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- “Own a piece of grunge history”: Could your next amp be Kurt Cobain’s stage-played Fender Twin? Nirvana’s Bleach-era touring backline goes up for sale
- “The story he’s never told — the band, the fame, the heartbreak, the healing. And yes, the astrology”: Tears For Fears’ Roland Orzabal writes his first-ever autobiography and it's an astrological memoir
- Calling all guitarists! Guitar Center's legendary Guitar-A-Thon sale has finally dropped including up to $700 off a Gibson - here's 9 of the best deals selected by an expert
- SampleRadar: 250 free bass synth samples
- “Because it is my neck and brain, our hands are tied”: Phoebe Lunny reveals neck fracture and "acute brain injury" forcing Lambrini Girls to pull out of Coachella
- “They’ve been turning up unexpectedly at random people’s houses”: Cryptic VHS tapes mailed to fans hints at a Boards of Canada revival
- "It's the DAW you love, redesigned around the only thing that matters – your tracks": Reason 14 launches in public beta
- “We are about to do something insane… and you're the designer!”: Guitar Center is launching its own guitar brand and it wants players’ input with its design
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- “Always a pleasure to host BFG in my office, and even better when he decides to take one of my CEO builds on tour!” Gibson CEO Cesar Gueikian has made a stunning custom Explorer – and Billy Gibbons is playing it onstage with ZZ Top
- "It's unlocked a new sound and side to my writing": Misha Mansoor reveals signature Jackson Custom Shop Baritone Surfcaster
- "This is the beginning of a more ambitious journey": Elektron acquired by investment company Bonnier Capital
- “It’s become one of our favorite woods to work with”: PRS launches 6 limited mango top guitars
- “I was a little uncomfortable, to be honest. I gradually convinced myself that it was okay”: Myles Kennedy on what it was like to play Jeff Buckley’s Telecaster – and how he felt unworthy to play it
- “He said, ‘Yeah, you know, it’s kind of harder to play that way’, but he just loved the way it sounded”: Eric Johnson on why pick choice and picking style are fundamental to your playing – and how his favourite jazz player got his sound by using his thumb
- Universal Music Group, home to Taylor Swift, Drake, Elton John and other stars receives record $63bn buyout offer
- DrumBot is an AI-powered chatbot drum machine that “listens, learns and talks back” – but who is it for?
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- Wireless Festival cancelled and tickets refunded after UK Government blocks Kanye West’s entry
- “Six room sizes, a gated reverb patch and a reverse reverb patch for your consideration”: Catalinbread launches compact reverb pedal with inspired by the Neil Young and Daft Punk-approved Alesis Microverb
- "The truth is that your studio has as much potential to get in the way of your creativity as it does to unlock it": 5 creativity-boosting studio workflow tips
- “I hate to break it to you, but your favourite artist records my old songs”: Sky Ferreira seemingly fires shots at Charli xcx on social media
- “There was a back door to the studio that led out to the street. I went out and I'm not kidding you, but this guy pops out of a trash can – it was Ginger Baker!”: Jimmy Douglass on his early days working for Atlantic Records
- “He’s plugged a Les Paul Columbus in 40 years ago at maximum volume and now his ears are done”: Gary Numan claims to be “90% deaf”
- “The beat goes on, but the pocket will never be the same": Bandmates, friends and stars pay tribute to James Gadson
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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
- April 1
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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