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“The SG and the Les Paul, reimagined in short-scale, 3-string versions”: Gibson teams up with Loog for beginner and child-friendly electrics based on its most famous guitars

Designed for kids aged three and above, these are super-accessible first guitars to give young players a start on the instrument

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“It’s clear that the influence of the Custom Shop’s attention to detail is now making its way to the Mexican-made instruments”: Fender Limited Edition Vintera II Jazzmaster Road Worn review

Fender proves it can do tasteful ageing without the Custom Shop price tag

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“As soon as we played that, I screamed. I could tell right away that it was a smash”: Nile Rodgers breaks down how he and David Bowie made Let’s Dance

The song was in a very different form when Bowie originally wrote it

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“There’s just one catch. The kid with the PC in the bedroom can’t play his instrument”: Back in 1999, Prince offered his opinion on the new generation of DAW-based musicians and producers

“If they didn’t take the time to learn their instrument and their scales and to actually speak the language of music then they can’t play… all they can do is watch,” he argued

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“The authentic broken-in feel players love”: Aged nitro finishes, “era-correct” pickups and neck shapes, Fender’s limited run Vintera II Road Worn series presents Golden Era tone for modern players

The Vintera II '60s Stratocaster, '60s Telecaster, '50s Jazzmaster and '60s Precision Bass get the aged treatment for a limited time only

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“There was no middle eight, and ‘sail away’ was after every line – it drove me crazy, but there was something there”: The making of Enya's Orinoco Flow, the unexpected No. 1 hit that created a New Age superstar

In memory of Enya's longtime producer Nicky Ryan, we take a backwards glance at the ethereal earworm that launched her career

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“A unique, talented, and innovative musician who leaves a rich back catalogue of Eastern-influenced electronica as his legacy”: Tributes paid to Blancmange's Stephen Luscombe, who has died

“Stephen along with Neil Arthur made one of the most seminal electro tracks, Living On The Ceiling," said Boy George

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“Tommy's got his guitar. I'm snapping my fingers. Tommy just started out; ‘Here we come, walking down the street’, 'cause that's what we were doing”: Bobby Hart on the evolution of the Monkees theme

Hart, who has died, wrote many of the band's hits with Tommy Boyce

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"It's unlike any humbucker I've tried before": Gibson Tony Iommi Signature Humbucker review

Gibson's first-ever signature pickup artist returns with a humbucker that could be a dark horse

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“All major keys are created equal, but Eb is the best”: Jon Batiste answers the internet’s piano queries and agrees with one potentially controversial musical statement

Watch him explain how you can improve your practice sessions and sense of feel

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“I did like Bob Dylan, but he was a great con man! He strung a lot of nonsense together and made it seem like it was really important”: Motörhead legend Lemmy Kilmister’s opinions on Dylan, the Eagles, Slayer and his friend Ozzy Osbourne

“Some of the Eagles' songs are fantastic," he said

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"I thought I was amazing at making garage – then I tried to make DnB": Flava D on why drum & bass is the toughest genre to produce

As she releases her album Here & Now on Hospital Records, the genre-hopping UK producer tells us why embracing DnB has been 'the ultimate learning curve'

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“The kids! This is what music is for. I am so proud of them”: Students at Flea’s music school pay tribute to him and the Chili Peppers

It’s the third in a series of EPs the students have released this year

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"Before this plugin, the only way to get this tone was by chasing down old hardware or buying boutique pedals": Audio Hertz's Mk.pre emulates the Tascam Portastudio preamp that colours Mk.gee's sought-after guitar tone

Mk.pre is currently on offer at $19

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“I finally get the opportunity to say, ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome, the most badass mother, Ilan Rubin”: Dave Grohl introduces new drummer at Foos' secret gig

And there’s another one tonight in Santa Ana

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“I missed a couple of things which I would have loved to get better”: Brian May suggests that he wasn’t completely satisfied with his Bohemian Rhapsody guitar playing at The Last Night of the Proms

But he and Roger Taylor still managed to cause quite the fandango

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“Imagine if Paul McCartney dies and there’s early 16-year-old Beatles recordings, and then right up to the 10 best of his entire career”: Ed Sheeran reveals that plans for posthumous album are already in his will

He’s got it all planned out

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“Striking design”: Zultan add two new models to their effects cymbal range

They’re the Zultan Vortex and Razor Disc

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“I had a No 1 single with a song about a robot prostitute and no one knew”: You’ll never listen to this Gary Numan classic the same way again

The true meaning and dense theory of one of Gary Numan’s most beloved tracks

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“I’ve never fully gelled with Logic and Pro Tools – they kind of feel like Microsoft Excel to me”: Jacques Greene and Nosaj Thing on the making of their new collaborative project, Verses GT

As two mainstays of modern electronica unite as Verses GT, we hear about the Sequential synths, $20 plugins and Eurorack gems behind their debut full-length project

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“There were 300,000 people there, so just the adrenaline rush alone was making for some great music”: Warren Haynes on putting his stamp on Allman Brothers' classics, Woodstock ’94, and finishing what Gregg Allman started with Derek Trucks’ help

The Whisper Sessions finds the Gov't Mule frontman paring his solo album back to its essence, and here he talks about how it all ties in with seminal experiences with David Allan Coe and the Allmans

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“In the actual song you hear today, the guitars, the riff, the bass, the drums and all the vocals are from those initial takes I did in my bedroom”: Sombr on the making of viral hit Undressed, and his formula for creating "a legendary indie rock song"

“I remember playing the guitar riff and thinking, ‘OK, that is great.’ From there, the song just made sense, it flowed"

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"Not being a musician you feel a little bit of an imposter, but I've got a passion for it and I think a lot of great musicians respect me for that": Dub pioneer Adrian Sherwood on embracing AI and playing the studio like an instrument

How AI tech worked alongside vintage studio gear to create The Collapse of Everything

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“They still maintain these ridiculous hours. After lunch until, like, two in the morning”: Marlon Richards says that the Stones have been putting together a new album in London

They’ll be a new album and tour in 2026, he suggests

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“One of the things I’ve wanted to really focus on, and zone into, is the limitation of a single instrument”: Using his signature ‘DAEAD’ tuning, Jacob Collier recorded a 5-string acoustic guitar album in just four days

"I had to work so fast that I couldn’t second-guess anything - I just had to roll with and trust the process," he says

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