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3+ hour, 34+ min ago (50+ words) Rick had a lot of pain in him and it came out in his more cynical songs, while the hurting and questioning in The Logical Song came from me: How Roger Hodgson and Supertramp fought their way to the top…...
“Look at AC/DC. Whatever was popular, it didn’t matter. It’s like McDonald’s. ‘We make the Big Mac and we make fries and we don’t care about doing sushi’”: Zakk Wylde on musical identity, jailhouse rocking with Ozzy and the return of Black Label Society
7+ hour, 34+ min ago (1977+ words) The maestro of the pinched harmonic and pentatonic blitzkrieg sits in to talk Engines Of Demolition, Randy Rhoads' greatness, and the origin of his style To accurately describe Zakk Wylde's playing style, his electric guitar tone, his ability to impress…...
“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
5+ hour, 34+ min ago (1833+ words) Like a Prayer saw Madonna ascend on both a thematic and musical level, but its provocative video pushed the buttons of the devout Much like her teenage hero, David Bowie, Madonna's career has been defined by change. From the hip…...
"They refused it and told me, either change the beat, change the tempo, take the talking out, take the whistling out, or we won't release it”: How Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo had to fight to release their 1983 classic
8+ hour, 29+ min ago (1231+ words) Love Is a Battlefield introduced the Linn Drum into mainstream rock But for whatever reason, Benatar's record company, perhaps nervous that her fourth album Get Nervous had seen a dip in sales, decide to add two new studio tracks to…...
“There was this guy who lived in the dorm, he was a great friend and an awesome artist and he actually made cool music with the computer, and it was like… ‘wait, you can do that?’”: Flying Lotus on early musical adventures, AI and more
22+ hour, 34+ min ago (1967+ words) FlyLo weighs in on Suno and talks us through the making of BIG MAMA, a chaotic speedrun of an EP that zooms through chiptune, breakcore and jazz fusion without looping a single bar Flying Lotus has never been one to…...
“Anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic. But because it is sugarcoated, it is accepted”: The song John Lennon called “the best I've ever written” – and Yoko Ono’s uncredited contribution
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (1701+ words) A lot of it " the lyric and the concept " came from Yoko" One morning in early 1971, John Lennon sat down at a Steinway upright piano in the bedroom of his Grade-II listed Georgian house at Tittenhurst Park, a 72-acre estate…...
“Mac’s death was an extremely traumatic experience for me. That was definitely a very key element and fundamental in my sobriety”: Thundercat on how losing Mac Miller made him change his life
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (376+ words) Rapper makes posthumous appearance on bassist's new album Thundercat has a new album out this week, Distracted. And the bass maestro known to his mom as Stephen Lee Bruner has been talking to Spin about it, singing on record for…...
“He obviously wanted to do something like that for Billie Jean and he did his own version of that groove”: John Oates agrees with Daryl Hall that I Can’t Go For That was the inspiration for one of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (512+ words) I told him: "Oh Michael, what do I care? You did it very differently," Hall previously said John Oates has reiterated a claim made by his former bandmate Daryl Hall that Michael Jackson took the groove from their 1981 hit I…...
"We didn't sit there and go, 'Let's make an album that's going to last 45 years or become a cornerstone of some rock music.' We were just having a great time”: Vinny Appice remembers his time with Ronnie James Dio
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (284+ words) Drummer played with him in Sabbath, Dio and Heaven And Hell Drummer Vinny Appice has been talking to Loudwire Nights about the various bands he played in with Ronnie James Dio: Black Sabbath, Dio and Heaven And Hell. The latter…...
“I spent my entire career searching for this, but it didn’t exist – so I built it for myself”: Can this $149 deck of cards help you write better songs?
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (655+ words) Reimagining Eno's Oblique Strategies for the modern songwriter and producer, Session Cards are pitched as a "hit-making system" that promises to "change how you write records" Whether you're a bedroom beatmaker or a top-tier songwriter, you've probably experienced writer's block…...