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“The guitar I built in Kirk’s hands… paying tribute to Tony, Ozzy and Black Sabbath, it was amazing and strange, humbling and epic”: The unique SG built by Gibson CEO Cesar Gueikian and played by Kirk Hammett at Back to the Beginning heads to auction

Gibson teams up with Julien's Auctions for Gibson Gives fundraiser, with two of Gueikian's custom builds going under the hammer, plus a heap of signed and stage-played electrics

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“When it was finished, I collapsed in exhaustion”: How Moby carefully crafted Play and rescued his career

Moby had all but thrown in the towel, but the surprising success of his eclectic 1999 masterpiece forever changed his fortunes

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We didn’t expect this rising artist to snag a Producer of the Year nod for the 2026 Grammys - but we’re glad he did

Best known for his solo work, Dijon’s up for Producer of the Year at the 2026 Grammys despite only contributing to a single project with another artist: Justin Bieber's Swag. Could he win it?

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“Delivers outstanding value for budget-conscious users”: the t.bone freeU HT 823 review

The ultimate entry-level wireless mic. Maximum value, seamless performance, and professional sound without compromise

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"He closes the guitar case, he hands it to me and he says ‘take care of this for me’”: Shortly before he died, Warren Zevon gave David Letterman a guitar, and after 22 years, it just went “back to work” in the hands of The Killers’ Dave Keuning

The Killers covered Lawyers, Guns and Money as part of Zevon’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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“Once I change something, I can never un-change it”: How the rigid limitations of basic audio editing software were key to the magic of Burial’s greatest album

A prime example of how the less-is-more philosophy can fuel creativity, Burial’s extraordinary 2007 masterpiece Untrue was created entirely within Sony’s antiquated Sound Forge

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“I had a White Stripes fan account when I was 13”: Olivia Rodrigo sings The White Stripes' praises and performs one of their songs as she and Feist help to induct the band into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Jack White tells young artists to "get your hands dirty and drop the screens"

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Stevie sings, Flea slaps and Beck blows on his harmonica: Sly Stone got an all-star tribute at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony

Questlove, Jennifer Hudson and Maxwell were also involved

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“Xania is an extension of me so I look at her as a real person”: Tulisha ‘Nikki’ Jones reveals the person behind her AI ‘artist’ Xania Monet

Poet has given an interview to CBS Mornings

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“This business can really get tough sometimes, and you have to dig deep inside you. Paul looked for something else to lean on, and the thing he leaned on had no future in it”: How a gifted guitarist’s descent led to the rise of ’70s supergroup Bad Company

The band were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame on 8 November

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"Then disaster struck. I parked up and when I came back out I could see that someone had thrown a brick through the rear window of my car...": John Fogerty on the making and meaning of rock’s jauntiest ode to the apocalypse

He’s recently re-recorded Bad Moon Rising for Legacy

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“I got a hacksaw and I chopped down the stand and put the hi-hats down there”: How the right-handed Simon Phillips learned to play left-handed as a young drummer – with inspiration from two fusion legends and some drastic DIY

"It was all disco in 1975 – pretty simple"

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“We would like to leave the verdict of price versus value to the customers”: Is the Roland TR-1000 really too expensive?

At $2,699, Roland’s new analogue drum machine is certainly not cheap. But does the TR-1000 deserve the backlash against its price? We spoke to Roland, its customers and other manufacturers to find out

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“I wasted a lot of time and money”: How Moby made the record that saved his career

Moby had all but thrown in the towel, but the surprising success of his eclectic 1999 masterpiece forever changed his fortunes

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“Lily arrived with the song titles, which is really unusual. She would come in and say, ‘I want to write a song called Dallas Major,’ and we’re like, ‘OK, let’s have some backstory”: The group songwriting sessions that yielded Lily Allen’s West End Girl

“It felt like days I had as a teenager in a band, writing live in the room,” says collaborator Violet Skies

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"It's a pain that every producer knows: a desktop full of old sessions, forgotten mixdowns, and endless folders": Struggling to keep track of your DAW projects? This free app can help

SessionDock is a genius project organization tool for macOS, designed to help you stay on top of a mountain of unfinished tracks

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“I love John McLaughlin’s stuff, all those great Mahavishnu Orchestra records. There’s so much there musically. I just admire real musicians”: Journey guitarist Neal Schon on the band’s wild early days and the players who inspire him

"I had my jazz guys, I had my blues guys, my fusion guys"

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“I sent him some songs… he recorded something and sent it to me. And it was… well, it made me cry”: Charli XCX on how a phrase John Cale once used about the Velvet Underground’s music led to their new Wuthering Heights collaboration

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“I think that’s what grabbed people – the fact that there were real moments of humanity in it. And the melody was catchy, the rhythm and my vocal was hypnotic”: The story of Cyndi Lauper’s first No.1. hit – later recorded by Miles Davis

She delved deep into her personal life to create four minutes of pop brilliance

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“We wrote the biggest-selling single that Rod ever had, and it took us an hour to put it down. It ended up selling millions all around the world”: When Rod Stewart and drummer Carmine Appice created a controversial disco-era smash hit

It all started when Rod said, "I want something like Miss You by the Stones"

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“Roland has always been extremely good at marrying the playability of its samples with the physical feel of its hardware - this kit is no exception”: Roland VAD316 review

Roland’s new 3 Series offers a staggering level of features previously only available with the flagship 7 Series

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“For percussionists who want to take matters into their own hands when it comes to effects”: Walrus launch the DFX-1, an effects unit built for drummers

Because why should guitarists have all the fun?

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“If you can live with just two channels, there’s a lot that impresses about this DJ controller”: Native Instruments Traktor MX2 review

NI releases its first proper mixing controller since 2019, but does it have anything new to offer?

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Waves is teasing a free plugin release for Black Friday – sign up today to be first in line

Cyber Weekend is fast approaching, and Waves is preparing to give away its annual freebie to anyone signed up to its mailing list

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“To quote Prince, ‘If the first words out of an artist’s mouth when they hit the stage aren’t heard, you’re a horrible engineer’”: Drake’s live sound engineer on why he had to be at the top of his game from first song to last on his recent European tour

“I cater my mix to whatever the music is, so it’s a very dynamic show,” says Demetrius Moore

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