Reports that Apple is shutting down the streaming service Beats Music emerged earlier today….

Secret Base Design has debuted an app for iOS that lets you stream audio over WiFi from one iOS device to another, or even to a Mac or PC. Apollo Sound Injector can sit in the input slot of Audiobus, and catches the streamed audio sent by Apollo Remote Recorder (Audiobus output slot)….

The producer is one of the most crucial yet anonymous figures in all of music. Every now and again we aim to illuminate these under-heralded artists with Beat Construction. This week, we spoke to Matt Martians, the Odd Future producer/keyboardist who co-founded The Internet, helmed Kilo Kish‘s debut, and inspired Kendrick Lamar with his free-form production experiment The Jet Age of…

Denied Automatically offers advanced hearing protection. Here’s the situation: you’re listening to one of Spotify’s thousands of radio stations or curated playlists (some of which are seriously worth checking out these days) and out of nowhere comes a Chris Brown track. Revolting! Fortunately you can now download a nifty little app to prevent unwanted artists…

Featuring a performance of a hybrid dubstep treatment of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” Numark has a new video out for the NV, its intelligent controller for Serato DJ….

Alt-J and Aphex Twin lead this week’s list of new album releases (September 22). ‘Syro’ is Aphex Twin’s first album in 13 years and is the follow-up to 2001’s ‘Drukqs’. In a recent interview, the producer – real name Richard James – said that the album wouldn’t be a one-off record, asserting that the project…

The annual urban fashion show, spectacle, non-stop party headquarters and celebration of urban music accomplishments is wrapping up from another smash weekend in Atlanta. Centered around the BET Hip Hop awards show, hosted by Uncle Snoop, this year’s award ceremonies featured 9 performances, 5 cyphers and a first-time-for-everything live cypher on-stage performance….

Sam Smith returns to #1 on the U.K. album chart this week, while debuts from Robert Plant, Ryan Adams and Interpol land on the leaderboard. Oh, and the Bob Marley comp Legend, which some people apparently still don’t own, celebrates its 30th anniversary at #7….

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  There is so much new gear coming out for the upcoming AES show that it’s an exciting time. One of the things I’m most excited about is the new AMS RMX16 plugin for the Universal Audio UAD platform. The original hardware box had a very distinctive sound that, along with the SSL 4k buss compressor,…