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Vermona drumDING: A Hybrid Drum Machine That Samples Itself

drumDING combines a single analogue drum voice with flexible internal sampling and sequencing – and it’s available to pre-order now

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Jerry Garcia’s Life and Work Celebrated in New Touring Immersive Exhibition

The 40,000-square-foot experience will launch in San Francisco in early 2027 before traveling to cities across the United States. Jerry Garcia’s Life and Work Celebrated in New Touring Immersive Exhib

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"Your analogue sound becomes a sample – then the cycle begins again: a new sound, a new sample, a new idea": Vermona drumDING is a hybrid drum machine designed to sample itself

drumDING combines a single analogue drum voice with flexible internal sampling and sequencing – and it’s available to pre-order now

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Jerry Garcia’s Life and Work Celebrated in New Touring Immersive Exhibition

The 40,000-square-foot experience will launch in San Francisco in early 2027 before traveling to cities across the United States. Jerry Garcia’s Life and Work Celebrated in New Touring Immersive Exhibition Alex Krinsky

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Illformed Glitch2 Plugin Free After Creator's Death

Originally released in 2013, Glitch2 is designed to "slice, dice, chop, screw, twist, turn and mangle your sounds into radical new forms"

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"In loving memory of Kieran Foster": Illformed Glitch2 multi-effects plugin made available for free following its creators passing

Originally released in 2013, Glitch2 is designed to "slice, dice, chop, screw, twist, turn and mangle your sounds into radical new forms"

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"In loving memory of Kieran Foster": Illformed Glitch2 multi-effects plugin made available for free following its creator's passing

Originally released in 2013, Glitch2 is designed to "slice, dice, chop, screw, twist, turn and mangle your sounds into radical new forms"

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"Once up and running, it's a dream to use, and capable of capturing some magnificent audio": Tascam DR-40XP field recorder review

This newly updated four-track field recorder from Tascam is a surprisingly dense device, boasting 32-bit float recording and some supremely quiet preamps

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Boy George Parts Ways With Label Manager Amid AI Song Controversy

The singer has doubled-down on "We Will Dance Again," a track that has courted controversy with its origin and message.

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Clique Apps enters the superfan market with standalone apps built for individual artists

Unlike Patreon or FanFix profiles, each Clique app lives independently under the creator's name in the App Store. Source

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Superfan platform Sesh acquired by free music app TREBEL to build out artist services across the Americas

Sesh's technology, TREBEL said, "turns a listener into an identified fan in under a minute." Source

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Billie Joe Armstrong’s punk rock riff machine, Orange’s mighty micro-amp, and the $150 acoustic that gives us serious John Mayer vibes – it’s MusicRadar’s monthly guitar gear roundup, the July 2026 edit

Featuring hot new gear from Harley Benton, Epiphone, Bad Cat, Shergold, IK Multimedia, Mooer Audio, Gibson and more

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MusicRadar's July 2026 Guitar Gear Roundup

Featuring hot new gear from Harley Benton, Epiphone, Bad Cat, Shergold, IK Multimedia, Mooer Audio, Gibson and more

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AI and Protecting a Celebrity’s voice through Trademark

The following MBW op/ed comes from Music Attorneys Heidy Vaquerano and Cynthia Katz at Fox Rothschild. Source

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MusicRadar's July 2026 Guitar Gear Roundup Features New Releases from Major Brands

Featuring hot new gear from Harley Benton, Epiphone, Bad Cat, Shergold, IK Multimedia, Mooer Audio, Gibson and more

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Ariana Grande - 'Petal' Review

Grande withdraws inwards on uneasy, distant eighth studio album, amid intense tabloid and social media scrutiny

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July 2026 Guitar Gear Roundup Features Top Brands

Featuring hot new gear from Harley Benton, Epiphone, Bad Cat, Shergold, IK Multimedia, Mooer Audio, Gibson and more

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Ariana Grande – ‘Petal’ review: conflicted pop songs under the spotlight

Grande withdraws inwards on uneasy, distant eighth studio album, amid intense tabloid and social media scrutiny

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MusicRadar's July 2026 Guitar Gear Roundup

Featuring hot new gear from Harley Benton, Epiphone, Bad Cat, Shergold, IK Multimedia, Mooer Audio, Gibson and more

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MusicRadar's July 2026 Guitar Gear Roundup Features New Releases

Featuring hot new gear from Harley Benton, Epiphone, Bad Cat, Shergold, IK Multimedia, Mooer Audio, Gibson and more