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- September 30
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- “These songs have meant so much to so many people for so many years, and I’m excited for audiences to come together and experience them live again”: Roger Waters celebrates his legacy with a ‘Pink Floyd Show’ performed by his son’s band
- Eric Clapton on why he has no regrets about auctioning off his iconic Blackie Strat and ’64 ES-335 TDC, even if it felt like a “big, big mistake” as it happened: “They are very sacred things to me, these guitars”
- Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis reveals why he turned down Nirvana: “I had just graduated to being able to stay in motels and not on floors, but they were still in the floor phase. I’m not going back to the floors”:
- Engram is a ‘generative audio sampler’ that applies circuit bending principles to AI audio models
- “If you listen to Help! by the Beatles, there’s nothing in pop music today that’s as strong as that and I’m not even a Beatles fan”: Robin Trower on recreating live magic in the studio and the creative power of great guitar tone
- "This is a dream inspiration engine": BT and Spitfire Audio team up for Phoenix hybrid synth
- “It’s a well-known fact that all animals react to music, especially gentle melodic music": If you go down to the woods today… you might hear a prog legend playing a piano recital in a bear sanctuary
- “Suddenly, guitar players all over the world were wearing out the record trying to figure out those parts and who was playing what”: Al Di Meola recalls his legendary collaboration with fellow virtuosos John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía
- "Sometimes an artist just needs to be in the studio making music": Meet Amuse – the artist-focused distributor and label service that works for creatives
- “Very much on his own and really on point”: Which guitarist and goth icon could Johnny Marr be talking about?
- “A control surface for practice”: Benjamin is designed to unlock the potential of YouTube music lessons by making sections easier to loop, navigate and play
- September 29
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- “Our singer played flute like Ian Anderson. He would blow fire out of his flute and he wore these see-through stretchy pants – with no underwear. It was really hard to watch!”: Guitar hero George Lynch on the highs and lows of his extraordinary career
- "I resent the way people talk about this technology as if it’s from the devil... The hypocrisy in the industry is insane": House legend Todd Edwards on how AI has transformed his approach to sampling
- “This could well be the amp simulator to rule them all”: Line 6 Helix Stadium Native review
- “My dear friends, the time has come to say farewell”: Rod Stewart announces details of what he says will be his “last” tour
- “I remember going in to do a session in the '90s, and they said, 'That's great, Steve. But could you play not so well?’”: Steve Stevens remembers having to tone down his chops during the grunge years
- “I was physically damaged beyond repair… I shut down, and my body just went, ‘You’ve had enough.'”: Larry Mullen Jr on his neck injury and how he felt “humiliated" watching U2 without him
- “Hits a real sweet spot for fun, casual and creative music making”: Korg Nu:Tekt NTS-4 review
- September 28
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- “At the bar, Janis sang the line a few times. It was like a sea shanty. Janis came up with words for the first verse. I was in charge of writing them on napkins with a ballpoint”: The classic song recorded by Janis Joplin just three days before she died
- This free multiband bitcrusher is a surgical tool for lo-fi sound design
- “We’ve lived with Songs in the Key of Life for 50 years, but there’s still more to hear”: Stevie Wonder surprise releases four previously unheard songs from his classic 1976 album
- “James and Lars moved their lives to be in a band with the guy before they even made a record!”: Ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted pays his respects to the late, great Cliff Burton
- “Nirvana continues to resonate so deeply because people are still hungry for authenticity. Kurt would have loved that legacy”: Krist Novoselic reunites with Dave Grohl at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards, as Madonna and Taylor Swift win big
- Fred Again slams AI music: "I've felt no pull whatsoever to even try it... the process is the magic"
- “I really cried with all that emotion to be honest – there were moments where the lack of hope and strength grabbed me – I had to take a break”: Petri Alanko on crafting the intense sonic universe of Control Resonant
- “Five prototypes before I got the body right. It had to look cool, play easy, feel comfortable, and most of all, sound good”: Olivia Rodrigo kicks off her Unraveled tour with a “one of one” heart-shaped guitar and a surprise solo
- "She’s not a great singer. She’s not a great songwriter. She’s not a great dancer. To me, Taylor Swift is the apotheosis of mediocrity": Why don't you tell us what you really think about the world's biggest pop star, Todd Rundgren?
- September 27
- September 26
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- How Arctic Monkeys created their biggest-ever single – inspired by R&B and hip-hop grooves: “I feel like that song was a ghost within the walls of this old guitar that I bought”
- "He’s the musical Jesus. It’s like when they describe the apostles hanging out with Jesus": Todd Edwards on his second coming with Daft Punk, stage fright and why house producers need to stop rehashing old ideas
- “We started singing with Cass and Denny, and my God, that was a complete revelation for us – when the four of us were singing John’s arrangements”: How The Mamas & The Papas created California Dreamin’, a counterculture anthem for the Summer Of Love
- September 25
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- “You just record ‘em. You don’t want to ‘grid’ the Rolling Stones, so the entirety of this album was made with no click tracks”: Andrew Watt says he kept thing loose when he produced the Stones, but also added a surprising plugin synth sub-bass
- “It blew me away so badly I remember thinking to myself, ‘Either I have to give up guitar playing or really take this a bit more seriously’”: Brian May says that hearing Jimi Hendrix made him question whether he should be a guitar player
- Want to sound like The Prodigy? Download this free pack of Prodigy-style samples
- What's The Frequency, Kenneth?: It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #23!
- “I'm not great at guitar. I was trying to play a chord and I played it wrong. I messed up where my fingers were, but it actually just sounded cool”: Olivia Rodrigo on how being a "novice" guitarist led to a happy accident when she was writing The Cure
- September 24
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- “I remember Eddie sitting at the piano late one night and playing me this beautiful thing. I wrote the lyrics on the spot. And we recorded it live with just Eddie and I”: How Sammy Hagar discovered a magical chemistry in Van Halen
- Mythic live 'Tiberi Tapes' recordings of John Coltrane to get official release: “My main purpose of recording him was to get information and harmonic values, so that I could be able to really play myself”
- Antares AutoTune Advanced makes the trade-off between pitch-perfect vocals and natural vibrato a thing of the past
- "Since 1997, the complaint about pitch correction has been the same: it takes the singer out of the singing. That's the problem DVA was built to solve": Antares launches AutoTune Advanced with new DVA vibrato engine
- “It sounds like a Les Paul. It can sound like a Strat. It can sound like a Tele”: Def Leppard’s Phil Collen on why you can play anything on his new signature Jackson – even those EBow tones from Hysteria
- “Even if you have a decent amp, there's enough variety and depth of effects in the Stage to justify integrating it into an existing rig”: Hotone Ampero II Stage review
- “Please remain vigilant”: Oasis warn against scammers in the forthcoming Live 27 ticketing bunfight
- Stuck in the 4-bar loop? Try Stencils, arrangement templates for Ableton Live based on tracks by Four Tet, Fred Again, Skrillex and more
- “If I could go back in time this would have been done very differently": Fender CEO admits regret over handling of S-style cease-and-desist campaign – but says it will "improve" guitar design
- “The first thing Ella said to me was, ‘You called it. You knew it was going to be a hit’”: How a Nashville session legend and a story about a pet kangaroo helped Ella Langley to create her record-breaking number one hit
- “Expands the range of your pedalboard – without changing what already works”: Boss unveils the EX-4 Effects Expander, a compact multi-fx powerhouse that's designed to maximise your pedalboard's potential
- Hayley Williams pays moving tribute to her ex, New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert: “His influence and attitude guided the genre forward. His passion for fostering the community was inspiring and sticks with me”
- Polyend Loop is part looper pedal, part drum machine and comes stocked with over 100 effects
- Michael Kiwanuka reveals that he’s had a stroke: “It's a long, tough journey ahead but I'm fighting to get better”
- September 23
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- “I have Mark’s actual last recordings – he was working on a cover of Madonna’s Material Girl”: Mark E Smith’s colleagues and partner wrangle over the "final” Fall album
- “I’m literally an international arms dealer and mercenary. All I do is warfare”: Dolly Parton’s estate and "killer" nephew in bitter fallout
- Native Instruments confirms “Maschine is alive and evolving” with first major update since InMusic acquisition
- “Curiosity is understandable. Bricked boxes, less so”: Elektron bans sharing of modified firmware on its community forums
- "Two great passions of mine”: Who knew classic Land Rover Defender paint jobs would look so good on John Mayer’s signature PRS Silver Sky?
- “An exceptional talent whose songs continue to be cherished by so many”: Amy Winehouse to be celebrated at special Back To Black anniversary gig and BBC programming
- “In the early days we were AC/DC’s fave band to go and see. Malcolm and Angus and particularly Bon all jammed with us back then”: Rose Tattoo singer Angry Anderson – Aussie rock ’n’ roll outlaw and a hero to Axl Rose – has died, aged 79
- “The label was like ‘We’re going to sue you because you’re not making music characteristic of Beck’”: Beck reflects on the behind-the-scenes consequences of genre-hopping
- “He's the riff lord - the one that has inspired me the most out of any guitar player”: James Hetfield hails Tony Iommi
- "Tosin! You really did this... I wanted one of these guitars so bad”: Tosin Abasi gifts Joe Satriani and Steve Vai a pair of Abasi Concepts 8-strings with one-off signature finishes
- Muse have had their social media handle taken by Mark Zuckerberg but Matt Bellamy seems chill about it: “He’s alright. He’s not too bad”
- “I have an actual Rhodes in the studio, but I used the little Yamaha CP on my desk – it’s right there, and it’s closer!”: Bonobo reveals why he chose a $499 Reface mini keyboard over a real electric piano for Me and You
- September 22
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- Has Fender finally solved the problem of single-coil hum with this “innovative breakthrough”?
- "She is so interested in really talking about the music that she makes, and how and why, and I found it very inspiring to hang out with her": Madonna and Charli XCX cement their friendship with a new collab single
- Harley Benton just factory modded its SC-550 Plus and sent it out with Fishman Fluence Classic humbuckers – active, multi-voiced, hum-free pro pickups in a sub-$500 guitar
- “I was like, are these guys just really dumb?”: Beabadoobee admits she thought This Is Spinal Tap was a real documentary when she first watched it
- "Some of the best quality effect algorithms I’ve ever laid ears on": Eventide H9 Harmonizer Gen 2 review
- “Suno’s v6 is not a fresh start; it is the fruit of the same poisoned tree”: Universal and Sony sue AI firm over continued copyright infringement in its new model
- “As soon as Freddie started singing, my three year-old was dancing around like a lunatic. I was like, ‘We're not going to have a problem here’”: We talk to the team behind a live gig-style presentation of one of Queen’s most extraordinary shows
- “John Lennon told me it was a great song. We took it off the worst album we ever made and turned it into one of the biggest hits we ever had”: Alice Cooper’s satirical ’70s hit – and his high times with Lennon, Keith Moon, Ringo Starr and Salvador Dali
- A criminal record: The man behind the UK’s biggest fake vinyl factory goes down for three and a half years
- Sound the Eric Clapton signature guitar klaxon! Epiphone to unveil replica of Slowhand’s 1964 ES-335TDC at Crossroads Guitar Festival – but you’ll have to wait before you can buy it
- One of our favourite synths of recent years now lets you upload your own sounds, as Arturia MiniFreak hits v5.0
- “Every time I do it I’m like, ‘Damn, I do like to listen to this song over and over and over again, and it's because I threw a random chord in the final chorus’”: Miley Cyrus on the bulletproof songwriting trick she learned from Max Martin
- “Primitive and somewhat unformed, but still instantly recognisable”: How some lost David Bowie songs were discovered in a Californian loft
- September 21
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- “I’d rather you didn’t listen to our music on there. Please don’t”: Electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso say they’ve returned to Spotify because they can’t afford not to
- “I have explored space. I have explored time. Now… I explore distortion”: Watch William Shatner cover Ace Of Spades at his metal band’s live debut
- Zplane's Timbre is a formant-shifting plugin with a few tricks up its sleeve
- “I thought: 'Come on, don't be ridiculous, of course it's not him. Chris Martin doesn't roam the streets of London'": A London busker just sang a duet with the Coldplay frontman without realising who he was
- “The most painful thing was having the sky painted, frame by frame, on my face”: We crack open Peter Gabriel’s signature hit
- “It will be on the obituary, won’t it? ‘He was found in a cheap hotel that was about to close down, and he had a cheap rate on the room.’ You don’t need that”: At 76, rock legend Carl Palmer reveals his hopes and fears for the future
- “It’s been a weird week. I just feel like it happened very quickly”: Ed Sheeran speaks about censorship and the Israel-Palestine conflict on stage in Philadelphia
- “A highly flexible compact mixer and USB interface that’s perfect for desktop recording and live performance”: Roland Go:Mixer Studio review
- Are you bored of the TR-808? Explore this treasure trove of free obscure drum machine samples
- September 20
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- September 18
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- Radio Head: Talking Heads reunite for their own pop-up shop radio channel in October
- First Grand Theft Auto VI soundtrack album artists and release date confirmed
- “I kept seeing him out of the corner of my eye”: Mastodon’s new album is inspired by departed guitarist Brent Hinds
- “It’s hard to argue with the amount of features on offer here for such an affordable price”: Millenium Drums MPS-350 E-Drum Set review
- “You don’t want to think about it. You don’t want to have it practiced. The whole idea is to not know what you’re doing”: Neil Young on the unconventional creative process at the heart of his 50th studio album
- “People will say they are really Phil Collins records. Fine. If that’s all they can hear, they’re not listening properly”: How Eric Clapton’s ‘80s reinvention peaked with Behind The Mask – a song written by Ryuichi Sakamoto and dumped by Michael Jackson
- “A great experience that exceeded all my expectations”: Johnny Marr’s guitar collection achieves over £3.6 million at auction
- Lunacy launches Nova platform with five free virtual instruments – but bigger things are on the way
- “Thom and Jonny used to write together a lot. So when we got to rehearsals, they had their parts worked out and I used to be like, ‘Where do I fit into this?’”: Ed O’Brien on shaping his Radiohead role
- Don't Wanna Miss A Thing? It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #22!
- Fancy opening for Ed Sheeran? Guitar Center is running a competition for that...
- September 17
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- “When I pressed ‘record’ the two of us breathed in, and then when I finished we breathed out. That’s what it felt like”: Johnny Marr recalls the intimate and magical experience of writing songs with Morrissey for The Smiths
- “When I heard Fred's voice for the first time, I thought, God, he'll never be a singer. He sounds like a strangled sheep”: Roger Taylor on what he thought when he first heard Freddie Mercury
- I’ve covered Guitar Center sales for years, and the freshly launched Guitar-A-Thon sale is a must-shop with reductions hitting up to 30% off
- "I'm cancelling my subscription": Suno users slam its V6 update as "muffled, generic, soulless garbage"
- Sonicware’s ELZ_1 core puts a powerful, multi-synthesis engine in a compact desktop box
- See iconic Jeff Beck, Mike Bloomfield and Jack White guitars up close
- “I lost my voice, had a nervous breakdown and disappeared for 10 years”: La Roux re-emerges from a long hibernation with a new album about a 'long and very painful breakup'
- “He told us how it would change the band’s trajectory, it could be an albatross around our necks – but we wanted a radio hit”: The Wonder Stuff tell us how they spawned an uplifting indie classic
- “Before Macklemore challenged me to match his donation, Ed called me and asked me to commit $2 million”: Robert Kraft says that Ed Sheeran has asked him to match his own donation to 'fight this humanitarian crisis'
- “Joan Jett has always played by her own rules, and that certainly applies to her guitar of choice”: Epiphone brings back the Joan Jett Olympic Special and gives the single-pickup powerhouse an all-new look
- “I’m 42 years old; I’ve only just realised you can change the tuning to make it easier to play stuff!”: When Death Cab for Cutie shared their guitar rig with us
- “One day Mike played a riff on the guitar, with an echo, and I suddenly sang, ‘She seems to have an invisible touch – yeah!’ It came into my head fully formed”: How Genesis created their biggest hit – with a writing process “like jazz”
- September 16
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- “We were with Rick Rubin, drinking vodka and grapefruit juice, and we wrote that song in about five minutes”: How the Beastie Boys created the most ironic party anthem of the ’80s
- "This is just the beginning": Nopia launches on Kickstarter and hits $1.4m in 24 hours
- Drake's “self-funded surreal” short film includes new country-inspired tracks
- Millenium Drum's new flagship MPS-1500 Hybrid-X electronic drum set will turn some heads
- How Pete Townshend, Carlos Santana and a miracle pawn shop find in the depths of winter made Joe Bonamassa fall in love with P-90s: “That’s what really got me into them, the way they clean up really well but they would roar”
- “I walked into the studio and she was sitting at the piano, playing the song we were going to cut that day. When you’re in a room with greatness like that, it’s hard not to be affected in a visceral way”: Steve Lukather hails the genius of Joni Mitchell
- Keith Richards, Travis Scott, PinkPantheress and more tease their inclusion on the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI soundtrack: “My Return To Game Gotta Come With Rage”
- Have Gibson and Baggs cracked the code for amplified acoustic guitar tone? Their new HiFi DNA pickup system promises “unprecedented realism, dynamic nuance, and clarity”
- Brian May on why he’s changed his mind on AI: “We have to resist. We have to control it very, very seriously and very quickly"
- “He said, ‘Maybe you could build German gothic cathedral architecture out of guitar.’ And I just kind of went, ‘Okay…’”: The odd ways that David Bowie expressed musical ideas to his players
- All Ed Sheeran's support acts, including Finneas, plus backing band, quit tour in solidarity with Macklemore: “Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed”
- “Equal parts smooth operator and agent of chaos”: Electro-Harmonix and Adrian Belew resurrect the cult classic Echoflanger – an analogue modulation pedal for the tonally adventurous
- “With tracks over 10 minutes… forget about it – nothing's going to happen on streaming services”: Can ambient music survive the era of the one-minute song?
- Universal Audio launches major update to the free Luna DAW that the company is calling its “biggest software release to date”
- “You wouldn’t have expected me to state Blur and Radiohead as influences. But I get bored and I sit around and play along to songs that I like”: Slipknot’s Jim Root on his unlikely guitar inspirations
- September 15
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- IK Multimedia launches flagship amp and effects modeller that lets you run four Tone Models simultaneously: “The complete Tonex rig on a single pedalboard”
- “I was listening to a lot of the ‘80s stuff. Born In The USA, Bryan Adams, Def Leppard, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Cure and The Smiths... These people were crucial to me”: Brian Fallon on how ‘80s rock lit the fuse for his star-studded solo album
- “It is in fact me who, like many other people, is living with cancer. We completely understand how the misunderstanding arose”: Gillian Gilbert reveals it’s her who is seriously ill, not Stephen Morris
- “It wouldn't be a young generation, but I do believe that there are ways to do a new Big Four”: So who would be in Dave Mustaine’s new big four of thrash metal?
- “It nearly didn’t happen. After I wrote the song, me and Diplo had a massive fight and I threw the hard drive at his head from the top floor”: How M.I.A. and producer Diplo broke the rules – and channelled Pink Floyd – on her mega hit Paper Planes
- “No one is quite sure how the acid got inside the synth”: Can using psychedelics make you a better musician or producer?
- “I asked him ‘Can you play this lick on the sitar? And it took him 20 minutes or half an hour to get the lick down”: Hear an early version of The Beatles’ Norwegian Wood with an unfamiliar arrangement
- “By the end, you go ‘Oh my god, I love this guy’”: We speak to director Garth Jennings about capturing Pulp’s remarkable return in a new film
- “I reached out to Biggie. He came through. He sat in the studio and vibed, no paper, just listening to the music and rapping off the top of his head”: Jay-Z recalls his early days with The Notorious B.I.G. and the fatal beef between Biggie and Tupac
- “His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before”: Macklemore blames stadium owner, not Sheeran, for kicking him off tour
- “It’s the first long-form video - I can’t think of a band that would let their lead guitarist fall flat on his face in the opening scene”: Giles Martin on the enduring importance of The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night
- "Engineers no longer need to lock themselves into proprietary plugin ecosystems": Audient launches Horizon, a new line of Thunderbolt interfaces with sub-millisecond latency and no onboard DSP
- “It was an absolute balls-up fiasco. It almost ruined me”: Hans Zimmer, Dr Who and the worst charity record of all time
- "He didn't tap a foot or move his head or anything. He listened to it all the way through and I thought he hated it": When an Eagle, Heartbreaker, Roger Linn and an Oberheim OB-X combined forces for a pop masterpiece – the Boys Of Summer story
- September 14
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- “Come witness the fitness. It shall be a sight to behold”: Oasis confirm live dates for next year
- "Superb playability, a versatile sound set, and pretty unbeatable value": Shergold Telstar Standard ST14 12-String review
- “Addiction is a disease and it's terrifying... my family and my future had to come first": Elbow drummer Richard Jupp on why he walked away for a life of sobriety
- “My message is for peace; love for all human beings to be treated with dignity, respect, and equality”: Pink, Joe Bonamassa and Foo Fighters are all drawn into kerfuffle over Macklemore’s pro-Palestine speech
- “It’s the only guitar that I’ve ever had stolen, and the neck was like a ’50s Les Paul. It was amazing”: Noel Gallagher and Johnny Marr have a theory about Stratocasters – and one legendary Strat in common
- “Meatloaf dippers, oh so light and yummy/Go on and warm your tummy, with dippers”: Bon Iver has written an ad jingle so catchy it will drive you mad
- “He spent all day programming a backing track then ripped the power cable out with his bloody foot and lost all the drum programming”: The New Order classic “stolen” from a Donna Summer B-side
- “He was very keen and a bit too excited... I didn't like the idea of: 'Now here’s another album'": Tony Iommi on why he turned down the opportunity of one final Sabbath album with original line-up
- Could a Queen avatar show actually happen?
- September 12
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- “I don't think most people realise the song was aimed at parents who drank and told their kids not to do drugs”: How Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane went down the rabbit hole and created a psychedelic classic
- “He was for me what Elvis probably was for most other people. His style on every level was fantastic. Doing all the things we would later come to associate with Jimi Hendrix”: Buddy Guy at 90 – how the world’s greatest living bluesman transformed guitar
- September 11
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- “Everyone was as baffled as I was. I remember the president of my record label doing a toast, saying that he had no idea why it worked but he was happy it did”: Beck admits that he was as surprised as anyone by his ‘90s breakthrough
- Lil Wayne steps into Fortnite tomorrow with new bundle of accessories
- “I said to Ozzy, ‘I don’t think we should do it. We should just let the other bands play our stuff, and us come out at the end and say thank you’”: Tony Iommi says that Black Sabbath’s final show almost didn’t happen
- “It was low-effort TikTok posts that were used to boost the algorithm”: Geese had their own doubts about how ‘real’ their fans actually were
- Acon Digital’s machine learning-powered Acoustica 8 audio editor is the company’s “most ambitious release to date”
- Arturia’s Audiofuse Studio Rev 2 aims to be a desktop interface for all occasions
- “Paul might have been miffed, but I think he was more upset about not singing on the choruses – John did his own backing vocals”: How The Beatles managed to come together one final time and create one of their funkiest grooves
- Learn from a techno legend: Kevin Saunderson to give a Roland 909 workshop live from Detroit tomorrow
- Ready or not, here I come: It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #21!
- “The lights were already out in the studio. We were all ready to leave. Some people had their jackets on”: How Queens Of The Stone Age found their album centrepiece at 2am, a “little drunk” and ready to go home
- Gretsch’s play for hard-riffing rock players continues with an “exotic” limited edition black limba makeover for the Jet and CVT – and it’s just $749
- "I wrote it totally in my head. I worked on it for about three months in my head": 11 saxophonists, 4 re-recordings and a £17,000 haircut… The tortuous tale of George Michael's Careless Whisper
- September 10
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- “The doctors told me that my job, which is playing rock and roll music very loud, was giving me something like a concussion every time I did a show”: Billy Joel confirms that he’s had surgery after being told that performing live was damaging his brain
- “It’s possible to bash out tunes with a single outstretched index finger but you’ll never amount to any kind of player if you keep that up”: Learn how to play a piano with both hands
- “Prince is singing the words that came to me last night like they came to him. Word for word. Stevie Wonder’s beatboxing and Prince is singing this song. I think I just had my mouth open": Jill Scott had the "best night of my life" with two music legends
- “Brandon played that riff on the synth… Then we started working on a structure. I was like, ‘What? That’s insane! That’s not real song structure.’ He was like, ‘Yes it is’”: How Brian Fallon and Brandon Flowers wrote a song with no chorus
- “Plug in, pick up the bass and experience the gear that created Motörheads unmistakable sound”: Punk Rock Museum to host a special Motörhead exhibition with interactive element
- Serato’s latest update introduces open streaming and ‘Lucid Beatgrids’ that can adapt to BPM changes
- September 9
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- "It’s hard to deny it’s impressive what Positive Grid has packed into this tiny floor unit, but it can feel a little overstuffed at times": Positive Grid Spark Pedal review
- Soundcraft's Signature Plus mixers pack Lexicon effects and dbx compression into an analogue console from $799
- Outbox 8 can add multiple audio and CV outputs to your favourite Elektron groovebox – or any other class-compliant hardware
- The best value guitars in the world just got even cheaper thanks to up to 60% off Harley Benton in the Thomann Guitar Days sale
- “Please don’t be offended if I say no”: Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker says he won’t be signing autographs or meeting fans from now on
- “I thought Axl’s snake dancing wasn’t rock and roll, so I actually told the editor to cut all of that stuff out! Then I heard someone say, ‘Oh my god, that’s so sexy!’": One of Axl Rose's signature moves was almost cut from the Sweet Child O' Mine video
- Positive Grid brings its smart amp experience to your ‘board with the Spark Pedal: “Bring the tone and power of Spark amps to live performances, rehearsals, home practice and recording sessions”
- “I believe she was in love with Paul first. But Yoko’s still alive, so I’ll say no more”: At 90, Hunter Davies still has a few Beatles secrets up his sleeve
- “There was a palpable tension. We knew we had these historically volatile characters, so you ask yourself, ‘Are they going to fight – or hug each other?’”: Don’t Look Back In Anger directors reveal how they captured first Oasis rehearsal for 16 years
- Is Cliff Richard cool now? Peter Pan of Pop follows Devil Woman's GTA VI splash with Harry Styles cover
- “Ozzy and I were in a bathroom peeing together, and he said to me, ‘You still got that guy George in your band? That guy’s crazier than I am!’”: ’80s rocker Don Dokken looks back on his turbulent relationship with guitar hero George Lynch
- Suno has rebuilt its AI music models from scratch with licensed music
- September 8
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- “Asteroid 52665 Brianmay, meet Asteroid 31556 Shatner”: fOXX Phaser set to stun! Queen’s Brian May signs up for William Shatner’s all-star metal enterprise
- “Are you going to post the clip of him messing up?”: Does this viral video really show Angus Young 'forgetting' a classic AC/DC guitar solo, or did he actually nail it?
- Denon’s Prime 4 G2 is a uniquely expressive DJ setup that borrows a few tricks from Akai’s MPC range
- “The guy who delivered it ran over it on the way out of the driveway... it didn’t break or anything!”: QOTSA's Troy Van Leeuwen on his Squier Telecaster XII’s Custom Shop origins – and when he learned it was going to be (literally) roadworthy
- “He put the tape on and says ‘Who engineered this!?’ Everything is recorded way too loud.’ We said ‘We did! That’s the way Prince records’”: Janet Jackson is celebrating 40 years of Control, but Jam and Lewis made a rookie mistake when they produced it
- Universal Audio's Topline Vocal Tune is now available for Apollo and UAD hardware
- “He helped define the format with landmark videos and live concert recordings”: Billy Joel announces death of bandmate and collaborator
- “I always wanted to write with Bob Dylan. A crazy idea. Why would he pay attention to a peanut like me?”: Gene Simmons recalls how he ended up writing a song with Dylan – and names the one Kiss song he is most proud of
- “I hate it, and I wrote it – this was the only time we HAD to turn out a single whether we wanted to or not”: How this chart-angled Depeche Mode cut signalled the band’s innovative future
- “He turns up 20 minutes before the gig - ‘Alright, what’s the catering like?’”: Liam Gallagher missed the final rehearsal before opening night of the Oasis reunion tour
- September 7
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- “Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the participant’s family, friends, campmates”: Two men reported to have died during Burning Man 2026
- “You have to respect the groove, and there’s certain musicians that understand that and there’s certain ones who don’t”: Greg Phillinganes has some urgent advice for you as he reveals what Quincy Jones told him when they were in the studio together
- “The very day when I'm supposed to go into the studio to record this song, I hear that he's passed away. Immediately I thought, ‘This song has to be a memorial for Steve’”: Brian May on his heartfelt tribute to Steve Cropper
- “We could do more to realise the full potential of talented creators”: Arts Council England launches fund for up-and-coming musicians and artists
- “Show more compassion and wisdom as we move forward in life. Use my sister’s life as an example for tolerance and respect to towards others”: Stella Parton urges people to stop creating AI and “endless garbage” about her late sister
- “A dude with an enormous heart that could always put a smile on my face. Rest in peace brother”: Rocker and wrestler Andy ‘The Butcher’ Williams dies after bout in Pennsylvania
- September 6
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- “I said, ‘This guy has had 18 top 10 singles. He’s a great writer.’ But there was something not quite there”: Drumming legend Carl Palmer recalls how an eccentric pop star almost ended up singing for ’80s rock supergroup Asia
- “In the past, what I do would not have been considered production - it would have been considered noise”: When a young Skrillex explained how he made his early dubstep bangers
- September 5
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- “Somebody threw a live chicken on stage, and I threw it back, thinking it would fly. It didn’t, and the audience tore it pieces!”: Alice Cooper’s crazy early years – and the hit song that Gene Simmons described as “a sucker punch in the kidneys”
- “Forget Interstellar, if you want to know what being sucked into a black hole might sound like, this is the pedal for you”: Walrus Audio Lüm Texture Engine review
- “I have them because they sound so bad – if it sounds good on them, then it’ll sound good anywhere”: Erol Alkan on the gear that he trusts above all else
- September 4
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- “We did a rehearsal recently, and Zak was the drummer”: Roger Daltrey says that The Who could readmit Zak Starkey for gigs next year
- “Its build quality is miles ahead of any other new instrument at this price”: Harley Benton JB-62HA review
- “We understand not everyone will agree on every decision made regarding Prince music”: Prince’s estate clarifies that a newly-released song does feature overdubs, as fans complain of a lack of transparency
- “This is before tape. We’d record our harmonies and then put another layer on top. We were very young, but learning to produce”: Art Garfunkel remembers how he and Paul Simon started their recording career
- Stella Lefty faces third accusation of plagiarism on a Long Way Home album track
- "I was with Eric Clapton and said, ‘Why don’t you come to the studio and play on this song?’ He said, ‘Oh, no – I can’t do that. Nobody’s ever played on a Beatles’ record": The music theory behind The Beatles' While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- This free Casio SK-1 sample pack will remind you why everybody loves this miniature lo-fi legend
- "I was like, ‘I think just no drums.’ And they're like, ‘What if it's electric guitar and dubstep? We're not putting a piano in this'”: How Max Martin and Shellback casually informed Taylor Swift that they were going to turn her ballad into a banger
- “At The Troubadour, she broke the seal on this brand new tune. And I was sure I knew the song already because it was such a classic immediately”: The iconic Carole King song that she believed was heaven-sent – and how James Taylor took it to No 1
- “I spoke to him the night before he passed. He said to me, 'I really feel tired and really worn out’”: Tony Iommi on dealing with his grief for Ozzy, and his new solo album
- Back to school: It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #20!
- Laney welcomes all instruments to the party with refreshed Audiohub lineup – feature-packed combos for guitars, bass, keys and more
- “Everybody knows the song, but it’s not like one of the Beatles songs that gets played all the time – It was a little more off the radar”: Bryan Adams on the key songs that defined his youth
- Audacity enters a “new era” with the biggest update in the free and open-source audio editor’s 26-year history
- September 3
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- “Oh, and did we mention it’s a 7-string?”: Ibanez just fully weaponised the Iceman for metal and refreshed a whole bunch of its flagship signature models for Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and more
- Tone3000 has launched a free open-source plugin that puts hundreds of thousands of NAM A2 device captures at your fingertips
- Arise, Sir AVH: Alex Van Halen knighted in the Netherlands for his part in writing a “remarkable chapter in the history of rock music”
- “The drum parts are so iconic and… straight-faced. He was a stone-cold assassin!”: The first Neil Peart documentary trailer is out
- Olivia Rodrigo reveals the trick that producer Dan Nigro uses to get a better vocal take from her: “When I'm not giving an emotional enough performance, he will actually just set up the camera on his phone and film me, and I'll always do a better job”
- Guitar Center's Labor Day sale offers rare savings on exclusive gear with up to 30% off studio monitors, digital pianos, electronic drum kits, guitars, and more
- “No editorializing. Straight from the man’s mouth to mine”: David Byrne’s Elon Musk song is comprised entirely of the tycoon's quotes
- “The Faith guitar is the jewel in the crown”: George Michael’s ‘Faith’ guitar heads to auction – and you won’t find a 1940s Gretsch with more ‘80s mojo than this
- “My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything”: As she enters a new era by dropping the Cyrus name and rocking out in a white jumpsuit with a black Fender Strat, here’s what Miley has said about playing guitar
- “Her Mississippi heritage was always present in everything no matter how expansive her artistry evolved”: Blues jazz singer Cassandra Wilson has died, aged 70
- “I got over the fact that I was lumbered with the bass – I realised the control you had over the band. They can’t go anywhere, man. Ha! Power!”: Revisiting a classic Paul McCartney interview from our archive
- “She will not agree to work with an incompetent blackmailer for the next 15 years or pay her a ransom under the gun”: Alanis Morissette to sue “terrible” ex-tour manager
- “We were talking about Lana Del Rey the other day”: Dani Filth tells us about his dream collaborators, Cradle of Filth’s reliance on Dropbox and his surprisingly stripped-back home studio
- September 2
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- “We’ve been planning this since 1973, just unconsciously”: Joe Satriani and Steve Vai officially announce release of their first-ever studio album together – and there's a new single to check out too
- “When you're away from your main rig, it more than fills a void.”: Donner Hush X Pro review
- Gibson has just made a forensic Custom Shop replica of Billy Gibbons’ Pearly Gates Les Paul – and if you buy one you’ll be treated to an exclusive performance from the ZZ Top frontman
- Reason Free puts 15 classic Reason devices in one free plugin that you can use in your existing DAW
- “Reflects her lifelong love for vintage snares”: Anika Nilles and TAMA collaborate on a signature snare
- “Eddie would say, ‘Can you hit this note?’ I’d hit it and everybody would go, ‘Wow!’ And from there I could just see Eddie opening up as a musician and a songwriter”: Sammy Hagar recalls the making of Van Halen’s classic album 5150
- The 13-note Orphea is the one-octave mini keyboard and MIDI controller that you can fit in the palm of your hand
- “I don’t feel like we were trying to do a new Cream”: Legendary guitarist Robin Trower on the ’80s supergroup he created with Jack Bruce
- “Many people would love to make music, they just need an invitation”: Learn to Play, Britain’s biggest music-making weekend returns in October
- “I am still in a bit of disbelief that it happened”: Olivia Rodrigo reflects on the success of her Daisy Chain Fields fest, which saw her duet with Stevie Nicks and Alanis Morissette
- How to tune a piano: “Even the most experienced professionals, with the best ears, can spend many hours achieving the perfect tuning”
- One of my top-rated guitar practice tools just dropped to $99 - save nearly 40% on the Positive Grid Spark Neo Core
- “I was jamming and I heard 'Bam!' – I looked at the stage and there was an open Buck knife sticking in the screen of my cabinet”: Slipknot and Korn on the perils of life on the road
- September 1
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- “His effects are bonkers in the best way possible”: The pedal with the onboard amp, speaker and microphone, Gibson baritones, the Fender Custom Shop George Harrison Bass VI and more – this is MusicRadar's guitar gear roundup, the August 2026 edit
- "He said it himself in the letter to me – that there are only so many notes on the piano – and that's why I was annoyed. I was like, ‘You get it, so why is this happening?’”: Sam Smith reflects on their 2015 songwriting dispute with Tom Petty
- Does your digital piano have Wi-Fi? Roland's new FP-40 does, along with upgraded speakers and its latest Piano Reality engine
- “We’d made this record that was so far to the left of Rumours. And when it didn’t sell 16 million copies, that was hard. There was a lot of anxiety”: Lindsey Buckingham on the highs and lows of life with Fleetwood Mac
- “I thought it was a terrible name. But Brian was my friend. I’d just met Freddie”: How Queen almost became Build Your Own Boat
- “When I congratulated Amy, she said to me, ‘I knew what I was doing’”: Amy Winehouse “knew exactly what she had created” with Back to Black, says her former bass player and musical director
- “I've got somewhere between 80 and 90 guitars and I'd say 75 percent of them are Les Pauls. It seems ridiculous - but they all have a unique purpose”: Slash on his enduring devotion to the Gibson Les Paul
- Friedman Amplification's Jose 20 series pays tribute to the legendary amp guru whose hotrodded designs shaped Metallica and Mötley Crüe tones: “Jose Arredondo’s groundbreaking amplifier modifications helped define the sound of high-gain rock”
- “Had he decided to never write the book, he would not, probably, have ever been prosecuted”: Duane Keith Davis found guilty of murder of Tupac Shakur