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“Klang.io promises to turn audio into notated transcriptions, lead sheets and guitar tabs – but does it actually work?”: Klang.io Transcription Studio review
“I’d been using Marshall for so long that I’d never listened to anything else. I never gave anything else a shot”: Slash on what made him finally change up his sound – and why we’re living through a renaissance for blues guitar
“We were part of the Manchester punk explosion – The Sex Pistols and the Clash were exciting and glamorous, we were quite avant garde”: Steve Diggle on the Buzzcocks’ surprising legacy and why he still relies on a 50-year-old solid-state amp
“He grabbed a guitar and strummed it. I said, ‘What the hell tuning is that?’” Charlie Starr on the joys of fingerpicking in Csus2 – the open tuning that doesn’t have a bad chord anywhere
“To call Led Zeppelin heavy metal is at the very least absurd and at worst a sin. To me, Zeppelin was the equivalent of great classical music”: Kiss stars Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons on why Zep and The Beatles’ debut albums are the greatest of all time
“I never even got as far as Riverside. But I lost her. She married some other guy. We’re still friends”: How Jimmy Webb’s classic song By The Time I Get To Phoenix found the right interpreter
“I’d argue that it was the single most important thing that happened in the history of MTV, because it saved young people’s lives”: The story of Soul Asylum’s classic ’90s hit Runaway Train and its amazingly powerful video
“At this price, it is hard to find a more complete portable digital piano”: Kawai ES120 digital piano review
“We kept trying to write one for 20 years, but they’re not very good, to be honest”: A Skyfall of Stars, anyone? Rare Coldplay recordings are being auctioned, including their early attempt at a Bond theme
“I avoid Splice as that’s what everyone else uses – I prefer to dig on the internet or rip from old sample CDs”: Yung Singh on his viral Boiler Room breakout and the Punjabi-influenced sounds behind debut EP Bloom
“I know we’re making twice as much money as Metallica, but can you please put ’em on after us, because they’re killing us?”: How a hair metal band’s dream gig turned into a nightmare
“We were on tour with Linkin Park when Chester Bennington got hold of Ivan and told him, ‘Bro, you’re going to rehab right now. You can do it’”: Zoltan Bathory recalls the intervention that saved Five Finger Death Punch and the life of singer Ivan Moody
“It’s a transcendental collision between American prog rock and Thai folk charm, straight from rural Phetchabun”: How Khun Narin pioneered Thai sound system rock using former US military loudspeakers
“The percentage of explicit songs on Spotify’s Top 50 chart has fallen from 74% in 2018 to 13% today”: New data reveals that explicit lyrics are in decline – but why?
“Who’s that girl playing the resonator guitars?” Billy Gibbons called Norman’s Rare Guitars looking for a young musician he’d seen online in the shop’s videos
“His son actually cleared the sample. I don’t know of him ever approving a sample – it’s quite rare, so I was very honored”: James Blake on sampling Leonard Cohen for Death of Love
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