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Forty-five years after the Jupiter-8 first appeared in 1981, Roland has brought it back to the Boutique range as the JUPITER-08. It takes the place of the JP-08, one of the series’ first releases from 2015, which has since been discontinued. The new model gets a redesigned panel, a different sound engine and a lot more voices.

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Angine de Poitrine are not a normal band. The Quebec duo play in papier-mâché heads and black-and-white polka-dot suits, write instrumental tunes built on quarter tones and somehow make all of it groove. Klek de Poitrine plays drums. Khn de Poitrine plays guitar and bass at the same time, on the same instrument, through two separate rigs.

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I don’t envy the Fender American Professional Stratocaster. That guitar shoulders so much pressure to represent the Stratocaster in its most up-to-date yet history-affirming form. Its place in the Fender catalogue means it’s literally meant to be ‘the’ Stratocaster, so there are things it simply cannot have. It cannot have a super modern neck. It cannot have super modern fret...


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Fifty years after Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released their self-titled debut, Gibson has built a limited-edition Flying V around the band logo from that 1976 album. The Tom Petty Flying V 50th Anniversary is limited to 250 guitars worldwide, with 50 in each of five gloss nitrocellulose finishes that Gibson has dubbed the “Flying Five”, and it’s available now through Gib...


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The MiniFreak, Arturia’s six-voice hybrid synthesizer, now comes in a version with 49 full-size semi-weighted keys. Along with the bigger keybed, the new model keeps the original’s sound engine and adds more hands-on control, including an XYZ touch matrix the 37-key model never had. It’s in stock now.

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