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They can go for that: Hall & Oates appear to have reached a settlement in their legal dispute

Arbitration has worked for the blue-eyed soul duo

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“Its authenticity is beguiling, as is its playability”: Rhodes Wurli review

If you prefer the sound of a Wurlitzer to a Rhodes, you’re in luck, because Rhodes now bring us a Wurli, in plugin form. Confused? We’ll explain!

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“He was a very untraditional player, even though he had learned the traditional approach to blues to start with”: Carlos Santana on what made Jeff Beck a guitar great, and why he had to get into character to cover Michael Jackson

“Jeff Beck took guitar way beyond. His approach was like letting the hamster out of the cage,” he says

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“Back of headstock reveals:#1 Edward Van Halen Model”: Eddie Van Halen’s 1982 Kramer – also owned by Mick Mars – heads to the auction block. Is this the next multi-million dollar guitar?

Dressed up to look like Frankie, a precursor to the 5150, this transitional Kramer was stage-played by Eddie Van Halen and appeared on Mötley Crüe's Dr Feelgood

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Critter & Guitari's Organelle S2 can be anything you want it to be: synth, sampler, sequencer, drum machine, effects unit and more

A self-contained music computer built to run Pure Data patches, Organelle has just been updated with a faster processor and a handful of hardware tweaks

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"For a player who sits in the crossover between vintage tone and modern playability, it’s hard to imagine a guitar more perfectly suited": Fender American Ultra Luxe Vintage '60s Stratocaster review

Fender introduces the American Ultra Luxe Vintage, aiming to bring the playability of the Ultra II line to a player who prefers the aesthetic and tone of a more traditional character

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“With the middle pickup from the Modern Eagle V added to the mix, you can easily dial in the classic scooped tones”: PRS promises spanky Strat-esque tones and a lot more from its limited run PRS CE 24 Special

The CE 24 bolt-on gets an HSH refresh and a serious tone power-up, presenting itself as another play-anything high-end build from PRS – but they’re only making 1,500 of them!

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“How lucky I was to share in a little of Ozzy’s magic?” Producer Andrew Watt pays tribute to his departed friend

Watt was behind the desk for Ozzy’s final two solo albums

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“Most of the tone came from how much timber had taken off the neck, almost to Ibanez levels of thinness”: Bare Knuckle supremo Tim Mills reveals the tone secrets of Jimmy Page’s legendary ‘Number One’ Les Paul Standard

Mills was living the dream when he was asked to give Page's 1959 Les Paul an MOT before the 2007 Led Zeppelin reunion gig

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SampleRadar: 167 free processed 808 and 909 samples

808s and 909s, but not as you've heard them before

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“It’s pretty hard to find something that Chris is bad at but I think we’ve found it”: Watch Chris Hemsworth’s painful-looking first drumming lesson

Luckily, the actor did improve

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“We’re playing the first album, the second album, the third album and then the fourth one is... a mystery”: Gorillaz set to preview new music at upcoming Copper Box gig

Gigs and new exhibition celebrate 25 years of multimedia project

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“Our first true multi-effect, a little museum of the rare and strange for you to wander around”: Chase Bliss invites adventurous players to rummage around the Lost + Found – 12 mixable modes, from Slow-Verb shoegaze to Gen Lite lo-fi textures

Lost + Found is a typically inventive design from Chase Bliss that will present its fair share of surprises – and a bewildering array of options for transforming your tone, and presets to save 'em!

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“They were unfairly dismissed by critics and listeners with ‘good taste’ as mindlessly primitive”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind Black Sabbath's Iron Man

Following Ozzy's passing, we put one of Sabbath's best-loved tracks under the musical microscope

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“We’ve redefined the balance between heritage and innovation”: Fender combines old-school mojo with 21st-century playability on the American Ultra Luxe Vintage series

Love vintage and modern guitars? Have it both ways with compound radius fingerboards, stainless steel frets, Pure Vintage pickups and Heirloom lacquer finishes in classic Fender colours

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“Many of the Pro’s advantages are less towards sound, and more on the side of enhanced playability”: Alesis Nitro Pro review

Alesis goes beyond Max with pad improvements for its mid-range electronic drum set

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Taylor Swift announces new album, The Life Of A Showgirl, and drops a strong musical hint that Max Martin is back in the producer's chair

A return to pure pop for the world's biggest star?

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"He's not using a guitar amp. He's using a Tascam 424": JHS Pedals puts a Portastudio in a pedal to help you recreate Mk.gee's "elastic, lo-fi tones"

The 424 Gain Stage is a preamp pedal designed to recreate the sought-after sonics of a Tascam four-track cassette recorder

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"Once I’ve played those four notes, then I can start to improvise”: Mark Knopfler on the Dire Straits song he's come to accept that he has to start in the same way every time

"People have bought tickets," he says

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Kind of moo: Dairy farmers are playing their cows jazz music in a bid to improve their milk yields

And, inevitably, it's gone viral on TikTok

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"We’ve been working on something different": Auxy launches macOS version of mobile music-making app and teases forthcoming hardware instrument

One of our favourite music-making apps for iOS just came to desktop

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“If you’re given the choice between boxing kangaroos and John Lennon you choose John Lennon”: The strange, brief existence of the John Lennon-fronted supergroup hidden for decades

Back in 1968, Lennon, Keith Richards and an unlikely collection of musical cohorts tore through a White Album highlight

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“We’ve had the privilege of working with many remarkable talents over the years, but this visit was truly special”: Bob Dylan spent two days recording in Albany last week

He's still up to his Rough And Rowdy Ways

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“RIP Bobby”: Eric Clapton pays tribute to Bobby Whitlock, the Memphis musician who sang and played keyboards in Derek and the Dominos and recorded with George Harrison

Whitlock also supported Rita Coolidge’s claim that she should have received a writing credit on Layla

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Nine Inch Nails have just played their first show back with drummer Josh Freese

Peel It Back tour continues to utilise two stages

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