Kylie Minogue’s best records - by which we mean the pop/disco ones, of course - tend to be stuffed with big synth sounds, so getting them right for her live show is crucial. It turns out, though, that ...

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The artist’s latest album, “The Passionate Ones,” catches your weariness, and, with a dreamer’s irrationality, asks if you ...

Guitarist Felix Vogelsang reveals how he embraced a divisively finished baritone to cut down on the shred and change the way he approached the instrument ...

The higher the hair, the closer to God – or at least, in the case of Japanese pianist and composer Hiromi Uehara, to a ...

Avicii - real name Tim Bergling - had been engrossed by fusing genres since his earliest teenage production forays, tinkering ...

Recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, award-winning guitarist and composer Peter Sprague is working intensely on a ...

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Lady Gaga’s The Dead Dance arrives fully costumed and ready for the spotlight on 3 September 2025, the same day Wednesday Season 2 Part 2 drops on Netflix, and it wastes no time staking out a goth-pop ...

Even when they make music with words, Hand Habits’ songs are often more about the emotions lurking underneath. “The words behind the words,” is how Meg Duffy puts it, talking about the unique cadence ...

Is there such a thing as the “Whole Lotta Love” of synth riffs? Something akin to “Smoke On The Water”, “Iron Man”, or “Back In Black”? Some of you might put the very premise in the category of ...