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Google's ProducerAI can create customized instruments and effects in your browser

ProducerAI is a chatbot that generates songs, album art, music videos and even music-making apps

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"I'm totally uninvolved. I'm like the dad that wants to be there and know everything and she's just totally doing her own thing”: Dave Grohl says he had nothing to do with daughter Violet’s record deal

Foo Fighters are currently in UK playing two intimate shows

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“What’s the worst part about being dead? You can’t listen to music”: Liquid Death and Spotify have come up with a solution - The Eternal Playlist Urn

Now you can groove beyond the grave

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“The guys from Guns N’ Roses split down the middle politically. There was a song we wanted to use, and one of the guys said, ‘You got it. Go.’ And the other one was basically like, ‘There’s just no way’”: Melania producer discusses music rights issues

Marc Beckman says that they were also denied permission to use songs by Prince and Grace Jones

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“I didn’t know garage very well, so I made a slightly skewed version of this sound – which is what ended up being my USP”: MJ Cole on the making of UKG classic Sincere

Producer and UK garage legend MJ Cole charts his journey from classical music to the club and unpicks the production behind the genre-defining Sincere

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“Lars and I saw him headbanging at the Whiskey. ‘Let’s get that guitar player… oh, he’s playing bass!’ This skinny dude with bell bottoms, playing a wah solo. ‘Wow, we need him!’”: James Hetfield on the life and death of Metallica legend Cliff Burton

“I feel like Cliff was my ally in the battle”

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“She carved out her own path with unparalleled freedom and vision”: Tributes paid to electronic music pioneer Éliane Radigue

She worked with Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry

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“The breadth of control, countered with the joy of random probabilities, is simply fun”: ADDAC System 511 VC Stochastic Voltage Generator review

If you want happy accidents and repeatable madness galore, the 511 is the module for you

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It’s funny because it’s true: Soulseek is suddenly full to the brim of crazy Homer Simpson covers

All created via AI

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“I have never been to the Grammys in my life… it means less than nothing”: John Mellencamp isn’t impressed by awards

He plays the hits again this summer

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“I think Mick would be totally astonished that he’s still being talked about in such a positive way. This guitar just adds sparkle to an already legendary life”: Gibson unveils Murphy Lab replica of Mick Ronson’s Bowie-era 1968 Les Paul Custom

With the ebony finish stripped to reveal its two-piece plain maple top, mismatched controls, custom-wound pickups, this limited run reproduction is the spitting image of Ronson's original

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“I’m looking at this ‘hot chick’ who's got everything going on – or at least that’s what you think – and she wants the song about being Beautiful? How vain is that?”: How Christina Aguilera ended up recording a Linda Perry song that she's now reclaimed

"Christina, she’s not me, you know? And I’m not Christina"

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“The synths only let you play one note at a time, which was great as we couldn’t play chords anyway”: How Depeche Mode launched their career with one of the most important synth-pop records ever released

One of the band's biggest tunes marked the end of their first chapter, but became a springboard that would propel both them and its writer to legendary status

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“The beating human heart of those incredible men and women, the struggles and sacrifices they are making every day for the most sacred thing on this planet – freedom”: New U2 video features footage taken from behind the frontline in Ukraine

But new album contains “more songs of celebration than lamentation”

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“I don’t think we’ll have to go out into the desert and take peyote and puke like we did in the old days – when we were the hip young LA cowboys”: How Don Henley and Glenn Frey remembered the Eagles’ wild years as they created the band’s swan song

“Certainly, we don’t want to fail. We’ve never really known much failure”

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"There's nothing quite like it": The singular genius of Laurie Spiegel's Music Mouse, with Eventide's Tony Agnello

40 years ago an idiosyncratic piece of software opened new doors for electronic music. Now Eventide has revitalised Spiegel’s classic Music Mouse instrument for a new generation

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“When you've been in a band you’re always, in the back of your head, thinking, 'Well, maybe this is it.' And I don't mind that feeling. I don't see it as a sad thing”: Mike Patton on feeling closure at the end of Faith No More

Band haven’t played live since 2016

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“He says, ‘Well, I've got it here,’ and he plays it. He gets Austin to sing it with him, so Austin and Sir Paul are doing an Elvis duet”: Uh-huh? Baz Luhrmann says that Paul McCartney convinced Austin Butler to sing an Elvis song with him on a train

They both had a ticket to ride, presumably (but we don't care)

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"Quite literally, I did not have a microphone, but I had a karaoke game on the Nintendo Wii and they gave you a mic": PinkPantheress becomes the first woman to win Producer of the Year at the BRIT Awards

The artist reflects on her journey from bedroom beatmaker to chart-topping producer

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ACME Synth Works unveils “world’s first” hardware clone of the Roland Jupiter-8 – but don’t get too excited just yet

The JP-8 recreation isn't a real product right now – but ACME's Oberheim Xpander clone is still in the works

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“A cost-effective wavetable synthesizer you could fall in love with”: Waldorf Protein review

If you’re lacking a little Protein in your production diet, Waldorf has just the supplement for you

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“I mean, it’s a terrible position to put someone in. They would always be compared to the man”: Geddy Lee on why he and Alex Lifeson chose Jeff Beck drummer Anika Nilles to fill the late, great Neil Peart’s role in Rush reunion tour

After a tip from his tech, the Rush frontman/bassist says there was only one drummer in his mind, and Nilles nailed the material. But she's going to need a bigger kit...

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“An absolute steal when it comes to quality and value for money”: Harley Benton ST-Modern Carlos Asensio CGM review

The Guitarraviva YouTuber teams up with Harley Benton to deliver one of the most spec’d-out affordable guitars we’ve ever seen

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“I can’t go on Instagram - my reel is all hardware and I get sucked in”: Electronic producer and artist James Adrian Brown on how his synth obsession fuelled his debut record

Experimental electronic artist James Adrian Brown unpicks the making of his debut album and how it was inspired by the illuminations and arcades of Blackpool

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“I’m out of tiles. I'm out of wood. I just don't have it. So the only way for me to come up with a new idea and get some new inspiration is to just step away”: Tobias Forge explains why Ghost are about to go on hiatus

Band play last show of their Skeletour tonight

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