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How Flemming Rasmussen produced Metallica's Master Of Puppets
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How one Beatles track spawned a recording technique revolution
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Super-songwriter Diane Warren on why she prefers to work alone
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“He stopped writing because he just ran out. He'd used that guitar neck up”: Sammy Hagar on Eddie Van Halen's lost years
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"You'll make so much bad music, and that's great": Tourist's advice for aspiring producers
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"With her on it, it got 3 times better": Watch Billy Idol and Avril Lavigne perform their new single, 77
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![YouTuber Aaron Rash [left] wears grey and an Adidas beanie and checked trousers as he poses with his Veleno-clone aluminium guitar. On the right, Kurt Cobain performs in 1993 with Nirvana at their MTV Live and Loud show in Seattle.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aqcaqZZK7FsRFWvoMPzMF9.jpg)
Nirvana tone sleuth Aaron Rash solves the final part of the mystery – Kurt Cobain's In Utero guitar
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![YouTuber Aaron Rash [left] wears grey and an Adidas beanie and checked trousers as he poses with his Veleno-clone aluminium guitar. On the right, Kurt Cobain performs in 1993 with Nirvana at their MTV Live and Loud show in Seattle.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aqcaqZZK7FsRFWvoMPzMF9-800-80.jpg.webp)
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“He stopped writing because he just ran out. He'd used that guitar neck up”: Sammy Hagar on Eddie Van Halen's lost years
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“The stars aligned in the recording of that song”: The strange magic of the Spin Doctors’ ’90s mega hit Two Princes
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Who could fill Chris Cornell’s shoes?: “It’s a high bar, not just technically, but emotionally”
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How legendary producer Mutt Lange drove the Cars half-mad
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“Suddenly someone said: ‘Sting’s here on holiday! On the beach!’” How Mark Knopfler got lucky with Money For Nothing
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"The din was huge": Noel and Liam Gallagher perform behind closed doors for the first time in 16 years
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AC/DC - ranked! Every studio album, from worst to best
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Steven Wilson on the challenges and opportunities of mixing Pink Floyd At Pompeii
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"I was like, 'Wow'": Porter Robinson only recently discovered that Coldplay used to sound a bit like Radiohead
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Watch UK electronic artist Lawrence Hart build a track from scratch in his hardware-stuffed studio
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“Way beyond anything I could have hoped for”: Robert Smith announces new Cure remix album
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“I have an original 909 – every time I use it I feel like I’m ruining it”: Riva Starr's studio essentials
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Mustard will be headlining at Coachella tonight with a very exclusive Native Instruments Maschine MK3
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“Turns out they weigh more than I thought”: Mark Ronson injures himself trying to move a stage monitor
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“My love letter to a vanished era”: Mark Ronson’s new memoir lifts the lid on pre-Internet New York
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“I'm always starting sessions and not finishing them, I don't see that as unproductive”: Djrum talks creativity
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How a 6am WhatsApp from a rave icon provided the concept for Eats Everything’s genre-bending new album
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“I can’t remember the juicy bits”: Fatboy Slim teases new book that isn’t an autobiography
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"He made a few mistakes and has apologised”, says Pete Townshend as Zak's back in The Who
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“I needed to scratch an itch”: Mike Portnoy talks about his years away from Dream Theater
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“I’m surprised and saddened anyone would have an issue with my performance”: Zak Starkey on his Who sack
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Zak Starkey has been sacked from The Who
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Drum heroes: Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine, Neil Peart's "six favourite drummers"
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“Tonight is for Clem and it’s for friendship”: Sex Pistols dedicate Sydney show to Clem Burke
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“A few Burnage lads created something special”: Tony McCarroll's wistful message to his old Oasis bandmates
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“I had a blast. Thank you”: Beatles original drummer Pete Best retires, aged 83
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"I've analyzed hundreds of players over the years. They're all a part of what I do": Clem Burke's 10 essential drum albums
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Who could fill Chris Cornell’s shoes?: “It’s a high bar, not just technically, but emotionally”
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"The din was huge": Noel and Liam Gallagher perform behind closed doors for the first time in 16 years
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“91% believe dynamic pricing should be outlawed”: The Music Fans Voice survey has released its results
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“Nope, it’s real”: Jack Black and Keanu Reeves both confirmed for upcoming Weezer movie
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Carlos Santana cancels second show “out of an abundance of caution”
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“If it flops I feel like a failure”: 61% of DJs say their social media is more important than their skill
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Drunk on stage: Our pick of music’s most legendary under-the-influence performances
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“OMG the cops are shutting us down!”: Lorde’s impromptu New York park gig just got axed by police
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Deadmau5 gets drunk at Coachella, falls over, is escorted off stage by security, and apologises
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Nirvana tone sleuth Aaron Rash solves the final part of the mystery – Kurt Cobain's In Utero guitar
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“Such an emotive player... so cool": Finneas names his 5 favourite guitarists
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Devin Townsend is taking an indefinite break from touring but promises “dozens” of projects to come
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How legendary producer Mutt Lange drove the Cars half-mad
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Joe Bonamassa announces new album, Breakthrough – listen to the title-track now
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"There had to be some sort of telepathy going on”: The genius of Eric Clapton's controversial masterpiece, Layla
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Linkin Park reveal secret weapon behind their From Zero guitar tone
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Carlos Santana cancels second show “out of an abundance of caution”
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Blood Incantation on cosmic sounds, a near studio meltdown and the making of Absolute Elsewhere
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Ezra Collective’s Joe Armon-Jones on why he created his Aquarii Studios and his dub mixing technique
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Elton John tells audience at Devil Wears Prada premiere that he’s lost his sight
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Greg Phillinganes on the Michael Jackson song arrangement that Quincy Jones rejected
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Why Foreigner’s Al Greenwood said no to the Minimoog and bought a little-known synth instead
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ROLI unveils the Airwave, an expressive new way of learning and creating using its MPE instruments
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That’s incredible… that is nuts”: Tom Cruise gets a Royal Albert Hall organ lesson
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“I'm sorry to be the bringer of bad news to somebody who's against AI”: Jordan Rudess reckons AI is just misunderstood
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Greg Phillinganes explains how he shares the Clavinet parts with Stevie Wonder on Higher Ground
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Pianist Jesus Molina had never heard Prince’s 1999, so could he play along to it?
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How Flemming Rasmussen produced Metallica's Master Of Puppets
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"You'll make so much bad music, and that's great": Tourist's advice for aspiring producers
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Thomas Dolby tells us about pushing himself in the studio - and inspiring the next generation
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6 of the quirkiest producers who pushed recorded music further than ever before
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Trevor Horn finally dishes out his sampling and drum machine tips
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Roy Thomas Baker dead at 78: Tributes to the legendary producer of Queen, Alice Cooper, The Cars, The Darkness and more
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“Way beyond anything I could have hoped for”: Robert Smith announces new Cure remix album
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“I probably have that on more records than anything else”: Take a peek inside Vaughn Oliver’s studio
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"That's what it takes to make music that's gonna last forever": Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan producer Daniel Nigro on crafting timeless tracks
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"With her on it, it got 3 times better": Watch Billy Idol and Avril Lavigne perform their new single, 77
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“Such an emotive player... so cool": Finneas names his 5 favourite guitarists
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“If you’re a fascist, get a Tesla”: Neil Young debuts new song that takes aim at Elon Musk
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“The sound was going from all to nothing in milliseconds”: The classic hit that defined the sound of the ’80s
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Imogen Heap on Taylor Swift's "extremely efficient" songwriting and recording process
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How a happy synth accident inspired a US number 1 single for Terence Trent D’Arby
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“This was 100% a communication from the beyond": Sammy Hagar claims he wrote a new song with Eddie Van Halen in a dream
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"Thank God I was French and my voice was terrible": Air's Nicolas Godin reflects on the success of Moon Safari
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Robert Plant is selling gear for charity, including totally unique John Birch-modded ‘62 Stratocaster
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"At first the tension was unbelievable. Johnny was really cold, Dee Dee was OK but Joey was a sweetheart": The story of the Ramones' recording of Baby I Love You
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"Reggae is more freeform than the blues": Bob Marley and the Wailers' Catch a Fire, track-by-track
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“Part of a beautiful American tradition”: A music theory expert explains the country roots of Beyoncé’s Texas Hold ‘Em, and why it also owes a debt to the blues
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![Joe Bonamassa [left] plays his Epiphone 1955 Les Paul Standard and wears a bright blue suit and polka-dot; Sammy Hagar [right] wears shades, a black Cabo Wabo T-shirt and plays his red Gibson Explorer with white pickguard.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mJhoR4YDuLs9qkUkeyS3vK.jpg)
“The track is a monster!”: Joe Bonamassa and Sammy Hagar have got the Fortune Teller Blues
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A music professor breaks down the theory behind Prince's When Doves Cry
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Gwen Stefani on the No Doubt song that “changed everything” after it became their biggest hit
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“One of the few songs that reduces me to tears every time I hear it”
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New book Dust & Grooves Vol.2 tells the tall tale of the scam records that could make collectors a fortune
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![Session guitar ace Tim Pierce wears a ballcap and poses with a Powers Electric guitar [left]; a young Jon Bon Jovi rocks Super Rock 84 on Bon Jovi's first tour of Japan. His shirt is open. His hair is big. And he has a red Fender Stratocaster slung low by his hip.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hcRVrVWpPRxr5HrsXuDAxW.jpg)
Tim Pierce on why Jon Bon Jovi was destined for superstardom, and how he nailed his Runaway solo
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![Joe Bonamassa [left] plays his Epiphone 1955 Les Paul Standard and wears a bright blue suit and polka-dot; Sammy Hagar [right] wears shades, a black Cabo Wabo T-shirt and plays his red Gibson Explorer with white pickguard.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mJhoR4YDuLs9qkUkeyS3vK-800-80.jpg.webp)
![Session guitar ace Tim Pierce wears a ballcap and poses with a Powers Electric guitar [left]; a young Jon Bon Jovi rocks Super Rock 84 on Bon Jovi's first tour of Japan. His shirt is open. His hair is big. And he has a red Fender Stratocaster slung low by his hip.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hcRVrVWpPRxr5HrsXuDAxW-800-80.jpg.webp)