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“Pro-quality results at semi-pro cash”: IK Multimedia Precision 6 MkII review

IK’s iLoud Precision speaker range has just received a MKII upgrade and a price downgrade. Is it too good to be true?

MusicRadar · Jan 5

"Makes the case that you might never need anything else": Neural DSP Quad Cortex review

Neural reaches the next frontier of amp modelling with a unit that might just change everything

MusicRadar · Jan 2

“I lay on my floor one night and wrote the whole thing": 40 years on – the making of West End Girls

From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station… Here's all the ups, downs, history, mystery, studio secrets and more of Pet Shop Boys' biggest hit

MusicRadar · Jan 2

“I can sing it in the original key, with no backing tapes at all. I sing it at every show”: The smash hit ’80s power ballad that wouldn’t die

And after 30 years, the singer is still waiting for a reunion with his old band

MusicRadar · Jan 1

“I think Roger just got lost. Roger’s finding it difficult. I have to be careful what I say about Roger because he gets angry if I say anything about him at all": Pete Townshend has his say on Zak Starkey’s protracted dismissal from The Who

“He’ll be sacking me next,” quips the guitarist, “but that’s not to say that he sacked Zak”

MusicRadar · Dec 31, 2025

“Everybody used to say how great Clapton was, but I remember saying to Eric, ‘You try playing that one riff for eight minutes!’”: How rock legends Status Quo stole a riff from The Doors and built an entire career out of it

"That song is where the Quo twelve-bar boogie shuffle came from"

MusicRadar · Dec 31, 2025

“I didn’t even want it on the album. I remember a lot of people going, ‘Please, please, please’. So I said, ‘OK…’”: How Alanis Morissette created her biggest hit

“I see words as paint, so I play with them," she said

MusicRadar · Dec 31, 2025

“Icontend that I was the first person to actually have a Super Fuzz Big Muff – before the rest of the boys”: How Courtney Love created the grunge classic that was released during her darkest hour

Hole’s song Violet came out just a week after Kurt Cobain’s suicide

MusicRadar · Dec 31, 2025

“When Ronnie sang about Neil Young in that song, that was kind of a joke lyric about him. We loved Neil Young!”: The true story of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home Alabama

"Neil wanted to play the song with us!"

MusicRadar · Dec 30, 2025

“I’m still disappointed when people hear the chorus line as ‘got to’ rather than ‘get to’”: How One rescued Achtung Baby and saved U2

Track was written in just 15 minutes

MusicRadar · Dec 30, 2025