Find something you love and do it for the rest of your life. That's one classic maxim that leads to another: easier said than done. But for the many musicians...
To start with the hypothetical: If you were an American composer trying to eke out a living in the immediate aftermath of World War II, odds are you were...
Hey, remember that time when we were the publisher for High Times magazine, and we got Ozzy to do a cover story, and we smoked boatloads of weed with...
Stones Throw has released a follow-up to its first DVD, Stones Throw 101, and packed it full of videos and bonus features from some of the label's hottest...
Introducing the latest superpower music production tool from Akai, the MPK49. With all of the latest heavyweight features combined in a USB/MIDI controller...
It's not often that Remix gets to wear 3-D glasses in the office, but considering the VJ/DJ/scratch multimedia mash-ups Mike Relm is known for, it wasn't...
We humans naturally perform some interesting spatial decoding with each sound we hear. By tracking the microseconds of delay and minor timbral differences...
For better or worse, the '80s revival is still alive and kicking. From Knight Rider remakes to the electro resurgence, the influential decade isn't going...
Korg is starting to resemble Bubba Gump with this Kaoss Pad thing, serving it up in every way possible short of a Kaoss Pad gumbo. Besides the flagship...
With a throwback sound and retro style more likened to the era of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing than that of today's typical rap group, it's safe to...
Need some cash? Or is the well dry, and you need some beats? Just like clownfish and sea anemones, beathive.com is the perfect symbiotic relationship...
When London's influential XFM radio DJ John Kennedy received an innocuous-looking disc in the mail in December 2006, he liked it so much, he immediately...
For a musician, there's nothing like getting in a van with four of your friends and hitting the road. If you don't get the opportunity to tour nine months...
At 11, a young Frenchman started taking keyboard lessons. Self-taught bass, drums, guitar and a lifelong fascination with The Beatles would follow and...
Beyond mics, synths and all things outboard, the most contentious debate among computer-centric producers and musicians is and will always be DAWs. Which...
It's certainly not Carl Craig's first visit to this small record shop in the centuries-old city center. The Detroit DJ/producer has had a long relationship...
With many things clothes, cars, restaurants, concert tickets you can do well on a budget; you can even have style. But if you really want the best, you...
Calling out a guest who has arrived at Electric Lady to hear her latest release, New Amerykah, Erykah Badu insists, No one hears my music until they talk...
Unable to afford a Mellotron when it was first released, British keyboard player and engineer Ken Freeman is credited with inventing the polyphonic string...
Alexis Taylor is rummaging around his flat, looking for the lap-size Yamaha keyboard he bought at a car boot sale a few years back for three quid. I know...
As a self-taught acoustical architect and designer, I've never been a fan of EQ for tuning studios, largely because the response of a room can change...
After a long wait, elastic audio technology has finally come to Digidesign Pro Tools 7.4 (including Pro Tools 7.4 LE and 7.4 M-Powered). Using a set of...
NINE VOLT AUDIO ACTION DRUMS: BOOM JINX BREAKBEAT EDITION RHYTHMS BUILT FOR THE CAMERA Boom Jinx is the alter ego of DJ/producer istein J. Eide, a Norwegian...
We all know what it sounds like to run a sound through the cranked-up amplifiers or overdrive pedals guitarists use; basically, it's the same thing that...
AUTECHRE Quaristice (Warp) Veteran madness Since 1987, Autechre's sole operators, Rob Brown and Sean Booth, have plowed over the limits of how pronounced,...
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