The BMF Goes Up In...

Read today the Bob Dylan story a friend will tell you in the pub next week.

Mark Fishlock expounds.

Music Percussion Computer

In-depth scrutiny

Examining Technic's ten-voice digital piano the PV10.

John Walters, Tom Bailey and Frank Tovey

Part two, in which we meet the fifth Beatle, George Martin, and also brush with Trevor Horn's Fairlight.

The monthly miscellany gets stuck into the trivia

Fun Fair, who was there.

The pick of 1983's equipment releases.

How much do musicians really earn? The rich ones (ahem) the poor ones (definitely).

Pickups, headsets, guitars...

Despite the tendency of creative professions to be more liberal than others, women make up only a tiny proportion of producers and engineers in the music industry. Paul Tingen reports on this sad state of affairs.

can you tell a real drummer?

Live Music For The Hi-Tech Musician

KeyboardCheck

Tony Hastings and Paul Trynka assess the latest entrant into the increasingly competitive sampled piano stakes

Your Paul Hardcastle Aspirations!

Steve Howell takes up his razor blade once again and explains the basis for extended remixes.

low-tuning previewed

all the gossip that's fit to hint

Basscheck

It's made out of wood, in England; it hasn't got a tremolo unit, but it has got a body and a headstock. Dave Burrluck marvels

From the profound to the downright silly, we wind up a year's chit-chat

grotesque gossip and more

A list of "classic" analogue synths could not be complete without Oberheim's OBXa. Peter Forrest reminisces about an instrument that won the hearts of many musicians.

guitar

A subjective and selective round-up of drum machines, old and new, by Mark Jenkins.