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2020 was all about spending time at home, mostly due to the quarantine. With 2021 here, and the pandemic still not leaving, its likely most of us will continue to spend a lot of time indoors. Social media has been flooded with people demonstrating some recreational activity they took up during quarantine. Whether its painting, journaling, podcasts, and so on. So, why not find a hobby of your own? And for this reason, I present to you music production. Now, some of you might already be musically...

We caught up with the revered music producer to hear about how the pandemic has affected his area of the music industry. The COVID-19 pandemic hit the music industry hard in 2020, and it’s still recovering. While the live performance sector copped the bulk of the brunt, the restrictions forced all facets of the industry […]

The 50 Moments That Defined Hip-Hop, in Photos By Seth Berkman, Stacker On 1/3/21 at 12:00 PM EST It was 1979 when The Sugar Hill Gang released "Rappers Delight," a song widely considered to be the first hip-hop track. But hip-hops history stretches back much further than Wonder Mike uttering those famous first lyrics: "Now, what you hear is not a test, Im rapping to the beat/And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet." Early influencers of hip-hop included jazz music...

0Shares Master Kato’s music is genetically different from Shoreline Mafia’s. The former member of the legendary west coast group is paving the way for his own solo career. Born and partially raised on the south side of Chicago, Kato moved to California with his mom and aunt to escape the turmoil, and eventually picked up music based off of encouragement from a friend. As a solo artist, his aesthetic is noticeably steeped in Chicago drill and the woozy, narcotic style of southern trap. His ...

Beams Anna Coddington’s thin, wispy vocals fit her songs beautifully, providing a wonderful lilting quality that pervades her latest album Beams. Deceptively soft and insubstantial, the hooks latch on and slowly attach themselves to your subconscious, producing instant ear worms. Drenched in gently poignant and deeply personal lyricism, Coddington’s fourth solo album (and first in four years since 2016’s Luck/Time displays a poetry of longing and desire, perfectly suited to soothing th...

Beams Anna Coddingtons thin, wispy vocals fit her songs beautifully, providing a wonderful lilting quality that pervades her latest album Beams. Deceptively soft and insubstantial, the hooks latch on and slowly attach themselves to your subconscious, producing instant ear worms. Drenched in gently poignant and deeply personal lyricism, Coddingtons fourth solo album (and first in four years since 2016s Luck/Time displays a poetry of longing and desire, perfectly suited to soothing these anxiou...

Anton Newcombe needs no introductions. As founder member of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, he has a recording career spanning a decade-and-a-half, and next month sees his band release their thirteenth full-length album, My Bloody Underground. Recorded between Liverpool and Reykjavik at the back end of last year, as well as the latest incarnation of his band it also features contributions from several little-known Icelandic musicians and ex-Ride frontman Mark Gardener. Of course, most people wo...

It was an interesting experience to have a phone conversation with the infamous Steve Albini. To be honest with you, I was pretty nervous about the whole thing, as I’d heard reports about the guy ripping into fanzine journos for no apparent reason. So it was with great relief that I found the Shellac guitarist to be both cordial and eloquent. 1. All Tomorrow Parties. We were invited to play in 2000 ( Mogwai curated ATP) and we were all immediately impressed with the unique nature of the...

Ocean Way HR5 Ocean Way’s newest studio speakers bring the sound of ’70s horn‑loaded mains to the nearfield monitor format. Who says all nearfield monitors are the same? The subject of this review is the Ocean Way HR5 active nearfield monitor and it’s very much not run‑of‑the‑mill, either in terms of its appearance or electro‑acoustic design. It’s an unusual one there is no doubt. Before I get on to why the HR5 looks the way it does, and what that means, perhaps a little Oce...

Focusrite Red 8Line The spearhead of Focusrite Pro’s Red range enjoys some light refreshment. Back in 2016, Focusrite’s Pro division entered the market for high‑end audio interfaces with the Red 4Pre. Not just a good‑sounding Thunderbolt interface, the 4Pre was also a gateway to the wonderful world of audio over IP, providing both native systems and Pro Tools HDX rigs with the means to access up to 32 I/O streams from a Dante network. Focusrite swiftly followed up with 8Pre and 16Lin...