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“No Pro Tools, no tricks. We helped change the production of heavy metal records”: Pantera's revolutionary anthem
And the solo from Dimebag gave the world its first taste of a new guitar hero
Just what was the Radiohead Binary Code theory - and was there any truth in it?
Were hints that OK Computer and In Rainbows should be listened to as one monster record deliberately seeded by the band?
“I don’t exist if I don’t have a record in the charts”: How John Lennon created one of his last and most poignant songs
After the turbulence and emotional trauma of his past, the song had a sense of reflection and calm
Ambient maestro Steve Hauschildt on the obscure plugins, generative tools and '00s digital synths behind Aeropsia
Following a relocation to Tbilisi, Steve Hauschildt’s eighth album finds him channelling a period of profound personal change through hallucinatory electronic explorations
When David Bowie gave an amazingly accurate prediction of how the internet would change the world
Bowie’s staggeringly prophetic 1999 Newsnight interview revealed his astute awareness of how the internet was going to change music and content forever
Davey Johnstone on the making of Elton John’s 1975 masterpiece, Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
It began aboard the high seas, a concept record about Elton John and Bernie Taupin's early days, and when the band got to Caribou Ranch, they'd turn out one of the greatest albums of the '70s
“A producer from the studio next door said, ‘You’re gonna kill him!’”: How AC/DC’s singer suffered for Back In Black
Producer Mutt Lange told the story to Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger
“Eddie wasn’t functioning very well during the Van Halen tour in 2004”: Sammy Hagar’s regrets about his final VH tour
“Not keeping Van Halen together – that was a failure to me"
The intricate genius and powerful subtext behind a Beatles acoustic gem
At the very heart of the White Album, this tender Beatles masterpiece pulled from the classical music tradition and empathised with the American civil rights movement
“It’s the heart of my studio”: The story of the Akai MPC, from the MPC60 to the MPC Live III
Few pieces of production gear are as influential as Akai’s MPC series. We trace the MPC's journey through its phoenix-like birth from the ashes of the LinnDrum 9000 to the latest apex-hitting incarnation