Latest articles by Daniel Griffiths
“Art creation always starts with a prompt, a seed”: Rick Rubin is now an AI 'vibe coder'
The legendary producer of music from The Beastie Boys to Slipknot to Adele to everyone in between just went off at a tangent…
“If you’re a bass player you are by definition a moron”: Frank Zappa’s bassist, Scott Thunes speaks out
The bass enigma delivers the inside track on Zappa’s genius and why bass players need to know their place
Saint Etienne announce final album and release new single co-produced by The Chemical Brothers
The much-loved British musical institution aim to “go out with a bang”
Could Taylor Swift finally be about to take ownership of her master recordings?
Her back catalogue famously fell into ‘enemy’ hands. Now it’s claimed that the man that ‘took’ it wants her to have it back…
Scientists just made guinea pigs listen to Adele for seven days… and the results are both surprising and worrying
The rodents were subjected to I Miss You in compressed and uncompressed form. Here’s what happened…
"A jaunt behind the curtain…": Gorillaz celebrate 25 years with an exhibition and four "one off" gigs
Fans attending the band’s exhibition will get the chance to buy tickets to a limited run of new live shows
“Too risky at the moment”: A Springsteen covers band has been advised not to play in his hometown
Springsteen’s anti-Trump comments while on European tour got a US venue so rattled they cancelled a coverband’s gig
“I'm sure you all agree, I'm hardly Bob Dylan”: Charli xcx is the Ivor Novello Songwriter of the Year
Other winners at last night's event included U2, Robbie Williams, Brandon Flowers, Berwyn and Self Esteem
“Proving we know music best”: Did Spotify really just pick this summer's hottest 30 tracks?
Mixing social science with some good old fashioned good taste, Spotify reckons it can predict the future
"We did one take of him singing Lava Chicken Shack": Jack Black’s Minecraft hit took 34 seconds to make
A new Apple Music video goes behind the scenes on Black’s musical contribution to the surprise hit of the year
Foreigner lead singer Kelly Hansen just announced his departure from the band on live TV
We're used to band line-up changes, but we've never seen anything quite like this
Marshall’s Heston 120 promises to bring "rock 'n' roll flair to the world of soundbars"
It’s so retro that The Darkness have been resurrected to help roll it out
Welcome to the bungle… Watch Axl Rose take umbrage when GNR's new drummer plays the wrong song
Just two gigs into a World Tour things didn't go to plan for new sticksmith, Issac Carpenter
“We tried it as a laugh and now it’s our standard setup”: The secret sauce behind Sleep Token’s live drum sound
Because delivering drums for one of rock’s hottest acts requires the breaking of more than a few rules
“Metronome-like precision deemed "soulless"”: Josh Freese delivers 10 reasons for Foo Fighters sacking
Big names from Stewart Copeland to Michael Buble have all waded in to offer Freese their support
Cologne venue Essigfabrik just had its soundsystem stolen in a “Hollywood-worthy” robbery
Welcome to the world's quietest nightclub. Essigfabrik's €100,000 speakers just vanished into thin air
“Mayer on guitar, Grohl on drums…": Ed Sheeran just revealed his multi-star pile-on for the F1 movie
Sheeran joins John Mayer and Dave Grohl on Drive – a song that’s part of the soundtrack for this summer’s fastest movie
It’s Britney, Twitch… 25 years after Oops I Did It Again Twitch is serving up 12hrs of non-stop Spears
Celebrating the album's 25th anniversary, Twitch has commissioned top DJs to perform exclusive 12-hour live mixes of Spears’ classic
From bedroom to billions… Rich List 2025 reveals the wealth and rankings of the UK’s biggest music stars
Who’s going up and who’s going down on the chart that every music star wants to be part of?
“Next time don’t bring a wet sponge to a tech fight”: deadmau5 just beat down DJ James Hype by beating Elden Ring with a Pioneer CDJ-3000
By personally calling out the producer’s “not live” comments Hype has put the ‘Mau5 machine on the warpath
PinkPantheress has sampled the cream of '90s and '00s UK electronic music on new mixtape, Fancy That
It's short on length, but heavy on influences
"Crafted from Heritage. Tuned for Tomorrow": Zultan Cymbals celebrate their 25th birthday with a new high-end 25 series
With 16-hand hammered cymbals across the range, there’s something for every sound and style
Tempo shifts, key changes and nonsense lyrics: Is Eurovision 2025 set to be the most musically weird competition in its history?
Europe’s songwriters and producers have upped their game with more unexpected ear-catching song switch-arounds than ever before
