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“I shuffled into this big open room, and Tina was there and she was very upset. She said to me, ‘If we get rid of David, would you join the band?’”: Adrian Belew insists he was asked to replace David Byrne in Talking Heads He didn’t regard it as a serious offer though
11.03.2026 11:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Spotify is the highest-paying retailer globally - paying the music industry more than $11 billion in 2025”: Spotify reveals how much it actually pays out to musicians in its new Loud & Clear report The numbers might be a surprise to those who have previously bemoaned the financial dynamics of the streaming giant
11.03.2026 11:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“The first thing I start off with is figuring out the chords like this. As you can see, I put them in manually”: PinkPantheress reveals that she composes and records her chord progressions using her MacBook’s QWERTY keyboard Who needs a MIDI controller when you’ve got Logic Pro’s Musical Typing feature?
11.03.2026 11:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“The type of reverb pedal that will sound incomprehensibly huge and haunting with all the settings maxed out”: EarthQuaker Devices reinvents reverb once more with the Towers Stereo Reverberant Filter The Towers Stereo Reverberant Filter does reverb the EQD way, and it could be soundscape generator you've been waiting for (or maybe just something more exotic than room, plate and spring)
11.03.2026 11:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Baby Audio's “most advanced synthesizer to date” is a granular plugin with audio-rate modulation capable of creating “entirely new textures” Grainferno's morphing, dual sample engine will turn your loops and one-shots into “tonal instruments, lush evolving atmospheres and volatile digital noise”
11.03.2026 10:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Long-lost peak George Michael tour film and live album unearthed and set for release Footage comes from Faith tour of 1988
11.03.2026 08:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“There are a lot of amazing guitars in this world, but none are as versatile as the Telecaster”: Country star John Osborne’s signature Tele comes factory modded with a distressed nitro finish, custom pickups – and it’s even got a B-bender too Based of his beloved 1968 Tele, this Road Worn doozie has it all going on, and while the B-bender is a headline spec item, what about that oil-finished fingerboard with the maple cap fretboard?
10.03.2026 17:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Frustrated about the sterile feel of your digital guitar rig? Friends and family commenting on how stiff your playing has been since you went all in with modellers? Victory’s PowerValve 200 has the mojo to restore that tube amp “thump” and feel With an onboard Valve React Circuit, this 200-watt power amp is designed to push air through a real guitar speaker, giving you quote/unquote real amp feel when using a modeller
10.03.2026 16:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“I didn't say that I think her music was 'boring' or whatever click bait the net is trying to scrape together”: Jack White puts the record straight about Taylor Swift And social media pile-ons stifle “artistic vision and imagination”, he argues
10.03.2026 15:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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PRS sues Steam for using music without a licence – for 23 years They’ve never bothered to obtain one
10.03.2026 15:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“The thing was lighting up like a toaster. It was glowing red”: Eddie Van Halen’s guitar solo didn't overheat a speaker during the making of Michael Jackson’s Beat It, but an AC/DC issue did “Something let loose in the amplifier and put out a tremendous power surge,” says engineer Matt Forger
10.03.2026 14:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“We were labelled ‘the new Led Zeppelin’. I mean, wow! But it was a blessing and a curse. There could never be another Led Zeppelin, just like there could never be another Beatles”: The strange tale of a great rock band that had it all – and then blew it As one critic said, this band had “more good riffs in one song than there are in the first four Black Sabbath albums”
10.03.2026 13:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Protecting the integrity of Fender’s iconic designs is essential to preserving the legacy of the artists and builders who shaped them”: Fender wins historic German court ruling over Stratocaster body design The Regional Court of Düsseldorf rules in favour of Fender and offers broad legal protections for the Strat's body design
10.03.2026 12:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“We never wanted David Bowie to write the score. It would have been a cliché”: Why Ryuichi Sakamoto’s spellbinding theme from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence remains so captivating We take a deeper look at the theory underpinning Ryuichi Sakamoto’s gorgeous, award-winning theme from the movie that gave him his acting and scoring debut
10.03.2026 12:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Oddly enough, the first person who made me fall in love with the sound was Dave Navarro”: Why Cory Wong needed the signature wah pedal that could do it all The funk guitar maestro explains why he needs a wah pedal, volume pedal and expression pedal in one housing – and what he would change about it if given the chance (hint: not much)
10.03.2026 11:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Right now I gotta lotta of rehabbing to do”: Jello Biafra has had been hospitalised with a stroke Label says he’s stable
10.03.2026 11:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"The amp and effects modelling unit for those who’d rather play than get bogged down in too many details" Blackstar ID:X Floor Two review Modelling doesn't need to be expensive or complicated, and Blackstar has just delivered the first proof for 2026
09.03.2026 22:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“This will revolutionise the ticketing marketplace”: Deal has been worked out between the US Justice Department and Live Nation Live music behemoth won’t be broken up, but its wings are clipped
09.03.2026 17:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Harry Styles outed himself as an unlikely modular synth fan in his new Netflix special, but was all that knob-twiddling for real? Styles' setup also included a Roland SP-404 MKII sampler, Roland RE-201 Space Echo tape delay unit and a Sequential Prophet-6 analogue synth
09.03.2026 17:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“You’re not working with anyone else. You don’t have to worry even for two seconds about what they think”: Boy George on why he prefers writing songs with AI than humans “I have fantastic conversations with ChatGPT” he insists
09.03.2026 16:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“I was trying to learn Bohemian Rhapsody on the piano and I messed up a little bit. And then I just wrote half the song accidentally from that”: How making a mistake while trying to learn a huge Queen song inspired Sienna Spiro to write Die On This Hill “Sounds nothing like it but yeah - thanks Queen,” she says
09.03.2026 15:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Music is just such a sweet shop. There are so many styles and talents, and it’s hard to just stick to one thing”: Jonny Greenwood to release another collab album with Israeli Qawwali musician Shye Ben Tzur Ranjha is the follow up to 2015’s Junun
09.03.2026 13:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“There’s a misconception about the vocals being buried - they aren’t”: My Bloody Valentine’s sound engineer on wrangling the shoegaze pioneers’ huge live setup Sound engineer Marc Carolan shares the challenges and excitement of helping bring My Bloody Valentine's first headline tour in over a decade to life
09.03.2026 11:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SampleRadar: 213 free wooden percussion samples We bashed together as many wooden objects as we could find to deliver some organic percussion samples capable of livening up any drum pattern
09.03.2026 11:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Dylan said the answer was blowing in the wind, he didn’t tell you what the answer was”: Jack White on why he doesn’t write protest songs He has a book of his lyrics out now
09.03.2026 11:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“I was told to take it off. I didn't want to take what he'd said to me off... Because I thought it was really interesting": Damon Albarn reveals that Lou Reed’s voice on The Mountain is a ‘replica’ His estate wouldn’t give permission
09.03.2026 09:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The story of Born Slippy, Underworld’s emotion-stirring dance classic At the dawn of the 1990s, Underworld were a spent force - little did they realise they were about to create one of the decade’s most enduring tracks
09.03.2026 09:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“We didn’t just want to set a record; we wanted to create something iconic. Something that shows the world what Africa is capable of when vision meets excellence”: Record broken for Largest Orchestra at an Afrobeats concert The cream of the genre plus an 80-piece ensemble
09.03.2026 09:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“We should all be proud that British musicians are responsible for this force in music called heavy metal. Black Sabbath and Judas Priest invented true heavy metal music”: How Priest singer Rob Halford remembers the band’s breakthrough moment And how they triumphed amid the ‘mudbath’ of the first Monsters Of Rock festival
08.03.2026 12:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“When I first met George I was just speechless. But when we started playing, he gave no direction. He liked the way I played, and I would just be myself”: Robben Ford on what it was like working with a Beatle at the age of 22 By his own admission, Ford was “green” when he was called into play on George Harrison’s Dark Horse but there was no pressure to be anything other than himself
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