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February 20th
- Nuno Bettencourt's new Washburn signature gets extreme with 6-way switch
- Grateful Dead legend Bob Weir demos his new D'Angelico signature guitar
- The best drum sets 2020: top acoustic drum sets for beginners, intermediate and pro drummers
- Early DAWs: the software that changed music production forever
- Studio Sessions with Cubase: Tinlicker - Part 1
- “We had to be ready to record anything at any point”: producer Fraser T Smith on the making of Dave’s award-winning album Psychodrama
- EU musicians will need visas to play in the UK from 2021
- How to make an ‘80s adult movie soundtrack
- Marshall’s new noise-cancelling wireless headphones have the Google Assistant built in
- The 12 best pianos 2020: acoustic and digital pianos for beginners and pros
- TC Electronic's new Plethora X5 will give you 127 pedalboards in one
- Gibson sends cease and desist over Ultra V, alleges Kiesel Guitars – Kiesel fights back
- Sample Logic’s Motion Keys promises to “breathe new life” into sampled pianos and keyboards
- Quick! Get £150 off a Huawei MateBook X Pro laptop for today only at Amazon
- The 11 best pedalboards 2020: top choice pedalboards for guitarists
- Finally, you can upload your music to SoundCloud from your phone
- This could be the most in-depth overview of the Yamaha CS-80 synth you’ve ever seen
- Blackstar is releasing an acoustic version of its awesome Fly 3 mini amp
- Guitar round table interview: Alter Bridge / Shinedown / Those Damn Crows
February 19th
- The 10 best delay pedals 2020: our pick of the best delay guitar effects from Boss, Strymon, Electro-Harmonix and more
- Tosin Abasi to sell 100 guitars, amps and pedals from his collection
- Five Finger Death Punch's Zoltan Bathory: my essential tips for rhythm guitar
- Uli Behringer tackles 'the haters' head-on
- Blast from the past: Yamaha SY22/TG33
- Dean Guitars reveals its top tier Exile Select Series
- Dumble tones for $849? VHT Amps returns with something special
February 18th
- KK Downing returns with former Judas Priest members in new band
- Arturia’s FX Collection gives you 15 plugin effects You’ll Actually Use, so could that be all you need?
- Waves launches “affordable” plugin subscription plans starting at $6.99 a month
- Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell confirms he's working on new solo material
- Kirk Hammett will battle Mrs Smith in a live guitar Cry Baby Battle Royale wah-off
February 17th
- Andrew Weatherall, acclaimed producer, remixer and DJ, dies aged 56: stars pay tribute
- Producer Finneas says that he and Billie Eilish ‘don’t let music theory inform how we write a song’
- Deckard’s Dream Mk2 is like a Yamaha CS-80 synth for your desktop
- Submotion Orchestra on the gear they use to take their sound from studio to stage
February 15th
- Tony Iommi talks tone and Black Sabbath's early days with Gibson TV
- See The Band's Robbie Robertson explain how his Martin guitar inspired The Weight
February 14th
- Keith Richards' secret Rolling Stones acoustic guitar tuning finally revealed?
- Waves is spreading the Valentine's Day love with 30% off (almost) all plugins and bundles
- SampleRadar: 252 free 303-style acid samples
- Germanium fuzz without the downsides? Mad Professor's new Fuzz 32 says yes
- Learn how to build complex rock licks easily with this killer guitar lesson
- Fender gets expressive with Made In Japan Art Gallery Tele and Strat
- Fender's new ltd ed Blonde Player Tele delivers affordable '51 Nocaster tones
- The 10 least-sexy sexy songs of all time
- Klevgrand just dropped a free modular audio environment that you can use to build your own effects
- The Bond guitar chord is back in Billie Eilish's No Time To Die theme - learn it
February 13th
- Butch Walker's 13 essential tips for recording guitars
- Fender bares all with its new Raw Ash limited edition Performer Strat and Tele
- Ninja Tune and Coldcut release Jamm Pro, an iPad music-making app for production and performance
- Me in my studio - David Baron: "The ARP 2500 is a work of art"
- The 25 artists Fender is backing to go big in 2020
- D'Addario gives you the finger with its new Pro Plus Capo
- The 10 best multi-effects pedals 2020: our pick of the best all-in-one guitar FX modellers
- US man caught producing music on his DAW while driving his semi-truck down the highway
- See Queen & Adam Lambert cover Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love onstage
February 12th
- “Wow… just wow”: musicians pay tribute to keyboard legend Lyle Mays
- Positive Grid's Spark amp begins shipping after incredible preorder numbers
- Softube and Marshall go the extra mile as they model The Beast, Kerry King’s signature amp
- Mike Portnoy smashes Rush classics on a tiny kid's kit - literally
- The best MacBook Pro deals 2020: find the cheapest prices online right now
- In-depth: Mick Thomson interview and Slipknot rig tour
- Behringer gets down and dirty with its ARP 2600 synth clone: first demo and overview
February 11th
- Overdrive vs distortion: explore the sounds, the players and the effects pedals to try
- Me in my studio - Yehan Jehan: “Without UA, I don’t know if the bedroom studio could exist the way it does today”
- Fender ships Eric Johnson's Virginia Stratocaster Artist Signature
- Rode’s NT-USB Mini microphone promises “studio-quality” recording in a compact, easy-to-use package
- How to DJ on a laptop: a beginner’s guide to the software, gear and techniques you need
- 50 production secrets from the pros
- Jazz pianist Lyle Mays, co-founder of the Pat Metheny Group, dies at 66
February 10th
- How Humanist made one of the albums of 2020 with Pro Tools LE, 2 mics, Dave Gahan, Mark Lanegan and… a blanket
- Everything you need to know about: ’80s synth-pop
- Roland's TAIKO-1 is an electronic drum for traditional Japanese percussionists
- “Hey Bob!”: Herbie Hancock has signed a vintage Minimoog synth, and you could win it
- The best samplers 2020: standalone hardware instruments for live performance or studio production
- Arpeggio is a mini melody-making machine that comes with a built-in synth
- Ghosts n DJs is a free ‘80s-style videogame that lets you play as deadmau5 and battle ghost producers and ‘fake’ artists
- Harley Benton's new DC-Junior FAT Faded Cherry unveiled for preorder
- Play bass and guitar at the same time with A Little Thunder's Version 2 pickup
February 9th
- See John Frusciante play first gig with Red Hot Chili Peppers in 12 years
February 8th
- Issue 354 of Future Music is on sale now
February 7th
- Elon Musk boasts that his EDM track is the “8th hottest song on SoundCloud!”
- Hear Joe Satriani go back to the future with new single Nineteen Eighty
- Morgan Page: “Ableton’s very flat and cartoony; it’s almost like you’re reading a paper. That changes your perception of the sound”
- Has Carl Martin made the ultimate floorboard for acoustic guitarists?
- Behold the supercar-inspired Fender Custom Shop Carbon Fibre Stratocaster 1
- Watch: Paul McCartney guitarist Brian Ray's incredible Gibson collection
- The 10 best synth presets in history (and where you can hear them)
- Will we see some new affordable combo amps from Aguilar Amplification soon?
February 6th
- A musician has created a “groundbreaking” app that promises to provide relief from the symptoms of tinnitus
- Apple to enable Universal, one-time purchase apps across Mac, mobile and TV
- Don Powell, Slade drummer since 1966, allegedly fired by 'cold email'
February 5th
- 6 of the finest formant-shifting plugins
- After 40 years, Moog is back with a $5,000 reboot of its 16 Channel Vocoder
- The best earplugs for musicians 2020: protect your hearing from the practice room to your next gig
- “It sucks”: Devil Fish owner slams Behringer’s plan for ‘Murdered Out’ version of the TD-3 synth
- Ozzy Osbourne: "Tony Iommi intimidates the f**k out of me"
- Billy Sheehan: "I was offered the Van Halen position as bassist three times"
- David Guetta takes you inside his Ibiza studio: “this is my perfect setup”
- Michael Schenker on his brother: "Rudolf doesn’t have much talent as a guitarist"
- Producers: how to get your music played by DJs
February 4th
- The best PA speakers 2020: the best compact live sound systems for bands and buskers
- Ampethron Portable is a hardware synth that DJs can play like a video game
- Could this €1 soft synth change the VST plugin market forever?
- Behringer’s free online music gear marketplace launches… then crashes
- New Gibson Firebird features in Shakira's stunning Super Bowl halftime set
- Mouthin’ Off is a free VST beatboxing plugin that sounds “authentic and raw”
- Explainers: What’s the best UK music course for me?
February 3rd
- Watch: The Chino Moreno-approved Loathe show us their modded Jazzmasters
- Watch: Snarky Puppy's Mark Lettieri, Beyoncé's Ari O’Neal and Ayla Tesler-Mabe jam with Fender Ultra Strats
- Final tickets for Eric Clapton's Ginger Baker tribute show up for grabs
- Best guitar effects pedals 2020: our pick of effects in every pedal category
- Watch: Someone has built four effects pedals into an original Sony PlayStation 1
- Sigma: 5 things we’ve learned about music production
- Roland’s TR-808 drum machine has finally been inducted into the NAMM Hall of Fame
- Billie Eilish’s brother and producer Finneas explains why he prefers recording at home to being in a “fancy-ass” studio
- Man creates a microtonal guitar using Lego blocks as frets
February 1st
- Gang Of Four guitarist Andy Gill dies aged 64

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