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“Thom and Jonny used to write together a lot. So when we got to rehearsals, they had their parts worked out and I used to be like, ‘Where do I fit into this?’”: Ed O’Brien on shaping his Radiohead role
“Mike McCready played the prototype during Alive and Even Flow live with Pearl Jam. How much more R&D truth can you get?” How signature models are really made – and how they can drive innovation in guitar design Mention the words ‘signature guitar’ and you will usually provoke one of two distinct reactions. Some see the ultimate expression of an artist’s …
Price Mortgage Highlights Zero Lender Fees to Combat Rising Housing Costs in Phoenix and Nationwide
Price Mortgage introduces a pricing strategy that eliminates underwriting, processing, and application fees to save homebuyers an average of $1,500 at closing. GILBERT, AZ, UNITED STATES, September 2, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As persistent inflation, high property valuations, and elevated mortgage interest rates continue to create intense housing affordability challenges, Price Mortgage, LLC has announced a strategic initiative designed to provide immediate financial relief to homebuyers.
“We could play the same groove for a number of hours – Prince would walk in and out of the room saying, ‘Don’t stop! Nobody move!’”: Lisa Coleman on how Prince insisted on perfection from his Revolution bandmates
Woman, 21, Legally Adopts All 4 of Her Younger Siblings, Says They Finally Feel ‘True Peace’ (Exclusive) Baylee Laine was still in high school when she was left with a decision that would shape the rest of her life. Would she leave the situation she was brought up in, or would she step up for her siblings? Laine tells PEOPLE that her parents were separated by the time she was 5 and got divorced not too …
“James’s rhythm parts are insane. His right hand looks like it's not even moving – It's one of the most aggressive, precise things you've ever heard in your life”: Andrew Scheps on the complex legacy of Metallica’s Death Magnetic
James Hetfield. Whenever we discuss the so-called ‘loudness war’ here at MusicRadar, a key citation is often Metallica’s 2008 album Death Magnetic.
“When Kraftwerk became an institution we stopped being contemporary. Instead we became salesmen of nostalgia”: Karl Bartos reflects on the end of Kraftwerk’s golden era
Kraftwerk. The debt that today’s music world owes to Kraftwerk is beyond reckoning. That stretch of work that Germany's premiere man-machines released between 1974 (beginning with Autobahn) and culminating with 1981’s prescient Computer World is regarded by many as the foundation of modern electronic music. However, being a part of the band itself - and pushing at the frontiers of sonics, synthesis and technology - wasn’t always a thrill.
“When Kraftwerk became an institution we stopped being contemporary. Instead we became salesmen of nostalgia”: Karl Bartos reflects on the end of Kraftwerk’s golden era
2 hours ago Two free RSS readers, zero algorithms, and one very slow cup of coffee. Follow us on Google DiscoverAdd us as preferred source Almost every morning plays out the same in my home. Eggs for breakfast, and then a pour-over coffee that goes straight into the insulated Fellow Carter mug so I can stretch …
“It’s a sick, twisted song. I thought it was a love song. Just like all those people that get married to it not realising it’s a dark, demented track”: Stewart Copeland on The Police’s double-edged classic
The Police. If, for some strange reason, you’d never ever heard the Police’s Every Breath You Take before, and one day, you received a letter that contained the song’s lyric starkly printed in all caps, you’d almost certainly take it for a threat… Sting’s 1983 stalky-classic was the lead single of Synchronicity, the group’s final record. The song became the only US Billboard number #1 hit for the Police and their fifth UK chart-topper, fast becoming the group’s best-loved song.
“She said ‘You sing it yourself!’ There was frustration, for the first time and only time in our creative process”: The troubled making of Amy Winehouse's Tears Dry on Their Own
By placing her own turbulent personal life at the forefront of her songwriting, and honestly reflecting on her own anxieties (as her first album's title stressed) Amy’s openness had made these more traditional-feeling styles accessible - and exciting - to a young audience, bored of off-the-peg pop.
“She was pissed at me. She said ‘You know what? I’m going to try it because it’s you, but for real this is not going to happen’”: The troubled making of Amy Winehouse's Tears Dry on Their Own
By placing her own turbulent personal life at the forefront of her songwriting, and honestly reflecting on her own anxieties (as her first album's title stressed) Amy’s openness had made these more traditional-feeling styles accessible - and exciting - to a young audience, bored of off-the-peg pop.
“We have a vision that’s going to take us through multiple albums”: Meet Saint Clair - the artful four-piece that sound like a collision of Radiohead and Pixies
Delightfully out of step with mainstream indie's sprechgesang fixation (i.e, the talking/singing trend), Saint Clair's 23 year-old vocalist Toby Bardsley stretches his seriously ambidextrous vocal chords in every direction, making - as the old cliché goes - his voice into an instrument. Some have previously pointed out that Bardsley's acrobatic style sounds eerily similar to a young Thom Yorke.
“We have a vision that’s going to take us through multiple albums”: Meet Saint Clair - the artful four-piece that sound like a collision of Radiohead and Pixies
1984 One-Hit Wonder From a Soap Opera Star Became One of the Greatest Love Songs of All Time If you're going to tease legions of daytime TV fans as part of a band called Blackie and the Riff Raff, you better be able to back it up. Fortunately …
“Getting a noise complaint is essentially a death sentence for a grassroots venue”: The precarious state of Britain's small venues in focus
Getty Images. For new bands and artists, Britain's grassroots venue scene has long been key. But the classic evolutionary model of playing first to a small crowd of locals, then playing increasingly larger capacity spaces until you’re eventually selling out the biggest venue in your city is a pathway that seems harder than ever to navigate. There’s the fact that many grassroots venues continue to operate at a loss, with 44% unable to to turn a profit in 2024 rising to 53.8% in 2025.
“Lots of people say that song is gibberish. It's not. It's totally about that”: How Thom Yorke channelled his tour exhaustion into the track that saved Radiohead from oblivion
But Radiohead’s seemingly abrupt transition from angst-ridden, chart-bothering indie-proggers to Warp-adjacent electronic experimentalists still remains a tough pill for some to swallow. Even now in 2026, some Radiohead traditionalists find the transition from 1997’s OK Computer to 2000’s Kid A baffling - the moment when their once favourite band became something else entirely. With the rockier elements now just one part of a blended soup of synthetic and expanded instrumentation.
While everyone is mesmerised by its veiled mystery synth, Korg also sneakily launches a new effects-packed performance mixer, the NTS-4, at Superbooth
"Overall performance is high enough to make you wonder if it’s really worth spending any more": Soundcore Space 2 headphones review What is it? Just as with your clothes, it can feel like you’re making a statement when you put on your headphones in public, with others able to judge …
Is it a filter or is it an instrument? For Erica Synths, the answer is ‘Why not both?’ as it drops Resonant Filterbank at Superbooth 2026
Erica. SUPERBOOTH 2026: Erica Synths’ big launch at this year’s Superbooth is Resonant Filterbank - an analogue/digital performance and production-friendly effects unit which sports ten bandpass filters to squeeze and maximise your input sounds, cutting and boosting specific frequencies at will.
“I wasn't allowed to do that when I was on a label. They saw success in one song, and they thought, ‘We've got to replicate that’”: Emily Burns on shunning the majors and the freedom of becoming a self-releasing artist
Beloved by her devotees for her sharp and diaristic lyricism and irresistible hooks, the appeal of the Scotland-born Burns' work has been borne out by the aforementioned single’s 150 million streams, and upwards of 340,000 regular monthly Spotify listeners. But on the heels of her debut album Die Happy in 2024, Burns realised that being beholden to a label's direction was preventing her from being able to fully grow as an artist.
Got some loose change? Well, it might just be the starting point of your next electronic masterpiece if you stack it atop Soma’s Enigma – the synth that's controlled by metal objects
Soma. SUPERBOOTH 2026: This year’s increasingly essential synth expo Superbooth is set to begin in just a few days time, and we’re already foaming at the mouth in anticipation of some of the upcoming treats we’ll be getting our hands on when the doors open at Berlin’s Fez on May 7th. Chief among them, the tantalisingly unique Enigma from Soma Laboratory.
“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
The ‘let’s record everything you’ve got in one day’ production-ethos that had been relied upon to track the bulk of the Beatles’ debut (amazingly, just five years prior in 1963) was a far cry from the overdub-laden, exploratory production techniques applied to the Beatles late-60s work. By 1968, albums weren't just records of a beat combo's usual live set. These were now culturally significant statements.
How Boards of Canada brewed a serene genre-blurring classic
Boards of Canada, a Scottish electronic music duo, gained popularity in the 1990s for their nostalgic, atmospheric sound that blended various genres. Their third album, The Campfire Headphase, marked a departure from their previous work by incorporating more real instrumentation, particularly guitars. The track "Dayvan Cowboy" from The Campfire Headphase became a standout hit for the duo, showcasing a more melodic and rhythmic approach to their music.
“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
Oddly enough though, the imperious, classically-influenced song's appeal wasn’t immediately apparent to its writers when they first came up with it. They knew they had something special, sure. But a single? No chance. The title track for Ultravox’s make-or-break fourth album, Vienna would be the ultimate validation that the Midge Ure-led second coming of Ultravox was here to stay.
“It’s blasphemy on about ten levels at once”: How Madonna transitioned from pop to the profound with the Vatican-enraging Like a Prayer
1989’s Like a Prayer dug into Madonna’s own feelings of repressed guilt and the inherent contradictions between her Roman Catholic upbringing and her stature at the very summit of fame. The stuff of standard chart-fare Like a Prayer wasn't, but millions would soon regard this soul-stirring belter as Madonna’s strongest work to date. Part hymn and part ecstatic expulsion, the song, and its controversial video, also set a new, fearless manifesto for Madonna ahead of the looming decade. “It’s sad.
“When you start Like a Prayer, the guitar that you hear before the door slams, that’s Prince”: How Madonna transitioned from pop to the profound with a Vatican-enraging classic
1989’s Like a Prayer dug into Madonna’s own feelings of repressed guilt and the inherent contradictions between her Roman Catholic upbringing and her stature at the summit of fame. The stuff of standard chart-fare it wasn't, but millions would soon regard Like a Prayer as Madonna’s strongest song to date. Part hymn and part ecstatic expulsion, the song, and its controversial video, set a new, fearless manifesto for Madonna ahead of the looming decade. “It’s sad. It’s joyful. It’s carnal.
“Ken, our producer said ‘Look up there lads, look at the stars’. He literally said ‘Look at the stars’”: The fateful circumstances that led to Coldplay’s biggest ever song
This slightly purgatorial age has been bitingly described by some as being dominated by ‘big, festival-pleasing ballads about nothing’. A period in mainstream British rock history perhaps best exemplified by Travis’ singalong-stoking Why Does it Always Rain on Me? The outright victors of this period were a band who nailed and revitalised the populist anthem formula better than any other, taking their tranche of mass-appeal hymns to a truly global audience, including the US.
“You shouldn't even know about that. I’d rather not speak about it”: The contentious origin of the David Guetta monolith that brought Sia to mainstream attention
Wanting to retreat from the limelight, Sia decided to re-orient herself. Instead of pursuing musical success as an artist, she would pivot into being more behind-the-scenes figure, and lean into her abilities as a proficient pop songwriter. “I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I’m lucky, make a million dollars,” Sia told Billboard. It was an understandably alluring idea.
“I tried to write a love song that wasn’t corny, that didn’t sound stupid or lame the way many do. I think I succeeded”: How Talking Heads crafted the delicate beauty of This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
By the early 1980s, these punk-driven attitudes might have receded, but even the most innovative post-punk outfit would turn their noses up at songs which touched on what it means to actually be content. The angst of a bitter breakdown (Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart, for instance) was the more frequently-chosen avenue when addressing relationships. By 1983, Talking Heads had evolved from the scratchy art-rock angularity of their 1977 debut into the house band of the highbrow.
"A massive expansion of its abilities as a modulation and automation powerhouse": Bitwig Studio 6 review
At that time, many home producers had (by and large) gravitated either towards Ableton Live or Logic as their creative HQs. It was, therefore, an odd point to launch a new contender. But, in just a few short years, Bitwig Studio’s true aim was clear. Bitwig wasn’t really attempting to take on these big dogs of the DAW domain. Bitwig Studio wasn’t really intended to be your new professional mix edit station.
The story of Born Slippy, Underworld’s emotion-stirring dance classic
The sequel, set twenty years on from the first, explores the consequences of the heroin-fuelled hedonism and life choices depicted in the iconic original. In one of its most touching moments, one of the series’ beloved characters, Spud, looks upon Edinburgh’s Calton Street Bridge and suddenly flashes back to his youth - a memory of he and his old friend (Ewan McGregor’s Renton) in the mid-90s, gleefully running toward it to escape the pursuing security guards of a shop they’d just stolen from.
“It took like four minutes to write the chords, then like 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals”: How Sia made her self-destructive anthem, Chandelier
“I’ve never seen anyone write a melody and lyrics that fast,” said Chandelier producer Greg Kurstin on Sia’s songwriting abilities in an interview with Rolling Stone “She’ll sing it and write it and it happens in one motion, and then she’s revising. You’ve got to keep up with her, really.” Her 2011 collaboration with David Guetta on the vibrant Titanium was (for many unfamiliar with her solo work) the first introduction to Sia’s distinctive, powerful voice.
“This whole song came from a mistake”: The fateful circumstances that led to Coldplay’s biggest ever song
This slightly purgatorial age has been bitingly described by some as being dominated by ‘big, festival-pleasing ballads about nothing’. A period in mainstream British rock history perhaps best exemplified by Travis’ singalong-stoking Why Does it Always Rain on Me? The outright victors of this period were a band who nailed and revitalised the populist anthem formula better than any other, taking their tranche of mass-appeal hymns to a truly global audience, including the US.
The Leviasynth rises! Hydrasynth’s successor is finally here. Has ASM created one of the decade's best synths?
ASM Leviasynth. NAMM 2026: It’s been long-rumoured (mildly leaked) and giddily anticipated for years, and today every sound design-minded synthesist's prayers were finally answered as Ashun Sound Machines’ Leviasynth finally washed ashore to dwarf its (brilliant, we might add) digital wavetable polysynth predecessor, the Hydrasynth in terms of size, breadth and creative potential.
“You’ll smile broadly at the ease with which you can land on astonishing results”: Native Instruments Absynth 6 review
Famed for its ability to ‘mutate’ sounds in unpredictable ways, Absynth – after years of neglect – was sadly put out to pasture a few years back, with its fifth version being quietly sunsetted by Native Instruments in 2022. It left a hell of a mark though. Subsequent synths took their cues from Absynth’s semi-modular architecture and sound design-focused ethos. But, there was always something distinctly special about the calibre of sounds you could bring out of Absynth.
NAMM 2026: Rumours, predictions and live updates from the world’s biggest music technology show
NAMM 2026. NAMM 2026: Last year proved that the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California had fully restored itself as the global music technology trade show, following a bumpy few years which left its future hanging in the balance. In 2025, we were overawed by a reinvigorated Winter NAMM, and a more full-blooded comeback after its tentative return to its traditional January slot in 2024.
NAMM 2026: Rumours, predictions and live updates from the world’s biggest music technology show
4 hours ago The NIMA Gluten Sensor is 99% accurate at detecting gluten in your food. All it takes is three minutes. At CES 2026, one of the most promising health tech devices we spotted was Allergen Alert, a mini lab that can detect gluten and dairy in food. The only problem is that it's not currently available …
“This song sounds like a group of friends going their separate ways forever”: The story behind the 2015 dream pop gem that TikTok can’t get enough of
Beach House. If you’ve ever spent more than five minutes flipping your way around TikTok in the last few years, it’s highly likely you're familiar with the haunting Space Song by Beach House. Released over ten years ago as part of the Baltimore dream pop-duo’s fifth album, Depression Cherry, this highly emotive piece of music has become modern cultural currency. Typically used as the audio accompaniment to a range of memes and videos that mirror the song's underlying pain.
“I threw a party for John Lennon one night, and he sat there at the Moog for four hours making flying saucer sounds”: They set the boyband template, but also introduced the world to the synth
Monkees. BEST OF 2025: Join us for our traditional look back at the news and features that topped MusicRadar's charts in 2025. The Monkees occupy a curious place in the history of pop. They are in equal parts derided for setting the mold for the artificial boyband thanks to their manufactured, television-based origins, while in other quarters they're celebrated for seizing control of their own narrative, and writing some genuinely life-affirming pop classics.
The devastating personal pain behind one of Radiohead’s most affecting songs
MusicRadar and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. Pricing and availability are subject to change. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: YouTube/Radiohead BEST OF 2025: Join us for our traditional look back at the news and features that topped MusicRadar's charts in 2025.
“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?
Few had the power to make such a call. One man who did, was Prince. The infamous aborted record in question was originally intended to be the follow-up to Sign o' the Times. A title-less, completely black-sleeved, LP that is now universally known as the 'Black Album’. Slated for release on the 8th of December 1987, Prince pulled it at the eleventh hour. So, just what motivated Prince to ditch a record he'd spent months working on so close to the wire?
“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
It's tricky to remember my exact feelings on the album during that odd interstitial period before its defining context became clear, but I do recall listening to Blackstar multiple times during that rainy weekend. I was certainly captivated by the jazzier direction of musical travel, but I also definitely felt that there was a deeper theme that I was not quite latching onto - an elusive subtext that seemed to permeate its seven tracks that was just indefinable.
How Burial used a "rubbish, dying computer” and primitive audio editing software to make one of the most influential electronic albums of all time
First launched by Sonic Foundry in 1993, the software was eventually sold to Sony in 2003. It was this later Sony-branded version that Bevan used to craft Untrue. Melding disparate shades of proto-dubstep, skittering beats, cavernous reverb and slick downtempo, Burial’s sonic universe burrowed into the aural language of loneliness - eliciting visions of cold and unfeeling city streets and looming, liminal environments. It was a prime example of the 'hauntology' aesthetic.
The band hated the English lyrics and the record company didn't want to release it: How a song with no chorus became a no.1 hit
Generate Key Takeaways When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Bruno Torricelli/RDB/ullstein bild via Getty Images West Berlin, June 1982, and Mick Jagger looked out at the crowd assembled at the city’s Olympiapark Waldbühne amphitheatre. Playing here, in the still-divided Berlin, meant more than a usual show.
“No, your uploaded files do not earn royalties”: Tidal launches Tidal Upload, an artist-aimed free route to get independent music on its platform. There are cash incentives - but don’t expect any royalties
Tidal Upload. Last week, music streaming platform Tidal revealed a new function that has been designed to enable self-releasing artists to directly publish their music without the need for a middleman. Simply named ‘Tidal Upload’ this straightforward new function of the high-fidelity streaming service allows artists, songwriters and creative stakeholders the means to upload their own tracks to Tidal's listening service with no fuss.
“When it was finished, I collapsed in exhaustion”: How Moby carefully crafted Play and rescued his career
Ignoring the largely unfavourable reviews were those few who gave Play the benefit of the doubt in mid-1999, and discovered that, actually, it wasn't a shoddy record at all. Far, far from it. They'd soon be proved right. Though initially maligned, Play would, of course, become an inescapable phenomenon once propelled into the ears of the mainstream. It was smuggled into popular culture as a result of a canny decision to license its music across a wealth of advertisements and soundtracks.
“When it was finished, I collapsed in exhaustion”: How Moby carefully crafted Play and rescued his career
Foo Fighters, Lorde, And More Lead Mad Cool Festival’s Anniversary Lineup In 2026 For at least one weekend every summer, Madrid, Spain is the place to be when the Mad Cool Festival is underway. Next year, the milestone tenth-anniversary edition is going down from July 8 to 11, and today (November 10), the lineup was announced. The biggest names on the poster (in terms of font …
“I wasted a lot of time and money”: How Moby made the record that saved his career
MusicRadar and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. Pricing and availability are subject to change. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Lester Cohen/Getty Images Its tracks have graced innumerable adverts, trailers and soundtracks, but the emotion-stirring brilliance of Moby’s Play album was roundly ignored when first released back in May 1999.
“I wasted a lot of time and money”: How Moby made the record that saved his career
Lorde loses out, Addison Rae is in for best new artist, and more of the Grammy Awards nods and misses that had us cheering and/or scratching our heads. Listen here. The 2026 Grammy nominations were announced Friday morning, marking honors for artists such as Lady Gaga—who surpassed her own nomination …
“I remember sitting down with Roger and saying, ‘Roger, this is insane!’”: The strange lost album that Pink Floyd abandoned in 1975
Pink Floyd full band. With a recording canon hailed in the annals of popular music, Pink Floyd’s astonishing run of world-captivating 1970s albums did much to widen the scope of just what a commercially successful rock record could sound like.
“I remember sitting down with Roger and saying, ‘Roger, this is insane!’”: The strange lost album that Pink Floyd abandoned in 1975
A newly svelte Jelly Roll talks about how his marriage survived his infidelity Jelly Roll has shared a personal bit of information about his relationship with wife Bunnie XO. The country star recently appeared on the podcast “Human School” and opened up about a dark part of their past. “I don’t talk about this publicly at all, but one of the worst moments of my adulthood was …
UFOs! Mick Jagger! Cold War paranoia! The bizarre origins of one of the biggest hits of the 1980s
What Mick almost certainly had no conception of, was that he was about to directly influence the creation of a global smash hit song that perfectly bottled the hopeful spirit of Berlin’s citizens - and the fundamental absurdity of the forces underpinning the prevailing Cold War. First erected in 1961 to divide Berlin between its Western powers-controlled West side and its Soviet-ran East, the Berlin Wall was a microcosm of a divided Germany as a whole following the Second World War.
“That song wanted to be written! You don’t plan something like that”: Nena speaks to us about the making of her era-defining classic 99 Red Balloons
What Mick almost certainly had no conception of, was that he was about to directly influence the creation of a global smash hit song that perfectly bottled the hopeful spirit of Berlin’s citizens - and the fundamental absurdity of the forces underpinning the prevailing Cold War. First erected in 1961 to divide Berlin between its Western powers-controlled West side and its Soviet-ran East, the Berlin Wall was a microcosm of a divided Germany as a whole following the Second World War.
“I’m sure Carlos and I got in a full-blown fight that day”: How Interpol fought for success and lit a fire in indie rock with their best single
Having been re-energised by the sudden emergence of the Strokes, indie guitar bands (preferably with a New York flavour) were en vogue. Interpol, however, were anything but coat-tail hangers Musically, the band was directed by the assured hands of guitarist Daniel Kessler and expressive vocalist and lyricist Paul Banks. Operating within a uniquely shadowy universe that concocted a massive sense of scale via intricate, delay-soaked guitar, Interpol were musically captivating.
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