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“I’d like to think that there's a big studio in the sky”: Shel Talmy, legendary producer of The Who and The Kinks, dies aged 87

He produced My Generation and other classics

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“He’s on my turf, he’s going for Mick... I caught him with that Telecaster. Wallop! It was a good shot”: When Keith Richards took down a fan on stage

That legendary moment - in Keef’s own words

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“Can you guess how small a 'hemidemisemiquaver' is?”: How to understand rhythm when reading music

Establishing rhythm in your sheet music is just as important as dictating pitch

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“Honestly I’d never even heard of Klons prior to a year-and-a-half ago”: KEN Mode’s Jesse Matthewson on the greatest reverb/delay ever made and the noise-rock essentials on his fly-in pedalboard

You, too, can travel light when meting out a punishing set of hardcore, metal and noise, so long as you choose your pedals of mass destruction carefully…

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“A wealth of features not seen before in a Klon-style pedal”: Walrus Audio’s Voyager MKII overdrive/preamp takes Centaur stage – equipped with footswitchable parametric mids, it promising “mythical magic” and absolute clarity

The Voyager MKII presents an abundance of tone-shaping features at your feet, including five clipping options and a parametric mids EQ section

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“What we are after is not perfection. You’re looking for the flaws… the noise… earth hum. You’re looking for the arm-tight playing… the human aspect”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on inspirations, intuition, shred, and the problem with modern metal

A sprawling story of dark familial secrets, freewheeling prog and Åkerfeldt death growls, solos inspired by Peter Green and Ritchie Blackmore, Opeth bequeath everything a prog-metal fan could ever want on The Last Will And Testament

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“They were the first white group that I’d ever heard in my life who said ‘yeah we grew up listening to black music”: Smokey Robinson and others describe huge cultural impact of the Beatles' first visit to America

Trailer to the new Scorsese doc is now on Youtube

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“With proper playing dynamics, this creates a very cool effect that can sound like an exploding amp coming in and out of life”: EarthQuaker Devices and Lee Kiernan of IDLES introduce Gary, a drive/fuzz wildcard for maverick tone-seekers

There are two sides to Gary's personality, one is a wide-ranging drive. The other?Well, it's an "Automatic Pulse Width Modulation Fuzz" and it's not for the faint-hearted

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Donner’s MEDO puts creativity in your hands

An amazing creative tool in a small package

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“Jim took the melody from Rita’s song and didn’t give her credit for writing it”: The piano that was used to record the famous coda from Derek & The Dominos' Layla is up for sale, but the writing credit for it remains controversial

Rita Coolidge claims that she wrote the part with her then boyfriend Jim Gordon, but her contribution was never officially acknowledged

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All aboard: New documentary charts the rise, fall and rise again of yacht rock

Contributors include Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins and more

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“The Gretsch allowed me to create, what I think is the most important thing for any guitar player, and that is to find your own sound and your style”: Gretsch and Billy Duffy’s collaboration takes flight with a signature Falcon for the Cult guitarist

Finished in Vintage White, with gold hardware, Bigsby vibrato and Black Top Filter'Tron humbuckers, Duffy's Falcon is a limited edition beauty to celebrate 40 years of the Cult

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“Male bowerbirds spend the majority of the day creating elaborate and beautiful nests... in music, we can build a sonic ‘nest’ to capture ourselves”: Brian Eno to share creative ‘avant gardening’ tips in new online workshop

Producer will also ponder whether music "should still be called music"

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“I have never heard a better ‘rock’ piano”: From The Beatles to Bowie, Queen to Elton John, how the rich, distinctive tone of the Trident Studios house piano graced the grooves of some of the finest songs ever recorded

It’s what Macca played on Hey Jude

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Lots go crazy: An Oberheim OB-8 synth from the Purple Rain sessions and the Amek mixing board that Prince used to record Dirty Mind in his home studio are both up for auction

The items come from Matt ‘Dr’ Fink’s personal collection, and could fetch up to £100,000 and £60,000 respectively

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“It was playing when I first met Priscilla at a college party, so every year we listen to it on our dating anniversary”: Mark Zuckerberg has made and released an acoustic cover of a hip-hop record, as a romantic gesture

Get Low by Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz was, ahem, their tune

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“An ultra-rare, Golden Era signature model, now available for everyone”: Gibson celebrates one of its original guitar icons with the Mary Ford Les Paul Standard – a stunning Goldtop with vintage Cherry back, floral armrest and pickguard

This sweet Goldtop is based on Ford’s 1958 custom order and features a SlimTaper neck and a pair of Burstbuckers

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“More music is being released today (in a single day) than was released in the calendar year of 1989”: How the music production industry has taken note of the huge number of self-releasing artists

“More music is being released today (in a single day) than was released in the calendar year of 1989”

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“I used it to build harmonic drones to start my live set, which then evolved into songs like Across the River”: Peter Gabriel on the classic ‘80s digital reverb that’s just landed as part of Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 and Logic Pro for iPad 2.1

Quantec QRS emulation is joined by workflow enhancements and new a modular-style sound pack

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Teenage Engineering's OP-XY is a hybrid of OP-Z and OP-1... and costs more than the two of them combined

The elusive Swedish brand's new groovebox puts the advanced sequencing capabilities of the OP-Z in an OP-1-style form factor with an OLED screen and beefed-up specs

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“Yes, we’re aware that an overdrive pedal this tiny is a bit ridiculous”: Olinthus has just made the world’s smallest stompbox and it’s a $99 TS clone that fits in the palm of your hand

Inspired by the Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer, this teeny, tiny pocket-sized pedal is Olinthus' first ever stompbox and is available exclusively from Reverb

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“Don't be scared to load in a track you like into your DAW as a reference”: New to making tracks? Start here

Want to make a track from scratch but don't know where to begin? We'll show you

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"Biggest ever show": Coldplay to play the world’s biggest stadium in January

Band will play to 132,000 fans at the Narenda Modi stadium in India

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"A guitar that looks a million bucks and is sure to turn heads": Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Jimi Hendrix 'Love Drops' Flying V review

Your chance to grab a remake of a real rock icon with the Flying V once hand-decorated by Jimi Hendrix himself

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“I was totally floored!”: Myles Kennedy hails the “genius” of his touring buddy Devin Townsend

And Devin says of Myles’ new album: “I’m in awe of it!”

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