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Boards of Canada Release 'Inferno', First New Album in 13 Years

Boards of Canada have released Inferno, their long-awaited fifth studio album and first in 13 years. Boards of Canada Release Inferno, First New Album in 13 Years: Stream Alex Krinsky

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aespa's 'Lemonade' Album Review

Five years deep and undeniably massive, aespa's second studio album proves their biggest competition remains themselves

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aespa – ‘Lemonade’ review: harder and faster, but not always better or stronger

Five years deep and undeniably massive, aespa's second studio album proves their biggest competition remains themselves

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Boards of Canada Release Inferno, First New Album in 13 Years: Stream

Boards of Canada have released Inferno, their long-awaited fifth studio album and first in 13 years. Boards of Canada Release Inferno, First New Album in 13 Years: Stream Alex Krinsky

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Klevgrand Altitude Turns Vocal Processing Into A Playable Instrument

Klevgrand’s Altitude feels like one of those vocal plugins that is aiming at a pretty specific problem, which is that vocals can be the most expressive thing in a session and still end up getting treated with the same predictable chain every time. Tuning, compression, EQ, delay, reverb, maybe a doub

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Audio Damage Traverse Turns Cassette Damage Into A Stereo Delay Plugin

Audio Damage Traverse feels like one of those plugins that starts with a simple promise and then gets a lot weirder once you sit with the details. On paper, it is a cassette effect and a stereo delay in one plugin. In use, the appeal seems to be how quickly it can turn a clean [...] Read More... fro

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BLEASS Spectral Resonator Review: Great for Transforming Everyday Sounds Into Cinematic Texture

I love it when an audio plugin invites experimentation the second you load it up. You throw it on a drum loop, tweak a couple knobs, and suddenly your clean groove sounds like it’s floating through deep space.  BLEASS Spectral Resonator falls does a great job with this, but it also does a whole lot

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Arturia Memory V Emulation

Moog’s ‘80s poly gets emulated with modern enhancements including a multi-track arpeggiator and new modulators

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Scaler Music Expands Carbon Electra With Scale-Aware Sequencing And Filters

Carbon Electra 2 feels like Scaler Music taking on the synthesis side that can get a little too technical, then pulling it closer to actual writing. A lot of synth plugins offer endless modulation, oscillator modes, routing, and effects, which is useful, but it can also leave the musical idea buried

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Gaana’s subscribers are growing at the rate of 15% per year, says CEO

How is Indian audio-streaming service Gaana faring three-and-a-half years after it became a subscription-only platform? Better than ever before based on the stats shared during its parent company Entertainment Network […] The post is from Music Ally.

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Gracie Abrams Announces Arena Tour for New Album

The pop star is gearing up to release her third studio album, Daughter From Hell.

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“Sets an entirely new benchmark for portable, affordable audio interfaces”: SSL just released its cheapest audio interface yet

The SSL 1 is a 2-in/2-out device that comes at a very tempting price

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Gracie Abrams to Embark on Arena Tour in Support of New Album: ‘I HAVE MISSED YOU’

The pop star is gearing up to release her third studio album, Daughter From Hell.

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Creator voices are not being heard in AI discussions, says CISAC’s Björn Ulvaeus in annual report

CISAC has published its annual report. In it the organisation’s President, Björn Ulvaeus, says it’s good that lawmakers around the world are now considering copyright issues in relation to AI, but creators often aren’t in the room when that happens, which means their voices are “not being heard”

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Arturia Memory V Emulates Classic Moog Synthesizer

Moog’s ‘80s poly gets emulated with modern enhancements including a multi-track arpeggiator and new modulators

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Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp to get ‘Plus’ subscriptions

Meta has been dabbling in the idea of paid tiers for its key services for a while now, albeit sometimes as a response to regulation rather than a wholehearted push into the subscriptions economy. That may be changing now though. Meta’s head of product, Naomi Gleit, has announced the global rollout o

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Sond is a sleep-tech startup using its own library of music

Music that puts you to sleep isn’t always an insult: sometimes it’s a business worth $7m of funding from investors when it emerges from stealth mode. That’s Sond, a Boston-based sleep-technology startup that has unveiled its first product – ‘Dreambuds’ – this week with a Kickstarter campaign. Launch

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AudioShake rolls out its new ‘Copyright Compliance System’

AudioShake’s origin story is a startup using AI for stem-separation purposes, but over time it is branching out into something bigger. Its latest product shows how. It’s called the ‘Copyright […] The post is from Music Ally.

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Björn Ulvaeus: ‘AI is moving faster than the rules that protect creators’

Global collecting-societies body Cisac has published its annual report for 2026. This isn’t the publication where it counts collections for the previous year – that’s the ‘Global Collections Report’ published in November. Instead, the annual report focuses on “global advocacy, policy engagement and

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Arturia Memory V Recreates Iconic Moog Synthesizer

Moog’s ‘80s poly gets emulated with modern enhancements including a multi-track arpeggiator and new modulators