When Rolling Stone caught up with Deadmau5 at the Made in America festival in Philadelphia over Labor Day weekend, the EDM star told us about his new partnership with Astralwerks and plans for 2014. Last weekend we met up with him again, this time preceding his headlining set on night two of the Hard Day…

Sometimes when recording, microphone placement can seem either too difficult or way too easy. As with most things in life, it’s really somewhere in the middle, but sometimes it’s not very easy to get there. Here’s an excerpt from the newly released Recording Engineer’s Handbook 3rd edition that shows 5 simple miking techniques that will…

Who cares about jet lag when you can have breakfast with Elton John and Tom Hardy? The pop icon and star turned up at a Tuesday morning breakfast in Santa Monica to personally tout Rocketman, the Elton John biopic that will star Hardy. Leading foreign sales outfit Good Universe hosted the event on the eve…

“We just set up the equipment, everyone got high, and stuff would happen,” Jerry Garcia says of the six months the Grateful Dead spent playing music at Ken Kesey’s infamous LSD parties in the mid-1960s, a run best known as the Acid Tests. The PBS series Blank on Blank has delved into the Library of…

Weeks before the launches of Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One, the gaming-console industry stands at a curious crossroads: Its platforms have served up just as much, if not more, traditional entertainment like movies, TV shows and music than they have games. “For the first time in a new cycle of consoles, the primary…

  Jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is being relocated thousands of miles to a prison colony deep in Siberia, according to her husband Peter Verzilov. Tolokonnikova has been missing for 17 days, since she vanished into the Russian prison system to be transferred to an unknown camp. Verzilov says she is now en route…

Celebrated French composer Olivier Deriviere (Remember Me, Alone In The Dark) has created a unique musical score for Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag – Freedom Cry, the latest chapter in Ubisoft’s historical action-adventure open world video game series. Set in the Caribbean at the dawn of the 18th Century, Freedom Cry is a stand-alone story…

In an interview with U.S. radio station NPR, M.I.A. gave a spiritual reason for her humorous (and subsequently quite troublesome) middle-finger to the Super Bowl audience in 2012. Since the incident, the NFL have been desperate to prove that the gesture was harmful (and therefore be able to sue for a great deal of money),…

Pandora fared well in the first full month iTunes Radio was available in the United States. The Internet radio company’s listener hours grew 8% from September to 1.47 billion, according to figures revealed by CFO Mike Herring at a Morgan Stanley investor event Monday evening….

Korg has started a series of video tutorials that look at how to use the MS-20 Mini analog synthesizer. The initial videos look at the MS-20 Mini’s envelope generator and oscillators….