Latest Features
Why there’s nothing wrong with collecting gear as a hobby - even if you don’t use it
Gatekeepers will tell you to sell your synths if you’re not using them “enough” - but isn’t your personal relationship with them sufficient reason to keep them around?
“For those about to rock… best try another genre”: New stats show that bands are dead, solo and collabs are the way to go and rock has well and truly rolled…
Want to make it in music? Take a few hints from UK chart performance data from 1980 to the present day…
A music professor breaks down Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly with His Song
“I can’t think of another major hit with a fourteen-bar chorus”
Adam F on making '90s DnB classic Colours – and why he’s re-recording it for 2025
“We went to the Hit Factory in New York, which was 10 or 15 grand a day. I preferred the mixdowns that I did in my bedroom in Watford”
“The lyrics talk about machines writing music, and that’s actually happened. All things considered, it was a very prophetic song”: The iconic track that sparked the MTV generation also predicted the entire future of music
This Trevor Horn-helmed classic documented a sea change in music consumption, and its vision of tomorrow was spookily accurate
Spotify fights back: Think that artists aren’t getting enough cash? Spotify says there's a good reason for that
After a stream of anti-Spotify sentiment, the supersized streaming service wants to set the record straight
Fender’s Justin Norvell on the $599 Standard Series and why it's not a Squier with a different decal
Fender’s EVP of product on who its new Indonesian entry-level series is for, what its critics are getting wrong, and why this is (probably) as affordable as the Acoustasonic is going to get
“Pat Metheny is one of the best composers”: Matteo Mancuso – 10 albums that changed my life
The Sicilian virtuoso salutes Jimmy Page's stylistic adventurism, the compositional genius of Pat Metheny and Al Di Meola, and declares Jaco Pastorius “the Jimi Hendrix of bass”
