Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from MusicRadar

“Sonically we approached the songs with instruments that were broken, not mic-ed right, or out of tune”: How Trent Reznor created the Nine Inch Nails masterpiece The Fragile

“You have to question yourself as an artist," he said

“Karl left because they spent millions on these machines but never played one note. They were caught by the technology and it overtook them”: Our lost interview with Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür gives rare insight into the band's internal conflicts

“Karl left because they spent millions on these machines but never played one note. They were caught by the technology and it overtook them”: Our lost interview with Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür gives rare insight into the band's internal conflicts

Back in 2007, we caught up with Kraftwerk’s former rhythm robot, who had much to share about the fraught relationship with the band that defined electronic music

$“I think I brought a musicality that Tom wasn’t capable of”: Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell opens up on his productive but sometimes fractious relationship with bandmate Tom Petty$

“I think I brought a musicality that Tom wasn’t capable of”: Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell opens up on his productive but sometimes fractious relationship with bandmate Tom Petty

“Sometimes he made me so angry I couldn’t look at him,” Campbell says of Petty in his new memoir

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

inkl

“Coldplay come on stage to that piece - who’s not going to like it when 20,000 people get up to your song?”: Our re-discovered classic interview with Jon Hopkins catches him on the verge of his most successful decade

At the end of the 2000s, the IDM titan spoke to us about tech, his terrifying sessions with Coldplay and his desire to go somewhere new in the looming 2010s

“Dime’s original riffs and ideas… that would be cool”: Zakk Wylde says the current Pantera line-up may record new music from Dimebag’s old demos

Wylde reveals that Dimebag left behind “tons of cassettes”

“He was not a great guitarist, he was not a great singer. He kind of stumbled all over the stage”: Early Bob Dylan promoter and confidante Terri Thal talks Dylan’s classic Gaslight Café demo as it comes up for auction

With Dylan interest at a new high, Thal shares her story of discovering the star and making his first ever recording

“It’s insane. He had two broken fingers on Friday’s show - and he played the gig”: Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody praises “unbelievable” guitarist and keyboard player Johnny McDaid after he “wrecked” both his hands but never missed a show

“He’s made of different stuff from the rest of us,” he says

inkl

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Ableton Live 12.2 overhauls the device I use on pretty much every track – and rectifies Push 3’s most notable missing feature

Ableton Live 12.2 overhauls the device I use on pretty much every track – and rectifies Push 3’s most notable missing feature

Live 12.2 lands in public Beta, also bringing updates to Meld, Roar, new Max devices and more

“Tell me who your source pots are that keep giving you info about Oasis”: The 'confirmed' 2025 reunion line-up is out there and Liam Gallagher wants to know how it got leaked

“Tell me who your source pots are that keep giving you info about Oasis”: The 'confirmed' 2025 reunion line-up is out there and Liam Gallagher wants to know how it got leaked

So, which familiar Gallagher-appeasing faces have made the cut? And – wait a sec – who’s that surprise new addition on drums?

“Adopting the rule urged would turn the entire music industry on its ear”: A judge just decided that Miley Cyrus's Flowers will have to face a Bruno Mars song copyright claim

“Adopting the rule urged would turn the entire music industry on its ear”: A judge just decided that Miley Cyrus's Flowers will have to face a Bruno Mars song copyright claim

Is Cyrus’s Flowers too similar to Bruno Mars' When I Was Your Man? Looks like we’re all about to find out

"Thanks to streaming, more artists than ever before are generating royalties at every career stage, more than at any time in music history": Spotify is bigger and paying out more than ever with $10 billion heading to rights holders' pockets

"Thanks to streaming, more artists than ever before are generating royalties at every career stage, more than at any time in music history": Spotify is bigger and paying out more than ever with $10 billion heading to rights holders' pockets

Those are the figures from its latest Loud & Clear report and Spotify reckons that's great news for everyone

“A truly modern take on the high-powered super amp, full of clever design decisions and boasting features which open it up to all sorts of uses”: Blackstar St James 100 212

“A truly modern take on the high-powered super amp, full of clever design decisions and boasting features which open it up to all sorts of uses”: Blackstar St James 100 212

A 100-watt, 2x12, four-channel 'super amp' that weighs the same as a Deluxe Reverb?

"The bass drum is a total bad-ass, while the potential for Aphex-style bleeps and mayhem is available": Cherry Audio KR-55C Software Drum Machine

"The bass drum is a total bad-ass, while the potential for Aphex-style bleeps and mayhem is available": Cherry Audio KR-55C Software Drum Machine

Steppin’ Out with Cherry Audio’s post-punk beatbox that provides more than a few surprises

“It made me feel bad that I didn’t put it on the album”: From Pavement to Donna Summer, here are six more B-sides that became huge hits against the odds

“It made me feel bad that I didn’t put it on the album”: From Pavement to Donna Summer, here are six more B-sides that became huge hits against the odds

Adding to the collection of songs that started out on the flip side of a single, but went on to become playlist staples

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

"I thought I had just broken my wrist”: Rick Springfield reveals he has brain damage from fall 25 years ago

Veteran rocker also confirms he’s experimented recently with LSD and ketamine

“This is what I learned to play during the pandemic for almost two years”: Amanda Seyfried just showed off her new-found dulcimer skills and proved that she’d be the perfect fit for Cameron Crowe’s Joni Mitchell biopic

An ‘impromptu’ performance of a Joni classic has got the internet talking

SampleRadar: 273 free funk keys samples

If you're no Herbie Hancock on the keyboard, don't despair - use these free samples instead

“Being mostly a humbucker guy, I’m really loving the hum-free P-90s”: Warren Haynes’ signature Gibson Les Paul Standard is here and it’s a plain-topped '60s Cherry beauty with an onboard boost

The Gov't Mule frontman has gone for a set of Billie Joe Armstrong favourite pickups, a fat ‘50s profile neck, an onboard clean boost and no pickguard

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Arturia releases 88-key version of the KeyLab mk3 MIDI controller keyboard with new fully-weighted hammer-action keybed

The French manufacturer's flagship MIDI keyboard gets an 88-key model with an "authentic piano feel" thanks to its Fatar TP/110 keybed

Cherry Audio steps out with an emulation of '80s Korg drum machine used by Joe Jackson and Depeche Mode

KR-55C is a software version of Korg's "Rhythm 55" KR-55A and KR-55B, heard on Jackson's 1982 hit Steppin' Out

“I said, ‘Are we sure we can write a song about death?’”: The story of Mike + The Mechanics' classic No.1 The Living Years

"If we’d got it wrong, it would’ve been very schmaltzy"

"Have time apart, learn new skills, get new musical ideas and experiences… it’s been a healthy break”: The xx reveal their return to the studio in new social snap

Despite coming together on solo album collabs, this will be the band’s first group material since 2017

“I understand that this next chapter may leave you feeling uneasy”: What could Drake mean by his cryptic Instagram post?

Could this be ‘round two’ of the Lamar feud?

“It’s not really a sore point. It’s just such a stupid point”: Here's why Hans Zimmer’s Dune 2 soundtrack didn’t get an Oscar nomination

“It’s called Dune: Part Two, not Dune 2” argues the famous composer, as his soundtrack falls foul of ‘sequel’ regulations

“I played lots of rhythm guitar on it, and Freddie said, ‘No, no, no, no - it’s a piano song!’”: How Brian May had to fight to get himself heard on a Queen classic

May calls it “a massive Queen song”

1 … 69 70 71 72

People

Freddie Mercury

Denis Villeneuve

Amanda Seyfried

Billie Joe Armstrong

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

inkl

Organisations

Nine Inch Nails

inkl

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

304,229 stories

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.

Download on the AppStore

Get it on Google Play