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"I’ve been a Live user for around 20 years, and it’s probably the effect I turn to most regularly": Ableton Live 12.2 gives this "incredibly versatile" device a much-needed refresh - and rectifies Push 3’s most notable missing feature

Live 12.2 will be released on June 11, bringing updates to Meld, Roar, new Max devices and more

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“Will definitely please those who are a fan of the sound already, but standalone price is expensive”: Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus plugin review

The world’s most famous solid-state amp finally gets an official amp model for your DAW

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“I immediately heard the melody in my head. I just felt intuitively, ‘This is gonna be something’”: How Madonna created a dancefloor classic — with a sample that other artists could only dream of using

An intoxicating mash-up of ’70s disco, ’80s electropop and 2000s club music

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"I loved it so much that I hunted down the synths he used": Ethel Cain's ethereal new song features a Yamaha DX7S heard on the Twin Peaks soundtrack

The singer-songwriter was inspired by a viral video of Twin Peaks composer Angelo Badalamenti explaining how he and Lynch dreamt up Laura Palmer's Theme

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“The big take-home is the overall playability of this wonderful keyboard, we simply got lost for hours in the enjoyment of playing”: Nord Piano 6 review

The Nord Piano reaches its sixth generation, with some sizeable upgrades. We sit on a stool and take notes!

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“They start the song and then they just… it feels like a run-on sentence to me. I can’t find the hook. I can’t find the chorus. It just keeps on going, and then it ends”: Barry Manilow says that songwriting has changed, but he won’t be changing with it

“Young people don’t write the way I was trained to write,” he believes

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“Studio-grade tone shaping in a compact pedal format that is purpose-built for low-end instruments, not just adapted from guitar gear”: Empress Effects unveils the Bass ParaEQ, the world’s first parametric EQ pedal designed especially for bass

Empress Effects promises total control over your tone with heaps of features, including three parametric bands with 15dB boost/cut, footswitchable boost, various filters and more

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“It creates a tone that you can't find in Guitar Center”: Disiniblud on the self-built instruments, obscure Eurorack modules and marathon Ableton sessions behind their wildly imaginative self-titled debut

Guitars merge seamlessly with modular sketches on Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith's beautifully realised debut. Danny Turner finds out more about their "wordless" collaboration

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“Designed to be featherlight without compromising tone”: Kiesel debuts the Kyber – a customisable, super-shreddable and radically contoured electric guitar that weighs as little as 6lbs

Kiesel’s new design is all about the ergonomics, with the California high-performance brand offering every excuse for players to carry on up the Kyber's fingerboard

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“The end result - rights holders get paid even less, nobody has the right to opt in or out and as artists we have zero visibility on what these license details will entail”: The reaction to a report that major labels are in talks with AI firms

The details of a new Bloomberg report into major labels trying to reach an agreement with controversial AI companies has caused uproar

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“I got to know her music pretty well, Houdini and the like. I just think she’s great and it was such a great thing to get up with her. The band were fantastic - they played it really well”: Neil Finn on how his unlikely duet with Dua Lipa came about

“My two grandsons were dancing to that music last summer,” says the Crowded House frontman

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“I'm never going to get there. I might get to where I can try to, and I'm not going to give up. I'm going to try”: Huey Lewis hasn’t given up on making new music

Singer has been suffering from hearing loss brought on by Meniere’s disease

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AI-BBA – Björn Ulvaeus is using AI to write a new musical: “It usually comes out with garbage, but sometimes there is something in it that gives you another idea”

The new project comes via Pophouse Entertainment, the company that put together ABBA: Voyage

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“Looks, feels and sounds far more expensive than it actually is”: Epiphone Inspired by Gibson Custom 1960 Les Paul Special Double Cut Reissue TV Yellow review

The most affordable of the new Inspired by Gibson Custom models – but it could be a highlight of the range

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“For the record, I have never been consulted in any way about this pedal, it has never been authorised by me”: Bill Finnegan sues Behringer parent company over Klon Centaur clone

Finnegan invented the Klon Centaur in 1994. Behringer launched a $69 copy and called it the Centaur Overdrive in November last year

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“The people I’ve met, the stories I’ve heard and the places I’ve wound up in has been an absolute odyssey”: Exhibition featuring life-sized photos of 100 legendary artists' guitars to open in London

Scale will feature 1:1 front-and-back portraits of guitars belonging to Paul McCartney, Tom Morello, Dave Grohl, Kerry King, Brian May, Joan Jett and more – and it'll tell the stories behind them

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“The baritone Tele was made uniquely for me, and Paul’s mandolin has been with him for decades. We’re heartbroken": Someone just stole Heart’s gear on the eve of their comeback tour

The Wilson sisters are offering a reward for “their safe return – no questions asked”

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"You can absolutely craft some great mixes on these": JBL 305P MkII review

JBL's budget studio monitors are priced crazy low and promise good quality mixes that don't cost the earth

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"This is an experiment": Teenage Engineering is letting you choose your own price for the OP-1 Field (no, we're not kidding)

The ever-mischievous Swedish brand is giving you the chance to pay what you want for its divisive mini-synth/sampler... but there's a catch

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“They were just asking for it”: When Kurt Cobain deliberately sabotaged Nirvana’s Top of the Pops appearance

Cobain later said his mock-baritone vocal was an attempt at imitating Morrissey

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“After I’d finished with the food mixer, I threw it over the balcony and it hit some kid on the head - he found me afterwards and said ‘can you sign this’”: How Aphex Twin almost knocked out a fan at his weirdest gig ever

Microphones in blenders, sandpaper on the decks and a potential lawsuit - it's just your average Aphex Twin show

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The vocals on Billie Eilish’s Birds Of A Feather are consistently out of tune, says this musician, and he thinks he knows why

“I promise this is not going to be a ‘Billie Eilish can’t sing’ video,” says Noah Forbes, but he does have a theory

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“This is the new rock ’n’ roll Metallica. The riffs are greasier, bluesier, dirtier”: How the heavy metal heroes shook things up with Load

"Nobody knew where this record was going to end up when we started it"

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“Not just Wayne’s sound but Wayne's attitude, and the grit and the rawness of Detroit and of the MC5”: Two gain circuits, one knob, one punk legend – MXR launches limited edition Jail Guitar Doors Drive in memory of Wayne Kramer

Sales from this Reverb exclusive will support Kramer's charity supporting prisoner rehabilitation

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“He said, 'You can tell people I’m not dying'. He wants people to know that”: Howard Stern gives Billy Joel fans a good-news update following the star’s brain disorder diagnosis

The two friends met up earlier this month to celebrate Joel’s birthday

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