“Every time I played it, I got phone call after phone call. I thought I’d get howls of protest”: How turning a tear-jerking orchestral classic into an unlikely dancefloor hit launched William Orbit’s solo career
Spotify finally get tough on AI slop as platform adds ‘Persona Badge’ to mark out AI-generated ‘artists’
“I’m still disappointed when people hear the chorus line as ‘got to’ rather than ‘get to’”: How One rescued Achtung Baby and saved U2
“Oh, it was a nightmare. I was becoming physically sick just thinking of going to the studio each night. I used to love working with the band. By that point, I dreaded it”: The Beatles’ most trusted engineer on their studio tensions
“A worthy successor to one of the most recognisable synths of all time – but unlikely to replicate its predecessor’s iconic status”: Korg MicroKorg 2 review
“I will be restraining you, sir, if you do not stay seated!”: DnB producer Bou samples cabin crew’s altercation with angry passenger then invites flight attendant to his show
“I haven’t really listened to Rush music… I never stumbled into the catalogue”: Anika Nilles on her preparation for Rush’s 50 Something tour
“Everybody used to say how great Clapton was, but I remember saying to Eric, ‘You try playing that one riff for eight minutes!’”: How rock legends Status Quo stole a riff from The Doors and built an entire career out of it
“There are people in my band who are questioning whether they’ll perform it with me. And those people will be fired”: Boy George says he’ll sack any bandmates who refuse to play his ‘pro-Israel’ song We Will Dance Again
“Every time I played it, I got phone call after phone call. I thought I’d get howls of protest, but that wasn’t the case. Listeners were actually moved by it”: The story of William Orbit’s rework of Adagio for Strings and its chart-smashing trance remix
Peter Frampton met one of his favorite new guitar players at George Lucas’s birthday party: “It was weird looking out and seeing Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg looking back at us”
“Once I got one of those pedals, it was just like, ‘That’s the sound.’ It feels like your amp is about to explode”: Meet Friko, the Chicago indie darlings with guitar tones rigged to blow
“Imagine what Bucket faces every day, because he don’t talk to people. He talks with his guitar. And that’s pretty much it.”: Bootsy Collins on his friendship with oddball guitar virtuoso Buckethead
“Every artist that has played it goes crazy about it – it has been owned by two legends for a reason”: Up close with the Les Paul Custom that both Paul Kossoff and Eric Clapton owned
“It’s much less tension and pressure than directing a movie… It’s kind of our first heavy metal album”: John Carpenter on why he’s happier making music than films these days
Angine de Poitrine on why they’re one of 2026’s biggest success stories: “It would be presumptuous to think that it’s only about the music”
“The first three times I performed it in public, I burst into tears – because it brought back the intensity of the experience”: How Joni Mitchell wrote Woodstock – an era-defining song that spoke to a generation
