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“Surely the most versatile version yet, putting different flavours of gourmet crunch on the menu”: DOD 250 Overdrive/Preamp 50th Anniversary review

A stone-cold pedalboard classic celebrates 50 trips round the sun with a collectable edition that reminds us what the fuss is about

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“Expect a heavy weather-checked finish, heavy belt buckle wear, light arm wear, and light neckwear”: The Gibson Custom Shop unveils its first Heavy Aged Murphy Lab acoustic guitars

These stunners from Gibson's Bozeman, Montana facility go heavy on the mojo for that thoroughly played-in vintage vibe

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“We are convinced that we will inspire many Beatles fans all over the world with this beautiful acoustic guitar”: Framus reissues John Lennon’s record-breaking $2.86m “Help!” Hootenanny 12-string

Framus unveils a period-correct replica of the most expensive Beatles instrument sold at auction, the 12-string that Lennon played on Help! and Rubber Soul – and there’s a six-string too

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"I aggravated it so I could drive back to London and go to the match": Bill Wyman once faked toothache to skip the Stones and watch the cup final

The famously laconic ex-Rolling Stones bassist reveals just how far he’d taken his eye off the ball

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Here are all the winners in the 2024 Drumeo Awards. Did your favourite sticksmith make the cut?

The drum and percussion learning platform just announced its big winners from last year’s votes

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"We’ve heard your frustrations": Native Instruments responds to customer concerns, announcing Maschine 3, Kontakt 8 support and Play Series instruments for Maschine+

"We want to reinforce our strong commitment to Maschine", reads the company's post on its community forum

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“All the songs are about life on the road and things that were going down within the band”: Recently unearthed footage shows Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham discussing the making of the album that would end up being one of the biggest of all time

He also tells the tale of how he and Stevie Nicks ended up joining Fleetwood Mac in the first place

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“It meant a great deal to him and remains one of our most beloved of Jack’s treasures”: Cream legend Jack Bruce’s EB-1 violin bass to go on display at the Gibson Garage London

The life of the late Cream bassist will be commemorated with an all-star jam to raise funds for the Jack Bruce Foundation as the Gibson Garage London celebrates its first anniversary

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“We used to play that song faster…”: Slipknot’s Eloy Casagrande reveals the secret lessons he gave his Sepultura replacement

The drummer dishes the backstory on his Slipknot switch and what he really thinks of Greyson Nekrutman…

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“I didn’t know what to do. It sounded like an angry wasp”: Brian May recalls the time he played live through Jimi Hendrix’s Marshall – and it didn’t go well

Hendrix might have had the Marshall stack under his spell but the Queen says he struggled to play a chord

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Behringer releases RD-78, a $199 Roland CR-78 clone that promises to "bring the magic of the '70s and '80s back to life"

RD-78 squeezes the classic analogue CR-78 sounds into a modern, compact and super-affordable drum machine

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Tool’s Danny Carey just invented an exercise bike with a built-in drum workout

You’d think that being the drummer for Tool would be exercise enough…

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10,000 AI-generated tracks are being uploaded to Deezer every day and it's fighting back

Reckon that music’s AI apocalypse is ‘coming soon’? It’s already here and Deezer isn't happy

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“It had so much weight. So much power”: How Led Zeppelin’s Communication Breakdown set the template for heavy metal and inspired a legendary punk guitarist

It’s unlike any other song on Zep’s first album

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“With Off The Rails, I was stuck – didn’t quite know where to finish it – so Iwent and saw Killers of the Flower Moon”: Jerry Cantrell reveals how Jeff Beck and Martin Scorsese influenced new solo album I Want Blood

How archive footage of Beck with a curious piece of vintage gear and Scorsese's cinematic sensibility helped Cantrell jemmy open the doors of inspiration

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“That very first meeting we had was quite intense. He just wanted to know how thoroughly we knew the subject”: Becoming Led Zeppelin filmmakers tell of their first meeting with Jimmy Page

First officially sanctioned Zep doc is out this week

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"In the studio, everyone is a sad, tragic animal that has no idea what they’re doing - no matter how successful they are": Mogwai producer John Congleton

Following their chart-topping success in 2021, instrumental post-rock quartet Mogwai return with The Bad Fire. Danny Turner dives into the album's creation with the band and renowned producer John Congleton

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“When I came up with the guitar part, Krist looked at me and said, ‘That is so ridiculous’. I made the band play it for an hour and a half”: It defined the '90s, yet Nirvana’s biggest anthem started out as a self-confessed rip-off

It was written to be the ultimate pop song, and with over two billion streams, the legacy of Nirvana’s most popular cut endures

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“I just love the music so much that I just can’t give up”: Meet the conductor still working at 97

“There are always things that I want to learn,” claims Herbert Blomstedt

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“We’re making new guitars that don’t exist for the sole purpose of writing something”: Polyphia's Tim Henson teases new 8-string meisterworks that could require a whole new guitar to play along

Never a band to take it easy, their latest output could rock both music and hardware to the next level

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"Stop trawling the small ads and boot sales": Kays Catalogue classic the JEN SX1000 just got reborn as a plugin and iOS app

This 1978 £99 synth-for-the-masses has been rebuilt and ramped up for a whole new generation

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“It gives you that power that sometimes pop, rock and techno songs need”: Charli XCX's Brat mastering engineer Idania Valencia on her go-to plugins and the threat of AI

The Mexican mastering engineer on working on Charli XCX's Grammy-winning behemoth and why she works entirely in-the-box

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"What are you gonna do, right? There’s about two seconds and then you’ve got to hit the overdrive pedal, add the flanger on there and just jump in”: Prince played the iconic Purple Rain guitar solo at every 3rdeyegirl show... apart from this one

“After the third chorus, he’s singing ‘in the purple…’ and then he pointed at me, which was the cue to take the solo," says guitarist Donna Grantis

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Spotify wins major court case, over controversial 'bundling' that lowered artist payments

The bundling in of audiobooks – triggering new, even more advantageous payment terms – has been ruled legal

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Grammys 2025: All the winners and nominees in EVERY category

You want it? You got it. The Grammy's have a prize for everything, from best sleevenotes to videogame soundtrack…

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