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- May 8
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- While everyone is mesmerised by its veiled mystery synth, Korg also sneakily launches a new effects-packed performance mixer, the NTS-4, at Superbooth
- “When I’m cooking or playing FIFA or cleaning, I’m listening to records – it’s a great time to work whilst you’re not actually working”: 5 things we learned in the studio with O'Flynn
- “I felt like I was levitating off the ground. I felt like I was in Cream in 1968. The tone was so raw, and I just said, ‘This is exactly where I want to be’”: Jared James Nichols on why he switched to Marshall amps
- “The artists are AI. I’m an AI agent. There are no humans in the creative or operational chain”: An AI run record label? Are the robots taking over?!
- Mike D of the Beastie Boys breaks silence with debut solo single, Switch Up
- “The tools you rely on today will keep working, and the tools you will rely on tomorrow are actively being built”: InMusic confirms Native Instruments acquisition, bringing it under the same ownership as Moog, Akai Pro and many more
- MusicRadar deals of the week: Just in time for Mother's Day, we've found $700 off an unusual Gibson, $500 off a stunning Ibanez Prestige AZ2204, plus heavy savings on recording and live gear
- May 7
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- Teenage Engineering’s EP-136 KO Sidekick is part DJ mixer, part interface, part effects unit – and surprisingly affordable
- The most mighty mini amp modelling pedal just got mightier as IK Multimedia offers full MIDI integration and wireless editing on the Tonex One+
- “This version reflects what creators told us they want from AI hardware in real musical contexts”: Project Lydia, Roland’s neural sampling stompbox, moves a step closer to becoming a product you can actually buy
- Meet the $99 stompbox that’ll crush your bits – JHS expands its affordable 3 Series with three exotic effects for your pedalboard
- Is it a filter or is it an instrument? For Erica Synths, the answer is ‘Why not both?’ as it drops Resonant Filterbank at Superbooth 2026
- Superbooth 2026: all the latest synth news from Berlin - LIVE!
- Three years in the making, Bastl Instruments’ quirky Kalimba is a fusion of traditional instrument design and state-of-the-art internals: “Treat it like an acoustic instrument, it will answer like one”
- "The drum machine we would want to use and own ourselves": Polyend Drums combines the best of analogue and digital
- “Blackbox 2 is heir to its own portable sampler throne”: 1010music updates its sampling workstation with a better screen, onboard battery and USB audio streaming
- On the first day of Superbooth, Modal bring expressive synthesis without the complex learning curve with the lightweight Element One: “It doesn’t ask you to learn the rules; it dares you to play”
- May 6
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- “Built on the rhythmic and pitch drift of legendary drum machines”: Sonicware Deconstruct Minimal is a hardware groovebox designed for ‘hypnotic minimal grooves’
- Eddie Van Halen-approved baked maple necks? Check. Flagship pickups? Check. EVH Gear unveils stunning refresh of the Wolfgang Special
- “No compromises. No shortcuts. Just pure, hands-on sampling and sound design”: Kiviak Instruments promises to bring the old-school sampling fun for less with the cut-price WoFi LE
- “Over the past 24 hours, I’ve received hundreds of messages about my current situation. So yes, it’s official: I’ve made the move”: Jared James Nichols switches to Marshall amps
- "It's time to go. It’s like, you're Gwen Stefani. You don't need No Doubt. You're going to be amazing, right?”: What Linda Perry told Gwen Stefani as she channelled the star's negative energy into her explosive debut single
- “Ringo was from the Dingle, and that was well hard. He said he used to get mugged coming home, because he worked. Even though it was crazy, it was home to us”: Paul McCartney talks about his nostalgic duet with Ringo
- No knobs? No problem – Sterling By Music Man takes bass guitar design minimalism to its logical conclusion with the super-cool Joe Dart Vision
- You’ve seen Fender’s Godzilla Strat, now here the comes the pedal – and it’s a monster op-amp distortion with city-levelling tone (and a seriously cool graphic finish)
- “I think this is the one, after years of toiling in obscurity. This is their time”: Stones launch Foreign Tongues in Brooklyn with Conan O’Brien
- “Then I see the security guard person is eyeing me and it looks like I’m shoplifting when I’m doing the opposite”: Dave Grohl talks about hiding CDRs of the new Foos album around Southern California
- May 5
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- A sub-$600 shred machine with active EMGs and roasted flame maple neck? Harley Benton expands its Pro Series with 41 hot-rodded but affordable S-styles
- This one-button synth could be the wildest idea to come out of Superbooth 2026
- Julian Lage wants to teach you guitar! The jazz virtuoso announces multi-day masterclass “diving deeply into everything” guitar
- “These songs are played a lot. They’re often not played well”: Top 10 riffs played in-store at Guitar Center revealed
- Ableton Live 12.4 is out now, with Link Audio and updated Erosion, Delay and Chorus-Ensemble devices
- “That song casts such a huge shadow over everything that we’ve done. It’s difficult, but it’s not like I have to beat it": How Johnny Rzeznik overcame writer's block to pen the Goo Goo Dolls' Iris, then saw it become the soundtrack to '90s nostalgia
- Got some loose change? Well, it might just be the starting point of your next electronic masterpiece if you stack it atop Soma’s Enigma – the synth that's controlled by metal objects
- “Isolate or remove instruments from any song… Remove the guitar and step into the player’s shoes”: With AI stem separation, component-level modelling, and access to 200,000+ neural captures, Blackstar says the Beam Mini “redefines” the desktop amp
- “I don’t recognise that name”: What Kacey Musgraves was told when she asked for her album in Walmart… dressed as an armadillo
- “I asked Sean and he said, ‘Oh, he would’ve wanted to engage’”: Steven Soderbergh on his John Lennon doc and its use of AI
- “An ‘instrument’ rather than a ‘synthesizer’”: Buchla Ziggy is a desktop analogue West Coast synth available for (just) under $1000
- First Madonna at Coachella, now Stevie Nicks at the Met Gala: when it comes to duetting with music legends, Sabrina Carpenter is winning by a landslide
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- May 1
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- “I don’t think it’s normal to have the same collaborators over and over": Jack Antonoff says he has no problem with not being involved on Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Life Of A Showgirl
- Is Beyonce about to release a rock album with a guest appearance from Stevie Nicks? A Bootylicious video callback has fans speculating
- "I don't know what half those knobs do up there, but you know, I just fiddle with them until they make the right sounds”: Howard Jones takes you on a tour of the synth he’s owned since 1983
- “From underground beats to high-stakes espionage, get ready to turn the speakers up”: Chase & Status sign up for new James Bond video game