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The tone-sweetener your rig has been waiting for? Walrus Audio's Highpoint is one serious compressor pedal

Studio-quality analogue optical compression and it has console-style VU meter LED lights on the front

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“I was just a new guy, probably number nine on the list”: Larry Carlton on his nerve-shredding debut session with Quincy Jones – and the time he was called to play guitar on a Michael Jackson smash-hit

Carlton's experiences are a great example of why a session player has to be ready for anything

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Anna’s Archive ordered to pay Spotify over $300M in damages after illegally scraping 86 million files for “the largest truly open library in human history”

But who exactly will pay?

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Kraftwerk copyright battle rages on as CJEU delivers landmark ruling in sampling case

The Court of Justice of the EU's decision could have wide-ranging implications for artists that sample other artists' work

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“I mean, how has that not happened?”: A decade after her first effort was rejected, Lana Del Rey finally has her Bond theme – but is it the one she deserved?

First Light is here, but you won't be hearing it in a cinema any time soon

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“We reject Eurovision being used to whitewash and normalise Israel’s genocide, siege and brutal military occupation against Palestinians”: Brian Eno, Paul Weller, Massive Attack and others call for Israel to be kicked out of Eurovision

The event goes ahead in Vienna on May 16

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“Prince invited us to Paisley Park studios to jam – and he’s playing guitar and piano at the same time! You can’t compete with that”: No Doubt were thrilled to work with Prince – but their first meeting with him was a humbling experience

“You don’t walk away going, ‘He’s a normal guy’”

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No rig? No problem – this website lets guitarists design amps and effects tones by text prompt

“How'd you get that great tone?” “Oh, I found it on a website... And it was free to use”

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“The features on this bad boy are very different”: Budget gear giant Harley Benton goes high-end for BassTheWorld signature bass

With Kloppman pickups, CTS pots, Gotoh hardware and premium tonewoods, this MV-4JB Plus an upscale J-style to challenge our preconceptions of Harley Benton as just an entry level brand

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“I have carried this song with me for so many years. To now hear his version, shared for the very first time, feels truly special”: Celine Dion reacts to the release of Prince’s version of With This Tear, the song he gave to her back in 1992

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Prince's death

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"It’s been a very long time in the making": U-he releases Zebra 3 after more than a decade of development

The Hans Zimmer-approved powerhouse soft synth is back

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“I’m hoping and praying that some kind soul will find these items and reach out”: Madonna lost her clothes at Coachella over the weekend

She made guest appearance during Sabrina Carpenter’s set

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"Don't play scales just to get faster. Speed is a happy by-product of playing more accurately": Beginner Guitar Lessons - nailing scales

The A major pentatonic, A minor pentatonic and Mixolydian are great places to start and we'll show you how

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“It’s like… what do you do after that? I need a drink”: Sabrina Carpenter sings Like A Prayer with Madonna at Coachella, as Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Billy Idol, Steve Stevens, Zara Larsson and SZA also deliver second weekend cameos

Coachella’s second half definitely wasn’t a B-side

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“We strongly believe that in the coming years, writing code manually won't be a thing. What will be left is the fun stuff”: Inside the new wave of AI tools turning prompts into plugins

AI-powered plugin generators like Amorph and Pluginmaker.ai promise to democratize development – but is vibe coding really the future of plugin design, or just hype?

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“I was like, ‘Oh my God, he graffitied on this shirt. Am I going to go out in this shirt that has this thing on it?’”: Olivia Rodrigo reveals Robert Smith's Glastonbury prank, and says she didn’t play her Cure-referencing new single to him

“I played him a bunch of other songs on the album – I don’t know why I didn’t think to play this one"

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“I’m curious about this new technology”: Jose González has collaborated with ChatGPT on his new album

But the Swedish singer songwriter has a more nuanced view of AI

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Tame Impala's synth company releases Pistil companion app for Orchid

Telepathic Instruments Pistil is also available as a VST3/AU plugin for those that don't own Orchid, putting its Tame Impala-designed sounds in your DAW

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“I said to the band, ‘The good news is that we’ve got a hit, but the bad news is that you’re not on it!'”: The surprising story of the Blow Monkeys’ AIDS crisis-inspired Digging Your Scene, with new insight from its writer

The lush Blow Monkeys classic helped propel the band to fame, but its darker subtext was missed by many

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“Lately I’ve been trying to think, ‘Where could you go with guitar if you decided there were no limitations at all?’” Eric Johnson on the $400,000 rig he hardly played, the Dumble that got away, and his masterplan for setting his playing free

The Texan virtuoso discusses inspirations from jazz greats, admits he was too busy practising to join a band, and tells us what we can expect from his career-spanning Texaphonic Tour

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"We get so many requests from people wanting to use our tracks but we normally say no. This is only the second time we have given permission”: How Madonna created a dancefloor classic - with a sample that other artists could only dream of using

An intoxicating mash-up of ’70s disco, ’80s electropop and 2000s club music

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“When I was growing up, there was peer pressure on you to conform to be a certain way. And as an English boy at the time, you’re encouraged not to show your emotion”: How the young Robert Smith created one of The Cure’s definitive songs

The band’s first song to pass one billion streams on Spotify

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“We’re pirates really, just plundering then moving on”: Re-create the sound of the powerful Where’s Your Head At bassline - which Basement Jaxx nabbed from Numan!

Where’s your head at? Because our headspace is deep in Moog territory, as we rebuild a classic Gary Numan bass patch that was famously sampled by Basement Jaxx

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“He hummed the initial melody for When Doves Cry into my answerphone – saying, ‘Don’t erase this!’ – so he’d remember it”: Prince’s Purple Rain co-star recalls the moment he had the idea for one of his greatest songs

10 years after his death, Apollonia Kotero is one of many friends and collaborators who’ve been remembering him

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“A man walked into the party with a big long scarf. He looked at the mirror, whisked his scarf around his neck and tilted his hat slightly to the left. I thought, ‘Wow, he’s really vain’”: The No 1 song that propelled Carly Simon to stardom

It also left legions of fans speculating on who it was actually about

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