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“I just think it’s more important that kids learn how to actually play the guitar. It’s a tough instrument. It’s not easy”: Unlike Guns N' Roses, Metallica and Aerosmith, Prince never allowed his music to be used in Guitar Hero – here’s why

“To play music is one of the greatest things,” he argued

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“I was 28 or something and he was 80. He’s like, ‘Here, son, this is how you do it.’ How sad is that?” Joe Bonamassa on the time BB King taught him how to use an iPod (and what made him blues guitar’s GOAT)

Bonamassa pays tribute to the undisputed king of the blues as a road dog who "knew everything" and was pretty handy with newfangled technologies, too

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“I have a little bit of a love-hate relationship with my Prophet ’08”: Art School Girlfriend on the synths, software and studio secrets behind new project Lean In

Download the stems for Art School Girlfriend's track The Peaks and create your own remix

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“The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band”: Why this cult classic was hailed as one of the most influential albums of all time

“A savage series of atonal thrusts and electronic feedback”

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“It’s my song… I wrote it”: Watch Paul Rudd and Joe Jonas going from friends to foes in the trailer for Power Ballad, the new musical movie from John Carney that centres on a songwriting dispute

Carney previously gave us Sing Street, Begin Again and Once

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As a pro guitarist, I think Boss makes the most reliable pedals around, so with 26% off everything from the DD-8 to the Waza Metal Zone in Amazon's Spring Deal Days sale, it's time to stock up

Amazon might usually be the home of cheap guitar pedals, but the Spring Sale has unleashed a slew of savings on Boss stompboxes

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Always crashing in the same car: Major album releases lead to increased traffic fatalities

When smartphone use rockets, so do RTAs

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“I said, ‘Sam, I’m gonna tell you what I told Alex, which is, I don’t really play like Eddie’”: Joe Satriani says he told David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen to call Nuno Bettencourt when they called about EVH tribute tour

Satch says the tribute tour got close to a show, but after it all fell through, Sammy Hagar came in with an offer he couldn’t refuse, and he needed a new amp to nail Eddie Van Halen's tone

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“Normally, people were happy to take his tracks, because he’s Prince. But we wanted to do the song our own way": When Prince gave the Bangles Manic Monday he assumed they would just sing over his demo, but the band had other ideas

“Luckily, Prince liked what we did," says Vicki Peterson

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“A lot of people got a hard drive full of music and they don’t know how to finish… just tell everybody, ‘Hey, that’s what I got – hope you like it!’”: Watch Saba, No ID and Jimmy Douglass build a track from scratch

Universal Audio documents Chicagoan rapper Saba's free-flowing session with two veteran producers

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Bitwig Studio 6 is here with improved automation, Clip Aliases and tons of workflow enhancements

Promising users a "big step up", Bitwig Studio 6 builds on core DAW functions to help music-making become faster and more intuitive

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“I was cacking it, I really didn’t know if it was going to work or not. We did Creep by Radiohead and I noticed I was crying halfway through": Alex James on Britpop Classical, Blur and the prospect of returning to Coachella

Bassist plays the Albert Hall tonight

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“I shuffled into this big open room, and Tina was there and she was very upset. She said to me, ‘If we get rid of David, would you join the band?’”: Adrian Belew insists he was asked to replace David Byrne in Talking Heads

He didn’t regard it as a serious offer though

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“Spotify is the highest-paying retailer globally - paying the music industry more than $11 billion in 2025”: Spotify reveals how much it actually pays out to musicians in its new Loud & Clear report

The numbers might be a surprise to those who have previously bemoaned the financial dynamics of the streaming giant

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“The first thing I start off with is figuring out the chords like this. As you can see, I put them in manually”: PinkPantheress reveals that she composes and records her chord progressions using her MacBook’s QWERTY keyboard

Who needs a MIDI controller when you’ve got Logic Pro’s Musical Typing feature?

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“The type of reverb pedal that will sound incomprehensibly huge and haunting with all the settings maxed out”: EarthQuaker Devices reinvents reverb once more with the Towers Stereo Reverberant Filter

The Towers Stereo Reverberant Filter does reverb the EQD way, and it could be soundscape generator you've been waiting for (or maybe just something more exotic than room, plate and spring)

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Baby Audio's “most advanced synthesizer to date” is a granular plugin with audio-rate modulation capable of creating “entirely new textures”

Grainferno's morphing, dual sample engine will turn your loops and one-shots into “tonal instruments, lush evolving atmospheres and volatile digital noise”

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Long-lost peak George Michael tour film and live album unearthed and set for release

Footage comes from Faith tour of 1988

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“There are a lot of amazing guitars in this world, but none are as versatile as the Telecaster”: Country star John Osborne’s signature Tele comes factory modded with a distressed nitro finish, custom pickups – and it’s even got a B-bender too

Based of his beloved 1968 Tele, this Road Worn doozie has it all going on, and while the B-bender is a headline spec item, what about that oil-finished fingerboard with the maple cap fretboard?

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Frustrated about the sterile feel of your digital guitar rig? Friends and family commenting on how stiff your playing has been since you went all in with modellers? Victory’s PowerValve 200 has the mojo to restore that tube amp “thump” and feel

With an onboard Valve React Circuit, this 200-watt power amp is designed to push air through a real guitar speaker, giving you quote/unquote real amp feel when using a modeller

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“I didn't say that I think her music was 'boring' or whatever click bait the net is trying to scrape together”: Jack White puts the record straight about Taylor Swift

And social media pile-ons stifle “artistic vision and imagination”, he argues

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PRS sues Steam for using music without a licence – for 23 years

They’ve never bothered to obtain one

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“The thing was lighting up like a toaster. It was glowing red”: Eddie Van Halen’s guitar solo didn't set a speaker on fire during the making of Michael Jackson’s Beat It, but an AC/DC issue did

“Something let loose in the amplifier and put out a tremendous power surge,” says engineer Matt Forger

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“We were labelled ‘the new Led Zeppelin’. I mean, wow! But it was a blessing and a curse. There could never be another Led Zeppelin, just like there could never be another Beatles”: The strange tale of a great rock band that had it all – and then blew it

As one critic said, this band had “more good riffs in one song than there are in the first four Black Sabbath albums”

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“Protecting the integrity of Fender’s iconic designs is essential to preserving the legacy of the artists and builders who shaped them”: Fender wins historic German court ruling over Stratocaster body design

The Regional Court of Düsseldorf rules in favour of Fender and offers broad legal protections for the Strat's body design

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