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“Everybody knew Jeff was a great drummer. It was the same when I joined The Who to replace Kenney Jones – and when I was with Mick Jagger, playing the Stones tunes that Charlie played”: How Simon Phillips succeeded in replacing Jeff Porcaro in Toto

"They didn't want somebody to come in and try to imitate Jeff"

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“When we sat down and started playing some of the Rush stuff, I realised how hard it was to play these songs”: Alex Lifeson makes a surprise admission

Bedroom guitarists are doubless nodding in agreement

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“Allows you to do away with stacks of insert or return effects and potential high processor loads”: iZotope FXEQ review

It’s a multi-effects plugin that’s as easy to use as a standard EQ, and costs less than 50 bucks…

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“This scheme is the envy of the world”: Irish culture minister hails expansion of a basic income scheme for musicians and creatives

Another 2,000 places are to be opened up next year

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“He was tired and ready to leave, so he just started hitting anything on the keyboard. I was like: ‘that’s it right there!’ Then I just went in the booth and did the record”: The story of Get Ur Freak On, the bhangra-sampling hit that almost didn’t happen

A lean, mean, speaker-rattling ode to freakdom, Missy Elliott's Get Ur Freak On is one of this century's most progressive pop songs. We explain its enduring influence

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“Before we knew it we had a sound no one had ever heard before”: How David Bowie created one of the greatest songs of all time via a range of innovative recording techniques

One of Bowie’s highest watermarks, Heroes continues to sound utterly timeless due to its layered production and passionate vocal performance

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“I've spent a lot of time sort of trying to bully AI into being interesting”: Jacob Collier says that the problem with using AI for music making is that “it’s almost too perfect”

“It can't learn a perspective or a sense of humour or an attitude,” he argues

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"Stick with it. Focus… You've gotta put the time in”: Lars Ulrich’s advice to young artists

Drummer was speaking at festival screening of new Metallica doc

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“It's an arcane 18th century German form of rap. I really enjoy it because it's an opportunity to say some quite bizarre things that I wouldn't necessarily be able to sing about”: The inside story of the Gorillaz classic Feel Good Inc.

Over a billion views on YouTube to date

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“He tried it when he came in and he said ‘I can’t do it as good as you, Ronnie. You get back on the drums.’”: When Charlie Watts ceded the drums to Ronnie Wood on a Stones track

Guitarist was behind the kit for Dirty Work track

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Produce better music with our ultimate compression cheat sheet

Confused about where to start with compressors and dynamics effects? We'll guide you through the essential features and settings

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“Dolly turned it down - and I’m glad that she did because what Kate did on it is brilliant”: How Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush brought one of the most emotive songs of the 1980s to life

What happened when two musical icons joined forces? The birth of a timeless duet with a surprising country origin…

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Ever wondered how a microphone really works?

If microphone terminology confuses more than it helps, this guide will illuminate the microphone basics

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“I have yet to be convinced by any song that AI has come up with. Everything sounds like Taylor frickin’ Swift!”: Todd Rundgren on music, microdosing, accidentally creating hit records and why he ditched Pro Tools

“I like to keep busy,” says the legendary artist and producer

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“You’d get the chart positions. ‘Oh, we're Number One again!’ It almost got boring after a while”: Brian May and Roger Taylor recall the making of Queen’s masterpiece A Night At The Opera

“People have a hard time understanding how unsurprising Bohemian Rhapsody was to us," May says

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“I brought the synth into the studio with Harry, flicked through the presets and there’s one called Harpoon Dream. I took the delay off and we were like… ‘yeah!’: Kid Harpoon on the Moog One preset that made Harry Styles' As It Was

We sit down with Kid Harpoon to talk making hits and studio tricks with the Grammy-winning co-creator that everyone wants on their team

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Hisong's AirStudio S1 is a pocket-sized all-in-one recording solution for musicians on the move

The 120g device combines a dual-mode microphone, wireless in-ear monitors and a built-in USB-C audio interface

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“I remember asking if there was another way of expressing whether God was ‘just a slob like one of us’ – but he insisted that line would grab people’s attention”: How a catchy and idiosyncratic track became a ’90s classic covered by Prince

"I knew that we were going to be hearing this for the rest of our lives”

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Steinberg rebrands hardware products under Yamaha and shifts focus exclusively to software

The IXO12, IXO22, UR22C, and UR44C audio interfaces have been relaunched under the Yamaha brand and all other Steinberg interfaces will be "gradually phased out"

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“Mark’s like, ‘I feel something’, and we wrote it so fast. ‘Gonna be, gonna be Golden’ came out super fast. ‘Up, up, up it’s our moment’... that came out fast, too”: EJAE on the making of the KPop Demon Hunters "banger" that's taken over the world

"I wrote it on my way to the dentist,” she says

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“Years from now kids are going to be like, ‘Damn, remember when Kendrick and Drake battled?’”: The story of Kendrick Lamar's ferocious, chart-smashing diss track Not Like Us

It was the fastest rap song to reach 100 million streams

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Allen & Heath's Xone:K3 brings RGB backlighting, improved hardware and USB-C to its portable performance-oriented MIDI controller

Dropping the built-in audio interface and slashing the price, Allen & Heath positions K3 as a flexible budget controller for club or studio setups

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“Everyone using this now as a weapon is only proving how devastatingly divided we all are”: Zach Bryan attempts to calm down the furore over Bad News

His new song appears to depict an ICE raid

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“Taking the mid-gain, tube-amp-driving concept even further”: Warm Audio channels the greatest hits of classic overdrive with the regal Throne Of Tone dual-drive and the 3-in-1 Tone Squealer

With its Mix knob, three modes and pickup voicing switch, the Tone Squealer could be the TS-style pedal for fans and non-fans alike, while the Throne Of Tone has everything you'd need from a mid-gain drive

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