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“Some people think writing songs is like drawing from a well or picking apples off a tree. It’s more like a muscle you work out and develop”: Avalon Emerson evolves from club DJ to dream-pop auteur on Written Into Changes

From the DJ booth of Berlin’s Panorama Bar to the Balearic synth-pop of the Charm, Avalon Emerson is embracing the freedom of a borderless musical landscape

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“I knew that he liked me, and he would call me on the phone. ‘Robben, what you doing!?’” Robben Ford on how playing with Miles Davis made him feel untouchable

Ford wasn't a jazz player when he joined up with Davis in 1986 but he would soon learn – and it give him a sense of self-confidence that's with him to this day

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"A machine worthy of building your whole workflow around": Akai MPC XL review

The new flagship of the MPC range is a true production powerhouse

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“We wrote 24K Magic when Uptown Funk was No 1. So if you hear the same spirit in that song, that's why”: A decade on, we look back at the musical theory and retro gear that shaped Bruno Mars’ 2016 classic

Exploring how one of Bruno Mars’ biggest tunes works on a musical level - and revealing its debt to the 1980s

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“I said, 'tomorrow I’m going to go into the studio, find some place, make up a tune and make this record'. So I said to Jeff ‘do you want to help?’": The story of the Travelling Wilburys, the star-studded supergroup that made it all look fun

Their first single was recorded in Bob Dylan’s garage

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“This ease of use is rare in such a small practice amp that covers so much tonal ground, and is the reason the Prism-Mini is worth considering as your desktop companion”: Laney Prism-Mini review

Laney targets the practice amp market with a versatile range of tones and effects, all in an easy-to-use, diminutive package

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"The first thing, Maurice walked in and said 'You're the guys who stole our song!' He was just joking – he said, 'Thanks for making us cool again!'”: Kevin O’Toole recalls the Bee Gees’ reaction to N-Trance’s ‘90s cover of Stayin’ Alive

The group also had a huge hit with rave anthem Set You Free

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“We hate AI slop. We don't want the fun to be taken out of music making": We tried to vibe code a custom looper pedal with Polyend Endless – here's what happened

Polyend founder Piotr Raczyński explains the tech behind the company's eye-catching effects pedal and its text-to-code assistant Playground

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“Although most of the songs on those two albums aren't really aimed at my demographic, they're all so good that it's hard not to fall in love with them”: The Cure’s Robert Smith gushes over Olivia Rodrigo, and says that they’ve been in the studio together

Rodrigo, meanwhile, says that her new album is 70% done

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Relive the golden era of the DX7, Jupiter-8 and Prophet V with this mega-pack of free '80s synth samples

Recreate the sound of the decade that brought us synth-pop, new wave and glam metal

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“People have told me they’ve heard it at weddings – with a guy singing it at the organ. Oh God! I can’t imagine what that was like”: Bryan Adams and the ballad that ate the world

The Groover from Vancouver’s record-breaking hit

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SampleRadar: 303 free organic drone samples

This sample pack takes a set of field recordings and drags them kicking and screaming into a state of drone

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I just stumbled on a treasure trove of free glitch plugins

Inear Display has generously made its entire catalogue of audio tools available as pay-what-you-want downloads

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“You shouldn't even know about that. I’d rather not speak about it”: The contentious origin of the David Guetta monolith that brought Sia to mainstream attention

In 2011, Titanium was inescapable, but its many millions of listeners probably didn’t know that its powerhouse Sia vocal was only ever intended to be a guide

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“The truth is that a 12-year-old girl pre-sold her creative output before she knew what it would be like, and before she knew what she was signing away”: Lorde confirms that she no longer has a recording deal with UMG

Her previous contract expired at the end of 2025, and she says that she now has a feeling “of openness and possibility”

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“I would have to do the mental work… I think I could find it in myself”: Miley Cyrus says that, although she “loves and misses live shows,” she still has no plans to go on tour – but she isn’t ruling out performing at the Super Bowl

Cyrus is about to return to the world of Hannah Montana in a 20th anniversary TV special

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“That was a Juno-DS keyboard – it was literally plugged into Logitech computer speakers, not running into a board or an interface even”: Jim-E Stack reveals the lo-fi production techniques behind Bon Iver's Walk Home

Stack opened up the Pro Tools session for SABLE, fABLE highlight Walk Home for Mix with the Masters

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“The perfect marriage of brilliance and brute force”: With high-output humbuckers, an onboard Lumen Filter, compound radius fingerboards and a contoured body, Gretsch unveils the reinvention of the Jet

Meet the Jet with the Luminlay markers, the contoured body, the Twin Six humbuckers and a filter for percussive high-gain sounds. It's a Jet, Jim, but not as we know it

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“The drums were triggering random sounds on the Juno and DX7, making what you now hear as the intro: a squelching, pulsing bass sound”: How a happy accident helped George Michael have a huge hit with the banned song he thought sounded too much like Prince

After releasing three different versions, Michael would later say that he didn't like the one that reached the Top 5 in the US and the UK

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“Our determination to achieve a sustainable future is strengthened and energised by your support”: Native Instruments releases update on insolvency proceedings

CEO Nick Williams writes that the company has seen “strong interest from multiple parties with deep roots in audio and technology”

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Locking tuners, oiled ‘Speed’ neck, compound radius ‘board with rolled edges: Charvel’s hotrodded shred performance just got more affordable with the launch of the $569 Standard SD Series

The Standard Series T-styles are cut from the same cloth as their more expensive siblings and present aspiring shredders with a pair of high-output humbuckers and a no-fuss hardtail bridge

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“Push the reset button on the debate on AI and copyright”: The music industry breathes a sigh of relief as plans to let AI firms pilfer copyrighted material are dropped

Consultation found only 3% supported government plans

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“Might have become our favourite reverb, covering a lot of ground, from the smallest snappiest rooms to vast, endless galaxies”: Erica Synths Nightverb review

We’ve never wanted to ‘play’ a reverb before but now we can. We don't want to stop!

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“Is NOT going to happen... Nil response. I speak with many close to her, including fam, but have not had a single syllable back in over two decades”: William Orbit has written a sequel to Ray Of Light but he says Madonna hasn’t responded

But “zero hard feelings” says the producer

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Like Nuno Bettencourt, Mark Morton isn’t afraid to use a classic dirt pedal in an unorthodox fashion – here he reveals the secret behind his crushing Lamb Of God rhythm tone

Take one classic overdrive pedal, and use it in a way that suggests you forgot it was was ever an overdrive pedal in the first place

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