Month: March 2013

Working With Low Frequencies – Into The Lair #59

In this week’s Into The Lair, Dave discusses dealing with Low-End in a mix, and provides some detailed examples of his mixing process.


Dave Smith & Roger Linn Interview

This video, via DJ Tech Tool’s Ean Golden, captures a recent interview with electronic music pioneers Dave Smith (the Prophet V, MIDI) and Roger Linn (the LinnDrum, the MPC). The interview focuses on the key technologies that Linn & Smith have been involved with and their uses for making electronic music. [Synthtopia]


Propellerhead Reason 7 Announced – Here Are The Details

Propellerheads have announced Reason 7 – an update to their popular DAW app that adds new features and an enhanced Factory Sound Pack. With over 90 third party Rack Extensions already available, Propellerhead has focused its attention Reason’s mixer, the rack and the sequencer. New in Reason 7: MIDI out Automatic audio slicing and audio quantize Convert recordings…


Keeping up with Growing Acts with Promoter Dan Steinberg

When starting out as a Concert Promoter, you start at the smallest size venue.  Once you own promoting that venueand all the acts that come in, it’s time to expand to larger venues.  However, bands can go supernova at any second and explode onto the scene.  At that time, they may jump big time to playing larger arenas than you are accustomed to promoting.  Dan Steinberg was nominated for…


Wyclef Jean On The Combat Jack


Jared Leto Busy at SXSW

Thirty Seconds to Mars’Jared Leto—musician, actor, director and entrepreneur—will hold forth on all those areas at a series of SXSW events,  including a screening of his award-winning documentary Artifact. Leto will sit for an exclusive Twitter Music conversation today at noon, at the Sonos Lounge (608 E. 3rd St.). Two hours later, he’ll be with Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti for a Fast Company Creative Conversation at The…


Wiz Khalifa Signs Converse Deal

Wiz Khalifa took to Twitter to announce his new deal with the Converse shoe brand. The Pittsburgh native looks to be joining the ranks of Kanye West, Rick Ross, and Lil Wayne, who each have their own shoe line. It seems as if the deal got lined up thanks to Wiz’s fondness of Converse’s Chuck…


Eminem Slated To Hit The Big Screen Again

During an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, director Antoine Fuqua confirms that Eminem might finally be ready to finish up the long-awaited movie, Southpaw. When asked what he has lined up in the future, the first project Fuqua refers to is Southpaw, which he says is the project he wants to do next. When the Hollywood Reporter…


The Next Era of the Music Business

Regardless if you’re a musician or music consumer, your music life is about to change. Slowly but surely digital music distribution has been evolving from downloads to streaming, but that transition has been really picking up speed over the last 12 months. With Spotify leading the way thanks to reams of publicity, more and more consumers are…


Spotify Targets Pandora With New Services

Spotify is looking to strike a major deathblow to its rival Pandora in the global market of the very competitive free music streaming lane. The company appears to be in talks with record labels to allow it to offer listeners more free mobile streaming options and will also expand its boundaries beyond the twenty countries…