YOU WONT BELIEVE: 25 - What They Never Told You

Cherry Audio emulates the Ensoniq ESQ-1 for its 40th birthday, “faithfully reproducing the complex, evolving, and richly textured sounds that defined the hardware”

The officially licensed plugin ups the polyphony, enhances the sequencer and adds a comprehensive effects section

MusicRadar · Jun 17

"When a doctor had to explain to me that one of the cords was literally atrophying, it was confusing”: After battling to return to the stage, Jon Bon Jovi says he’s now “fully recovered” from his vocal cord surgery

"It was longer than I’d ever expected, but it had to be right. We never lost faith”

MusicRadar · Jun 17

“It's an intimidating field to step into as someone who doesn’t - cannot - read music”: Harry Styles reinterprets a Simon and Garfunkel classic plus his back catalogue with help from Jules Buckley Orchestra and Gospel House Choir

Singer is halfway through curating the Meltdown Festival

MusicRadar · Jun 17

“This is the record that’s been the most cathartic. The title seemed to sum up the way I think a lot of people are feeling”: A new Johnny Marr album is on the way, and his new single is out now

The Age Of Everything is his fifth solo record

MusicRadar · Jun 16

“I get to 171 tracks before any errors during a full playthrough at the lowest buffer setting”: Apple MacBook Neo review

We put Apple’s newest machine to the test to find out if it really is the ultimate budget laptop for music production

MusicRadar · Jun 16

“People who grew up in that era know all about turning the volume up at the end of the fade - that's when all the cool stuff starts happening”: Keith Urban explains the lost art of the song fade-out – and its influence on his new yacht rock covers album

"You could just hear the guitarist do something that was so cool, because typically the session players figure, ‘We're out by now, they're not going to use all this, we're just now playing for playing's sake'"

MusicRadar · Jun 16

“The day that I finished learning the last song on the album, I wept. I felt like a bona fide musician”: Amanda Seyfried reflects on her viral Joni Mitchell moment – and the Joni biopic she was preparing for that never happened

She learned to play the whole of Blue and earned praise from Beck

MusicRadar · Jun 16

How to beat writer's block: 11 tips to help you finish that track today

No more staring at a blank screen or endlessly auditioning loops. Here’s how to make that track idea a final, finished reality

MusicRadar · Jun 16

“What a weird song. Weird chord sequences, weird everything. I have no recall of what was going on in my head. For that to be your most streamed song… kind of weird, don’t you think?”: Mick Jagger on The Rolling Stones’ deathless classic

“I wish we could do something like that now”

MusicRadar · Jun 16

“What is the point of this?”: Boy George has released a new AI version of Karma Chameleon, and fans aren't impressed

He’s joined up with new company that aims to help artists ‘reclaim’ their back catalogues

MusicRadar · Jun 16