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“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 c…

The first time people started sampling was... who? It was rappers in the '80s and '90s. They were sampling records because ...
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With A Little Help From His Friends: Jack White joins Ringo Starr on stage for a performance of a Beatles classic after going Toto with Steve Lukather

Jack White joined Ringo Starr on stage for a version of With A Little Help From My Friends over the weekend in Louisville, ...
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Music studio complex opens in former nuclear bunker in The Hague

Subterra has transformed the Cold War-era bunker into a "cultural hub for upcoming and established musical talent" ...
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“I wanted to design something that would not only be capable of but excel at any tone I might need”: Prog metal trailblazer Misha Mansoor teams up with Neural DSP for ...

Misha Mansoor X collects three amps, virtual stompboxes, from the everyday to exotic granular and pitch-shifting effects, CabSims, EQs and more ...
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“100 per cent tour-worthy right off of the shelf, with bulletproof American construction”: All Rhoads lead to California as Jackson brings one of its most-iconic metal ...

A classic Jackson with a Seymour Duncan JB and ‘59 humbucker pairing, the American Series Rhoads RR24 is equally vicious with or without a Floyd, as Brandon Ellis and Jeff Loomis ...
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“They basically declared war on him after these shows were broadcast”: When John Lennon alarmed the FBI after platforming radical political ideas in a week-long takeover of ...

Lennon’s curated week of programming exposed viewers to some controversial figures - and drew the attention of the US government ...
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“When we went to record it, the record company said, ‘Man, they won’t play that, it’s too long.’ But we said, ‘We don’t care!’”: How the young Lynyrd Skynyrd ...

“When we went to record it, the record company and a lot of people who advised us said, ‘Man, they won’t play that, it’s too long.’ Cos songs could only be like two or three minutes, like the old ...
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“I was having some issues with three-hour shows and constant touring and stuff": Matt Cameron explains why he left Pearl Jam and insists that the final Soundgarden album is ...

“I was having some issues with [ Pearl Jam ’s] three-hour shows and constant touring and stuff,” Cameron added. “That’s definitely an art form unto itself, to be able to do those types of shows… I’m ...
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"It’s been such a privilege to work with Daphne’s sounds": Daphne Oram's centenary celebrated in compilation featuring previously unheard archival material

The album features original compositions based on samples of Oram's work by Cosey Fanni Tutti, Marta Salogni, TAAHLIAH, Arushi Jain and more ...
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“Players have asked us to push further – into more adventurous, exploratory delay and reverb”: Source Audio dials up the ambience with the Encounter – six reverbs, six ...

Not your garden variety delay/reverb, Encounter is described as a "fully-loaded vessel of atmospheric discovery" with presents players with presets, tap tempo, deep edits via the app and more ...
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“There was no middle eight, and ‘sail away’ was after every line – it drove me crazy, but there was something there”: The making of Enya's Orinoco Flow, the ...

In memory of Enya's longtime producer Nicky Ryan, we take a backwards glance at the ethereal earworm that launched her career ...
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“As soon as we played that, I screamed. I could tell right away that it was a smash”: Nile Rodgers breaks down how he and David Bowie made Let’s Dance

“I was staying at David’s house in Switzerland, and frankly, I was asleep,” he says. “He walked into my bedroom and said, ...