“I get on the phone and say, ‘Bernie, what does Marconi plays the mamba mean?’ He goes, ‘I have no idea. But it sounds good to me'”: It’s not just you – even the people who wrote and sang Starship’s We Built This City didn’t understand all the lyrics
“He was sitting next to Alanis, and she said, ‘What are you going to do when Dave asks you to be his drummer?’ And he said ‘Nope, baby, I love you. I would never'”: Dave Grohl on how the Foo Fighters poached Taylor Hawkins from Alanis Morissette
“It was like, ‘How would Kraftwerk do Chuck Berry? OK – that sounds pretty good; let’s do that’”: James Walbourne shares the thrill of reimagining Chuck’s greatest songs
Newly unearthed and never-before-seen video footage shows Amy Winehouse playing acoustic guitar as she sings early demo versions of songs for Back to Black
“This is a song for all the sane people on both shores who know that the current madness will pass, and that Lake Ontario will always be Lake Ontario”: Bryan Adams slams Donald Trump in patriotic protest song
“Our present drummer is atrocious!”: Brian Jones’s 1962 letter to Charlie Watts, in which he asked him to join the Rolling Stones, to be auctioned at Sotheby’s in December
Behringer Kick is an MPC-inspired sampler designed with vibe-coded firmware at its core: Is this really the future we want for music tech hardware?
“It’s not an ego thing, but I wanted to be somewhere where I could be one of the main guys on a roster”: Trivium’s Matt Heafy on why he’s switching to Jackson, his passion for passive pickups and the redemption of The Crusade
Apple goes all in on AI with Logic Pro 13, introducing an intelligent assistant that can control your DAW
“We made The Modern Age EP in a weekend – I never even expected it would be heard by the public”: Gordon Raphael remembers making The Strokes’ bidding war-triggering debut EP
“I remember thinking: ‘Something’s off with the tone.’ I pulled up the Fortin Amp, used by Meshuggah, and then it all just clicked”: How The Scratch mashed Irish folk and metal with distorted acoustics – and won over Iggy Pop
“Someone came up to our drummer and said, ‘You better start playing some funky music, white boy’”: The exact moment Wild Cherry’s biggest hit was born
“The technique I’m using is coming from my wrist, and it creates two sounds. And for that song, you just need that one specific sound”: Anika Nilles on how she had to adapt her technique to emulate Neil Peart’s Rush performances
“When we did Paint It Black, and it was kind of finished, and we were listening in the studio, I said, ‘There’s not enough balls’”: Bill Wyman recalls his unorthodox but vital contribution to a 1966 Rolling Stones classic
