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Teenage Engineering launches EP-40 Riddim, a spin on its EP-133 sampler deeply inspired by reggae, dancehall and sound system culture

The Swedish brand has also unveiled the EP-2350 Ting, a handheld lo-fi microphone with built-in effects designed to be paired with Riddim

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Wot no hip-hop?: The Billboard Top 30 is rap free – for the first time in 35 years

Blame it on Taylor Swift

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Even Better Than The Real Thing? Xania Monet becomes the first AI ‘artist’ to reach the Billboard charts

Artist is the creation of poet Telisha ‘Nikki’ Jones

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“No Pro Tools, no tricks or whistles. We as a band helped change the production of heavy metal records”: With one song, Pantera reinvented their sound to become one of the most influential metal bands of all time

And the solo from Dimebag gave the world its first taste of a new guitar hero

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“All my new acoustic guitars get to listen to OutKast for about 40 hours the first week they’re in the house”: Jason Isbell shares unorthodox tone tip for new acoustics as he unveils not one but two signature Martins – and a set of strings

The Jason Isbell 0-17 is a stunning replica of his 1940 model he used on Foxes In The Snow, and if that holy grail limited edition model is too pricey, his 0-10E Retro might be just the thing

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Arturia launches KeyStep Mk2 with OLED display, expanded connectivity and new generative tools

The French brand's small-but-mighty MIDI controller keyboard just got a little mightier

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"Why are we still putting up with this?": AlphaTheta suspends CDJ-3000 firmware update after DJs complain of vanishing playlists

AlphaTheta suggests that users temporarily downgrade to Ver3.20 to ensure "stable operation"

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“I’m still playing my original 1984 guitar on the Oasis 2025 tour, and I wouldn’t have it any other way”: Epiphone goes 'madferit' as it rolls out signature semi-hollows for Oasis's Bonehead and Gem Archer

The launch of the Bonehead Riviera and Gem Archer Masterbilt Sheraton makes it three Oasis signature models from Gibson and Epiphone in a week – but how do they compare?

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“I knew what I wanted but I didn’t know how to get it in a nice co-operative way… I know that I was not always the most pleasant person to work with”: David Byrne admits he was a ‘bossy pants’ in Talking Heads

He says his social skills back then were “limited”

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"We've seen this before - everyone talks about 'partnership,' but artists end up on the sidelines with scraps": Music Artists Coalition on Universal/Udio deal – More Details Please!

Artists' advocacy group fear that AI deal will stitch up musicians

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Stuck for ideas? Here's how to create fresh basslines and melodies with Ableton Live 12’s MIDI tools

In our latest video tutorial, we explore how to use Live generative MIDI tools and hardware-inspired sequencers to create riffs and patterns

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“Step inside the studio that made history”: Universal Audio's new plugin puts "America's Abbey Road" in your DAW

A "complete reimagining" of the Ocean Way Studios plugin launched in 2013, the Deluxe version now features emulations of the studio's reverb chambers designed by UA founder Bill Putnam Sr.

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“With this poisoned music out there, we can bring AI firms to the negotiating table for fair licensing of training data for independent musicians”: Could Poison Pill be the antidote to illegal AI scraping?

New startup believes it has the technology to disrupt the bots

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“The meaning behind all of this is right in front of our faces, we’re just overlooking it”: Just what was the Radiohead Binary Code theory - and was there any truth in it?

Were hints that OK Computer and In Rainbows should be listened to as one monster record deliberately seeded by the band?

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“Do it yourself, keep it simple, don’t get overblown. You’ve done the Beatles, you’ve done A Day in the Life, you’ve done Sgt Pepper. Now come back to basics”: Paul McCartney on how he kickstarted his solo career in a remote Scottish farmhouse

With just a guitar and a four-track

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"This analogue synth will blow your mind": Behringer unveils SDS-3, a $249 clone of the classic Simmons drum synth

The SDS-3 was the precursor to Simmons' SDS-V, the pioneering and hexagonal electronic drum kit beloved by everyone from Prince to Duran Duran

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“I hadn’t stopped from ’62 till ’73 – on demand continuously. And walking away was hard… because I don’t exist if I don’t have a record in the charts”: The cosmic inspiration and bitter irony in one of John Lennon’s last and most poignant songs

After the turbulence and emotional trauma of his past, the song had a sense of reflection and calm

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“Every day, you’d go round the house and Johnny would play some riff sat having a spliff in his jimmy-jams. You’d be like, ‘That’s amazing. What’s that?’”: Mike Joyce remembers the early days of The Smiths

His memoir, The Drums, is out this week

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“We started with the drum beat and I was like, ‘Yeah, I want to do something kind of like The Way You Make Me Feel.' And I sat at the Wurly and I went, ‘duh-du-duhh’”: Olivia Dean on writing Man I Need and the Michael Jackson hit that helped to inspire it

“I just remember driving to and from the studio and I just played it again and again. And I was like, ‘OK, well if I can listen to this again and again, I think other people might want to”

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“Together, we can foster a healthy AI ecosystem in which artists, songwriters, music and technology companies can all flourish and create incredible experiences for fans”: Universal and Udio lay down their arms to collaborate on new legal AI platform

But will artists be fairly compensated?

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“I learned synthesis using the Micromoog, so I’ve always had an appreciation for those kinds of synths”: Ambient maestro Steve Hauschildt on the obscure plugins, generative tools and '00s digital synths behind Aeropsia

Following a relocation to Tbilisi, Steve Hauschildt’s eighth album finds him channelling a period of profound personal change through hallucinatory electronic explorations

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“I think we’re on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying”: When David Bowie gave an amazingly accurate prediction of how the internet would change everything - and even hinted at AI

Bowie’s staggeringly prophetic 1999 Newsnight interview revealed his astute awareness of how the internet was going to change music and content forever

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“I’ll never forget it – the three of us were almost in tears. We’re getting to sing this, Elton and Bernie’s whole history up to that point”: Davey Johnstone on the making of Elton John’s 1975 masterpiece, Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy

It began aboard the high seas, a concept record about Elton John and Bernie Taupin's early days, and when the band got to Caribou Ranch, they'd turn out one of the greatest albums of the '70s

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“He would always put himself down. I'd say, 'How is your latest record, Jeff?' And he'd go, 'Oh, it's a lot of rubbish'”: Ritchie Blackmore says that Jeff Beck was "always reaching for something he couldn't find"

“He was always reaching for something he couldn't find," he says of guitar great

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“I feel a freedom behind the piano that I don’t feel behind the sequencer”: Armin Van Buuren on why he ditched the DAW and released an album of one-take piano recordings

"If people will dislike this or be critical of this, because it’s so personal, that will hit me harder than when I do release another dance track"

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