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“It was all getting a bit nasty”: The struggle to make the Tears for Fears masterpiece that closed out the '80s on a creative high

Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal would acrimoniously split shortly after the release of their most musically inventive record

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One year on, I’ve finally clicked with Ableton Move – all because I’ve stopped trying to make music with it

We revisit Ableton's mini standalone sketchpad following 12 months of refinements and firmware updates

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“The Super series knocks politely, but DMNO kicks the door down”: UDO’s DMNO is two synths in one – and one of a kind

DMNO is a new polyphonic, multitimbral hybrid analogue/digital synthesizer from the British manufacturer behind Super 6 and Super Gemini

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"This change is about strengthening trust across the platform”: Spotify admits that it's removed 75 million AI tracks

“It’s not about punishing artists who use AI responsibly"

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"A versatile, brilliantly engineered machine that will have your back, no matter what the gig": Strandberg Boden N2 Original review

Strandberg makes key tweaks to its Boden blueprint, aiming to create an instrument to suit any genre - mission accomplished?

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“We all adored BB, and he asked us to write something for him. But when we listened back to the demo we agreed we should keep it. Sorry, BB!”: The classic song that Whitesnake wrote for the King of the Blues – but didn’t give to him

And they later did the same thing with Tina Turner

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“He comes up to me and says ‘you cannibalised my instrument! Why did you do that?’”: Herbie Hancock reveals what Harold Rhodes said to him when he saw that he’d fitted inputs and outputs to one of his pianos

But in the end, Hancock convinced him to include I/O in all Rhodes models

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“You actually had to be good at your instrument – that doesn’t seem to be a necessary requisite these days”: Roger Taylor and Brian May remember Bohemian Rhapsody

We were taking up “where the Beatles left off”, says May

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“Even today, that instrument is fascinating. I’ve passed it around and players of all sorts have all come to the same conclusion – there is something magic in that instrument”: Billy Gibbons on why Pearly Gates is one of the greatest Les Pauls of all time

All Gibson Les Paul Standards from 1959 are special but what is it about the ZZ Top frontman's Pearly Gates that makes it so unique? As Gibbons says, it might be something entirely supernatural

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"We didn't find it difficult to write pop songs, but it was VERY difficult to write one for the Stones”: 60 years of The Last Time – the Stones’ big breakthrough

It was the group’s first self-penned Number One

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“This breaks my heart and is a sick way of looking at it”: Jack Antonoff responds to Michael Rapino’s comments about ‘underpriced’ concert tickets

Make it illegal to resell at a profit, he says

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“It’s one of George's best songs. His mind is clear and his music is clear”: The genius of the profound 1967 Beatles song that John Lennon held up as George’s greatest

The opening to Sgt Pepper’s second side underlined just how boundless the Beatles’ musical scope had become

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"For garage, punk, and rock styles, it’s got the tonal firepower on offer": Gretsch Electromatic CVT Double-Cut review

A revived classic returns to the Gretsch line-up as an affordable, two-humbucker rock machine

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“Usually I’ve done the demos on my laptop, which can be a bit creatively stifling. You can get lost in the sauce trying to program the drums properly and kinda lose that itch”: Wolfgang Van Halen says he’s taking more chances on his new Mammoth album

“Some of these songs couldn’t have existed on a prior album,' he says

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“I wanted a song Whitney Houston would be proud to sing. It had to be sensual but never cheap, powerful but not overwrought”: DC producer bags first Future Sound Award for AI music

Judges praised the “richness and emotion” of shortlisted songs

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“The record company thought I was mad – but sometimes you sign acts to make money, and sometimes you sign acts to make music”: The making of Enya's Orinoco Flow, the unexpected No. 1 hit that created a New Age superstar

In memory of Enya's longtime producer Nicky Ryan, we take a backwards glance at the ethereal earworm that launched her career

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“Offers a very useful solution for clap emulation without needing to use electronics”: Zultan Raw SlapClap review

If you’re happy and you know it, Zultan is offering a cut-price solution to clapping your hands

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“How can I play machines like they're instruments? How do I play these machines the same way I play a piano or guitar?”: Jack Antonoff reveals the two vintage delay units and classic ‘80s synth that provide the secret sauce on Sabrina Carpenter’s Manchild

“I'm really focusing on how to utilise this stuff to make things feel like they could have only happened in that moment,” he explains

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“That actually came from me and Oz jamming on the piano in my apartment in North Hollywood”: From Ozzy Osbourne to Papa Roach, Fleetwood Mac to George Harrison, here's 5 career-defining songs you didn’t know were written on the piano

We take a deep dive into classic guitar-driven songs that actually started life on the piano

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Focusrite releases blue Anniversary Edition of its Scarlett 2i2 interface

This limited-edition version of the 2i2 comes with three additional premium plugins from Sonnox, Softube and Acustica Audio

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Reverb wants to help you buy more gear with new Wallet feature

Sellers earn 1% cash back to spend on Reverb when funds from sales are stored in the Reverb Wallet

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“I would like to do it. We’re having conversations”: Brian May suggests a Queen Sphere residency could be on the cards

Guitarist is fed up with traditional touring

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“I think it was a song that I wasn’t sure about at first. It felt different, you know, uptempo and sexy, but I love it”: Olivia Dean admits to having initial doubts about her current global hit single

Man I Need is one of the most streamed songs in the world right now

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“I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer”: Noel's "#1 favourite guitar" that Liam smashed the night Oasis split is up one of over 100 Gallagher-related items up for auction

It could fetch up to £500,000

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“Complex chords and sustained lead tones are reproduced with stunning clarity”: With an 8-octave range, real-time control, has Boss raised the standard for pitch-shifting pedals with the XS Poly Shifter series?

The XS-100 is a pitch-shifting workstation with integrated expression pedal, 30 memory slots, MIDI, and lots of range while the XS-1 presents a 6-octave range in compact format

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