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“They’re kind of stuck to 30 seconds of being amazing for social media”: Joe Satriani explains the difference between online virtuosos and Jimi Hendrix – and says society isn’t giving players the chance to fully express themselves

Satch says Hendrix was never played anything that sounded like an exercise– he “just sounded like music”

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“The song was an expression of my tempestuous private life. This stuff is real!”: The emotional ’80s ballad that’s just reached one billion streams

It was No 1 in 1984

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“The majors have prioritised temporary virality over art for too long”: James Blake just mic-dropped a hard-hitting take on the music business

Having seen the best and worst of the business, Blake now comes armed with essential advice

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“One night after the Albert Hall he said, ‘Put it away and get a proper guitar!’”: Andy Fairweather Low on playing with Eric Clapton and how Slowhand was unimpressed by his oddball Teisco

Low got the Teisco Spectrum V bug after seeing Ry Cooder with one. Eddie Van Halen loved them too. Clapton? Not so much...

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Want AI to make you a hit song? Bad news. New copyright law means that you’ll never earn a penny from it

In a landmark ruling, the US copyright office has finally decided that AI generated works can’t be copyrighted

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“It’s easy to be a show-off with production. In electronic music right now, that’s what a lot of people are doing - but that’s just ego”: Ela Minus looks inwards on new project DÍA

The Colombian hardware synth-head on her soul-searching second album, demolishing the ego, and why she can’t stand Dave Smith’s presets

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"It’s got the looks, the feel, and - most importantly - the sound to rival its valve-powered namesake, all in a compact, road-ready package": Laney Lionheart Loudpedal

Laney broadens its pedal amp range with a nod to its modern classic - but how does it compare to the real deal?

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Message in a pedal: Behringer's new Chorus Symphony is a clone of pedal made famous by The Police, Joe Satriani and Nirvana

We might be in the middle of winter, but it's already time for the sound of Summers, apparently

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Nirvana’s surviving members catch a global audience off guard as they make an unscheduled appearance at FireAid

The band appeared at last night’s charity spectacular with guest vocalists St Vincent, Joan Jett, Kim Gordon and Violet Grohl

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“I’m not saying I behaved that well, but I didn’t really do anything that terrible either”: '60s icon Marianne Faithfull has died aged 78

Singer, actress and inspiration for classic Rolling Stones songs

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Game-changers, trends, innovations, revivals and show-stoppers: the key guitars, amps and pedals of NAMM 2025

Our top picks from the likes of Fender, LR Baggs, MXR, DigiTech, Jackson and more

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“A guitar that can easily be taken anywhere”: Guild has holiday practice covered with the Travel Spruce, a small-bodied short-scale with a “big sound”

This compact but perfectly formed spruce-topped acoustic has an arched back to give it a voice that belies its modest dimensions

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"Units this inspirational are rare, and perhaps as a writing tool, that vibe alone makes the 2290 worth it”: TC Electronic 2290-P Dynamic Digital Delay review

The 2290-P is TC's latest reissue of the classic rack unit. Have they finally nailed it?

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FireAid takes place tonight. Here’s how it works and how you can watch the show

Get set for the biggest live music event since 1985 and a live tech workout of global proportions

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"It’s absolutely incredible made my day I’m of [sic] out on my skateboard": Bring Me The Horizon just covered Oasis’ Wonderwall and Liam Gallagher’s response is next-level weird

But the reason why the UK metal band chose to cover the song at all is even weirder…

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“It was the first song I wrote just to see if I could. I discovered - oh yes, I can!”: How David Byrne created Talking Heads' most popular track right out of the gate

The song was intended as a deliberately dark response to the more playful macabre antics of Alice Cooper. But it would end up shaping Talking Heads’ future

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“PHS are a critical lifeline for pets impacted by the Los Angeles fires”: Sophie Lloyd is auctioning a signed and stage-played signature Kiesel in fundraiser for Pasadena Humane Society

The bidding is at $7,000+ for the shreddable collectible that Lloyd played at her Whisky-A-Go-Go LA debut, with 100 per cent of the funds raised going to the animal and wildlife charity

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“Who’s Jimmy Page? Never heard of him!”: The joke that backfired on a band that sounded a whole lot like Led Zeppelin

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"With these loops, I wanted to inject my identity”: Mainline some Tosin Abasi magic into your DAW with his new Apple-exclusive producer pack

Fantasise no further. If you’ve ever wanted Tosin Abasi to play on your track then your dream just came true

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“Try playing Three Of A Perfect Pair without feeling your fingertips!”: Adrian Belew has carpal tunnel surgery following tour with prog supergroup BEAT

The former King Crimson guitarist was operated on by the surgeon responsible for the first successful human hand transplant in America

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Here are all all the big names who've piled on to play at the 2025 Grammy Awards to "rebuild, uplift and support those in need"

The drip feed of genuine superstars continues and it looks like Sunday night's ceremony is going to be huge

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“A vibrant update to an all-time classic”: By popular demand, Gibson gives the ES-335 its Custom Color refresh

Spearmint, Watermelon, Ocean Blue, Blood Moon Burst, the ES-335 and its AAA figured maple siblings have never looked so bright

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Patti Smith collapses on stage during a show in Brazil, before completing gig from a wheelchair

Despite falling and hitting her head, Smith returned to the stage to finish the gig

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“This is a hideous name drop, but…”: Jon Hopkins reveals what he learned from Brian Eno about music production

“As much as possible, don't get bogged down in the tiny minutiae,” he says

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“It’s a favourite with jazz and funk players, but it's just at home in hits by artists such as Jessie Ware”: Expand your chordal colours with 9ths

Building an extension to a chord doesn’t require planning permission, but it might require a degree of design. We add 9ths to our extension palette

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