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Chauncey Mahan, who allegedly attempted to extort Jay Z, denies allegations of wrongdoing, according to TMZ. Mahan says he did not steal the master recordings he’s been accused of stealing. He says Def Jam asked him to take care of the masters in 2002 and that Jay Z “was a stupid kid smoking blunts” and that…

In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection sound profile we talk with the sound team behind Director Wally Pfister’s debut film Transcendence Featured interviews include Director Wally Pfister, Supervising Sound Editor Mark Mangini, Re-recording Mixer Terry Porter, Re-recording Mixer Jeremy Peirson, Dialogue and ADR Supervisor Byron Wilson, and Music Editor Erich Stratmann. Synopsis…

During the last 60 years, Jamaican popular music has rarely stood still, thriving on the innovations of a handful of committed practitioners that continually force the music into new directions. Although it would take time for foreigners to clock the music emanating from this Caribbean island, and even longer for them to comprehend it, there…

This is the first in a weekly series of six essays looking at hip-hop’s recent past, thinking about its distant past, and wondering about the possibility of a future. There are three famous quotes that haunt me and guide me though my days. The first is from John Bradford, the 16th-century English reformer. In prison…

Sure, there are always going to be some contrarian sorts who take it upon themselves to record to dictaphone tape and pen their sheet music on rolls of dried human flesh, but nowadays they’re in the minority. If you’re going to be recording music, chances are you’re going to need some software to do it,…

*** My new series, This is Not a Conspiracy Theory, is now live: vimeo.com/ondemand/tinact *** Remixing is a folk art but the techniques are the same ones used at any level of creation: copy, transform, and combine. You could even say that everything is a remix. To support this series please visit everythingisaremix.info/donate/ Visit us…

If you grew up playing in bar bands back in the 70s/80s, chances are you played “Pinball Wizard,” the seminal hit from The Who’s Tommy rock opera. But how many of us actually played it correctly? Take a listen to the isolated acoustic and electric guitar parts in the song. Here’s what to listen for….

Ha!…Steve Stoute stays getting punked….but I have to agree with 50 on this one…he is one of the most dangerous people in our culture…he makes artist from our culture make themselves corny by working for corperate so he can personally gain…he’s wack and he makes everyone around him look wack…beware – Damon Dash Do you…