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“It was the most bizarre musical experience”: QOTSA’s Troy Van Leeuwen on playing Paris's Catacombs
By Jonathan Horsley published
Alive in the Catacombs presents a set of stripped-down QOTSA classics on acoustic for a unique concert film/EP

Want to learn to play Wonderwall on the guitar? You’re not the only one…
By Ben Rogerson published
By now, you should’ve somehow realised that it’s in F# minor

“That’s not how we were. We would never do that”: Ringo has put his foot down over parts of the Beatles biopics
By Will Simpson published
Plus the drummer says he still feels like a young man

Pivot is a ‘no-nonsense’ FM synth plugin from the designer of one of our favourite hardware instruments
By Si Truss published
With three operators, no algorithms and a morphing filter, Pivot aims to make FM user-friendly – and you can try a Lite version for free

Lorde unmasks the guitar part on her new album that was created using a ‘90s Roland V-Guitar processor
By Ben Rogerson published
Plus, the Teenage Engineering OP-1 patch that “shows up everywhere” on the record

“I know there’s going to be at least another Aerosmith gig”: Joe Perry is convinced that band will play again
By Will Simpson published
He suggests that Steven Tyler would be able to take part

“How is a clear CD even possible?": Lorde’s see-through Virgin CD doesn’t play in most CD players
By Daniel Griffiths published
Fans take to social media to share a string of disappointing ‘No Disc’ errors after giving Lorde's latest a spin

"It’s simple enough to create the perfect hard-tuned and harmonised effects within our DAW, providing you have the right software": How to harness hard-tuned vocals
By Roland Schmidt published
That hard-tuned, robot-like sound, first popularised by Cher, has now become something of a staple in modern pop
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