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“The weight of this responsibility is enormous and I am feeling every ounce of it”: The Who’s new drummer announces himself to fans

Scott Devours is long-serving sticksman in Roger Daltrey’s solo band

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“Cementing Spotify as the ultimate destination for summer listening and proving we know music best”: Did Spotify really just pick the 30 tracks that are going to soundtrack your summer?

Mixing social science with some good old fashioned good taste, Spotify reckons it can predict the future

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“There is no stage in the world that's too big for the music that you play on an acoustic guitar.”: John Mayer and Ernie Ball just co-designed a set of next-gen Earthwood acoustic guitar strings inspired by cymbals and bells

The Earthwood Bell Bronze acoustic strings are made from an all-new proprietary alloy that offers “bold, rich, full-bodied tones with enhanced resonance and projection”

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“We wanted the listeners to know that the pirates are on their way!”: How guitarist Steve Stevens kickstarted Billy Idol’s classic hits White Wedding and Rebel Yell

"Our producer said, ‘You need a flag at the top'"

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“Its 23-inch scale-length allows for a softer and rounder tone”: Harley Benton applies retro-classic colour finishes and the incredible shrinking treatment to its beginner friendlyJB-62CC Mini Bass

Short-scales have all the fun? For under 200 bucks you get a 23” scale Jazz-alike that’s ideal for the kids, but maybe also for those plummy old-school soul and R&B tones

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“That’s the take that we use in the film. That was first time. Dude, it was amazing”: Steve's Lava Chicken, Jack Black’s shortest-ever UK Top 40 hit from the Minecraft Movie, took just 34 seconds to record

A new Apple Music video goes behind the scenes on Black’s musical contribution to the surprise hit of the year

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“On Thursday we were at number 2 – then Beyoncé beat us on the last day”: The K’s speak to us about leading the guitar band fightback

The exhilarating four-piece tell us about hitting the top three of the UK album chart, and point to a still-thriving live band scene

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“I was kinda shocked (in the best way) that he was so versed in ‘80s Americana”: Four Tet's next project is an ambient country album with guitarist William Tyler

41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s is due out in September, but Hebden and Tyler have shared an 11-minute instrumental cover of Lyle Lovett's If I Had A Boat

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"At the end of the summer, a new great voice will sing these songs for you": Foreigner lead singer Kelly Hansen just announced his departure from the band on live TV in the middle of a performance, then handed straight over to his replacement

We're used to band line-up changes, but we've never seen anything quite like this

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"Bringing a long-awaited rock 'n' roll flair to the world of soundbars": Marshall’s Heston 120 packs the latest tech into the style signature of its classic amp heads

It’s so retro that The Darkness have been resurrected to help roll it out

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“The finest sound engineer the world has ever seen”: ABBA pay tribute to Michael B Tretow - often referred to as their ‘fifth member’ and a key architect of their sound - who has died, aged 80

“His importance for ABBA cannot be overestimated,” says Björn Ulvaeus

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“When he stopped, the hubbub in the studio was like, ‘Oh my god. Oh my god, what’s happening?’”: When Elvis Costello terrified Saturday Night Live by launching into an unplanned song

The 23 year-old Costello drew the ire of Lorne Michaels with the legendary stunt

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Universal Audio makes A-Type Multiband Dynamic Enhancer available as a native plugin

Released in May exclusively for Apollo and UAD hardware, A-Type is now available to native users and Spark subscribers

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“It’s raw, there are more guitars and it’s an album that’s even more upbeat and anthemic than usual”: Robbie Williams drafts Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi to play guitar on his new single

As Iommi guest appearances go, Williams’ Rocket is no Utopian Blaster

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“When the guitar came back to me, I thought, 'Well, now I have a Strat, a Les Paul and a regular Tele all in one’”: How top session player Brent Mason found everything he needed in one guitar

It's been slung over his shoulder since the ’80s

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“The Oceans Abyss expands on Electro-Harmonix’s highly acclaimed reverb technology to deliver a truly immersive effects workstation”: EHX’s unveils Oceans Abyss – a stereo reverb powerhouse promising a “completely unique soundscape building experience”

It's not just any reverb pedal, it's an "Advanced Reverb Laboratory", and it allows you to run two stereo reverbs at once, pan them across the stereo field, add effects and get creative

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Welcome to the bungle… Watch an increasingly rattled Axl Rose take umbrage when GNR's new drummer plays the wrong song

Just two gigs into a World Tour things didn't go to plan for new sticksmith, Issac Carpenter

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“I saw this old guitar in the corner and I plugged it into the amplifier. And whoever was playing it before had this very warm kind of soulful setting on the amplifier”: Laufey on how a vintage guitar and amp inspired recent single Silver Lining

“I had a full studio day just to myself, and I just wanted to challenge myself to write and kind of be inspired by my surroundings,” she says

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“This is my favourite part. I knew it was good because I couldn’t get through it without sobbing”: Bon Iver breaks down his duet with Danielle Haim in BBC’s Maida Vale Studios

Justin Vernon and Jim-E Stack crack open the Pro Tools projects for Speyside, Walk Home and If Only I Could Wait for BBC Radio 6 Music

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“This is the guitar you’ll pick up once – and never want to put down”: Kramer ups the ante with the Volante – a tricked-out S-style with Gibson-designed US pickups, AAAA quilt maple veneer and a re-engineered neck joint to enhance sustain

Kramer's high-performance range expands with a super-versatile double-cut with dual-humbucker or humbucker/single-coil configurations, Floyd Rose vibratos and speedy necks as standard

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“I’ve always said to the team, anyone should be able to just hit a single button on their phone and be able to start recording”: Fender Studio is the company’s long-awaited entry-level recording app, and it’s free for everyone to download

Cross-platform software “shares DNA” with PreSonus Studio One and includes Fender amp and effect models

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“Playing four notes to the bar with your thumb... That changed everything for me, because that’s what I wanted to be able to do”: How Mark Knopfler grew up wanting to be Jimi Hendrix until he ditched the pick and went fingerstyle

Or how one lesson with a folk singer from the northeast of England (and a bunch of lost picks) changed the history of electric guitar

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“We tried it as a laugh in sound check one day. Drummer II and I loved it so much that we stayed with it, and now that’s our standard setup”: What’s the secret sauce behind Sleep Token’s live drum sound?

Because delivering drums for one of rock’s hottest acts requires the breaking of more than a few rules

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"7) Metronome-like precision behind the kit deemed 'soulless'": Josh Freese just served up 10 reasons why he got sacked from The Foo Fighters

Big names from Stewart Copeland to Michael Buble have all waded in to offer Freese their support

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“Eddie says, ‘Let’s go back to the ’80s, so put down your phones!”: Iron Maiden are asking fans to limit their phone use at the band’s shows this summer

“We would very much like youto be ‘in the moment’,” says manager Rod Smallwood

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