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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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“Ken, our producer said ‘Look up there lads, look at the stars’. He literally said ‘Look at the stars’”: The fateful circumstances that led to Coldplay’s biggest ever song

Coldplay’s first stab at a euphoric crowd-pleaser was a clear indication that a stadium-filling future awaited

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“Look at AC/DC. Whatever was popular, it didn’t matter. It’s like McDonald’s. ‘We make the Big Mac and we make fries and we don’t care about doing sushi’”: Zakk Wylde on musical identity, jailhouse rocking with Ozzy and the return of Black Label Society

The maestro of the pinched harmonic and pentatonic blitzkrieg sits in to talk Engines Of Demolition, Randy Rhoads' greatness, and the origin of his style

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"They refused it and told me, either change the beat, change the tempo, take the talking out, take the whistling out, or we won't release it”: How Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo had to fight to release their 1983 classic

Love Is a Battlefield introduced the Linn Drum into mainstream rock

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“There was this guy who lived in the dorm, he was a great friend and an awesome artist and he actually made cool music with the computer, and it was like… ‘wait, you can do that?’”: Flying Lotus on early musical adventures, AI and more

FlyLo weighs in on Suno and talks us through the making of BIG MAMA, a chaotic speedrun of an EP that zooms through chiptune, breakcore and jazz fusion without looping a single bar

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“Anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic. But because it is sugarcoated, it is accepted”: The song John Lennon called “the best I've ever written” – and Yoko Ono’s uncredited contribution

“A lot of it – the lyric and the concept – came from Yoko”

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“Mac’s death was an extremely traumatic experience for me. That was definitely a very key element and fundamental in my sobriety”: Thundercat on how losing Mac Miller made him change his life

Rapper makes posthumous appearance on bassist’s new album

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“He obviously wanted to do something like that for Billie Jean and he did his own version of that groove”: John Oates agrees with Daryl Hall that I Can’t Go For That was the inspiration for one of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits

“I told him: ‘Oh Michael, what do I care? You did it very differently,’” Hall previously said

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"We didn't sit there and go, 'Let's make an album that's going to last 45 years or become a cornerstone of some rock music.' We were just having a great time”: Vinny Appice remembers his time with Ronnie James Dio

Drummer played with him in Sabbath, Dio and Heaven And Hell

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“I spent my entire career searching for this, but it didn’t exist – so I built it for myself”: Can this $149 deck of cards help you write better songs?

Reimagining Eno’s Oblique Strategies for the modern songwriter and producer, Session Cards are pitched as a “hit-making system” that promises to “change how you write records”

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"She goes, 'No, I want to play you the songs on my guitar. Let's just go out to the parking lot, and I'll sit in the back of your truck’”: Back in 2006, a “fearless” Taylor Swift took a hands-on approach to getting her music played on the radio

It’s almost 20 years since she released Tim McGraw, her debut single

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“Who the F are the Cockroaches?”: Just the greatest rock n’ roll band in the world… perhaps

The Stones have used the guise before, and could be doing so again?

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This free plugin captures the shrill and squeaky sound of the most irritating musical instrument known to man... just in time for April Fool’s Day

Ujam's BeautyFlute Pro is a virtual instrument based on the discordant tones of a poorly-played recorder

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“Oh, wow! See, that’s something I only do on stage. That’s not a part of the record”: Lindsey Buckingham reacts to TikTok covers of Fleetwood Mac’s Never Going Back Again, and says one of them is “better than I do it”

He says that he’s “touched and encouraged” that so many people are learning the song

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“Our intention is that, at the end of the program, the listener will find himself alone, in hell”: Archive footage from 1983 reveals the BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s chilling plan to put a modernised musical spin on Dante’s Inferno

At the time, the legendary sound effects unit was celebrating its 25th anniversary

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“If you love Hendrix, Jack White, Gary Clark Jr, Beck, Black Keys, or the octave fuzz on John Mayer’s Belief – you already know you want this”: JHS Pedals’ turns loose the Coyote, a fuzz pedal tribute to a “lost” cult classic and its maker

A two-knob fuzz that's got three modes – including some octave-up craziness – all at the turn of a dial, the Coyote replicates the circuit of the late Glenn Wylie's unique, brilliant Moonrock Fuzz

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“Just like when you get a new distortion pedal it makes you want to play guitar, I wanted that same feeling for DB-30”: XLN Audio wants to put the fun back in drum processing with DB-30 Drum Butter

Equipped with six effects modules covering compression, saturation, reverb, pitch-shifting and more, DB-30 is built to add punch, character and identity to any drum part

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