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“She said, ‘Looks like you found it on a beach. But then it also looks like it came from outer space’”: Ken Parker, visionary luthier behind the Parker Fly, has died, aged 73

Parker was one of guitar designs great radicals, whose legendary electric, the Parker Fly, became a '90s classic, famously played by the likes of Joni Mitchell, Adrian Belew, David Lynch and more

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Alesis's new 9-piece Nitro Ultimate electronic drum kit is its new flagship, and the hi-hat is the star

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Ed Sheeran announces Adolescence-style single-shot Netflix special

Adolescence director Philip Barantini is behind the camera

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"Something that matches every moment” or Robot Rock? Spotify teams up with ChatGPT to make personal recommendations

At present it’s only an opt-in

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“Sometimes it’s best not to meet your idols. I took on the project because I was a fan of the band, but I was not naive about what would happen”: Todd Rundgren’s Top 5 favourite album productions that aren't Bat Out Of Hell

“There’s not much more I can say,” he says of his work on the Meat Loaf classic

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“It reminds me of Batman and the Joker. It’s just so cool”: Korn’s Brian ‘Head’ Welch and James ‘Munky’ Schaffer on their Yin and Yang signature Ibanez 7-strings – and how it all comes back to Steve Vai

The K7YIN and K7YANG, one dark, one light, both state-of-the-art extended range S-styles built to the nu-metal kingpins' specifications – and yes, that's a U-Bar on Munky's vibrato

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"The Ridge does something different, which makes it genuinely worthy of praise": Kernom Ridge Overdrive review

A pedal that gives you all your favourite drives in one box, and then some

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"Alex and I have done some serious soul searching and come to the decision that we miss it": Geddy Lee confirms that Rush are going back on the road with Anika Nilles joining them on drums

“It’s been over 10 years since Alex and I have performed the music of Rush alongside our fallen bandmate and friend Neil... it’s time for a celebration of 50-something years of Rush music"

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“It sounded great, but I don’t know if it felt like history was happening”: Richard Branson says he happened to be in the studio when Phil Collins was recording what "might be the most famous drum solo of all time"

The 75-year-old mogul has also been discussing Mike Oldfield, the Sex Pistols and the birth of Virgin Records

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Minimal Audio promises to "go beyond the vocoder" with "hypermodern" vocal resynthesis plugin Evoke

Warp, manipulate and harmonize vocals with Evoke's resynthesis engine, then transform the results with its comprehensive effects rack and versatile modulation system

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The one where Courteney Cox plays Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit on the drums and goes viral

Here she is now, entertaining us

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“I didn't recognise him, because he had really short hair. I just thought he was some friend of Pete's. I found out later this was Dave Gilmour!”: Drummer Simon Phillips recalls the chaos of his favourite recorded performance – on a Pete Townshend song

"It was hilarious – this whole scenario”

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“Lola has always been authentic in her songwriting process”: Lola Young is taking legal action against Messy co-producer Carter Lang, who claims he should have writing credits on four of her songs

"We will not allow Lola’s reputation and integrity to be called into question," says Young's legal team

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“I think every serious fan of hard rock music would love Stargazer. It’s one of those all-time epic masterpieces. It’s Ritchie Blackmore in his most experimental mode”: How guitar hero Blackmore created his magnum opus with Rainbow

The legendary track that inspired Metallica, Opeth, Dream Theater and Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson

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Novation launches Play, a free plugin for Launchkey Mk4 owners

Developed with Klevgrand, the instrument is packed with curated presets built on sounds from classic Novation, Sequential and Oberheim synths

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“Some riffs just have that big swing to them. You can definitely hear that in the first Van Halen album”: How Wolfgang Van Halen created a new song with echoes of classic VH – and Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer

"It’s very much the kind of idea that mixes heaviness with funkiness”

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“We wanted to make the barrier as low as we could": Sequential on designing the Fourm and continuing Dave Smith's legacy

With premium features and an entry-level price, Fourm is about to bring a whole new demographic into the Sequential family. We sit down with the company's CEO and Product Designer to find out more

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“If the labels don’t start taking care of songwriters, there won’t be any anymore... I’m very, very scared for this next generation of writers”: Justin Tranter fires warning shot over the plight of songwriters

He says songwriters have lost out at the expense of streaming platforms

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“Every time I would play it for somebody, they’d be like ‘Wow.’ It’s one of his classics”: Mariah Carey is miffed that her Michael Jackson duet is still unreleased

“There is an issue with his estate,” she says

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“Along with Journey, REO Speedwagon and Foreigner, we’d been lumped-in with the whole Corporate Rawk thing. We weren’t ‘cool’": Steve Porcaro on the rise, fall and resurgence of Toto, working with Michael Jackson and his new solo album

"Yacht Rock! When I first heard that phrase, I groaned. But then I thought, ‘Who cares what it’s called? If it keeps people listening to some great music, I’m happy!'"

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With the TR-1000 Roland has finally given analogue purists what they want – so can we move on from 808 and 909 clones now?

Roland’s latest drum machine looks great – and its ‘80s inspirations are undisputed classics – but can we agree we now have enough X0X emulations?

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"That's how the band took Ric's demos and turned them into Cars songs": The Cars are working on a new album using Ric Ocasek’s old recordings

New biography is out about the new wave band

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"Right away, I heard the Justice influence, the Franz Ferdinand coolness, The Cure’s vulnerability and softness. We were just an instant match": Lady Gaga on why she quickly gelled with "incredibly gifted" Mayhem collaborator, Cirkut

"His technical proficiency is astonishing but also extremely musical - his musicianship is so well-rounded and rich," she says

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"It becomes very hard to put this guitar down": Strandberg Boden N2 Standard review

The next generation of the Swedish firm's headless guitar design has arrived; is this the guitar to finally convince the cynics to try one out?

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“I realised the only way to go about it and get in was to take Bruce Springsteen out of it”: Jeremy Allen White on the challenge of becoming The Boss in Deliver Me From Nowhere

White plays Springsteen in forthcoming biopic

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