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“I’ll never forget, he did the whole thing, like the hand out with the snap, and started to sing this bassline”: How a teenage Mark Ronson convinced Michael Jackson to write him a bassline so he could make a hit song out of it

Oh, and Sean Lennon was there too, and he ended up playing it to Roberta Flack

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"It shows the breadth of talent from across the country and all of our nations”: The Mercury nominations are out with the usual mix of established names and niche outsiders

Sam Fender, Pulp, CMAT and Fontaines DC are among the big-name nominees

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"I looked on Reverb for a Yamaha CS-80 – we drove out to get it and its sound became a key part of the movie’s soundtrack": The classic synth heard on the Barbie OST was picked up in "an hour and a half" on Reverb, says Mark Ronson

As the gear marketplace relaunches in the UK with reduced seller fees, Ronson reflects on how Reverb played a part in the making of 2023's biggest movie soundtrack

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“If that album bombed we would have been dropped from the label!”: Kiss stars recall the album that saved the band

It's 50 years since the release of Kiss Alive!

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"I figured out a way to make it sound like an old wooden door": Transform your MacBook into a theremin! Or a creaking door!

You can pick up the code from GitHub

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“Light lacquer checking, light dings, pick trails, and rounded fretboard edges, with all five encapsulating the tone, look, and played-in feel of a vintage original”: Gibson expands acoustic Murphy Lab collection with five Light Aged classics

Gibson's newest Murphy Lab arrivals include a 1963 Dove, a 1955 J-45, pre and post-war SJ-200s, and a Nick Lucas Special from 1929 in Argentine Grey

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“That’s one of the key things that most people don’t get when they hear the song. But when I sang it with her, we nailed it”: Bryan Adams explains why the only person to do justice to Summer of '69 was Taylor Swift

“We only had one rehearsal, so she knows that song really well,” he says of their 2018 duet

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“I don’t think it found its true voice until now”: PRS revives and refreshes the Mira as an S2 model with 58/15 LT vintage-voiced humbuckers, coil tap switches and an array of aesthetically pleasing finishes – including on-trend Matcha Green

The all-mahogany Mira has been in and out of PRS production since the original 2007 model, but reborn as this super-versatile S2 model. is it finally here to stay?

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King Gizzard annex Bandcamp's top 27 album spots after bold ‘name your price’ move

Aussie psych rockers exited Spotify this summer

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Minimal Audio drops Formant, a free formant-shifting plugin for creative vocal production

Formant promises "real-time formant-shifting with musical, transparent results"

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“Now you can power your rig off of a USB-C cable or rechargeable battery pack!” Walrus Audio’s Canvas Power USB is the super-compact device for powering your rig with a laptop or phone charger

Designed to work with Walrus Audio's modular pedalboard power supplies, the Canvas Power USB can be used for a wireless rig or as a single-pedal power supply for desktop use

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“One of the handsomest guitars around, it plays great, and punches well above its weight in the tone stakes”: Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Custom Hummingbird Deluxe EC review

Epiphone collaborates with Gibson Custom to come up with one of its tastiest acoustics yet

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“They’re kind of singing along… but no one knows the words:” Derek Trucks says Tedeschi Trucks Band have completed their next studio album – and they’ve been sneaking in some of the new tracks live

Trucks says TTB has “the best collection of tunes” they have written to date, with 17 in the can, an Atmos mix – and the crowd are liking what they are hearing when they've dropped them in the set

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“The way that the algorithm is set up, no one can serve the masses anymore”: Lizzo puts out TikTok vid blaming social media for absence of crossover mainstream hits

It’s the reason there’s been no song of the summer, apparently

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“I never saw something as completely mind-bendingly ridiculous and intriguing as what went down”: Hold on to your cheese sandwiches – it’s Fyre Festival: The Musical!

But Billy McFarland won’t get a dime

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“I’m a big preset guy. If a preset’s called Fat Bass, there’s a 90% chance it’s actually a fat bass”: Rico Nasty and Benson Boone producer Imad Royal on saving time and staying focused in the studio

In the next episode of Universal Audio's Apollo Creators series, the Grammy-nominated producer/songwriter unpacks his instinct-driven creative process

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"Not to disparage older artists who still want a piece of the spotlight and to stay in the spotlight... there comes a time when you're just not yourself anymore": John Oates explains why there’s no chance of a creative reunion with Daryl Hall

“I'd hate to go out there and play the old hits and not have them sound as vibrant and as punchy and as great as those records,” he says

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AlphaTheta’s CDJ-3000 gets an X upgrade that allows DJs to access their libraries with the tap of a smartphone

The CDJ-3000X promises “expanded connectivity, extraordinary reliability and sound quality that surpasses the CDJ-3000”

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“It serves as proof to me that performing Friday I’m In Love and Just Like Heaven with The Cure’s Robert Smith wasn’t a dream”: Olivia Rodrigo is releasing her highly acclaimed Glastonbury set on vinyl

“The collective energy of the band that day was really infectious,” said Rodrigo’s lead guitarist Arianna Powell

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“It has one of the highest outputs of any passive humbucker, ever”: Seymour Duncan celebrates imminent release of Spinal Tap sequel with a custom pickup – and it has an “eye-watering” DCR reading of 111K

But what will this monster one-off pickup sound like – and will we ever see it in production?

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"She comes up while I am talking to my wife, saying: ‘Hey, can Sebastian give me a hug?’": How a seemingly innocent request led to an explosive rant from potty-mouthed '80s rock hero Sebastian Bach

Singer was upset that fan had asked him for a hug

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“Why do we have such a need to finish songs? In a word: capitalism”: Is it OK to never actually complete your tracks?

Free yourself from the unrealistic expectation that you have to always be finishing songs and embrace all the different ways there are to be a musician and producer

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“I’m still in shock that he’s gone… I treasure every moment we shared”: Baroness confirm death of ex-drummer Allen Blickle

Blickle had left Georgia metal band in 2013

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"The iLoud Precision MKII redefines what's possible in modern monitoring": IK Multimedia upgrades its pro-level studio monitors with redesigned hardware and enhanced room correction

The new ARC X software is a free upgrade for all registered owners of iLoud Precision, iLoud Micro Monitor Pro, iLoud MTM MKII, ARC Studio, and ARC 4

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