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- February 6
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- Behringer unleashes the BMX, its $459 clone of the Oberheim DMX
- "This is not a contest or a gimmick. It's a genuine search for the right voice, presence and authenticity to carry Skid Row forward": Could YOU be the next Skid Row frontman?
- “I'm like, ‘OK, put the drum machine in.' When I played it, she said, ‘Oh, I like that. I like that.' And she said, 'I want to do a song about the nasty boys’”: How Janet Jackson and Jam & Lewis made Control – with a little help from the Ensoniq Mirage
- “A perverse or healthy attraction to crazy ideas”: Soulwax aka 2manydjs are throwing a rave – at Abbey Road Studios
- MusicRadar deals of the week: Save a colossal $500 off one of my favourite Sterling by Music Man guitars, grab $200 off a super cool D'Angelico, plus all the week's biggest sales on music gear
- Not The Same As It Was: Harry Styles announces special one-off Manchester show with cut-price £20 tickets
- Behringer's "supercharged" Roland Juno-60 clone is now available for pre-order
- February 5
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- “I had no idea that song would become what it became. There was nothing on the radio like that. And the recording is so raw, it’s ridiculous!”: The hard-rocking Lenny Kravitz hit that’s full of surprises
- “What the heck were you thinking, dude?”: As Alex Honnold reveals just how much Tool he listened to during his free climb of the Taipei 101 skyscraper, the band’s frontman Maynard James Keenan speaks for all of us
- "I think it helps to not have too much music theory. Taking inspiration from different genres and being open-minded is important”: Dimmu Borgir’s Silenoz on playing a guitar inspired by a shark – and why you can be black metal and still love the blues
- "It ended up as the sound palette for a whole new generation": Inventor of FM synthesis John Chowning honoured with Technical Grammy Award
- Can ROLI's new AI Music Coach really match up to a human piano teacher? We get the exclusive first look
- “I’d have to smoke a big joint to be able to listen to all of it, and I haven’t done that in a long, long time!”: Why Fleetwood Mac legend Lindsey Buckingham would prefer to forget some of his own albums
- “They were my favourite band growing up. Dave was my hero, and this was his keyboard": How The Repair Shop restored The Stranglers’ vintage keyboard
- February 4
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- “This is probably one of the last years where it's only humans on the red carpet... That agent and robot will be here before 2030”: Will.i.am thinks Grammys will be given to bots by the end of the decade
- “Eddie was always experimenting. Keyboards entered the mix, but it didn’t sound like a keyboard because Eddie played this cheap little Wurlitzer blazing through Marshalls”: Van Halen's Michael Anthony on the band’s cult classic Women And Children First
- “No other industry would tolerate this level of loss of life and neither should we”: Science indicates that musicians do actually die younger - but why?
- “I’m just a piano tuner, man”: Could Leo Woodall’s very particular set of pitch identification and safe-cracking skills make Tuner the audiology thriller we never knew we needed?
- "An extraordinary ability to elevate each project he works on… his creative influence spans every corner of contemporary culture”: Mark Ronson to receive Outstanding Contribution to Music award at the Brits
- LALAL.AI brings its AI-powered stem separation into your DAW with its first plugin
- “I didn’t want something too radical but I also wanted something heavy metal”: Mark Morton and Gibson unveil a signature Les Paul Modern Quilt that brings the fire with a “flamethrower” bridge humbucker
- “We did that song, I think, the day that David Bowie died… It just kind of flowed”: Anderson .Paak on how the death of a music legend inspired Dang!, the 2016 pop-rap masterpiece that he would eventually record with Mac Miller
- “I was at school supposedly trying to get an education and all I could think about was that album. Black Sabbath are the gods, man!”: How Pantera singer Phil Anselmo fell under Sabbath’s evil spell
- “She’s kept all of her costumes, all of her clothes, all of her instruments": Is Meryl Streep playing Joni Mitchell in Cameron Crowe's upcoming biopic?
- February 3
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- “That whole thing of doing the trades with other players is a really nice thing”: Vernon Reid says he hopes he and Jack White have started a trend for pro guitarists swapping signature models
- “From functionality through to physical design, IK Multimedia has completely nailed it”: IK Multimedia ARC On-Ear review
- “Bonzo’s birthday cake was a wedding cake and George Harrison lifted the top layer straight into Bonzo’s face. Bonzo picked Harrison up and launched him into the swimming pool”: When Led Zeppelin broke a Beatles record and celebrated in style
- “He was distant and uncommunicative… and wore a different wig every day”: Starsailor singer James Walsh on working with Phil Spector
- This free, super-glitchy multi-effects plugin is designed for happy accidents
- “Mars argues that it is immoral for him to be cast aside... I am not unsympathetic to this argument but it is not for me to weigh in on the morality of the band’s decision”: Judge rules Mötley Crüe were within rights to fire Mick Mars
- “It’s a great feeling. I wish we’d had something like this at my school”: Justin Hawkins opens recording studio at Hereford Cathedral School
- “I heard a few of those things he did with Johnny Cash and I was impressed. So that was one of the reasons I was interested in working with him”: Neil Diamond scored his first US No.1 album at the age of 67 – with help from producer Rick Rubin
- “We had nothing to do with it creatively. We hope it sparks interest in him and his work”: Chili Peppers distance themselves from documentary about founder member Hillel Slovak
- “40W of stereo sound with studio-grade tone – packed into a travel-ready design”: Mooer Audio’s flagship Intelligent Amp lets you find guitar tones using AI prompts
- “I put a pitch-shifter on the master bus!”: In the era of lo-fi beats and bedroom recording, does sound quality even matter anymore?
- “Lorne Michaels said, ‘Hey, do you want to host SNL?’ I said, ‘Yeah, can I do the music?’ He’s like, ‘No.’ I said, ‘Alright, I’m not doing it'": Timothée Chalamet says that he had to self-fund his Bob Dylan musical performances on Saturday Night Live
- You’re Working For No-One But Me: New survey reveals Harry Styles is the UK pop’s biggest contributor to the taxman
- February 2
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- "The EF86 tube is often described as hi-fi, and honestly, that's the perfect way to describe what's coming out of this thing": EarthQuaker Devices EQD ZEQD-Pre review
- APT with a twist: Bruno Mars plays a Gibson Les Paul as he and Rosé deliver a hard rock version of their 2024 hit at the Grammy Awards
- “I remember Lars was unwrapping all these Styx and REO Speedwagon records and I’m going, ‘What are you buying this crap for?’”: Why James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich didn’t always see eye to eye in Metallica’s early days
- “Another huge win for the video game music scene as a whole”: 8-Bit Big Band pick up their second Grammy for their Super Mario medley
- "Once upon a time I was a kid making beats in his bedroom in Canada and now I'm here": Cirkut takes home Producer of the Year, Non-Classical at the 2026 Grammy Awards
- “It is clear why creators are concerned. Tech firms train models on copyrighted works without permission”: Four in five musicians are “worried” about AI music
- “Festivals generate 25,800 tonnes of waste, 22,876 tonnes of CO2 and use 185 million litres of water annually”: How Massive Attack set a new benchmark for the future of sustainable live music events
- “We were at a club, and some guy was punching on a girl, and James says, ‘Kill him!’ This guy turns around and looks at the two of us and says, ‘Who’s gonna kill me?’ And James pointed at me…": Dave Mustaine on early days with, and split from, Metallica
- Justin Bieber just gave the most literal ‘stripped-down’ Grammys performance possible, playing an ‘80s Yamaha electric guitar and an Akai MPC Live III in just his underwear
- “The only thing more powerful than hate is love, so please, we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love”: Kendrick Lamar, Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish all win big at 2026 Grammys
- “One day I got up and the sun was shining, all the mountains were lit up, and I came up with Mr. Blue Sky”: How Jeff Lynne created his masterpiece with ELO’s Out Of The Blue
- February 1
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- “I turned to him and said, ‘Where did you come up with that amazing bass line?’ He turned to me and said, ‘Oh, you like that?’ Like he didn't know”: The influential Chic classic that spawned one of the most recognisable basslines of all time
- “The solo is his interpretation of war – all this screaming. It’s such a brilliant piece of artistry, such a pure form of expression”: The explosive Hendrix classic hailed as the greatest guitar track of all time by Guns N’ Roses legend Slash
- “A sturdy, interesting and decent-sounding effects unit with tempo syncing and sequencing capabilities”: Polyend Mess review