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"There isn't one correct answer": 6 things you need you need know about how to clean and condition your guitar fretboard

A string change is the ideal opportunity to get your 'board back to its best

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“He said, ‘Yeah, you know, it’s kind of harder to play that way’, but he just loved the way it sounded”: Eric Johnson on why pick choice and picking style are fundamental to your playing – and how his favourite jazz player got his sound by using his thumb

Your guitar pick, the material it's made from and how you use it are "the beginning of the whole thing," says the Texan virtuoso

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“Japan was part of the zeitgeist - we were on the BBC, in the tabloid newspapers and part of culture”: We speak to Japan and Porcupine Tree synth polymath Richard Barbieri

From glam rock novice to sonic architect, Richard Barbieri’s latest album, Hauntings, explores a memory-soaked sound world

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"He started trying to play chords on it and he said ‘Malcolm! Bob! What’s wrong with this instrument? It only plays one note at a time!’": Dissecting the musical magic of Superstition, the song Stevie Wonder just couldn’t let go

“He played it to Motown, and they said, 'No way is Jeff Beck getting this song, it's too good’”

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Universal Music Group, home to Taylor Swift, Drake, Elton John and other stars receives record $63bn buyout offer

Bid for the world’s largest music group proposes to “address” UMG's share price issues

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DrumBot is an AI-powered chatbot drum machine that “listens, learns and talks back” – but who is it for?

This browser-based drum pattern generator claims to possess the "musical awareness of a live session drummer". We're not so sure

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Wireless Festival cancelled and tickets refunded after UK Government blocks Kanye West’s entry

Ye’s controversial comments come back to haunt him as UK entry is blocked causing Wireless Festival to pull the plug this summer

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“Six room sizes, a gated reverb patch and a reverse reverb patch for your consideration”: Catalinbread launches compact reverb pedal with inspired by the Neil Young and Daft Punk-approved Alesis Microverb

The '90s cult classic studio reverb is reimagined as an 8-mode stompbox with an very useful Mix knob and pre-delay

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"The truth is that your studio has as much potential to get in the way of your creativity as it does to unlock it": 5 creativity-boosting studio workflow tips

Is your studio setup blocking – rather than unlocking – your music-making? Get more out of every session with our guide to maximising your creativity

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“I hate to break it to you, but your favourite artist records my old songs”: Sky Ferreira seemingly fires shots at Charli xcx on social media

Sky Ferreira expresses frustration on Twitter and tells a fan on X that her music was used in Wuthering Heights without credit

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“I absolutely hate synthesizers. They're really bad - horrible. I can take their existence from a live point of view now, but if they didn't exist, I'd be delighted”: The surprising music theory that underpinned a Talk Talk classic

Mark Hollis’ masterpiece became an anthem of self-determination, but it was far from an overnight success

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“There was a back door to the studio that led out to the street. I went out and I'm not kidding you, but this guy pops out of a trash can – it was Ginger Baker!”: Jimmy Douglass on his early days working for Atlantic Records

Having shaped rock, R&B and hip-hop across five decades, Grammy-winning engineer and producer Jimmy "The Senator" Douglass reflects on his extraordinary career

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“He’s plugged a Les Paul Columbus in 40 years ago at maximum volume and now his ears are done”: Gary Numan claims to be “90% deaf”

Electro-pop pioneer reveals that at the age of 68, he’s even been forced to stop flying

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“The beat goes on, but the pocket will never be the same": Bandmates, friends and stars pay tribute to James Gadson

Legendary funk, soul and disco drummer has died, aged 86

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"There's something about it that you just don't get with soft synths": Jasper Tygner on why he loves his Moog Grandmother

We visited the rising producer and multi-instrumentalist in his South London studio to find out more about the making of debut album Blue

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“We're all fragile little creatures. You sit down, lick your wounds and think - is there any point in going through this whole process again?”: We speak to Midge Ure

Midge Ure reflects on fame, resilience and reinvention as he returns with new music and a cinematic live touring experience

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“He would blow in and say, ‘I don’t like the horns. Take them out. We’ll do more later. Okay, bye.’ Then he’d return later. ‘Oh I love it! Do more harmonies!’”: The genius of Giorgio Moroder in an ’80s classic

“Giorgio could have farted and I would have sung it!”

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“I can’t believe I did that. I wish I still had it”: Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan on her beloved red Strat she sold for just $25

It was the guitar she learned on

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“It feels more like a DIY creator building something weird for themselves”: Beetronics Pollinator Hazee Delay

A modern throwback to the 'try anything' experimental days of the boutique pedal boom

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“I’m not anybody’s best guitar player. I’m not the fastest, the most knowledgeable, the shreddiest. I’m none of those things. But I play and it sounds like me”: Mark Morton on the chemistry behind Lamb Of God's twin-guitar groove and what he owes ZZ Top

Morton gets geeky with rhythm and discusses the making of Lamb Of God's pummelling new album, Into Oblivion, and explains why he is proud to be (just) behind the beat

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“We were very secretive about the song title. It was such a great idea and we didn’t want anyone else to know about it. So for a long time we called the song Burger King!”: The story of controversial ’90s pop banger Barbie Girl

“We never had the urge to be credible – it’s just not us!”

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“I knew my folk music would take off, if I put hip-hop beats behind it”: How one song turned the self-confessed “worst rapper in the world” into an alt-rock icon

“Slacker my ass! I never had any slack. I was working a $4-an-hour job trying to stay alive”

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“Rick had a lot of pain in him and it came out in his more cynical songs, while the hurting and questioning in The Logical Song came from me”: How Roger Hodgson and Supertramp fought their way to the top – and how the multi-million-selling band imploded

“Breakfast In America took eight months to finish – some people would call us anal!”

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“When you start Like a Prayer, the guitar that you hear before the door slams, that’s Prince”: How Madonna transitioned from pop to the profound with a Vatican-enraging classic

Like a Prayer saw Madonna ascend on both a thematic and musical level, but its provocative video pushed the buttons of the devout

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SampleRadar: 142 free yacht rock samples

Channel your inner Christopher Cross with this seaworthy pack of smooth yacht rock licks

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