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- September 30
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- “He hit bottom, but he also found himself making some of his most personal music, then relaunched himself for the first time without a mask, as himself”: A new BBC documentary on Bowie’s Berlin years is coming in 2026
- Audient says its Oria Mini room correction system will "make any speakers sound better"
- "A reliable and arguably preferable alternative to plugin-based solutions": Audient Oria Mini review
- Audient’s ORIA Mini is the set-and-forget hardware that will fix your studio’s acoustic imperfections so that you can create better mixes
- “I’m so looking forward to an English summer”: The trailer for the BBC Ozzy Osbourne documentary is up online
- “A portable setup that offers a powerful means of recording and practising”: Fender Link I/O and Fender Studio review
- “The ultimate library of bass tones”: IK Multimedia’s Tonex amp modelling suite arrives for bass guitar – with pedals, software and lots and lots of tones
- “Yes, you will be getting a new album next year. It is done”: Ronnie Wood confirms a new Stones album is on the way
- “Once you own a Nuno guitar, you are part of my family. Let’s ride!” Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt leaves Washburn to launch his own guitar company and debuts two new S-styles – but the N4 isn’t going anywhere
- 40 years of Focusrite: from the ISA 110 to the Scarlett 2i2 Anniversary Edition
- “The essential building blocks of any ‘board”: Fender adds vintage analogue heat to the Hammertone pedal lineup with the Breakup Drive and Boost, both with switchable modes and a budget-friendly $99 price tag
- You can now buy Ableton Live 12 Suite on a rent-to-own plan
- “He’s on all of the songs, including one that’s 13 minutes - we just didn’t want Pino to ever stop playing": Miley Cyrus pays tribute to legendary bassist Pino Palladino as he’s honoured with the Welsh Music Inspiration award
- “Due to a specific condition called a vocal fold hematoma”: Avenged Sevenfold postpone Latin American tour after M Shadows reports a ruptured blood vessel in his vocal cord
- “Designed to deliver versatile, authentic sound for amp modellers and compact amp-simulation pedals”: Line 6 introduces multi-voicing for active guitar speakers as the Powercab CL offers ups the ante for digital rigs
- “I think I ran nearly every piece of audio on the album through it. It took forever”: Alex G on the ultra-rare vintage compressor that shaped the sound of Headlights
- September 29
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- “They had Coldplay and U2 and all the big rock groups there. So we came on and did our thing and David Lee Roth saw it and said, ‘I want Kool & the Gang to be my support act’”: How Van Halen ended up choosing an unlikely opening band for their 2012 tour
- “He would always say to me, ‘Listen to Led Zeppelin and tell me what the loudest thing is’. And me, having my confidence, I’d be like, ‘it’s the drums. John Bonham.’ He said, ‘Nope…’“: Andrew Watt on what Ozzy Osbourne taught him about mixing
- “Where established artists can share their creative process with emerging talent in an intimate setting”: Tom Misch launches Wildflower 2025 workshop
- Celebrated violist appeals for information in the case of the stolen bow collection
- “It centres on deep-seated emotions – jealousy, ill-will, anger – and then a deep desire for reconciliation”: Upcoming Oasis tour film promises 'deeply-moving' scenes of the Gallaghers repairing their relationship
- “One evening, late, I found myself in my studio sat down at the keyboard. I played a C chord, put my head back, and immediately, without thinking, I sang the first two lines of the song”: Labi Siffre on the origins of (Something Inside) So Strong
- "We went to Memphis, ate a lot of barbecue, went to Al Green’s church on Easter Sunday, made some hot jams!”: Sonic Youth are teasing activity of… some kind in 2026, revolving around their Washing Machine
- “Violinists have their Stradivarius', guitarists have their Strats – and producers have Massive”: How Native Instruments’ Massive became the go-to bass synth for a generation of music-makers
- “Schools with little or no existing music provision can bring entire classrooms together to play... ensuring that the project inspires future rock ‘n’ roll stars worldwide”: Oasis launch project to fund music education by selling prints
- “That song was a game-changer for me. It led me to think, ‘Let’s go to rehab and see if I really am an alcoholic’”: How a guest spot on a ’90s banger was the salvation of a rock legend
- September 27
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- “It was all getting a bit nasty”: The struggle to make the Tears for Fears masterpiece that closed out the '80s on a creative high
- One year on, I’ve finally clicked with Ableton Move – all because I’ve stopped trying to make music with it
- “The Super series knocks politely, but DMNO kicks the door down”: UDO’s DMNO is two synths in one – and one of a kind
- "This change is about strengthening trust across the platform”: Spotify admits that it's removed 75 million AI tracks
- "A versatile, brilliantly engineered machine that will have your back, no matter what the gig": Strandberg Boden N2 Original review
- September 26
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- “He comes up to me and says ‘you cannibalised my instrument! Why did you do that?’”: Herbie Hancock reveals what Harold Rhodes said to him when he saw that he’d fitted inputs and outputs to one of his pianos
- “You actually had to be good at your instrument – that doesn’t seem to be a necessary requisite these days”: Roger Taylor and Brian May remember Bohemian Rhapsody
- “Even today, that instrument is fascinating. I’ve passed it around and players of all sorts have all come to the same conclusion – there is something magic in that instrument”: Billy Gibbons on why Pearly Gates is one of the greatest Les Pauls of all time
- "We didn't find it difficult to write pop songs, but it was VERY difficult to write one for the Stones”: 60 years of The Last Time – the Stones’ big breakthrough
- “This breaks my heart and is a sick way of looking at it”: Jack Antonoff responds to Michael Rapino’s comments about ‘underpriced’ concert tickets
- “It’s one of George's best songs. His mind is clear and his music is clear”: The genius of the profound 1967 Beatles song that John Lennon held up as George’s greatest
- "For garage, punk, and rock styles, it’s got the tonal firepower on offer": Gretsch Electromatic CVT Double-Cut review
- “Usually I’ve done the demos on my laptop, which can be a bit creatively stifling. You can get lost in the sauce trying to program the drums properly and kinda lose that itch”: Wolfgang Van Halen says he’s taking more chances on his new Mammoth album
- “I wanted a song Whitney Houston would be proud to sing. It had to be sensual but never cheap, powerful but not overwrought”: DC producer bags first Future Sound Award for AI music
- “The record company thought I was mad – but sometimes you sign acts to make money, and sometimes you sign acts to make music”: The making of Enya's Orinoco Flow, the unexpected No. 1 hit that created a New Age superstar
- September 25
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- “Offers a very useful solution for clap emulation without needing to use electronics”: Zultan Raw SlapClap review
- “How can I play machines like they're instruments? How do I play these machines the same way I play a piano or guitar?”: Jack Antonoff reveals the two vintage delay units and classic ‘80s synth that provide the secret sauce on Sabrina Carpenter’s Manchild
- “That actually came from me and Oz jamming on the piano in my apartment in North Hollywood”: From Ozzy Osbourne to Papa Roach, Fleetwood Mac to George Harrison, here's 5 career-defining songs you didn’t know were written on the piano
- Focusrite releases blue Anniversary Edition of its Scarlett 2i2 interface
- Reverb wants to help you buy more gear with new Wallet feature
- “I would like to do it. We’re having conversations”: Brian May suggests a Queen Sphere residency could be on the cards
- “I think it was a song that I wasn’t sure about at first. It felt different, you know, uptempo and sexy, but I love it”: Olivia Dean admits to having initial doubts about her current global hit single
- “I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer”: Noel's "#1 favourite guitar" that Liam smashed the night Oasis split is up one of over 100 Gallagher-related items up for auction
- “Complex chords and sustained lead tones are reproduced with stunning clarity”: With an 8-octave range, real-time control, has Boss raised the standard for pitch-shifting pedals with the XS Poly Shifter series?
- “His body of work is unparalleled in its quality and also in the incredibly varied number of musicians he worked with”: Danny Thompson, Pentangle bassist supreme, who played for Kate Bush, Roy Orbison, Nick Drake, and more has died
- “Ultra-natural vocal performances that are indistinguishable from live recording sessions”: Could IK Multimedia’s "ethical" ReSing software be a gamechanger for AI voice modelling?
- September 24
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- “We were side of stage every night, salivating and looking at their pedalboards”: Paradise Lost's Greg Mackintosh on channelling Radiohead, covering the Smiths, Trouble’s elusive tone tricks – plus the '80s Ibanez pickup behind his epic sound
- “He wanted all that at an undoable selling price”: Mesa/Boogie founder Randall Smith confirms rumours that it built James Hetfield a signature model – and it combined three iconic amps in one
- 9 mistakes producers make when using an audio interface - and how to avoid them
- “My brother took me there and we waited in line when I was 14 years old, and I’ve been a fan ever since”: 30 years after queuing for his autograph, The Killers’ Brandon Flowers has the "honour" of performing with ‘80s synth-pop legend Howard Jones
- “Will pound your ears with thick saturation… dense walls of fuzz straight from a ‘90s fever dream”: Players who deal in big gnarly riffs might need to add the Way Huge Doom Hammer Fuzz to their ‘board ASAP
- "THANK YOU for making my amazing kid's dream come true”: Green Day facilitate a mother and child reunion
- After 5 years, Spotify streaming returns to DJ software... but there's a catch
- “Carlos made a comment about the enormous quantities of mahogany trees that had blown down that were now being turned into mulch”: PRS uses wood felled in a Category 5 hurricane for the S2 Special Semi-Hollow Reclaimed
- “Nothing and no one on Earth will ever be able to justify AI to me”: Kehlani isn’t happy about an AI ‘artist’ inking a $3 million record deal
- September 23
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- How I found a faster way to get the guitar tones in my head to my mix with Positive Grid's Project: BIAS X
- “I was worried that Bowie would nick our ideas... which he did. I felt it was our turn, not his": Gary and Martin Kemp remember Spandau's early days and the Blitz club
- From the Prophet-5 to the Fourm, the story of Sequential in 10 synths, sequencers and drum machines
- “The first fully generative, guitar tone design software tool powered by agentic AI”: Positive Grid’s Project BIAS X plugin allows players to design their sound using text and “music-to-tone” AI prompts
- How to stress test a laptop for music production in any DAW - and why every producer should do it
- “One of the best analogue polysynths for the price, in any way, shape or form”: Sequential Fourm review
- “If what he wanted was to be just Richie Sambora, not a member of Bon Jovi, do it right?”: Jon Bon Jovi says he’s still “heartbroken” by the way guitarist left the band
- “New York’s finest”: Nile Rodgers joins Dua Lipa on stage at Madison Square Garden for a cover of Chic’s signature hit
- Casio is giving you access to a one-year Tomplay Pro online lessons subscription with the purchase of select digital pianos until the end of the year
- “There's a tendency to misremember as ‘John Lennon was a rock ‘n’ roll badass and Paul was kind of like happy poppy guy,’ but Paul made the weirdest music”: Mark Ronson says that Paul McCartney was just as experimental as any of the Beatles, and still is
- “From the world of Battle Royale to the world of Daft Punk”: Daft Punk to live on in Fortnite
- “Takes the splendidly saturated sound of the original and opens up a world of fuzz tones”: Electro-Harmonix adds switchable clipping, bias and Fat switch to a bona-fide classic of fuzz with the Bender Royale
- “The concert is underpriced and has been for a long time”: Live Nation CEO seems to suggest that gig ticket prices are too LOW
- “We put in a ’57 Goldtop neck profile on it”: Bon Jovi guitarist Phil X shares some details about his upcoming signature Gibson – and it sounds like it will be an SG like no other
- “I’m sure Carlos and I got in a full-blown fight that day”: How Interpol fought for success and lit a fire in indie rock with their best single
- September 22
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- “Excited to meet the students and share my experience”: Synth-pop star Little Boots confirms that she’s now a university lecturer
- “It was the rats you could hear running up and down the air ducts. Either that or it was haunted. Jimmy Page says it was haunted”: Peter Gabriel and Genesis dissect their bonkers but brilliant prog swan song
- Heart’s desire: Chappell Roan finally gets to perform her “favourite song” with one of the people who wrote and originally recorded it
- “Thanks to the thievery of the record industry”: Garbage quit touring
- “I cannot believe that I have just heard this beautiful song for the first time”: Why you shouldn’t sleep on this forgotten Kate Bush rarity that’s cherished by fans
- “There has been a lot of awareness of the gentrification of the genre… People are craving more music that’s authentic”: Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram talks about his new blues label Red Zero
- “I wrote it so that Joe and I could play even harder than we did – or edgier than we did – on Hotel California”: How Don Felder planned to rock out with Joe Walsh on the last Eagles album of the ’70s
- “We are utterly heartbroken… the impact he had was immense. He was a titan of UK music and culture”: Tributes paid to JD Twitch of Optimo
- “It’s shaped itself into the most supportive and comfortable environment for all creative musicians”: With version 6, Bitwig Studio becomes an automation powerhouse
- September 21
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- “Live entertainment should be accessible to all of us. It should not cost an arm and a leg to attend your favourite musician’s show”: US trade body sues Ticketmaster, alleging underhand tactics to inflate secondary market prices
- “I was driven to Ritchie’s house in Surrey. That was the big test. Sitting in his crazy bar, listening to his amazing demos on a Revox tape machine”: David Coverdale recalls his baptism of fire with Deep Purple
- September 20
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- Rumour Has It: Adele for the Super Bowl in 2026?
- “The creative endeavours of musicians is ultimately funding lethal, dystopian technologies. Enough is more than enough. Another way is possible”: Massive Attack exit Spotify in protest at Daniel Ek’s military AI investments
- “There were some people that were broken up after the first song or two in the rehearsal. It was intense”: Derek Trucks on how Tedeschi Trucks Band got Leon Russell to reunite the original Mad Dogs to celebrate Joe Cocker with an all-star set
- September 19
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- "The SE Studio Standard not only looks amazing, but it also delivers an incredible playing experience that keeps you coming back for more": PRS SE Studio Standard review
- “Thank you to Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood for bringing magic to the music”: Miley Cyrus reunites two members of Fleetwood Mac on her new single having previously collaborated with Stevie Nicks
- “Prince was always borrowing my car because it was awesome. I imagine he was making out in the back seat when he got the seed of the idea. But it's not a red Corvette – it's a pink Mercury!”: The inside story of Prince's first major hit
- “We were at the peak of our confidence. It felt like there wasn’t anything we couldn’t do”: Queen’s A Night at the Opera and Bo Rhap to get 50th anniversary reissues in October
- September 18
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- Thomann's Guitar Days sale just hit up to 70% off with £474 off an Epiphone semi-hollow, £132 off a Death By Audio pedal, plus loads more massive savings
- "One day everyone will have always been against this": Brian Eno, Eric Cantona, Damon Albarn, Neneh Cherry and many others come together for Palestine
- “The Life of a Showgirl takes center stage”: An exclusive paid-for download version of Taylor Swift’s new album has sparked a high-kicking, unexpected iTunes revival
- “Clearly the M-10 is not tuned for this type of music”: V-Moda M-10 review
- “I don’t know what he was thinking, but he went into the little kitchen behind the control room and returned with a carving knife”: How David Byrne, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz created a sinister new wave classic
- “We got about an hour in, and I was like, ‘I haven’t even pulled the slide out of my pocket yet!’” Derek Trucks is one of the greatest slide guitar players of all time but sometimes forgets he even has one – here’s how he decides when to use it
- Teenage Engineering leak appears to reveal dub reggae-themed EP-2350 Riddim Supertone sampler and EP-40 mixer
- “Look for one that says ‘80’s Icon on the case and another one that says ‘Woke As F**k’”: Johnny Marr says UPS has lost his guitars
- “He says to Mick Jagger backstage ‘They hate me!’ Mick told him, ‘if you’re going to play to a crowd this big, you have to have a rock band. You have to have a big sound’”: Did Prince’s "humiliating" Rolling Stones experience inspire his later success?
- “I used to take pills for fun. Now I take them to stay alive”: Two intimate Ozzy Osbourne documentaries set to drop in early October
- “It’s pretty rancid! That brain mulching sound they put on vocals makes me feel slightly sick”: The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon isn’t a fan of modern pop music
- September 17
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- “100 per cent tour-worthy right off of the shelf, with bulletproof American construction”: All Rhoads lead to California as Jackson brings one of its most-iconic metal guitars home for a high-end upgrade
- “I wanted to design something that would not only be capable of but excel at any tone I might need”: Prog metal trailblazer Misha Mansoor teams up with Neural DSP for Archetype plugin suite that nails his Periphery tone – but does so much more
- “It’s policing Black music… Hip-hop was born from sampling. And now sampling is synonymous with theft”: Lizzo argues that the origins of sampling law are "racially charged"
- “They basically declared war on him after these shows were broadcast”: When John Lennon alarmed the FBI after platforming radical political ideas in a week-long takeover of American TV
- “I was having some issues with three-hour shows and constant touring and stuff": Matt Cameron explains why he left Pearl Jam and insists that the final Soundgarden album is coming... but not yet
- SampleRadar: 497 free modular percussion samples
- “When we went to record it, the record company said, ‘Man, they won’t play that, it’s too long.’ But we said, ‘We don’t care!’”: How the young Lynyrd Skynyrd turned a simple love song into a southern rock epic
- With A Little Help From His Friends: Jack White joins Ringo Starr on stage for a performance of a Beatles classic after going Toto with Steve Lukather
- “The whistling was a result of me having no guitar when I was writing it. The record company called me and said: 'You have to take the whistle out.' I said: ‘No way’": The Scorpions' Klaus Meine on the making of Wind Of Change
- "It’s been such a privilege to work with Daphne’s sounds": Daphne Oram's centenary celebrated in compilation featuring previously unheard archival material
- "You’d be like, ‘Nah. I like him a lot, but I don’t love him.’ That would be the messaging if I didn’t play left-handed": Actor Paul Mescal reveals the lengths he's going to to perfect his portrayal of Paul McCartney in the upcoming Beatles biopics
- “Players have asked us to push further – into more adventurous, exploratory delay and reverb”: Source Audio dials up the ambience with the Encounter – six reverbs, six delays, one tricked-out pedal for “deeply immersive soundscapes”
- Music studio complex opens in former nuclear bunker in The Hague
- “Right before he died I was reminded of what I’d noticed all those years ago – that the notes he didn’t play were more important than the notes he did play”: A salute from one great bass player to another
- September 16
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- Teenage Engineering is giving away a free EP-1320 Medieval sampler to anyone that spends $999 in its online store
- “He was the sun which all planets rotated around”: Joe Bonamassa announces all-star album celebrating life of BB King on the King of the Blues’ 100th birthday
- “It was a lovely sight to look up occasionally and see them both there. Him dancing and her sitting”: Why did Fred Again play an extra set after his festival appearance in Naples – to two people?
- “The SG and the Les Paul, reimagined in short-scale, 3-string versions”: Gibson teams up with Loog for beginner and child-friendly electrics based on its most famous guitars
- “As soon as we played that, I screamed. I could tell right away that it was a smash”: Nile Rodgers breaks down how he and David Bowie made Let’s Dance
- “It’s clear that the influence of the Custom Shop’s attention to detail is now making its way to the Mexican-made instruments”: Fender Limited Edition Vintera II Jazzmaster Road Worn review
- “The authentic broken-in feel players love”: Aged nitro finishes, “era-correct” pickups and neck shapes, Fender’s limited run Vintera II Road Worn series presents Golden Era tone for modern players
- “A unique, talented, and innovative musician who leaves a rich back catalogue of Eastern-influenced electronica as his legacy”: Tributes paid to Blancmange's Stephen Luscombe, who has died
- “Tommy's got his guitar. I'm snapping my fingers. Tommy just started out; ‘Here we come, walking down the street’, 'cause that's what we were doing”: Bobby Hart on the evolution of the Monkees theme
- September 15
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- "It's unlike any humbucker I've tried before": Gibson Tony Iommi Signature Humbucker review
- “All major keys are created equal, but Eb is the best”: Jon Batiste answers the internet’s piano queries and agrees with one potentially controversial musical statement
- “I did like Bob Dylan, but he was a great con man! He strung a lot of nonsense together and made it seem like it was really important”: Motörhead legend Lemmy Kilmister’s opinions on Dylan, the Eagles, Slayer and his friend Ozzy Osbourne
- "I thought I was amazing at making garage – then I tried to make DnB": Flava D on why drum & bass is the toughest genre to produce
- “The kids! This is what music is for. I am so proud of them”: Students at Flea’s music school pay tribute to him and the Chili Peppers
- "Before this plugin, the only way to get this tone was by chasing down old hardware or buying boutique pedals": Audio Hertz's Mk.pre emulates the Tascam Portastudio preamp that colours Mk.gee's sought-after guitar tone
- “I finally get the opportunity to say, ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome, the most badass mother, Ilan Rubin”: Dave Grohl introduces new drummer at Foos' secret gig
- “I missed a couple of things which I would have loved to get better”: Brian May suggests that he wasn’t completely satisfied with his Bohemian Rhapsody guitar playing at The Last Night of the Proms
- September 14
- September 13
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- “I had a No 1 single with a song about a robot prostitute and no one knew”: You’ll never listen to this Gary Numan classic the same way again
- “I’ve never fully gelled with Logic and Pro Tools – they kind of feel like Microsoft Excel to me”: Jacques Greene and Nosaj Thing on the making of their new collaborative project, Verses GT
- “There were 300,000 people there, so just the adrenaline rush alone was making for some great music”: Warren Haynes on putting his stamp on Allman Brothers' classics, Woodstock ’94, and finishing what Gregg Allman started with Derek Trucks’ help
- September 12
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- "Not being a musician you feel a little bit of an imposter, but I've got a passion for it and I think a lot of great musicians respect me for that": Dub pioneer Adrian Sherwood on embracing AI and playing the studio like an instrument
- “They still maintain these ridiculous hours. After lunch until, like, two in the morning”: Marlon Richards says that the Stones have been putting together a new album in London
- “One of the things I’ve wanted to really focus on, and zone into, is the limitation of a single instrument”: Using his signature ‘DAEAD’ tuning, Jacob Collier recorded a 5-string acoustic guitar album in just four days
- “An attempt to deliver tickets as fairly as possible directly to fans at the prices the band intended”: Radiohead defend ticketing system as up to 1,000 dodgy tickets advertised online before the general sale
- Slop of the pops: Over 30,000 AI-generated tracks are being uploaded to Deezer every single day
- “The Sphere? I’m hoping, one of these days, to go there and sit and watch myself doing it, so I don't have to": David Gilmour says he’d be open to a Floyd avatar show at the Sphere
- September 11
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- “It’s our take on a pop record, pop music that has been melted on a hot dashboard in the sun”: How Boards of Canada brewed a serene genre-blurring classic
- “Memo for radio show - list of favourite records": Jeff Beck, Roxy Music and Miles Davis all make the list of David Bowie’s 15 favourite tracks
- “We’d done 11 songs. Nobody wanted to do another except me and Mutt. But I said, ‘Sorry, boys – you can’t turn this chorus down!’”: How Def Leppard created a mega-hit song in 10 days after spending three years on an album
- “We’re rebuilding the middle class of artists and giving fans the power to shape what gets heard. It’s a return to authenticity, driven by community”: New streaming platform launches - and it promises fair compensation for artists
- “All of this posturing is Jim Morrison meets the bloke from Stone Temple Pilots meets everybody else who’s ever owned a pair of leather trousers”: Justin Hawkins backs up his brother’s criticism of Yungblud’s VMAs Ozzy Osbourne tribute
- "The wait is finally over": Spotify finally offers lossless streaming to its Premium subscribers
- Five basses! Spinal Tap recruit Tal Wilkenfeld and Thundercat for bottom-heavy Jimmy Kimmel performance
- “As much as it sucked to start over, I saw Dave become a vastly better guitar player pretty quickly after Metallica”: Dave Ellefson has his say on whether Metallica did Dave Mustaine a favour by sacking him
- “Within an hour we knew we had a massive hit record”: The music theory behind a Depeche Mode classic
- September 10
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- “A very capable piece of kit that will see most players a long way into their gigging career”: the t.bone IEM D2.4 review
- “Tonverk is made for expansive sound design and immediate play”: Elektron’s stereo sampling workstation is real, and it’s out now
- “These guitars empower metal artists with the authentic, crushing tone that built Jackson’s legendary reputation”: Jackson takes us back to the heyday of shred with the Pro Origins 1985 San Dimas series – and what about that Two Face finish?
- “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
- "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
- Never miss a MusicRadar thing: Google has made it easier to keep us in your feed
- "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
- “If that album bombed we would have been dropped from the label!”: Kiss stars recall the album that saved the band
- "I figured out a way to make it sound like an old wooden door": Transform your MacBook into a theremin! Or a creaking door!
- “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
- “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
- With the Carbon 8X, Modal Electronics has completed its three synth families so that it has an instrument for every kind of user, and there’s still more to come
- “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
- King Gizzard annex Bandcamp's top 27 album spots after bold ‘name your price’ move
- Minimal Audio drops Formant, a free formant-shifting plugin for creative vocal production
- September 9
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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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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!
- “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
- "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
- AlphaTheta’s CDJ-3000 gets an X upgrade that allows DJs to access their libraries with the tap of a smartphone
- “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
- “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
- "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
- “Why do we have such a need to finish songs? In a word: capitalism”: Is it OK to never actually complete your tracks?
- “I’m still in shock that he’s gone… I treasure every moment we shared”: Baroness confirm death of ex-drummer Allen Blickle
- "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
- “It doesn’t sound really wet… then suddenly you are in a huge chamber”: David Gilmour shares an essential tone tip for guitarists using a whammy bar with a delay pedal
- “Maybe I was being unprofessional, and, for sure, Mike feels that I was always unprofessional to him”: White Lotus composer wins Emmy for third time despite fallout with show’s creator
- September 8
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- “People sometimes expect me to be an audio snob because I exude ‘music snob’ sometimes, even though I’m not a snob. I’m not a snob at all": Laufey says she’s happy to make do with voice memo recordings and doesn’t pay much attention to the mics she uses
- “It's the pre-eminent instrument in the world. Every culture has accessed it and made something of their own of it” Andy Summers to co-produce and front new docu-series about the cultural impact of the guitar
- “We’ve like whittled it down to about 70 songs”: Colin Greenwood suggests Radiohead will have an anything-goes approach to the setlists for upcoming gigs
- “A fine example of modelling software, providing some really engaging sounds, particularly for the contemporary domain”: Expressive E Soliste review
- “I’m not trying to alienate my audience. As an artist in Deep Purple and even before Purple I was an R&B-based rock artist”: Glenn Hughes says he's still taking inspiration from David Bowie
- "Colossal response": Morrissey’s Smiths sale plot thickens as singer says email for potential buyers has been switched off
- “I think a certain amount of friction is inevitable when you’re involved in a creative process. It’s like two people are painting a picture on the same canvas”: How Rick Davies described the conflict that ruined Supertramp
- “We’re analog animals living in a digital age”: From AI-driven stage design to collaborating with Brian May, we speak with electronic icon Jean-Michel Jarre
- “Babies’ heart rates are 50% faster than adults', hence the drum ‘n’ bass”: Meet the DJ who’s produced the first rave album for babies
- MTV VMAs 2025: Doja Cat goes back to the ‘80s with a keytar and Kenny G as Yungblud, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Nuno Bettencourt perform a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
- "I've never sung with no tuning before – this is really scary": PinkPantheress almost pulled out of Tiny Desk concert after being told she couldn't use Auto-Tune
- “The largest intellectual property theft in human history”: Big tech companies accused of scraping millions of copyrighted songs to train AI models
- “It was kinda like punk rockabilly. We were trying to bring Nebraska into the electric world”: Springsteen to release electric versions of some Nebraska tracks
- September 7
- September 6
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- “If the point of Radiohead songs isn’t to make you feel good, what is their music for?”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind Radiohead's Let Down
- “If all you want is the classic T-Pain style heavy Auto-Tune sound, then look no further than the VX5”: HeadRush VX5 Vocal Processing Pedal with Antares Auto-Tune review
- "A stellar build complements a gorgeous aesthetic, and thankfully, it has the tones and playability to back it up": PRS SE Special Semi-Hollow review
- “Of course it was gonna be a hit! This song is one of the few tracks from that period of the Noughties that really is original. It’s got a super distinctive sonic signature”: Inside the making of a Queens Of The Stone Age classic
- September 5
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- Warm Audio promises studio-quality sound without the price tag with three new vintage-inspired condenser mics
- “It took five years to really finish the song and define what it truly was about”: How My Chemical Romance created their classic rock anthem Welcome To The Black Parade
- “Young men of high social status basically getting drunk in the evening and then attacking people on the streets of London": David Bowie’s secret theatrical project was to be set in 18th-century London
- "Please don't put it on the internet": Limp Bizkit tease new song with the help of a young drumming social media star
- “The high priests of conceptual rock!”: Every Rush studio album ranked – from worst to best
- “Crafted from 1.2oz of solid 18K gold, the hand-engraved crown is set with nine natural diamonds”: Gibson gives the “King of the Flat-Tops” a whole new meaning with the release of the $99,999 SJ-200 Monarch #100 Brazilian Rosewood
- “We know what love is. We spent 40 years figuring it out”: Foreigner pitch to be Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding band
- September 4
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- “If you’re looking to turn your guitar or bass into a completely different instrument, there’s no better way to do it than this”: Boss VG-800 V-Guitar Processor review
- "These places are legendary”: Sam Fender’s arena tour raises over £100,000 for UK’s small venues
- “It just went off into the universe and it left us thinking, where did it go?” The hunt for Paul McCartney’s stolen Höfner bass was one of music’s biggest mysteries – and now they are making a documentary about it
- “He had this toy, but one day he came to work and told us that the toy had become a man”: How an advanced drum machine saved a difficult Steely Dan album
- WAVS launches "first-of-its-kind" AI-powered sample discovery tool, AI Sample Finder
- “I’ve always been a huge fan of relics. They look like they have a story to tell”: Charvel and Rick Graham team up for new Pro-Mod series signature model, featuring a distressed nitro finish in a cult classic Fender colour
- "It's a classic... one of the best rock songs ever”: Which 2013 track could Brian May be talking about?
- “An interesting and creative potential solution to the current crisis”: Collective of grassroots promoters announces new festival and organisation
- "I am burnt out by any and all connections to Marr, Rourke, Joyce”: Morrissey says he wants to sell his half of the Smiths’ business interests
- September 3
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- “Creating the tribute to Randy Rhoads with the polka dots back in 2009 was something special, so it’s nice to pay homage with this”: Jackson and Phil Demmel salute late Ozzy guitarist with limited edition Pro Series signature King V
- “AI helped me create something I couldn't before”: BTO Kid, who spent 4 months in a coma, hails the technology that enabled him to express emotion
- “I want the guitar to play fast… to communicate a degree of aggression and forward-thinking”: Sterling By Music Man unveils affordable version of Tosin Abasi’s groundbreaking EBMM Kaizen signature model – and yes, there's a 7-string
- Revealed! (Some of) the lyrics to REM's It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
- “I plugged my guitar in, and it was just like instant feedback”: John McLaughlin on how his jam with Jimi Hendrix ended in “disaster”
- “Who knows where this will all lead?”: Radiohead confirm five European residences for November and December
- Ever wanted to knock up an ambient pad on the bus? Good news – you can now access the full version of Ableton’s Drift synth in Note and Move
- “Some of this stuff is harder to get hold of than rare analogue synths”: Why we’re in the midst of a vintage software revival
- “Unlocking the impossible without compromising on creative control”: iZotope Ozone 12 adds new machine learning modules and a more musician-friendly AI assistant
- “Once you finish your arrangement, remove two elements from it. Be brutal”: Why imposing hard limitations could be the secret to finishing more music
- "Just clip on to a leaf and play": Instruo's Pocket Scion is a handheld biofeedback synthesizer that makes music from nature
- “The first run sold out quickly, leaving fans clamouring for another chance at those iconic tones”: Good news for Randy Rhoads fans – his MXR Distortion+ is back, and you have got to see its stunning special edition “Concorde” finish
- “My father always thought you were a ... Thanks for proving him right": Which rock legend has been on the other end of a tongue-lashing from Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack?
- “A pristine direct interface and a killer built-in headphone amp to make sure that what you’re sending to the PA or recording rig is exactly what you intend to”: Strymon unveils the PCH Active Direct Interface – the missing link for your amp-less rig?
- Streaming prices to rise 'every 12-24 months', predicts finance report, as global music revenue set to double to $200 billion in next decade
- September 2
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- "The ability to use official Boss stompbox recreations in our DAW is here - and with that comes flexibility in terms of how, and what instruments they're applied to": Boss Effects Pedals plugin review
- “It’s analogous to Napster, for those who remember that”: Brian Wampler says digital modelling and profiling tech is taking “a big chunk” of the pedal and tube amp market
- “I said, ‘Rick, you think we should take a break?’ And he goes, ‘Oh yeah, we got it on tape three hours ago – we just like hearing you guys play!’”: ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons describes Rick Rubin as a “peculiar” kind of producer
- “The hardest hitting synthesized drums ever put in a plugin”: Baby Audio’s new drum synth Tekno isn’t pulling its punches
- David Byrne has shared his actual wedding playlist, featuring “buoyant instrumentals... that folks can ignore"
- "This is every last plugin we've ever made": Purafied Audio puts $473 plugin bundle up for $2.38 in response to Guitar Center pricing error
- “I have guitars at my cheese shop. You can come in and trade guitars for cheese, or vice versa”: Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnel is open to swapping guitars for artisanal cheese – but here’s why you won’t sell him on amp modellers
- No cats were harmed in the making of Will Smith's AI controversy response
- “The most immersive, intuitive headphone amp on the market today”: Blackstar Amplification unveils the BEAM SOLO – has the Fender Mustang Micro Plus found a rival?
- Crazy Sheep? Anthrax become the latest victims of AI slop impostors
- "There is no one better to turn real humans on to new music than other real humans": Bandcamp launches subscribe-to-own music discovery service Clubs
- Stem separation! Splice integration! Ableton is playing catch-up with Live 12.3… but its best new features are the ones hidden beyond the headlines
- September 1
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- Murder investigation underway at Nevada’s Burning Man festival
- “That first record has a crazy amount of falsetto… definitely related to the drugs I was taking”: Damon Albarn lets slip secret about the debut Gorillaz album
- 5 creative ways to use distortion in Ableton Live: From punchier drums to dub techno delays
- “We went back to the castle, went down to the dungeon where we were set up, figured out what key we were gonna play in – and then Blackmore came up with that riff!”: Glenn Hughes recalls his magical time with Deep Purple in the ’70s
- “I haemorrhaged my vocal cords - they exploded... The doctor was like, ‘I’ve never seen a miracle like this’": Ava Max reveals how her vocal cords grew back – in a fortnight
- Sonicware’s retro Lofi-12 XT sampler’s v1.5 update makes it more creative and versatile than ever
- “I don’t know why I keep believing that I could keep a secret in Ireland”: Fatboy Slim secret gig cancelled after too many people find out about it
- Three of our highest-rated in-ear monitors just got a massive discount in the Thomann In-Ear Days sale - IEMs starting from just £91
- “The magic happens when you start adjusting its parameters, making every turn feel like a discovery”: The Doppler is a desktop FM synth designed for ‘ultra-tweakability’
- Scarlett 16i16 & 18i16: Powerful and portable interfaces with pro-grade sound and a bundle of creative tools