“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
“I’m really bored of music that sounds like privileged melancholy”: We catch up with Liverpool’s indie legends The Coral
“I always said I was a genius, but nobody listened”: Previously unseen archive of pre-Smiths Morrissey correspondence heads to auction
“This is the real deal”: $500k Yamaha CS-80 claimed to have belonged to Vangelis goes up for sale on Reverb
“We had long debates about how long we should keep George’s bum on screen”: Director Mike Christie tells us how his revelatory new Wham! film exposes a lot more than just a moment of cultural change…
“A holy grail artifact from the peak of their stadium-rock dominance”: Eddie Van Halen’s old guitar tech and a superfan have helped put together ‘the ultimate Van Halen guitar auction’
“It’s magical”: Dhani Harrison and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich form new band and announce debut album
“Clearly not the same as the original”: D’Addario under fire for allegedly faking its response to AI accusations
“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 video games console
“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 album – explored by modern blues star Samantha Fish
“You can usually hum your favorite songs. A lot of virtuosic players these days write music most people would struggle to sing back”: Meet Opal Ocean, the Aussie duo reimagining flamenco guitar
“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 ’90s Casio toy keyboard made the intro to Travis Scott’s Sicko Mode
“The original owner was a schoolteacher. It had been under her bed for 15 years in its case”: How a forgotten 1969 Jazz Bass became the go-to studio instrument for one of London’s top session bassists
The most difficult job in guitar maintenance? How to make and install an ES-335 wiring harness – and why it’s easier than you think
“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”: Jackson Browne on his classic album The Pretender and its tragic backstory
“That’s one thing I don’t like… It’s a completely different scene”: Jimi Hendrix never understood why people pitted him against Eric Clapton
“Somebody handed me a ’59 Les Paul and said, ‘That’s yours to play.’ I went from poverty one minute to having the world’s ultimate guitars in my care”: The underrated Stone Roses guitarist whose life changed completely after landing the highly-coveted gig
“I tried to play rock stuff. I didn’t particularly like jazz – I couldn’t hear what was happening in it”: The pioneering jazz guitarist who bridged Jimi Hendrix and Wes Montgomery – and was gone too soon
