Popular music seems to be in love with its decade-to-decade credibility struggle. It's a constant battle that moves from the picture of youthful, underground...
Esthero's path through the music industry really goes against the norm. Where most artists have to fight like sharks for label attention, the industry...
Did you just buy your first set of turntables? Are you learning how to mix? Have you been working at it for a few months but still having trouble breaking...
Imagine yourself as a fly on the wall at Abbey Road in the 1960s when Sir George helped four young Liverpudlian lads set the course for the future. In...
Have you ever had your confidence broken? Have you ever been so stressed out about making an album that you cracked open your knuckles on the vocal-booth...
Back in the days when people walked 10 miles uphill in the snow to get to school, producers had far fewer jacks and cable types to fuss with. Now, a seemingly...
NOMAD FACTORY ROCK AMP LEGENDS GUITAR-AMP SIMULATOR Known for its amazing-sounding Blue Tubes bundle, Nomad Factory has collaborated with world-famous...
The music-industry market has never been more flush with computer audio interfaces than it is right now. And while most companies are caught up in the...
I'll put it this way, says Prefuse 73, aka Guillermo Scott Herren, during a recent press junket to New York City to promote his new joint, Surrounded...
Applied Acoustics is one of those rare boutique software houses that has a clear vision of its place within the industry focusing on its strengths, not...
BY GOD, IT'S A DVD Every country has its prized export. Belgium has Front 242. Front 242 is not just a favorite among the black-trench-coat crowd no self-respecting...
Listening to Casey Spooner talk about how much fighting and anger and stress went into recording Fischerspooner's latest album, Odyssey, I, Kylee, laughed...
VINYL POOL is the handy state-by-state directory that lists some of the fine independent vinyl shops and DJ-gear retailers that carry your favorite magazine,...
When hip-hop began, the DJ was the foundation of the genre. Whereas the rappers were the hype masters responsible for exciting the crowd, the DJ was responsible...
One of the landmark figures of Japanese electronic pop and the winner of Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Awards, Ryuichi Sakamoto has influenced legions...
Producer and director Joslyn Rose Lyons' documentary Soundz of Spirit (released on DVD by Jog9 Productions in February) isn't the first to discuss the...
In 2002, I opened DeepMix along with partner Brad Colerick to act as a conduit between the music and advertising industries. Specializing in commercial...
Shifting from its typical application-specific designs, Blue Microphones has released an all-purpose condenser with the Bluebird, a Class-A discrete,...
It's a frigid winter day in Boston with a face-numbing wind gusting up the street from the river and past the front door of Satellite Records. DJ and...
Not long ago, Bryan Hollon traded in his baseball caps for silk ties. This change in wardrobe by the man who makes music under the name Boom Bip is emblematic...
Playing live with a multitrack system is entirely different than singing along to a 2-track mix. A multi-track system for live shows is nothing like the...
BECK Guero (Geffen/Interscope) The loser of a thousand faces returns to the barrio After the weary world of Beck's last album, Sea Change, the perpetual...
Like so many others confounded by the devastation wrought upon Southeast Asia by the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami, members of the dance-music community took...
Genres of music are as much about the people and the history as they are about a particular sound. For the jungle and drum 'n' bass crowd, the 1999 book...
SoundToys, indeed: The plug-ins from the outfit formerly known as Wave Mechanics are precisely that a whole lot of fun and games. On the other hand, they...
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