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- “He obviously wanted to do something like that for Billie Jean and he did his own version of that groove”: John Oates agrees with Daryl Hall that I Can’t Go For That was the inspiration for one of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits
- "We didn't sit there and go, 'Let's make an album that's going to last 45 years or become a cornerstone of some rock music.' We were just having a great time”: Vinny Appice remembers his time with Ronnie James Dio
- “I spent my entire career searching for this, but it didn’t exist – so I built it for myself”: Can this $149 deck of cards help you write better songs?
- "She goes, 'No, I want to play you the songs on my guitar. Let's just go out to the parking lot, and I'll sit in the back of your truck’”: Back in 2006, a “fearless” Taylor Swift took a hands-on approach to getting her music played on the radio
- “Who the F are the Cockroaches?”: Just the greatest rock n’ roll band in the world… perhaps
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- This free plugin captures the shrill and squeaky sound of the most irritating musical instrument known to man... just in time for April Fool’s Day
- “Oh, wow! See, that’s something I only do on stage. That’s not a part of the record”: Lindsey Buckingham reacts to TikTok covers of Fleetwood Mac’s Never Going Back Again, and says one of them is “better than I do it”
- “Our intention is that, at the end of the program, the listener will find himself alone, in hell”: Archive footage from 1983 reveals the BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s chilling plan to put a modernised musical spin on Dante’s Inferno
- “If you love Hendrix, Jack White, Gary Clark Jr, Beck, Black Keys, or the octave fuzz on John Mayer’s Belief – you already know you want this”: JHS Pedals’ turns loose the Coyote, a fuzz pedal tribute to a “lost” cult classic and its maker
- “Just like when you get a new distortion pedal it makes you want to play guitar, I wanted that same feeling for DB-30”: XLN Audio wants to put the fun back in drum processing with DB-30 Drum Butter
- “Seeing people actually make music with mayonnaise and turning it into a real track has been wild. It shouldn’t work, but somehow it does”: A British university just classified mayonnaise as an instrument. And this isn’t an April Fool
- “Each effect has been recreated using detailed component-level modeling, faithfully capturing the behaviour of the original analogue circuitry”: Electro-Harmonix launches six of its most-famous pedals as plugins