“I’ve been incredibly busy making music… I suppose I’m going to have to share some of it soon”: Damon Albarn teases a new Gorillaz album “in four languages”
Plus he shares his thoughts on the Bob Vylan furore
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“I’ve never fully gelled with Logic and Pro Tools – they kind of feel like Microsoft Excel to me”: Jacques Greene and Nosaj Thing on the making of their new collaborative project, Verses GT
As two mainstays of modern electronica unite as Verses GT, we hear about the Sequential synths, $20 plugins and Eurorack gems behind...
“If you want to turn sweet sounds into ear-splitting discordance, this is the plugin”: To mark Plugin Week, here’s our pick of the most out-there sound design plugins you should add to your collection
From wonky reverbs, complex motion designers and dehumanisers, this assortment of tools will take your music into places you never t...
“It makes it sound like the music that I grew up on – the music that made me fall in love with dance music”: Why Silva Bumpa created his own R&B instrumental just to remix it into the garage-inspired Feel Da Same
Watch the rising UK artist break down his energetic track with vocalist Carla Monroe
“It was confusing to me, even when I did the record. I didn’t know that I was playing it in the wrong place”: Guitarist Daryl Stuermer on why Phil Collins had to set him straight when they were recording In The Air Tonight
“And then he put on this drum fill, which changed everything,” he says of the song's production
“It was not necessarily the record that in my mind I had planned on, but that’s the way creativity works”: Springsteen explains why he “wasn’t happy” with Born In The USA
Plus he confirms a new album of original material is already in the can
“It’s a $20 plugin… I love it because sometimes the problem with digital sounds is they just lack a little bit of character”: Steven Wilson reveals the plugin that’s on “almost all” the guitars on his new space rock epic
And it turns out it is the same affordable plugin Finneas used on Billie Eilish’s Barbie track, What Was I Made For?
“It’s acoustic, it’s electronic, it’s in flux and it’s great”: Sonicware Liven Evoke review
Sonicware’s latest synth uses a Flux Oscillator that will take you and your tunes back to the future
“It’s disorienting, impractical and slightly dystopian – but it’s like nothing I’ve ever done before”: I tried making music in VR and I’m never going back
Virtual reality has never been more accessible, more versatile, or more deserving of a place in your set-up
“It’s great for squeezing energy out of lacklustre ambient sounds”: Our pick of the very best VCA compressor software emulation plugins for any music project
Our resident mixing expert Jon Musgrave, serves up his go-to toolkit for compressing with the best of them
“It’s kind of gothic post-punk… it went by the wayside”: Spandau Ballet drop a lost early track for new box set
Everything Is Now 1978 - 1982 covers band’s early New Romantic years
“It’s policing Black music… Hip-hop was born from sampling. And now sampling is synonymous with theft”: Lizzo argues that the origins of sampling law are “racially charged”
“The first time people started sampling was... who? It was rappers in the '80s and '90s. They were sampling records because they did...
“Its authenticity is beguiling, as is its playability”: Rhodes Wurli review
If you prefer the sound of a Wurlitzer to a Rhodes, you’re in luck, because Rhodes now bring us a Wurli, in plugin form. Confused? W...
“Kudos to Akai’s software team”: Roger Linn uploads video that praises the MPC Live II as “the ultimate looper”
He works up a track in just two minutes
“Learning how to mix is almost as important as hitting on your original musical idea”: New to the mixing process? Start here
Don't let a brilliant song be swallowed up in a bad mix by following our guide to the central principles of the process
“Liminal is set in the borderlands between song and non-song (or ‘nong’ as we call it)”: Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe’s new album in their own words
Apparently, new album contains 11 new ‘nongs’ "exploring an intimate and unfamiliar new sonic world"
“New look, new display, new features, proper MIDI out – this is a big update and we truly rate it”: Novation Launch Control XL 3 review
Novation’s Launch Control XL Mk 3 features a revamped design, more control and improved connectivity
“One of the executives at Warner Records said, ‘David, you are your own Yoko Ono’”: David Byrne on alienating his audience, Talking Heads and a sideline in stand up comedy
Plus when Lou Reed was gorging himself on ice cream
“People may not realise how special it is for me to hear my dad talking or to see him”: Yoko and Sean Ono Lennon announce new Lennon box set
Power To The People covers early New York years
“Roger went absolutely nuclear, apoplectic. He had every right to”: Producer Bob Ezrin reveals what led him to fall out with Roger Waters over The Wall
He was too trusting with a journalist, apparently
“She thought anything could be pop – she wanted pop to be pushed to its extremes”: Sophie’s brother and studio engineer talks completing her final album and the legacy she left behind
We sit down with Ben Long to talk through the making of Sophie's posthumous final project and gain a rare insight into the creative...
“Some of this stuff is harder to get hold of than rare analogue synths”: Why we’re in the midst of a vintage software revival
Meet the musicians that archive, compose and perform with obscure and abandoned music software