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“I put a pitch-shifter on the master bus!”: In the era of lo-fi beats and bedroom recording, does sound quality even matter anymore?

With bedroom-produced DIY tracks topping the streaming charts and explosive distortion the new norm on TikTok, is sound quality becoming irrelevant in 2026?

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“Lorne Michaels said, ‘Hey, do you want to host SNL?’ I said, ‘Yeah, can I do the music?’ He’s like, ‘No.’ I said, ‘Alright, I’m not doing it'": Timothée Chalamet says that he had to self-fund his Bob Dylan musical performances on Saturday Night Live

The actor ended up performing three Bob Dylan songs while promoting A Complete Unknown, and says that he "refused to take no for an answer"

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You’re Working For No-One But Me: New survey reveals Harry Styles is the UK pop’s biggest contributor to the taxman

He comes ahead of Ed Sheeran on Sunday Times list

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"The EF86 tube is often described as hi-fi, and honestly, that's the perfect way to describe what's coming out of this thing": EarthQuaker Devices EQD ZEQD-Pre review

This new collaboration is exactly what the doctor ordered for modern guitarists suffering from a serious case of digital fatigue

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APT with a twist: Bruno Mars plays a Gibson Les Paul as he and Rosé deliver a hard rock version of their 2024 hit at the Grammy Awards

The song was inspired by a Korean drinking game

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“I remember Lars was unwrapping all these Styx and REO Speedwagon records and I’m going, ‘What are you buying this crap for?’”: Why James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich didn’t always see eye to eye in Metallica’s early days

Plus: Hetfield's memories of his first gig – when AC/DC opened for Aerosmith

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“Another huge win for the video game music scene as a whole”: 8-Bit Big Band pick up their second Grammy for their Super Mario medley

There ain’t no place like Super Marioland

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"Once upon a time I was a kid making beats in his bedroom in Canada and now I'm here": Cirkut takes home Producer of the Year, Non-Classical at the 2026 Grammy Awards

The Canadian producer/songwriter also shared a win for Lady Gaga's Abracadabra

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“It is clear why creators are concerned. Tech firms train models on copyrighted works without permission”: Four in five musicians are “worried” about AI music

But more than ever seem to understand how it works

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“Festivals generate 25,800 tonnes of waste, 22,876 tonnes of CO2 and use 185 million litres of water annually”: How Massive Attack set a new benchmark for the future of sustainable live music events

We discover how Massive Attack's climate activism has seemingly set a new green blueprint for the live industry…

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“We were at a club, and some guy was punching on a girl, and James says, ‘Kill him!’ This guy turns around and looks at the two of us and says, ‘Who’s gonna kill me?’ And James pointed at me…": Dave Mustaine on early days with, and split from, Metallica

Plus he says his younger self “just needed to be loved”

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Justin Bieber just gave the most literal ‘stripped-down’ Grammys performance possible, playing an ‘80s Yamaha electric guitar and an Akai MPC Live III in just his underwear

He kept his socks on for Yukon

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“The only thing more powerful than hate is love, so please, we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love”: Kendrick Lamar, Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish all win big at 2026 Grammys

Anti-ICE statements and F bombs abound

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“One day I got up and the sun was shining, all the mountains were lit up, and I came up with Mr. Blue Sky”: How Jeff Lynne created his masterpiece with ELO’s Out Of The Blue

For a generation still mourning the loss of The Beatles, ELO were the next best thing

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“I turned to him and said, ‘Where did you come up with that amazing bass line?’ He turned to me and said, ‘Oh, you like that?’ Like he didn't know”: The influential Chic classic that spawned one of the most recognisable basslines of all time

We pull apart this legendary funk classic and highlight the ingredients that would leave a stamp on the future of music

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“The solo is his interpretation of war – all this screaming. It’s such a brilliant piece of artistry, such a pure form of expression”: The explosive Hendrix classic hailed as the greatest guitar track of all time by Guns N’ Roses legend Slash

“It’s just pure, soul-wrenching emotion”

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“A sturdy, interesting and decent-sounding effects unit with tempo syncing and sequencing capabilities”: Polyend Mess review

Polyend turns its considerable hardware tracker skills to the world of pedal-based, sequenced multi-effects. An alluring combo, so how does it sound?

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“Adam was like, ‘Well, Zakk, for the solo, you should get the Grail and play it on this thing, man”: Why Zakk Wylde brought his “Grail” Les Paul Custom out of retirement for Ozzy Osbourne tribute song

The iconic cream Les Paul Custom with the bulls-eye graphic completed a full circle moment as Wylde salutes his old boss on new Black Label Society album

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"I wrote this song while lying, listening to the telephone in my apartment... but she never called”: The story of the heart-breaking ballad that’s become – finally – Jeff Buckley’s first Billboard chart hit

Lover, You Should Have Come Over has gone viral on TikTok

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“I haven’t written anything on the new album. I started to write ‘very heavy metal’ things, but I ended up writing for bagpipes, folk things like Jethro Tull. Oh well – bang go my royalties!”: When Bruce Dickinson was Iron Maiden’s odd man out

“There was none of me on that record – I was just AWOL mentally”

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“An impressive percussion machine with raw analogue weight and manual control”: Erica Synths x Hexinverter Hexdrums review

Is Hexdrums – a “Mutant-infused analogue powerhouse” – the perfect rhythmic bedrock for modern techno production?

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A dish best served cold: Lily Allen releases a version of her latest album as a novelty butt plug USB stick

Format is a nod to West End Girl track that details ex husband’s sex addiction

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“Those of us in the studio were like, ‘No, that is not as cool.’ We found the idea of releasing that stripped-down, really raw version even braver”: The making of Zara Larsson's 2015 hit, Lush Life, and the original version you might never have heard

"Looking back now I’m very happy that the change happened,” songwriter Linnea Södahl would later recall

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“A beautifully-designed headphone with impressive sonics”: Focal Lensys Professional review

Quality closed-back headphones that can handle both recording and mixing are highly desirable. Can this new design deliver? Let’s take a look

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“Since day one, we have stood with the artist community against piracy”: Spotify and the three major labels sue Anna’s Archive for $13.4 trillion over illegal scraping

That’s three times the total GDP of the UK

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