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- October 14
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- Why a Led Zep classic has finally been licensed to a film: “It’s an epic song… a song that made sense to introduce the film to the world”
- “The perfect pop song is by definition the imperfect pop song”: Jack Antonoff on vintage gear, analogue synths and Taylor Swift’s Midnights
- “I discovered my tone with it. It’s been used on every Anthrax record”: Jackson unveils cult classic signature models for Scott Ian, Randy Rhoads, David Ellefson and Marty Friedman
- “Michael said, ‘Now, the first thing I want to do is move the start of the game four hours later so that my halftime show will be in the dark’”: The story of Michael Jackson’s game-changing 1993 Super Bowl performance to be told in new documentary
- “I’m too nervous to ring him up”: Paul McCartney says he'd like to collaborate with Bob Dylan, but won't make the first move
- Harley Benton’s latest mega-drop includes semi-hollows with serious BB King and Dave Grohl vibes – plus shreddable S-styles with VegaTrems for under 500 bucks
- “It’s shocking and I was really depressed. Just the optics of it were just awful and I’m speechless”: Former Beach Boys star Al Jardine reveals his sadness over ex-bandmate Mike Love’s very public decline
- “They advised us not to do the show. They said it would kill him”: Sharon Osbourne reveals Ozzy did Back to the Beginning against doctors’ advice
- John 5 says it is a compliment when people accuse Mötley Crüe of using backing tracks: “Sometimes Vince is behind the beat, or ahead of the beat, but do you know how impossible it would be to lip-sync if something was behind the beat?”
- October 13
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- “A master-quality listening experience that captures the full dynamics of the recording”: Forget vinyl and CD revivals – Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark has just been reissued on reel-to-reel tape
- “Ooh, Olivia does remixes now”: Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan fans have big expectations regarding a collab single after Pro Tools video teaser
- “I wear it as a badge of honour that it was voted the worst song of all time. But that song has paid the rent for many decades”: Bernie Taupin doesn’t regret writing the lyrics for a much-maligned US No 1 hit – but he’s still embarrassed by it
- Fender reboots US-made flagship lineup with the American Professional series: “You don’t evolve an instrument like the Strat or Tele by changing things just to make them new”
- “I said, ‘This could be an interesting riff.’ It turned out in 21/8. But it’s not like, ‘Oh, how many notes could we fit together and make a crazy time signature?’”: Elite drummer Gavin Harrison on how The Pineapple Thief create their progressive art rock
- October 12
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- "He was so much more than a great guitarist and innovator. I cherish the relationship we had": Slash is honoured with the Les Paul Spirit Award for 2026
- Bubblegum is a free Melodyne-style note editor for Windows, Mac and Linux
- “Lately, it’s always gone to whoever’s popular. I’m sure the next one will have Harry Styles or Taylor Swift or something. That’s probably how it’ll go”: Veteran songwriter Don Black on who might get the next Bond theme, and why it probably won't be him
- “We changed a bunch of the keys a bunch of times to try to find what was comfortable for her to sing it”: Linkin Park explain the adjustments that had to be made for new vocalist Emily Armstrong
- “Despite doctors, family and friends urging him to focus on his health, he insists on being on stage”: An “alarmingly frail” Mike Love returns to live duties with the Beach Boys
- Sombr stumbles over his lyrics but Lindsey Buckingham delivers a blistering guitar solo as they duet on a Fleetwood Mac classic
- "Pasta, cereal, toilet roll and tinned fruit": Matthew Herbert has made an entire album from samples of everyday food items
- “It’s easy for someone who knows nothing about production to identify a bad or weak mix – it will simply sound less ‘good’ than other tracks”: The ultimate beginner's guide to recording digitally
- “In the beginning we often called our studio an electronic garden – but that garden developed into a factory farming industry”: Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos tells us how technology curbed the band's creativity
- October 10
- October 9
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- "The best ideas hit when you're not expecting them. Jam is built so you're always ready": Behringer unveils two compact MIDI controllers and sequencers, Jam and Jam Play
- “One of our defining cultural moments of recent times”: How to watch Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger reunion documentary
- “Fans are losing the chance to experience music from across Europe, and critically, opportunities for us all to tell each other’s stories through music”: UK minister bemoans barriers to music industry put up by Brexit
- “Sampling is our art form. We’ve accepted that we’re not going to make loads of money from record sales!”: The Avalanches on why clearing samples is harder than ever, working with Jamie xx and swapping hardware samplers for Pro Tools
- “For some years now I’ve been struggling with the onset of the evil arthritis, which is now in an advanced state in my left shoulder and right hand, my right shoulder, and both knees”: Judas Priest bassist Ian Hill retires with immediate effect
- “You should keep that to yourself, dude”: Thom Yorke offers an odd response to Harry Styles when he tells him that he uses GarageBand to record his song ideas
- Prince had some early notes for guitarist Levi Seacer Jr in his first rehearsal: “I do the rock thing. You play the funk and jazz. Got it?”
- October 8
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- “99% percent of people who buy synths don’t use them as a productive tool for making music. It’s therapy. It’s entertainment”: Teenage Engineering co-founder says the company will stop making synths, and that the OP-1 was about more than just productivity
- “I’m the king cork-sniffer of vintage amps… but you cannot deny the fact that it sounded, at least to my ears, better and more consistent”: Fender unveils Joe Bonamassa’s Tone Master Twin – is it really better than the tube version?
- Stylophone shrinks its classic stylus-operated synth down to keyring size with the Stylophone Mini
- “It's like, 'Are we a band, Kevin, or is this the Kevin show, and we're just your session musicians?'”: Kevin Parker on how he’s learned to let his Tame Impala touring bandmates have some freedom
- Travis Barker reveals reason for his mystery hospitalisation: “My arm, hand and fingers have been numb since a show I played last month"
- “I was like, ‘Oh thanks, every Google search from now on is going to come up with that’”: Robert Smith considers the SEO implications of Olivia Rodrigo releasing a song called The Cure
- “Everything that Mutt Lange does is always right. I don’t care what anybody says… Any time he changed something, I did it. Because it’s Mutt Lange”: Tommy Henriksen and Phil Collen on the genius of rock’s legendary über-producer
- “Keith had just showed me so much about open tunings and playing different inversions, so my hands were in that mentality”: Andrew Watt on how producing the Rolling Stones accidentally influenced Pearl Jam's Dark Matter
- October 7
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- “This album, I’m never submittin’ it”: Drake joins BTS and Stray Kids in snubbing next year’s Grammys
- “For decades he gave us the songs that became the soundtrack to our love stories, our celebrations, and our most treasured memories”: Eighties soul singer Freddie Jackson has died, aged 70
- “I betrayed the music community I care so much about”: Streaming fraudster sentenced to 18 months in prison for streaming fraud
- Arturia’s AstroLab gets its biggest firmware update yet, adding deeper sound editing and 67 new presets
- “I couldn't believe how he’d deteriorated”: Tony Iommi says he was “shocked” at Ozzy Osbourne’s condition when they rehearsed for the Back To The Beginning show
- Amazon Prime Day is a bust for music makers, but don't worry, the Musician's Friend Rocktober sale is here to save the day with up to 50% off big-name brands
- “The foundation for this unique career was laid in that kitchen – with a broken Mellotron and ideas for eternity”: Jean-Michel Jarre to release 50th anniversary edition of Oxygene, the homemade electronic music album that sold more than 18 million copies
- UDO does its best Oberheim impression with the release of the expandable DMNO ON desktop synth
- “It is as fine an instrument as we’ve ever made”: The Gibson Custom Shop brings back the 1957 L-5 CES with a meticulous VOS reissue
- "It's one of the rarest synthesizers ever made": Cherry Audio brings a forgotten ‘80s synth back to life
- "It's the most underground of underground raves ever": Roni Size to play the world’s deepest rave in an abandoned Welsh mine
- October 6
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- How John 5 and Fender reinvented the Telecaster with the Mötley Crüe guitarist's new signature collection: “I thought, ‘Well, let’s make a Telecaster that’s really comfortable to play and looks like a monster’”
- “We will keep enforcing our artists’ rights... but it’s becoming an uphill struggle”: Sony Music reveals the number of deepfake AI tracks it’s asked to be removed has doubled in six months
- “Use any input as raw material for granular sound design”: Baby Audio HyperWarp wants to be your new quick-fix for glitches, stutters and out-there inspiration
- “Nobody questioned it. Nobody said, ‘Justin, you know, we have drums. This is a professional recording studio. There are instruments available to you’”: Justin Timberlake apologises for his beatboxing era as video discussing it goes viral
- Learn to Play 26, Britain’s biggest music-making weekend, is next week: “With performing arts teaching grants having been reduced to zero and specialist training institutions facing cuts of up to 50%, it's needed more than ever”
- I used to sell digital pianos and keyboards for a living – these are the only deals I'm recommending in the Amazon Big Deal Days sale
- “It really broke us up, and I don’t think John Deacon did cope. He went to pieces. He didn’t want to go on in the music industry after that”: Roger Taylor and Brian May open up about losing Freddie, touring and depression
- "RIP my dear friend Sass. A true friend. We had so much love, joy and laughter": Deep Purple's Glenn Hughes and more pay tribute to Canadian blues rock singer Sass Jordan who has died, aged 65
- Working with Dave Grohl is "really addictive", says Josh Homme: "It's really addictive... You play him a riff, and he'll play that riff back at you on the drums. And then he'll play a drum counter-melody that would have been a harmony going on”
- October 5
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- Could the claim that Olivia Dean copied Bill Withers’ Just The Two Of Us come down to four bars of music?
- The record Led Zep wanted destroyed: Antiques Roadshow goes to Caerphilly and finds an unlikely survivor
- The Chompi sampler has been reborn as a free plugin
- Why is metal guitarist Devin Townsend out on the road again just a year and a half after taking an “indefinite” break from touring?: “Financial armageddon”
- “I've got a song that's waiting to be written called Fat People With Guns, which is about America”: Phil Collins says he doesn’t write songs any more, but does have a potential title for one
- “We’re in the entertainment business. If someone uses Suno to write a lyric, it’s not a high crime or misdemeanour”: Joe Bonamassa has sympathy for up-and-coming artists using AI to get an edge
- October 3
- October 2
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- “I always thought John was very cool. But he could be a complete idiot, over some things”: Paul McCartney thinks that Lennon “expected more from me” in the early '70s
- “The secret sauce is that I don’t reharmonise the melody, I reharmonise the key”: Instagram reharm sensation Oli Howe on the formula behind his chaotic reworks of classic hits, and winning the approval of Lenny Kravitz and Justin Timberlake
- I sifted through Sweetwater's massive up to 50% off studio gear sale to bring you the best equipment discounts
- “Breathing feels like a chore, it feels like hard work”: Lola Young bemoans the effect of vaping on her health
- SampleRadar: 485 free tape-treated samples
- “At that stage, he was the best keyboard player in the Beatles because Paul and John had not developed their keyboard talents as well as he had”: Giles Martin reveals that his father's piano solo on In My Life was originally played on an organ
- October 1
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- “I want people in the future to think, ‘That band Venom was crazy!’ I just wanted to be part of the story of rock ’n’ roll. I wanted to live that life”: Heavy metal innovator Conrad ‘Cronos’ Lant of Venom has died aged 63
- Universal Audio's next generation of Volt audio interfaces offers more ways to shape your sound
- Novation launches FLpad and FLpad Mini, its first dedicated pad controllers for FL Studio
- “So this is what happens when the CEO learns how to make electric guitars?”: Matteo Mancuso’s signature Revstar arrives, ESP goes necro and Strymon’s analogue era continues – this is MusicRadar's guitar gear roundup, the September 2026 edit
- “You’re not going to get me into politics, are you?”: U2 suggest that Ed Sheeran was reluctant to get political on recent collaboration
- Slipknot's Jim Root says "Forgive my ignorance about who we do shows with" amid growing backlash against Marilyn Manson support slot: “There are other people with much bigger brains than I that coordinate all that”
- Positive Grid just kicked off the deal season with a gigantic 38% discount on our favourite headphone amp for guitarists and a wallet-friendly FRFR
- “When he was shot, that was a horrible, horrible thing for me. It was like, he was like an older brother to me”: Billy Joel wishes he’d got the chance to perform with John Lennon, and says that Mozart-esque "genius" Jimi Hendrix was "from another planet"