We spent the day in LA with English super producer Alex Da Kid. We first joined Alex on the backlot of Paramount Studios, where his latest band X Ambassadors were performing with Jamie N Commons, who recently gained some attention in the hip hop world with Jungle, which featured on the ‘Beats’ World Cup advert…

  Star producer Bryan-Michael Cox shows how he creates hits – from initial idea on iMASCHINE to polished production in MASCHINE STUDIO. More: http://www.native-instruments.com/maschine Bryan-Michael Cox has produced tracks for chart-topping artists such as Usher, Mariah Carey, and Jennifer Lopez. The sketch for Tamar Braxton’s hit single ‘Pieces’ was created in iMASCHINE, then exported to…

  Gwen Stefani has recruited none other than husband Gavin Rossdale as her guest mentor for the upcoming season of The Voice.   The Bush frontman will aid the No Doubt lead during the battle round, in which Stefani must trim her number of team members, recruited during the blind auditions, in half with sudden-death…

Ever wonder where the iconic sounds of Breaking Bad came from? This video, via keyboardmag1, is a studio tour with composer Dave Porter, who scored Breaking Bad with an array of synths in his garage studio. In the video, Porter, discusses the synths he used to create the score with pro audio journalist Mr. Bonzai….

Richard King – Being a Feature Film Sound Designer from SoundWorks Collection on Vimeo. Academy Award winning sound editor Richard King has worked on such films as The Dark Knight, War of the Worlds, and Master & Commander, to date, King has captured three Best Sound Editing Oscars, the most recent in 2010 for his…

The Breakfast Club caught the first interview with the Internet’s “Hot Nigga”, Bobby Shmurda. If you turn your speakers up, he spoke on his breakout track, growing up in Brooklyn, performing with Meek Mill, The Carter’s, label offers, and more. [Rap Radar]

Rozay knows best. In an interview with Bullett, Ross weighs in on the conflict between his artists, Meek Mill and Wale. To hear him tell it, their issues have since been resolved. On the way here, something was going on with Meek Mill and Wale. As the owner of the label, how do you handle…

Months before the release of his second album, Kip Moore is waging a battle with ticket scalpers, many of whom have been buying tickets to the country singer’s headlining tour — which launches on September 25, following his summertime dates with Tim McGraw — and selling them at a significant mark-up. After exchanging heated tweets…

Even though the Los Angeles quartet has managed to hit the road intermittently over the last few years, Tool haven’t released a new album since 2006’s 10,000 Days, but it’s not because they don’t want to, according to an interview with Rolling Stone. It’s because they can’t. Though the band has plenty of musical ideas, and at…

The president of Beats by Dre has defended the sound quality of the company’s headphones. Luke Wood has disagreed with accusations that the headphones are too ‘bass heavy’. Speaking to BBC Newsbeat, Wood said: “I’ve certainly heard that as an opinion on the headphone, I disagree. We didn’t go to build a reference headphone, something…