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SampleRadar: 167 free processed 808 and 909 samples

808s and 909s, but not as you've heard them before

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“It’s pretty hard to find something that Chris is bad at but I think we’ve found it”: Watch Chris Hemsworth’s painful-looking first drumming lesson

Luckily, the actor did improve

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“We’re playing the first album, the second album, the third album and then the fourth one is... a mystery”: Gorillaz set to preview new music at upcoming Copper Box gig

Gigs and new exhibition celebrate 25 years of multimedia project

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“Our first true multi-effect, a little museum of the rare and strange for you to wander around”: Chase Bliss invites adventurous players to rummage around the Lost + Found – 12 mixable modes, from Slow-Verb shoegaze to Gen Lite lo-fi textures

Lost + Found is a typically inventive design from Chase Bliss that will present its fair share of surprises – and a bewildering array of options for transforming your tone, and presets to save 'em!

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“They were unfairly dismissed by critics and listeners with ‘good taste’ as mindlessly primitive”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind Black Sabbath's Iron Man

Following Ozzy's passing, we put one of Sabbath's best-loved tracks under the musical microscope

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“We’ve redefined the balance between heritage and innovation”: Fender combines old-school mojo with 21st-century playability on the American Ultra Luxe Vintage series

Love vintage and modern guitars? Have it both ways with compound radius fingerboards, stainless steel frets, Pure Vintage pickups and Heirloom lacquer finishes in classic Fender colours

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“Many of the Pro’s advantages are less towards sound, and more on the side of enhanced playability”: Alesis Nitro Pro review

Alesis goes beyond Max with pad improvements for its mid-range electronic drum set

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Taylor Swift announces new album, The Life Of A Showgirl, and drops a strong musical hint that Max Martin is back in the producer's chair

A return to pure pop for the world's biggest star?

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"He's not using a guitar amp. He's using a Tascam 424": JHS Pedals puts a Portastudio in a pedal to help you recreate Mk.gee's "elastic, lo-fi tones"

The 424 Gain Stage is a preamp pedal designed to recreate the sought-after sonics of a Tascam four-track cassette recorder

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"Once I’ve played those four notes, then I can start to improvise”: Mark Knopfler on the Dire Straits song he's come to accept that he has to start in the same way every time

"People have bought tickets," he says

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Kind of moo: Dairy farmers are playing their cows jazz music in a bid to improve their milk yields

And, inevitably, it's gone viral on TikTok

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"We’ve been working on something different": Auxy launches macOS version of mobile music-making app and teases forthcoming hardware instrument

One of our favourite music-making apps for iOS just came to desktop

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“If you’re given the choice between boxing kangaroos and John Lennon you choose John Lennon”: The strange, brief existence of the John Lennon-fronted supergroup hidden for decades

Back in 1968, Lennon, Keith Richards and an unlikely collection of musical cohorts tore through a White Album highlight

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“We’ve had the privilege of working with many remarkable talents over the years, but this visit was truly special”: Bob Dylan spent two days recording in Albany last week

He's still up to his Rough And Rowdy Ways

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“RIP Bobby”: Eric Clapton pays tribute to Bobby Whitlock, the Memphis musician who sang and played keyboards in Derek and the Dominos and recorded with George Harrison

Whitlock also supported Rita Coolidge’s claim that she should have received a writing credit on Layla

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Nine Inch Nails have just played their first show back with drummer Josh Freese

Peel It Back tour continues to utilise two stages

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Eventide is giving away a killer $99 distortion plugin for free

A lo-fi powerhouse with a few tricks up its sleeve, CrushStation delivers everything from "creamy saturation to brutal sonic assault"

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"The clean and medium-gain sound is where it truly flexes its sonic muscles": Hotone Pulze Mini Bluetooth Amplifier

Hotone enters the mini amp arena, but does it have what it takes to beat the reigning champs?

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"Evolves the SH-101 template while still capturing the sound of the original": Donner Essential L1 review

The Chinese brand's second synth enters into the increasingly busy budget 101 fray – can it stand out from its rivals?

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“She bounded on in this bizarre, eye-catching outfit of striped stockings and a black leotard”: Local journalist recalls early encounter with Charli XCX at Bishop’s Stortford music fest

“A few shocked parents had to cover their children's eyes” he remembers

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“They had the arrangement and I went, ‘Oh, this is finally my David Gilmour moment.’ The hair on my arms stood up”: Keith Scott on the making of Bryan Adams’ (Everything I Do) I Do It For You – the record-breaking hit no one saw coming

Scott remembers how a “plaintive melody” from Michael Kamen intrigued Mutt Lange and was shaped into Bryan Adams' biggest, hit, giving Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves the anthem it needed

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“I wanted to bring a new generation to this iconic street. It’s been so integral to British music”: Yungblud launches his B.R.A.T store in the heart of Denmark Street

And he talks about his “north star,” Ozzy Osbourne

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“I thought this had blown over. The Who has a new drummer… this is old news and it’s completely wrong.”: Zak Starkey claps back at Roger Daltrey's "character assassination" claims as the drama surrounding his departure from The Who rumbles on

But he and Daltrey “go back too long for grudges,” he claims

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It might be a little ugly, but Lambda Synthetics' PolyPulse could be the instrument that finally breaks you out of the 16-step grid

Is that a control panel at a Soviet-era nuclear power plant? No, it's an algorithmic performance workstation

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"It’s something that looked and felt like a Fender but was something I could afford at that point": Khruangbin bassist Laura Lee Ochoa says that her Fender signature model is actually based on a Fender copy

“I feel like it is something that a bass player who’s just starting out can really find themselves on,” she says of her Jazz bass

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