Jake Brown has written an insightful book looking at the methods of the 20 most influential songwriters in country music...
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Toontrack strikes plug-in gold with EZdrummer 2: a beat-making package that’s simple and exciting to use, and surprisingly songwriter-friendly, too...
Our resident guitar man, Chris Cleaver, checks out three new stomp boxes from Lindo – Natural Overdrive, Soul Distortion and...
Perhaps best known for its EZDrummer beat-making packages, Toontrack introduces a brace of virtual pianos with handy songwriting tools built-in...
Tracktion 5 is a MIDI and audio sequencer from the Tracktion Software Corporation that carries an astonishingly low price tag pon...
Just when you think a home studio couldn’t be more affordable, along comes a ‘cost effective’ sequel for recording vocals...
The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord road tests a portable Bluetooth-enabled speaker for musicians… and tries it out at home, too here’s...
Olympus brings two new models to the crowded portable recorder marketplace. We put them through their paces at Songwriting Live…...
We get Yes Sir Boss singer and songwriter Mathew Sellors to put Sting’s live mic of choice through its paces...
Bristol-based Lindo Guitars make a move upmarket with this highly attractive electro-acoustic that’s made to fit the sub-£500 price bracket...
Manchester-based Chord extend their popular Native range of electro-acoustic guitars with a touch of the exotic, at an affordable price...
This book sets out to do for British artists what ‘Songwriters On Songwriting’ did for their US counterparts – and...
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