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March 31
- James Bay is teaching fans how to play his hits on guitar during the lockdown
- Tom Morello 'Soul Power' Artist Signature Stratocaster released by Fender
- Tim Exile’s Endlesss could be the free music collaboration app we all need right now
- Today is the last day to get Native Instruments' Analog Dreams soft synth for free
- John Mayer's Drone Shot Of My Yacht is the song we didn't know we needed
- Use Ableton Live 10 Suite free for 90 days!
- Steve Gadd jamming on a box with brushes is the best drum video you'll see today
March 30
- Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi interviewed by Judas Priest's Richie Faulkner
- Rig tour: The Amity Affliction's Dan Brown shows us his stealth metal Strats
- Audiokit launches limited edition Bass 808 synth app for iPad
- Fantastic Voyage is like ‘an updated 4-track PortaStudio’ for your Mac
- Arturia’s iSpark iPad drum machine is free for a limited time
- Use Apple Logic Pro X free for 90 days!
- Is Logic Pro X set to get live loop triggering and recording?
- Tracktion Waveform Free is the fully-featured DAW you don’t need to pay for
March 27
- The best gigs live streaming online featuring Metallica, Neil Young and more
- Heaven 17's Martyn Ware: "Kraftwerk were only brilliant because they were rich!"
- The free AS-16 Analog Sequencer Rack Extension might make Reason users happy to stay in their studios
- Tracktion launches Waveform Free: is this the world’s best free DAW?
- Audiomodern’s free Filterstep plugin can ‘shape any sound into a groove’
- Support your local music shop, urges UK's MIA
March 26
- Five song intros you’re probably counting wrong, and how to count them correctly
- Teach your child to play the drums and understand rhythm with Drumeo Kids
- Nine Inch Nails surprise release two new albums – and they're free
- Harley Benton's new DSP flat response guitar cab could be the ideal solution for your modelling rig
- Free Baby Taylor acoustic when you buy another Taylor guitar
- offGrid puts a wireless MIDI pad controller in the palm of your hand
- MAKE FREE MUSIC NOW - CM 281 Out Now
- UK charity launches £5m fund to help musicians
- Sony CSL launches Flow Machines, an AI-assisted music production plugin
March 25
- Gibson's HomeMadeMusic campaign offers support to musicians
- Get the Positive Grid Bias FX Mobile guitar amp and FX app free for 90 days
- Interview: Brian Fallon goes in-depth on the making of new album Local Honey
- Trevor Horn: “I’m just an old muso who likes playing and programming”
- How to beat writer's block and start a new track
- How to clean a microphone: keep your mics germ-free
- Ministry, R.E.M. and King Crimson drummer, Bill Rieflin, dies aged 59
- Ableton’s free online learning courses can teach your stuck-at-home kids how to make music and use a synth
- Teachers can get the Soundation online music studio free for their students until the end of June
March 24
- 10 tips for musicians working remotely from home by Anthony Kaoteon
- Use Reaper 6 for free until the end of June: temporary DAW licences for those stuck at home
March 23
- See a Blackstar Sonnet acoustic amp demo from UK songwriter Katie Nicholas
- Guns N' Roses, Radiohead and Tom Waits covered in Live From Home performances
- Learn the Bohemian Rhapsody guitar solo from Brian May
- Avid offers free Pro Tools licences to those who need to work from home
- "This will end many bands’ careers" – four members of the music industry speak out on the COVID-19 fallout
March 22
- Save up to 93% on Waves plugin bundles – prices dropped by as much as $3,700
March 21
- Classic interview: Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Kim Thayil talk guitar
- Kenny Rogers, 81, dies "of natural causes"
March 20
- How to start teaching musical instrument lessons online
- Me in my studio - Skalpel: "Virtual instruments aren’t always a faster way to compose"
- Meet Cyber Bass, the latest addition to the Marble Machine X
- Cordoba and Elite Guitarist team up to offer 30 days of free guitar lessons
- See 15-year-old blues sensation Toby Lee demo the Blackstar HT-20RH MkII
- Learn to play guitar and keyboards at home: easy free lessons for beginners
- Free online piano lessons for beginners: Skoove wants to make your time at home more productive
- Enter the new era of amp modelling with Mercuriall Audio Euphoria
- Cherry Audio is giving away Voltage Modular Nucleus for free: “stay at home and learn to master modular synthesis”
- Turn your effects pedals into musical instruments with Step Audio's Pilot Wave
- Spotify will soon stop working with third-party DJ apps, says Algoriddim, as djay loses support
- The best of Bandcamp: support your favourite artists today (20 March)
March 19
- The good and the bad news about Fender's new Heritage Series guitars
- Kemper's Kabinet is finally here
- 9 ways to get better at finishing tracks in your DAW
- Sign up to Loopcloud and download 1.5GB of Waves samples and the OneKnob Wetter plugin for free
- Musician starts CoFundMe campaign to support out of work tour crews
- Polyend Tracker is a standalone audio workstation inspired by classic music software
March 18
- Tony Iommi talks through his Gibson SG Special 'Monkey' signature model
- Stone Deaf gets tough on hiss and hum with the Noise Reaper pedal
- See the best Italian balcony musicians so far during the country's COVID-19 lockdown
- How you can help support musicians in the wake of Coronavirus
- 9 ways to be a productive electronic music producer in self-isolation
- Apple says that its new iPad Pro is “more powerful than most Windows PC laptops”
- Studio Sessions with Cubase: Tinlicker
- Bandcamp waiving all artist fees this friday in Covid-19 response
- Apple’s new MacBook Air has “up to 2 times faster CPU performance”, which is good news for your DAW
- Classic interview: Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard on Brad, Bigsbys, Chris Cornell and being "the luckiest man in rock"
- Glastonbury Festival postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus
- Is Akai working on an MPC Live II with CV outputs and an armrest?
- Baby Audio says that Comeback Kid is a “warmer-sounding, more inspiring delay plugin”
- Can't get to the shops? Get instant digital subs to the world's best music making mags for just £1/€1/$1 per issue!
- Bono writes and performs song inspired by Italians caught in COVID-19 lockdown
- Polyend Tracker is a different kind of portable music production device
March 17
- UK venue owners call for compulsory coronavirus closure order
- Spitfire Audio and Ólafur Arnalds’ Stratus could be unlike any piano instrument you’ve played before
- Coldplay’s Chris Martin plays impromptu gig from his house as Neil Young announces fireside live streams
March 16
- Godin Guitars launches brand new model: the three-pickup Radium
- Code Orange stream gig for free online as music performances head to the web
- Apple WWDC 2020 to be an online-only event, with new Mac and iOS operating systems set to launch
- Guns N' Roses's Mexico City festival show goes ahead – but fans' temperatures are taken on the door
March 14
- Superbooth 2020 cancelled as organisers bow to the inevitable
- Get Minimoog Model D for free on iPhone and iPad: “a gift to spread positivity”
March 13
- Fender goes back to the beginning with 70th Anniversary Broadcaster
- Watch Tool drummer Danny Carey perform Pneuma live from drum cam footage
- Korg makes iKaossilator free for iOS and Android to give you a “musical way to occupy your mind”
- Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook talks potential reunion
- 10 types of guitar YouTuber and how to spot them
- Coronavirus: which music-making events are affected?
- Coronavirus: practical advice for musicians - hygiene, contracts and more
- 5 tracks producers need to hear by… Four Tet
- "It’s the new style of heavy!" – Code Orange break down their landmark new album Underneath
- Legendary producer Larry Klein: my 12 career-defining records
- IK Multimedia’s SampleTank 4 CS gives you 50 instruments and 4GB of sounds for free
- Hit’n’Mix Infinity 4.5: music production, sound design and remixing has never been so easy
March 12
- This Fender Custom Shop Marauder could be the coolest guitar comeback of 2020
- Hands-on demo: Is the Fender Acoustasonic Stratocaster the only guitar you'll ever need?
- Watch: Chon's Mario Camarena and Erick Hansel on their signature Ibanez AZs
- Guitarist plays 50 Avenged Sevenfold songs in under six minutes
- Infinity 4.5 promises to take you beyond other audio editors with MIDI-like levels of tweaking
- Native Instruments backtracks on its decision to discontinue ‘legacy’ software
- This MIDI controller will make you feel like you’re using a real Prophet-5 synth
- Get percussive with your chords in this Maneli Jamal guitar lesson
- Ableton’s Loop summit postponed until 2021; what now for Superbooth?
March 11
- Blast from the past: Elektron Machinedrum SPS-1
- Polyend Tracker exposed in new teaser video
- Teen creates website that lets you choose your own song lyrics for hand-washing poster
- Danelectro gets Foxxy again with its new 3699 fuzz pedal
- Sampleson’s Suit73 Rhodes plugin is a “35MB suitcase electric piano that sounds like 8GB”
- Avid pulls out of all trade shows for at least 60 days and cancels Avid Connect due to coronavirus
- Fleetwood Mac, Santana, Whitesnake and Ozzy Osbourne producer Keith Olsen dies
March 10
- 5 songs guitarists need to hear by… Jimi Hendrix
- Aaron Spears releases the Aaron Spears Drum Notation Book
- Take a tour of Mike Mangini's Dream Theater drum kit
- Native Instruments to discontinue long list of products, meaning they can’t be reinstalled on new computers
- Francesca Lombardo: “I think my style of music has something to do with being a girl”
- Supro releases Blues King 10 combo amp
- Get an in-depth look at Universal Audio's LUNA recording system
- Image-Line partners with Alan Walker, K-391 and Ahrix for team remix contest for bedroom producers
- Led Zep's Stairway to Heaven chord sequence now NOT stolen, US court rules
March 9
- It’s official: Behringer is making a free DAW with built-in VST plugins
- Classic album: DJ Yoda on The Amazing Adventures of DJ Yoda
- In your honour: Jared James Nichols pays tribute to his top five blues guitar heroes
- Coronavirus threat to venues: UK towns and cities could be "like a scene from the Walking Dead" says one owner
- Daisy is the $29 audio board that can be turned into a synth, guitar pedal and a whole lot more
- Dynamo's new Flight Rig amp brings heavyweight tones to a light package
March 7
- Megadeth guitarist to sell guitars, amps and pedals from his collection
March 6
- Journey fire Steve Smith and Ross Valory, while launching $10,000,000 lawsuit
- McCoy Tyner, legendary jazz pianist, dies aged 81
- High-gain heaven? Engl and Two Notes team up for guitar cab IR pack
- The Track: Lia Mice breaks down Which Memories Will Make It?
- SampleRadar: 149 free FM synth samples
- Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess on his live keyboard rig and using 55 patches in a single song
- Everything you need to know about: Liquid Drum & Bass
- Genesis are back after 13 years… but Phil Collins won't be playing drums
- 5 songs producers need to hear… by Moby
- NI says that it wants to make Maschine a “start to finish” music production platform
March 5
- Issue 355 of Future Music is on sale now
- "If you are good at something, go big on it" – rising guitar star Manuel Gardner Fernandes talks tone, technique and controversy
- Get the Hetfield Justice-era vibe for less with Harley Benton's new EX-84 Modern
- 14.1-inch Mini-LED MacBook Pro one of several new Apple products on the way, says analyst
- IK Multimedia's iRig Pro Duo I/O audio/MIDI interface is now available
March 4
- Joe Bonamassa plays tribute to Danny Gatton and Motörhead with surprise new instrumental project The Sleep Eazys
- The 7 types of electronic music producer: which are you?
- Hands-on demo: Fender Lead II and III could well be the '70s reissues you never knew you wanted
- Can you align vocals quicker than Synchro Arts’ VocALign can?
- Dream Theater's John Petrucci shows his guitar rig
- It turns out that Google Wear OS smartwatches contain a secret drum machine
- Behringer deletes ‘CorkSniffer’ apology as Peter Kirn tells people not to smash up their synths
- Musikmesse postponed due to coronavirus
- Public Enemy say that they “did not part ways with Flavor Flav over his political views”
March 3
- Matt Bellamy, Graham Coxon and Miles Kane supergroup unveils first single
- Fender's new Acoustasonic Strat dramatically remodels a classic
- New Ernie Ball string sets are available now
- Abbey Road announces Equalise as it seeks to support women in music production and audio engineering
- Ernie Ball's new Flat Ribbon Patch Cables could save you vital pedalboard space
- Behringer forced to apologise after bullying row
March 2
- Larrivée announces signature acoustic guitar for Tommy Emmanuel
- Shawn James reveals his influences and guitar-playing roots in this gritty performance of Orpheus with Elixir Strings
- Beatles guitar valued at £400,000 on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow
- David Morales: "Back at the start, all you needed was a melody and a groove. That’s the exact same s**t that you need today!”
- Coronavirus: "There are no plans" to postpone Musikmesse show
- The Track: Boston Bun breaks down Don’t Wanna Dance
- Superbooth makes coronavirus statement: “relax and make music!”