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“It has grown way beyond what I could have ever imagined when I sat in a little studio in 2013, messing around with these little ‘80s tracks”: We catch up with synthwave figureheads The Midnight who exclusively reveal an eye-catching new collaboration

A dominant force in nostalgia-evoking synthwave, The Midnight have plunged even further down our cultural memory-hole with a new analogue foray…

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"You are a rock star, young lady": How a Thai teenager blew away America's Got Talent audience covering a '90s rock classic

Nene Royal's rendition of the Cranberries' Zombie stunned a packed-out AGT arena in Pasadena, California

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“I think it was a very important lyric for Michael. His lyrics were very poignant. He didn’t have to say very much, but you knew exactly what he was talking about”: The classic INXS ballad with deep meaning for Michael Hutchence

“Originally it was just piano with a vocal – a very simple song”

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Everybody's got to learn sometime: It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #12!

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"There’s all this discourse online about how everything is out of tune on that track, but we need imperfection!": Oscar Scheller on his chart-smashing, Zara Larsson-featuring remix of PinkPantheress' Stateside

The London-born producer's PinkPantheress remix soared to No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 and topped Spotify's global chart earlier this year

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“I was looking for it and he said, ‘Oh that? I threw it away. It was crap.’ I couldn’t believe it”: How Tony Iommi found the secret to his Black Sabbath tone (and how he lost it)

A moment of madness from an amp tech and Iommi's secret weapon was gone, never to be seen again

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“I think he’s the most underrated guitarist in rock history. People don’t realise how inventive he was”: Geddy Lee, Paul Gilbert and John Petrucci on the guitar genius of Rush legend Alex Lifeson

Lee explains how Lifeson made the Canadian prog trio greater than the sum of their parts

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“You have no excuses to have bad technique nowadays”: Has Matteo Mancuso arrived as the world’s greatest guitar player?

The fusion maestro says we might be living in golden age of guitar virtuosity but this is not time for “guitar battles”

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“I bought one in 1984 – I'm looking at it now, still the same one. I plugged it in the other day, bracing myself, and the bloody thing was in tune! I couldn't believe it. Amazing!”: Vince Clarke reveals his favourite synth of all time

Plus, why he disagrees with former Depeche Mode bandmate Martin Gore about Eurorack

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“If we had stuck together we could have been as big as Led Zeppelin – or at the very least, Deep Purple. We had the stuff!”: The heavy rock innovators whose hard-hitting drummer was a star before John Bonham

“There was always friction – but it all worked for the creation of what we had"

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Quizzy Gillespie: It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #7!

Can you scale our top-ten music news quiz questions and get to number one?

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Khemmis just made one of the best heavy metal records of the year using a $28 plastic fuzz pedal

Phil Pendergast's secret weapon was cheap, effective, and perhaps a lesson that cork-sniffing about gear can be a waste of time – and money

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"It’s mad, the splits now - the major labels own your masters. They want 88% and that's standard across the board. So every act who signs to a major is not making money": We talk the modern music industry with Dea Matrona

Dea Matrona tell us how they’ve managed to gain success whilst maintaining their fiercely DIY ideals in today's competitive industry

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“Rick put me on the spot. He said, ‘So, this is a Les Paul.’ I was like, ‘I know.’ Then he went, ‘Okay, and this is a Marshall…’”: Why The Cult scrapped an entire album and re-recorded it with Rick Rubin

“It was the record we needed to make”

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“It was the record that changed our lives. The record that won us freedom of creative expression”: Rush frontman Geddy Lee recalls how the band's 1976 prog classic 2112 transformed their fortunes

No one at the record company was happy to hear that Rush had another concept record. But this time the prog trio stuck the landing on a sci-fi epic that changed everything

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Quizzy Rascal: It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #6!

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“Sometimes I try to pretend that someone threw mud on the fretboard of my guitar, or thick syrup! It’s a funny thing to imagine but it changes the way you play”: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit's Sadler Vaden reveals his approach to slide guitar

Don't sweat the action, keep it in standard tuning and just pretend you're a trapeze artist with syrup on the fingerboard... Wait, what!?

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“In the next 12 months there are going to be two, possibly three more Moog synths – we’re going to have some instant classics added to our roster”: EXCLUSIVE! Moog President Joe Richardson tells us what's coming next from the iconic synth brand

With the Muse and Messenger signalling that Moog is still in rude health following its acquisition by InMusic, we catch up with its president to learn more about life behind the scenes at the world’s biggest synth brand

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“A lightning bolt just hit me from above. I really did feel like this was sort of a divine intervention. It was everything that I was looking for”: Gibson unveils signature SG for Greta Van Fleet’s Jake Kiszka

The Greta Van Fleet guitarist's signature SG is based on his battle-scarred '61 Les Paul SG and comes with an extra backplate signed and stamped by Kiszka

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“Evidently not content with redefining what was technically possible on the guitar, he also managed to rewrite pretty much the whole of music theory”: How Allan Holdsworth blew Eddie Van Halen’s mind and inspired the next generation of virtuosos

We unpack the brilliance of jazz-fusion trailblazer Allan Holdsworth, with some help from Steve Vai, Guthrie Govan, Paul Gilbert and Eddie Van Halen

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“I was a little uncomfortable, to be honest. I gradually convinced myself that it was okay”: Myles Kennedy on what it was like to play Jeff Buckley’s Telecaster – and how he felt unworthy to play it

Kennedy saluted one of his all-time heroes in 2019 when he performed Hallelujah live in Paris, and it was the first time Buckley's Tele had been played in public since his death in '97

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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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Baratza's new $300 coffee grinder just matched a $1,500 Mazzer Philos in an espresso blind taste test — I didn't expect this at all

I'm an ex-barista with way too many coffee gadgets, so I challenged the revered Mazzer Philos and the new Baratza Encore ESP Pro to a blind taste test.

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“To me, it was like being asked to tour with the Beatles”: Paul Gilbert on why he turned down the gig of a lifetime – and why not maintaining his “Whitesnake haircut” was a barrier to career progression

When Todd Rundgren called and invited Gilbert to tour with him there was only one answer, even if it pained him to say it

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Get a FREE Bitwig 6 8-Track license exclusively with MusicRadar

To mark this week’s release of the latest version of Bitwig Studio, we’re offering MusicRadar readers a limited supply of codes for the 8-Track version of the DAW. But be quick!

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