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• Radiohead launches digital 'public library' of the band’s archive

  If you've ever spent hours trolling the web for information about Radiohead, today’s your lucky day. In a press release, the band announced they have created the Radiohead Public Library, a centralized collection of information and media. It states: The internet as a whole has ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Spotify’s 2019 Wrapped has arrived: Here’s what you need to know

  It's that time of year again! Spotify's 2019 Wrapped list is out, meaning you can find out what music you listening to most ...

  • Callum Booth

• Loog Pro review: You won't find a better guitar for kids, but the app might frustrate you

  The best way to learn how to play a guitar is whichever method works for you. Anyone who tells you different is either selling something or justifying a purchase. That being said, in my experience the best guitar to teach your kids to play on – through whatever method you choose ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This music venue can track brain responses during performances

  All evidence indicates that music plays a significant role in every human society, both past and present. When we gather to celebrate, rejoice or mourn, music moves us in powerful ways. Caregivers around the world sing to infants to soothe, play with, and teach them. And yet we are ...

  • The Conversation

• These free ebooks from Sonarworks are a godsend for studio engineers

  The studio calibration experts at Sonarworks recently launched an ebook series aimed at helping musicians and engineers get the most of out their home studio. If you dabble in music production and/or recording, these free PDFs should be considered must-read material. There are ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How to build a production and recording studio that fits in a backpack

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Anyone can produce and record music. Perhaps you and a buddy from work have been jamming in the break room and you want to record it, or maybe ...

  • Tristan Greene

• BAE Audio president Mark Loughman on analog versus digital, abandoned tech, and the NWO

  There's a good chance you've never heard of BAE Audio. Despite being one of the most prestigious high-end audio gear manufacturers in the US, it doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry. However, you've definitely heard music made using its gear. Everyone from Queens of the Stone Age ...

  • Tristan Greene

• I let Izotope's AI handle the mixing in my recording studio and now I'm on the machines' side

  Izotope's Neutron 3 Advanced audio software is an AI-powered mixing assistant you inject into your favorite DAW. It uses machine learning to balance and EQ your audio tracks so you can spend more time getting your music right and less time fiddling with virtual knobs and sliders. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Review: Sensel's Morph is the perfect trackpad controller for musicians and other creatives

  Sensel's Morph is a pressure-sensitive touch controller that's easier to use than it is to describe. Unlike other touchpads, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Sweetwater Studios began in a van, now it's the heart of a $725M enterprise

  Some of the richest companies have the humblest beginnings. Google and Facebook started in dorms, Microsoft was launched ...

  • Tristan Greene

• A peek at legendary architect John Storyk's design process

  John Storyk, the founder of WSDG, an acoustic consulting and A/V integration firm, is a legend in the music world. He's ...

  • Tristan Greene

• These BOSS pedals make you sound like a guitar god

  Learning to play guitar is a lot of fun (and easier than ever), but somewhere around my 500th attempt at the main riff from ...

  • Tristan Greene