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June 30
- 5 electronic music genres that used to be cool (but aren't any more)
- Summer NAMM 2016: Fender Custom Shop parades show-stopping relics and guitar mash-ups
- Summer NAMM 2016: Fresh Fender amps including all-new '57 Custom Tweed range
- Audio Damage Shapes will give your 'analogue signals digital warmth'
- On the radar: Kelvin Jones
- Summer NAMM 2016: Supro doffs its cap to Keith Richards with 1600 Supreme combo amp
- Talking Shop: Hervé
- Summer NAMM 2016: Fender breathes new life into Deluxe line with 9 revamped guitars and basses
- Issue 307 of Future Music is on sale now
- UAD-2 Satellite USB 3 systems are now shipping
- Apple may be able to stop you filming gigs on your iPhone
- Summer NAMM 2016: Pigtronix Philosopher's Tone Micro promises miniaturised compression alchemy
- Summer NAMM 2016: Ernie Ball offers on-the-fly control of overdrive and delay with new Expression Series guitar effects pedals
- Jason Isbell's 9 tips for singer-songwriters
- Summer NAMM 2016: Redesigned 700 and new 800 Deluxe series lead Taylor Guitars' charge
- Summer NAMM 2016: EVH introduces 5150III EL34 amp head and Wolfgang Striped Special guitar
June 29
- Summer NAMM 2016: Charvel taps into original-era DNA for flagship USA Select Series guitars
- Summer NAMM 2016: Gretsch announces Tom Petersson Signature 12-string bass and ultra-desirable limited-edition guitars
- Summer NAMM 2016: Jackson launches 9 new guitars, including fanned-fret and artist signature models
- Arturia's preset converter comes to the rescue for V-Collection owners
- Dave Smith Instruments gives the Tempest a much-needed update
- Summer NAMM 2016: PRS unveils SE Mark Holcomb electric guitar
- Summer NAMM 2016: Fender's whiskey barrel amp is a thing of beauty
- Brian Fallon talks Painkillers, The Gaslight Anthem and converting to ES-335s
- Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley guitarist, dies aged 84
June 28
- Group test: powered 3-inch monitors
- 10 questions for Danny Bryant
- Orange Crush Bass Series unleashed
- Man spends 10 hours demoing Reason 9 presets as he drives across the desert
- Zynthian wants to be the 'Swiss army knife' of hardware synths
- London Souls' Tash Neal on his favourite guitar moments, Gibson ES-335s and the road to recovery
- Monade Sounds offers free and paid-for 909 plugins
June 27
- George Clinton calls Bernie Worrell's death "a huge loss"
- VirSyn's VoxSyn iOS app is more flexible than your average vocoder
- Me and my guitar: Frank Turner
- Take it to the Thorus with UVI's new 'polyphase modulator' plugin
- Rig tour: 18 of Def Leppard, Black Star Riders and Whitesnake's guitars
June 24
- 10 of the best VST/AU bass enhancement plugins
- Build your perfect drum sounds with Sample Magic's Stacker
- Summer NAMM 2016: Pearl Drums teams up with Steven Slate to release Mimic Pro drum module
- 5 minutes alone: Steven Wilson
- Summer NAMM 2016: Dave Smith Instruments officially announces OB-6 module
- Dave Clarke's 10 career-defining remixes
- Protest The Hero's Tim MacMillar: 9 guitarists that blew my mind
- 11 must-see electronic music acts at Glastonbury 2016
- Page and Plant cleared of Stairway plagiarism
- On the radar: The Dirty Nil
June 23
- How Gretsch made the ultra-affordable Streamliner guitar line
- John Scofield's 9 tips for guitarists
- Is Dave Smith Instruments about to drop a desktop version of the OB-6 synth?
- 10 of the best guitarists at Glastonbury 2016
- The 10 must-see drummers of Glastonbury 2016
June 22
- Summer NAMM 2016: Experience "never-before-heard tidal swirls" with DigiTech's Nautila Chorus/Flange effects pedal
- Converse's All Wah is a shoe with a built-in wah pedal
- Me in my studio: Message To Bears
- Gus G signs with Jackson Guitars
- Fred and John Fred Young's top 5 tips for drummers
- 10 questions for Night Verses' Nick DePirro
- Round table: Whitesnake and Black Star Riders on the ultimate rock guitar and what makes a great solo
- Positive Grid releases BIAS Amp Standalone
- Is it time for the Basslet 'subwoofer watch'?
June 21
- Animals As Leaders' Javier Reyes: my top 5 tips for guitarists
- Carl Cox talks tech, techno and turntables
- Judge Jules delivers his verdict on the state of DJing in 2016
- Summer NAMM 2016: Roland taps Robben Ford for new Blues Cube Tone Capsule
- Make more music and sound amazing: Reason 9 is here
- Orchestral Percussion comes to Miroslav Philharmonik 2 and SampleTank 3
- Summer NAMM 2016: Boss reissues classic CE-2 Chorus as Waza Craft CE-2W
- Play beats on boxes with the Obilab cardboard drum kit
- Summer NAMM 2016: ESP unveils Metallica Master Of Puppets guitar
June 20
- Luke Holland's 5 steps to YouTube drumming stardom
- Watch Ritchie Blackmore play first Rainbow gig in 19 years
- Kevin Shirley's 7 tips for recording great blues guitar tone
- Rig tour: Richard Hawley's guitars, amps and effects
- Ruismaker: the hardware drum machine project that became an iOS AU
- Mad Professor's Porter is a 1x12 cab that sounds like a 4x12
- Must a synth come with a large supply of good presets?
- Summer NAMM 2016: Evolution Guitars launches world's first modular guitar
- Could TBProAudio's CS-3301 mark the end of your channel strip search?
June 17
- 112dB's Cascade synth promises "sounds you could never create before"
- Roland just turned its JD-XA synth into a drum machine
- Meat Loaf collapses on stage
- BOSS goes mobile with free Tuner app for iOS and Android
- Jake Bugg: 10 records that shaped my life
June 16
- Learn hybrid picking with this in-depth guitar lesson
- Adam D and Joel Stroetzel: how Killswitch Engage evolved to create Incarnate
- Is Arturia about to officially announce Minibrute and Microbrute monosynths in limited edition colours?
- Elektron says RIP to the Monomachine and Machinedrum, as final units go on sale
- Joe Bonamassa on the surprising tones behind Blues Of Desperation and being "the most overrated guitar player in the world"
- J Rockett Audio Designs takes aim with .45 Caliber Overdrive guitar effects pedal
- Story behind the song: Alice in Chains' Them Bones
- Jimmy Page testifies at Led Zeppelin Stairway To Heaven trial
- Eurorack comes to your desktop as Softube's Modular plugin is released
June 15
- FREE PC/Mac synthesiser plugin: u-he Bazille CM
- Computer Music – SYNTH SPECIAL – August 2016, Issue 232
- One for the road: Chris Robertson (Black Stone Cherry)
- Is GRIDI the largest sequencer in the world?
- Summer NAMM 2016: Ibanez introduces Artwood Vintage Thermo-Aged acoustic guitars
- Chris Rea on his guitar origins, Strats, the blues and La Passione
- Design your dream guitar with Fender's Mod Shop
- Former Wings guitarist Henry McCullough dies aged 72
- AudioThing unearths another rare drum machine and puts it in a plugin
- Oliver Nelson's favourite music software
June 14
- Meet the programmers: Waves
- Novation's Launchpad for iOS hits version 2 with new features
- Pierce The Veil's Tony Perry: the 10 records that changed my life
- IK Multimedia's Lurssen Mastering Console comes to iPhone
- John Petrucci reveals his almighty live rig and the key to astonishing solos
- StudioLogic's Sledge synth is back (and better) in black
- 10 of the best new sample and soundware packs (June 2016)
- Joey Jordison reveals multiple sclerosis left him unable to play drums at the end of Slipknot career
- Gig without a guitar amp using Radial's JDX Direct-Drive
- Sean Moore on 30 years of ups and downs with Manic Street Preachers
June 13
- Summer NAMM 2016: Martin introduces new 00-18 and adds Fishman preamps to 17 Series acoustic guitars
- Is the quality gap between free and commerical software shrinking?
- Yeasayer geek-out in the gear department and talk new album Amen & Goodbye
- Volbeat's Rob Caggiano: my top 6 tips for guitarists
- MelodicFlow plugin means that you'll "never play a wrong note again"
- Now you can turn the LinnStrument into a… QWERTY keyboard
- Guitar round table: Mark Tremonti, Eric Friedman, Andy James and Dan Woodyer talk
- The Hartmann 20 synth will cost 20k and only 40 will be made
- Bogner launches La Grange overdrive/boost effects pedal
- HY-Plugins releases the HY-Reso filter, a new free VST effect
- Eric Clapton struggles to play guitar due to nerve damage
- Download 3 free one-knob plugins courtesy of Abletunes
June 10
- Ken Macbeth shows off his new prototype synth, the M7-D
- 25 of the best new free VST/AU plugins to download in 2016
- Spector celebrates 40th anniversary with limited-edition Euro bass guitar
- The Dandy Warhols: Distortland and the albums that influenced us
- Benjamin Burnley on guitar synths, ESP and overcoming his fears to take Breaking Benjamin around the world
- Xvive sets Sweet Leo and DynaRock overdrive pedals loose
- Aphex Twin's new Cheetah EP isn't a synth, but it is coming out on cassette
- Mastodon's Bill Kelliher signs with ESP, announces two new signature guitars
June 9
- Blast from the past : Teletronix LA-2A Leveling Amplifier
- Pig&Dan on what annoys them about other DJs and writing tunes on planes
- 10 questions for The Kentucky Headhunters' Greg Martin
- Daphne Oram's Mini-Oramics synth is built and played for the first time in 40 years
- MusicRadar and Abbey Road Studios present: Making Sense of Mastering
- 660 Guitars unleashes aluminium-bodied CT/52 electric
- NI builds more Blocks for Reaktor and makes it easier to integrate hardware
- Over 35 of Gary Moore's vintage guitars and amps up for auction
- Frank Ferrer: How I nailed the Guns N' Roses gig
- Korg's PlugKey interface gets MIDI into your iOS device and audio out of it
June 8
- Dwarfcraft Devices and Fuzzrocious team up for Afterlife of Pitch effects pedal
- Def Leppard talk wild tours, guitar playing style and coping with Hysteria
- Classic album: Chromeo on Fancy Footwork
- PreSonus's StudioLive AR USB mixers are designed to be at the hub of your home studio
- Story behind the song: Bill Ward on Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath
- The PRS Experience 2016 Custom 24-08 electric guitar packs 8 pickup combinations
- Summer NAMM 2016: Gretsch revamps Electromatic guitar range with 5 new hollowbodies
June 7
- Maximise space on your pedalboard with RockBoard's Flat Patch Cables
- Round table: Carnival Of Madness
- Me in my studio: Alek Fin
- Travis's Fran Healy: the 11 records that changed my life
- Get TR-606 sounds in your TR-8… or as a plugin
- Two heads are better than one if you want to play the Dato Duo synth
- Tangle is the simple and affordable synth that could get you hooked on modular
- The story behind The Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter
- Is Aphex Twin releasing new music or a synth?
- Metallica play Star-Spangled Banner, auction ESP guitars for charity
- July issue of Rhythm on sale now
June 6
- Erica Synths' Wavetable VCO is here and it's expandable
- AC/DC's Brian Johnson announces retirement U-turn
- Summer NAMM 2016: Martin lifts the lid on 9 new acoustic guitars, including Dreadnought Junior Sapele
- Pierce The Veil auction signed smashed guitar in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust
- Vinnie Colaiuta rejoins Gretsch
- Ibanez's Tube Screamer overdrive pedal becomes Tubes Creamer in free plugin
- Sugar Bytes' 'liquid modular' Factory polysynth rolls off the production line
- Paul Gilbert's top 5 tips for guitarists
- The Kellycaster accessible guitar can be played with a single finger
June 4
- Story Behind The Song: Rage Against The Machine's Bullet In The Head
June 3
- Rob Papen's free Prisma plugin now available
- Propellerhead introduces two new virtual drummers for the Reason rack
- Scanner looks back on an amazing career in sound and art
- The Zoom H4n goes Pro with new features and a rugged exterior
- Wild Customs unveils Harvest J-45 acoustic guitar with P-90 pickup
- 10 questions for Hotei
- Bigsby-fy your guitar's vibrato with the Tremolution Trem-O-dapter
- Interviewed: the drummers of AC/DC
- Total Guitar issue 281 on sale now: Exclusive Eddie Van Halen interview
June 2
- Zakk Wylde talks Wylde Audio, Adele and Book Of Shadows II: "I've always loved the softer side of things as much as the heavy"
- Summer NAMM 2016: Epiphone reissues the Century and "the most beautiful electric guitar ever made"
- Issue 306 of Future Music is on sale now
- Numark's NV Serato DJ controller gets updated
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (June 2016)
- RÜFÜS's favourite music software
- Summer NAMM 2016: Martin reveals new dreadnought and LE Cowboy acoustic guitars
- In the studio: Rival Sons
- Empress unveils studio-quality Reverb guitar effects pedal with Beer mode
- Cakewalk announces Sonar for Mac and free lifetime updates for PC
June 1
- The amp and FX-loaded ElectroPhonic Model One is a guitar "beyond anything you've ever known"
- New updates await Focusrite's second-generation Scarlett interfaces
- New tech gear of the month: review round-up (June 2016)
- Rig tour: Slipknot
- Hip-hop beats Kraftwerk in court ruling... again
- Asking Alexandria's Ben Bruce: the 10 records that changed my life
- Watch Bastl and Mental Overdrive take a step back in time to revisit the Distortotron