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Featuring recordings from six avant-garde guitarists and produced by Randall Dunn, Ruins explores how "sound can degrade with purpose, and how decay itself can be compositional" ...
When asked by The Times why Starkey was then sacked, reinstated and then sacked again, Daltrey countered by saying: “Pete and I retain the right to be the Who. Everyone else is a session player. You ...
Terry Reid, the guitarist, singer and songwriter who was so determined to forge his own path that he turned down offers from Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, has died, aged 75, following a battle with ...
“The sound I was going for was like the classic sort of garage and bassline sound,” he explains. “All the R&B acapellas were sped up, so the runs and vibrato and the slides in the vocals were kind of ...
The Vintage model has oodles of clean headroom, but if you want something gainier, the Rock version takes things up a notch ...
All successful artists feel burdened by the necessity of playing the hits, or in some cases THE hit, the one that launched their career and catapulted them into the public consciousness. Some, with ...
Kali is clearly marketing the HP-1s at both music professionals and casual punters. It has wired connection via a 3.5mm jack as well as a Bluetooth connection. And whilst the company claims the ...
It might seem an obvious winner now, but Madonna’s Vogue was at first the speedily and cheaply-built flip side to an entirely different single ...
The alt-pop icons delve into the making of their final record and explain why now is the moment to call time on their career after 35 years of music making ...
Auto Filter is easily one of our most used devices in Ableton Live. It's long been a workhorse tool ideal for shaping sounds, blending elements in and out of arrangements and manipulating tracks for ...
Will Simpson is a freelance music expert whose work has appeared in Classic Rock, Classic Pop, Guitarist and Total Guitar ...