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Brace yourself: Bryan Adams didn’t buy his first real six-string in a five and dime

Now the truth is out. And you'll never guess which year he didn't buy it…

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“Nobody listens to one genre. I literally don’t know anybody who listens to one genre. You can be a fan of so many different artists at once”: Laufey on what Gen Z can teach the rest of us about how to appreciate music

On her friendships with Olivia Rodrigo and Beabadoobee, she says: “I could easily find a person that listens to all three of us, even though we’re so extremely different”

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Bon Iver - ranked: from Sable, Fable to For Emma, Forever Ago

As Justin Vernon releases an unexpectedly buoyant fifth album, we chart his path from backwoods crooner to indie-pop icon

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"We were sampling Steve Winwood in between bong rips on my OP-1": How Bon Iver met Haim backstage at a music festival - and ended up collaborating a decade later

Danielle Haim features on Bon Iver's If Only I Could Wait, from new album SABLE, fABLE

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“Non-stop heavy bass music... Almost inhumane and a form of torture": Psytrance festival is cancelled after a grand total of 11 complaints

But organisers hadn’t monitored sound levels properly

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"I didn't know you could change the tempo in Pro Tools, so I just made all my songs at 120bpm": Super-producer Benny Blanco reveals the surprising reason why most of his early hits are the same tempo

Kesha's Tik Tok, Katy Perry's Teenage Dream and Taio Cruz's Dynamite are all at 120bpm

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The Curse of Coachella: Bad sound, bad gigs and even worse audiences - Is Coachella now the worst festival in the world?

As the big gig in the middle of nowhere wraps with the usual storm of complaints and controversy, we take a look at why it's become the place where gigs go wrong

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“FORMAL CHARGES OF OVERPLAYING": Zak Starkey has been sacked from The Who

“The lead singer and principal songwriter of the group, was unhappy with Zak the drummer’s performance at the Albert Hall a few weeks ago”

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They’re [heavily rumoured to be] back… Could Daft Punk be reforming for a residency inside Fortnite?

Forget festivals and albums. The big (ro)bucks are to be made by making an appearance in one of today’s biggest video games

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“Chinese Democracy was a boring record. But calling it Guns N' Roses was not honest. It was totally a solo record”: GN’R’s ex manager takes aim at Axl Rose

He claims frontman made band “miserable” every day

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“Instead of labouring over a perfect recreation, we decided to make an expanded counterpart”: Chase Bliss teams up with Mike Piera for Analog Man collab based on the legendary King Of Tone

Years in the making, Brothers AM applies Chase Bliss’s expansive digital controls and a cornucopia of dip-switches to an overdrive classic – and it has a Beano Boost mode

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“It’s about delivering the most in-demand mods straight from the factory”: Fender hot-rods itself as the Player II Modified Series rolls out the upgrades –and it got IDLES to demo them

The Player II Modified range is a refresh of the familiar favourites, with Noiseless pickups, locking tuners, treble bleed circuits and of course there is an HSS Strat with a Floyd Rose

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“For some reason, the post office shipped your guitar to Jim Root of Slipknot”: Sweetwater mailed a metal fan's Jackson guitar to a metal legend

He received a flight case but no guitar

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"No one phoned me. They never contacted me and I thought, 'Well, I'm not going to bother contacting them either'": Ex-Judas Priest drummer Les Binks has died aged 73

“The acclaimed drumming he provided was first class – demonstrating his unique techniques, flair, style and precision”

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With the same mesh-head playability and powerful new Strata module as its bigger brothers, Alesis Strata Club brings a new compact form to its best-selling range

Want the power and playability of Strata but don’t have the room to manoeuvre? The join the Club

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“An incredible experience that went beyond just teaching music”: The UK’s biggest free music making weekend is extended to four days

Learn To Play is confirmed for October 9 – 12 this year

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“This time it’s all about creativity… Go crazy. Do whatever you wanna do with it”: Budding luthiers, assemble! Harley Benton’s DIY Kit Challenge is now open and there are prizes to be won

Grab a DIY guitar kit and see what you can make out of it... A hat, a brooch, a pterodactyl? The sky's the limit – and there are Thomann vouchers to be won

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"At first the tension was unbelievable. Johnny was really cold, Dee Dee was OK but Joey was a sweetheart": The story of the Ramones' recording of Baby I Love You

Legendary keys player Barry Goldberg on the sessions that spawned the band's biggest UK hit

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"This is the amp that defined what electric guitar sounds like": Universal Audio releases its UAFX Woodrow '55 pedal as a plugin, putting an "American classic" in your DAW

Another of UA's amp modelling pedals gets the plugin treatment - and this time it's the company's take on the 1955 Fender 5E3 Tweed Deluxe

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"Yamaha has achieved an extraordinary level of immersiveness and realism, crafting an instrument that sounds closer to an acoustic piano and feels like one under your fingers": Yamaha Clavinova CLP-885 digital piano review

Yamaha is the undisputed king of digital pianos, and the Clavinova range is the jewel in their crown

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With its latest free update, Ableton has finally turned Note into the app I always wanted it to be

Offline MIDI editing makes Ableton’s iPhone and iPad app more of a must-have iOS companion for Live users

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Technically capable, but struggle to make your tunes sound musical? 5 simple music theory hacks to make your tracks stand out

Level up your music-making with these simple but effective tricks that can be easily used by those with zero knowledge of music theory

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"Despite its size, it delivers impressive audio quality and premium functions as well as featuring a good selection of inspired sounds": Roland GO:Piano 88PX review

A new digital piano that’s ultra-compact, simple, sounds great, and comes at an affordable price? Yes, but what's the catch?

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The man Neil Peart called his "six favourite drummers": Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine

"We got the job done, and we made a hell of a lot of money doing it"

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Play mono synth properly: the skills you need

How playing mono synths differs from standard keyboards

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