Superstar electronic music producer BT & Dr Richard Boulanger, Professor of Electronic Production and Design at Berklee College of Music, have released a new music app, MUSE, which works with the Leap Motion controller & OS X. The MUSE app gives the user the ability to create ambient electronic music using gestures, captured by the…

“We titled this episode “a conversation with illmind” because this is not your typical Straight Shooters show. ilmind took us into super duper nerdy producer world and fascinated the shit out of us. From working on the new Mobb Deep album to his first sessions with 50 Cent and Sha Money XL — illmind brings…

Mikey T The Movie Star Exclusive Inside the Studio with Scott Storch and Keyshia Cole recording for her 6th Studio Album “Point of No Return” S …Follow us on Twitter @ScottStorch @MTMovieStar Info@StorchMusic.com to Book Scott Storch [BeatMakingVideos]

The Monsters and The Strangerz are a production and songwriting team from Miami, Florida. The team consists of The Monsters: Alexander “Xplicit” Izquierdo, Stefan Johnson, Jordan Johnson and The Strangerz: Marcus “Marc Lo” Lomax and Clarence Coffee Jr. The Monsters originated as a group in 2008 when Stefan Johnson engineered a session for then Hip-Hop…

Fresh off contributing writing and vocals to Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience and Jay Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail, singer-songwriter and producer James Fauntleroy joins Dave and Herb in the 142nd episode of Pensado’s Place! [Pensado’s Place]

When Brooklyn rapper Memphis Bleek found himself with the urge to work on something outside of music, he says he was approached by fellow artist Jay Z about working with D’usse, a cognac that was introduced to the U.S. market in 2012, and was subsequently introduced to “a whole new world.” While speaking with Mikey…

When Wu-Tang Clan announced recently that they’d be pressing only one copy of their upcoming album The Wu – Once Upon A Time In Shaolin and would put it up for auction after a museum listening tour, the general thought of music industry insiders was that this was a giant publicity stunt. Well, stunt it…

Nirvana, who set music and fashion trends with their grunge sound but whose career was cut short by leader Kurt Cobain’s suicide 20 years ago, led inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Thursday. Kiss entered the Hall thumbing its nose at critics, the blue-eyed soul duo Hall & Oates called for…

DJ Drama said that Young Thug is signed to Atlantic Records’ imprint 300. Drama, an A&R at Atlantic, spoke with Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club show this morning about working with Thug, and added that he is currently being managed by Birdman. He clarified, however, that Thug was not signed to YMCMB. Two weeks ago,…

Establishing a groove on a song is usually the job of the rhythm section, but not always. Sometimes a rhythm guitar part or a percussion track makes the groove and everything is built around it. Quincy Jones once told me that Michael Jackson’s sense of time was so good that he could establish the groove…