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“I play the guitar, but I’m not trained as a musician. So the chords I write with aren’t the most technical”: Beabadoobee says that her unorthodox method of guitar playing has an impact on her songwriting

She also reveals that gets “scared that people will get annoyed” at the number of guitar changes during her shows

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Everybody needs a 303, and Roland is giving away its software version free for ‘303 Day’ – but be quick, there are only 3,030 copies up for grabs

Download the official Roland Cloud recreation of the synth that invented acid house

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“Thank you, Joey... for keeping the band's music alive for so long and for being a friend to us all”: Badfinger guitarist Molland dies aged 77

Molland was last original member of Apple signees

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“Last season’s theme song was so beloved that now people are like, ‘What happened to my favourite stuffed animal? You guys changed it’”: The music supervisor on The White Lotus reckons that viewers will “adjust” to the new main title theme

Gabe Hilfer on his working relationship with composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer and that Thai rock cover of Black Sabbath’s Iron Man

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Keep On Rockin’ In The Free World: Neil Young to play free concert in Ukraine

Details to be announced soon...

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"When we talk about Black excellence, we’re talking about Quincy”: Tributes paid to Quincy Jones at last night’s Oscars

Queen Latifah performs Ease On Down The Road

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"If you close your eyes, you'd almost forget you're playing a digital piano": Yamaha Arius YDP-165 digital piano review

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“We hear you, and I swear we’re working on it”: SoundCloud responds to online criticism that its compression algorithm is ‘destroying transients’

The music streaming platform commented on the discourse, and revealed that it's aware that some info ‘gets lost along the way’

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“A real collaborative relationship - and it’s based on maturity”: Daryl Hall says that his creative partnership with Dave Stewart is “more meaningful” than the one he had with John Oates

“That ship has gone to the bottom of the ocean”, he says of any potential reunion with his former bandmate

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“I threw a party for John Lennon one night, and he sat there at the Moog for four hours making flying saucer sounds”: They set the boyband template, but also introduced the world to the synth

People initially labelled them a fabricated band, but we’ve got the Monkees to thank for being pop's first ever synth players

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"You owe your guitar the chance to be its best": How to clean and polish your guitar frets a better way

We take a look at two different products that can help you get your frets gleaming and your guitar back to its best for smoother bends and clearer vibrato

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“They were trashy. They seemed genuine”: New York Dolls singer David Johansen dead at 75

The Dolls’ debut album inspired many bands - from the Sex Pistols to Guns N’ Roses

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“For the life of me I can’t think why we ended up taking our clothes off, but that’s how we recorded the track - prancing around naked!” Guitarist Tony Iommi recalls the madness of Black Sabbath

When Iommi's guitar went 'Boing!' a strange track was born

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“Glitter Gel Pen lyrics are the drunk girl at the party who tells you that you look like an Angel in the bathroom”: How Taylor Swift’s songwriting skilfully makes the personal universal

Taylor Swift deftly divides her songwriting between three separate voices. Here's how to spot them…

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The Brit Award results are in… already. Yup, AI just predicted all of 2025’s winners and losers

It’s the Brit Awards tonight, but why wait for some human ‘Academy’ to pick when science has got an app for that?

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Lizzo is back!… With a Prince/Keane/Ramones/Frank Sinatra mash-up?

Whatever the influences on her new track are, it’s safe to say that this is not the Lizzo comeback that you were expecting…

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“The SYN-20IR is the world’s most flexible, convenient, and tonally versatile all-tube amplifier head”: Steve Vai’s favourite amp brand Synergy unveils a 20W “preamp module platform” with onboard IRs

Swap preamp modules in and out and pair them with onboard American-style clean channel for a compact three-channel powerhouse for stage and studio

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“‘Would you like to tune your guitar?’ ‘Oh, no thanks, I’m trying to give up’”: The Tunerette is the healthy option for Clapton and Keef fans looking for that cigarette on the headstock look – and it tunes your guitar

And to think that some people find tuning their guitar to be a drag...

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Seiki Kato, president of Korg and the inspiration behind 1988's M1 smash has died, aged 67

As eldest son of Ksutomu Kato, Korg’s founder, Seiki joined at the company in 1980 and worked his way to the top

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“As soon as I played the demo I was just like ‘Yes! There he is!’ It was at the level of his old Erasure stuff, of Yazoo and his period of Depeche Mode": Producer Danny L Harle and Olly Alexander on their "extraordinary" collab with a synth-pop legend

“His musical point is so distilled in his music, and he’s the same in the way he talks,” says Harle. “He’s a man of few words”

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“It was a once-in-a-lifetime thrill to play these amazing iconic songs with the man who composed them”: The Black Crowes remember their live collab with Jimmy Page

Live At The Greek reissue includes 16 unreleased tracks

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“I am beyond blown away that this is now in my possession”: Joe Bonamassa is now the proud owner of the treble booster that blew a young Brian May’s mind and made Rory Gallagher’s Stratocaster sing

Gallagher's number one Dallas Rangemaster was up for auction. But the late Irish blues-rock icon's family kept it back and gifted it to Bonamassa

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Primus lift the lid on their search for a new drummer in new Youtube series

The Primus Interstellar Drum Derby is on Episode Two

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“The last piece of the puzzle has been developing a pedalboard that enable you to really focus on playing”: GigRig is now making pedalboards to create the ultimate integrated 'board and switching system – but they don't come cheap

Built for players looking for an integrated pedalboard with a switching system, GigRig's 'boards are available in three sizes, with single-tiered and two-tiered options

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“If you had told me I'd be part of the first all-female crew in space… I would have believed you”: Katy Perry is going to be blasted into space as part of an all-female Jeff Bezos rocket crew

We know that her last album wasn’t great, but do they really have to eject her from the planet?

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