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"I’d be in the booth and Charli would walk in like ‘what the...?’”: Charli xcx and Finn Keane on the Wuthering Heights soundtrack
By Matt Mullen published
Finn Keane says his deliberately "bad, raspy playing" lent a rough and textured sound to the film's evocative music

How Cory Wong reimagined Ernie Ball Music Man’s iconic bass for a signature electric with “that George Benson sound”
By Amit Sharma published
With the funk guitar maestro’s signature StingRay II now available in an affordable Sterling By Music Man version, Wong checks in to talk about the making of a dual-humbucker doozy and what it gives him that the Strat can't

“I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to write a song with just one chord?’”: When Neil Diamond teamed up with Robbie Robertson
By Paul Elliott published
“That song had to stay on that one chord to maintain the tension of the whole thing”

“One day it was nothing but laughs. Then it was over": Josh Freese is still puzzled why he was fired from Foo Fighters
By Will Simpson published
He’s now back behind the kit for Nine Inch Nails

Ableton Live co-creator Robert Henke updates a classic Live effect with free M4L device Filter Delays
By Matt Mullen published
"I wrote the original Filter Delay for Live 1, released in 2001. Recently, I rediscovered it and wanted to add a few more options that were missing"

"Extraordinary resilience, but resilience is not a policy”: New report into UK electronic music brings mixed news
By Will Simpson published
The North of England is at the forefront of that resilence

Did the Beatles really pioneer hard rock as early as 1965? John Lennon certainly thought so
By Andy Price published
From its buzzing guitar drone to its clattering drums, Ticket to Ride was certainly a step forward for the Beatles sonically - but did it really invent heavy rock?

Get golden-era guitar tone with $600 off thanks to the awesome Presidents' Day sale on Vintera II guitars over at the official Fender store
By Matt McCracken published
Fender just launched a slew of deals for Presidents' Day with some monumental discounts
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