★★★✩✩ Paul McCartney’s new album, McCartney III Imagined, features remixes and covers of his songs from McCartney III, which was released in 2020. Overall, on McCartney III Imagined there seems to be a greater focus on the music and instrumentation rather than the vocals in the songs. There is also an emphasis on combining different musical styles and sounds throughout…

In 2020, independent music and art was shaken awake by the protest and demonstrations in support of Black lives. Websites scrambled for content from Black artists to fill their pages, catalogs, livestream calendars, and gallery spaces. And then, almost as suddenly, those same outlets went back to business as usual; public outrage waned as Biden…

The influential hip-hop icon died at the age of 50 following an apparent drug overdose and heart attack. Legendary rapper DMX has died at the age of 50 following an apparent drug overdose and heart attack. With his distinctive raspy voice, which was caused in part by bronchial asthma, DMX released a number of seminal hip-hop…

In the world of electronic music, there’s no one as regarded and celebrated as much as Richard D. James, better known as Aphex Twin. Throughout his long and inspiring career, he transformed techno music far beyond its original capabilities, and his iconography and image is one of the most unique and influential in music today….

A new inclusion initiative has been launched by a number of major electronic music brands to combat discrimination and harassment in the industry. Pioneer DJ, Beatport, Sentric Music Group, AFEM, Mixmag, RA, IMS, and Women in CTRL have partnered up with InChorus, a groundbreaking data collection platform, to launch the Electronic Music Inclusion Initiative (EMII). The objective behind the…

Have you ever noticed the effect music has on our lives? Sometimes it helps us stay calm and collected, sometimes it energizes us enough to stay up late and dance the night away, and sometimes it brings up old memories and nostalgia. Music also has profound healing power. Undoubtedly, researchers have found that different types…

By Steve Erickson “Sisters with Transistors” conjures nostalgia for a past most of us never knew existed. At this point, most pop music is recorded to computer and made largely, if not entirely, with electronic instruments. Mac laptops come bundled with the digital audio workshop Garage Band. The Fairlight, which was the first sampler to hit…