Month: February 2013

Imagine Dragons Announce Summer Shows

The rock act will headline the Hollywood Palladium and Red Rocks on the 13-date run. Imagine Dragons will be roaring through the summer with a 13-date tour. The group previously announced North American dates running from tonight, Feb. 22, through March 23. The new shows will find them performing at the Hollywood Palladium and the…


Sonic Touch 21 – Cubasis, Cubase IC Pro

This episode Gaz takes a look at the Steinberg Cubasis App, an audio and MIDI DAW for the iPad, how it integrates with Cubase and also the Cubase IC Pro control application. As ever, we look forward to your comments and suggestions – please leave them below. Featured Apps: Cubasis £35.99 / $49.99 Cubase IC…


IK Multimedia iRig Keys and iLectric Piano review

http://soundsandgear.com/ik-multimedi… checking out the iRig Keys mobile/portable keyboard controller from IK Multimedia as well as the new iLectric Piano EP app for iOS.


Skylar Grey-‘Don’t Look Down’

Skylar Grey has been a bad, bad girl. The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter unveils the dark and twisted cover for her debut Don’t Look Down. A sexy Skylar, who turns 27 today, models lingerie as she leans over a laundrymachine with a bloodied axe sitting on top. Her sick sense of humor can be heard on the album, due this spring on KIDinaKORNER/Interscope….


Kanye West Disses the Grammys and Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z’s “Suit & Tie”

Kanye West took the stage tonight in London at Hammersmith Apollo for the first of two back-to-back shows, and he went on another one of his infamous rants, this time taking shots at the Grammys, and also saying that he’s not a fan of his big brother Jay-Z‘s collaboration with Justin Timberlake, “Suit & Tie.” Check the video, plus annotated highlights,…


Cash Money Sued for Sample in Bow Wow Song

Robert Poindexter of the ’70s band The Persuaders is suing Cash Money to the tune of 600 bands for the sample of his own band’s song “Love Gonna Pack Up (and Walk Out),” which was fairly obviously lifted for use on Bow Wow’s song “Still Ballin” from a few years back. The sample can also be heard on Will Smith’s “Willow is A…


How Baauer Took ‘Harlem Shake’ To Number One

Last June, a little-known Brooklyn DJ named Baauer released an EDM track called “Harlem Shake” on a free website without much fanfare. By earlier this month, it had become the latest Psy-level mass phenomenon: Skydivers, underwater stormtroopers, newscasters, Power Rangers, rapper Fat Joe, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert and more than 100,000 others have all posted…


Google In Talks For Music Streaming Service

Google is in the process of negotiating licensing fees for a music streaming service akin to Spotify, Mog, Deezer and others, according to several published reports and first reported by the Financial Times. The news comes as Google is in the process of looking to implement subscription models on YouTube, the company’s video site and the web’s most…


Imagine Dragons – Radioactive On David Letterman


‘Pitch Perfect’ First Soundtrack to Sell Half-Million in Nearly a Year

It was all about the Grammy Awards this week on the Billboard 200 chart, as album of the year winner Mumford & Sons returned to No. 1 with Babel. The set, released last September, climbed three rungs to No. 1 this week with 185,000 sold (up 242% compared  to its previous week’s sales). The entire top 10 was…