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“I got over the fact that I was lumbered with the bass – I realised the control you had over the band. They can’t go anywhere, man. Ha! Power!”: Revisiting a classic Paul McCartney interview from our archive

Looking back at a gem from the MusicRadar archive, in which the legendary Paul McCartney discusses the band-directing power of being a bass player and teaching Elvis a thing or two…

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“I don’t feel like we were trying to do a new Cream”: Legendary guitarist Robin Trower on the ’80s supergroup he created with Jack Bruce

In 1981, Robin Trower got together with former Sly And The Family Stone drummer Bill Lowden and former Cream frontman Jack Bruce and made one delicious blues-rock sandwich

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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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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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“In the ‘90s, I was eager to demonstrate that samples were a legitimate form of making music – I wanted to articulate that in as many ways as I could”: DJ Shadow on his original mission statement and why he no longer puts the MPC on a pedestal

Over the years, DJ Shadow has shared much wisdom with MusicRadar across a range of interviews. We found that his attitude toward tech - and sampling - has evolved considerably

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“We’re finding that void in culture and then imagining what we want the world to hear”: How Jack Antonoff gets the best out of the globe’s biggest stars

From Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter via Lorde and Florence and the Machine, Jack Antonoff is the man that has realised some of the 21st century's most popular music, MusicRadar spoke to him to find out more about his process

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“Ahhh, what a tune! It has more melodic genius and simple power than I ever realised”: The melancholy classic that made Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel the world’s hottest songwriting duo

Recorded in '64 then remixed and rereleased by popular demand in '65, The Sound Of Silence gave the songwriting duo their first number one and a track beloved by generations

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“James’s rhythm parts are insane. His right hand looks like it's not even moving – It's one of the most aggressive, precise things you've ever heard in your life”: Andrew Scheps on the complex legacy of Metallica’s Death Magnetic

In a lengthy conversation MusicRadar had with the pre-eminent mix master, Scheps remembered working with the metal gods on that controversially loud ninth album

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“People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery I guess”: Revisiting our classic interview with the legendary Lemmy

Back in 2012 we spoke to the late Motörhead mainman about his other great passion - rockabilly

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“There's not a night that passes when that doesn't still sting”: When Skrillex shared with us his anger at having four years of his work stolen

Back in 2012 Skrillex was dubstep’s reigning king, now held in high esteem as an EDM legend, we look back on a classic conversation he had with MusicRadar

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“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

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inMusic reportedly closes down Native Instruments’ UK office as senior leadership exits company

A representative for inMusic told MusicRadar: "We are simplifying our organizational and legal structure, including Native Instruments UK"

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“Oh, it was a nightmare. I was becoming physically sick just thinking of going to the studio each night. I used to love working with the band. By that point, I dreaded it”: The Beatles’ most trusted engineer on their studio tensions

MusicRadar spoke to the legendary late Geoff Emerick back in 2014, when he told us in frank detail about their late 60s’ studio struggles

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Guitar World

10 classic Yngwie Malmsteen quotes – the maestro in his own words: “What I play fast will also sound good at a slower speed. If you slow down the fast licks that a lot of other guitarists do, people would puke”

The man who introduced Paganini to electric guitar, fired a gun in the studio, has a rig that can be seen from space… There is only one Yngwie Malmsteen

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Why Taylor Swift's favourite emo band sneaked lyrics by Motley Crue, Bad Company and Madness into the album that saved their career

"If you’re our age and were interested in music at all, those lyric quotes are there in your mind"

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One more time: It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #15!

Round off your week with our 10-question quicky on all the hottest music news

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“It has grown way beyond what I could have ever imagined when I sat in a little studio in 2013, messing around with these little ‘80s tracks”: We catch up with synthwave figureheads The Midnight who exclusively reveal an eye-catching new collaboration

A dominant force in nostalgia-evoking synthwave, The Midnight have plunged even further down our cultural memory-hole with a new analogue foray…

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"You are a rock star, young lady": How a Thai teenager blew away America's Got Talent audience covering a '90s rock classic

Nene Royal's rendition of the Cranberries' Zombie stunned a packed-out AGT arena in Pasadena, California

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“I think it was a very important lyric for Michael. His lyrics were very poignant. He didn’t have to say very much, but you knew exactly what he was talking about”: The classic INXS ballad with deep meaning for Michael Hutchence

“Originally it was just piano with a vocal – a very simple song”

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Everybody's got to learn sometime: It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #12!

Round off your week with our 10-question recap of this week's hottest music news

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"There’s all this discourse online about how everything is out of tune on that track, but we need imperfection!": Oscar Scheller on his chart-smashing, Zara Larsson-featuring remix of PinkPantheress' Stateside

The London-born producer's PinkPantheress remix soared to No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 and topped Spotify's global chart earlier this year

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“I was looking for it and he said, ‘Oh that? I threw it away. It was crap.’ I couldn’t believe it”: How Tony Iommi found the secret to his Black Sabbath tone (and how he lost it)

A moment of madness from an amp tech and Iommi's secret weapon was gone, never to be seen again

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“I think he’s the most underrated guitarist in rock history. People don’t realise how inventive he was”: Geddy Lee, Paul Gilbert and John Petrucci on the guitar genius of Rush legend Alex Lifeson

Lee explains how Lifeson made the Canadian prog trio greater than the sum of their parts

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“You have no excuses to have bad technique nowadays”: Has Matteo Mancuso arrived as the world’s greatest guitar player?

The fusion maestro says we might be living in golden age of guitar virtuosity but this is not time for “guitar battles”

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