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“Yes, I know, I have no respect for an instrument. To me, it’s a piece of wood until you make it into a useful tool”: Steve Morse on the time he took power tools to his ...

Upper-fret access, the DIY way... Do not try this at home. But as the former Deep Purple guitarist explains, you can't stand ...
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“The Level Of Concern USB drive carries significant meaning for the band and its history”: Twenty One Pilots are hit by gear theft... again

“We are reaching out to sincerely request its return - no questions asked, and anonymity fully respected,” their message ...
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“The legendary JB tone, now reimagined for Telecasters”: Seymour Duncan might just have dropped this year’s must-have mod for your Fender Telecaster

One of the greatest rock humbuckers of all all-time, slimmed down to single-coil size to drop into your Tele's bridge ...
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“Nobody knew you could do that, we always try to do things to break the normal order”: More than 30 years before Teenage Engineering, Kraftwerk saw the future o…

Marking an album that foresaw the 21st century’s computer-addicted society, Kraftwerk dropped their own branded handheld ...
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“When we wrote the piece, it was a warning. I didn’t, honestly, in my heart, think it would ever happen”: Heaven 17 to release new updated version of (We Don’t Need ...

“When we wrote the piece, it was a warning,” Ware says in a new interview with Variety. “I didn’t, honestly, in my heart, ...
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Florian Schneider's Kraftwerk instruments go up for auction – including an EMS Synthi AKS likely used on Autobahn

The collection includes a "treasure trove of synths, drum machines, and vocoders" alongside an extensive number of historic ...
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Legendary producer Trevor Horn makes a surprise live appearance as he joins rising star Sophie Grey for a performance of Buggles hit Video Killed The Radio Star, singi…

Trevor Horn made a surprise live appearance on Friday when he joined Sophie Grey for a version of Video Killed The Radio Star ...
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"Michael picked up the music stand and threw it at the wall. He picked up a chair and threw it, too, then angrily pushed over a baffle": New book claims that Michael Jack…

In an extract from the book that Variety has run, Beck reveals that Jackson denied all intent, saying “It’s not antisemitic ...
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Antelope Audio drops free EQ plugin to celebrate the release of individual perpetual licenses for 75+ plugins

To mark the occasion, Antelope Audio is giving away a free plugin: MG4+. This is a 6-band EQ based on the Mäag Audio EQ4, a popular 500-Series hardware EQ. EQ4 is known for its Air Band functionality, ...
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“If I want a sound, I usually feel better if I've chased it and killed it, skinned it and cooked it”: The DIY attitude that led to Tom Waits’ finest album

Waits’ gritty Rain Dogs depicted a dark vision of New York’s underbelly, and was shaped by its ‘junkyard orchestra’ of ...
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“I didn’t think it was the most important album since Sgt Pepper. But I certainly knew saying that brought more attention to it, and more sales to it”: Sananda Maitreya ...

Sananda Maitreya, the artist previously known as Terence Trent D’Arby, is currently touring the UK and is about to have the ...
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“I fought tooth and nail for it not to be on the record, but Ed was, like, ‘If it’s not, I’m leaving’”: Radiohead on the resurgent OK Computer track that almost ...

That alone Thom Yorke found baffling. “I find that especially bizarre,” he said, "Because I fought tooth and nail for it not ...