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"We have mended broken bones and broken hearts. But we have followed this road together, with each other, for each other, no matter what": Foo Fighters mark their 30th anniversary with a new song

Today's Song was released... today

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“Doing this makes me feel like he's always going to be here with me”: Meet the guitarist who’s worked his dad’s ashes into his Telecaster

"This way he will still be with me at all the shows and this has given me a sense of closure," he says

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“Everyone comes back changed”: Bicep on their new collaborative project with Inuit musicians

Takkuuk premieres tomorrow in London

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“We are honoured to show our love for Ozzy and Black Sabbath”: Judas Priest might not be playing at Back To The Beginning but they have just saluted the OG metal gods with a cover of War Pigs

Also, is that Pelham Blue Les Paul Custom a new signature model for Richie Faulkner?

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“It’s great for squeezing energy out of lacklustre ambient sounds”: Our pick of the very best VCA compressor software emulation plugins for any music project

Our resident mixing expert Jon Musgrave, serves up his go-to toolkit for compressing with the best of them

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“Sometimes I’m surprised by what I can do now, because I could not sing”: As she prepares to release her new album, Vie, Doja Cat says that she now has a lot more knowledge of how to use her voice “as an instrument”

She also calls out people who enjoy pop music but “don’t respect it or what it is”

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“And the award for best AI song of the year goes to…”: The Future Sound Awards are new music awards 100% focused on rewarding AI-derived music

Reckon that your AI tune doesn’t get the love that it should? A new competition aims to celebrate the best new AI music and its makers

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“Thunderous sub-octave, expressive envelope, and lush modulation effects with killer tracking and sustain”: MXR unveils the MB301 Bass Synth – instant funk for your pedalboard

The Bass Synth is a funk engine with selectable waveforms, presets, and monophonic synth sounds evoking golden era Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and Parliament/Funkadelic

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"Minimal Audio's Rift and Xfer's Serum are by far the most-used plugins in our toolbox": ARMNHMR on their tools of the trade

Joseph Chung and Joseph Abella’s fusion of dubstep, trance and techno has found favour with millions of listeners globally

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“I’m going, ‘Whoa, I just quit my band, put all my eggs in thisThin Lizzybasket, and now we’re breaking up over a beard?!’”: Scott Gorham recalls the band's close shave when Phil Lynott was not tickled by Brian Robertson’s whiskers

Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous lineup was exactly that, and with Robertson, things could get hairy over the most trivial matter

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The Oasis song Liam hated because it was 'reggae': "I remember Our Kid saying 'Why are you writing reggae songs?' And I was like, there speaks a man that has never heard reggae"

A songwriter in peak form, a singer and band who hated it, and the song that became bigger than anyone could have imagined

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“Don't construct a chord that uses eight notes - it’s unplayable on a guitar!”: How to humanise your virtual acoustic instruments in your DAW projects

Duff notes, timing errors and quirky performance choices are often the elements that underline the humanity of acoustic performances.

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Billie Joe Armstrong is very much not having the time of his life as he says 'Good Riddance' to fan who gets on stage and plays an Oasis song instead of the 1997 Green Day hit they were supposed to

“Best song of the night,” quips Liam Gallagher

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“Whether you’re looking to liven up a dull snare or beef up a lacklustre bass sound, these plugins are extremely handy”: Our resident platinum award-winning mixer and producer shares 10 of his go-to plugins

Our picks of the modern virtual tools that will transform any self-sustaining producer’s workflow

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“We don’t want our music killing people”: Deerhoof just quit Spotify in protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s multi-million dollar investment in AI weapons tech

“Spotify is flushing itself down the toilet. Eventually artists will want to leave this already widely hated data-mining scam masquerading as a ‘music company”

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“Sometimes I can be brutally honest, and people don't like that. But if you don't like what the answer is going to be, don't ask the question!”: Iron Maiden’s commander-in-chief Steve Harris says that strong leadership is the secret to the band’s success

Plus: how he recently left a Maiden fan in tears

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“Learning how to mix is almost as important as hitting on your original musical idea”: New to the mixing process? Start here

Don't let a brilliant song be swallowed up in a bad mix by following our guide to the central principles of the process

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“These recordings clearly demonstrate what fine music they produced right from the very beginning”: Early Sabbath demos to be released later this month

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"A guitar software instrument can sound incredible – as nuanced and human as the real thing, but only if you know exactly what you are doing with it": The ultimate guide to plugin guitars

After spending decades trying to emulate the guitar, it might have been easier just to pick one up and learn how to play it…

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"I never want the sample to be the whole thing - I want to mask it": Loukeman reveals his favourite plugins and unusual production techniques

Toronto-based producer Loukeman talks his new project Sd-2, sampling techniques and unconventional effects processing

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"If your singing sounds like a dying cat, this finally kills the cat": This hilariously bad mic modelling plugin is free for International Joke Day

Caelum Audio's Toyphonic Micraliser is the plugin nobody asked for

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How to master virtually any software synth

Don't let your software arsenal overwhelm you - sometimes the best route to creative success is to mine just one instrument

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“It came off the rails quite significantly at the end of Hammer to Fall”: Brian May reveals Queen's Live Aid doubts, and how the band were "lacking oil"

Guitarist recalls “flaws” in their performance that day

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“It was confusing to me, even when I did the record. I didn’t know that I was playing it in the wrong place”: Guitarist Daryl Stuermer on why Phil Collins had to set him straight when they were recording In The Air Tonight

“And then he put on this drum fill, which changed everything,” he says of the song's production

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“A creative reverb platform built for guitarists, synth players, and sound designers who want studio-grade depth”: With dual reverb engines, 16 algorithms, Crazy Tube Circuits’ Mirage is one serious reverb pedal with no menu-diving required

Mirage is designed for all ambient adventures, from adding some everyday space to soundscape design and shoegaze reveries – and CTC says a stripped-down single-engine version is in the works

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