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How to design a gated synth sequence

Adding motion to a characterful synth pad can completely revitalise your track. We take two LFOs and get modulating

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“You get a few people that bring notepads and binoculars, but a lot of people find the fun aspect appealing… It’s not prog because it’s silly, it’s not jazz because it’s loud and it’s not rock because it’s weird”: So what are The Aristocrats?

Born of a fun jam in 2011, Guthrie Govan, Bryan Beller and Marco Minnemann would rather tell jokes on stage than just take turns playing solos

Louder

Sinead O'Connor's Passes Away; Coroner Rules Natural Causes

Discover the surprising truth behind the legendary Sinead O'Connor's demise as the London coroner confirms her passing due to natural causes. Unveiling the...

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Issue 405 of Future Music is out now

Master Your Synths. Plus: Richie Hawtin, Matmos, Karl Bartos, Airhead, Polyend Play+, Teenage Engineering KO II & much more!

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"They couldn't have been nicer, and it really lifted us at a moment when we could have used the lifting": Geddy Lee reveals how Robert Plant and Jimmy Page helped Rush overcome grief and loss

Led Zeppelin were a musical inspiration for Rush, but as Geddy Lee explains, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page also proved themselves to be decent human beings at a "dark, sad time"

Louder

"I was like, 'I've never heard any of these songs!'" Mike Portnoy almost drummed for Nickelback

Prog metal legend and Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy almost bagged a very unlikely gig

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"Phantom of the Opera is one of the reasons I’m a singer. It was like lightning from the sky." Tarja Turunen: My Life In 10 Songs

From her genre-defining work with Nightwish to establishing herself as a solo artist and embracing classical, these are the songs that have defined Tarja Turunen's incredible career

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NAMM 2024: “Sustainably taking the art of guitar manufacturing to new heights and new sounds”: Martin ushers in a new era of acoustic guitar innovation with the GPCE Inception – and the results could be game-changing

Martin's latest sustainable model is a uniquely engineered instrument with an all-new skeletonized bracing design that debuts “a new innovative approach to building acoustic guitars”

Guitar World

"It’s an extension of Slayer...a follow-up to Repentless for sure." Kerry King updates us on his highly anticipated new album

Slayer legend Kerry King discusses one of the most anticipated metal records of 2024

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“I don’t like outward complexity – I enjoy being stealthy about it, and Steely Dan are beacons for that”: Meet Sam Vallen, the shredder swiping yacht rock chords and turning them into one of 2024’s best prog-metal albums with Caligula’s Horse

The Australian virtuoso explains how writing a dissertation on Steely Dan’s harmonic vocabulary helped him build a record full of ambiguity and tension in Charcoal Grace

Guitar World

Sinéad O’Connor and Shane MacGowan tribute concert lineup announced

Cat Power and David Gray among artists scheduled to perform at celebration in New York in March

The Guardian - UK

“It’s been interesting doing the avatars so far... it’ll take some time to get the imagery where we want it to be”: Tommy Thayer looks to a virtual future with Kiss, and considers “options on the table” because he’s not ready to retire yet

Kiss’s longest-serving guitarist looks back on growing into his onstage role and eventually writing one of the band’s standards, and what lies ahead after the rock institution’s final shows

Guitar World

"Tell Michael if he wants to see Bubbles again, he can come to the bar": The night Bon Jovi kidnapped Michael Jackson's pet chimp

At the close of their Slippery When Wet world tour, Bon Jovi found themselves in the same Tokyo hotel as Michael Jackson and his entourage. Events took a strange turn

Louder

MXR’s new Randy Rhoads signature distortion pedal has been revealed and it looks very cool. The bad news? It’s been delayed until mid-spring

It's fair to say Rhoads fans will be excited about this custom finish Distortion+, which was developed and co-designed with the late Ozzy guitarist's sister, Kathy

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PVRIS announce world tour dates for Europe, the UK and North America

Following on from their dates with Fall Out Boy last year, PVRIS will launch a headlining world tour this spring

The Independent UK

Sinead O’Connor and Shane MacGowan tribute concert announced

Artists were friends for years and collaborated on the single ‘Haunted’, which featured in 1986 film ‘Sid and Nancy’

The Guardian - UK

Taylor-made deals: how artists are following Swift’s rights example

The singer’s public fight over ownership of her work has lit the way for a new generation of musicians – especially young women – demanding more control over their output

MusicRadar

Let’s go stagey: Prince’s Purple Rain is being turned into a Broadway musical

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James Morrison's wife Gill Catchpole 'was looking forward to big changes in 2024' ahead of death

The mother-of-two was found dead at home in Gloucestershire on Friday. Police are not said to be treating her death as suspicious

Guitar World

“I still love that idea of a solo singer-songwriter being able to communicate with just their guitar and vocal”: Christina Martin on making the leap from cheap Gretsches to fancy Duesenbergs, and why pedals stress her out

On her new album, Storm, the Canadian-born, Austin-based singer-songwriter is cultivating a more orchestral sound, but as she explains, you can strip it all back to her voice and guitar

Guitar World

“Wherever we travel, people say how important we were in terms of influencing them. When I was growing up, there was only Suzi Quatro to look up to”: Girlschool’s Kim McAuliffe and Jackie Chambers on 45 years of a great British rock institution

Girlschool is still in session after 45 years, and as McAuliffe and Chambers explain here, there will be no turning down anytime soon

MusicRadar

5 Jimmy Page guitar tricks for you to try today

Jimmy has always been a tremendously inventive rhythm guitarist as well as a riff writer supreme and this is often sadly overlooked

Louder

The 10 best Jimmy Page riffs

To mark Jimmy Page’s 80th birthday on January 9, here are the former Led Zeppelin guitarist’s 10 all-time greatest riffs

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Chris Brown Shares Heartwarming Snapshot Celebrating Family Connections

Celebrate the beauty of family bonds as Chris Brown shares a heartwarming snapshot with his daughter, radiating care and joy. #FamilyLove #BirthdayJoy.

Louder

Why you should definitely own Klaatu's debut album, and it's got nothing to do with The Beatles

When the mysterious Klaatu released their first album, rumours about the musicians' identity sent sales soaring... but it's an album that stands up on its own

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