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Slipknot just played their first show with their new drummer, and we all know it's Eloy Casagrande

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“I just think that the one disappointing thing is the music”: The Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant questions whether Taylor Swift has released her Billie Jean - “where are the famous songs?”

Shake It Off is “all sung one or two notes going up and down,” he says

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"I never thought little ole 15-year-old me playing metal guitar in my bedroom would amount to this moment": Kiki Wong named as new Smashing Pumpkins guitarist

Vigil Of War guitarist joins the Chicago band after an open audition process that attracted 10,000 applications

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"Every time we sit down and play, it sounds like a song:" The contender for instrumental guitar album of the year is arriving on 1 May

Nashville stringers Tom Bukovac and Guthrie Trapp together on record at last – "We kept a lot of first takes"

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Create your own simple synth bass sound in 6 easy steps

Synthesis is one of the quickest and, potentially, easiest methods of creating awesome, original bass sounds. Here’s how it’s done…

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"Plugins get tricky because you start to hear with your eyes. Some of them have flashy interfaces - they make you think they’re doing more than they’re actually doing": St. Vincent on self-producing All Born Screaming

As Annie Clark releases her seventh album, Kate Puttick learns why the studio is both her heaven and her hell, and why there’s still a place for drum machines even when you’ve got Dave Grohl to hand

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“He sings on all our stuff. You hear him on AC/DC, Bryan Adams, Shania’s stuff. He has the best voice in the room”: Phil Collen says Mutt Lange is an ace vocalist who can nail it in one take – and it’s the same with guitar

For Collen, working with Lange is like “going to school for your favourite subject” but recreating the studio magic live on Def Leppard tracks such as Live Bites can be very tricky at first

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"I've been doing this since like the mid-'70s and I never showed anybody: Scott Gorham on revealing his hidden artistic talent and his new plans for the first Thin Lizzy song he ever wrote with Phil Lynott

As the guitarist and songwriter goes public with his art, he reveals he's also looking to go back and rework some of the band's songs that Lizzy didn't do justice to in the studio

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Watch Marcus King turn in an intimate solo performance of Hero on the “Barn Burst” 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard – a holy grail vintage guitar literally found in a barn

King checked in with Nashville’s Carter Vintage Guitars and got acquainted with a Les Paul with a “literally perfect” faded Iced Tea finish, and turned an acoustic standout track electric

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“It’s an impossible request: You can’t be hit hard and soft”: Billie Eilish reveals that the title of her new album comes from a Logic Pro synth name that doesn’t exist

Do you know which synth or preset she could have been thinking of?

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“Two glowing hot 12AX7 preamp tubes, running at the proper high voltage, are this pedal’s beating heart”: Friedman unleashes the IR-D, a twin-channel boutique fire-breather inspired by a modded JTM45

The IR-D preamp pedal takes those Friedman's high-end amp sounds and puts them in a tube-driven pedal, with dual boosts, onboard IRs, MIDI control and effects loop

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7 things to consider before your first DJ set: “You might be surprised at just how different your music can sound on a big club sound system”

Prepping for your first-ever DJ slot? Aside from the music, there’s a few other things you need to consider ahead of time so you can step into the booth with confidence

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"Sometimes we entertain the idea of having a producer working with us… but in our band, we are each other’s Rick Rubin": Justice on keeping production in house for new album Hyperdrama

Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé lift the lid on their creative process in a new interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe

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“Quincy said, ‘Ritenour, this is Q. You gotta get down here right now!’”: Lee Ritenour reveals all about his top secret mission to save George Benson’s Give Me The Night solo

After an unfortunate recording accident in the analogue tape days, Quincy Jones needed an 11th hour rescue job and duly made a late night call to the only player who could help

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“Her dynamics can change so drastically”: Beyoncé’s recording engineer explains why the star’s huge dynamic range dictated his choice of preamp, and how he deals with it when he’s tracking her vocals

“A lot of people ask why I don’t use the Neve on her," says Stuart White. "And I love the Neve on vocals, don’t get me wrong, but the Neves tend to crackle when you turn the pre gain”

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“If you think your addiction to synths and studio gear is out of control, imagine being in Depeche Mode”: We'd forgotten quite how much of the band's gear Alan Wilder shifted in his legendary auction, and just how many bargains were up for grabs

An Oberheim and Minimoog went for a song, but it was a Martin Gore guitar and E-mu sampler that stole the show

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“It’s an inspiring guitar to play whether strumming or playing fingerstyle”: Fender CP-60S Parlour review

This parlour version of Fender’s best-selling beginner acoustic offers big tones in a smaller, more comfortable package

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"The next chapter in the story of this little box of magic": Elektron Digitakt II unveiled with stereo sampling, an expanded sequencer, more tracks and new effects

The next edition of Elektron's widely beloved sampler and drum machine might look similar, but it beefs up the OG's specs considerably

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Music theory you can use: How to create a chord progression from any melody

12 easy steps to harmonising in your DAW

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No longer just a software upgrade, Roland’s Fantom EX is a “supercharged” version of the acclaimed synth workstation

Now new users can get their EX kicks right out of the box

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"Because I don't read music, I didn't know what the melody that went with it was": Paul McCartney explains why his musical limitations and "stealing" benefitted the Abbey Road medley that gave us The Beatles' true swansong

"It's turned out to be quite soulful," the legendary songwriter reflects

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"The piece of gear that I use the most? The Behringer Poly D. For such a low price, the sound and capabilities still surprise me": Producer/DJ Kartell on his career and gear - plus 3 top tips

New album Everything Is Here expands Kartell's already diverse sound in new directions, taking cues from ‘70s soft rock and alt hip-hop. We hear more about how the project was made

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“It’s hard to make ear protection sexy, but Minuendo has gone above and beyond the basics”: Minuendo Live review

Specialist live music earplugs promise to dampen the sound, but not the magic

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“He WAS music. He would start composing on a cocktail napkin at a bar, dream a melody, get to the piano at 3 AM, hear a door squeaking and make music out of it. His whole being resonated music”: Remembering ELP's Keith Emerson and his legendary rig

The gear that powered a legend - ELP's Moog-, Hammond- and Korg-powered heart exposed

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UK firm AudioStrip receives share of £1 million in government funding to “elevate music source separation technology beyond industry benchmarks”

Company plans to develop advanced machine learning algorithms that can automatically detect musical instruments

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