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“Making music is like constructing a machine whose function is to dredge up emotions in performer and listener alike”: How becoming more in-tune with our feelings when listening to music made us better creators - with a little thanks to David Byrne

Whether it’s by being exposed to new genres or digging out some of your favourite records - zoning in to how music affects your emotions gives you the best creative blueprint for music-making

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Serum 2, Pigments 6, Phase Plant, Vital and Massive X: The ultimate soft synth showdown

As Serum 2 shakes up the competition, we pit five of the most powerful, flexible and full-featured synth plugins against each other to find out who comes out on top in 2025

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"I have a whole crowd in front of me, and all I want to do is hug him”: Someone just paid $12,495 to be Kiss icon Gene Simmons' roadie for a day

After dreaming up the ultimate fan experience and then cancelling 17 gigs, Simmons’ aborted tour finally got its first, paying member of staff

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Want a gig at the Montreux Jazz Festival? Thomann and Shure want to gift you your big break at the famous global gathering

A fresh-for-2025 competition sees them parting with cash, prizes and a spot among the superstars on the festival’s famous stage

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Chad Smith just destroyed the Wu-Tang Clan in his latest drum tuition video

Taking to the studio for Drumeo, Smith has just given an old favourite a through beating up

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“I used the snare drums I played on those early records, including the snare I played on Two Princes”: Why the Spin Doctors are still rocking with the same old gear they used in the ’90s

Also featured: a Strat that was in dust balls for a decade

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“She played it for us, and we were like, ‘Oh, my God’”: The last song Jill Sobule wrote before her death was entitled JD Vance Is A...

The social activist singer songwriter penned one last scathing future classic before tragically leaving us earlier this month

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"There's too much new gear!": The 12 best instruments, effects and innovations you need to know about from Superbooth 2025

New synths, drum machines, effects and oddities from the Berlin synth expo

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“This book will serve as a reliable companion on your journey through drumming”: Millenium launches new book for drummers

Millenium Legendary Drumbook is aimed at both beginners and seasoned players

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“Prince was really excited and kept pumping us up, saying ‘We’re making history tonight’”: How Prince summoned one of the greatest guitar solos of all time from thin air

The heart-rending heights of Prince’s most affecting piece of music were conjured largely on the spot, during a now mythical performance

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“I met him at his house and he played the drums for me”: As he prepares to play him in the Beatles biopics, Barry Keoghan has been studying Ringo Starr’s technique up close

But the actor was too nervous to have a go himself

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“It was a joke and suddenly it became a genre. I don't even understand it. I never understood it”: Daryl Hall can’t get onboard with the concept of yacht rock - “It's just R&B, with maybe some jazz in there"

“People misjudged us because they couldn't label us,” he says of Hall & Oates

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"I remember in the studio thinking: ‘Oh my God, how am I going to deliver this to the label tomorrow?’ I’d totally lost sight of its potential": A music professor breaks down the theory behind All Saints' Pure Shores

As the William Orbit-produced Pure Shores turns 25, we put the blissful '00s hit under the musical microscope

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“While we were all eager to return to the stage, Sean's health is our top priority at this moment”: Alice In Chains pull tour after drummer experiences "non-life-threatening medical emergency"

It’s unclear whether they’ll make Villa Park Sabbath date in July

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“It felt like every song was 20 minutes long. It was not comfortable”: Suzanne Vega explains why she had to play her groundbreaking 1989 Glastonbury set wearing a bulletproof vest

Suzanne Vega explains why she had to play her 1989 Glastonbury set wearing a bulletproof vest

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New to synthesis? This free synth plugin can help you learn how it works

Developed by the makers of synth training app Syntorial, Primer can be used to learn the fundamentals without getting bogged down in advanced concepts or distracting additional features

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“It’s really weird: 400 students asking questions, and I’m the only person there - and I’m the instructor - who can’t read music”: Acoustic guitar hero Tommy Emmanuel plays The Beatles and Oasis as he discusses the glaring gap in his musical knowledge

“I can read a chord chart and follow the chords, but I can’t read notes,” he explains

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“I remember saying, ‘Come on, you’re gonna edit it down to, what, four bars?’ Harold goes, ‘No, we’re gonna keep everything.’ And they did!”: How a guitar hero's epic 64-bar solo lit up a classic movie theme

"We got the whole thing done in three hours"

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“Prince was really excited and kept pumping us up, saying ‘We’re making history tonight’”: How Prince summoned one of the greatest guitar solos of all time from thin air

The heart-rending heights of Prince’s most affecting piece of music were conjured largely on the spot, during a now mythical performance

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“If you’re a singer, you’re totally reliant on your body. You can't put a bit more distortion on your amp or use effects. You can’t compensate. You’re very exposed”: Why Iron Maiden had to change their singer to reach the next level

Guitarist Adrian Smith remembers a pivotal moment in Maiden’s history

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“The effects of these sudden and unpredictable tariff actions will have a long-term effect on musicians worldwide”: Guitar industry leaders to meet with Trump in a bid to avert “devastating” impact of tariffs

Many small-to-medium producers could go to the wall

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“The only difference for me between me calling it an album and a mixtape is what I went into it thinking it was”: PinkPantheress on why her new project, Fancy That, is a mixtape rather than an album

“If I went in thinking it was an album, it probably would have been different in some ways”

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"A versatile jack-of-all-trades, with some excellent displays of mastery at times": Fender Player II Modified Precision Bass review

Fender’s workhorse-series P-Bass gets some performance-enhancing additions, as well as a tone control that works in passive mode

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“John said, ‘I don’t know where to go from here.’ So Paul said, ‘Well, I’ve got this other song I’ve been working on.’ They joined the two bits together to make one song”: The story of the greatest thing The Beatles ever recorded

How Sgt. Pepper's epic finale was created

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"While being dubbed the ‘Metallica Quake’ online, it actually posed no danger": Metallica’s Enter Sandman triggers mini earthquake on its American Football ‘homecoming’

As the walk-out music for the local football team, Metallica nearly brought the house down when they played it for real

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