Features

“Prince told me, ‘You sound so great, man. Keep doing your thing’”: Cory Wong's encounters with The Purple One

By Amit Sharma published 10 February 26

“It was by far the biggest compliment I’ve ever gotten”

“It can act as a kind of scaffolding for the nervous system”: Mastery Studio and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith on electronic music, sound healing and its potential for positive minds

By Jim Ottewill published 9 February 26

With Mastery Studio releasing its new Quantum Sound album aimed at “redefining sonic meditation”, we explore the potential of electronic music to enhance our wellbeing

A decade on, we analyse the inner workings of one of Beck’s most potent bangers

By Roland Schmidt published 9 February 26

Released over a year ahead of its effervescent parent album Colors, Wow demonstrated that Beck’s penchant for genre-blurring was still in rude health

“Without Ozzy as a foil, Randy would have never been able to do it": Zakk Wylde's favourite Randy Rhoads solo

By Jonathan Horsley published 8 February 26

Plucked from Quiet Riot, Rhoads was the transfusion of virtuosity Ozzy needed to launch his solo career. But Wylde says it goes both ways, and the Prince Of Darkness was the "perfect foil" for Rhoads' classically trained style

“A&M Records didn’t know we were signed to them – even though we’d done two albums for them!”: Supertramp's rise and fall

By Paul Elliott published 8 February 26

“Breakfast In America took eight months to finish – some people would call us anal!”

“There was a time I was collecting synths – it’s a bit weird downgrading from that”: Ikonika on going back-to-basics

By Si Truss published 7 February 26

In the studio: The Hyperdub artist on going back in-the-box and why they’re ‘trying to avoid Auto-Tune’

“I had no idea that song would become what it became": The hard-rocking Lenny Kravitz hit that’s full of surprises

By Amit Sharma published 5 February 26

“I’m singing ‘I am the chosen, I’m the one’, but it’s not about me – it’s about Christ”

“I’d have to smoke a big joint to be able to listen to it!”: Fleetwood Mac star Lindsey Buckingham's unusual solo albums

By Paul Elliott published 5 February 26

“Roy Thomas Baker spent most of the time just barking orders”

“Eddie was always experimenting”: Van Halen's Michael Anthony on the band’s cult classic Women And Children First

By Paul Elliott published 4 February 26

Less surprisingly, he said “it was party time in the studio”

Science indicates that musicians do actually die younger - but why?

By Adam Douglas published 4 February 26

Are musicians and other music industry professionals really at greater risk of an early death than the general public? Studies say it’s true