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Dawesome's Love 2 granular multi-effects plugin promises "instant beauty for any sound"

"When you are in love, everything feels more intense, more alive,more beautiful. This is exactly what Love 2 does to sound"

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“For Pussy Palace, I’d played with that Moog sound for quite a while. I always thought it was such a ‘porno’ sound that I’d never actually use, but in that moment I said ‘Hold on, I think this could work’”: We enter the home studio of Blue May

We take a look at the vintage gear-packed home studio of Blue May - the environment where Lily Allen created West End Girl

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“The title was a kind of code word because the song was a preposterous, grandiose thing. Patton wrote the words a week after he joined the band”: The groundbreaking hit that saved Faith No More’s career – and saved the life of Slipknot’s Corey Taylor

The enigmatic lyrics continually allude to “it” – while never quite articulating what “it” actually is

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“They got me a drum instructor. When I heard that the song (for the advert) was going to be In The Air Tonight, I was just like ‘this is amazing’”: The man inside the gorilla suit for the In The Air Tonight Cadburys ad remembers his “dream job”

Garon Michael was a huge Phil Collins fan

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“I think it’s too dumb for anybody to insult their own intelligence by mounting a serious critique of it”: How Toto crafted their deathless classic, Africa

Song has streamed over a billion times

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"Boy, do people hate it": 10 of the most divisive products in music tech history, from iLok to the Akai Timbre Wolf

Some products take off, some land with a thud, and some stir up so much controversy they become their own memes. These are the synths, drum machines, and grooveboxes you love to hate

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“All the emotions in the song are real. When I was writing the lyrics, my wounds from it were still fresh”: How a heartbroken bellboy took his revenge with one of the biggest indie anthems of all time

It’s one of the most omnipresent songs of the 21st century, but few realise that Mr. Brightside’s tale of betrayal reflected Brandon Flowers’ real experience of being cheated on

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“I said, ‘Oh, Joni, that’s gonna sound terrible. You need an amp, man! You need some tubes vibrating. You need some air! She goes, ‘Would you just try it?’”: Robben Ford reveals how Joni Mitchell helped him nail his guitar tone on a ’70s classic

Ford has fond memories of touring and recording with the “wonderful” Mitchell, who has a producer knows exactly how she wants a guitar to sound – and how to get the tone

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“I wasn’t just unable to write, I started avoiding the studio altogether”: Apparat tells us how he regained his creative demon to make his first album in seven years

Producer and composer Apparat reveals the creative process behind the making of his latest record and first in seven years, A Hum of Maybe

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“He was like, ‘Yeah, we just layered, like, 10 different guitars to get that guitar tone.’ I was like, ‘Oh, that's pretty amazing’”: How a warped sample and some Anderson .Paak magic helped Ravyn Lenae to create Love Me Not, her viral hit

“When I first heard it it reminded me of the feeling I got when I heard Hey Ya!, or when I heard Crazy, by Gnarls Barkley,” she says

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“We can be in the middle of the worst gig in our lives, but when we go into that song, everything changes. The audience is on its feet, singing every word. It’s like God suddenly walks through the room”: The epic U2 anthem that drove its creators half mad

During the making of The Joshua Tree, half of the time was spent on this one track

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Tembo is a kid-friendly magnetic drum machine and sampler that promises "unforgettable family jam sessions"

Designed to empower "everyone to create music from the very first touch", Musical Beings' debut product hopes to make beatmaking accessible for all ages

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“No one was more deserving of a life to himself than he was… We were torn, and sympathetic. At the same time, we felt we had unfinished business”: Geddy Lee on honouring Neil Peart and why he and Alex Lifeson are getting back together as Rush

Rush will to the stage once more to celebrate the life and legacy of the late, great Neil Peart. Lee explains how wellness clinics, fun jams and "unfinished business" made the "R" word easier to say

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“We want to find the hidden musical magic across Europe”: Thomann are on the look out for customers of theirs whose stories “move people and spark inspiration”

There’s a €1,000 voucher in it for you...

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"Spark ideas in your DAW, pilot any synth or patch modular without breaking your flow": Arturia unveils KeyStep 37 Mk2 with redesigned interface, extended connectivity and generative tools

KeyStep 37 Mk2 brings many of the new features from the recently released KeyStep Mk2 over to its 37-key big brother

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"Some excellent creative features that help you enhance and manipulate patterns": Arturia KeyStep 37 mk2

Arturia’s upgraded keyboard-based sequencer could provide the creative kick start you need

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“The hijacking of the world’s entire treasure-trove of music floods platforms with AI slop and dilutes the royalty pools of legitimate artists from whose music this slop is derived”: Artists’ pressure group launches Say No To Suno campaign

Platform generates 7 million AI tracks per day

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"Music in general right now I feel has lost the art of dynamics. There’s so much storytelling that can be embedded in a song through just having it very soft and then growing it": In an era of loudness, Laufey is flying the flag for light and shade

Her spine-tingling cover of Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now suggests she might be onto something

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"I've never been interested in it because it's a digital synthesizer": Mike Dean shows off the "crazy rare" wavetable synth that everyone wanted in the '80s – and still sounds great today

The super-producer and analogue aficionado praises the "messed up" sound of the PPG Wave 2.3, one of the few digital synths in his extensive collection

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“Wu wouldn’t have come to fruition without Power. His passing is a profound loss to us all”: Wu Tang Clan mourn the death of their associate Oliver ‘Power’ Grant

Grant was executive producer of their debut album

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“An intimate look at their uncompromising vision and unwavering connection with their global army of fans”: A career spanning Iron Maiden doc is coming to cinemas this May

Band also recommence Run For Your Lives tour that month

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“I got a call from Burt Bacharach: ‘Can you come to the studio right now?’ So my friend has to move his car so that I can get out – and he runs over my dog!”: How a singer’s beloved pet cheated death during the making of a star-studded ’80s No.1

A dramatic story also starring Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder and Elizabeth Taylor

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“Together, Bruce, the E Street Band, and I are going to turn a spotlight on the current threats to democracy and human rights happening all around us”: Tom Morello to join Springsteen on the Land Of Hope And Dreams tour

Though he’ll only star on ‘selected’ songs

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“I wasn’t told I shouldn’t listen to the Beatles. At the same time I was exposed to this incredible Motown music, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and all of that”: Living Colour’s Vernon Reid on inspirations, unsung heroes and the emotional power of a sample

The visionary guitarist walks us through the memories, sounds and people who shaped him as a player – and the sounds we hear on his bravura solo album, Hoodoo Telemetry

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“Merely a commonplace ‘circle of fifths’ chord progression”: Miley Cyrus’s lawyers bring music theory to the fore in a fresh attempt to show that her hit song Flowers doesn’t copy Bruno Mars’ When I Was Your Man

Cyrus and her co-writers are facing a copyright infringement claim not from Mars himself, but Tempo Music Investments

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