5+ day, 15+ hour ago (303+ words) Sponsor Content Created With Plugin Boutique Excite Audio Evolve Elastic Lite - FREE for a very limited time for MusicRadar readers with coupon MusicRadarElastic (ends 1st December) Black Friday is almost upon us, and if you've been waiting for the perfect opportunity to level up your studio without breaking the bank, this is your chance. End date: 1st December 2025 Check out FabFilter Pro-Q 4 at Plugin Boutique. UAD Mix Tape Pro lets you pick 10 plug-ins from a curated selection of 50 legendary UAD titles, including vintage compressors, EQs, tape machines, reverbs, and channel strips. Whether you want to craft memorable mixes, add analogue warmth, or experiment with creative effects, this bundle gives you the flexibility to build a personalized studio toolkit. End date: 30th November 2025 Check out Universal Audio Mix Tape Pro at Plugin Boutique. End date: 3rd December 2025 Check out u-he Diva at Plugin Boutique. End…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago (415+ words) You might want to crack a window open before playing this custom Les Paul. It is equipped with the late Spaceman's onboard smoke machine The custom Les Paul that the late Ace Frehley played on his last-ever tour with Kiss is headed to auction, and when we say "custom" we mean this is one of the Spaceman's electric guitars that modded with an onboard smoke machine. Forget coil-taps, top-wrapping the strings, swapping out the tuners" Adding a Floyd Rose tremolo! Frehley's preferences for the Les Paul leaned were altogether more spectacular. Some of them, such as his 1957 Black Beauty Les Paul Custom, were retrofitted with rocket launchers. Others, such as this custom build, being auctioned via Gotta Have Rock And Roll, were all about the smoke " and preferably no fire. But that's not to say the so-called "Smoker' guitars would…...

4+ week, 14+ hour ago (426+ words) AlphaTheta suggests that users temporarily downgrade to Ver3.20 to ensure "stable operation" AlphaTheta has withdrawn a recent Ver3.30 firmware update for its Pioneer DJ CDJ-3000 DJ player following complaints that the software was "deleting" playlists and tracks from customers' USB drives. Over the weekend, multiple artists shared reports on social media of problems with the CDJ-3000. "Pulled up to a gig with a USB I haven't touched since last weekend (it worked then). Nothing was showing, no playlists, not a single track, fully empty", reads a post on X from Polish DJ/producer VTSS. "Connected it to Rekordbox now - it reads perfectly, also with the history for a week before. WTH?" "This new CDJ update is the dumbest fucking thing on earth," reads a post from dubstep artist Modestep. "Warning DJ friends: if you haven't updated to latest Rekordbox then your USBs…...

3+ week, 11+ hour ago (451+ words) Designed to "capture the essence of classic sequencing with the flexibility of modern modular workflow", BQ-10 brings MIDI support and Eurorack compatibility to Korg's vintage sequencer Behringer has announced the release of BQ-10, an analogue semi-modular sequencer based on the classic Korg SQ-10. Having first teased BQ-10 all the way back in 2023, Behringer has made the instrument available worldwide this week. BQ-10 shrinks down the 1978 Korg SQ-10's functionality into a portable package with a few modern enhancements thrown in, most importantly MIDI support and Eurorack compatiblity " the BQ-10 operates standalone but can be taken out of its desktop enclosure and integrated into a Eurorack set-up. Looking at BQ-10, the first thing you'll notice is that the SQ-10's three rows of 12 steps have been cut down to size: Behringer says that it's done away with the SQ-10's "quirky…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago (317+ words) I'm the Deputy Editor of MusicRadar, having worked on the site since its launch in 2007. I previously spent eight years working on our sister magazine, Computer Music. I've been playing the piano, gigging in bands and failing to finish tracks at home for more than 30 years, 24 of which I've also spent writing about music and the ever-changing technology used to make it." The best Cyber Monday TV streaming deals for musicians, ranked 1. Disney+/Hulu bundle (with ads) - $4.99 a month for 12 months 2. Paramount+ Premium - $2.99 a month for 2 months UK users: Get Standard for "3.99/month for the first 3 months on a monthly plan or "35.49 for the first year on an annual plan. After that, the regular price will apply ("7.99/month or "70.99/year). Or get Premium for "5.49/month for the first 3 months on a monthly plan or "48.99 for the first year on an…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago (376+ words) Plus Suno raise $250 million to develop "full-stack music ecosystem" A major step forward has been taken towards the normalisation of AI-generated music with the announcement that the three major labels " Universal, Warners and Sony " have inked a licensing deal with an AI music streaming service called Klay, meaning that the startup can now train its model on many many thousands of recordings. It's been described by Universal as a "pioneering commercial ethical foundational model for AI-generated music that works in collaboration with the music industry and its creators." The idea is that Klay will not only develop a streaming platform but also tools to allow users to create AI songs in different styles. Hours of fun, then. It is unclear though, whether artists will have any opt out of the service. Meanwhile, it has also been announced that Warner has…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago (264+ words) It's his first unheard music for two years Richard D James, aka Aphex Twin, appears to have uploaded two new tracks to his Soundcloud page. That page isn't officially under his name but simply "user18081971' " James was born on August 18 in 1971, you see. Anyways, the two tracks are versions of the same song, titled, in the characteristic wi-fi password-style that Aphex has used for many a year, as "Zahl am1 live track' and "Zahl am1 live track 1cf760m1 unfinshd'. And written in the description is the following message: "Got many requests for this one from a few years back. Italy, pic with my love from Sicily recently. Need sun, relentlessly raining in the UK. Mixed down on the Z'hl, think there are better mixes, will upload them if I find them." You can hear them below. It's the first new music James has released…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago (1056+ words) Were hints that OK Computer and In Rainbows should be listened to as one monster record deliberately seeded by the band? With a band as conceptually deep as Radiohead, it's unsurprising that a number of esoteric theories have emerged from fans forging connections between songs, albums and themes from across the band's career. The grandaddy of all these quests for hidden meanings, is undoubtedly the "Binary Code' theory. Also known by some as "TENspiracy' or the 'OK Rainbow' theory, this idea - first mooted by fan and music blogger Puddlegum on his blog back in 2007, pointed to the (actually, very real) fact that the number ten seemed to be cropping up frequently around the release of their spellbinding seventh studio album, In Rainbows. After a lengthy and somewhat storied recording process, In Rainbows was finally announced in September 2007 by Jonny Greenwood....

4+ week, 19+ hour ago (376+ words) New startup believes it has the technology to disrupt the bots A new startup has launched what could be a valuable weapon for independent artists in the fight against generative AI. It's called Poison Pill, an appropriate name because in essence it disrupts the learning of AI models by inserting low-level noise. The noise is undetectable to the human ear, but it's enough to throw the AI off the scent, confusing it so it gets mixed up between different genres. "That's why, as a first step, Poison Pill is open to independent artists who want to stick it to these AI companies. Our aim is to protect 20% of independent music. With this poisoned music out there, we can shift the power dynamic and bring AI firms to the negotiating table for fair licensing of training data for independent musicians." "If…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago (289+ words) But will artists be fairly compensated? Universal Music and Udio have settled their legal differences and announced new "strategic agreements" that will involve the creation of a new AI music creation platform. Instead, in a statement, UMG is promising that there will be new license agreements for recorded music and publishing, which they are saying will provide "further revenue opportunities for UMG artists and songwriters. The promised new AI platform, still under the Udio name, will be launched next year and trained only on authorised and licensed music. The devil, of course, will be in the detail of this " the big question is whether artists will be fairly compensated for the privilege of having their music scraped. For the moment, the current Udio platform is still online and will be available to use throughout the transition period, though with some…...