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“I said, ‘It’s really beautiful – why would you say it’s not for the Chili Peppers?’ And he said, ‘That’s not what we do’”: How the Red Hot Chili Peppers broke new ground to create their life-changing hit

One of the greatest rock ballads ever recorded

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“For players who employ a twin tube-amp setup for their tones, the Tube Head Switch is indispensable”: Harley Benton rolls out affordable solution for players with two tube amps sharing same speaker cabinet

The Tube Head Switch features onboard safety load management and has a buffered instrument input and direct input for preamps and other line-level devices, and it's cheap

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“I of course fully endorse ANY mods done to any of my designs, let alone from the great Hammett”: Kirk Hammett orders up custom Thinline version of Jack White’s Fender Triplecaster – and gets one for White, too

Jack White's been giving out his Triplecaster to all and sundry and now Hammett returns the favour, with a "cool mod" that White hopes will duly upset Telecaster purists

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“I don’t have many guitar players’ albums on my iPhone, but I can tell you this – Jeff is there”: John McLaughlin discusses the magic of Jeff Beck – and names his favourite underrated guitarist

"His tone was like butter," McLaughlin says of his late friend

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“An erratic semantic output”: Trump’s speech patterns become avant-garde compositions in a new work by British musician Martin Gordon

The former Sparks bassist claims to have taken inspiration from medieval alchemy

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BBC Ozzy Osbourne documentary mysteriously moved from tonight’s schedules

Doc will show that “Iron Man wasn't really made of iron"

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"No strings attached": The Crow Hill Company releases Lo-Fi Strings, a free tape-treated string library with a warm and nostalgic sound

Another instalment in Crow Hill's ongoing Vaults series, Lo-Fi Strings brings the beloved sonic imperfections of tape recording into the orchestral world

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“I’m doing what I love doing the most: Being in front of an audience. A live audience, not a television audience”: Chubby Checker’s unusual reason for skipping his Hall Of Fame induction

It’s to show he’s “alive and well”, apparently

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WoO.1 is a pocket-sized sampler designed for endless on-the-go looping

New brand Wunderkammer is set to launch the pint-sized looper and sampler via Kickstarter imminently

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“It started off sounding a bit like Prince. I wanted to hear something in my mix so I cut the snare and it changed the whole mood of the track": How George Michael accidentally created the ‘80s smash that inspired Taylor Swift on The Life of a Showgirl

“It ended up, in my mind, being the most original-sounding thing on the album,” he later said

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"I downloaded it two years ago and it changed my life - it's one of my favourite synths": Rudimental reveal their favourite plugins for drum 'n' bass production

Rudimental's Piers Aggett and Kesi Dryden appear on the Tape Notes podcast to discuss the software that's shaped their soulful, radio-friendly DnB

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“People may not realise how special it is for me to hear my dad talking or to see him”: Yoko and Sean Ono Lennon announce new Lennon box set

Power To The People covers early New York years

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“I was imprisoned wrongfully and sent away to the penitentiary for many, many years”: John Fogerty on the long struggle to own his songs again

“I’m just an adventurer, you know, like an explorer coming back to the homeland,” Creedence Clearwater Revival man explains

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“I love this band and I love the people and the music… it's an oddly fulfilling experience": Colin Brittain on life behind the kit with Linkin Park

Drummer was previously a producer and composer

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“The piano just started speaking to me”: How Kate Bush stunned David Gilmour with a masterpiece of songwriting she made at just 13 years old

The early song was unmistakable evidence of Bush’s boundless talents

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“New look, new display, new features, proper MIDI out – this is a big update and we truly rate it”: Novation Launch Control XL 3 review

Novation’s Launch Control XL Mk 3 features a revamped design, more control and improved connectivity

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“I don’t know anything about what’s going on in that world now, at all”: Robert Plant reveals why he turned down the chance to appear at the Back To The Beginning show

“It’s just I found these other places that are so rich,” frontman says

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“I don’t hear the song as being about Syd Barrett – I hear it as describing the failed bromance between David Gilmour and Roger Waters”: A music professor breaks down Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here

As we approach Wish You Were Here's 50th anniversary, we analyse the sublimely strange structure of its ambitious title track

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“He stopped what he was doing, went to the fridge, gave the guy a beer and continued, completely in the zone – I've no idea how we did what we did but it became magic”: The rowdy live sets and field recordings behind Monolake's dub techno classic Hongkong

A classic work of Berlin techno that helped inspire the creation of Ableton Live

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"It's one of the most powerful software sound design tools on earth – and it's free": Try out this modular audio processing playground used by Aphex Twin

Mylar Melodies reveals the genius of Composers' Desktop Project in his latest video – and shows us how SoundThread makes it accessible

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“A quality, backpack-friendly controller that's under £50”: Arturia MicroLab Mk3 review

Sometimes only the most compact controller will suffice. We check out this latest candidate

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“We have a business need to become more efficient and reduce operational costs due to continued loss-making because of demand reduction”: Redundancies loom at struggling acoustic firm Lowden

But MD says “no decisions have been made”

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Dubreq unveils Stylophone Gen X-2 – and you can play it without the stylus

Thanks to CV/gate connectivity, you can now play this retro mini-synth with a keyboard or sequencer or even hook it up to a DAW or modular rig

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People = Cash: Slipknot eyeing up a £120 million catalogue sale to investment firm

Deal wouldn’t cover future releases

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“Festivals are being cancelled due to extreme weather, and grassroots venues are grappling with rising energy costs”: Brian Eno and others urge government to cancel new North Sea oilfield

New Rosebank field will “accelerate the climate crisis”, they argue

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