Black Midi: Hellfire review – gruesome rock opera is a little too clever | Music

Black Midi: Hellfire album cover

The third album by Black Midi is nothing if not wildly eclectic. You hear sleazy-sounding arrangements with tango-esque rhythms created under the influence of Kurt Weill; luscious, cinematic strings; ranting spoken-word passages delivered in a […]

Remembering Dave Smith, inventor of MIDI and the Prophet-5 synthesizer : NPR

Remembering Dave Smith, inventor of MIDI and the Prophet-5 synthesizer : NPR

Dave Smith, center, photographed attending the 2015 North American Music Merchants convention in Anaheim, Calif. Pete Brown/Wikimedia Commons The sound of pop music in the ’80s was shaped by synthesizers – and one of the […]