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Dirty Boy turns the tables on guitar’s digital revolution with a preamp pedal inspired by a plugin – the all-analogue SilverBOY

SilverBOY is fully wired for sound and presents players with a high-functioning preamp pedal with all mod cons, proving that the inspiration between pedals and plugins can go both ways

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This $99 plugin recreates a classic studio technique invented at Abbey Road for The Beatles – and it's free for the next three days

AIR Music Tech has made Tape Double Track available as a free download until December 8

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"They put it on hold so nobody else can record it. But he didn’t actually record it. That was when Don Henley said, ‘You need to quit giving your songs away’”: Sheryl Crow says that she once wrote a song for Eric Clapton that never saw the light of day

She still isn't telling who My Favorite Mistake was written about, though...

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"We didn't want to make just another controller": OXI Instruments' E16 is a sleek and portable MIDI controller that's more powerful than it looks

Snapshot morphing, knob recording and LED-ringed encoders give this performance-focused controller an edge

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“The best MIDI controller setup isn’t about having more – it’s about staying connected to what matters”: AlphaTheta and Serato launch Slab, the first hardware controller for Serato Studio

The entry-level pad controller offers a slick, simplified workflow for Serato Studio, but can also work with Serato Sample and Serato DJ Pro

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“It was pretty much written in a day. I knew I had something quite special. Then the next day we played it with the band and it sounded like a bag of…”: How Neil Finn created the beautiful ballad that gave Crowded House a global smash hit

"Hey now, hey now..."

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“My mom said, ‘I’ll lend you a quarter if you become a guitar player.’ I think I did!”: Legendary guitarist Steve Cropper dies aged 84

A key figure in shaping the sound of soul music in the ’60s

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EVH Gear turns its “holy grail” Eddie Van Halen amp Hypersonic with an all-digital 5150III 6L6 modelling combo that weighs a whopping 16kg less than its tube-driven equivalent

The three-channel 50W monster is a super lightweight combo that is easy on your back while showing no quarter with its high-gain tone, and EVH Gear says its faithful to the original tube amp

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"It's the most influential drum machine ever created – and has likely featured on more records than any other": A history of Roland drum machines, from the TR-77 to the TR-1000

We take a backwards glance at the boundary-pushing beatboxes that led Roland to its latest landmark release

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“When we were finished gouging it with screwdrivers, spraying blops of paint on it, dragging it around the yard, and banging it on the driveway, we hung it up in a tree”: Adrian Belew on how he and Seymour Duncan made one of the first relic’d guitars

The prog guitar icon has posted new pics taken by Seymour Duncan that show off their handiwork as they turned Belew's new Strat into a relic and started guitar's most controversial trend

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“We’re in an era of conformity in electronic music – very few people get celebrated for doing anything outside of it”: How TEED went back to basics with a bedroom set-up and a borrowed synth for third album Always With Me

The artist formerly known as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs dives into the making of his latest project, driven by a desire to keep things simple and find joy in the creative process

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“People were going, ‘Hey man, I saw you’re on that Avril Lavigne record.’ I went, ‘Nah, I didn’t play on that.’ They go, ‘Your name’s on it!’”: The drummer who’s played on 400 albums has made one of his own – full of one-minute tracks

"I knocked out four or five songs in an evening"

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“The ABRAMS100 packs a whallop and it’s perfect for pedals!”: Electro-Harmonix presents 100-watts of serious solid-state power in a compact guitar amp head weighing just 2.5lbs

An amp you can throw into a backpack, the ABRAMS100 is a single-channel head with digital spring reverb, 3-band EQ, Bright switch and effects loop and it has ample clean headroom

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“It taps into yearning for a place beyond, a place of love, for me to speak my mind and be myself”: Flea teases his first solo album with a seven-minute jazz rave single

The video is directed by his daughter

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"When culture is allowed to move freely, people discover that their common ground is far wider than the borders that divide them": Level 42's Mark King, Jools Holland and Dame Evelyn Glennie join alliance to remove barriers to UK-EU touring

Barriers include rising costs and lengthy visa processes

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Fender and Jackson celebrate 50 years of Iron Maiden with limited run signature models – including a Masterbuilt Dave Murray Strat that’ll leave you losfer words

Choose your fighter, Maiden fans, with four variations on the archetypical Superstrat including a Custom Shop doozy... And it is foot on the monitor time with that Harris P-Bass

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“They said, ‘Well, that's all we've got, but if you could round it off and complete it, that would be great”: Greg Lester on how he used a Gibson Chet Atkins to turn a keyboard melody into a classic nylon-string guitar solo in the Spice Girls’ 2 Become 1

“It was actually very well conceived but it didn't sound guitaristic at all,” he says of the original demo

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“I just walked off the stage. I wanted Jake to have his moment. And Jake nailed it”: Nuno Bettencourt on why he handed Shot Of The Dark over to Jake E Lee at Ozzy's farewell show

Bettencourt says Lee was far too humble and had to remind him that he had done the impossible by not only replacing Randy Rhoads but taking Ozzy Osbourne to “another place”

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"I've always thought that plagiarism is creative": How The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds showed the world that sampling could be an art form

The story of the blissfully psychedelic bricolage that launched The Orb's career, introduced ambient house to the masses and even prompted a lawsuit from Rickie Lee Jones

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Brian Wampler just reimagined a bona fide modern classic with The Compulsion Drive – but is this OCD-inspired dirt pedal an overdrive, distortion or both?

The TCD Compulsion Drive from Wampler Pedals is a love letter to the Fulltone OCD, expanded with 3-band EQ, switchable clipping four modes, and all that enigmatic dirt that is at one with your amp

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"This isn't just about Jorja. It's bigger than one artist or one song”: Jorja Smith’s label claims royalties on AI track, allegedly trained on her voice

I Ran was created using Suno

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“He was speaking through his eyes. He just gives us a nod. He mastered the art of communicating without using words”: Jon Batiste describes his “gloriously awkward exchange" with Prince at one of his legendary after-hours jam sessions

"I remember, he came up to me and he didn’t talk," he says

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“If I’d had a producer and I was simply an artist, I don’t think they would have had the patience to listen to what I wanted to do”: We catch up with the man who rewired the charts in 1979 - and is now blowing up on TikTok - with Pop Muzik

Songwriter, producer and creative artist Robin Scott is the man behind M and the huge hit Pop Muzik. Over 40 years later, he shares the story of the iconic track and why he’s brought this moniker back on his new album

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"We stand for love over hate, hope over fear... join us and be a part of it": Paloma Faith, Fontaines D.C., Brian Eno and Kneecap join campaign group Together Against The Far Right

The group will hold a demonstration in London in March 2026

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"All the way through, I never stopped the tape once. He'd just go through the whole song and say ‘give me another track'. We did that nine times and then he said ‘I’m outta here’": Steve Porcaro on the two unreleased songs he wrote with Michael Jackson

Chicago 1945 and Dream Away remain in the vaults

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