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Verse Metrics * Hot Red Dress * The Chris Finnen Band * The Tennis Players

If you thought your cupboards were full of faded dreams, just take a look at your old hard drives...

• Alison Krauss & Union Station 'Paper Airplane' • Katy Perry 'Last Friday Night' • Alexandra Stan 'Mr Saxobeat'

• Dev Featuring The Cataracs 'Bass Down Low' • Wretch 32 'Traktor' • Aloe Blacc 'I Need A Dollar'

You’ve got to be good to get ahead in this game. And not just at mending cookers.

Phat Flavour Crew * Res-Q * Darren Lock * Amphibic

This column could save your life. And $7.99.

A few years ago, I commented in this very column that, despite advances in recording technology, many of our readers still...

Music is primarily about feel and emotion, and most successful musicians develop the ability to convey those two essentials...

• LMFAO 'Party Rock Anthem' • Nero 'Guilt' • Noah And The Whale 'L.I.F.E. G.O.E.S. O.N.' • Nicole Scherzinger 'Right There'

In which our hero eats too much cheese before bedtime and falls into a strange, Cheddar‑fuelled dream...

Hamilton Sterling & Jimmy Haslip * Kissy Sell Out * Rubik * Zomby * Cool Beyond Zero * Kansas Burns * Tall Poppies * Rapids! * Ozone Player & Matt Howarth

Cleaning out the closet can reveal the bones of unfinished projects long forgotten...

A good friend of mine who once had the enviable job of recording Bono's vocal using a Yamaha AW16 in a hotel bedroom...

• Ke$ha 'We R Who We R' • Tinie Tempah 'Wonderman' • Alexis Jordan 'Good Girl' • Chris Brown 'Beautiful People'

To reach the top as a composer for the media, what you really need is ‘people skills’ — and the patience of saints.

Jiggo * New Town Triptych * Peyton Place * Herd of Instinct * AdamSK * The Apple Gies * Sticky Wickit * Royal Gala * Nick Stephenson

Jules Harding, SOS Video Media Editor, considers the effects of gear-lust.

Paul White's leader.

• Chase & Status 'Blind Faith' • Jessie J 'Price Tag' • David Guetta 'Who's That Chick'

No‑one makes demos any more — it’s just that any music we make is treated like a demo.