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“He said to me, ‘To be honest, we're kind of looking for a Beatles-type visual.’ I left there feeling like ‘OK, this is not gonna happen": Session drummer Hannah Montrose on facing down challenges and manifesting a spot behind the kit with Lizzo

"In high school, playing drums was everything. But when it came to me picking my GCSEs, the head of music told me, 'Hannah, you don't want to do that'"

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“I still remember the fascination of hearing Sgt. Pepper for the first time. It's The Beatles — but they're pretending to be another band? It breaks all the rules”: Gene Simmons salutes the Fab Four

"It was almost music hall stuff," he says

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"We have lived and breathed metal for over five decades, and finally we are summoning our congregation to officially witness our lives uncensored, in a never-before-seen way”: A Judas Priest documentary is in the works

Tom Morello is behind the camera

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“One of the individuals who is encouraging this deal to take place is Scooter”: Could Taylor Swift finally be about to take ownership of her first six album’s master recordings?

Her back catalogue famously fell into ‘enemy’ hands. Now it’s claimed that the man that ‘took’ it wants her to have it back…

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“It became clear there was a link between the kids that I grew up with and the difficulties that young men are facing today”: Pete Townshend on how a new version of Quadrophenia moved him to tears

New dance production sets the story in the modern day

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Scientists just made guinea pigs listen to Adele for seven days… and the results are both surprising and worrying

The rodents were subjected to I Miss You in compressed and uncompressed form. Here’s what happened…

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"He takes this expensive Martin from the '60s, we test it and I'm like, 'cool'. But it's just not quite making me excited - it's not doing the thing": Why Bon Iver chose a "hideous" $199 Ibanez rejected by a rehab centre over a vintage Martin for Speyside

"I was like, 'what's the story with this guitar, because it is god ugly'"

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Money’s Too Tight To Mention: New stats show that mid-range artists are feeling the pinch

Even the number of touring ‘superstars’ has declined

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“Everywhere we played, we noticed when it came to that song, people would pay attention”: How Chris Isaak’s chilling falsetto elevated Wicked Game into one of the greatest love songs of all time

Chris Isaak’s steamy 1989 masterpiece took the intervention of David Lynch before it started turning heads

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"A jaunt behind the curtain of Gorillaz’ extraordinary world": Gorillaz celebrate their 25th anniversary with a new exhibition and four “one-off” gigs

Fans attending the band’s exhibition will get the chance to buy tickets to a limited run of new live shows

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“Millions - possibly billions - of people have since heard that start-up chime. I never would have believed that the same company could one day be implicated in the machinery of oppression and war”: Brian Eno donates Windows 95 fee to Palestinian aid

“Selling and facilitating advanced AI and cloud services to a government engaged in systematic ethnic cleansing is not ‘business as usual'", Eno writes

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"A copy of Serum might be the smartest investment any budding producer makes": Xfer Serum 2 review

One of the greatest softsynths of all time hits v2 – is this still the one to beat?

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Universal Audio is giving the $199 PolyMAX synth plugin away for free - but not for long

"With PolyMAX, you are harnessing a massively influential period in synth history - the polysynth era when Prophets, Oberheims, and Jupiters ruled the world"

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“Too risky at the moment”: America is now so divided that a Bruce Springsteen covers band has been advised not to play in his hometown

Springsteen’s anti-Trump comments while on European tour got a US venue so rattled they cancelled a coverband’s gig

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“We would have absolutely lied through our teeth if there wasn't a full song”: How a TV jingle turned into a pop classic

The strange tale of The Carpenters' We've Only Just Begun

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“The last thing you want to do is play a widdly-widdly riff that’s getting in the way of the vocal”: Those Damn Crows’ Ian ‘Shiner’ Thomas on how to write a No.1 album, what he learned from Nirvana, and the Slipknot riff he wished he wrote

With the Welsh rockers' latest album, God Shaped Hole, topping the charts, we check in with riff-master Shiner to talk song structure, grunge inspirations, and knowing when not to play

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“Gilmour’s Strat went for four million — and 67 nations tuned in to that auction”: The man with the $1billion guitar collection

The late Jim Irsay also had Kurt Cobain’s famous Mustang

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“I have this very large polyp on my vocal cord, which has given me a lot of the tone and the texture that has made me who I am, but it's extremely difficult to perform with”: Miley Cyrus on her distinctive voice and why it’s preventing her from touring

"It's like running a marathon with ankle weights on," she says

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“I'm sure you all agree, I'm hardly Bob Dylan”: Charli xcx scoops the Songwriter of the Year award at this year’s Ivor Novellos

Other winners at last night's event included U2, Robbie Williams, Brandon Flowers, Berwyn and Self Esteem

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Can immersive audio work at a festival? We went to Polygon Live to find out

London’s biggest live 3D audio event showed us the potential – and limitations – of spatial audio in the wild

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“Don’t get too precious about your songs. We’re probably going to tear them apart”: Legendary producer Mutt Lange’s first words to the young Def Leppard

How Leppard's 'sixth member' took them to a new level

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"The first thing I notice is a bit of surprise": A guitarist tries 9.5 gauge guitar strings for the first time with the new Ernie Ball Tim Henson signature set

Are these strings a sweet spot for players? Guitarist Pete Emery finds out with this long-term test

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“Algorithms have sort of turned every playlist into grocery store background music”: We speak to the maker of a game putting the humanity back into music discovery

Music League lets players discover and vote on music via a fantasy sports-aping model - and it’s already got thousands of daily players

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“A versatile and durable dynamic microphone suitable for a range of applications”: Universal Audio SD-1 review

Affordable dynamic microphone bringing professional sound from a top-tier brand

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“It means everything to me. It’s the song that gave us our first big break, and it sounds great on the radio!”: The ’90s smash hit that pretty much wrote itself

“We never actually rehearsed the song — just played it!”

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