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“I tried to write a love song that wasn’t corny, that didn’t sound stupid or lame the way many do. I think I succeeded”: How Talking Heads crafted the delicate beauty ...

Both one of Talking Heads’ most out-of-character compositions and their most emotionally resonant, This Must Be the Place continues to cast its spell over listeners ...
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"Of course I knew this device would be controversial": ChatDSP generates instruments and effects in Max for Live from text prompts - but now even its creator is asking if …

Bastan’s latest creation is ChatDSP, a M4L device that makes it possible to create any instrument, audio effect or MIDI ...
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“I urge them to reconsider and step up to help the next generation of talent”: Minister’s message to Live Nation’s dawdling over £1 arena and stadium levy

The minister Ian Murray was speaking to NME about the levy – a £1 surcharge on tickets for arena and stadium gigs that goes ...
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“We do not ever want it to be like we’re going through the motions or we’re having to run on empty. We’re going to do 20 shows each year. No more, no less”: Radiohead ...

That’s according to no less an authority than Ed O’Brien, who in a new interview with Rolling Stone has said that the band are going to repeat the idea in other continents – ...
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Would you buy “one of the greatest rock albums of all time” from this man for $2 million?: Meet the ex-Kiss guitarist asking one lucky fan to pay to manufacture and sell ...

That individual is Vinnie Vincent, one-time guitarist with Kiss. Just before Christmas, Vincent announced the idea for his brilliantly-titled new album Guitarmageddon. He would se ...
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"The numbers are going backward": New report finds that 2025 saw "no progress" for women in music

The percentage of women credited as songwriters in the Hot 100 decreased from 18.9% in 2024 to 14.5% in 2025 – a ratio of 5.8 male songwriters to every one woman ...
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“Fans are consuming music from the artists they love in more ways than ever”: US vinyl sales hit the $1 billion mark for the first time in over 40 years

The vinyl revival still shows no sign of stopping – it’s been reported that US sales of records have topped $1 billion for the first time since 1983. According to the Recording Industry Association of ...
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“I find it amazing that people are singing along in such a celebratory way about being involved in a car crash”: We speak to The Smiths’ producer Stephen Street and lear…

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out remains one of The Smiths’ most heartbreaking songs - a near-perfect example of the ...
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“People never believe me that Kraftwerk created Atomic Kitten”: OMD’s Andy McCluskey says that it was an electronic music legend who advised him to form the …

You might be aware that the driving force behind ‘00s UK girlband Atomic Kitten was Andy McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres ...
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“At least I'm a record holder of something!”: Songwriter Diane Warren is out on her own as the most nominated person not to win an Oscar as KPop Demon Hunters’ G…

Warren had previously been tied on 16 with sound mixer Greg P Russell for the most Oscar nominations without a win, but now ...
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"How real can drums feel inside a plugin?": Klevgrand promises to "redefine what a drum sampler can be" with OneShot 2

OneShot 2 features a new Motion Engine designed to create phrases that "breathe and evolve" by morphing through multiple ...
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“At least three albums with people who are a few of my favourite artists of all time... I’d say 95 percent of the work I’ve done was unpaid”: James Blake on the hit and ...

James Blake released his seventh album, Trying Times, last week. But according to the Enfield-born producer there’s a whole ...