“A refreshingly simple interface with excellent audio fidelity and some extremely handy features”: Solid State Logic SSL 1 review
“The schoolgirl thing was hers. At the time I made that video, I was a 40-year-old British guy – I had no idea what was going through the mind of a 16-year-old American girl!”: The director of Britney Spears’ Baby One More Time video looks back
“Bill brought it in and it was a one-minute-long country and western song. It took us forever to figure out the arrangement and who was going to play what”: How REM turned a simple idea into a classic song of life-affirming power
“Just cos I don’t like something doesn’t make it bad. I’m sorry. I can’t do more than more than like a minute and 17 seconds of that”: Doja Cat offers a refreshingly honest take on Ella Langley’s Choosin’ Texas
“Rick Rubin’s mansion wasn’t a studio – it was a house that got wired up to sound incredible”: Will Yip explains to us how he built his dream studio with a little influence from Rick Rubin
“Would prog music have happened without the synth? I’m not sure it would”: Rick Wakeman on the vital significance of the synthesizer to music history
John Mayer honours Dolly Parton with a tender electric guitar cover of I Will Always Love You: “This is what a life well-lived looks like, feels like, sounds like”
“In the ‘90s, I was eager to demonstrate that samples were a legitimate form of making music – I wanted to articulate that in as many ways as I could”: DJ Shadow on his original mission statement and why he no longer puts the MPC on a pedestal
“If we do this correctly, I think this could be one of the best blues songs ever!”: How Joe Bonamassa and Kevin Shirley took an obscure Tim Curry track to a whole new level
“I sat on the toilet, with a mag in my left hand and my sax in my right and we did the takes there”: The genius – and unusual recording story – of Supertramp’s greatest song
“I told her it was very unusual for an agent not to be doing that”: Garbage’s Shirley Manson explains how Olivia Rodrigo brought the personal touch to her Daisy Chain Fields festival
