there’s more to indie-girlie-pop than a pouting blonde and cliched guitar riffs - isn’t there?

Alternative routes to funny fingerings. Tuning is not cheating, we say.

sixties guitar innovator profiled

if you’ve got plenty of feeling but your technique lets you down - try playing the blues

The Design Laboratories Prologue

MIDI-CV converter and retro synth

the history of the music that gave birth to rock 'n' roll

Berry Gordy

Berry Gordy, boss of Motown

The Editor's Tale

The second part of our investigation of Japan concentrates on the Roland organisation; Tim Goodyer meets mystery, "Mr Roland" and Sally.

An interview with Rusty Egan

Dan Goldstein tracks down another drummer-turned-musical technofreak, Rusty Egan, and finds out about the past, present, and the future of the electro-dance band he helped found, Visage.

Jazz, Funk, and now Hip Hop — Herbie Hancock's done it all. We grab a few words with the great man.

Goldsmiths' College, University of London

Goldsmiths' College in London was the first higher education institute to set up its own electronic music studio and offer a course. That was back in the late 1960s. Today, it has an even wider range of specialist courses and a much better equipped complex of studios to offer prospective students the training facilities necessary for a longterm career.

Strange goings on at Recycled Goods plc.

They're stylish, they're cute, they're magnetically shielded - but how do they sound?

The Sports, The, er, wires

Then After A Few Years I Think I'll Be A Producer

making a career of knob twiddling

if your music feels lacklustre, dabble in dance rhythms from the dark continent

Breaking American, expensive recordings and living with your own history — Paul Trynka swaps top hats and tall tales with Furs guitarist John Ashton

Vintage technology strikes back

...Including The A-Z of Analogue

News from America compiled by Simon Braund

News from America compiled by Simon Braund