Jackson permanently dented his friendship with Paul McCartney

Once friends and collaborators, Michael Jackson’s seizure of the Beatles’ publishing rights from Paul would distance the music heavyweights

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SampleRadar: 205 free EBM samples

Before there was EDM, there was EBM

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“I’m gonna need you guys to put that howling to good use”: Sabrina Carpenter is Hungry Like The Wolf as she performs with surprise guests Duran Duran at Hyde Park

Well, half of Duran Duran, anyway

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“We are hard work - I get it”: We just witnessed the first night of the Oasis comeback. Here’s our take on the Gallagher brothers’ reconciliation

After 16 years of feuding, the pair seemed on a solid footing with each other as they shook Cardiff’s Principality Stadium with a salvo of Oasis classics

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14 of the best plugins and DAWs you can use on Linux

We continue our adventure into the world of Linux-based music-making with a round-up of the best Linux-friendly software tools

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"The choices are endless - on every laptop you have access to every sound you could ever want. That can make creativity really hard": Sean and Isom of Foster The People on their duo Peel

Forging a close bond as two-thirds of international superstars, Foster the People, Sean Cimino and Isom Innis have embarked on a parallel life as Peel.

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Melbourne Instruments' Roto-Control gets Bitwig Studio integration following 2.0 firmware update

Roto-Control's latest update also brings a raft of additional features and enhancements to this innovative MIDI controller

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"The value of music has dropped considerably since I was born – it's not great that less people are trying to perfect their art”: Ezra Collective’s Joe Armon-Jones on the imagined musical apocalypse that inspired his double album, All The Quiet

The London-based keyboardist, producer and composer on improvisation, learning production and the therapeutic value of music

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“You’ll find it in everything from the Prodigy to Skrillex”: How to get famous sounds and effects using only Logic’s stock plugins

If you’ve got Logic, you’re already more than capable of recreating Skrillex’s manipulated reverb, Billie Eilish’s formant shifting and much more…

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“The producer said, ‘If you guys can deliver a strong performance of Cum On Feel The Noize, you’ve got a deal'”: How a ’70s glam rock anthem was the key for Randy Rhoads’ old band going all the way to No.1

Oasis were not the first to cover it

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"A lot of instruments feel like interacting with a spreadsheet - we're trying to do something different": Void & Vista's plugins are 'pieces of art for people to make art with'

We sit down with the brains behind Strands and Folds, two Kontakt instruments that caught our attention with a wildly imaginative approach to sound design

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“Then his mic fails and Pete Townshend grabs me from one side and says, ‘Let’s help him'. David Bowie grabs me from the other, and with Alison we went out to sing along": Bob Geldof on how Paul McCartney’s Live Aid performance was almost a disaster

“He was driving up from Sussex, listening to U2 on the radio, and they were so good, he was getting really nervous,” remembers Geldof

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“I spent six months listening only to AC/DC – and it changed my entire approach to songwriting”: How Metallica embraced simplicity – and Mötley Crüe's producer – to create their 30 million selling monster hit

Hiring Bob Rock was one of the smartest moves they ever made

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How to emulate a classic analogue recording system entirely with plugins

It’s entirely likely that you could recreate many legacy analogue set-ups with just a few chained plugins. Here, we’ll show you how to get started

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"This is exactly what artists have been worried about – it's theft dressed up as competition": Who is behind The Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated band that blew up the internet?

A 'spokesperson' for The Velvet Sundown that gave a statement to Rolling Stone earlier this week has now revealed that he's not affiliated with group

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"90% of what I do is done on one software synth": Hans Zimmer on the synth plugin that he's been working with for years - and still hasn't run out of ideas

Zimmer digs deep into his creative process in this interview with Rick Beato

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