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- April 30
- April 29
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- Blackstar Amplification Senior Product Developer Alex Gee on the valve Vs modelling debate, innovation and his career advice for budding amp designers
- See Paul McCartney duet on a Beatles classic with John Lennon, play Wings and solo classics as he kicks off solo tour in US
- Charvel rounds off its epic week with the release of the hotly anticipated Jake E Lee Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1, and a duo of Pro-Mod DK24 speedsters
- Keeley Electronics and Primus guitarist Larry LaLonde join forces for the Artist Series Edition Le Bubble Tron
- Loopcloud launches its best-ever sale! Save a massive 50% on all annual plans
- Martin's No Limits Challenge is literally taking acoustic playing to the limit
- PikoPiko’s mini Prophet-5 synth clone is now on Kickstarter
- Blue Yeti vs AT2020: what's the difference between these two affordable USB mics?
- SolidGoldFX releases Lysis MkII Polyphonic Octave Fuzz Modulator in limited edition Seafoam
- Ever wondered what bassoon, accordion or bagpipes would sound like through a guitar amp and effects pedals?
- Vintage vs. modern: classic dynamics processors go up against their contemporary counterparts
- “You can’t make a conventional, by-the-numbers bio doc about Brian Eno,” says director of unconventional bio doc about Brian Eno
- Best reverb pedals: 17 of the best reverb effects for your pedalboard
- Gone Fishing Effects’ special edition Grim germanium fuzz pedal is a “square wave doom machine” and one of a kind
- Empower every moment at Coachella with the OPPO Find X5 Pro
- EarthQuaker Devices launches the Special Cranker, “an overdrive you can trust”
- April 28
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- "My Tele was on just about every track I did with The Smiths" – John Porter talks producing Johnny Marr on Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
- SampleRadar: 193 free extreme bass samples
- Noel Gallagher fears for the future of rock music: "Where are the 14 year olds in bands now? Working class kids can't afford to do it"
- Interview: Josh Dally on going solo and collaborating with synthwave icons Timecop1983 and FM-84
- Ableton’s free Learning Synths website is now much more DAW-friendly
- New ways of hearing: a brief history of ambient music
- Caelum Audio pushes the envelope as it releases free Flux Mini 2 plugin
- April 27
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- Is Oberheim on the cusp of launching a new OB-X synth?
- Klaus Schulze, German electronic music pioneer, has died aged 74
- PENDANT: "Punk and rock can’t reach the piercing highs or booming lows that are accessible in electronic music"
- SampleRadar: 282 free experimental breaks samples
- Open-back vs closed-back headphones: how do they differ?
- Avid refreshes its Pro Tools line-up, adding a $10/month Artist plan, a drum machine and a new synth
- The beginner's guide to: post-dubstep
- We put together a DIY guitar kit: Here's what we took away from the process
- Producer T Bone Burnett announces new analogue disc format and promises “the first breakthrough in analogue sound reproduction in more than 70 years”
- Jack White reveals the guitar advice Prince gave him and the 'lost' album he's helping to release
- Sting on his split with the Police: "Explaining to someone why their song isn't working is a bit like saying their girlfriend's ugly"
- Roland’s Juno-X is a modern-day synth in ‘80s clothing
- April 26
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- Ernie Ball Music Man releases the Joe Dart II, the Vulfpeck bassist’s “ultimate live axe”
- AmpliTube 5 users can now nail Brian May’s Another World guitar tones for free
- Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct
- Ernie Ball and Metallica’s James Hetfield launch Papa Het’s Hardwired Master Core signature electric guitar strings
- Best tambourines: Options for drummers, percussionists and vocalists
- Harley Benton unveils a pair of budget and travel friendly ukuleles just in time for summer holiday season
- SampleRadar: 530 time-stretched and pitch-shifted samples
- Sweeten your tone like a pro with Carl Martin’s Honey Comp Danish High-End Compressor pedal
- Expand your sonic horizons with up to eight free Expansions for Native Instruments’ Maschine
- Cherry Audio teases new vintage synth plugin and challenges you to distinguish its sound from the original hardware
- Reverend Guitars and Billy Corgan team up for the Z-One, a signature electric inspired by The Smashing Pumpkins’ heaviest songs
- Mutable Instruments says that it won’t develop any new Eurorack modules and that all existing ones will be discontinued
- Jimi Jules: "We need a proper DAW for phones - it's 2022 and we've shot cars into space, it's long overdue!"
- April 25
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- Logic Pro vs. Garageband: do I really need to upgrade?
- Vienna Symphonic Library’s free piano plugin brings a Bösendorfer Imperial concert grand to your DAW
- KV331 Audio's SynthMaster One and 2 are now compatible with NKS standard. Grab up to 50% off in their Spring Sale
- Joe Bonamassa's tech Mike Hickey reveals exactly how he likes his guitars set up
- April 23
- April 22
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- How Mark Tremonti taught himself to sing Sinatra and then faced the most difficult time of his life
- Marcus King announces new album and shares its first single, Hard Working Man
- Get even closer to the Jupiter-8 with the latest update to Roland's Jupiter-X and Xm synthesizers
- 6 common mistakes all piano players make
- Henry Greenleaf: "Kick drums can take minutes to get good enough, and months to get exactly right"
- Watch EarthQuaker Devices’ boss and self-confessed impulse hoarder Jamie Stillman offer a tour of his gear archive
- KMA Machines’ ursine debut stompbox is rehoused and refreshed as the Fuzzly Bear 2
- Add the secret sauce to your mixes with a massive $488/£374 off the SSL Native Essentials Bundle at Plugin Boutique
- English alt-rock pioneers Placebo are selling off their gear on Reverb
- New feature-length Randy Rhoads documentary given release date and trailer
- April 21
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- D'Addario XS coated strings are now available for electric guitar
- Fixing the acoustics in your home studio could be a simple process
- Fender teams up with Wrangler for a denim-fuelled collaboration
- John Frusciante on the influence of founding RHCP guitarist Hillel Slovak: “His style is the centre of my own”
- Elektron unveil new hybrid drum machine and synthesizer, the Syntakt
- Mdou Moctar gets reimagined with remix album, Afrique Refait
- Teenage Engineering reveal the TX-6 mixer and audio interface
- “I definitely felt something special in the air that day” – the story of recording Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl
- Kurt Cobain’s Smells Like Teen Spirit 1969 Competition Blue Fender Mustang is going on display in London before auction
- Best beginner DJ mixers: affordable scratch, club and rotary mixers to get you started
- All of Waves' plugin bundles are 50% off for the next 24 hours
- Mawf is a free machine learning-powered plugin synth from the company behind TikTok
- Keeley announces Moon Op Amp Fuzz for Gilmour-inspired tones and beyond
- The Fender Final Fantasy XIV Strat is finally released in the UK
- 10 essential tips for EQ and dynamics processing
- April 20
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- Gamechanger Audio's Bigsby pedal collaboration with Fender is now onsale
- Apple Music launches DJ mixes in Spatial Audio, announces exclusive mix from Jeff Mills
- EERA on how Soviet Russian synths and Queens of The Stone Age inspired the sound of her new album, Speak
- "Life post-Neil is still fresh" – Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee unite for candid interview
- Elektron teases mysterious new product: could this be the Syntakt?
- April 19
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- The Gibson Gene Simmons G² Thunderbird Bass has landed
- Guitar effects pedal companies and Reverb launch campaign to support Ukraine humanitarian relief effort
- Inspire The Music is a new book exploring 50 years of Roland history
- Orange unveils Marcus King MK Ultra signature head – first Orange guitar amp to be designed and built in the USA
- David Lee Roth weighs in on Van Halen tribute tour rumours
- Pioneering luthier Rick Turner dies, age 78
- Behringer unveil final prototype of their PPG Wave clone
- Baby Audio’s Crystalline is a next-gen algorithmic reverb plugin with a classic sound
- Soft as Snow: "Be clear about the sound you want - I’ve met so many sound engineers trying to explain to me how I should do my music"
- April 18
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- April 15
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- Alan White's Ludwig drum kit, used on John Lennon's Imagine has been stolen
- Watch Taylor Hawkins rescue Foo Fighters show after Dave Grohl loses his voice
- J. Rockett’s new El Hombre overdrive is a Billy Gibbons-inspired amp-in-a-box Texas tone machine
- Why Elixir® Strings are good to go (for a long, long time)
- Sigala: "Having loads of toys in the studio is more of a distraction than anything else - and I’m very easily distracted"
- Flashback: See Foo Fighters play their Wasting Light album in full 11 years ago
- April 14
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- While She Sleeps’ Sean Long: “I don’t want people holding this guitar and being scared to put it down. I want people to f**k it up!”
- Fender marks 60 years of the Jaguar with two new vintage and modern-spec’d versions
- Put your hands in the air for Moog’s new Etherwave Theremin
- Joe Bonamassa unveils signature Fender ’48 Dual Professional JB Edition amp
- An Arturia project manager explains how plugins are made (and why the best ones might still be to come)
- The 10 drum machines that changed musical history
- Best acoustic guitars under $500/£500 in: expert picks for budget-conscious players
- Florida man allegedly bought 11 Gibson Les Pauls using 78-year-old woman’s credit card
- Best guitar capos: 8 great budget-spanning picks
- Classic album: Fred Everything on Light of Day
- Korg announces next-gen Volca FM: compact DX7-inspired synth gets expanded polyphony, new MIDI features and more
- April 13
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- See and hear how scales and chords are played with ToneGym’s free online tool
- Channel some legendary studio magic with cut-price Waves Abbey Road plugins - now only $29.99 each
- SampleRadar: 105 free 808 weight samples
- The 10 best pianists of all time
- Symphony X shredder-in-chief Michael Romeo’s 5 tips for guitarists: “Keep speeding up those patterns you’re working on. That’s the way to build up speed… there are no shortcuts”
- Best budget PCs for music production: Plenty of power and performance for less
- Song lyric analysis shows that artists have got sexier, swearier and less positive over the past 70 years
- JHS Pedals adds the Screamer overdrive to its $99 stompbox range
- “Party like it’s 2099”: Oberheim channels Prince as it looks set to return with a new synth
- Gibson releases exquisite Murphy Lab replica of Sergio Vallìn’s Bigsby-equipped 1955 Gold Top Les Paul Standard
- Is cloud streaming a viable option for DJs?
- April 12
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- Best website builders for bands and musicians: Sell your merch, get your music heard and build your fanbase
- Victory updates and expands super-compact and floor-friendly V4 guitar amp range with The Copper, Jack and Sheriff
- Free Arturia plugin: hybrid strings instrument kicks off ‘Augmented’ software series
- Online drum lessons vs face to face: Which is right for you?
- TrueFire wants to take online guitar lessons to the next level with new immersive Song Learning System
- Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic and Soundgarden alumni Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron form 3rd Secret, release surprise album
- Plugin Alliance and Brainworx join Native Instruments and iZotope in a new company called Soundwide
- Watch Anthrax’s Scott Ian unveil his collection of custom Jackson guitars and share the stories behind them
- 10 iconic movie and TV piano performances that inspired me to start playing
- Kurt Cobain’s Nevermind-era Fender Mustang smells like the next $1 million guitar as it goes up for auction
- DJ meets producer: how to perform your own tracks in a set
- Digital Farm Animals on producing for Charli XCX and Dua Lipa: "It's not a real job, is it? We're just sitting around making beats and writing songs!"
- April 11
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- Valve Steam Deck can run Bitwig’s DAW and the VCV Rack 2 Pro synth as a plugin: a gaming handheld that music producers should be interested in, too?
- SampleRadar: 245 free digital nature samples
- Digitalis is an audio degradation plugin that looks like it was made in 1984 and mimics the sound of bad converters and catastrophic errors, but don’t let that put you off
- Retro Cazio: free VST plugin emulates the Casio MT-100 “toy keyboard” from the ‘80s
- Jon Hopkins has produced a 32-channel immersive soundtrack to trip-inducing art installation Dreamachine
- How to become a better DJ in 2022
- e-instruments' Producer Tips series will help you make better music
- Leslie West tells the the story of Mountain's Mississippi Queen: "If only every song was that easy, man!"
- April 9
- April 8
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- Red Hot Chili Peppers revisit Under The Bridge, Give It Away and perform new song on the Howard Stern Show
- The Clash: 5 songs guitarists need to hear (that aren't London Calling)
- Loraine James on how Slate + Ash plugins and the Hologram Electronics Microcosm inspired the sound of Whatever The Weather
- Watch Mike Campbell show off his epic guitar collection
- What’s included in Universal Audio UAD Spark? All the native UAD plugins explained
- Issue 382 of Future Music is out now
- How to practice the piano: try this 5-step routine for beginners
- Jack White reflects on The White Stripes: “I wasn’t trying to play complicated guitar solos or learning seven chord changes. It was just really visceral”
- Boom 3D will redefine your music listening experience on macOS & Windows
- Behringer says there’s something “in the air tonight” as it invokes Phil Collins to tease potential Roland CR-78 drum machine clone
- Fender Master Builder Ron Thorn has made a Custom Shop Tele and Strat out of the rafters from Toronto’s legendary El Mocambo
- Electronic guitar: using octave pedals to extend range
- April 7
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- Pink Floyd reform for new single Hey Hey Rise Up in aid of Ukraine
- Harley Benton shows its punk rock side with new Mosrite-style MR-Series guitars
- Bogdan Raczynski: “EDM is so f*cking boring. Where is the joy? Where is the smile? What happened to the heart?”
- KMA Machines unveils Queequeg 2 Sub Generator
- Guitar setup: how to find and fix pickup phase problems
- Gibson teams up with Leo Scala for first Gibson Master Artisan Collection guitars
- Amazon UK has slashed £46 off the Positive Grid Spark Pearl amp and bag bundle for a super limited time
- Technics celebrates 50 years of the SL-1200 turntable with a limited-edition model that comes in 7 custom colours
- The Breakdown: Turno on how he produced the ambient intro to his track Melia
- Charvel and While She Sleeps’ Sean Long release Pro-Mod San Dimas signature model
- This is what happened when AI tried to write a Joe Bonamassa-style blues track
- Ashun Sound Machines Hydrasynth is leading the charge in a new wave of digital synthesis
- April 6
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- Vivian Campbell on Gary Moore: "No matter what genre he was playing, he brought a real intensity to his guitar playing that no one has ever matched for me"
- Air Music launches 7 new instrument plugins, including an ARP Odyssey emulation and a hybrid synth
- The Breakdown: Turno on how to produce drum 'n' bass in Logic Pro
- Best mouse for music production: The finest mice, trackpads, and trackballs you can lay your hands on
- Louis La Roche: "It's become so easy to find samples these days - the art of recording has become a little lost"
- Ed Sheeran responds to court ruling in plagiarism case: “Shape of You is original. We did not copy the defendants’ song”
- SampleRadar: 252 free bendy bassline samples
- April 5
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- See Cory Wong enter the Great British Bass Off
- Clutch's new song Red Alert (Boss Metal Zone) pokes fun at the most ridiculous pedal-related conspiracy theory ever
- Fender releases Nile Rodgers Hitmaker Stratocaster
- Novation unveils FLkey MIDI keyboards, its first dedicated FL Studio controllers
- The beginner's guide to: bassline
- Best guitar effects pedals: Our pick of effects in every pedal category
- Put Josh Homme’s QOTSA guitar tone on your pedalboard with Acorn Amps’ Solid State practice-amp-in-a-box
- Maxon puts high-calorie Tube Screamer overdrive back on the menu with limited edition OD-9 Creamdrive
- Toontrack launches EZdrummer 3: songwriter-friendly drum software now comes with a Bandmate feature that creates grooves automatically
- Best Casio Keyboards: Our pick of the tech giant’s finest keyboards, whatever your budget or ability
- Yousician’s AI-powered GuitarTuna Play app will finally help you nail the chords to your favourite songs
- Ultra-rare footage of an 11-year-old Prince emerges in archive news report
- Baby Audio’s Crystalline is a next-gen algorithmic reverb plugin that sounds “almost unreal”
- April 4
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- HitSend is a one-stop solution for pro mixing and mastering engineers: share files, communicate and get paid in one place
- Ruben Wan and Helen Ibe cover funk, R&B classics on Martin acoustics. But who's better? You decide - vote now!
- You can now share and download AmpliTube presets with other players on IK Multimedia's new ToneNET platform
- Robot piano plays black MIDI file Rush E - “the world’s hardest piano song” - then goes up in smoke
- Steve Vai grapples with his three-necked beast in Teeth Of The Hydra video
- Ry Cooder: 5 songs guitarists need to hear
- Jon Batiste, Silk Sonic and Olivia Rodrigo win big at the Grammy awards, as Billie Eilish honours Taylor Hawkins
- 9 ways to get more out of your Roland JX-08 and JD-08
- April 1
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- Johnny Marr: “I like synths but they don’t come anywhere near the fun you can have with a guitar, in every aspect”
- Richie Hawtin and Chilly Gonzales release short film to celebrate the launch of their new album, Consumed In Key
- Where to start with learning the piano: coordination, chords and more
- Dave Mustaine and Lamb Of God join forces for new version of Megadeth's Wake Up Dead
- UK guitarist Sophie Lloyd pays tribute to Randy Rhoads with Crazy Train shred cover
- Vocaster at Gear Expo Summer 2022: The essential tool for any podcaster to get broadcast quality sound
- "Flea had this big pipe and was beating it, I’m playing car wheel brake drums and Anthony was playing a garbage can" - the story of Red Hot Chili Peppers' Breaking The Girl
- Anthony Kiedis on Rick Rubin: “I'll see people look at him like, ‘Shouldn't he be getting to work now?’”
- Turns out CME’s “inspired by Behringer” SWIDI controller was a joke… but now it’s real (probably)
- Joe Satriani: "I just wanted to raise my bar – I just wanted it to be higher on every level"
- Rear of the gear of the year winner announced: inaugural prize awarded for the best-appointed back panel
