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VocAlign 7 is the kind of update that makes more sense the second you picture a modern vocal session. One lead. Doubles. Harmonies. Ad-libs. Stacks. Background parts. Alternate takes. Then the producer or engineer has to make all of it feel tight…
Most producers learn the DAW before they learn how to listen. That is nobody’s fault, exactly; software gives fast feedback, tutorials explain the moves, presets make the early stages feel less impossible, and a new producer can get from blank…
Lana Crow’s “Rise and Shine” is built around a deceptively simple request: give me a smile. That can sound almost too light on paper, the kind of phrase that risks drifting into greeting-card optimism if the song doesn’t earn it. But Crow is not…
Above Image Shows Cindy Sample, John Mlynczak, and Lisha_Baer The NAMM Show has picked up another round of recognition from Trade Show Executive, and the most interesting part is what the award is actually celebrating. NAMM is being recognized not…
Dreamtonics has shared a new behind-the-scenes documentary on Instrument X, its neural acoustic modeling platform for orchestral and acoustic instrument performance. The video offers a rare look at the engineering behind the product, especially the…
Subscribers will be able to hear sets from Skrillex, Four Tet and more across the festival's two-day run via Apple Music Club Radio next month
From a childhood spent napping backstage at Amnesia to becoming a Balearic authority in adulthood, Jaime Fiorito has inarguably been shaped by the White Isle. He speaks to Megan Townsend about Ibiza's cultural shifts, being babysat by the KLF's…
He slammed artificially-made music, saying he’s felt “no pull whatsoever” to try using AI tech
There is a version of the AI conversation in music that gets boring almost immediately, mostly because it treats the machine like the whole story. The better question is what an artist gives up when the uncomfortable part of the work gets skipped…
ART @ PACE founder Louis Godfrey discusses electronic music artist management, independent releases, touring and building a lasting career.
Alessio Collina’s Shades of Me E.P feels like a fitting title for a label boss finally stepping into his own limited series. Out September 24, 2026 via Trend Records Limited, TRLTD007 is a four-track vinyl-only release that moves across…
Jet2 has announced flights to a "once-in-a-lifetime" destination.
Cosmocities’ Denshi Ongaku No Bigaku Vol. 3 continues the label’s ongoing look at Japanese electronic music with a compilation that feels carefully sequenced instead of broadly assembled. Out September 25, 2026, the 11-track release moves across…
Arctween’s Plane Of Existence sounds like a record made after hours, when the day is over, the room is still on, and the ideas have enough air around them to get weird. It is rhythmic, but it never feels trapped by the grid. It is ambient at times…
HRH The Princess Royal sounded the iconic 7 in 7 drum at the University of York as Leeds Rhinos legend Sir Kevin Sinfield tackled Day Two of his final MND fundraising epic, which has already broken the £534,000 mark
There’s something wonderfully slippery about Moff & Tarkin. Just when you think you’ve got a handle on the groove, Magnús Felix throws in a strange synth line, a dusty sample, a warped vocal or some completely unexpected rhythmic detour. It’s house…
Some records become more than tracks in a DJ’s collection. They become reference points, records that shape the way an artist hears rhythm, approaches arrangement, understands groove, or simply knows when a dancefloor moment is working. For São…
The first phase of work is under budget pressures
The project has begun today
The new opening has come to Leeds following success in Leeds
The PM has insisted that he does not agree with the policy, which is supported by the SNP in efforts to reduce drug-related deaths in Scotland
Phase one of major works aimed at regenerating Halifax town centre have been blasted as "an absolute disaster" by the council's new leader.
Fears have been raised over the impact on Kirkgate Market if a nearby shop in a street-drinking hotspot is given an alcohol licence.
David Hockney portrait painted at 12 could be his earliest known work, Antiques Roadshow expert says, with value potentially exceeding £100,000 on BBC.
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