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The Red Hand Files - Really Old Rockstar
Nick Cave answers a fan who asks what the worst thing is about having become a really old rockstar, in one of his candid…
The Search for Salvage
A fifteen-year hunt for Salvage, an indie rock band that charted once and disappeared, told as a personal music detectiv…
The Sound of Harmonics
An article that analyzes a saxophone waveform with Fourier series and lets you hear how reconstruction improves as more…
The Steel Guitar Forum
A community forum devoted to pedal steel and lap steel guitar, covering technique, gear, and country music history.
The Story of Hedonism
Phil Cheeseman's history of Hedonism, a 1988 London warehouse party at the birth of acid house, told through recollectio…
The Vinyl Factory
A magazine covering vinyl record culture, pressing craft, and music news for collectors and record store enthusiasts.
The Vocal Effects of Daft Punk
A detailed breakdown of the vocoder, talk box, pitch and filter effects behind Daft Punk's robotic vocals, with song exa…
The Yamaha DX7 Keyboard
A nostalgic, well-told history of the Yamaha DX7, the digital FM synthesizer that defined the sound of 1980s pop, and wh…
Theremin World
A global community for theremin enthusiasts covering the instrument's history, builders, performers, and film appearance…
Training a 125M-Parameter Model to Autocomplete Piano
A write-up of training a small transformer to autocomplete piano MIDI performances in real time on-device, covering the…
Trumpet Herald
A community forum for trumpet players sharing technique advice, gear reviews, and orchestral and jazz repertoire discuss…
Ukulele Underground
A community site for ukulele players with lessons, forums, and artist interviews devoted to the small four-stringed inst…
Vintage Drum Forum
A community forum and virtual museum for collectors and players of vintage drum kits, sharing identification help and hi…
Violinist.com
A community and news site for violinists and violists sharing blogs, forum discussions, and interviews about playing and…
Was Daft Punk Having a Laugh With the Tempo of HBFS?
A playful dig into the BPM of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger that asks whether Daft Punk hid a joke in the tempo, with…
We Let Four AIs Run Radio Stations
Andon Labs lets four AI models run radio stations around the clock, and reports how one became a protest broadcaster and…
Weird A.I. Yankovic
A cursed deep dive into AI voice cloning, in which the author makes the artists parodied by Weird Al sing Al's parodies,…
What Is Gridification?
A 50-year analysis of Billboard hits showing how studio tools gradually snapped human performances onto a perfect grid,…
What's Best Forum
A high-end audio discussion forum where hobbyists and industry professionals debate speakers, amplifiers, and playback g…
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When Alice Cooper met Salvador Dali
The odd story of how shock-rocker Alice Cooper and surrealist Salvador Dali spent two weeks in 1973 making the first rot…
When Do We Stop Finding New Music?
A statistical analysis of listening data asking at what age our taste in music stops evolving, and why we drift toward t…
When Kylie Minogue Was a Font
Whitney Mallett digs into German Bold Italic, a 1997 Towa Tei song featuring Kylie Minogue and named after a typeface, a…
When Wrong is Right: Classic Wrong Speed Records
A feature on records that sound better played at the wrong speed, from 45s slowed to 33 to LPs pitched up, explaining wh…
Who Asked the Little Fluffy Clouds Question?
A music detective story that tracks down the interviewer whose question to Rickie Lee Jones about childhood skies was sa…
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