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Dave and Herb are joined by Cole Nystrom, Chongor Goncz, Brian Petersen, and Jonathan Deans to thank all those who helped make the Pensado Awards (which will be posted July 10th) a reality! This week’s Into The Lair, Dave shows you some vocal tweaks he performed on a Macy Gray song. Special thanks to all…

Here’s a brilliant breakdown of the individual tracks from The Rolling Stones seminal “Gimme Shelter.” I’ve posted isolated tracks from this song before, but they usually end up getting taken down by the record label, so check this one out while you can. The difference in this video is that most of the individual elements…

Join us on July 9th for another Renman LIVE! with Harvest record’s Jacqueline Saturn. Jacq as she is called by her friends is one of the best radio promotion people in the business. She’s worked with some of the biggest artists around from Pearl Jam, Modest Mouse, Rage Against the Machine and my old friends,…

Jian speaks with Reggie Watts, a comedic performer and multi-instrumentalist with a penchant for the absurd. The fearless improviser is now in his third season as the co-star and band leader on the hit faux-talk show “Comedy Bang! Bang!” Q is your daily dose of arts, culture and entertainment. Join host, Jian Ghomeshi, as he…

Thanks to the latest Net Neutrality ruling by the FCC in May, the companies that control the digital pipes can that we all use now can begin to charge content providers for providing their customers with higher speed pipelines. AT&T’s new Sponsored Data Service is a good example, where content distributors pay for the privilege…

One month after Kendrick Lamar covered Tupac Shakur‘s “California Love” at the iHeartMusic Awards, he has taken on some of the most iconic songs by other rappers in a round of hip-hop karaoke. Holed up in XXL’s office, Lamar goes at it alone as he figures out the karaoke machine and cues up Eminem‘s “My…

The latest episode of Sonic State’s Sonic Lab is a review of the M-Audio Trigger Finger Pro, an MPC-style MIDI controller. Host Nick Batt takes a look at the new MPC-style MIDI controller, introduced at this year’s NAMM Show….

In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection sound profile we talk with Skywalker Sound Re-recording Mixer and Sound Designer Steve Boeddeker and Supervising dialogue editor Brandon Proctor. Synopsis…

Festival D’été in Quebec City may not yet have the same cachet as Coachella or Bonnaroo, but the 11-day music festival (July 3-13) boasting such A-listers as Lady Gaga, Bryan Adams, Billy Joel, deadmau5, Soundgarden, Queens of the Stone Age, The Killers and Snoop Dogg is the best value. Now in its 47th year, the…