Click here to view the embedded video. We haven’t featured many severe-looking German electronic music quartets on Synthtopia since we found out that Minneapolis Hates Kraftwerk.  Rectifying that are Grainface, captured performing Furióus on January 2008 in the ZK...

From its name, you might think Älymystö was a shelving unit from Ikea - but it’s Aktually a Finnish band that combines “elements of ambient, noise, industrial, triphop and god knows what in the mix.” They’ve put up their latest album as a free C...

iStandard takes its regional Producer Showcase to Nacional on Wilcox Avenue on Friday, Dec. 5, 2008, for a head-to-head producer battle featuring judges Battle Cat, DJ Khalil, Bishop Lamont and others.

Lil Wayne's expanded tour itinerary will take him through two dozen North American dates.

Now is a great time to catch Wu on the road during their current slate of tour dates.

The Roots have tacked some European and Japanese dates onto their busy tour schedule.

Blue Sky Black Death don't completely stray from its trademark cinematic touches.

The RMV drum synthesizer is a complete rhythmic center for your productions.

If you paid thousands of dollars for an acoustic guitar, would you really want to risk taking it to whatever seedy bar you're playing at next? If not, a laminate guitar would do the trick.read more

Jesse Greist's Seagull S6 Cedar Original braves the Costa Rican weather systems as Jesse's go-to guitar for his folk performances.read more

Click here to view the embedded video. This is a demo (see “demoscene” on Wikipedia) for the track Distortion Reigns Supreme by Transistorbass.

There's an old saying where I come from that says if your small room is unfit for studio use, just build a fake fabric ceiling underneath your actual ceiling to prevent standing waves.read more

Big news from the homebrew Nintendo DS scene: OpenSoundControl is now supported, thanks to a community contribution from Tim Wood. That means you can drag your stylus around and send high-resolution data straight to software running on your computer. From the DSMI site:...

In this video, Charlie Pickett shows us the Gibson Melody Maker SG, one of his many guitars and one that hit the road with him during the wilder days of the mid-1980s.read more

If you've seen this summer's blockbusters Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, then you've heard Alan Meyerson's mixes. And you've also heard iZotope Trash. Read our exclusive interview to catch a glimpse of the working habits of a veteran scoring ...

iZotope's first podcast is now available! In this edition, we have an audio interview with Alan Meyerson, plus an inside look at iZotope Radius time and pitch scaling with DSP engineer Alexey Lukin. Download the podcast here. To subscribe to the iZotope podcast, simply ...

Sony's latest consumer version of Sound Forge features Vocal Eraser, a vocal removal and isolation plug-in designed by iZotope. Vocal Eraser enables users to remove vocals from most recordings to create karaoke tracks to sing along with or isolate vocals to bring into a...

Boasting the demeanor of a time traveling magician, American Audio releases the Versa Port, which they say will "turn your music from analog to digital with ease!" Granted, the Versa Port isn't verread more

Harman International Industries has formed a marketing relationship with Quincy Jones to explore and evaluate opportunities for licensed and co-branded products in the consumer, automotive and professional audio fields. The partnership is intended both to celebrate Jone...

The flagship Poly-Ana analog synth plugin from Admiral Quality gets some companionship from L'il Poly-Ana.read more

Sonnox has announced a drop in the company?s U.S. pricing, due to exchange rate fluctuation between the British pound and the U.S. dollar. Sonnox has implemented a 14-percent reduction in U.S. prices for all Oxford Plug-ins, beginning December 1, 2008.

Independent music retailer eMusic, said to be the world's second-largest digital music service after iTunes, announced that it has sold 250 million MP3 downloads since establishing its current subscription model in 2003. The major milestone comprises music downloads sol...

(2008-12-01) Digital Music Doctor announces the release of a new analysis which compares seven of the most popular Digital Audio Workstation software products from DigiDesign, Steinberg, Cakewalk, Sony, Apple, Ableton and Image Line.

Click here to view the embedded video. This is the Mucky Wheel - a bizarre nautical noisemaker commissioned by Mucky Sailor, “an excellent and very noisy band.”

Even that we have not the name nor an image of the new release by Vigier only by knowing that it will be their first single-cut body shape model it is worth talk about it. The new Vigier Single Cut-away Electric Guitar will be a traditional model when talking about sha...

Deadmau5 roars, and FL drops all melodic content? Hey, whatever ? FL users stay loyal to their app and it?s now BYO sample time. Photo (CC) iamdonte. The FL Studio community was rocked earlier this month as producer Deadmau5 claimed the use of his samples was ?stealing...

The audiopyromaniacs over at Ueberschall announce Pure Fire, a set of 20 construction kits with minimalist influence burning with artificial texture overload.read more

Moog is one of the companies that always gets a lot of buzz in their upcoming releases, either it’s because they have a lot of fans or because they release a low number of products per year the truth is that their next release, the Moog Taurus Bass Synth Pedal, a...

Click here to view the embedded video. Impressions from the Native Instruments Traktor Pro Launch Party at Watergate, Berlin. Featured DJs include Barem, Butane, John Spring, Pan Pot, Matthew Dear, Richie Hawtin and Troy Pierce.

The paradoxically newest member of Maxon's Vintage Series, the AD999 Pro Analog Delay, has been released. It's a combination of th AD999 and the AD-9 Pro delay units all in one box.read more

Gibson announces December's Guitar of the Month, and if you've been dreaming of a metallic silver Christmas, have I got good news for you.read more

Mix editor Sarah Benzuly profiles Soundstage, Nashville's premier rehearsal/staging facility

If there was one synth pedal that was a pair of fat twins riding a motorcycle, it'd be the Moog Taurus Bass Pedal.read more

Click here to view the embedded video. This is a demo video for the Mochika2, or as Atomo Labs puts it - raw, random noises.