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Milestones in Music History #35: Germs, Ugly and Dirty

"The Bečva case is really bizarre," says Tomáš Niesner. | Photo: Jan Vrba

Tomáš Niesner: I Can’t Sit Down at a Desk and Write a Song

Almost anything is possible in music, but where are the limits? There is a difference between playing the devil on stage and actually being the devil in the real world. | Photo: Maksym Vlasenko (Unsplash)

TOP 3 Musicians from Hell

Bitter Sweet Symphony was based around a four-bar sample of a Rolling Stones song, that led to the loss of 100% of the royalties. | Photo: Roger Woolman (CC BY 3.0)

Story of a Hit #9: "Bitter Sweet Symphony"

Jake Serek in his workshop l Photo: Serek Basses

Dreamstruments #12: Jake Serek and Serek Basses

Thurston Moore made the jazzmaster really famous. | Photo: Paul Hudson, CC BY 2.0

10 Guitarists Who Swear by the Fender Jazzmaster

Laboratorium of Dr. Hyenik #5: Soundport

Göttsching and his Ash Ra Tempel coined the genre krautrock. | Photo by (c) MG.ART www.manuelgoettsching.com

Milestones in Music History #34: Manuel Göttsching – When Ambient Meets Krautrock

Sometimes it's hard to tell the line between insanity and brilliance. And that applies to bands, too.| Photo: Mihail Trebugov (Unsplash)

TOP 5 Weirdest Bands

Guitar making is a kind of alchemy. | Photo: author of the article

Dreamstruments #11: ReBell Guitars

One of the Colombian Paisas to who John Jairo Perez paid tribute with the song "El Paisa es el Rey" – "The Paisa is King". | Photo: Matěj Ptaszek

Songs Written with a Machete #3: "The Paisa is King!"

The 1980s at Fender were interesting because many ideas were implemented that changed things for the next few decades, such as this Telecaster reissue from the first year of its production in 1982.

Under the Hood #35: A Timeline History of Fender (Part 3)

"I'm an extremely sensitive person. The only way to deal with this emotional baggage is to vent it somehow," says Maella. | Photo: Beata Mathe

Maella: I'm Learning to Work with Both Versions of Myself

Five minutes after the scheduled start of the concert, there are a few of your most faithful fans in the venue, the sound engineer, a random passer-by, a regular from the local bar to whom you promised a beer and the drummer's mum. | Photo: flickr

5 Tips on How to Deal with an Empty Venue

Today it's regarded as one of the most outstanding products from the (in)famous era of 80s music. | Photo: Wjack12 (Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0)

Story of a Hit #8: "Never Gonna Give You Up"

Surf-swimming, from Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World | Image: Flikr, British Library (Public domain)

Milestones in Music History #33: The Challengers, Surfin' Boogie