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September 30
- Whoops! Iron Maiden's Janick Gers sends his Strat flying in San Antonio
- Eric Clapton auctioning off Gibson Firebird and Fender Blind Faith Telecaster from his personal collection
- JHS Pedals has a tasty treat for your pedalboard with its Big Cheese clone
- Massive Unity's TAE 10th Anniversary Preamp packs a whole lot of Brian May-esque tube-drive tones in a stompbox
- 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in October 2019
September 27
- Red Witch unveils the Synthotron II analogue guitar synthesiser
- Z.Vex releases Abbey Road Fuzz Factory 7 to mark 50 years of the Beatles' classic
- Build your own drive pedal with MOD Kits DIY's Saturator
- Fender releases the Acoustasonic Telecaster with very exotic ziricote top
- You can now use external storage devices with GarageBand for iOS
- This is what happened when our song was sampled by Jay-Z
- Skindred's Mikey Demus launches Redbeard Effects with the Red Mist MKIV distortion
- Mackie’s SRM-Flex is a new lightweight portable PA for solo artists and bands
September 26
- The Black Keys offer their own online expert MasterCourse
- Watch 2019's astonishing Young Guitarist of the Year finalists in action
- PRS launches European exclusive SE Ltd Sand-Blasted Swamp Ash series
- MAKJ: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
- Watch our Bassist of the Year 2019 final performances
- Inside Abbey Road: behind the scenes at the world's most famous studios
- Watch Kraftwerk playing Autobahn live for the BBC in 1975
- Cableguys release the ShaperBox 2 effects plugin, as David Guetta calls it a “must have”
- See all of our Acoustic Guitarist of the Year 2019 finalists in action
- Boss announces evolution of their digital delay with DD-8 and DD-3T stompboxes
- IK Multimedia’s B-3X plugin is the first official emulation of the classic Hammond organ
- Cream drummer and co-founder Ginger Baker is critically ill in hospital
- iZotope’s Ozone 9 is on the way, and you can download the $129 Ozone 8 Elements mastering suite for free!
- Watch 2019’s superb Guitarist of the Year finalists in action
September 25
- Watch Scott Ian's eight-year-old son play Everlong with the Foo Fighters
- Gibson launches Sheryl Crow signature acoustic
- Reason 11 is here, and so is the Reason Rack Plugin for other DAWs
- AAS’s Ultra Analog VA-3 synth promises two voices of vintage sound in a fast and friendly plugin
- You can now buy Reon drift box synths from Korg UK
- The 80s Arcade Sounds plugin will take you back to the era of classic coin-ops
- Career In Beats: John Bonham
- Tom Morello: "This is missionary work. I’m on a zealot’s mission out there"
- William DuVall: These are the 11 guitarists who blew my mind
- John Bonham, the quintessential rock god
September 24
- GS Music reveals the Zeus, a Moog-like 12-voice polysynth
- Fender releases digital Deluxe Reverb and Twin Reverb guitar amps
- Martin unveils the DX Johnny Cash acoustic
- Hughes & Kettner unveils the Black Spirit 200 Floor pedalboard amplifier
- BB King's 80th birthday Gibson ES-345 Lucille sold at auction for $280,000
- Shubb's new Capo Royale series will class up your acoustic playing
- The best free samples and loop download sites on the web
- How to play like Brian May
September 23
- Walrus Audio launches the EB-10 preamp, EQ and boost pedal
- Devious Machines’ Pitch Monster plugin can create big harmonies or completely change your voice
- Eric Gales to record new album with Joe Bonamassa producing
- Guitarist and Bassist of the Year 2019 winners revealed!
- Classic album: Maribou State on Portraits
- Channel Robot’s Firewalker synth plugin lets you create evolving, emotive pad sounds from a single note
- Could Sknote’s MainEQ plugin become your go-to equaliser?
- MusicRadar tech and DJ deals of the week
- MusicRadar drum deals of the week
- MusicRadar guitar deals of the week
- KMA will leave your head in the clouds with the Cirrus delay and reverb
September 22
- Kemper finally releases the Profiler Stage Floorboard
September 21
- The Guthrie Govan World Guitar Day 2019 interview: "I’ve always wanted to write a dinosaur song. All thunderous footsteps, reptilian mating calls and all that stuff!"
September 20
- 10 reasons to love being a guitarist
- Happy World Guitar Day!
- 10 rock stars' first guitars
- Guitar accessories and gear essentials for beginner guitarists
- The 15 greatest happenings in guitar history
- 11 quick-fire guitar lessons for World Guitar Day
- What My Guitar Means To Me, starring Rich Robinson, Kris Barras, Eric Gales and more
- Solar adds another two highly shreddable electrics to the Type S series
- Reason Studios promises the magic of the movies with its Scenic soundtracking instrument
- Mr Black's family of small format pedals grows as the Mini Tremolo is unveiled
- Everything you need to know about: French touch
- Now everyone can access real vintage FX hardware using a plugin
- Erica Synths Pico System III is the full analogue modular synth that you can fit in your bag
- Dunable serves up some secret sauce for your leads with the Eidolon pedal
- Legend of Zelda classic The Ballad of the Wind Fish gets the synth treatment
September 19
- Fender releases a premium Tele with a Blue Cloud quilt maple top
- Myles Kennedy: these are the 10 singers who blew my mind
- Control time and space with KMA Audio Machines’ Cirrus delay and reverb pedal
- Ibanez is giving away 3 Tube Screamer Minis and tickets to the UK Guitar Show!
- Carl Craig: "I only make use of around 5% of what each DAW is capable of"
- Jimmy Page talks about Roger Mayer bringing the distortion pedal into his life
- Analogue Solutions introduces Colossus, a jaw-dropping EMS-inspired £25k megasynth
- Here’s what the new Reason logo looks like
- Issue 349 of Future Music is on sale now
- PreSonus is offering you an affordable way to kickstart your mic collection with the PX-1 and PM-2
- Yamaha launches next generation of desktop guitar amplifiers
- Unfiltered Audio’s Lion plugin aims to be “king of the synthesis jungle”
September 18
- Washburn launches the Bella Tono acoustic series in the UK
- Tuxedo: 5 things we’ve learned about music production
- Stone Deaf unveils updated hybrid boost, drive and EQ pedal inspired by Josh Homme
- Analogue tremolo meets gritty gain in Mattoverse Electronics' TremStortion
- Ninja Tune announces the Zen Delay FX unit: a first for an electronic music label
- Fender unveils a trio of acoustics
- Tascam’s Model 16 digital recorder ‘feels like an analogue mixer’
- Moog is reissuing its compact Model 10 modular synth… but the price is big
- Novation’s Launchkey Mini Mk3 is a mini MIDI keyboard with a maxed-out feature set
- Classic gear: Marshall JTM45 MK II
- Roland’s new Zenbeats app features TR drum sounds and “makes music creation easy”
September 17
- Fender showcases Andy Summers' photography on custom signature Strat
- Ananashead turns the clock back to 1966 with the Range Booster
- Mark Tremonti: these are the 10 guitarists who blew my mind
- Watch Metallica's Kirk Hammett and Rob Trujillo jam Black Sabbath's War Pigs live
- As Yamaha celebrates 45 years of synths, could a new one be in the offing?
- Download 20 free Massive X synth presets courtesy of Expressive E
September 16
- BluGuitar unveils a pedalboard amp for metal guitarists
- Principleasure: "I was doing Sharooz for a while but a lot of what I did was just f**king embarrassing"
- Google celebrates BB King's 94th birthday with a doodle charting his life
- Explainers: What are music PRs? And what can they do for me?
- Elite Pianist is a simple $15 piano plugin for producers and beatmakers
- The Launcher is a “magic little box” that’s designed to give your standard dynamic mic a vintage sound
- Ric Ocasek, frontman of The Cars, dies aged 75
September 13
- Gore Boards brings a whole bunch of weird tones to the Line 6 Helix party
- SampleRadar: 488 free broken piano samples
- Gibson to make sloped dovewing headstocks standard on Epiphone guitars
- Blast from the past: PPG Waveterm
- TC Electronic drops massive hints on forthcoming effects
- Spotify aims to connect musicians and audio pros with acquisition of SoundBetter
- Angra’s Felipe Andreoli: “I’ve never stopped playing the bass, it was very natural for me”
- Mackie’s ProFXv3 analogue mixers feature Onyx preamps and better USB audio interfaces
- Tone makers - Walrus Audio: “Common mistakes? Obsessing over gear rather than obsessing over your personal development”
- Get ready to rumble: Teenage Engineering’s OP-Z gets a haptic subwoofer that lets you ‘feel the bass’
- Steinberg Studio Sessions: Deru
September 12
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (September 2019)
- Giorgia Angiuli's favourite music software
- Get a full virtual studio with Computer Music issue 274
- Let some jingle-jangle into your life with Fender's Electric XII
- Behringer reveals all about K-2, its Korg MS-20 analogue synth clone
- Here’s why music producers shouldn’t upgrade to macOS X 10.15 Catalina
- Cult US indie singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston has died, aged 58
- IK Multimedia’s new iRig Keys 2 MIDI keyboard controllers also come with an audio output
- Jeff Buckley guitarist Michael Tighe: “That dude could have done anything; he could have gone into opera, or more classical-type stuff”
- World Guitar Day returns for 2019!
September 11
- Esthero stops her song to protest against low royalties from streaming services
- Introducing: KHOMPA
- The best new music tech gear of the month: review round-up (September 2019)
- Satchel: these are the 10 guitarists who blew my mind
- Victory Amplification unveils the Richie Kotzen RK100 Custom
- Gibson releases the Custom Shop Slash 1966 EDS-1275 Doubleneck
- 7 Reasons why you can't miss the 2019 UK Guitar Show & London Bass Guitar Show
- You can now stream music from SoundCloud and Beatport in Pioneer’s rekordbox dj software
- Moog’s Matriarch synth has "left the building" and is heading to a music store near you
- George Benson: “I’ve always been an experimenter. When I was young, I thought I was going to be a scientist”
- Apple’s new entry-level iPad is bigger, but might not be your best option for music production
September 10
- Supro makes those classic Chicago tones bedroom friendly with the Blues King 8
- Ensoniq’s SQ-80 is back as a free VST/AU synth plugin: authentic ‘80s synthwave sounds for your DAW
- Jade Jackson: “I listened to the same Hank Williams songs, but now I actually understood the pain in a different way”
- Me in my studio: 65daysofstatic
- Fret-King gives the Black Label Country Squire Semitone Special a fresh new look
- Styx’s Ricky Phillips: “Breathing at the same time and ebbing and flowing while the drummer is, it’s huge magic”
- Roland’s Aerophone mini is the digital wind instrument that anyone can learn to play
September 9
- Stone Heavy Sound's Decade pedal will transform your pickups
- Intellectual property lawyer brands Gibson's lawsuit against Dean "ludicrous"
- Chase Bliss Audio launches Kickstarter campaign to fund development of the Blooper effects pedal
- Z.Vex's Box of Rock Clear is the overdrive pedal you can see through
- What is the best Korg Volca? Every drum machine and synth ranked
- Layton Giordani: "I never get writer’s block. I’m always just writing music; I never stop"
- Buchla’s 100 Series modular synth to be reissued in its original form
- Charlie Cunningham: “I know what is needed now, what I need to do with the guitar in that moment, in a song”
September 6
- Seven Decades to play George Harrison's Futurama guitar at the UK Guitar Show
- Sitek's Wuffy distortion pedal promises to have plenty of bark
- Is Apple about to stop you DJing with your iTunes music library?
- Producer Scott Litt on why he always wanted to remix REM's Monster
- Win a one-of-a-kind Ibanez AZ Premium with swirl finish
- Learn how to control your vibrato with this in-depth guitar lesson
- Mabel performs gig on vertical stage to help with Instagram video filming
- Korg releases Pokémon limited edition metronomes and clip-on tuners
- Bobby Vega (Sly & The Family Stone/Santana): "I’m totally blessed"
- Brent Kolatalo: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
- Modal Electronics’ Argon8 is an affordable wavetable synth with high-end heritage
- Genelec promises “the most advanced acoustic performance of any studio monitor” as it expands The Ones range
September 5
- KMA looks to transcend the overdrive pedal with the Logan Drive
- Vox releases the Mini Superbeetle in limited edition British Racing Green
- KMA Audio Machines’ Logan takes the overdrive pedal to a new place
- Elite Acoustics launches 120-watt battery-powered acoustic guitar and vocal amplifier
- Could Wave Alchemy’s Bassynth be the last word in low-end sound design?
- Rig tour: Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett - "There’s something about P-90s"
- Cort launches the Action HH4 dual-humbucker bass
- Plogue’s Chipsynth MD puts the Sega Genesis sound chip in a plugin
- Korg’s “supercharged” Kross2-88 MB is designed to be a ‘do everything’ synth
- The builder of Prince’s Cloud guitar speaks out on the trademark dispute with the late pop icon’s estate
- Hands-on demo: does the Roland MC-707 bring back that groovebox magic for a new generation?
- Roland goes back to the groovebox with the MC-707 and MC-101
- Roland redesigns its Fantom performance and production keyboards for the pro market
- Roland’s JU-06A synth is like an ‘80s Juno greatest hits package
- Roland revives a classic synth brand with the new “premium” Jupiter-X
September 4
- Watch Cara Delevingne play Sweet Home Alabama behind her head on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
- Music software giant Native Instruments confirms staff layoffs, a restructure and a “unified platform”
- Me and my guitar: And So I Watch You From Afar
- Play it again, Sam! And again, and again, and again with the MXR Clone Looper
- Korg’s $100 Nu:Tekt NTS-1 synth is the only thing you’ll want for Christmas this year
- Darkglass Electronics unveils the Microtubes 900 v2 Limited
- Top Acoustic Guitarist of the Year 2019 prize announced
- Quilter Labs squeezes a 45-watt bass amp into a pedal-sized unit with the InterBass
- 5 minutes alone - Live's Chad Taylor: “My guitar obsession means I even own my own guitar shop”
- Could Arturia’s MicroLab be the perfect portable MIDI keyboard controller?
September 3
- Electro-Harmonix launches wireless Bluetooth earbuds line R&B Buds
- Keeley Electronics invites drive, chorus and rotary to the party with the DCR pedal
- STL Tones unveils the Andy James signature plugin
- Apparat: "I never understood the IDM name - music doesn’t really feel intelligent to me"
- Hellyeah’s Christian Brady: “It can be three notes or a thousand . . . If you’re speaking the truth with it, that’s where it’s at”
- Al Cisneros (Sleep/OM): “When I’m stoned it’s readily apparent whether a rhythm has a shelf-life or not”
- Casio’s second-gen hybrid pianos promise improved sound and playability
- D’Addario's XT strings are its most technologically advanced yet
- Here's what our Young Guitarist of the Year 2019 stands to win
September 2
- Auto-Tune Artist is here to make your live performances pitch perfect
- John 5 invites Joe Bonamassa onstage to jam on a couple of Hendrix classics
- The Natal Walnut Originals kit is a perfect all-rounder, just ask the pros
- Classic album: Meat Beat Manifesto on Storm The Studio
- Watch Billie Joe Armstrong talk about how he found his Dookie tone
- 6 guitar artists you need to hear in September 2019
- Here’s what happened when guitarist Lari Basilio got Greg Phillinganes, Nathan East and Vinnie Colaiuta in the studio together
- Taylor makes master guitar designer Andy Powers a partner
- Designer of Korg’s MS-20 to lead Behringer’s new synth innovation centre in Japan