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“After three or four or five phone calls, they finally said ‘it’s Timothée Chalamet’. I really didn’t know who Timothée was. They said ‘it’s Bob Dylan music’”: Larry Saltzman on teaching Timothée Chalamet to play the guitar for A Complete Unknown

“He kind of knew one or two chords and formed a couple of chords. I could tell he was just very musical right away.”

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“If you're listening to amazing gear through terrible monitors, you've wasted your cash”: Why monitors are the most important part of your studio

Don't know where to begin with buying and using studio monitor speakers? Listen up

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“Unprecedented sound design freedom”: Arturia launches the new feature-packed Pigments 6

If you're already a Pigments user you can get if for free

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“It was too dark, too personal, too risky, not commercial. It wasn’t pop until it was on the radio”: How Lana Del Rey’s breakthrough hit transformed the contemporary pop landscape

And as soon the adulation began, a backlash kicked in…

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“It is pretty ludicrously loud for its size”: Orange’s O Tone 40 is a solid-state powerhouse 1x12 combo for small gigs and practice and it is priced just $399 street

Those 40-watts of Class A/B power can drive that single 12" Voice Of The World speaker hard, with plenty of juice for gigging – and there's onboard tremolo and reverb to sweeten the deal

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“The only limit is your imagination”: DigiTech’s HammerOn is a radical pitch-shifter that lets you “play the impossible” and program automatic riffs and licks

This dual-footswitch pitch shifter has a four-octave range, seven modes including "Impossible," and can be used to create automatic trills, note sequences and much more

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“I always say, especially when working with a lot of male producers, I always say ‘it needs more…’”: FKA Twigs has a very specific way of describing the “feminine touch” she wants her music to have

“I want more, like ephemeral soft edges. More all-encompassing kind of beautifulness,” she explains

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“A versatile spectrum of acoustic and electric tones in a single creative tool”: Now that we can buy one for $599, is the launch of Fender’s Acoustasonic Standard the moment its hybrid truly went mainstream?

The Indonesian-made model breaks new ground for Fender affordability and is sure to put the Acoustasonic into the hands of more players than ever when it starts shipping in April

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Unexpected collabs, Behringer surprises and more: The biggest music tech stories of NAMM 2025

We round up NAMM 2025's best new synths, controllers, studio gear and more

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“We are in the golden age of guitar manufacturing right now”: Harley Benton’s expands YouTube star Maxxxwell Carlisle’s signature line with three super-versatile, shred-friendly S-styles

2025 brings us three sweet new finish options for the MAX Fusion plus the option of a Floyd Rose 1000 Series vibrato or a hard-tail bridge

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“I guess they want to go out and see what guys who actually play without Pro Tools sound like”: Steve Lukather on why Toto have built up such a huge Gen Z audience

“It’s a demented thought but at the same time it’s kinda cool to think that people around the world like our music that we wrote in North Hollywood when we were much younger,” he says

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“One of the biggest mistakes we ever made!”: Journey guitarist Neal Schon names the song he wishes the band had never recorded

And he remembers the chemistry he had with singer Steve Perry

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“I find that I must bow out of my role with the Eagles while I can still do so gracefully”: Eagles guitarist steps down due to health reasons

Steuart Smith has been diagnosed with ‘Parkinsonism’

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"In the early days, it was actually Oasis supporting us, but that changed very quickly. I suppose it was easy to look at what was happening to Oasis and think, ‘I want a bit of that’": Former Verve guitarist Nick McCabe on Britpop and musical inspiration

“I could never see the connection with the Verve, really," says McCabe. "I had nothing against Britpop at all and there was some amazing music that came out of it, but it wasn’t the sound that we wanted to make"

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The vast majority of independent artists cannot even afford to tour, new survey reveals

One in seven fund their career from personal savings

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8 tips to improve your mixes in 2025 that won't cost you anything

Get ahead on your mixing game in 2025 with these spend-free tips from a master mixing engineer and producer

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With up to 92% off plugins and software, Plugin Boutique just gave you the best excuse to upgrade your productions

Cure your post-NAMM blues with a huge selection of discounted plugins from just $/£5

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“We’re the people, you’re the Government. You’re supposed to protect us. That’s your job”: McCartney and Elton take aim at proposed changes to copyright

Proposals would allow AI firms to scalp all existing content – for free

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“I didn’t know it was going to be loved by so many people. I didn’t even want to record the song!”: How a famous guitarist scored a surprise solo hit

“I stepped out of my comfort zone with the funky guitar!”

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"This faithful recreation replicates the look and feel of this legendary synthesizer, inside and out": Someone's built a full-sized Lego Minimoog, and it's so good that it might go into production

Although its creator put so much effort into it, he might as well have built the real thing

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“Surreal and fun to play Saturday Night Live with Bob Dylan.. I mean Timothee Chalamet”: James Blake joins Oscar-nominated actor as he plays three lesser-known Dylan tracks on SNL

Not quite complete unknowns, but definitely deep cuts

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"I’ve written this tune and I’m going to record it tonight and have it pressed, up and out tomorrow": John Lennon wrote and recorded Instant Karma in one day. Here's how it happened

"It was like all hell breaking loose. Tape machines, tape loops, tape delays, echo chambers, you name it!"

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“The net result of this process is a progression which sounds smoother, calmer and more musical”: The value of adding chord inversions

If your chord progressions sound a little clunky, try approaching your harmony in an inverse way.

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A new take on Take On Me: 40 years on, an engineer creates his own mix of one of the biggest hits of the '80s and reveals its hidden audio treasures

Watch Daniel Duskin going to work on his SSL desk

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“If I’d said no to $80m, somebody would have committed me to a hospital – like, he needs psychiatric treatment!”: The rock superstar who made more money from his tequila business than he did selling millions of records!

And he gave most of it away!

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