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“People have been imitating my sound for a long time, but now someone can type a prompt and make a song that sounds like Chris Lake – that's wild!”: Chris Lake on how AI is putting music-making “under threat”
By Danny Turner published
One of house music’s most established talents., Chris Lake released his debut album this year after 20 years in the game. Danny Turner finds out more

The Boss PX-1 is a treasure trove of classic and contemporary Boss effects pedals. Here's everything you need to know about the compact chameleon stomp box
By Pete Emery published
Sponsor Content Created With Boss
Providing a host of official and authentic digital recreations of its legendary line of pedals, Boss offers the guitarist a new way to play iconic sounds from across its varied catalogue

Is pop music really getting dumber? A music professor explains what the science really says
By Ethan Hein published
Scientific studies claim that modern music has become simpler than ever before, both lyrically and musically. But are they measuring what really matters?

10 years ago, David Bowie’s final and most poignant single saw him turn his own death into art
By Andy Price published
Bowie’s heartbreaking Lazarus was a rumination on the imminent end of a life lived to the full - and a lesson in how to channel the bleakest situation into enduring music

AmenBreak VST is a break-slicing, sample-mangling junglist powerhouse - and there’s a free version
By Matt Mullen published
LET'S GO!

The 'secret sauce' that creates Dijon’s distinctive vocal sound isn't what you thought it was
By Ben Rogerson published
"What you're hearing - the 'processing' - you're hearing bleed," says his collaborator Tommy King. "You're literally hearing the entire song coming through"

“They represent rent paid, instruments bought and careers sustained”: PRS has distributed nearly £275 million in 2025
By Will Simpson published
That’s up 4% from last year

“We have come together one last time to resolve our differences”: Peace breaks out between Perry Farrell and Jane's Addiction
By Will Simpson published
Singer apologises for his behaviour at Boston show last year

“I turn this thing on, I don’t want to stop playing”: Keeley Electronics has made Andy Timmons fall in love with reverb with his new signature Nocturne pedal
By Jonathan Horsley published
Robert Keeley gives reverb the Halo treatment for an all-new signature reverb that has officially made a convert of Timmons

It’s official! Neural DSP’s John Mayer Archetype plugin suite is here – and with Dumble, Klon and Reverberator captures, it is the motherlode for boutique electric guitar tone
By Jonathan Horsley published
Neural DSP bags its most high-profile artist yet and present players with a cornucopia of gourmet tone options
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