Latest articles by Daniel Griffiths
Madonna teams up with Deadpool & Wolverine filmmaker for a Netflix series based on her life
Netflix has put the Queen of Pop together with the Stranger Things producer and director, with Julia Garner rumoured to be starring
"All I wanted to do is hug him”: Someone just paid $12,495 to be Gene Simmons' roadie for a day
After dreaming up the ultimate fan experience and then cancelling 17 gigs, Simmons’ aborted tour finally got its first, paying member of staff
Want a gig at the Montreux Jazz Festival? Thomann and Shure want to gift you your big break
A fresh-for-2025 competition sees them parting with cash, prizes and a spot among the superstars on the festival’s famous stage
Chad Smith just destroyed the Wu-Tang Clan in his latest drum tuition video
Taking to the studio for Drumeo, Smith has just given an old favourite a through beating up
“We were like, ‘Oh, my God’”: Jill Sobule’s final song is entitled JD Vance Is A C__t
The social activist singer songwriter penned one last scathing future classic before tragically leaving us earlier this month
Metallica’s Enter Sandman triggers mini earthquake on its American Football ‘homecoming’
As the walk-out music for the local football team, Metallica nearly brought the house down when they played it for real
“Let’s see if we survive this one”: Is this really your last chance to see The Who?
The Who have just announced another ‘farewell’ tour. And all the signs are there that this one really will be their last
“Keep creating, pushing boundaries”: 12 pieces of Andy Weatherall’s studio gear are up for auction
Fans have the chance to obtain a little bit of history… And bag some highly desirable music gear in the process too
Motörhead’s Phil Campbell prepares to unveil an 8ft bronze of his bandmate, Lemmy Kilmister
This Friday's ceremony will reveal the statue and feature the delivery of a portion of Kilminster’s ashes into its plinth
“It replaced three plugins on my vocal bus - I love it!ˮ: Meet Velvet, iZotope’s new smart vocal smoothing tool
As part of the affordable Catalyst series, Velvet aims to zap the bugs in your most vexatious vocals
Arturia embraces NKS - and offers hardware owners free access to Native Instruments' Komplete 15 Select
Superbooth 25: With KeyLab mk3, KeyLab Essential mk3, and MiniLab soon able to browse NKS libraries, is the sound-tagging format now too big to fail?
Sugar Bytes' Dialekt is an 8-track groovebox that can create instant songs in a variety of genres
It's an all-in-one self-contained music making platform that can even make your music for you
52 years later, Queen have finally got their debut album right, says Roger Taylor
Despite already being ‘rebuilt’ only last year, Queen 1 is now getting a further full Dolby Atmos surround treatment too. So is this Queen 1.5?
The LIVE Trust charity just made its first £500,000 from voluntary ticket price contributions
The money will be used to fund grassroots music ventures all across the UK
“Then it’s how you smack it, or zing it or strum it”: Guitar legend Michael Thompson talks clean tone
In a new video Thompson tells the backstory of his playing for NSYNC, All-4-One, Monica, Gloria Estefan and more.
‘Artist centric’ music streamer Deezer just made €134 million in the first quarter of 2025
And with new sharing and customisation features they're tempting switchers to see the Deezer difference
“It's a very friendly community”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge reckons you've got metal all wrong
Heavy metal isn’t often perceived as being the most friendly musical genre, but the Ghost frontman disagrees
“The groove was so thick. It was unbelievable”: The making of Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love
We go deep behind the scenes with the team behind the hard-hitting global smash that turned around Palmer’s career
“I started to leave the recorder for a day or two…": Man spends an entire year recording a tree
Out now: The unmistakable sound of a single pine tree in upstate New York
Rafa Sardina on producing, mixing and engineering for the stars
“At the end of the day, people need to record an album," says the multi-Grammy winning legend. "And they'd rather call you than call somebody else"
Ozzy Osbourne just confirmed his attendance at his Back To The Beginning Black Sabbath mega gig
Dispelling doubts as to whether the Black Sabbath frontman would make his farewell gig, Osbourne is in fine form in a new interview
Bastl Instruments' Kastle 2 Wave Bard is a cute, patchable and experimental groovebox that fits in your pocket
Get hands-on and let the Wave Bard’s pattern-generating brain take the creative strain
Neuzeit Instruments drops Drop, a snapshot-based MIDI and CV controller that's designed for... drops
A master controller for all your live performance gear, Drop can schedule snapshot changes to trigger at the end of predetermined cycles, making it easy to perform dramatic build-ups and impactful transitions
