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“The amount of streams on a song isn't indicative of the quality or effort put into it”: And Doja Cat says that those who disagree with this “could be having an episode and should seek love from the outside”

“Take a look in the mirror and ask yourself in the safety of your mind if you are proud of that person or if you even like what you see,” she advises

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“He was a great hero to all of us, and because he wore glasses this even allowed John Lennon to wear his in public and not have to whip them off if there was a girl passing by!”: Paul McCartney salutes a rock ’n’ roll legend

Buddy Holly influenced The Beatles, the Stones and many more

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“I’d urge anyone wanting to make music to avoid waiting around for others to give you permission”: Eli Keszler on staying true to yourself as an artist, working with Skrillex and Oneohtrix Point Never, and his self-titled new project

The Grammy-nominated composer, percussionist and producer talks fusing drums and electronics, the inimitable sound of classic samplers and the magic of decades-old DSP

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“If you’ve never encountered modes before, this one tip could change your musical outlook forever”: 10 music theory tricks every producer and songwriter should know

Spruce up your chords and snazz up those scales with our simple but powerful techniques

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“I thought: Oh, f_____g hell, she’s got an idea. Here we go. Then everyone and their f_____g mate started jumping on board”: Ozzy Osbourne confirms his attendance at this summer’s Back To The Beginning mega gig

Dispelling doubts as to whether the Black Sabbath frontman would make his farewell gig, Osbourne is in fine form in a new interview

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“Miles runs into the studio with his horn and shouts ‘hit the record button,’ and we were recording. We wrapped that album up by midday”: Billy Cobham on Miles Davis’s agile approach to recording

Iconic drummer turns 80 later this month

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“You could take everything away from me but leave the laptop and I'm confident I could make interesting music quite happily for the rest of my life”: Lone on the gear behind his technicolour, rave-adjacent electronica

We spoke to the producer about his unique approach to shaping sound and the tech he can't live without

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“One of the concepts we are exploring is whether an artist could continue to create work after they have passed away”: The groundbreaking tech that will shape the future of music production

This isn’t sci-fi. We look at five areas where the future of music production might evolve based on very real technology

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“If you messed something up on a production, admit it, fix it, and move on”: 8 cost-free tips to improve as a producer in 2025

Get ahead on your mixing game in 2025 with these spend-free tips from a master mixing engineer and producer

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"I switched to a Stratocaster - I got a really good deal in the middle of the night for $120 - and then in 1972, Lowell George showed me his MXR compressor pedal”: Bonnie Raitt on how she developed her famous slide guitar style

“That feel is something you can’t teach - it’s something where I just listened and listened,” she says

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“The melodies work so well in this CGDGAD tuning. I’ve absolutely fallen in love with this arrangement”: Magic Mike Dawes is at it again – he’s turned a Sleep Token track into a work of solo acoustic guitar genius

Dawes makes this sort of thing look easy but on the scale of difficulty his version of Euclid is up there with impossible

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“He’d start, ‘You’ll never guess what I dreamed last night…’ and the groaning would begin”: How Rush marshalled Alex Lifeson’s dreams to write a bona-fide prog-rock classic

A tour-de-force of instrumental prog, La Villa Strangiato is the sound of Rush at the height of their powers, and this is how the Hemispheres epic came together

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“I pulled this Moog bass forward… we were like, ‘OK, that feels kind of trashy’”: Lorde says that she needed to find “just the right amount of dirt” to finish her new single, What Was That

She was working on it with producer Jim-E Stack for almost a year

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“PC Music was just two guys in a room making stuff and uploading it to the internet - that’s where it starts”: Danny L Harle on self-discovery, success and helping unsigned artists find their sound

One of pop's most visionary producers, Harle has worked with Dua Lipa, Charli XCX and Caroline Polachek. Now he's passing on his wisdom to six aspiring music-makers as part of the Amex Unsigned initiative

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PreSonus’s Quantum HD interfaces can be the heart of a powerful, convenient recording setup

The US brand's top-end interfaces pair with Eris Pro monitors and Studio One to create a recording setup perfect for guitarists and producers alike

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“Whether you’re looking to liven up a dull snare or beef up a lacklustre bass sound, these plugins are extremely handy”: Our resident platinum award-winning mixer and producer shares 10 of his go-to plugins

Our picks of the modern virtual tools that will transform any self-sustaining producer’s workflow

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Soundtoys just dropped the best free reverb plugin we've tried in years - grab it now before it costs $99

The retro-futuristic SpaceBlender is an experimental sound design tool that blends an innovative approach with vintage inspiration

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“I knew since I first listened to the music that it was gonna be big - because the music was incredible”: Charli XCX's Brat mastering engineer Idania Valencia on finalising a modern classic

The Mexican mastering engineer on working on Charli XCX's Grammy-winning behemoth and why she works entirely with software

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“Last time I saw my mother alive was at her own father’s funeral. It sounds almost too Irish": Bono shares trailer for his Apple TV+ documentary

Songs Of Surrender is a TV version of his 2023 one man show

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“If it’s not all samples, what did those people do to get that credit on the song?”: Diane Warren on the trend for hit songs having multiple writers, and why she prefers to work alone

"I’m like, Really? Wow. What did you guys do?”

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What is Superbooth 2025?: Everything you need to know ahead of the Berlin music tech showcase

All the info on the year’s hottest synth show – When is it, who'll be there and how to get tickets?

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‘Ain’t Going Down Without a Fight’: Michael Bolton confirms he has incurable brain cancer

Singer says he is living with “a reality of mortality”

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“Some of the greatest musicianship right now is young and female... If you want to take a course in great songwriting, go study at the college of Taylor Swift”: Sheryl Crow heaps praise on Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan and Phoebe Bridgers

"These women are not just in the studio throwing in a lyric - they play,” she says

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“It's rare to encounter a song from the last 70 years that doesn’t involve it in some way”: Why reverb is one of the most reliable effects in a producer's arsenal

“When used correctly, a good reverb can lift a song into the stratosphere”

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“All the albums I did with Metallica were recorded on 24-track analogue tape. There’s not a computer in sight”: How Flemming Rasmussen produced Metallica’s classic Master Of Puppets

“I rate James as the best rhythm guitar player on the planet," the producer said

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