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SampleRadar: 213 free wooden percussion samples

We cast aside our castanets and bashed together as many wooden objects as we could find to offer up some organic percussion ...
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“You’re not working with anyone else. You don’t have to worry even for two seconds about what they think”: Boy George on why he prefers writing songs with AI than hu…

One of the reasons he says is that you don’t have to bother with pesky human co-writers. “You’re not working with anyone else ...
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“Dylan said the answer was blowing in the wind, he didn’t tell you what the answer was”: Jack White on why he doesn’t write protest songs

“Well, when Dylan said the answer was blowing in the wind, he didn’t tell you what the answer was, ” White pointed out. “ I ...
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Harry Styles outs himself as an unlikely modular synth fan in new Netflix special, but was all that knob-twiddling for real?

Styles' setup also included a Roland SP-404 MKII sampler, Roland RE-201 Space Echo tape delay unit and a Sequential Prophet-6 analogue synth ...
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“There’s a misconception about the vocals being buried - they aren’t”: My Bloody Valentine’s sound engineer on wrangling the shoegaze pioneers’ huge live setup

Sound engineer Marc Carolan shares the challenges and excitement of helping bring My Bloody Valentine's first headline tour in over a decade to life ...
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“This will revolutionise the ticketing marketplace”: Deal has been worked out between the US Justice Department and Live Nation

One of them is that Ticketmaster (which is owned by Live Nation) will be required to open up its platform to rival ticketing companies and allow third-party sellers such as Eventbrite to list tickets ...
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“Music is just such a sweet shop. There are so many styles and talents, and it’s hard to just stick to one thing”: Jonny Greenwood to release another collab album with ...

Jonny Greenwood has been keeping busy. In between his soundtrack work and The Smile, he’s found time to record a belated follow-up to Junun, an album he released back in 2015 with the Israeli musician ...