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“I was the first person to actually have a Super Fuzz Big Muff”: How Courtney Love created a grunge classic
By Amit Sharma published
Hole’s song Violet came out just a week after Kurt Cobain’s suicide

“Miles said, ‘Play it like you don’t know how to play the guitar!’”: John McLaughlin's baptism of fire with Miles Davis
By Andrew Daly published
He cut his teeth with Miles on the classic In A Silent Way

“I gave it to Michael and he wrote that lyric in one stream of consciousness”: How INXS created a funky No.1 hit
By Neil Crossley published
Need You Tonight marked a distinct sonic shift for the band

“He really didn’t like it the first time we played it”: The controversial Radiohead hit embraced by Prince
By Amit Sharma published
"It was written during “a pretty strange period in my life” said Thom Yorke

Sundragon unveils the Nymph, a one-watt powerhouse tube combo designed for Jimmy Page
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Nymph is a one-watter with a 1/4-watt setting and a line out – and Page says he used his double neck to test it out

“I remember Eddie Van Halen asking me, ‘What’s wrong with you?'”: George Lynch, the guitar hero cursed by bad luck
By Paul Elliott published
He almost got the gig to replace Randy Rhoads

We investigate the claim that harnessing GPU can unlock limitless music production potential
By Adam Douglas published
The key to more powerful plugins may be the graphics processor that you already have in your computer. We discover how three developers are making this happen right now.

Exploring the quirky production and music theory choices of Grace Jones’ classic Slave to the Rhythm
By Roland Schmidt published
We take a closer look at one of the most iconoclastic songs of the mid-80s era; Slave to the Rhythm
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