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"Welcome to the dystopian future we only dreamed about three years ago": Deadmau5 blasts DJ using his AI-generated deepfake to promote music

"AI is great, generative AI not so much; but we need to stop idiots like this from abusing it"

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“Income from streaming simply isn’t enough to sustain most artists and that 99.9% them face a funding gap”: New app launched that could provide grassroots artists with a much-needed revenue stream

Dune works as a stock market where you ‘invest’ in an artist

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“Thank you for everything, for your friendship, your wit and your generosity of spirit, and of course for the music, forever a true friend and brother”: Pogues drummer Andrew Ranken has died, aged 72

He played with them all the way up to 2014

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Harley Benton just dropped an 8-string for southpaw players that has a multi-scale build, high-gain humbuckers – and it offers change from 300 bucks

The R-458MN is a tidy-looking multi-scale eight-string that treads djently on your budget but will put some weight on your riffs

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“He knew one day someone would come and look through this stuff. They’re not objects for veneration to be kept in a box": Rare footage of Bowie from 1978 to be included in new ‘immersive’ show

David Bowie: You’re Not Alone opens in April

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Waldorf Protein hands-on: Four layers, '90s wavetables & MPE in a $399 mini synth

Waldorf's latest puts the wavetable oscillators of the Microwave into a compact and affordable instrument – is this be the best new budget synth?

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“It took like four minutes to write the chords, then like 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals”: How Sia made her self-destructive anthem, Chandelier

One of the most thrilling songs of the 2010s, Chandelier unravelled the psychology of hedonism - with an arrangement that came together in under an hour

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“The reason everybody knows Eric Clapton’s name is not because he’s a great guitar player”: Billy Corgan says virtuosic guitar solos mean nothing in the social media age – and argues guitar influencers need to make a bigger impact on popular music

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman sees virtuosos everywhere but he would like to see these talents being applied in the next generation of great alt-rock and metal bands

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“Every producer bows down to Dilla, whether they like it or not”: How J Dilla and his MPC changed beatmaking forever

20 years on from his untimely passing, we decode the genius of the revered producer that redefined rhythm as we know it

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“She’s happy with the sale and has been celebrating by spending time with her kids”: Britney sells her back catalogue for a rumoured $200 million

It includes nearly two decades of hits and nine albums

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Cherry Audio’s SH-MAX takes on a trio of classic Roland monosynths called upon by everyone from Kraftwerk to Tame Impala

Bringing together the best bits of the SH-5, SH-7 and SH-3A with an array of modern enhancements, the plugin is a love letter to Roland's SH series

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“We weren’t like a normal group that’s ready to take a knock. We couldn’t fight back”: Carl Palmer on how punk killed ELP

Plus he reveals Mitch Mitchell almost joined the prog icons

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The Beatles-approved J-160E makes its return as Gibson unveils a trio of Original Collection flat-tops celebrating the golden era of acoustic guitar making

It's time to tap up the new Originals, as the LG-00 50S, SJ-200 60s and the J-160E '60s join the present-day Gibson catalogue

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“Offers power, warmth, charm and usability, in a highly convincing virtual analogue reproduction, with real heart and soul”: Cherry Audio SH-MAX review

Continuing its Japanese homage, Cherry Audio reignites three of Roland’s finest synths from the '70s, in a single soft-synth with plenty of reinvention

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“The legendary sound and feel, now reimagined for your DAW or desktop”: Amp modelling titan Fractal Audio unveils its first guitar plugin suite

The ICONS series is created using the same algorithmic magic as Fractal's Axe-Fx modelling units, and its debut Fullerton Collection features a range of models inspired by vintage Fender

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“If we could make this stuff too hot to handle, that’d be great!”: Chris Buck appeals for help to find his stolen Peli cases

Gear was stolen from his car in Bristol

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“I cheat, really. I’m not a great technical player at all. Because I was always writing for myself, I could avoid the things I couldn’t play”: Tony Banks says that virtuoso technique was never his priority, but avoiding "lazy" chord progressions was

As for the chances of a Genesis reunion: "don't hold your breath"

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Improve the impact of your basslines by quickly learning the basics of bass compression

Creating the perfect foundation for your track begins just the right amount of compression for your bass - here’s how to not overdo it!

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“There were probably 20 people at that first Rush gig. I don’t recall whether those 20 people were impressed or not. I’m guessing that they weren’t!”: Alex Lifeson recalls the humble beginnings of his legendary band

“We didn’t have a mic stand so we used a standing lamp and taped the mic to it”

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Ableton Live 12.4 introduces Link Audio and updates Erosion, Delay and Chorus-Ensemble devices

Link Audio allows users to stream multi-channel audio between compatible devices over a local network in real time

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“This whole song came from a mistake”: The fateful circumstances that led to Coldplay’s biggest ever song

Coldplay’s first stab at a euphoric crowd-pleaser was a clear indication that a stadium-filling future awaited

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"If any of those wet wipes songwriting teams, all 11 of them, want to have it out on the red carpet, I’m there": Noel Gallagher explains why he deserves his Brits Songwriter Of The Year award, despite not releasing any new songs

Oasis man hasn’t released any new material since 2023

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“I walked in… and Joni Mitchell was in baby blue pyjamas. She said, ‘Have a seat.’ And we talked about music. I wrote You Get What You Give the same day”: How a weird dream inspired the New Radicals’ classic ’90s hit

And the song was so good it convinced Joni not to quit the music industry

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“Ah man I’m so ready to go broke. When are these launching?” Billie Joe Armstrong debuts signature ‘Dookie’ Marshall amps during Super Bowl LX show

Is Marshall about to make the legendary Dookie mod go mainstream? BJA's Super Bowl backline, finished in a very familiar shade of 'Blue', suggests it is

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“I just wanna know when Led Zeppelin's gonna be in the Hip-Hop Hall Of Fame. 'Oh, you can't do that?' Oh, really?”: Gene Simmons mouths off on The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the lack of talent required to make EDM and the state of modern music

“There are no tribute bands to Skrillex” he argues

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