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World Refugee Day: Iranian singer Shab on fleeing her home, oppression and her hopes for the future

Pop singer fled Iran as a child and has since become a vocal campaigner for women’s rights

The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2024

"They bombed a medical supplies warehouse. You could smell medicine in the air..." Sharon Den Adel went to Ukraine to film Within Temptation's latest video. This is what she found.

Hiding from drones, hoping to hear the voice of Mark Hamill – Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel experiences the war in Ukraine first-hand in this exclusive diary

Metal Hammer · Jun 2, 2024

"People definitely read into it too deeply, but that's how Twitter goes": What exactly is 'mixing in key' and why have DJs been arguing over it?

Ciel, Jon Dasilva and ArielleNYC join us to talk the ins and outs of harmonic mixing

MusicRadar · May 13, 2024

"I come from the old-school, the analogue tape and mixing desk-era - but with software, you have so much potential for playing around": The Orb spin-off Sedibus on new project SETI, manipulating samples and the evolution of technology

Detaching from The Orb mothership, Sedibus is the latest project of core figurehead Alex Paterson, accompanied by former Orb-member and key creative collaborator Andy Falconer

MusicRadar · Apr 2, 2024

Restaurants worth travelling for: Moor Hall

Mark Birchall’s triumphant palace of fine-dining is more versatile than it might seem, says David Ellis

Evening Standard · Mar 31, 2024

“That whole Christian thing, it’s so wrong. We were never Christian metal”: how doom pioneers Trouble overcame chaos, darkness and misunderstanding to make their 80s masterpiece The Skull

The story behind Chicago doom lords Trouble’s landmark 1985 album The Skull – the album which helped shape a generation

Metal Hammer · Mar 25, 2024

Simon Godfrey announces UK dates for September

Tonyffish/Shineback man Simon Godfrey will also release a new compilation album later this year

Louder · Mar 15, 2024

Loukeman: "I put a pitch-shifter on the master bus. I love how it glues everything together and f*cks everything up"

Toronto-based producer Loukeman talks his new project Sd-2, sampling techniques and unconventional effects processing

MusicRadar · Mar 13, 2024

“I shouldn’t speculate why we were singled out, other than because we were massively offensive”: how Cannibal Corpse became death metal’s first million selling band

Blood, guts and Jim Carrey – the epic story of death metal provocateurs Cannibal Corpse

Metal Hammer · Mar 13, 2024

Paranoid London: "Our 808 is completely different to everybody else’s in the world. The snare and kick are ridiculous. When we had it fixed they opened it up and said someone had done a load of weird stuff - instead of using glue they’d used hairspray"

Quinn Whalley of the UK acid duo on studio sessions and capturing the magic of analogue gear

MusicRadar · Mar 7, 2024