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Scientists finally unravel the mysteries of a pianist’s ‘touch’ after measuring hand and finger movements with "microscopic spatial precision"

Is the humble piano a far more expressive instrument than we previously thought?

MusicRadar · Jun 3

Fender gives the Tone Master Pro a serious firmware update, adding some bona-fide classics from the Big F amp archive – and some high-gain fire from EVH Gear too

Free to existing users, this update includes a bundle of top-tier amps and effects, and there is a bunch of new features

MusicRadar · Jun 3

“I looked at my band, and they were all looking at the floor, so that was the first hint that something was not right": Barry Manilow says that he doesn’t “sound like me” after cancer surgery

Does he know he has a UK tour starting next week?

MusicRadar · Jun 3

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Universal Audio takes on Auto-Tune with Topline Vocal Tune – and promises pitch-perfect vocals "from the first take"

Based on the vocal tuner from UA’s Topline Vocal Suite, the new “ultra-low-latency” plugin adds Elastic and Sustain controls and MIDI repitching

MusicRadar · Jun 3

The Gibson Hummingbird is one of the world’s most-loved high-end acoustics – and Epiphone just made a $229 Tribute version

These beginner-friendly versions of one of the world's most legendary acoustic guitars are available in Ebony, Antique Natural and Heritage Cherry Sunburst

MusicRadar · Jun 3

“What is it? Do you know the wacky chord?”: Paul McCartney shows you how to play the mystery guitar chord that kickstarted his new album – but he still doesn’t know what it’s called

“These notes are D, C, Eb and B,” he confirms

MusicRadar · Jun 3

“The very guitar Ace played at Kiss’s legendary four night residency at Japan’s Nippon Budokan arena”: Ace Frehley’s iconic ‘Budokan’ Les Paul Custom sells at auction for $512,000

The 1975 Cherry Sunburst Les Paul Custom was the late Kiss guitarists go-to electric in the late '70s and was all over Love Gun

MusicRadar · Jun 3

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“There’s only me and Mick and David Bowie and Willie Weeks and Kenney Jones on it – the basic track”: Ronnie Wood on the first Stones song he helped to create – before he was in the band

He also gave a guitar lesson to Keith Moon and Ringo Starr

MusicRadar · Jun 3

“I can't stand Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing. I think he ruined rock guitar all through the '80s and '90s 'cause so many people copied him”: Fighting talk from the Jesus And Mary Chain

William Reid: “Guitar players should never learn scales” – Discuss

MusicRadar · Jun 3

"He will remain for me always as a real symbol of the joy that music has brought to my life. His voice and his talent will be missed": R&B singer Peabo Bryson has died, aged 75

He had suffered a stroke just days previously

MusicRadar · Jun 3

“I had confused the two similar circuits and made a horrible mistake. I made a video. I told everyone”: JHS Pedals unveils the Fumble – an $89 boost pedal with a seriously complicated back story involving John Mayer, Dumble amps and a ‘70s acoustic preamp

The Fumble is a two-knob clean boost with a compact housing and lots of pedalboard uses. It might be easy to use, but how it got here is a little more difficult to explain

MusicRadar · Jun 3

“I wrote this song as soon as I got home from the screening. Sometimes you just know, right?: Taylor Swift reunites with Jack Antonoff and goes back to country for Toy Story 5 song, I Knew It, I Knew You

Can it compete with Randy Newman and Sarah McLachlan's gut-wrenching effort from Toy Story 2, though?

MusicRadar · Jun 2

“Thanks for the geography lesson… I don't know what you have to be so proud of right now": Black Crowes booed at gig in Tampa, Florida

It started when section of crowd started chanting ‘U-S-A!’

MusicRadar · Jun 2

After seeing them in action, I’m convinced that Ableton’s Extensions are going to change how music-makers use Live forever

An "experimental playground" and free JavaScript toolkit released today, Extensions SDK can "expand, reshape and customize" Live Suite with new tools and features

MusicRadar · Jun 2

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MusicRadar · Jun 2

“In actual fact, it’s pure maths”: Just what are Angine de Poitrine actually doing musically? We dissect their biggest track

When Angine de Poitrine landed on this planet, the polka-dot-clad alien combo fused prog rock with microtonal jazz and funk, to yield music quite unlike anything we’d heard before…

MusicRadar · Jun 2

“Tom got really angry with me. He said, ‘You’re one of the best songwriters I know. You don’t need my help. You don’t need anybody’s help!’”: How Tom Petty inspired Stevie Nicks to make a comeback – and why she felt misunderstood by Prince

A pep talk from Petty led to her solo album Trouble In Shangri-La

MusicRadar · Jun 2

“The thoughts, prayers and love of friends and fans are welcomed and deeply appreciated”: R&B singer Peabo Bryson has suffered a stroke

He was celebrating his fiftieth year in the music business in 2026

MusicRadar · Jun 2

“It did occur to me that the guitar part was very much something I would do”: Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham spots something familiar in a hit Sam Fender song

“The general kind of limits that the song puts on itself is very much like what we would do,” he says

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MusicRadar · Jun 2

"The app is where things get both wild and a little weird:" Positive Grid Reactor 50 Intelligent Guitar Combo Amp review

Is 'Amp Intelligence' the future of guitar tone? If this new Positive Grid amp is anything to go by, we've still got a few years before our digital overlords take over

MusicRadar · Jun 2

"We got so bored with it, we didn’t even play it, which was a mistake": it’s the song everyone wants to hear": The Bluetones on their “sideways tribute” to Jimi Hendrix

Slight Return reached Number Two in early 1996

MusicRadar · Jun 2

“The technology always needed to catch up in a sonic sense. The opinion was always that it never sounded as good as a cable and would not be adopted”: How Radiohead were finally convinced to embrace wireless guitar and mic tech for their most recent shows

“We brought it into Jonny Greenwood’s studio and did some blind tests. We all listened and even the most cynical guitar techs were impressed!”

MusicRadar · Jun 2

Positive Grid's new AI-enabled combo lets you design "any tone imaginable" by text or image – and can even create an amp sound that has never existed before

The Reactor 50 and 100-watt combos feature Positive Grid's Amp Intelligence technology that allows players to get on the app and design sounds by AI prompt

MusicRadar · Jun 1

“The chorus wrote itself, the chords took me about 10-15 minutes and then Paul came up with the verses while he was waiting for a lift to a gig the next day!”: How one of the greatest rock anthems of all time was created in the wake of a nightmare show

“It was this gigantic sound,” says super-fan Joe Bonamassa

MusicRadar · Jun 1

“As it was coming up, I was thinking, ‘Oh no, how’s he going to be able to handle the solo?’”: Audience member at a live orchestral performance of La La Land wows both conductor and crowd as he steps in for ailing keyboard player at the half-time interval

“I took a little bit of a creative liberty and just decided to improvise, which I think ended up being a good choice,” says 21-year-old student Sterling Nasa

MusicRadar · Jun 1

“I said, ‘I tell you what. I will give this song to the group – just put it on the album’”: Commodores bassist Ronald LaPread, who has died at the age of 75, said that one of his greatest basslines might never have been heard

“They said, ‘oh man, it’s too black’”

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