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Arturia upgrades its MicroLab MIDI keyboard with new keybed, sustain input and USB-C - and slashes the price

MicroLab mk3 is only $59

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"Circular begins with a single note, but it never stays there": Native Instruments releases polyphonic sequencer that can "transform one note into a stunning soundscape"

Bring Circular's four sound layers to life through Euclidean, polyrhythmic and probabilistic sequencing with per-step control over its extensive selection of effects

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"Everybody was going 'Does anybody know how to work this thing?'": How Guy Fletcher and a classic ‘80s synth became Dire Straits’ secret weapon on Brothers In Arms, and helped to turn it into one of the biggest albums of the decade

“Without him there, we would have probably been completely lost"

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“He went into this trance state as he played. I’d be sitting there at the console and he would lean on me while he was playing. And it was kind of weird – it was like it was coming through me”: A close encounter with the genius of Eddie Van Halen

The insider's view of how EVH reinvented himself on the 5150 album

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“I’m in and I’m really looking forward to it”: First non-Gallagher member confirmed for Oasis reunion line up

Plus Liam pulls rank on band’s loose-tongued “accountant” co-manager

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“Each of the three modes represents a milestone in pedal history”: Fortin triples down on modded-TS tones with the Fourteen – an boost/overdrive pedal representing the “apex of Mike Fortin’s modification philosophy”

Collecting three different flavours of Mike Fortin's TS-inspired drive circuits, presenting them across two identical channels, this is one high-functioning stompbox

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"We're fighting for our lives": Neil Young and John Mellencamp confirmed for Farm Aid 2025

Event celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year

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“It’s cheating, if you like, for somebody who can’t play an instrument to press a button and then the instrument plays”: Watch Peter Gabriel and futurist Ray Hammond debate the impact of the synthesizer back in 1983

“For me it’s something of a dream machine,” says Gabriel. “I always fantasised about something [with] which you could take any real world sound and manipulate it and put it in your music”

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“In uncertain times, dominated by the ascendancy of soul-dead oligarchs, their corrosive technology and looting economics, the great positive constant for humanity remains our infinite capacity for love.”: Irvine Welsh is releasing a disco album

Men In Love is a “sonic companion” to his new sequel to Trainspotting

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“I sit at my piano and watch skies moving and trees blowing and that’s far more exciting than buildings and roads and millions of people”: The strange story of the Kate Bush classic Cloudbusting

“The stimulus of the countryside is fantastic,” she said

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“Next time don’t bring a wet sponge to a tech fight”: deadmau5 just beat down DJ James Hype by beating Elden Ring with a Pioneer CDJ-3000

By personally calling out the producer’s “not live” comments Hype has put the ‘Mau5 machine on the warpath

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“It looks like the allure of a trove of training data is just too great to be turned down in the age of generative AI": SoundCloud denies that it uses your music to train AI

Platform’s statement appears to contradict their new T&Cs

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“The old-school Jackson logo, that’s pretty much the pièce de résistance! And it plays even better than it looks”: Jackson gives its metal thrashing X Series Scott Ian King V a super-classy makeover

With gold hardware, black finish, this is one ratiugnikufesin – especially at this price

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“Mick looked peeved. The Beatles had upstaged him”: When the Beatles stole the Rolling Stones’ thunder and dropped Hey Jude at the Beggars Banquet launch party

It was supposed to be Jagger’s night - but a stealthy Paul McCartney had other ideas…

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Underworld, Basement Jaxx, Groove Armada and William Orbit: PinkPantheress has sampled the cream of '90s and '00s UK electronic music on new mixtape, Fancy That

It's short on length, but heavy on influences

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“This is another item that people kill for. This is the sound of Diamond Sea… This is such a preposterously cool item”: Sonic Youth are selling some super rare gear on Reverb – including Lee Ranaldo’s first electric guitar and a holy grail Ludwig Phase II

The Sonic Youth Official Reverb Store is officially open and as Lee Ranaldo explains, it is 100% stocked with Kool Things

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Fresh from covering Radiohead, Billie Eilish has now tackled a Coldplay classic on her Hit Me Hard And Soft Tour (and it's not the first time she's sung it)

Plus, check out ‘mid-writing process’ versions of the first three songs from her latest album

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"Crafted from Heritage. Tuned for Tomorrow”: Zultan Cymbals celebrate their 25th birthday with a new high-end 25 series

With 16-hand hammered cymbals across the range, there’s something for every sound and style

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"Can you believe this?": Watch Pulp drummer Nick Banks join tribute band Pulp’d at Fake Festival

He had a “blast”, apparently

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Sexy drill, lagu timur and elector corridos - the international genres blowing up on Spotify in 2025

Sexy drill has seen a 1460% increase in UK streams

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“I like the real thing that happens when you dig in a little bit and the amp starts to cry for mercy”: Is the compressor pedal a country guitar essential? Brad Paisley doesn’t think so – and here’s why

The country virtuoso explains why compression is not an always-on effect for him – and neither is reverb for that matter

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“We used to work with Fleetwood Mac a lot on the uni circuit. You could sit down beside the stage and they’d start playing - der-der, der-der - for an hour and a half. We wanted to do that”: Francis Rossi on how Status Quo developed their 12 bar boogie

Plus he opens up about what sundered his relationship with Rick Parfitt

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Tempo shifts, key changes and the return of nonsense lyrics: Is Eurovision 2025 set to be the most musically weird contest in its history?

Europe’s songwriters and producers have upped their game with more unexpected ear-catching song switch-arounds than ever before

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“Paul’s basslines, while they’re iconic and memorable and musical, they’re not really technically challenging”: How McCartney’s sidekick Brian Ray juggles bass and guitar — and plays the Lennon role in The End

"Even if you’re not a bass player, you know these parts"

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“It’s not technically hard - a third-grader can play these bits. But on the spot? That’s kind of the difference”: The guitarist on Michael Jackson’s I Just Can’t Stop Loving You on how he found the right moments to play his “little earworms”

“It’s more of a keyboard song. It’s not guitar music per se,” says Dann Huff

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