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“James felt the fines would make you work harder. He was using that reverse psychology on us, and we didn’t understand at the time”: Bootsy Collins on why James Brown’s fines worked for his musicians

Plus how he found someone to make his ‘space’ bass

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“I was like - that's the album name right there": How a 6am WhatsApp from a rave icon provided the concept for Eats Everything’s genre-bending new album

Watch the UK DJ and producer break down the making of We Lost Ourselves and Found a Family

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“Hybrid Theory came out and nu metal was everything. I bought the album and showed it to everybody at school": New Linkin Park singer Emily Armstrong says she was a fan of the band in high school

"I was like, ‘you guys this album is so good’"

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“I could not in good conscience take my crew and instruments into that area”: Neil Young’s free Ukraine gig is off

But new album could be out in April

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“A superb-sounding and well thought-out pro-end keyboard”: Roland V-Stage 88 & 76-note keyboards review

If you’re a gigging keyboard player, the new Roland V-Stage could be the next major addition to your rig

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“You’ll hear a larger-than-life Strat tone that’s familiar, but feels bolder, and more exciting”: Lollar’s Super-Caster pickup set is here – three single-coils to rule the world?

Has Lollar just dropped the Stratocaster mod of the year?

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"The greatest pop record ever made. A record that never dates, because it lives outside time”: How The Beatles created Strawberry Fields Forever - the experimental masterpiece that John Lennon regarded as the best song he ever wrote for the band

Lennon called it “psychoanalysis set to music”

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“I am under an NDA, but I think everybody knows what happened”: Former Huey Lewis and the News guitarist Chris Hayes on that Ghostbusters plagiarism dispute

“Ivan Reitman, he came to us and said, ‘Hey, we want to use I Want a New Drug for our movie, Ghostbusters’”

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“Every time I put one of these guitars on it’s just a reminder of the relationship with my friends”: Ernie Ball Music Man shakes up Steve Lukather’s L4 signature series with new pickup options, finishes and a BFR HSS dream machine

But if these high-end electrics are a bit out of your price range, Sterling By Music Man has you covered with its $649 Lukather signature model in all-new finishes

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“The story of a misfit kid who grew up to be a punk rock hero”: Joey Ramone to be the subject of a new children’s book

Book will “speak to young folks navigating the complexities of growing up”

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“It’s about those bands who need merch income to survive”: The Charlatans' Tim Burgess fronts a new Manchester festival that allows bands to keep all their merch profits

The showcase aims to empower artists and bands to profit from their merch sales - without a middleman taking a cut

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“In terms of what it’s done to societies, it’s been a catastrophe. What it’s done to politics has been completely toxic”: Brian Eno on social media, plus his thoughts on AI

He’s released a surprise new album exclusively on Apple Music

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“Throughout my career I’ve made a psychological point of veering away from anything too pentatonic. I’m not a blues player in the conventional sense - but this song called for a bluesy touch”: Steve Vai’s greatest song was released 30 years ago today

Tender Surrender is Vai at his most poetic

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"Whatever magic is in the Van Halen ear canals has been imparted here too": EVH SA-126 Special review

The first new design from EVH under Wolfgang Van Halen's watch is a Gibson-inspired semi-hollow with plenty of personality

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“With locking tuners and hard-tail bridges, these are built to play hard”: Fender stealth-launches limited edition Player II Advanced – an HH Telecaster and HSS Strat with ebony fingerboards and loaded with Seymour Duncan pickups

Available now from select retailers, these rock and metal-friendly FSR models sport a hot-rodded vibe with black hardware, locking tuners, and hard-tail bridges as standard

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“The perfect environment for creating iconic drum sounds, which have scope to move beyond their original sonic remit”: GForce Software IconDrum review

In the return of an Iconoclastic instrument, GForce revisits one of the most influential drum machines of the ’80s, and beyond

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"This is about her son": Emotional scenes all round as country music’s past and present celebrate Grand Ole Opry’s 100th anniversary

Tributes paid to Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Dolly Parton and others

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“Part of reimagining old technology is stepping outside the boundaries of possibility”: Catalinbread’s new stompbox tribute to the EMT 140 runs two emulations of the classic plate reverb and runs them in “modulated tandem”

This Ghost with the most yields a chorusing effect to your reverb trails

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“I could write songs as bad as Wham’s if I really felt the urge to, but what’s the point?”: Dreams, red wine and the desire to explode - Robert Smith’s songwriting approach in his own words

The Cure’s godfather of goth remains one of music’s key figureheads, yet his attitude to songwriting is anything but orthodox

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“American Idol - just the worst. Take risks. Go and play in a pub”: Elton John has a blueprint for musicians who want to establish themselves and have a long career - and it doesn’t involve TV talent shows

“Just keep trying to play live,” he says. “That’s the way you improve as a musician and a songwriter”

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"I love that sound - it's the reason I bought a Polymoog": UJAM's Vox Humana faithfully captures the classic Polymoog preset from Gary Numan's Cars

All proceeds from sales of the plugin will be donated to the Bob Moog Foundation

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“The deepest-ever dive into the Metallica star’s eclectic guitar collection”: Kirk Hammett and Gibson Publishing team up for epic coffee-table book

Available in Standard, Deluxe and Custom Editions, this weighty 400-pager is essential for Metallica gear heads and tells the story behind Hammett's most-famous guitars

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“This religious freak came on stage with a dagger to stab me. Very disturbing to say the least!”: Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi recalls the most dangerous gig of his life

"When we got to the venue, somebody had painted a cross on a door in red..."

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"It was the first synth that made dreaming big accessible to a schlub like me": Geddy Lee teams up with Moog for special edition satin red Minimoog Model D with "hot-rodded" VCA circuit

"It’s a thrill to see the Minimoog in that stunning red, so representative of one of the most fertile periods in Rush’s creative history"

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“They didn’t like Prince’s bikini underwear”: Prince’s support sets for the The Rolling Stones in 1981 are remembered as disastrous, but guitarist Dez Dickerson says that the the crowd reaction wasn’t as bad as people think

“Prince got freaked and cut the set short. The rock stations reported that we got booed off the stage, but that wasn’t true,” he says

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