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“Each of the three modes represents a milestone in pedal history”: Fortin triples down on modded-TS tones with the Fourteen – an boost/overdrive pedal representing the “apex of Mike Fortin’s modification philosophy”

Collecting three different flavours of Mike Fortin's TS-inspired drive circuits, presenting them across two identical channels, this is one high-functioning stompbox

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"We're fighting for our lives": Neil Young and John Mellencamp confirmed for Farm Aid 2025

Event celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year

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“It’s cheating, if you like, for somebody who can’t play an instrument to press a button and then the instrument plays”: Watch Peter Gabriel and futurist Ray Hammond debate the impact of the synthesizer back in 1983

“For me it’s something of a dream machine,” says Gabriel. “I always fantasised about something [with] which you could take any real world sound and manipulate it and put it in your music”

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“In uncertain times, dominated by the ascendancy of soul-dead oligarchs, their corrosive technology and looting economics, the great positive constant for humanity remains our infinite capacity for love.”: Irvine Welsh is releasing a disco album

Men In Love is a “sonic companion” to his new sequel to Trainspotting

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“I sit at my piano and watch skies moving and trees blowing and that’s far more exciting than buildings and roads and millions of people”: The strange story of the Kate Bush classic Cloudbusting

“The stimulus of the countryside is fantastic,” she said

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“Next time don’t bring a wet sponge to a tech fight”: deadmau5 just beat down DJ James Hype by beating Elden Ring with a Pioneer CDJ-3000

By personally calling out the producer’s “not live” comments Hype has put the ‘Mau5 machine on the warpath

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“It looks like the allure of a trove of training data is just too great to be turned down in the age of generative AI": SoundCloud denies that it uses your music to train AI

Platform’s statement appears to contradict their new T&Cs

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“The old-school Jackson logo, that’s pretty much the pièce de résistance! And it plays even better than it looks”: Jackson gives its metal thrashing X Series Scott Ian King V a super-classy makeover

With gold hardware, black finish, this is one ratiugnikufesin – especially at this price

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“Mick looked peeved. The Beatles had upstaged him”: When the Beatles stole the Rolling Stones’ thunder and dropped Hey Jude at the Beggars Banquet launch party

It was supposed to be Jagger’s night - but a stealthy Paul McCartney had other ideas…

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Underworld, Basement Jaxx, Groove Armada and William Orbit: PinkPantheress has sampled the cream of '90s and '00s UK electronic music on new mixtape, Fancy That

It's short on length, but heavy on influences

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“This is another item that people kill for. This is the sound of Diamond Sea… This is such a preposterously cool item”: Sonic Youth are selling some super rare gear on Reverb – including Lee Ranaldo’s first electric guitar and a holy grail Ludwig Phase II

The Sonic Youth Official Reverb Store is officially open and as Lee Ranaldo explains, it is 100% stocked with Kool Things

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Fresh from covering Radiohead, Billie Eilish has now tackled a Coldplay classic on her Hit Me Hard And Soft Tour (and it's not the first time she's sung it)

Plus, check out ‘mid-writing process’ versions of the first three songs from her latest album

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"Crafted from Heritage. Tuned for Tomorrow”: Zultan Cymbals celebrate their 25th birthday with a new high-end 25 series

With 16-hand hammered cymbals across the range, there’s something for every sound and style

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"Can you believe this?": Watch Pulp drummer Nick Banks join tribute band Pulp’d at Fake Festival

He had a “blast”, apparently

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Sexy drill, lagu timur and elector corridos - the international genres blowing up on Spotify in 2025

Sexy drill has seen a 1460% increase in UK streams

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“I like the real thing that happens when you dig in a little bit and the amp starts to cry for mercy”: Is the compressor pedal a country guitar essential? Brad Paisley doesn’t think so – and here’s why

The country virtuoso explains why compression is not an always-on effect for him – and neither is reverb for that matter

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“We used to work with Fleetwood Mac a lot on the uni circuit. You could sit down beside the stage and they’d start playing - der-der, der-der - for an hour and a half. We wanted to do that”: Francis Rossi on how Status Quo developed their 12 bar boogie

Plus he opens up about what sundered his relationship with Rick Parfitt

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Tempo shifts, key changes and the return of nonsense lyrics: Is Eurovision 2025 set to be the most musically weird contest in its history?

Europe’s songwriters and producers have upped their game with more unexpected ear-catching song switch-arounds than ever before

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“Paul’s basslines, while they’re iconic and memorable and musical, they’re not really technically challenging”: How McCartney’s sidekick Brian Ray juggles bass and guitar — and plays the Lennon role in The End

"Even if you’re not a bass player, you know these parts"

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“It’s not technically hard - a third-grader can play these bits. But on the spot? That’s kind of the difference”: The guitarist on Michael Jackson’s I Just Can’t Stop Loving You on how he found the right moments to play his “little earworms”

“It’s more of a keyboard song. It’s not guitar music per se,” says Dann Huff

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"This is very much the last time around”: Make the most of the Oasis reunion says the band's co-manager

Alec McKinlay confirms that they’ll be no new album

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“Use as a little gain as you can to get the idea across, which may still be all the gain in the world”: Periphery’s Misha Mansoor on exploring “absurd” tunings, his friends' genius, and why he is looking for someone to teach him guitar

We catch up with the Periphery riff-master to discuss his refreshed Jackson Juggernaut, custom offsets, collabs with Mike Dawes, and why – vintage or modern – good gear is good gear

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“We threw strings at the track and it exploded”: How a pop anthem turned into a wedding song favourite

“The first idea I had was in the bath," the singer says

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“I’m not even sure what size venues I can play. I don’t know what I can afford, and if it would just be me blowing £100,000 on something to give me pleasure": Gary Kemp admits that even big names can’t afford to tour

The Spandau songwriter appeared on a new podcast to talk new album, social media worries and the unlikeliness of him hitting the road

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Roland's V-Drums go wireless for new simple and seamless WT-10 sensor and DH-10 hub DrumLink system

Adding digital elements to your analogue kit (with zero trailing wires) has never been faster or easier

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