The pedal that changed me – I asked the Guitar World staff to name the stompboxes that actually made a difference to their playing
Suno scraped millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer and stock music libraries, according to hacked data
“It was the first time David committed a self-composed song to wax. At the end of the session, Jimmy said ‘Well, it’s definitely not going to be a hit.’ And he was right”: When Jimmy Page and David Bowie collided, pre-fame
“When I first played Jump for the guys nobody wanted anything to do with it. Dave said I was a guitar hero and I shouldn’t be playing keyboards”: The story of Van Halen’s 1984, and the end of the David Lee Roth era
“The bridge is Deftones. They still sound really good to us now. From there we found shoegaze”: Meet Ulrika Spacek, the nu-metalheads who transformed into hypnotic ’90s alt-rockers
“I remember the three of us thinking that it was an absolute stroke of genius that we’d just come up with the most idiotic idea ever”: Mike D talks about the Beastie Boys’ fallout with Russell Simmons and that hydraulic prop
“I didn’t even want to put it on the album because I thought it was too mushy. Linda Ronstadt goes, ‘Are you out of your mind? That’s a hit record!’”: Billy Joel on the classic ballad that Paul McCartney wishes he’d written
Behringer’s AKS Mini is a £99 mini-synth inspired by the EMS Synthi AKS, a classic synth used by Pink Floyd and Brian Eno
“If anything, it was tamed down… he wasn’t at 100% – that was maybe 60%”: We speak to Future Islands about THAT Letterman performance, the internet’s OTT reaction – and their new collection of rarities and B-sides
“Peter and I were in a car and he started humming this melody. ‘What’s that?’ ‘Oh, that’s a song I wrote.’ I mean, Peter never wrote a song in his life! But he sings, ‘Beck, I hear you calling…’” Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley on the Kiss classic Destroyer
“This is is 1000% going on every single mix”: Baby Audio’s SubCulture is a pitch-tracking bass enhancer designed for “massive low-end”
“If I didn’t have AutoTune, I probably wouldn’t have a career, to be honest. I certainly would have less hits”: Pop producer Ian Kirkpatrick on the importance of AutoTune, and how it enabled him to use a Dua Lipa demo vocal on a finished track
“I did get some bad reviews. Some people called me ‘the guy who ruined the Pretenders’”: Robbie McIntosh on his trial by fire when he replaced the late James Honeyman-Scott
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