EDINBURGH — Since the secretive release of a new Boards of Canada 12″ record was discovered at a record store in New York, the cryptic electronic duo have been releasing bits and pieces of mysterious material, including a password-protected website and snippets of music on BBC and NPR. The duo [...]
LONDON — “They fucked us, they really fucked us,” says Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke in a new interview with Rolling Stone about his new supergroup, Atoms For Peace. “ does this to us every time, we should be number one in the world right now, not Bruno Mars.” Yorke cites [...]
NEW YORK — The developers behind Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy-winning supercomputer, have recently announced plans to introduce the intuitive learning machine to the art of DJing. Watson, who is already being represented by public relations and artist management firm the Agency Group, will be programmed to apply his existing algorithms to [...]
LAS VEGAS — “Sometimes one plus one equals more than two,” confusingly proclaimed Ne-Yo and Wiz Khalifa as they shifted the focus of attention from themselves to the live performance from Justin Bieber and Will.I.Am at the 2013 Billboard Awards. From the moment the cameras panned over to the stage [...]
Easily one of the most anticipated and hyped albums of 2013, the title of Daft Punk’s newest album, Random Access Memories, might lead one to believe that the music contained within is as powerful as the computer hardware that inspired it. While the power of RAM has roughly doubled every [...]
Snare drum has been a pivotal sound in music since the beginning of time. Gregorian monks first used snare drums in their chants for the lord shortly after inventing singing and polyphony. While historians date this first use of the drum to 930 A.D., it wasn’t until the 1900s that [...]
BERLIN - Police have identified 36-year-old Johannes Van der Burgh as the primary suspect in Friday night’s gruesome nightclub slaying of 22-year-old Polish DJ Mark Borowski. Van der Burgh — who was apprehended after police received several key leads from eyewitness testimony — confessed to the murder. He added to [...]
With complex new musical and technological devices being released so frequently, it’s easy to get caught up in the hype surrounding small technical details of instruments that are often trivial luxuries designed to sell a product as opposed to improve the ability of the device to make music. Glockenspiel, a [...]
MONTREAL — To say that Quebec-based gear head René LeBlanc has developed a deep love for the intricacies of programming and patching the many units that make up his modular synthesizer would be an understatement. After losing his job as a sales associate for Canadian telecommunications giant Rogers, LeBlanc devoted [...]
A series of new online guitar tutorials from eHow promise to teach aspiring guitar players to play like a variety of famous guitarists who spent years practicing their respective styles before making it big. A simple transcript of the first video from this series sufficiently explains to viewers how to [...]
MIAMI — Earlier today, Joel Zimmerman — a.k.a Deadmau5 — announced publicly that he was under the influence of a mixture of cocaine and MDMA when he verbally attacked American pop icon Madonna online for referencing ‘Molly’ at a concert in Miami in 2012. “I was just peaking on the [...]
It’s no secret that radio audience size has been declining rapidly over the last decade. Recently, a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan has confirmed what many have been speculating; that these numbers have been drastically reduced to the demographic of human beings who spend hours of [...]