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“We’ve never thought we have made the perfect record. We are always on the lookout to discover new ways of doing things, new sounds”: Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith on Tears For Fears’ restless creativity, artistic independence and the search for surprise

Orzabal and Smith talk collaboration, high-concept pop-rock production and songwriting chemistry, and why they've never been just a “couple of guys with synths and a backing tape”

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"I dealt with Lindsey for as long as I could. You could not say that I did not give him more than 300 million chances": Stevie Nicks explains why she cut Lindsey Buckingham out of her life, and it's partly because "he wasn't very nice to Harry Styles"

Stevie Nicks reveals why she finally cut Lindsay Buckingham out of her life

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“He never got to see GPS”: Helen Mirren feels “sad” for Kurt Cobain, but not for the reason you might expect

Helen Mirren feels sad Kurt Cobain never saw GPS

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“He was playing this kit that had cushions in it and tape all over it. It didn’t sound like Rodge”: Queen hated Roger Taylor’s drum sound on their debut album so much that they “augmented” every beat for its reissue

Their eponymous debut is a stone-cold rock classic but Queen have never been happy with its sound, especially Taylor’s drums. For its “rebuilt” and renamed reissue, they forensically applied digital tech to transform the sound of each individual drum hit

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"I’m not checking my emails on stage!": Autechre hits back against critics of electronic artists that perform with laptops

“Are you mad? Somebody's handed you this multi-tool that you can do anything with and you're going to be like, ‘no, I want to play a keyboard because I'm a musician’”

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“Nicky Wire on lead vocals!”: Hear the Manic Street Preachers’ surprise new single

Plus: details on the band’s “energised and euphoric” new album

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“This exceptional instrument combines the legendary features that defined early Van Halen with modern performance enhancements”: EVH Gear unveils the Star TOM, a shred machine with a single ‘bucker, kill-switch and no-fuss Tuna-Matic bridge

No whammy bar? No problem. This super-aggressive shape presents a high-performance platform for rock and metal. And who wouldn’t want an arcade-style red button for a kill-switch?

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“I’m the first black female in heavy music with my own signature guitar”: Diamond Rowe is making history with Jackson

And she’s giving them away to her heroes - starting with Korn

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“I’ve got lots of ideas and I’m really looking forward to getting back into that creative space - it’s been a long time”: Kate Bush is readying herself to start work on a new album

In the meantime she’s made a short film in aid of War Child

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“Chad Kroeger called me in the middle of the night and was cursing me because he couldn't get the song out of his head. I was like, ‘now you know everyone else felt with How You Remind Me!": We speak to the Lottery Winners

The Leigh four-piece's frontman tells us about how being diagnosed with ADHD led to the creation of the band's new single

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“Can you put a banjo in a dubstep drop?”: Jacob Collier teams up with Google to launch AI-powered music creation tool MusicFX DJ

"You craft this real-time sonic putty that’s endlessly surprising, and essentially seeks to alchemize or forge connections between things that would otherwise be unlikely"

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“I tried to make the concert feel like my own spin on a rock show. My dream was for people to jump and scream and be all sweaty by the end”: Olivia Rodrigo reflects on her hugely successful Guts World Tour

As the tour draws to a close, The Breeders' Kim Deal says of Rodrigo: “I think she likes loud guitars - in this day and age! She finds loud guitars exciting and wants to be around them”

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Cableguys’ new Snapback plugin puts a “secret trick of pro producers” at your fingertips

The plugin brand’s BT collaboration promises next-level drum layering tools

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“There’s a little song called Toxic that was headed my way, and I was like, ‘Toxic? I don’t know if I want a song called Toxic’”: Kylie Minogue on the Britney Spears hit that she turned down

“It's like the fish that got away. You just have to accept it," she previously admitted

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"He came and asked for some money, but it was alright... if it’s a hook, or I feel like I’ve taken their idea, then I'd always try and pay for it": Fatboy Slim on sampling's "Wild West" origins - and nicking the bassline from The Clash's Guns of Brixton

“My record company and my management absolutely hated it, but I kind of liked the thrill of the chase”

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“He offered me Jimi’s guitar and then disappeared!”: How Lenny Kravitz almost got his hands on Hendrix’s Woodstock Strat

Hendrix’s drummer called Lenny “the best thing since Jimi”

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“It’s his message, to let the world know how he feels about all the things that’s going on in the world”: Kool and the Gang drummer spent 20 years on a solo album but didn’t live to see its release

George Brown, Kool and the Gang drummer, spent 20 years on a solo album, but didn't see its release

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Korg’s Multi/Poly is a versatile new synth that takes influence from an ‘80s cult classic

It looks like a Mono/Poly in modern clothing, but is Korg’s latest more than that?

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“He asked me to go into the studio and add some sounds and jam with the band a bit, to bring more electronic experimentation into their sound”: Jon Hopkins reflects on being introduced to Coldplay by Brian Eno

Hopkins recently hit number 1 in the US and UK simultaneously thanks to his appearances on Coldplay’s Moon Music and Charli XCX’s Brat reworks album

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"She's kind of known for her pop songs, but they actually go a lot deeper than that. I think she can even be compared to some of the great poets”: Academics debate Taylor Swift at Birmingham University event

Academics debate Taylor Swift at University of Birmingham

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“The same sound engine and colour touch display as the GX-100 in a portable, travel-ready design”: Boss promises a “universe” of tones from the small but mighty GX-10 amp modeller and multi-effects

It’s the GX-100, only smaller, and it has 23 guitar amp models, nine bass amps, and 170 different effects to choose from – plus there’s MIDI, an effects loop, IR support, optional Bluetooth and more

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"There's no heart there. David was the centre of it all... he was the heart of this band”: Graham Nash reveals why he’ll never play with Stills and Young again

“It just would be a much colder scene,” he says

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“I don’t usually get nervous, but I was feeling some kind of way following Eminem”: So Barack Obama raps the opening lines of Lose Yourself

Watch Barack Obama rap Eminem's Lose Yourself

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“Those hoping for a reissue of the Mono/Poly are going to be disappointed – its capabilities are so much broader than that”: Korg Multi/Poly review

Korg’s latest synth is billed as an ‘analogue modelling’ instrument, but is that description underselling it?

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“Pull your sound through the prism and into a spectrum of dazzling tones”: Elektron’s Digitone II adds FM drums, phase distortion, comb filters and more

The FM synth-and-groovebox returns with double the polyphony, enhanced sequencing and new synth engines

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