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“I’m really bored of music that sounds like privileged melancholy”: We catch up with Liverpool’s indie legends The Coral

Made famous for their 2002 indie-pop staple Dreaming of You, the Coral continue to create spirit-lifting music decades on ...
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“I always said I was a genius, but nobody listened”: Previously unseen archive of pre-Smiths Morrissey correspondence heads to auction

The collection of letters were penned by the future Pope of Mope between the ages of 14 and 20, and expose the young Morrissey’s flair for the written word When you purchase through links on our site, ...
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"I pulled up the sound, played this chord and thought, 'whoa, I’ve never heard a crazy organ sound like that before'”: Rogét Chahayed on how a Kontakt preset based on a ...

From the eerie opening of Scott's biggest hit to Bruno Mars and Rosé's record-breaking APT., Rogét Chahayed breaks down the stories behind some of the most successful songs he's worked on When you ...
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“I think every guitar player spends a fair amount of time trying to figure out how the hell he did that”: The eternal power and strange magic of Jimi Hendrix’s debut ...

The debut album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience is many things. As contemporary blues guitarist Samantha Fish said: “Are You Experienced is historically important, innovative, and just such a creative ...
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"This is the real deal": £400k Yamaha CS-80 claimed to have belonged to Vangelis goes up for sale on Reverb

The seller claims the vintage synth was Vangelis' first CS-80 and can be heard on his 1977 album Spiral When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
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"It’s trivialised multitrack recording in the field in a number of ways, most impressively through its diminutive form factor": Tascam FR-AV4 field recorder review

The Tascam FR-AV4 is a four-track field recorder with its gaze levelled squarely at the audio-visual world. It’s a multimedia darling, with HDMI pass-through, sync and audio embedding – but for me, ...
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"The NES is basically held together with chewing gum and paperclips – it was a brutal experience": Emo band release chiptune remix album that’s only available on a retro ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Emo math-rock band Daydream Plus have released an 8-bit chiptune remix version of their debut ...
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“When Jaco and I first worked together there was nobody I’d rather hang with. There was an appreciation, a joie de vivre, a spontaneity”: How Joni Mitchell combined wit…

David Crosby called Mitchell “unquestionably the best of us” and recalled that during their brief relationship during the ...
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"Every note delivered as intended": Technics drops limited-edition wireless earbuds in collaboration with the Rolling Stones

Following the release of the Rolling Stones ' 25th studio album, Foreign Tongues, Technics has created a limited edition ...
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Suno scraped millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer and stock music libraries, according to hacked data

Media reports that in training its models, the AI music generation platform lifted at least "2,013,545 music clips" from ...
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“I wrote those songs before she died – with the exception of Sleep’s Dark And Silent Gate. That was written after. I guess that song could be considered cathartic ...

“Her death was a total surprise. Maybe it should not have been, but it was” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Singer-songwriter ...
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"If I was going away on a trip and could only bring one keyboard, I’d bring that one, because I know where every sound is blindfolded": Grammy-nominated producer R…

I have two walls of keyboards with about 30 or 40 synths, a Steinway and a Fender Rhodes - but this is my number one" ...