Latest articles by Will Groves
Women in the music industry have had "their lives ruined and their careers destroyed by men who have never faced the consequences for their actions" finds scathing report
Misogyny is "endemic" and "the tip of the iceberg"
"A way of harnessing the brain’s agility and resilience": New study links playing an instrument to better memory in older age
Music making shown to boost executive function
"Music time's over": The sad story of the 145-year-old Martin acoustic that Kurt Russell destroyed on Quentin Tarantino's orders
NAMM 2024: On display for the first time, this sad pile of wood was a historic 1870s parlor on loan from the Martin Guitar Museum
"He's not a great keyboard player, he doesn't write great songs. His engineering and technical abilities are limited too. In fact, he knows very little about an awful lot": The Edge on Brian Eno and how he influenced his own "limited" guitar style
Classic interview: U2 guitarist reflects on the making of The Unforgettable Fire in 1985 interview
NAMM 2024: "Practice anytime and anywhere" with Vox's amPlug 3 range of 7 classic bass and guitar amp-cloning headphone amps
"Reinvented" range aims for classic AC30 sounds, boutique vibes, versatile bass tones and more
NAMM 2024: "The perfect practice partner"? Korg's cute new KR-11 drum machine's mission is to make beats for players, with minimum fuss
Battery-powered beat machine looks a lot of fun
"I developed an AI clone of my own musical brain," claims techno star Reinier Zonneveld
Dutch star's B2B DJ buddy is apparently "able to play together with me and create music on the spot"
"Rather naively, we thought we'd write a song that could be played by machines and all we'd have to do was press the button": The real reason New Order made Blue Monday, and the gear that powers it
The birth of a landmark track. Plus, learn how to recreate that famous Moog bassline
"A trailblazer, spirited, adventurous, fearless, hilarious, smart": Annie Nightingale, influential DJ, dies aged 83
Tributes pour in for first female Radio 1 presenter
"We want to empower people to regain control": New AI-powered app promises to alleviate tinnitus suffering
Mindear combines sound treatment with chatbot-guided cognitive behavioural therapy
Del Palmer, Kate Bush's bassist, engineer and long-time collaborator dies, aged 71
Palmer contributed to every Kate Bush album between 1978 and 2011
Pete Townshend talks Clapton and more: "I remember Leslie West saying to me, ‘I prefer your licks to Eric’s. He seems to be playing things that he’s learned, that he’s picked up from other blues players’"
Who legend goes on record in extensive magazine interview
Slipknot sued for “callously” profiting from Joey Jordison’s death by drummer’s estate
Lawsuit alleges band used former drummer's belongings for profit and promotion
Hear the first known recording of Eddie Van Halen playing Jump's iconic, band-breaking synth part: "If I want to play Bavarian cheese whistle, I will do it"
Best of 2023: "This is something I did last night"
Eddie Van Halen on how he discovered tapping watching Led Zep: "I never claimed that I invented it! But I do know how and when I figured out how to do it..."
Best of 2023: "I never really heard anybody do with it what I did, which is actual pieces of music"
"Hell, let’s do it": John Lennon wrote and recorded Instant Karma in one day. Here's how it happened
Remembering Lennon: "It was like all hell breaking loose. Tape machines, tape loops, tape delays, echo chambers, you name it!"
Meet XLN Audio's AI-powered "happy accident machine": Life is a potentially highly addictive field recorder and plugin that makes instant beats from found sounds
Plugin/mobile combo takes any sound and turns it into music
RØDE acquires rival Mackie to create audio powerhouse: "Their origin story is uncannily similar to ours"
Firms join forces under the Freedman Group umbrella, with "big announcements" promised ahead of NAMM '24
Avid has extended its Pro Tools, Sibelius and Media Composer reductions to Cyber Monday and beyond: you've now got till 4 December to save 20% on subs across their industry-standard range
Big savings on flagship DAW, market-leading notation software and more
Is this the Black Friday percussion pad deal that makes you upgrade or take the plunge? Save $300/£340 on Roland's powerful SPD-SX Pro
Best-in-class module going for a song right now
"Now you have the sound of a band in a room. Four men in their early 20s hitting the shit out of stuff": Giles Martin on the separated and remixed Beatles Red and Blue albums
"You hear the crack of the snare. Ringo suddenly has a kick drum.”
Tony Visconti likes The Beatles' final 'likable' single, but says "I think the string writing is boring... I should have written the arrangement for this. Paul used me for Band on the Run because he liked the string arrangements I wrote for T.Rex"
Fabulously grumpy super-producer is on a troll and rails against missing T.Rex credits
Paul McCartney says Yoko Ono being in the studio with The Beatles was "disturbing": "I don’t think any of us particularly liked it"
“It was an interference in the workplace. We had a way we worked"
