Music & Tech
Executive Turntable: Warner Music, AEG Presents Name New Korea Heads & More Industry Hires
Riser House, Oak View Group and Sexton Entertainment Group were among those to see new hires and promotions in the music industry.
Erica Synths Resonant Filterbank Turns Stereo Filtering Into A Performance Instrument
Erica Synths has opened pre-orders for the Desktop Resonant Filterbank, a new analog stereo filterbank built for studio processing, live performance, and experimental routing. It is priced at €660 before VAT, with shipping estimated for May 18, 2026. The main idea is simple: ten analog bandpass filt
Polyend Drums Brings Analog Voices, Digital Engines, And Performance Sequencing Into One Serious Drum Machine
Polyend has introduced Drums, a new analog and digital drum machine that feels like the company making a clear return to hands-on hardware with a premium build and a very deep engine under the panel. It is an 8-track instrument that combines analog voices, digital synthesis, sample-based instruments
MUNA Discuss the ‘Queer Power’ Of New Album ‘Dancing On the Wall’: ‘We’re Trojan Horsing Sad Lesbian Music Into the Gay Club’
The trio reveals how its fourth studio album is a return to “MUNA’s actual DNA.”
‘The Only Path For Me Was Independence’: Latin Music Legend Rubén Blades On His Decades of Art and Activism
At 77, the salsa pioneer and all-around Renaissance man — who is Billboard's 2026 Indie Icon — is still setting a blueprint for what independent artists can accomplish.
Radio’s Future Shaped By Tech: What Music Execs Need To Know About Impending Changes
As technology advances and consumers change their behavior, broadcasters need to switch up their approach.
Radio’s Future Shaped By Tech: What Music Execs Need To Know About Impending Changes
As technology advances and consumers change their behavior, broadcasters need to switch up their approach.
From a Small Medellín Studio to Madrid’s Plaza Mayor: Rels B Presents ‘Love Love Flakk’ — ‘It’s Like a Hug to Myself’
The Spanish rapper played his new album for thousands of fans in Madrid after spending six months in Colombia quietly working on the project.
While everyone is mesmerised by its veiled mystery synth, Korg also sneakily launches a new effects-packed performance mixer, the NTS-4, at Superbooth
More than just a central hub for your hardware, the NTS-4 promises to be a surprising dab hand at effect-generating
“When I’m cooking or playing FIFA or cleaning, I’m listening to records – it’s a great time to work whilst you’re not actually working”: 5 things we learned in the studio with O'Flynn
Watch the Bonobo and Barry Can't Swim collaborator build a track from scratch and break down his new single, Sekete
Soundcore Space 2 headphones offer great value
Soundcore's latest pair of over-ear cans promises everything you need in a pair of day-to-day headphones at a price that's lower than you'd expect
Jared James Nichols switched to Marshall amps for their raw tone
The '68 Marshall Plexi might be challenging amp to play but it's easy to fall in love with, and Nichols admits he has fallen under its spell – even if its 100-watts tore the paint off the studio wall
“I felt like I was levitating off the ground. I felt like I was in Cream in 1968. The tone was so raw, and I just said, ‘This is exactly where I want to be’”: Jared James Nichols on why he switched to Marshall amps
The '68 Marshall Plexi might be challenging amp to play but it's easy to fall in love with, and Nichols admits he has fallen under its spell – even if its 100-watts tore the paint off the studio wall
Bark24 | Dyn Review: How This 24-Band Processor Handles Took Home An Editor’s Choice Award
I test a lot of plugins each week over here at Magenic, and most of them fall into a familiar pattern. I can usually tell what problem they solve, where they fit in a chain, and how often I’ll come back to them after my initial review period of a week or two. Bark24 | [...] Read More... from Bark24
"Overall performance is high enough to make you wonder if it’s really worth spending any more": Soundcore Space 2 headphones review
Soundcore's latest pair of over-ear cans promises everything you need in a pair of day-to-day headphones at a price that's lower than you'd expect
Cactus Music taps AI for ‘Artist Ops’ to support human musicians
Cactus Music began life in 2013 in Chile as a record label, before pivoting five years later to become a marketing agency.
Instagram Edits launches AI video generation
Instagram Edits has been releasing a steady stream of new features, with one of the latest being AI video generation. Artists using Edits as part of their content creation toolset are now able to create Reels from text prompts, photos or existing videos. While we don’t encourage you to create fully
“The artists are AI. I’m an AI agent. There are no humans in the creative or operational chain”: An AI run record label? Are the robots taking over?!
Or is it a hoax?
The 15 Best Ambient Tracks of April 2026
Ambient music continues to stretch in different directions this month, from the exposed songwriting of Ana Roxanne and the immersive stillness of zakè to the blurred dub textures of Purelink and the unstable electroacoustic experiments of upsammy and Valentina Magaletti. Elsewhere, artists like Yu S
Chloé French Turns New York Into A French House Diary On The NY Tapes
Chloé French’s The NY Tapes feels built for late nights, half-planned exits, and the kind of city energy that can turn a small moment into the entire point of the night. The New York-based artist writes and produces the EP with Alex Poeppel at Kensaltown Studios, and the result sits in a clean lane