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Thom Yorke offers an odd response to Harry Styles when he tells him that he uses GarageBand

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Prince had notes for guitarist Levi Seacer Jr in his first rehearsal: “I do the rock thing. Got it?”

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Fender unveils Joe Bonamassa’s Tone Master Twin – is it really better than the tube version?

Stylophone shrinks its classic stylus-operated synth down to keyring size with the Stylophone Mini

“There was a lot of tension”: Kevin Parker on why he now lets his Tame Impala bandmates have some freedom

“I need a cubital tunnel release to fix a nerve": Travis Barker reveals reason for his hospitalisation

Robert Smith considers the SEO implications of Olivia Rodrigo releasing a song called The Cure

Phil Collen and Tommy Henriksen on the genius of über-producer Mutt Lange

Andrew Watt on how producing the Rolling Stones accidentally influenced Pearl Jam's Dark Matter

“This album, I’m never submittin’ it”: Drake joins BTS and Stray Kids in snubbing next year’s Grammys

“It improves in all the right places”: Strymon TimeLine MX review

John Feldmann on the secrets of Blink-182’s buoyant sound

“He gave us the songs that became the soundtrack to our love stories”: Soul singer Freddie Jackson has died

“I betrayed the music community I care so much about”: Wu Tang associate sentenced to 18 months for streaming fraud

Guitarist Jan Akkerman recalls the creation of a bizarre ’70s rock classic – Hocus Pocus by Focus!

Arturia’s AstroLab gets its biggest firmware update yet, adding deeper sound editing and 67 new presets

“I couldn't believe how he’d deteriorated”: Tony Iommi on Ozzy Osbourne’s condition at their last rehearsals

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How a broken body let Scott Holiday’s mind run free on his trippy solo debut

Jean-Michel Jarre to release 50th anniversary edition of Oxygene

UDO does its best Oberheim impression with the release of the expandable DMNO ON desktop synth

The Gibson Custom Shop brings back the 1957 L-5 CES with a meticulous VOS reissue

Galantis shares memories of co-writing Britney Spears’ Toxic with us and explains why he’s re-working hits from The Killers and Feist on his new EP

"It's one of the rarest synthesizers ever made": Cherry Audio brings a forgotten ‘80s synth back to life

How Nirvana took an obscure ’60s psych-rock song and turned it into their debut single

The sound of the underground: Roni Size to play the world’s deepest rave in an abandoned Welsh mine

“It was a wild time. We mixed the album in two days on the most primitive console”: How Led Zeppelin created an epic masterpiece

“The ISA preamps deliver superb quality recorded tones”: Focusrite ISA C8X review

How John 5 and Fender reinvented the Telecaster with the Mötley Crüe guitarist's new signature collection

"It’s becoming an uphill struggle”: Sony reveals the number of deepfake AI tracks has doubled in six months

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Justin Timberlake apologises for his beatboxing era as video discussing it goes viral

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“I don’t think John Deacon did cope”: Roger Taylor and Brian May open up about losing Freddie, touring and depression

Levi Seacer Jr on his unforgettable first rehearsal as Prince's guitarist

"She carved out space for women in a genre dominated by men": Canadian blues rock singer Sass Jordan has died

"He's so easy to play with, it's really addictive”: Josh Homme sings the praises on Dave Grohl