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Brian May just got Tony Iommi the best Christmas present ever
Talk about doing Christmas shopping early? May's gift was two years in the making, and it's a big one – Queen meets Black Sabbath on a Red Special replica with a signature Iommi twist
Sabrina Carpenter offers her songwriting advice as she accepts Variety’s Hitmaker of the Year award
“The easiest way to write a bad song is to try to write a hit,” she noted
“It was all done on GarageBand – it’s live drums, but over this goofy funk drum loop I’d done on my laptop out on tour”
“It’s in a bit of a DIY fashion"
How unquantizing your tracks can make them stand out from the AI-dominated crowd
If your music is sounding a little mechanical, maybe it deserves a sprinkle of organic nurturing. We invite you to un-click the quantize!
Strymon debuts Series A analogue pedals range with the Fairfax – a “chameleon” drive that can “breathe fire”
The Fairfax Class A Output Stage Drive replicates the old-school mojo of the vintage Garnet Amplifiers' Herzog tube drive, and is the first release in Strymon's new Series A range of analogue pedals
DOD reimagines a Gary Moore overdrive favourite as the Badder Monkey – think the DigiTech Green Monkey, only badder
DOD creates the king of the pedalboard swingers, combining the original Bad Monkey circuit with two new drive circuits, and some truly bananas ways of blending them all
Davey Johnstone on guitar shopping with Elton John – and how he ended up with his iconic Les Paul Custom
Johnstone says some of his best guitars came via the kindness of Elton John as he recalls one surreal day in the legendary NYC gear institution Manny's and the unexpected gift of a Clapton Strat
Tom Morello’s favourite 'Arm the Homeless' electric guitar has just been recreated by Fender
We have all seen this guitar. We have all heard it. Now we can buy it, and it has the same off-brand build and graphic finish as the original
Native Instruments' Absynth returns – here’s the inside story, with developer Brian Clevinger
The cult classic soft synth is back, 16 years on from its previous iteration. We sit down with Absynth’s creator to hear about the history of this legendary instrument and why its rebirth is the 'best project he’s ever worked on'
