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Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson give the thumbs-up to Angine De Poitrine: “The most entertaining and exhilarating bits of music that I've heard for a long, long time”

“I love the fact that they've gone viral"

MusicRadar · Aug 18

The legendary SL-1200 is 55: Technics celebrates with a limited edition of the iconic turntable

There are only 12,000 of them

MusicRadar · Aug 18

“I don’t know how many times I’ve told you about swinging that thing”: Rob Thomas smacks his Matchbox Twenty bandmate with a mic stand

Paul Doucette’s in ear monitor was smashed in accident

MusicRadar · Aug 18

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“To completely ignore written music is to deny yourself acres of inspiration”: It's time to finally learn music theory – Start here with our basic notation overview

Learning to actually read music can open up many avenues as a musician, and it isn't as difficult as it might look…

MusicRadar · Aug 18

“We would speak for about a year after he passed on – he was very, very present”: Twin Peaks and Dune’s Alicia Witt tells us how the late David Lynch guided her new album

The album, which was arranged and recorded live, is a tribute to the iconic filmmaker who passed away at the beginning of last year

MusicRadar · Aug 18

Behringer’s Daft Punk-approved, cult-classic MIDI controller has been reborn as the BCR32 – and now it’s a hardware sequencer too

More than two decades on from the BCR2000, the super-affordable controller returns with ZAQ Audio's formerly unofficial firmware built in – and it's now available for preorder

MusicRadar · Aug 18

Beatport has banned AI-generated music: "There is a difference between a tool that assists human creation and a system that replaces it entirely. Beatport is built on the former"

Platform is latest to get tough on slop

MusicRadar · Aug 18

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“That was a classic example of hiding the meaning of the song in a whole glorious backdrop of crazy arrangements and cutting-edge synthesizers”: Roland Orzabal on the hidden depths of Tears for Fears’ first hit

It's one of the most affecting songs in the Tears for Fears songbook, but many missed Mad World’s emotional undercurrents when hearing it on the radio back in 1982

MusicRadar · Aug 18

Fancy recording an EP at the world-famous Real World Studios?: “Our goal is to find talent and provide the facilities and support to let them flourish in a way they wouldn't be able to otherwise”

You have to be over 16 and based in the South West

MusicRadar · Aug 18

“People often crack jokes about that album. We had that dreadful picture on the cover with the three of us looking like the Bee Gees, and I’m thinking, ‘This is wrong’”: Carl Palmer on the disastrous album that led ELP to break up

Keith Emerson called it “an embarrassment against everything I’ve worked for”

MusicRadar · Aug 18

“As soon as I started writing music with computers, I got so addicted to it”: Tom VR on his creative process, "game-changing" Ableton Live tips and the hardware synth he can't stop talking about

We visited the London-based producer in the studio to hear about the making of third album Don't Know How Fast I'm Moving Until I Hit Something

MusicRadar · Aug 18

“It starts out polite but then gets loud, dirty and nasty enough to pick a fight with fuzz”: Warm Audio Dirty Boy Jr. Booster review

Warm Audio revives the Dirty Boy Ball Buster circuit but without the boutique price tag.

MusicRadar · Aug 17

Bad Bunny caught up in copyright case that could see massive consequences for reggaeton as a genre

Dispute centres on what constitutes the dembow ‘riddim’

MusicRadar · Aug 17

“Prince liked it loud on stage - Your head would be vibrating after those shows. Your body and your mind were shaken to the core”: We find out what it was really like being on-stage with Prince

A Prince show was a bombastic affair, but what was it like backing up his Royal Badness himself? MusicRadar spoke to two former Revolution members to find out…

MusicRadar · Aug 17

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MusicRadar · Aug 17

“We wish him the best in his future endeavours”: Slipknot confirm that Sid Wilson is no longer a member of the band

DJ had played on all seven of their studio albums

MusicRadar · Aug 17

“He heard us playing his song electric. You could see the gears grinding in his head. It was like watching a slow-motion lightning bolt”: How The Byrds reinvented a great Bob Dylan song and inspired Dylan to revolutionise his music

It was the first Dylan track to land at No 1 despite him not playing on it

MusicRadar · Aug 17

“We were just looking at each other like, ‘Holy crap,' Like, he has turned back time”: Geddy Lee talks about the vocal prep he had to do for Rush’s 50 Something tour

Frontman had to take singing lessons to reach his full range

MusicRadar · Aug 17

“The idea came from Bowie and Star Wars”: We speak to Ash’s Tim Wheeler about the making of their beloved sci-fi love song

Ash’s Tim Wheeler remembers the creation of the band’s most popular song - written while they were still at school!

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MusicRadar · Aug 16

“Mutt said, ‘Give it a go, and if it doesn’t work get rid of the guy.’ And that’s exactly what we had to do, because Jim was less than useless!”: Why Def Leppard couldn’t make their monster hit Hysteria with Jim Steinman as producer

“The food budget for the Steinman sessions was probably as much money as The Dark Side Of The Moon cost to record”

MusicRadar · Aug 16

“Lindsey was beating his guitar as hard as he could and screaming his lungs out. The first time I heard it, I thought, 'What the heck is going on?’”: Inside the making of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours

We revisit a classic interview where MusicRadar was given an inside look at the making of one of the most well-regarded albums of all time

MusicRadar · Aug 15

“We wanted people to say, ‘Wow, that's Cypress Hill?’”: Cypress Hill’s beat-master Eric Bobo tells us why the band recorded their new album entirely in Spanish

Percussionist Eric Bobo reveals how Cypress Hill embraced their Latino roots on their first full-length Spanish-language album

MusicRadar · Aug 15

“When Kraftwerk became an institution we stopped being contemporary. Instead we became salesmen of nostalgia”: Karl Bartos reflects on the end of Kraftwerk’s golden era

Kraftwerk’s Karl Bartos told us how the German pioneers' embrace of computerisation was the trigger for his departure

MusicRadar · Aug 14

“Makes you realise just how good budget guitars have become”: Harley Benton ST-62LA review

Hand-relic'd with a spec sheet that doesn't get old, Harley Benton's Aged Series brings vintage feel on a budget

MusicRadar · Aug 14

SampleRadar: 505 free rave synths samples

Get your glow sticks out, it's time for a rave-up

MusicRadar · Aug 14

Suno’s Studio 2.0 adds an AI chatbot that can control your project, transform sounds and generate custom plugins

The update also brings a number of more conventional features like MIDI support, automation and latency compensation

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