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“I said, ‘I do not want to go out and be a sad parody of myself’”: How Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson faced up to his greatest challenge

“I finally figured out finally what I do in life,” he says

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“White whale! Holy Grail!”: How the epic tale of Moby-Dick inspired Mastodon’s greatest album

“The story paralleled the lives of the four dudes in Mastodon"

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“I really like that you can sweep pick on this thing, so it gets you the nylon-string sound without the physical limitations”: Tosin Abasi issues update on Abasi Concepts' much-anticipated hybrid nylon-string

Abasi says Fishman is designing the pickup for what promises to be a groundbreaking acoustic electric. In other Abasi Concepts news, fresh Legion Series models in Deep Sage drop today

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“I used to play it in my apartment like a million times”: Lady Gaga says that the "electro-grunge" song on her new album, Mayhem, is inspired by a '90s track by The Cure

“After I made that song then I was like ‘we need to change all the production,’” Gaga recalls

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"There was absolutely nothing you could do to that record to stop it. It was an unstoppable force. Even I couldn’t mess that record up”: Edwyn Collins ponders his career, Orange Juice's break-ups and today's popstars being too nice

As the source of one the UK’s best-known but misnomered ‘one-hit wonders’ an Edwyn Collins return is always welcome

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“You’re the boss of the tone because you’re the one playing it, and you’re the one hitting the note”: Steve Vai has some advice for players who are unhappy with their tone

Before swapping out your amp or guitar, pay close attention to how you are playing. Vai says a complete rethink of his picking style helped him find his tone in the '80s

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“It will get on with the job, with or without your involvement”: Waves Curves Equator review

This dynamic EQ will improve your tracks and entire mixes, and doesn’t cost much – what else do you want?

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"No two beats will ever be the same": Audiomodern's Playbeat 4 is an AI-powered infinite groove generator

Playbeat 4 features new genre-based generation algorithms that guide its groove engine towards a combination of up to three styles

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“I can’t remember the juicy bits and the other juicy bits I can’t have published while my children and my parents are still alive”: Fatboy Slim teases new coffee table book that isn’t an autobiography

Instead it tells the story of his career through objects

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“The Edge is multiple echoes and jangling guitars… I’m not convinced… I don’t want to burst the Edge’s bubble”: Midge Ure talks The Edge missing Band Aid and his Thin Lizzy baptism of fire

Plus nearly joining the Sex Pistols and why Lizzy didn’t play Live Aid

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“TheMagical Mystery Tour and the White Album, this guy is the perfect tool to recreate those tones”: Aclam unveils Go Rocky Go, a Vox Conqueror in a pedal for nailing late '60s Beatles tones

Aclam promises a super-accurate replica of the solid-state Vox amp's sounds but with some added extras

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“The music industry is a profoundly dangerous place”: New report reveals the shockingly high suicide level within the music industry

Poor financial return, lack of mental health support and the stresses of touring are all cited as key reasons that lay behind the alarming stats

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“Coldplay bashing has got to stop. There are so many amazing Coldplay songs. And Chris Martin is clearly a melodic genius”: James Blake says that "it’s not cool anymore to just be like ‘Coldplay’s not cool’"

Comments come after Jack Whitehall’s Brits swipe

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“Brian’s vision of a music revolution had been absolutely spot on”: Punk icon Brian James, founder and former guitarist of the Damned, dies aged 70

James electrified the nascent UK punk-rock scene and fired its first salvo with the Damned's era-defining single, New Rose

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"Throughout my life, music has meant a great deal to me": King Charles' playlist of 'songs that have brought him joy' features Bob Marley, Kylie Minogue and Grace Jones

The Commonwealth Day tunes that the British monarch can't get out of his head

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"When he put on that helmet, he didn’t just create a brand – he sparked a movement": deadmau5 just cashed out, selling his entire back catalogue for $55 million

The deal also includes the content from his mau5trap label including tracks by Skrillex, Noisia, Rezz and more

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“Chiropractors and doctors were like, ‘How long did you play college football?’ I’d go, ‘It wasn’t college football. It was Trent Reznor’”: Richard Patrick says Nine Inch Nails’ 1991 Lollapalooza run broke his body – and trashed $40,000 of guitars

And Henry Rollins wasn't best pleased to see good guitars turned into kindling

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“A clear winner on portability and ease of use, and offers fantastic value”: Zoom H1 Essential review

Zoom’s H1 Essential aims to be the most compact and affordable field recorder available

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“Even using the word ‘end’, I thought, Oh, my God, no one has ever talked about that!”: Guitarist Phil X discusses the future of Bon Jovi

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Apple announces new MacBook Pro, iPad Air and iPad models (oh, and “the most powerful Mac ever made”)

A laptop, two tablets and a supercharged desktop

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“Hutchinsmake boutique and retro guitars, often creating instruments that, by Gary’s own admission, ‘should never have been made’”: How many necks are too many necks? Hutchins’ epic five and six-necked electric guitars go up for auction

If the six-necked Beast is too much, Hutchins’ five-necked electrics might be what you are looking for – but they're no cheap trick

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"This console is where multi-track recording was born": The Les Paul Recording Studio opens with "meticulously restored" equipment used by the inventor and guitarist

"We’ve painstakingly restored Les Paul’s original gear to working condition, allowing today’s artists to record using the exact tools that revolutionized popular music"

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“I've got no hard feelings towards John”: Sex PIstol Steve Jones is open to a truce with John Lydon

But Lydon is certainly not up for new Sex Pistols output: "Never Mind the Bollocks Part 2'? "F*** off, you idiot'"

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“We always thought it had something”: From Green Day to U2, here's 6 B-sides that became massive hits

They might have been initially maligned by their creators, but these songs were just too good to keep down

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Neil Young’s set clash with Charli XCX might be the big Glastonbury 2025 talking point, but it could be another Saturday night headliner who gives fans a scheduling headache

There’s apparently a third artist playing at the same time who could be an equally hot ticket

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