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“I think we’re on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying”: When David Bowie predicted how the internet would change the state of music and content forever
Bowie’s staggeringly prophetic 1999 Newsnight interview revealed his astute awareness of how the internet was on the verge of irreparably changing popular culture
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December 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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“I wanted to call it Taylor’s Version. I lobbied very much to the record company”: John Fogerty has 'done a Taylor Swift' and re-recorded 20 of his greatest songs, note-for-note
Get ready for The Creedence Clearwater Revival revival...
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December 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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"The answer might sound a little boring, but it's probably my iPhone": Modeselektor on their go-to instrument, this year's DJ-Kicks mix and why the 808 is still the "sexiest drum machine ever built"
Based in a new studio, Berlin’s favourite sonic troublemakers crash the DJ-Kicks series with a shape-shifting techno-industrial mix. We sit down with Sebastian Szary to find out more
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December 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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"There is no getting around the fact that he repeats the phrase 'simply having a wonderful Christmastime' 17 times": A music professor breaks down the theory behind Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime
Our resident music professor takes on McCarney's divisive festive classic
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December 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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“The greatest rock ballad of all time!”: The classic song that set a record by holding the number two spot in the US for 10 weeks without ever hitting the top
But at least the album made it to the top
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December 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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“There’s something to that song that touches people. I don’t know what it is but I’m really glad it happened”: The classic Fleetwood Mac hit that Stevie Nicks wrote in just 10 minutes!
Nicks’ performance of the song on stage every night “was like an exorcism”
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December 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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“He said ‘Look, I want you to take all those albums and destroy them'”: Why did Prince abruptly retract his new album days before release in 1987?
A record allegedly driven by supernatural forces, Prince swiftly disowned the stark funk of the Black Album - but what caused him to pivot so dramatically?
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December 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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“Right in front of his keyboard rig was the big symbol guitar. He looks at me, he points at it. I'm like, 'Hell no! I'm not touching that thing!”: D’Angelo was so in awe of Prince that he refused to play his guitar on the one occasion they shared a stage
Newly released audio features D’Angelo discussing the show, which took place in 1997
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December 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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“In operas, if you have a double aria, it's what the woman does that really matters. The man lies, the woman tells the truth": The story of Fairytale Of New York
MusicRadar looks back on one of Shane MacGowan's most enduring and beloved achievements
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December 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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“I have only flashes of making it. I was personally going through a very bad time”: How a disillusioned and drug-addicted David Bowie reinvented his music with a groundbreaking song he could barely remember recording
A dazzling epic that ushered in Bowie’s new persona, the Thin White Duke
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December 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Tell Me There’s a Heaven: Chris Rea has died, aged 74
Blues guitarist who became pop star had been suffering a short illness
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December 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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“Being a human being isn’t going to go out of style anytime soon”: Why Lady Gaga is unafraid of AI
Plus singer says she wants to record more jazz
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December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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“I'm 90% grammar police…. and then 10% I really couldn't care less”: Alanis Morissette reveals what she thinks is “the real irony” of the fuss caused by the lyrics in her 1996 hit
“I think the 10% won over on that song,” she says
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December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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“If I want a sound, I usually feel better if I've chased it and killed it, skinned it and cooked it”: The DIY attitude that drove Tom Waits’ finest album
Waits’ gritty Rain Dogs depicted a dark vision of New York’s underbelly, and was shaped by its ‘junkyard orchestra’ of inventive instrumentation
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December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Back To The Old House: Morrissey signs again to Warners subsidiary Sire
Ex-Smith was signed to the label back in the 1980s
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December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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“He's one of music’s great storytellers… who has shaped modern music for more than six decades”: Paul Simon among artists to be given Lifetime Achievement award at 2026 Grammys
Others include Chaka Khan and Cher
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December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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“I didn’t even realise it had synthesizer on it for decades”: This deep dive into a classic Beatles song reveals 4 synth parts that we’d never even noticed before
Anthony Marinelli’s video might change the way you listen to George Harrison’s ode to sunny positivity
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December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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“I was just playing along, and then, when the music stopped, I found myself still playing that riff”: How Tori Amos created her otherworldly hit song Cornflake Girl
Its memorable infectious hooks belie a dark lyrical core
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December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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“When we were mixing, he used to get so excited that I used to have to hold him down with one hand and try and carry on the manual mix on the desk with the other": The making of the Clash’s mature masterpiece, London Calling
How football, thrown ladders and destroyed pianos combined to create the "album of the 80s"
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December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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“Writing a Bond song is a bit of an accolade. I always had a sneaking ambition to do it”: How Paul McCartney reunited with ‘the fifth Beatle’ George Martin to create the classic Live And Let Die
It was the first rock song to open a Bond film
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December 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Thomann are giving away a pair of free tickets to next year’s Montreux Jazz Festivals
But you have to sign up to their mailing list
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December 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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“People have been imitating my sound for a long time, but now someone can type a prompt and make a song that sounds like Chris Lake – that's wild!”: Chris Lake on how AI is putting music-making “under threat”
One of house music’s most established talents., Chris Lake released his debut album this year after 20 years in the game. Danny Turner finds out more
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December 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Is pop music really getting dumber? A music professor explains what the science really says
Scientific studies claim that modern music has become simpler than ever before, both lyrically and musically. But are they measuring what really matters?
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December 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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“He was told it was over”: 10 years ago, David Bowie’s final and most poignant single saw him turn his own death into art
Bowie’s heartbreaking Lazarus was a rumination on the imminent end of a life lived to the full - and a lesson in how to channel the bleakest situation into enduring music
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December 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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AmenBreak VST is a break-slicing, sample-mangling junglist powerhouse - and there’s a free version
LET'S GO!
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December 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM