Late night talk show host Arsenio Hall shared his thoughts on race and Hip Hop in a newly-released interview with Vlad TV. The actor/television personality spoke on the matter when asked what his thoughts on white rappers today and white rappers of the past are. While responding to the question, Arsenio recalled listening to…

We start with a listen to the quite remarkable modeliing instruments of Sample Modelling – in this case the Flute and discuss the wider options, then Kinetix robot modular performance, and finally Apple’s reliance on creative apps to pimp their wares which leads to a wider talk on the dumbing down of GUI and software….

Learn more about Dubspot’s Sound Design Program: http://www.dubspot.com/sound-design/ Last year Dubspot presented a special sound design workshop with electronic producer and software programmer BT. Check out part one of a two-part video recap. Head over to our blog for more info: http://blog.dubspot.com/?p=63756 [Dubspot]

We get a good long look at the Analog RYTM – Elektron’s latest in the new analog series. Cenk AKA Dataline is driving the Rytm in the way only he can. [Sonic State]

Dave Pensado visits with Vance Powell and John McBride in Nashville, Tennessee. [Pensado’s Place]

Renman Troy Carter is the CEO of Atom Factory and manages one of the biggest artists to take the industry by storm in recent memory: Lady GaGa. Make sure to tune in and hear about all the interesting things that Troy is doing! We are also joined by Daytrotter’s Sean Moeller and he tells us…

  In part one of a two-part interview, Jian speaks to Quincy Jones about his musical past and most vivid memories, including how he went from “baby gangster” to musical great, and how a near-death experience left him with only one fear. Q is your daily dose of arts, culture and entertainment. Join host, Jian…

In this clip from www.artistshousemusic.org – Tony Moreno from NYU gives advice for those wishing to become professional musicians. He stresses that you have to have the passion for what you do. Tony Moreno is a Professor of jazz percussion at New York University’s Steinhardt School. He has toured with artists such as David Phillips…

D’Angelo, the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for popularising the short-lived neo-soul movement in the late 90s and early 00s, sat down for a rare public conversation about his career for Red Bull Music Academy’s 2014 Festival New York. The entire conversation is now available to watch on YouTube. In Conversation With D’Angelo took…

Today marks 100 years since was born — or, as the musician might have put it, since he arrived on Earth. An influential jazz composer, keyboardist and bandleader, Sun Ra always insisted he was just visiting this planet. “Since I don’t consider myself as one of the humans, I’m a spiritual being myself,” he said…