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"I was literally on fire for 4 ½ songs, all the power cables melted, and the show was a bust!”: Journey forced to stop believin' as drum riser fire cuts short their gig in the middle of their biggest hit

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"90% of what I do is done on one software synth": Hans Zimmer on the synth plugin that he's been working with "for years" - and still hasn't run out of ideas

Zimmer digs deep into his creative process in a new interview with Rick Beato

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“I thought he was fantastic. I really loved the whole film”: Cate Blanchett heaps praise on Timothee Chalamet’s portrayal of Bob Dylan, having previously played him herself

"I’ve never been more liberated than [when I was] asked to play so wildly against type and gender," Blanchett says of her appearance in Todd Haynes' I'm Not There

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“My management and agent have always tried to cover my back on the road”: Neil Young just axed premium gig tickets following advice from The Cure’s Robert Smith

Smith’s anti-dynamic, pro-fans rant on “driven by greed” ticket pricing, has opened up Young’s heart of gold

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“It was that fusion of funk and rock. It gave birth to Michael Jackson doing his incredible stuff!”: Brian May on a killer Queen song that blew away the King of Pop - and Kirk Hammett!

“It was designed to be uniquely a dance track"

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"Ableton is great for making tracks, Pro Tools is great for mixing. For me, Logic is great when you do both": Emma-Jean Thackray on the making of new album Weirdo

Born out of grief, Thackray’s new album Weirdo is her most heartfelt concept yet. Here, she delves into the record’s creation and how the process of putting it together helped her reclaim her sense of self

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"There is a huge misunderstanding. I will NOT EVER play a guitar note on a VH song ever!": Steve Lukather sets the record straight on his role on the ‘new’ Van Halen album

He’s working with Alex Van Halen on the project, but as “more of a co-producer”

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Are these the weirdest instruments you’ve ever seen? From magnetic fields to dinosaur choirs, the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition reimagines the future of music-making

Inviting inventors from across the globe to showcase innovative musical instruments, Guthman has previously featured entries from Teenage Engineering and ROLI. This year's winners are some of its most imaginative yet

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"We found this VHS tape...”: Radiohead release a ‘new’ video of Thom Yorke performing classic tracks to mark 30 years of The Bends

The band have dug deep and pulled out a previously unreleased performance from 1995

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“It will excite anyone who loves a story of an underdog beating the odds to become and remain one of Britain’s biggest musical exports”: New Iron Maiden doc is on the way

There’s both a film and book to commemorate band’s 50 years

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“I have been in the process of trying to sell the company. It’s a difficult time”: Trump’s tariffs could be about to decimate the gear industry

Think that US-imposed Mexican and Chinese tariffs don’t affect you? Here's why your next gear purchase just got a whole lot more expensive

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"Our song about a guy angry after a break-up is really about Putin and the former Soviet republics": The Pet Shop Boys' Russian lament - Neil Tennant talks war and more

As one of the biggest Western bands in Russia, and as an ex-Editor himself, Tennant’s new Russian reminiscences make remarkable reading

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“There's only one person on Earth who could turn a highly conceptual, fiercely political, free-form jazz-rap fusion record into a global hit”: Making Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly

10 years on from the release of Kendrick's seminal Grammy-winner, we look back at how TPAB was made - and why it still resonates even more deeply a decade later

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“Money should never be the reason that good art is not made”: This classic interview with The Crystal Method explores talent vs tech, plus an enduring love for Radiohead and Bill Withers

A 2009 conversation from our mag archives finds former Crystal Method-man Ken Jordan talking gear, influences and the brilliance of the then-new iPhone

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Selected Ambient Shirts: Aphex Twin just dropped a 191-track playlist for sportswear brand Supreme (and there’s a rare Aphex treat buried in there too)

He’d already put his name and face on the brand, now here’s the perfect music to listen to while wearing it

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“I’d be running from the studio to other speakers in the house, basically going insane trying to get mixes to sound correct”: Ezra Collective’s Joe Armon-Jones on why he created his Aquarii Studios and his dub-influenced mixing technique

Watch the UK keyboard player and producer discuss his new studio and ambitious double LP, All The Quiet

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“People say to Pete Townshend, ‘Why do you jump about on stage?’ He doesn’t know. And it’s the same for me”: The Iron Maiden guitarist who plays every gig as if it’s the last

“I don’t know what I’m gonna do when I get out there,” he says

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“Not that I was restricted in any way with Rush. I’m very proud of what we did. But this is a whole different kind of experience”: Alex Lifeson on disguised guitars, soloing strategies and finding fresh sounds and freedom with Envy Of None

Envy Of None's sophomore album, Stygian Waves, is the sound of Lifeson's post-Rush project stretching out with a sound you can really sink right into

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“A vast tonal palette from gnarly, aggressive distortion to smooth, creamy overdrive. ”: Crazy Tube Circuits cooks up a crazy tube circuit for real – meet Venus, an overdrive pedal with an “oddball” ECC832 inside

Inspired by the BK Butler Tube Driver, a favourite of Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson's, Venus has a heap of tone-shaping features, including tube bias control – and you can swap out the tube

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Behringer synth prices just rose by up to 70% in the US - are Trump tariffs to blame?

The price of the Behringer Swing MIDI controller has risen from $99 to $169, making it more expensive than the Arturia KeyStep that it's based on

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Radiohead’s five members just minted a new limited liability partnership, sparking rumours that they're about to break cover with a new album

Speculation mounts as the band's second album, The Bends, marks its 30th anniversary

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“I really just did it for fun. I’m not switching genres or anything”: As she releases her new country song, The Giver, Chappell Roan names the Lady Gaga song that turned her on to pure pop

"I am just here to twirl and do a little gay yodel for y'all," she explains

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These don't go to 11: New teaser trailer for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues reveals that the band's amp volume levels now go even louder

They're so loud, in fact, that you can't even put a number on it

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“You can’t really say to Yoko Ono, ‘Sorry, I forgot to press record’, can you?”: Our forgotten interview with big-beat legends Basement Jaxx reveals the oddness of working with John Lennon’s widow - and a love for Atari

A rediscovered interview from our archives with the Grammy-winning duo touches on the stress of making sure that their studio time with Lennon’s widow went without a hitch

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“To call this simply a ‘gated fuzz pedal with an echo feature’ would be an injustice to its essence!”: Benson Amps teams up with Jessica Dobson for the awesome and unorthodox Deep Sea Diver Fuzz-Echo

Three years in the making, this pairs a vintage-inspired silicon fuzz circuit with echo and promises gated skronk, wooly fuzz, “gauzy My Bloody Valentine textures” and much more

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