The long awaited interview with none other than Pharrell Williams. This episode is full of mutual admiration, classic stories, and an all around iconoclastic explosiveness that will knock your Arby’s hat clean off… u-funky-b***-u. [Real Talk NY]

Much to my surprise, it seems that people actually care about my favorite gear, since the response to both my favorite compressors and mic pres was so great. As a result, I thought it was time for another “My Favorite” post, this time about my top 10 equalizers. These are hardware or plugin EQs that…

A week before Jimi Hendrix unexpectedly passed away in 1970, he sat down with British journalist Keith Altham for what would be his last known interview. PBS’ animated web series Blank on Blank has gotten hold of the audio tapes and animated six minutes of their conversation, where Hendrix lightheartedly explains his views on politics,…

Kendrick Lamar, who is in in the midst of international tour dates, recently recalled his initial meeting with Dr. Dre. “I was very excited,” Kendrick Lamar says during an interview with i-d.vice.com. “I wasn’t nervous at all. I was more excited, ’cause I knew that this was my shot, everything that l’ve worked for, everything…

In a new interview, electronic music pioneer and president of the International Confederation of Authors and Composers Societies (CISAC) Jean Michel Jarre shared his thoughts on the Internet, intellectual property and how they relate to the future of music. “Our fight and our battle about intellectual property is not defending the rights of rich artists…sitting…

Chris Brown won’t be going to jail. A judge has rejected a prosecutor’s motion to have the R&B superstar put behind bars. Brown appeared in an L.A. courtroom on Monday with his girlfriend Karrueche Tran and attorney Mark Geragos. After reviewing evidence in…

Ke$ha’s music producer Dr. Luke is in serious danger, according to the LAPD, after some of the singer’s fans went nuclear — blaming Luke for her eating disorder. LAPD’s Threat Management Unit filed legal docs — obtained by TMZ — asking for a search warrant to hunt down the identity of people who are threatening…

Reps. Henry A. Waxman and Anna Eshoo have introduced new net neutrality legislation that restores the Federal Communication Commission’s open internet rules that were struck down last month in a different ruling by D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. If passed, the Open Internet Preservation Act would continue to prevent broadband providers from restricting or privileging…

At the 2014 NAMM Show, we got an update on the state of Bitwig Studio, from Bitwig’s Dominik Wilms. He also discusses some of the technologies that underly the new app, and why he thinks that they give it an advantage over current DAWs. The cross platform DAW (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) is created by some of the…

At the NAMM Show 2014, we had a quick walkthrough Apogee Electronics Symphony I/O flagship converter unit, which serves as a standard gateway to and from any Apple workstation or Mac-based DAW. [Dubspot]