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"Put some diapers on next time, y’all": Singer-songwriter Noah Kahan urges fans to take precautions or control themselves amid a growing rise in cases of people relieving ...

Other artists, including Olivia Rodrigo, have shared their concerns about performing to fans who have lost control of their bladders and bowels ...
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One more time: It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #15!

It's time to test your mighty musical brain with our weekly quiz on all that's been moving and shaking on the pages of MusicRadar this week. We send 10 cunning questions your way, designed to separate ...
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"You feel the music through your whole body. It's incredibly physical": Sander de Keere reimagines the church pipe organ as an 'ancient synthesizer'

Belgian composer, organist and musicologist Sander De Keere has signed to Brighton-based indie label Phantom Limb and released a new song titled Pt 6. Recorded on a faithful replica of a 1763 Contius ...
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“This one tip could change your musical outlook forever”: 10 music theory tricks every producer and songwriter should know

For today's free and easy music producers, the knotty business of music theory has always had a slight whiff of the uncool about it. Talk of Major and Minor scales conjure up images of dry, dusty, ...
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"Every note delivered as intended": Technics drops limited-edition wireless earbuds in collaboration with the Rolling Stones

Following the release of the Rolling Stones ' 25th studio album, Foreign Tongues, Technics has created a limited edition ...
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"No setup, no pressure, just a safety net for the moments you can't plan for": Ever lost a great idea because you forgot to hit record? GhostTape is here to make sure that ...

This app for macOS continuously records up to 60 minutes of audio in a circular buffer in your Mac's RAM, so you never miss ...
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“If you understand the workings of a single channel then you’ve got the basics of the entire desk”: How to use a mixing console

While a mixing console may initially seem like an impenetrable maze of buttons, sliders and knobs, it’s actually a very simple to understand ‘what you see is what you get’ machine when you get down to ...
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“It was such a cliché. I knew I had to use it”: How a joke comment led Neil Young to create the rock anthem that inspired Pearl Jam and started a beef with Trump

It was an off-the-cuff remark from guitarist Frank ‘Poncho’ Sampedro that gave Neil Young the title for one of his greatest songs. When Young and his band The Restless were notified of the ...
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“We go back a long way with Martin, and there’s always a sense of adventure whenever we get together": U2 join forces with DJ and producer Martin Garrix for new single ...

Irish rockers U2 have teamed up with Dutch DJ and producer Martin Garrix to release Fireflies, a new single that was premiered during Garrix's headline set at Tomorrowland festival last weekend. The ...
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SampleRadar: 493 free Moog synth samples

One of the best-known names in synth history, Moog Music is the company behind a long list of iconic instruments, from the classic to the contemporary. That's why we've themed our latest free sample ...
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“We were running around the studio with as many things plugged in as possible just doing the worst sounds, trying to find the ugliest things”: How Charli XCX's producers ...

Charli XCX’s seventh studio album, Music, Fashion, Film, will be released on July 24, following up 2024’s world-dominating Brat project with a stylistic move away from the brash electro-pop of its ...
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“You’re watching a lot of this film through your fingers”: We speak to director Mike Christie about bringing Wham!’s groundbreaking 1985 China trip back to life in a ...

In April 1985, Wham! became the first western pop act to perform in China, winning over a people for whom the type of exuberant technicolor pop then dominating Western popular culture was entirely ...