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- January 31
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- Yamaha’s AG08 continues the flow of new live streaming and podcasting mixers
- Victory expands its amp range with the Sheriff 25 and VS100 Super Sheriff
- Total control: how the latest MPE, touch and gesture controllers could revolutionize your music production
- John 5 has revealed his Mötley Crüe touring rig and it is a surprisingly simple setup
- Live music performances down by 16.7% in 2022 says UK's Music Venue Trust
- Rhodes MK8 electric piano vs Rhodes V8 plugin: can producer Steve Levine tell which is which in a blind listening test?
- Steve Vai warns touring is so expensive now “you are lucky to break even”
- Gibson 'pleased' with end of Heritage Guitars legal case but has either company actually won?
- MIDI sequencing plugin Strokes revamped with sampler and effects
- Best delay plugins: Add depth and dimension to your mixes with these must-have plugins
- Rick Rubin on Paul McCartney's bass playing and 'simple' songwriting: "He’s using this technique that any child could do, then it morphs into one of the greatest songs of all time"
- January 30
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- Native Instruments and iZotope's parent company Soundwide lays off 8% of staff
- Paul McCartney reveals previously unheard Jeff Beck collaboration
- Enter the Matrix, a new portable, affordable open-source grid controller that could light up your performances
- 12-year-old busker wins Johnny Marr Award funding
- Neural DSP’s Quad Cortex 2.00 update adds Hybrid Mode and nearly 900 new Neural Captures
- Best filter plugins: We count down our favourite frequency shapers
- Rick Astley hires Blurred Lines lawyer to sue rap artist over vocal impersonation
- Jane's Addiction call in Josh Klinghoffer as Dave Navarro dep for 2023 tour
- Motown legend Barrett Strong, co-writer of I Heard It Through The Grapevine, has died, aged 81
- "He got a lot of his style playing with Ringo, because Ringo’s a very basic drummer" - Denny Laine on Wings as a three-piece with Paul McCartney on drums
- January 29
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- January 27
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- Watch Tom Morello strut his stuff on The Tonight Show as the RATM guitarist performs Gossip with Italian Eurovision rock sensations Måneskin
- Tal Wilkenfeld joins Incubus while bassist Ben Kenney recovers after brain op
- Lykke Li and Björn Yttling on recording in ABBA's old studio: "It looks like a winter cabin from a Roger Moore James Bond movie. What more do you need to make great music?"
- Google says that its MusicLM AI model is the best text-to-music generator yet, and the audio examples might just prove it
- Watch Twisted Sister reunite with Mike Portnoy on drums and blaze through three classics at the Metal Hall Of Fame
- Here are our 5 favourite effects in huge free plugin bundle Kilohearts Essentials
- Best compressor plugins: Our pick of the greatest in-the-box compressors for the budding producer
- Only 6 of the world's top 100 producers are female or non-binary - and they're all main credited artists
- Kramer unveils the SM-1 Figured – three top-of-the-line shred machines with AAA flame-maple finishes
- Who is Tyler Johnson, the "world's top music producer" in 2022?
- 5 of the best free lo-fi tape and vinyl emulation plugins (and one worth paying for)
- IK Multimedia at Plugin Week 2023: TONEX and AmpliTube 5, working together for ultimate freedom and flexibility
- Orange puts the squeeze on cab design for slimmed-down Rockerverb 50 Mk III Combo Neo that’s 18 per cent lighter than before
- Focusrite at Plugin Week 2023: the power of large format studio music in one easy-to-use plugin suite
- EastWest Sounds at Plugin Week 2023: Create retro nostalgia and modern masterpieces
- u-he at Plugin Week 2023: Exploring new technologies for vastly improved analogue synth and delay emulation
- Nugen Audio at Plugin Week 2023: Award-winning mixing, mastering, and audio analysis tools
- Eventide at Plugin Week 2023: SplitEQ is a transient/tonal equalizer that gets precise, musical results with less time and effort
- Audiomodern at Plugin Week 2023: Loopmix is a Creative Loop Remixer Plugin that can transform your loops into a kaleidoscope of new sounds
- Auto-Tune at Plugin Week 2023: Auto-Tune Producer suite delivers creative tools for home studio producers and vocalists
- January 26
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- John Mayer live, acoustic and alone: our 6 favourite performances
- Marcus King might play vintage gear on record but this rig tour shows he takes modern "off the shelf" pedals on the road
- SampleRadar: 97 free digital bass samples
- "I feel like lower output guitar pickups give you more tone" – David Pajo on what his gifted '65 Strat taught him
- See guitar maestros Bernth and Syncatto mix melodic thrills and premium chops on their new collaboration Flow
- Maelstrom & Louisahhh: "The world feels ready to swallow a message that’s intentionally disruptive. We call it a benevolent anarchy"
- Could IK Multimedia’s iRig Stream Mic Pro be the only piece of recording hardware you need?
- January 25
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- Why are artists releasing sped-up versions of their songs?
- "It's a very true instrument" – Julian Lage explains why he uses a 'Telecaster' for jazz
- Korg’s Drumlogue drum machine gets chromatic MIDI recording
- Mindful Harmony is a free online chord progression composing tool based on the circle of fifths
- Epiphone goes low on price with its new $379 Newport bass – and there's an El Capitan J-200 acoustic four-string too
- Tascam’s Portacapture X6 looks like a compact and versatile multitrack recorder that can also be used as an audio interface
- Production giant Ken Scott on engineering the Beatles: "The first time I ever sat behind a mixing console was to record Your Mother Should Know. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing"
- Issue 318 of Computer Music is on sale now
- Are Red Hot Chili Peppers and Guns N' Roses BOTH playing Glastonbury festival?
- January 24
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- Neal Schon has turned his PRS Silver Sky Nebula into a hot-rodded HSS S-style, complete with a Floyd Rose vibrato
- Take advantage of Fender Play's new year deals with 50% off annual subscriptions and a two-week free trial
- Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter announces debut solo album, Mythologies
- Noel Gallagher says the Robert Smith remix of High Flying Birds’ Pretty Boy “sounds exactly like The Cure”
- Unlock your guitar fretboard by learning to play the same lick in different positions
- Pantera dropped from German festivals following “intensive conversations” with artists, partners and fans
- Can Ola Englund get Dimebag Darrell's Pantera guitar tone on a Spark Mini amp? Let's find out…
- Best Audio-Technica headphones for recording: studio-friendly cans from the Japanese music tech giant
- Love Hultén's latest experiment turns a cactus garden into a generative synthesizer
- A Radiohead fan has recreated the whole In Rainbows album using sounds from Mario 64
- Blackstar launches the Dept. 10 Amped 2 – a 100-watt guitar amp with multi-effects all in one fully featured pedal
- Is a digital piano good for beginners? 7 reasons you should consider going digital for your first piano
- EVE Audio introduces new two-way studio monitor SC2070
- Chuck D on Rick Rubin's holistic production style: "Art is what you feel. No one should tell you what Art should come out of you. He gets that"
- Roland’s FP-E50 is a portable digital piano with ZEN-Core synth sounds
- The Beatles' fabbest four riffs
- January 23
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- Takamine unveil six new acoustic guitars for 2023 – including the affordable £299 electro GL Series
- Apple recruits former Universal Audio exec: what could this mean for Logic in 2023?
- The story of Pixies' Where Is My Mind?
- El-B announces Ghost Vol. 1 sample pack and music production tutorials on Patreon
- Here’s why RØDE’s RØDECaster Pro II is far more than just another podcasting console
- Sonus Dept. releases experimental Max for Live device collection Abstructs
- Luthier Burls Art turns 1,000 cans into a sleek aluminium guitar
- January 20
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- DrumCraft adds two new satin finishes to its Series 6 drum kits
- Does IK Multimedia have an AmpliTube Joe Bonamassa in the works?
- Keeley Electronics combines its Caverns modulated delay with the Realizer’s shoegaze-friendly reverb for the Parallax Spatial Generator
- Best distortion pedals 2024: our pick of the top gain stages for guitar
- Tiny Desk seeks big talent: win the opportunity to play a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR
- We don’t talk about uptempo: new album features laidback lofi versions of Disney classics
- Gene Simmons explains what makes Abba great and why – if pushed – he’d take early Jeff Beck Group over early Led Zep
- patten announces first album ever made entirely from AI-generated samples
- See John Mayer debut his new replica of Jerry Garcia's Wolf guitar live and reflect on the experience in a new interview: "It's changing the way I play"
- Aphex Twin teases first live show since 2019
- See David Crosby's final live performance – Neil Young's Ohio with Jason Isbell
- Metallica unleash new single Screaming Suicide, a 5:39 min Hetfield masterclass in downpicking
- Blues troubadour Eric Bibb returns in sublime form on version of traditional folk song 500 Miles
- Jacob Collier recalls what David Crosby said to him about his vocal arrangement of The Flintstones’ theme: “that’s like a dog licking its balls - just because it can”
- Jeff Mills and Daft Punk's mastering engineer shares mixing advice with followers
- Classic interview: David Crosby talks Crosby, Stills & Nash's debut album track-by-track
- January 19
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- Folk-rock icon David Crosby dies aged 81
- John Oates on 10 albums that changed his life, and the guitar that now feels like a part of him: "I bought my ‘58 Strat in 1972 for a hundred and twenty-five bucks and I’ve played it ever since"
- The Rhodes V8 is a plugin emulation of the MK8 electric piano
- The best Harley Benton SC guitars yet? Behold the new SC-550SL Gotoh Tribute
- Rick Beato thinks Auto-Tune has 'destroyed popular music'. Here's why he's wrong
- Best Yamaha digital pianos 2024: Including picks from the Arius, Clavinova, AvantGrand and P Series
- Brian May-approved guitarist Arielle returns with new single '73
- The Rolling Stones have joined TikTok, and Mick Jagger’s already showing off his dance moves
- "It was written, recorded and mixed in about six hours" – Noel Gallagher names the Oasis and solo songs he'd take to a desert island
- Best budget guitar amps under $500/£500 in 2024: top cheap amps for smaller budgets
- Techno pioneer Richie Hawtin launches PhD scholarship in electronic music
- Serato’s Studio DAW now has built-in stem separation: “This is a big moment for music production,” says Kendrick Lamar producer DJ Khalil
- Taylor gets rootsy with three new American Dream acoustic guitars for 2023
- See Jack White's daughter join him on bass to play White Stripes song
- The alt-rock world pays tribute to Van Conner, Screaming Trees bassist who has died, aged 55
- January 18
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- "There was another take of Beat It" – Steve Lukather on re-tracking his parts with Jeff Porcaro under Eddie Van Halen's solo
- Best mic stands 2024: Our pick of microphone holders you can rely on
- Musicians are sexier than other people, and science has proven it
- Stock Aitken Waterman recall their wild night out with Judas Priest and give their verdict on Ed Sheeran: “he does his best, but it’s very limited”
- Best Shure microphones: Our pick of classic mics for vocals, recording, podcasting and more
- Fender VP Justin Norvell commits to making home recording more accessible, but says that “it doesn't mean by any stretch of the imagination that the full professional DAW is going anywhere”
- ROLI says that its Rise 2 MPE controller is “as expressive as an entire orchestra,” and has created a performance of Hans Zimmer movie themes to prove it
- Gibson announce Standard Edition of The Collection: Slash 'coffee table' book
- January 17
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- Brian May explains how Queen rewrote the guitar recording rulebook when tracking their self-titled debut – but they were not happy with the album's sound
- Noel Gallagher on making an exception for his "Oasis-y" new song, why he's gone back to album writing on an acoustic guitar and how he's getting on with Liam
- Way Huge promises indecent levels of stompbox funk from the Attack Vector Phaser and Envelope
- Chordify co-founder Tijmen Ruizendaal shares his 5 tips for beginner guitarists
- Good news - Arturia is now letting anyone buy its MiniFreak V soft synth
- The new Walrus Melee Wall Of Noise pedal has a joystick!
- EVO SP8 is the world's smartest mic preamp - and the ultimate partner for expanding your studio set-up
- Apple releases updated Mac mini and MacBook Pro models with new M2 Pro and M2 Max chips
- Josh Smith teams up with Poly Effects for the Flat V, a two-channel overdrive like you've never seen before
- Audient is calling the EVO SP8 “the mic preamp of the future”, and says that it’s the perfect I/O expander for your audio interface
- Fender goes for Gold Foil garage-rock cool with limited edition makeover for the Jazzmaster, Jazz Bass and Telecaster
- The producer's guide to Moog's Moogerfooger effects plugins
- Roland’s “ultra-compact” GP-3 could be the grand piano that you can actually fit in your living room
- Best guitar cables 2024: leads and patch cables for all budgets
- Lisel: "Antares Auto-Tune has become one of my most treasured creative tools"
- Noel Gallagher returns to majestic form with orchestral strummer Easy Now and confirms new album Council Skies
- Nick Cave labels AI chatbot's 'Nick Cave-style' song "bullshit": "Songs arise out of suffering... Data doesn’t suffer." We gave ChatGPT the right to reply...
- January 16
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- Waldorf’s Quantum synth takes a big leap forward with a polyphonic aftertouch keyboard, increased polyphony and more storage
- Here’s the final version of Behringer’s AKS Mini, a tiny version of the classic VCS3 synth
- Who will be the new Foo Fighters drummer in the post-Taylor Hawkins line-up?
- Fender's Justin Norvell: "Our commitment right now is full steam in the digital amplifier and effects space"
- 5 songs that use Roland's classic VP-330 Vocoder Plus
- Paragon ST fuses the sound of a convolution reverb with the flexibility of an algorithmic reverb
- Universal Audio’s new Sphere DLX and LX can emulate classic mics from Neumann, Telefunken and AKG
- Stormzy's new album This Is What I Mean mixed in Dolby Atmos at PMC's demo studio
- British builder fits an iPad into a guitar
- Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Yukihiro Takahashi dies, aged 70
- "I genuinely like that kind of music": Margot Robbie stands firm on Slipknot and heavy metal
- January 14
- January 13
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- Huey Lewis says it was only the demo version of Power Of Love that Marty McFly shredded over in Back To The Future
- 5 times Jeff Beck brought the house down in an all-star jam
- Best keyboard amps 2024: Hear yourself loud and clear from your home to the stage
- These fake AI-generated synthesizers look so good you’ll want to play them
- Watch Taylor Swift perform Anti-Hero live for the first time ever during the 1975’s set at the London O2 Arena
- Pharrell Williams names the greatest music producer of all time and says that he was responsible for introducing The Neptunes’ iconic clav sound
- Best acoustic guitars for beginners 2024: Strum your first chords with the top beginner acoustic guitars
- Bachman-Turner Overdrive drummer Robbie Bachman, dies aged 69
- January 12
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- "After 50 years I am finally reunited with my own songs": John Fogerty gets a majority stake in the publishing rights to Creedence Clearwater Revival catalogue
- Audialab's AI-powered drum machine plugin Emergent Drums gets public release and new features
- Best beginner drum sets: Top choice acoustic drum kits for beginners
- Teenage Engineering’s latest firmware update turns the OP-1 Field into a vocoder
- Brian May on Jeff Beck: "He was a hero to me all along"
- Jeff Beck: "I was pretty down at the time, I'd lost my girl, Hendrix had come and smeared everybody across the floor… I’d fallen out with the Yardbirds"
- American Girl releases "electronic music producer" doll that comes with a functioning keyboard
- Boss releases two new Katana guitar modelling amps and a cab
- Is Rhodes about to release a plugin version of the MK8 electric piano?
- Jeff Beck in pictures: from the '60s to 2022, caught on camera
- AudioCipher's word-to-MIDI melody generator is a neat way to beat creative block
- January 11
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- The guitar world pays tribute to legendary guitarist Jeff Beck, who has died aged 78
- PRS revives its vintage American-flavoured Sonzera 20 1x12 combo amp
- Three new PRS SE McCarty models announced along with 10th Anniversary S2 guitars and the ridiculously versatile Eagle V's debut in the Core lineup
- This new app uses the AI technology behind ChatGPT to make you any kind of playlist you want
- Foo Fighters announce first live shows without late drummer, Taylor Hawkins
- Synth-Werk reveals two recreations of classic Moog modular synths
- Vince Gill shows you the four guitars from his incredible collection he'd save in a fire
- PRS releases new SE and CE signature model guitars and updates for David Grissom, Zach Myers Mark Holcomb and Dustie Waring
- "Those songs mean something quite different to us now": U2's new album Songs of Surrender will re-imagine 40 old songs
- Saffron unveils line-up for 7 Days of Sound, a week of music tech workshops for women, non-binary and trans producers
- "It's Ringo f*****g Starr! Who the f**k are you?!": The Darkness' Rufus Taylor's 10 albums that changed my life
- Robot rock: check out this worrying robot power trio's takes on Nirvana, Deep Purple and Metallica
- Issue 392 of Future Music is out now
- January 10
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- Peavey officially announces the return of one of metal’s most iconic high-gain guitar amps as the 6505 II head is launched
- Fender gives the signature H.E.R. Strat a limited edition Blue Marlin makeover
- Rabit on the circuit-bent synths, hacked MPC and generative software behind new album What Dreams May Come
- Mr Black launches the Heaven’s Gate reverb pedal – is this a cult classic stompbox in the making?
- Ichika Nito plays Metallica's Nothing Else Matters on a 14-string guitar
- Neil Young tells Conan O’Brien he was so “petrified” of messing up on The Johnny Cash TV Show that he can barely remember appearing on it
- Polyverse enters beast mode with the new modal filter plugin Supermodal
- UK metal act's album reportedly stolen and reuploaded to Spotify by another band
- 11-year-old piano prodigy gifted $15,000 grand piano after stranger hears him play
- What if Prince played for Metallica? TikTok guitarist turns the Black Album purple to find out
- January 9
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- Old Grey Guitarist: meet the school guitar teacher who has over a million followers on TikTok with his solo covers
- DJs can now adjust the tempo of tracks in Bandcamp from their browser
- 5 Jimmy Page guitar tricks for you to try today
- John Lydon and Public Image Ltd are competing to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest
- Calvin Harris enters the metaverse for first ever VR concert (with dolphins)
- Radiohead getting together in 2023, says drummer Phil Selway: “As far as I know, we’re still a band!”
- January 7
- January 6
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- School of (indie) rock: Big Thief are inviting students and teachers to their soundchecks on tour
- LCD Soundsystem's Tyler Pope: "James said I should make an EP only using one drum machine and a synth – so I got hold of an old-school Roland CR-78 and an ARP Odyssey"
- AudioKit’s Saga Synth is inspired by a classic 16-bit games console, and you can probably guess which
- Best gifts for musicians 2024: 49 affordable present ideas for music-makers (which they'll genuinely love)
- Best gifts for guitar players 2024: Gift ideas for every type of guitarist
- Best gifts for drummers 2024: 47 brilliant ideas to treat the drummer in your life
- "The lunatics began to take over the asylum": Paul McCartney on The Beatles at Abbey Road
- Roland’s astonishing 50th anniversary piano comes with flying drone speakers
- Best drum practice pads: Sharpen your chops with our pick of the best pads for drummers
- Peter Gabriel releases new single Panopticom, with Brian Eno providing “haunting electronics”
- Skrillex on Fred again.. collaboration "Rumble": "Four Tet made sure we didn't overproduce it - and f*ck it up"
- January 5
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- Polyphia's Tim Henson: "I had this idea that I wanted to be the best guitar player on earth"
- Expressive E’s MPE-compatible Osmose synth is finally shipping: “It makes you dream instantly,” says Flying Lotus
- KVR Audio's top 10 best-selling plugins and software list completely took us by surprise
- Create your own Spotify Playlist in a Bottle time capsule - here's how
- Ryan Adams is now covering Oasis's What's The Story album in its entirety (plus "all the b-sides")
- Best guitar cleaning kits and tools 2023: ensure your electric guitar, acoustic or bass is in tip-top condition
- New year, new track: 50 ways to kickstart your next track in 2023
- The father of Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter says that he “didn’t always understand” the band and that if he said he liked a song, he’d never hear it again
- Fear Of The Postmark: Iron Maiden honoured with a set of Royal Mail stamps
- Harry Styles dominates as UK music streams double in five years, breaking 150 billion in 2022
- January 4
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- Roland unveils TD-02K and TD-02KV entry-level electronic V-Drums kits
- The need for Tweed: Catalinbread's new Formula 51 overdrive pedal is inspired by Fender's classic Champ combo camp
- SampleRadar: 167 free techno bass samples
- See Itchika Nito play his new song on Tim Henson's Ibanez nylon-string signature guitar
- Ibanez gave us the iconic Tube Screamer, and now it's offering the very different Pentatone Preamp pedal
- Can these 7 simple tricks make you sound good on the piano?
- The 8 new Ibanez guitars we're most excited to try in 2023
- Classic album: Plump DJs on Eargasm
- Roland switches gears and launches the Bridge Cast audio interface/mixer for online gamers
- 6 songs guitarists need to hear by… Thin Lizzy
- January 3
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- “Phil Spector would whisper, ‘You better not f*** up’”: The story of the Ramones' recording of Baby I Love You
- Can ChatGPT create a VST plugin version of the Ibanez Tube Screamer pedal on its own?
- Best cheap acoustic guitars 2024: Top picks for strummers on a budget
- Skrillex shares Fred again.. and Flowdan collaboration "Rumble"
- "It bugged him that Paul could write those sweet melodies like Yesterday and Hey Jude. He couldn’t do that" – John Lennon's former assistant on his rivalry with Beatles bandmate
- As easy as ABC: create MIDI data from your typing with the Textquencer app
- Over 50% of gig-goers have been priced out of live music, new survey finds
- Is Hetfield-style downpicking getting you down? Stagger-stroke picking might be the answer
- PSP Audioware thinks it’s made “the ultimate creative semi-modular delay machine”
- Kate NV: "I have no problem listening to Stockhausen followed by Christina Aguilera. Being snobbish closes doors"
- Metallica's live covers of Thin Lizzy's Borderline and UFO's It's Killing Me are a great advert for the Fender Acoustasonic Jazzmaster
- Tokyo Dawn Labs' new educational plugin shows you how vinyl records are made
- Tributes paid to Earth, Wind & Fire drummer Fred White, who has died aged 67
- See Tommy Emmanuel play a Les Paul 1960 'Burst accompanied by Kenny Vaughan
- January 2
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- Rob Chapman is now the co-owner of another guitar company, and a pickup brand
- 5 songs guitarists need to hear by… John Frusciante
- The 10 best electronic producer/artists of 2022, as voted for by you
- Keyboard legend Chuck Leavell on being The Rolling Stones’ Musical Director: “It’s a challenge at times!”
- January 1
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- The best new electronic drum gear of 2022, as voted for by you
- The best prog drummers in 2022, according to you
- Tears for Fears' Roland Orzabal: “My favourite guitarists are probably David Byrne and Paul Weller. I love anyone who can hit an open chord and make it sing”
- Plugin Week 2023: Exhibitor A-Z
- Modest Mouse drummer Jeremiah Green dies aged 45
- Anita Pointer, of The Pointer Sisters, dies aged 74
