#music-production

#music-production

What started as a casting call for a supposed background performance on Outer Banks quietly morphed into something much bigger: a full-fledged band, a Prime Video series, and a growing touring act with sold-out shows ( get tickets here while you can!). Zendé Murdock of The Runarounds recently spoke with Kyle Meredith about the long game behind the project - one that saw five young musicians unknowingly audition for their own TV show, then spend years becoming a real band

Native Instruments and Ableton have had incredible success with their custom MIDI controllers that integrate with their DAWs (digital audio workstations), Maschine and Live, respectively. Native Instruments' Maschine (yes, it's the name of the hardware and the software) and Ableton's Push are pretty much the gold standard for integration between music-making software and hardware. Serato is hoping it can capture even a sliver of that magic with its pairing of Slab and Serato Studio.

I was in a band in Hull called Akrylykz. When the Beat came to play at the Welly club we gave them a demo tape. Then they invited us to tour with them. Later, after they split up, Andy Cox and David Steele were looking for a singer for a new band and they remembered me. Fine Young Cannibals felt right straight away. After The Tube filmed us doing Johnny Come Home, we just took off.

Her previous releases have been featured on BBC Radio 1's Alternative Show. In the studio, she has worked with Carlos de la Garza (Paramore, Best Coast), Ken Andrews (Paramore, M83), Micah Tawlks (Hayley Williams, Noah Kahan, Ashe), and her longtime producer, Stephen Laurenson. When she's not making music, Mel can usually be found playing World of Warcraft or getting lost in fantasy novels.

Until I was 12 I was in the French school system, where theatre was Moliere, Corneille, Racine. Going to the theatre meant The Sound of Music or My Fair Lady. Then it was decided I would switch to school in England. So, at 13, I arrived at Westminster school. It was 1968, and the world opened up. I went to see a school production of Waiting for Godot in French in a small room with a little stage, and I was sitting at the back.

"I'm nervous. The record is vulnerable in a way that my music perhaps hasn't been before-certainly not over the course of a whole album. I've tried to document my life in a new city and the events that led me to where I am in my life now. At the same time, I've used shared experiences as the basis for songs which try to delve into why we humans behave as we do,"

On a bright afternoon in late August, I met Kevin Parker, the polymath behind the psych-pop project Tame Impala, at a hotel bar in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. Parker was dressed in baggy pants, flip-flops, and sunglasses. His hair is the kind of shaggy that suggests abject neglect more than overpriced Hollywood coiffure. We ordered a round of mezcal cocktails, which, when they arrived, were conspicuously pink and garnished with tiny orchids.

These tracks were performed by the group's core duo of Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson, with engineering by co-producer Brad Wood at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington, and at Sea Grass in Los Angeles earlier this year. Per Sub Pop's press release, these are the first official Sunn O))) recordings to feature "only the original core duo on heavily saturated electric guitars and synthesis."

remembers the magazines, hidden under the bed like other boys his age. But the feeling was different. They weren't looking at the women with desire but with longing: quiet, unspoken. A yearning that had no name then, one that would later take shape in " Playboy 1973 ," a song from their forthcoming album "Running with Scissors." Acoustic and electric guitars intertwine with strings that seem to hold their breath.

'Showgirl' is the most brazenly pop-forward, melodically savvy, and structurally polished album that Swift has released in about a decade,

I've been having this recurring dream for as long as I can remember. I'm running late-to school, to the bus stop, to my childhood home. And I'm too easily distracted to ever reach my final destination. Instead, I fiddle with the memory fragments that are placed where they shouldn't be: the old classrooms behind my bedroom door, the uncle sitting next to me asking for my homework.

Being in the background for so long, it was almost one of those things where I felt like it was never obtainable,

Murry was a mentor to me when we made that first record all those decades ago, and this album felt like the right time to work with him in that capacity again.

Nick Leon transitioned from being a Miami underground DJ to gaining international recognition with his single Xtasis, which defined the club scene in 2022.

Apple Music Studio Los Angeles expands creative opportunities with over 15,000 square feet designed for artists, producers, and creators to explore sound and visual boundaries.

The OP-XY is a fan-made MIDI sequencer that reimagines the OP-1's design, enhancing its functionality for electronic music composition and performance.

IDK's new track 'WiNSTON WOLF' showcases a playful, carefree vibe amidst a typically serious rap scene, offering a refreshing sound for summer.

I wanted to create a journey within each track, like something alien emerging from emptiness-beauty from chaos.

Her acclaimed 2019 debut album was called Tangerine, a title she chose because she really like[s] fruit.

Under Tangled Silence distills these sounds into something fluid, seamless, and technically virtuosic, channeling Manuel's classical training and his experiences at London squat raves.

Pi'erre Bourne's sound has influenced a generation of hip-hop production, blending electronic melodies with 808s, embodying a spacey, innovative spirit.