Will Groves
I'm lucky enough to be MusicRadar's Editor-in-chief while being, by some considerable distance, the least proficient musician on the editorial team. An undeniably ropey but occasionally enthusiastic drummer, I've worked on the world's greatest music making website in one capacity or another since its launch in 2007. I hope you enjoy the site - we do.
Latest articles by Will Groves

"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
By Will Groves published
"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"
By Will Groves published
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"
By Will Groves published
“It was an interference in the workplace. We had a way we worked"

"It was like someone kissing your girlfriend - it felt invasive": Trent Reznor on first hearing Johnny Cash's Hurt
By Will Groves published
Plus, Rick Rubin on how Cash "looked at me like I was insane" Remembering The Man In Black's stunning Nine Inch Nails cover 20 years to the day after his death

Keith Richards on The Rolling Stones' Start Me Up: "I was convinced – and I think Mick was – that it was definitely a reggae song"
By Will Groves published
Rifftastic smash hit was unearthed after years in the Stones tape backlog - "It was like a gift, you know?"

Eric Clapton's While My Guitar Gently Weeps solo was laid down on this day in 1968 because, says George Harrison, "I worked on that song with John, Paul and Ringo, and they were not interested in it at all"
By Will Groves published
Check out the story behind the session, and Clapton's isolated guitar part

Businessman/YouTuber Lee Anderton will declare "any personal financial interest" in future product demos following complaints to the UK's Advertising Standards Agency
By Will Groves published
Statement issued following Victory Amps conflict controversy

Watch the Rolling Stones reveal details of their first album of new songs since 2005: "Let me put it this way, you haven't heard the last of Charlie Watts"
By Will Groves published
Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood will talk Hackney Diamonds live tomorrow (6 Sept)

Where is Paul McCartney's original Hofner bass? "Surely if anyone can find my guitar, it's you guys"
By Will Groves published
The Lost Bass Project is on the case of the missing four-string

Is IK's new flagship iRig HD X the ideal compact interface for guitar streamers?
By Will Groves published
Loopback+ function lets streamers seamlessly rope in any app, like TONEX of Amplitube, of their choice

Universal Audio reveals Apollo Twin X USB, promising 'elite' audio performance for Windows-based producers
By Will Groves published
UA's acclaimed audio interface escapes Thunderbolt's clutches

Native Instruments' latest Traktor DJ Controller is 'X1 of a kind'
By Will Groves published
All-new layout, OLED displays and smart lighting adorn Mk3

Harley Benton heads South with its new Delta Blues Resonator
By Will Groves published
Mississippi vibes for less than €300

Beato it: Gibson reveals second Rick Beato signature model finish - "My signature guitar is the one that I reach for every morning"
By Will Groves published
Les Paul Special Double Cut now available in Sparkling Burgundy Satin as well as last year's TV Blue Mist

Have the Rolling Stones just announced their new album with a local newspaper ad for a glass repair company?
By Will Groves published
Hackney Diamonds ad promises Satisfaction

"This disgusting world broke her and kept on breaking her": Stars pay tribute to Sinead O'Connor, who has died aged 56
By Will Groves published
A "voice that cracked stone with force & by increment"

"I wasn't likely to upstage Brian or Freddie": Queen's John Deacon - a tribute to an elusive bass giant
By Roger Newell published
Brian May: "He won't talk to me, so why the f**k would he talk to you?"

Paul McCartney goes on tape in A Life in Lyrics, his major new podcast series - "I wanted to become a person who wrote songs and wanted to be someone whose life was in music"
By Will Groves published
"We realised there was something very special happening," says collaborator Paul Muldoon

Stop AI 'crushing' music, urges leading industry body: "Taking other people’s work without their permission contravenes basic principles of property rights"
By Will Groves published
Five-point plan aims to inform government policy around copyright and more: "It is absolutely critical we develop AI in a way that enables human artistry rather than eroding it"

"I wanted to make a reggae song out of Peaches": JJ Burnel on the birth of that iconic Stranglers bass part
By Will Groves published
"Those three notes in Peaches: you do those three notes and it's instantly identifiable"

Rapper drops video apparently shot in his jail cell: "Appropriate action will be taken" says Canadian Solicitor General
By Will Groves published
Hassan Ali, aka Top5, is awaiting trial for murder

Paul McCartney sets the record straight on AI-'extricated' Lennon vocal in "last Beatles song": “nothing has been artificially or synthetically created”
By Will Groves published
Star moves to dampen "confusion and speculation" - plus, hear the original demo here

Aphex Twin releases Blackbox Life Recorder 21, his first official new music in 5 years - then immediately deletes it
By Will Groves published
Richard D. James delights then mystifies. Business as usual, then, but you can hear it here
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