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“I was jamming and I heard 'Bam!' –I looked at the stage and there was an open Buck knife sticking in the screen of my cabinet”: Slipknot and Korn on the perils of life on the road

The two metal heavyweights spoke to MusicRadar over a decade ago in a roundtable interview and shared their mutual respect for each other

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“His effects are bonkers in the best way possible”: The pedal with the onboard amp, speaker and microphone, Gibson baritones, the Fender Custom Shop George Harrison Bass VI and more – this is MusicRadar's guitar gear roundup, the August 2026 edit

We take a look back at the gear highlights from August, featuring new signature models from Epiphone and PRS, Death By Audio and Grainger FX's wild collab and more

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"He said it himself in the letter to me – that there are only so many notes on the piano – and that's why I was annoyed. I was like, ‘You get it, so why is this happening?’”: Sam Smith reflects on their 2015 songwriting dispute with Tom Petty

Smith says they’re now a fan of Petty’s music, and regrets not writing back to him

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Does your digital piano have Wi-Fi? Roland's new FP-40 does, along with upgraded speakers and its latest Piano Reality engine

Aimed at players developing their skills, the latest addition to the FP Series is accompanied by a free tuition app that offers personalized lesson plans and real-time feedback on your playing

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“We’d made this record that was so far to the left of Rumours. And when it didn’t sell 16 million copies, that was hard. There was a lot of anxiety”: Lindsey Buckingham on the highs and lows of life with Fleetwood Mac

In previously unpublished extracts from a major interview, Buckingham discusses the band’s classic albums and more

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“I thought it was a terrible name. But Brian was my friend. I’d just met Freddie”: How Queen almost became Build Your Own Boat

Name was Brian May’s idea, says Freddie Mercury’s ex, Mary Austin

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“When I congratulated Amy, she said to me, ‘I knew what I was doing’”: Amy Winehouse “knew exactly what she had created” with Back to Black, says her former bass player and musical director

Dale Davis is leading the star's former band on a tour to celebrate the album's 20th anniversary

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“I've got somewhere between 80 and 90 guitars and I'd say 75 percent of them are Les Pauls. It seems ridiculous - but they all have a unique purpose”: Slash on his enduring devotion to the Gibson Les Paul

In this archive interview, GN'R’s riff merchant shared how Les Pauls thoroughly dominated his guitar collection, and their unique endurance on the road

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Friedman Amplification's Jose 20 series pays tribute to the legendary amp guru whose hotrodded designs shaped Metallica and Mötley Crüe tones: “Jose Arredondo’s groundbreaking amplifier modifications helped define the sound of high-gain rock”

The 20-watt head and combo makes the late Jose Arredondo's holy grail modded Marshall tone more compact and affordable

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“Had he decided to never write the book, he would not, probably, have ever been prosecuted”: Duane Keith Davis found guilty of murder of Tupac Shakur

Crips leader confessed to the killing in a 2019 memoir

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“An exceptionally accurate model of the original Prophet, with a clutch of incredibly useful enhancements”: GForce Prophet-5 review

Embellished by official backing from Sequential, GForce brings us the original soothsayer in software form. We look at the fortunes of the new Prophet

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“It’s a song that has been misinterpreted greatly, to say the least. I think people too often look for symbolism in songs when they’re simpler than they seem”: How an irresistible track about dreaming big turned into the breakout hit for Counting Crows

“I remember being in a strip club in New Orleans and my song comes on. I was like, ‘No!’”

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“The first time you heard them you had to hear them again, because there was a whole bunch of stuff in there that nobody had done before”: Trevor Horn on the band he’s proudest to have produced

The man who predicted the future in his first band, joined a prog juggernaut and then went on to produce some of the 80s' biggest songs reflected on his life and times

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“He wasn’t listening to anything I had to say. So I went home and wrote that song and took it back the next morning. I sang it and he was crying”: How Dolly Parton’s heart-wrenching ballad became one of the most famous songs of all time

“We had one of those love-hate relationships – it was just hard to move on”

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“It talks the talk and you listen when it does”: UDO Audio DMNO review

It's another two-synths-in-one offering from UDO, but this one has the Domino effect

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“We could play the same groove for a number of hours – Prince would walk in and out of the room saying, ‘Don’t stop! Nobody move!’”: Lisa Coleman on how Prince insisted on perfection from his Revolution bandmates

Prince ran a tight ship and as Lisa Coleman told us, he’d get a real kick out of keeping his band on their toes

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“I was playing a reggae cover of The Beatles' song This Boy and King Charles was really interested in it – I had to relax and answer his questions”: We speak to the DJs behind the legendary sound systems of London's Notting Hill Carnival

Sound system queens and kings Linett Kamala, Gladdy Wax and Daina Davidson-Shaw of Killerwatt Sound share their experiences at Notting Hill Carnival and how they keep their systems pumping out rhythm and bass over the two-day street party…

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“A fantastic-sounding instrument, with the concept of the supersaw placed at the very core of its makeup”: Native Instruments SuperStarSaw review

The legendary supersaw waveform gets the superstar treatment, through this new collaboration from Native Instruments

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“Everybody goes on about how brilliant Kraftwerk were, but they were only brilliant because they were rich!”: Heaven 17 legend Martyn Ware on how financial barriers can prevent great music from ever being heard

When we spoke to the Sheffield synth supremo back in 2020, Ware explained how the affordability of modern tech has levelled a once unfair playing field

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"A great chorus pedal that treads its own path": Beetronics Seabee Lite review

Beetronics's chorus pedal might have half the features of the full version, but it's still capable of delivering some seriously out-there modulation tones

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Play to win: It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #19!

Think you know your music? Test your knowledge of this week's music news with our fiendish top 10 quiz

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“The schoolgirl thing was hers. At the time I made that video, I was a 40-year-old British guy – I had no idea what was going through the mind of a 16-year-old American girl!”: The director of Britney Spears' Baby One More Time video looks back

"She told me that by 23 she wanted to be as big as Madonna and I was going, ‘Yeah, right, good luck with that…'"

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“A refreshingly simple interface with excellent audio fidelity and some extremely handy features”: Solid State Logic SSL 1 review

Compact quality is the order of the day with this new straightforward desktop interface from audio giant Solid State Logic

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“Bill brought it in and it was a one-minute-long country and western song. It took us forever to figure out the arrangement and who was going to play what”: How REM turned a simple idea into a classic song of life-affirming power

Featuring a $20 drum machine and strings orchestrated by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones

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"Just cos I don't like something doesn't make it bad. I'm sorry. I can't do more than like a minute and 17 seconds of that": Doja Cat offers a refreshingly honest take on Ella Langley's Choosin' Texas

“The song's not bad. It's literally not bad. The music isn't bad. I just don't like it"

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