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Monday October 6, 2025. 11:56 AM
quot “I think every serious fan of hard rock music would love Stargazer. It’s one of those all-time epic masterpieces. It’s Ritchie Blackmore in his most experimental mode”: How guitar hero Blackmore created his magnum opus with Rainbow
The legendary track that inspired Metallica, Opeth, Dream Theater and Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson
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his Novation launches Play, a free plugin for Launchkey Mk4 owners
Developed with Klevgrand, the instrument is packed with curated presets built on sounds from classic Novation, Sequential and Oberheim synths
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Sunday October 5, 2025. 11:00 AM
out “Some riffs just have that big swing to them. You can definitely hear that in the first Van Halen album”: How Wolfgang Van Halen created a new song with echoes of classic VH – and Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer
'It’s very much the kind of idea that mixes heaviness with funkiness”
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Saturday October 4, 2025. 01:00 PM
guitar “We wanted to make the barrier as low as we could": Sequential on designing the Fourm and continuing Dave Smith's legacy
With premium features and an entry-level price, Fourm is about to bring a whole new demographic into the Sequential family. We sit down with the company's CEO and Product Designer to find out more
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album “If the labels don’t start taking care of songwriters, there won’t be any anymore... I’m very, very scared for this next generation of writers”: Justin Tranter fires warning shot over the plight of songwriters
He says songwriters have lost out at the expense of streaming platforms
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one “Every time I would play it for somebody, they’d be like ‘Wow.’ It’s one of his classics”: Mariah Carey is miffed that her Michael Jackson duet is still unreleased
“There is an issue with his estate,” she says
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very “Along with Journey, REO Speedwagon and Foreigner, we’d been lumped-in with the whole Corporate Rawk thing. We weren’t ‘cool’": Steve Porcaro on the rise, fall and resurgence of Toto, working with Michael Jackson and his new solo album
'Yacht Rock! When I first heard that phrase, I groaned. But then I thought, ‘Who cares what it’s called? If it keeps people listening to some great music, I’m happy!''
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Friday October 3, 2025. 04:00 PM
how With the TR-1000 Roland has finally given analogue purists what they want – so can we move on from 808 and 909 clones now?
Roland’s latest drum machine looks great – and its ‘80s inspirations are undisputed classics – but can we agree we now have enough X0X emulations?
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pro audio "That's how the band took Ric's demos and turned them into Cars songs": The Cars are working on a new album using Ric Ocasek’s old recordings
New biography is out about the new wave band
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audio "Right away, I heard the Justice influence, the Franz Ferdinand coolness, The Cure’s vulnerability and softness. We were just an instant match": Lady Gaga on why she quickly gelled with "incredibly gifted" Mayhem collaborator, Cirkut
'His technical proficiency is astonishing but also extremely musical - his musicianship is so well-­rounded and rich,' she says
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music "It becomes very hard to put this guitar down": Strandberg Boden N2 Standard review
The next generation of the Swedish firm's headless guitar design has arrived; is this the guitar to finally convince the cynics to try one out?
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news “I realised the only way to go about it and get in was to take Bruce Springsteen out of it”: Jeremy Allen White on the challenge of becoming The Boss in Deliver Me From Nowhere
White plays Springsteen in forthcoming biopic
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proaudio "I got kicked out of the Grammys one time, when Herbie Hancock beat Kanye for Album of the Year... I was pretty drugged up back then": Mike Dean on being ejected from the Grammy Awards – and why next year could be his year
'I got kicked out of the Grammys one time': Mike Dean on losing Album of the Year to Herbie Hancock
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musician “It was my least-favourite song on the record and I didn’t think it should go on there. It felt throwaway”: How Sheryl Crow learned to love the song that became her breakthrough hit
“It’s this light pop ditty, but it’s about somebody down and out'
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studio “It started off sounding a bit like Prince. I wanted to hear something in my mix so I cut the snare and it changed the whole mood of the track": How George Michael accidentally created the ‘80s smash that inspired Taylor Swift on The Life of a Showg
“It ended up, in my mind, being the most original-sounding thing on the album,” he later said
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pro audio news "Remarkably the DTX Pro is capable of layering up to four individual samples - one more than Roland’s flagship V71 module": Yamaha DTX6K5-M review
The first mesh option for Yamaha’s DTX6 lineup offers larger pads and high quality sounds
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Thursday October 2, 2025. 07:00 PM
pro audio news headlines “Enough power to keep you in business for at least the next 10 years”: Apple MacBook Air M4 review
Apple's latest lightweight laptop makes a great case to be the centre piece of your studio
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quot “I was sitting outside playing guitar very badly to myself and he said: ‘Let me show you some shapes.’ I said: ‘Wow, you’re good!’”: When Jeff Beck gave Imogen Heap an impromptu guitar lesson she had no idea who he was
“A week later I got a message from my manager asking: ‘Did you meet Jeff Beck?’”
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his “Most pop music is just rubbish now, but we can get back to the way records were made back in the day, which have dynamics, and are pleasurable listens”: Legendary drummer Simon Phillips on his role as producer for progressive rock supergroup DarWin
“I love the sound of records. Good-sounding records”
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out “This is the amp that defined the sound of surf and early rock ’n’ roll”: Universal Audio is giving away its new UAD Showtime '64 Tube Amp plugin worth $149 for free
Placing the punchy, vintage tones of the Fender Showman in your DAW, Showtime '64 is free until October 31st
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