keith richard

Castleridge Studios

H&SR takes a look at its first Australian studio. The locals couldn't give a Castleridgexxx for anything else.

Andy Partridge tracks up

Framus Guitars

The history of Framus guitars, by request.

Dave Sinclair sorts out seven significant strikers

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

Six heavy people choose their 30 favourite riffs.

six heavy metallurgists pick their favourites - Joan Jett, Punky Mendoza, Graham Oliver, Paul Quinn, Mick Ralphs, Paul Samson

Six of our favourite drummers choose 30 of their favourite drum tracks.

the school of self-education

Their trials and tribulations.

what's missing in A Cappella

The World's Best Songwriters

four stars choose their favourite songsters - Fish, Vince Clarke, Edwyn Collins, Chris Difford

Vintage technology strikes back

...including The A-Z of Analogue

Part two considers arrangements: getting right all the instruments order in the.

The sort of thing you'll turn to first: lies, gossip, tittle-tattle, rumours, humous...

Something in the Shubbery — a new Capo, perhaps?

Who is Uli Jon Roth? How can you learn to read bass music? What does Chas de Whalley look like?

Bob Clearmountain Sample CDs

On a clear day you can usually tell the difference between sampled and real drums. But if the quality of the samples is high enough, will there come a time when you can't tell which is which? David Mellor listens to two new sample cds.

Roadie

Mike Hrano looks at the ups and downs of humping

Interactive music workstation

The workstation bites the bullet and goes all the way, with sophisticated auto-accompaniment to add to the i3's already copious features based on the X3.