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“The statements are defamatory of the claimant at common law”: Documentary maker’s action against Roger Waters will now proceed to trial

His comment about “cheerleading” genocide was a statement of fact, not opinion

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“We were human samplers. We’d listen to the tapes, isolate the best bits, then learn how to play them over and over again”: How Talking Heads created their classic hit Once In A Lifetime

“We very nearly abandoned the song," said David Byrne

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“A lot of times they won’t redo it. You could be like ‘oh, that clipped a little bit’, and they’re just gonna look at you like, ‘tough’”: How Beyoncé’s clipped vocal recordings ended up on the Queens Remix of Break My Soul

“She probably did it real quick and it was like, ‘oh, cool. It doesn’t sound bad,’” says engineer Stuart White

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"Quincy told her, 'Ro, don't sing that doggone song no more until you record it'": A music professor breaks down Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly with His Song

“I can’t think of another major hit with a fourteen-bar chorus”

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“Distinctive, bold and relentlessly innovative... has taken her craft to new heights”: Charli XCX already confirmed for at least one Brit award

She’s scooped Songwriter of the Year

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“It’s tougher and faster than ever”: Jump aboard the modern hardgroove train and learn to build a club-ready beat

Putting together the elements you need to craft a beat that just won't let up

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“Boasts an array of features, many of which punch impressively above its relatively low price-point”: Millenium MPS-850 E-Drum set review

An affordable e-kit with a few surprising tricks up its sleeve

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“Live music’s important, it’s ingrained in our soul, click the link”: Take 15 minutes to save the future of live music – take the Music Fans Voice survey today

Kate Nash, Shirley Manson, Lambrini Girls, Edgar Wright, Danny Dyer and more want you to help save the UK music scene

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“Some of the worst times I’ve been through. There’s been times when I thought my number was up”: New documentary lifts the lid on Ozzy Osbourne’s struggles with his health

It will be aired on Paramount+ later this year

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“We may be witnessing a true future guitar hero in our midst”: Aussie teenager Taj Farrant officially blows Nuno Bettencourt’s mind as Extreme guitarist describes the blues-rock phenom as SRV meets EVH

Game recognises game...

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“All who believe in freedom and sense the jeopardy we Europeans now find ourselves in are not sleeping easily on this, the third anniversary of the invasion”: U2 send message of support and music to President Zelenskyy and Ukraine

Bono reads out poem by Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko

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Playing with Fyre: The greatest party that never happened is actually happening this time

So says Billy McFarland

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“Super-squashed cleans, singing slide tones and endlessly sustaining leads”: Origin Effects unveils the Cali76 Stacked Compressor – a compact stompbox promising “studio-quality” dual-stage compression with expanded headroom

The latest Urei1176-inspired compressor from Origin ups the internal voltage from 9V to 24V and features a pair of FET compression stages each with its own controls

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“A frankly ludicrous pedal that stakes itself as the ultimate octave funhouse”: Electro-Harmonix POG 3 review

EHX’s incredibly fun reincarnation of the POG aims to let you get weird with your tones, but does it justify that gigantic asking price?

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"I’d like to dedicate this moment to Sophie": A. G. Cook named Producer of the Year ahead of the 2025 BRIT Awards

The Brat producer and former PC Music boss paid tribute to the late electronic artist Sophie in a statement on the win

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“It’s just heartbreaking to see someone spend so much money on something that is fake”: YouTuber assembles team of guitar experts including Joe Bonamassa and Gibson's Tom Murphy to show you how to spot a fake Les Paul

Robert Baker puts a lot of guitar knowledge in one room to run the rule over a cheap and nasty counterfeit Gibson

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"Stupid song. But our producer said, ‘It’s a hit.’ And he was right!”: How a famous singer had a No.1 in the ’80s with a song she hated

“There isn’t a city built on rock’n’roll!” she admits

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“In between songs, we had to ask if there was a chiropractor in the house and literally stopped the show": How Mike Portnoy has played through pain for over two decades

Dream Theater man is latest drummer to feel the strain

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"This riff was gonna be really intense, and probably pretty majestic as well, but quite intriguing”: How Jimmy Page created the Led Zeppelin classic Kashmir

"It kicked off with myself and John Bonham," he said

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“I went for a guitar commission with a carload of basses! I laid them all out on the floor, and he went, ‘Okay, let’s make a guitar’”: Ken Lawrence reveals how he became luthier to James Hetfield and made some of his coolest Metallica guitars

How did a specialist in custom-built bass guitars end up making some of the Metallica frontman's most-famous electrics? As it turns out, with a twist of fate and his Mesa/Boogie connection

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“I saw this big hand come over with loads of rings on it and just stop the record. That was like my stamp of approval”: Adam F on making '90s DnB classic Colours – and why he’s re-recording it for 2025

“We went to the Hit Factory in New York, which was 10 or 15 grand a day. I preferred the mixdowns that I did in my bedroom in Watford”

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“The lyrics talk about machines writing music, and that’s actually happened. All things considered, it was a very prophetic song”: The iconic track that sparked the MTV generation also predicted the entire future of music

This Trevor Horn-helmed classic documented a sea change in music consumption, and its vision of tomorrow was spookily accurate

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“In the music of the future, will our voices go unheard?” Kate Bush and others release new silent album in protest at plans to let AI firms use copyrighted work for free

Is This What We Want? includes ‘contributions’ by Bush, Damon Albarn and Hans Zimmer

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“We weren’t trying for it to end up in the vein of Mickey, that was unintentional!”: The Toni Basil influence on Bruno Mars and Rosé’s APT was accidental, says co-producer Cirkut, as he explains how the song was written and recorded

“When Bruno gets involved in something, he’s not just a feature, he becomes a part of it”

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Is Eternal Engine's Mars the world's first polyphonic vacuum tube synth?

Vintage meets contemporary in this DAW-controllable hybrid synth that blends digital oscillators with a tube-based audio path

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