Not for any reason of snotty schadenfreude, nor argument with his musical direction – that’s a complicated issue, which we’ll get to presently – but because it’ll probably be good for him. Beni Adejumo has always been a fascinating character, and though he was extremely adept at playing the superstar DJ – striking poses on…

In T.I.’s latest interview with Funkmaster Flex the King of the South explains how he’s responsible for ending Rick Ross’s & Young Jeezy’s beef. This is T.I.’s second attempt to get the two rappers to settle their beef and he finally succeeded. RESPECT: AllHipHop [Al Lindstrom]

Police in Milwaukee have recovered “Lipinski” – a 300-year-old Stradivarius as he was walking to his car with the rare violin. , quoting law enforcement officials, says the instrument has been found: “Milwaukee police have arrested three suspects in connection with the theft … two men, ages 42 and 36, and a woman, 32 —…

During their years as a club band on the Las Vegas strip, Imagine Dragons covered more than 100 songs, by everyone from U2 to the Cure. For their upcoming arena tour, which kicks off on February 8th in Boise, Idaho, the band wants to step up its game, but also pay homage to their early days. The group…

Here’s a quick video tour, via markusfuller, of the inside of the Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 12 keyboard synthesizer. [Synthtopia]

Here’s another outtake from the great Jimi Hendrix American Masters documentary shown on PBS last year. This one shows my buddy engineer Eddie Kramer, Jimi’s manager and producer Chas Chandler, drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Noel Redding describing the making the “Bold As Love,” the title song for the band’s Axis: Bold As Love album….

Cher says her record label “hasn’t got a great deal of interest in my CD” and that the “decision makers” at the company “don’t seem to care that much.” Cher released her most recent album, Closer to the Truth, last September on Warner Bros. Records. It debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart,…

“The thing about it is that there are so many records that are being made right now, which is also exciting, and whether they come out tomorrow or a year from now, there’s definitely a lot of bullets in the chamber,” Skrillex said. “That’s the cool thing about…

If you want an explanation for why you’d want to build sophisticated audio into the Web, maybe it’s just because you don’t like fun. Fun is what you get out of this Web Audio Theremin toy, the work of one Luke Phillips of Femur Design. “Theremin” is a loose term here. In terms of continuous…

This video, via Electronic Beats, takes a trip to PHILSYNTH – a vintage synth dealer in Berlin.   “I really am a fan of originality. It is quite noticeable with transistors. Even transistors that have been built for 20, 30 years and are still being built, that have the same name and suffix etc. and the…