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“It’s not really about a blackbird whose wings are broken, you know”: The story of the Beatles' 1968 acoustic gem and its powerful subtext

At the very heart of the White Album, this tender Beatles masterpiece pulled from the classical music tradition and empathised with the American civil rights movement ...
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“When the computer came along, the magic was over because we didn’t play together anymore”: How technology ultimately killed Kraftwerk

Synth-pop was massive, the world was there to be taken, but then music technology exploded, and somehow the wheels fell off ...
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"Record everything all the time – and keep it all": 8 pro techno producers explain how they create their tracks

We delve into our In The Studio archive to compile the techno secrets behind releases on esteemed labels including Drumcode, ...
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“It was too long, too slow, too boring and it had a viola solo... It was the antithesis of a single”: Midge Ure talks us through the making of Ultravox’s iconic Vienna

“It was the antithesis of a single at the time,” Ultravox’s then-new frontman Midge Ure tells us, recently speaking to ...
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“It was the way for me to learn to approach the guitar a different way, because Jeff Beck was not an early influence”: Robben Ford on rearranging John Lennon, iconic ...

Two Shades Of Blues was conceived as a tribute to Beck and Ford's favourite amp builder, and it finds him exploring the Strat ...
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“It makes my productivity faster, better, more creative”: 5 production tips we learned from watching house producer Hammer create a track from scratch

Born in Belfast and now based in Glasgow, DJ and producer Hammer (aka Rory Hamilton) spent his formative years establishing ...
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Hip-hop progenitor Afrika Bambaataa dies at 68

Although Bambaataa played a significant role in the development of hip-hop, his later life was mired by child sexual abuse allegations ...
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“He struck it big, and we were all green with envy. It was terrible: we fell out for about six months. It was ‘He’s doing much better than I am.’”: When T. Rex opened ...

T. Rex's signature song was written and recorded while on a hectic US tour, and would be their only stateside hit ...
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“They’ve been turning up unexpectedly at random people’s houses”: Cryptic VHS tapes mailed to fans hints at a Boards of Canada revival

Youtuber MATTHS finds it increasingly harder to refute the connection between Boards of Canada and the cryptic VHS tapes that ...
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“I can identify any note. I'll say what it is or you can ask me what a note is and I'll sing it”: 8-year-old musician Lake Anthony challenges Charlie Puth to a ‘perfect ...

Kids with perfect pitch are having a moment. A week after Jay-Z casually dropped into conversation that his daughter, Blue ...
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"He started trying to play chords on it and he said ‘Malcolm! Bob! What’s wrong with this instrument? It only plays one note at a time!’": Dissecting the musical magic of ...

Apart from the drum intro, and the repeated Eb bass, the opening Clavinet line introduces an infamous and highly identifiable riff. It's no coincidence that it is wholly reliant upon the black notes ...
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"It's the DAW you love, redesigned around the only thing that matters – your tracks": Reason 14 launches in public beta

Reason 14 marks the first major update to the software since Reason Studios was acquired by AI music company LANDR in January ...