Chad Smith offers update on new Red Hot Chili Peppers album: “There’s something coming. We’re coming for you”
The recordings will be the first to feature guitarist John Frusciante since Stadium Arcadium
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View more newsChad Smith offers update on new Red Hot Chili Peppers album: “There’s something coming. We’re coming for you”
The recordings will be the first to feature guitarist John Frusciante since Stadium Arcadium
Yngwie Malmsteen announces new album Parabellum, fires a gun in the studio, and debuts a stunning new track
”I wanted this album to have a joyous, spontaneous atmosphere,” says the Swedish shred titan, who reveals he finally learned to trigger a drum sound with a gun shot
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The 40 greatest synth sounds of all time, No 15: Human League - Don't You Want Me?
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TC Electronic summons the Magus Pro – a super-affordable option for high-gain magic
Featuring an LM308 op-amp replica circuit and three clipping modes, it promises to be a smooth operator for classic Rat filth
Learn the guitar style of classic Smashing Pumpkins with these 3 exercises
Billy Corgan and James Iha's cherub rocking octave riffs, arpeggios and lead lines
Tedeschi Trucks Band to release Layla Revisited (Live at LOCK'N) featuring Trey Anastasio
The special live album sees TTD perform Derek & The Dominos‘ Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs in its entirety
Best Yamaha keyboards 2021: 10 top picks for home music makers
We’ve trawled through Yamaha’s extensive keyboard range to help you find the right one for you
A free firmware update means that Arturia’s “do-it-all” KeyStep Pro MIDI keyboard and sequencer now does even more
Owners can download version 2.0 now
Kurt Cobain‘s 4x12 Marshall cab, a signed Stinger Strat copy, and six strands of the late Nirvana frontman‘s hair go up for auction
Yes, hair... Minimum bid $2,500 – that's just under $417 per strand
Wampler releases the Andy Wood Gearbox Signature Overdrive
A two-channel design, the Gearbox brings the Tumnus and Pinnacle circuits together for one fully-featured drive pedal
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Master the seemingly impossible old style of stride piano
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Intelligently merging real spaces with virtual, Paragon stands as perhaps the most pliant convolution reverb we’ve met so far
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This icy lookin' translucent Japanese 5-string J-type from Atelier has features and lots of them
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The most famous name in bass amplification's compact and affordable practice amp returns new and improved
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With ample performance options and tension-building scope, Orchestral Tools take us where no sample library has gone before…
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M-Audio's latest monitors are compact, affordable, and typically stylish
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Baby Audio journeys further into new realms with a reverb unit that reinvents a classic for the 21st century… and some
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A magical Eurorack for the musically experimental
Akai MPC 2.9 Air Drumsynth review
The ever-expanding MPC range now comes with a native drum synth
