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March 2025

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March 25
- “Just like that it came to him”: Why Fleetwood Mac’s most iconic riff is one of music’s greatest ever moments
March 22
- "It took me 10 years to finish the song, but I wrote that chorus in 15 minutes! And still there was a part of me going, ‘God, that’s a terrible title for a song!’”: How an ’80s rock star agonised for a decade over a classic No.1 hit
- “My older brother built me a pickup and an amplifier before they were even out on the market”: Was this child prodigy the world’s first electric guitar player?
- 5 innovative synth plugins daring to do things differently
March 21
- "The greatest pop record ever made. A record that never dates, because it lives outside time”: How The Beatles created Strawberry Fields Forever - the experimental masterpiece that John Lennon regarded as the best song he ever wrote for the band
March 20
- “I could write songs as bad as Wham’s if I really felt the urge to, but what’s the point?”: Dreams, red wine and the desire to explode - Robert Smith’s songwriting approach in his own words
- UVI releases SonicBundle: the ultimate music production toolkit, at an unbelievable discount
March 19
- “I'm really proud of that, because I literally invented that chord”: George Harrison’s songwriting brilliance deconstructed in his own words
March 18
- “That’s how I know that I’ve written a good song for myself - when I start crying”: How Adele's songwriting cleverly grabs our emotions
March 17
- "Ableton is great for making tracks, Pro Tools is great for mixing. For me, Logic is great when you do both": Emma-Jean Thackray on the making of new album Weirdo
- “There are no rules”: The Guthman Competition highlights the world’s most innovative musical instruments. This year’s winners are like nothing you’ve heard before
- “I have been in the process of trying to sell the company. It’s a difficult time”: Trump’s tariffs could be about to decimate the gear industry
March 15
- “There's only one person on Earth who could turn a highly conceptual, fiercely political, free-form jazz-rap fusion record into a global hit”: Making Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly
- “Money should never be the reason that good art is not made”: This classic interview with The Crystal Method explores talent vs tech, plus an enduring love for Radiohead and Bill Withers
- “I’d be running from the studio to other speakers in the house, basically going insane trying to get mixes to sound correct”: Ezra Collective’s Joe Armon-Jones on why he created his Aquarii Studios and his dub-influenced mixing technique
March 14
- “Not that I was restricted in any way with Rush. I’m very proud of what we did. But this is a whole different kind of experience”: Alex Lifeson on disguised guitars, soloing strategies and finding fresh sounds and freedom with Envy Of None
- “You can’t really say to Yoko Ono, ‘Sorry, I forgot to press record’, can you?”: Our forgotten interview with big-beat legends Basement Jaxx reveals the oddness of working with John Lennon’s widow - and a love for Atari
March 13
- “The track blew up… I didn’t get much at all”: Unearthed Junkie XL interview digs into the troubles behind his hit remix of Elvis’s A Little Less Conversation
- “He noticed that the studio had a marimba sitting in the corner, and the rest is history”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind ABBA's Mamma Mia
March 12
- “Karl left because they spent millions on these machines but never played one note. They were caught by the technology and it overtook them”: Our lost interview with Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür gives rare insight into the band's internal conflicts
- “Coldplay come on stage to that piece - who’s not going to like it when 20,000 people get up to your song?”: Our re-discovered classic interview with Jon Hopkins catches him on the verge of his most successful decade
March 11
- “It made me feel bad that I didn’t put it on the album”: From Pavement to Donna Summer, here are six more B-sides that became huge hits against the odds
March 10
- How a lone Bee Gee became the first person to use a drum machine on a pop hit
- “It was a beautiful, hot, sunny day and I just got this phrase in my head: 'Everybody loves the sunshine'”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind Roy Ayers' most iconic song
March 6
- “We always thought it had something”: From Green Day to U2, here are 6 B-sides that became massive hits
March 4
- “The verse and chorus of that song are exactly the same. But, you don’t really notice since the energy of the chorus is completely different”: Cracking open Max Martin’s über-succesful songwriting formula
- TESSAN x Rachael Yamagata: Embracing Connection Through Music and Travel
March 3
- “I threw a party for John Lennon one night, and he sat there at the Moog for four hours making flying saucer sounds”: They set the boyband template, but also introduced the world to the synth
March 1
- “Glitter Gel Pen lyrics are the drunk girl at the party who tells you that you look like an Angel in the bathroom”: How Taylor Swift’s songwriting skilfully makes the personal universal