A record allegedly driven by supernatural forces, Prince swiftly disowned the stark funk of the Black Album - but what caused him to pivot so dramatically?

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Dec 23, 03:00 PM

“He said ‘Look, I want you to take all those albums and destroy them'”: Why did Prince abruptly retract his new album days before release in 1987?

A record allegedly driven by supernatural forces, Prince swiftly disowned the stark funk of the Black Album - but what caused him to pivot so dramatically?

Keyboard Magazine

Dec 23, 03:00 PM

“Right in front of his keyboard rig was the big symbol guitar. He looks at me, he points at it. I'm like, 'Hell no! I'm not touching that thing!”: D’Angelo was so in awe of Prince that he refused to play his guitar on the one occasion they shared a stage

Newly released audio features D’Angelo discussing the show, which took place in 1997

Keyboard Magazine

Dec 23, 01:52 PM

“In operas, if you have a double aria, it's what the woman does that really matters. The man lies, the woman tells the truth": The story of Fairytale Of New York

MusicRadar looks back on one of Shane MacGowan's most enduring and beloved achievements

Keyboard Magazine

Dec 23, 10:10 AM

“I have only flashes of making it. I was personally going through a very bad time”: How a disillusioned and drug-addicted David Bowie reinvented his music with a groundbreaking song he could barely remember recording

A dazzling epic that ushered in Bowie’s new persona, the Thin White Duke

Keyboard Magazine

Dec 23, 10:00 AM

Monday December 22, 2025. 05:31 PM

Tell Me There’s a Heaven: Chris Rea has died, aged 74

Blues guitarist who became pop star had been suffering a short illness

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Dec 22, 05:31 PM

“Being a human being isn’t going to go out of style anytime soon”: Why Lady Gaga is unafraid of AI

Plus singer says she wants to record more jazz

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Dec 22, 04:20 PM

“I'm 90% grammar police…. and then 10% I really couldn't care less”: Alanis Morissette reveals what she thinks is “the real irony” of the fuss caused by the lyrics in her 1996 hit

“I think the 10% won over on that song,” she says

Keyboard Magazine

Dec 22, 03:39 PM

“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 drove 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 inventive instrumentation

Keyboard Magazine

Dec 22, 03:00 PM

Back To The Old House: Morrissey signs again to Warners subsidiary Sire

Ex-Smith was signed to the label back in the 1980s

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Dec 22, 02:28 PM

“He's one of music’s great storytellers… who has shaped modern music for more than six decades”: Paul Simon among artists to be given Lifetime Achievement award at 2026 Grammys

Others include Chaka Khan and Cher

Keyboard Magazine

Dec 22, 01:59 PM

“I didn’t even realise it had synthesizer on it for decades”: This deep dive into a classic Beatles song reveals 4 synth parts that we’d never even noticed before

Anthony Marinelli’s video might change the way you listen to George Harrison’s ode to sunny positivity

Keyboard Magazine

Dec 22, 01:33 PM

“I was just playing along, and then, when the music stopped, I found myself still playing that riff”: How Tori Amos created her otherworldly hit song Cornflake Girl

Its memorable infectious hooks belie a dark lyrical core

Keyboard Magazine

Dec 22, 01:00 PM

“When we were mixing, he used to get so excited that I used to have to hold him down with one hand and try and carry on the manual mix on the desk with the other": The making of the Clash’s mature masterpiece, London Calling

How football, thrown ladders and destroyed pianos combined to create the 'album of the 80s'

Keyboard Magazine

Dec 22, 11:48 AM

“Writing a Bond song is a bit of an accolade. I always had a sneaking ambition to do it”: How Paul McCartney reunited with ‘the fifth Beatle’ George Martin to create the classic Live And Let Die

It was the first rock song to open a Bond film

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Dec 22, 10:00 AM

Sunday December 21, 2025. 09:00 AM

Thomann are giving away a pair of free tickets to next year’s Montreux Jazz Festivals

But you have to sign up to their mailing list

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Dec 21, 09:00 AM

Saturday December 20, 2025. 11:00 AM

“People have been imitating my sound for a long time, but now someone can type a prompt and make a song that sounds like Chris Lake – that's wild!”: Chris Lake on how AI is putting music-making “under threat”

One of house music’s most established talents., Chris Lake released his debut album this year after 20 years in the game. Danny Turner finds out more

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Dec 20, 11:00 AM

Friday December 19, 2025. 04:10 PM

Is pop music really getting dumber? A music professor explains what the science really says

Scientific studies claim that modern music has become simpler than ever before, both lyrically and musically. But are they measuring what really matters?

Keyboard Magazine

Dec 19, 04:10 PM

“He was told it was over”: 10 years ago, David Bowie’s final and most poignant single saw him turn his own death into art

Bowie’s heartbreaking Lazarus was a rumination on the imminent end of a life lived to the full - and a lesson in how to channel the bleakest situation into enduring music

Keyboard Magazine

Dec 19, 02:22 PM

AmenBreak VST is a break-slicing, sample-mangling junglist powerhouse - and there’s a free version

Let's go!

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Dec 19, 01:26 PM