In the latest Sonic Lab, Nick Batt takes a look at the Touellskouarn  Jedonian – a new Eurorack utility module that’s designed to bridge the worlds of Volts per Octave gear and Hz per Volt gear.  Description: V/oct to Hz/V Hz/V to V/oct V-trig to S-trig V-trig to S-trig 10HP / Laser Etched red or…

Eminem made history Friday night (July 11) as the first rapper to headline London’s Wembley Stadium. During the show, his first London appearance since playing the now-defunct Docklands Arena 2001, included a surprise appearance by Dr. Dre, who collaborated with Em on such hits as “Still D.R.E.”, “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang”, “Forgot About Dre”,…

A few weeks back, the UAD Thermionic Culture Vulture plug-in blew my in ear monitors and I took it as a sign to pursue the hardware version. Compared to the standard issue Culture Vulture that UAD emulates, The Culture Vulture Super 15 edition has 7 additional distortion functions, additional drive settings, and a few extra…

His CBS special, The Beatles: The Night That Changed America, which aired on February 9, exactly 50 years after the Fab Four’s performance on The Ed Sullivan Show officially introduced them to stateside audiences, picked up six nominations, including two for him as producer and co-writer with David Wild. The show is up in the…

AraabMuzik live and going HAM with Ebro in the Morning [BeatMakingVideos]

Tommy Ramone, the original drummer for the Ramones and the band’s the last surviving original member, died on Friday at the age of 65. A spokesman for Ramone’s family confirmed the news to Rolling Stone. “Tom died yesterday, July 11, at 12:15 p.m. at his home in Ridgewood, Queens,” Andy Schwartz, publisher of New York…

SoundCloud is going fully legit, with the company rumored to be selling the three major labels a 9-15% total stake, according to sources cited by Bloomberg. The deal has yet to be announced due to certain parties being closer than others in signing, Bloomberg’s sources say. The deal would make it possible for the audio…

Following his success with the 2013 documentary Sound City, Dave Grohl decided to chronicle Foo Fighters‘ cross-country trek to record songs for their eigth album, due in November, in storied studios in eight musical cities. Among the cities he visits are Austin, Chicago and the home of country music, Nashville. The upcoming eight-part HBO series,…

Tuna DJ Gear has gone live with their Kickstarter project to create tangible knobs for multi-touch music applications. Their Tuna Knobs are control knobs that stick to any touchscreen and let you control DJ and music making apps like you would with dedicated music hardware The Kickstarter project had a €12,500 funding goal, which the project reached…

Get ready for “Total Slaughter” which takes place tomorrow, 7.12.14. [RealTalkNY]