Latest articles by Will Groves
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"
"It was like someone kissing your girlfriend - it felt invasive": Trent Reznor on first hearing Johnny Cash's Hurt
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"
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"
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
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"
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"
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?
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
UA's acclaimed audio interface escapes Thunderbolt's clutches
Native Instruments' latest Traktor DJ Controller is 'X1 of a kind'
All-new layout, OLED displays and smart lighting adorn Mk3
Harley Benton heads South with its new Delta Blues Resonator
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"
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?
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
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
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"
"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"
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"