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“A fantastic one-stop shop of all that you need in a synth”: Knobula Monumatic review

Monumatic promises to be the one synth voice to rule them all and we think Knobula might be underselling itself

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At a ridiculously low price tag, Harley Benton unveils three entry-level T-styles with Bigbsy-style vibratos and vintage mojo to burn

Ideal for beginner player with a taste for old-school guitar design

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Freaky Style-AI: Hillel Slovak’s voice on new Chili Peppers documentary has been AI-generated

Film looks at the band’s early years

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"The closest thing Akai has released to a vintage MPC in decades": Akai MPC Sample review

The MPC range gains a fun, affordable sketchpad with a fair few tricks up its sleeve

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A much-loved reverb plugin that we called "one of the most creative we've come across" is free for a limited time

UVI Sparkverb 1.5 is free for KVR Audio members until April 12th

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“A few years ago, I decided, ‘I'm just going to play trumpet every day, no matter what. And after a couple of years of doing it, I'm going to make a record’”: Flea covers Frank Ocean and explains why he’s scratching a long-standing itch on his new album

Watch him doing double duty on trumpet and bass in the company of Jimmy Fallon

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“We’ve got these little satellites”: Thom Yorke will release another solo album “later in the year”, says Ed O'Brien, suggests Radiohead is “the mothership”

And says they can all “co-exist”

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“I had vocal polyps. It was really intense. I didn’t sleep for an entire month. There was no sound coming out. But I learned how to talk again. I learned how to sing again”: How Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan found her falsetto and made her comeback

“The craziest thing about it is that people could hear I’d had polyps on my previous albums”

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"This was my girlfriend for a long, long time… And I’ve got a lot of success with it”: Richie Sambora was so desperate to track down his stolen Explorer he hired a private detective – now after 41 years it has been returned to him

Sambora played this heavily modded Explorer as Bon Jovi rose to fame and has been looking for it for decades. Matt's Guitar Shop in Paris tracked it down

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"Apparently it was the one song that got John recording again. I think John just thought, ‘Uh oh, I had better get working, too’”: The story of the last entry in Lennon and McCartney’s musical conversation

Track apparently inspired Lennon to record Double Fantasy

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“Damon’s got two sides to him. He’s that guy who plays with musicians all around the world. But he’s also got a really hard side...”: Phil Daniels on Blur, Quadrophenia and the solo album he’s recorded

Album is “a cross between Ian Dury and a sort of theatrical night out”

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“Although the songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars Smith stole was real. Millions of dollars in royalties that Smith diverted from real, deserving artists and rights holders”: US Man pleads guilty to industrial scale AI fraud

Michael Smith stole over $10 million in royalties

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“What are you planning to actually use it for?”: Back in 1984, Midge Ure appeared on BBC TV to reveal our MIDI guitar synth future with his box-fresh Roland GR-700

“I think I’d have to spend many a long hour sitting in the studio working with the thing before I take it out on stage,” he admits

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Klang.io says Transcription Studio is the "world’s first" AI music tool that can transcribe multiple instruments simultaneously

The software promises to convert any recording into sheet music, tab or MIDI

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Shares in BTS parent company Hybe fall 15% after ‘disappointing’ attendance for Seoul comeback gig

A mere 104,000 fans showed up

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“Prince had rented out the theatre with free popcorn, snacks and drinks for everyone. Then we found out he wanted to watch Finding Nemo!”: Cory Wong on the night Prince broke up a Paisley Park jam session to guffaw in front of a Pixar family classic

“People never knew what they were going to get”

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“Super Hans said he’s come up with a bass loop for our new track that is so good, when he tried turning it off, he literally couldn’t”: 5 things Peep Show taught us about music production

The trick is to use multiple musical ideas simultaneously and give your tracks a powerful sense of dread

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“To get into the personal details, of why that didn’t necessarily sync up, just didn’t seem like it was going to benefit anybody”: Nate Mendel of Foo Fighters explains why the reasons for Josh Freese’s sacking were kept vague

But Freese says “no one should feel sorry for me”

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“The little idiot”: Dave Davies hits back at Moby calling Lola “unevolved” and “transphobic”

And he quotes Jayne County’s thoughts about the song

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“On the spur of the moment I said, ‘I’m going to do the backing vocals in Spanish’”: How The Clash created an iconic ’80s hit that’s lived on thanks to Levi’s, Kylie and Stranger Things

“It was just a good rockin’ song – our attempt at writing a classic”

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The most exciting synth we played at NAMM 2026 is now available to order

DMNO is a polyphonic, multitimbral hybrid analogue/digital synthesizer from UDO, the British brand behind Super 6 and Super Gemini

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“Some people think writing songs is like drawing from a well or picking apples off a tree. It’s more like a muscle you work out and develop”: Avalon Emerson evolves from club DJ to dream-pop auteur on Written Into Changes

From the DJ booth of Berlin’s Panorama Bar to the Balearic synth-pop of the Charm, Avalon Emerson is embracing the freedom of a borderless musical landscape

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“I knew that he liked me, and he would call me on the phone. ‘Robben, what you doing!?’” Robben Ford on how playing with Miles Davis made him feel untouchable

Ford wasn't a jazz player when he joined up with Davis in 1986 but he would soon learn – and it give him a sense of self-confidence that's with him to this day

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"A machine worthy of building your whole workflow around": Akai MPC XL review

The new flagship of the MPC range is a true production powerhouse

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“We wrote 24K Magic when Uptown Funk was No 1. So if you hear the same spirit in that song, that's why”: A decade on, we look back at the musical theory and retro gear that shaped Bruno Mars’ 2016 classic

Exploring how one of Bruno Mars’ biggest tunes works on a musical level - and revealing its debt to the 1980s

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