Psychedelics, spies and Swedish jazz: how Deathloop made video games sound cool | Games

Deathloop soundtrack composer Tom Salta with his Minimoog.

How do you make music sound cool? How can you explain why the soundtrack to, say, any of the spy films of the 1960s still sound cool decades later? How can Foxy Lady still get […]

Nicki Minaj Calls Out Rappers Who Copy Their Idols’ Sound

Nicki Minaj performing at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards.

Nicki Minaj is getting real about her thoughts on the current state of music. The “Super Freaky Girl” rapper spoke to Jada Pinkett Smith for Interview Magazine‘s fall 2022 cover story, published on Oct. 18, […]

New York Philharmonic’s new home is finally designed for good sound : Deceptive Cadence : NPR

Revisiting San Juan Hill, the neighborhood destroyed to make way for Lincoln Center

The new David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center opens this week, and while the travertine marble exterior of the hall remains the same, everything inside has changed, said Deborah Borda, president and CEO of the […]

‘Björk said it should sound like the Cantina band!’: the enduring influence of Star Wars’ bizarre jazz group | Music

John Williams with Star Wars character C-3PO in 1980.

Of all the gin joints in all the galaxy, Luke Skywalker walked into Mos Eisley Cantina. A wretched hive of villainy where your pint of blue milk might get spilled by some unfriendly bum-faced alien, […]

James Bond Soundtracks Receives A Tribute By Amazon Prime Video Through Their The Sound of 007 Documentary

James Bond Receives A Tribute From Amazon Prime Video Through A Documentary On Its Music

Amazon Prime Video Pays A Tribute To James Bond’s Music ( Photo Credit – A Still From No Time to Die ) In addition to streaming 25 James Bond Films, Prime Video will Premiere The […]

Jake Blount on his Afrofuturist folk climate eulogy: ‘What would music sound like when we’re dead?’ | Folk music

‘If we carry on as we are, denying individual and institutional responsibility for the environment, this dystopia will be our reality.’

When Florida security guard George Zimmerman was acquitted over his shooting of unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2013, 18-year-old Jake Blount turned to the past to cope with his despair. “I wanted to know […]

With Kendrick Lamar, Blxst has become the sound of L.A. hip-hop

A man performing onstage.

On a suffocating afternoon in early September, the cavernous Hollywood Palladium was unnaturally empty. Inside, the South-Central hip-hop artist Blxst (pronounced “Blast”) ran through a soundcheck before his second sold-out show at the 4,000 capacity […]

Emmys 2022 viewers slam show for ‘shaky camera work’ and ‘out of sync sound’ in major tech blunder on live TV

The Emmys' production value was ripped by viewers during the Monday broadcast

EMMYS viewers have slammed some major production issues during Monday’s broadcast noticeable sound and camera problems. The award ceremony has already received plenty of backlash due to a schedule change, too. 1 The Emmys’ production […]

Premiere: NATIVE Sound System Call On WANI, BOJ, Odunsi The Engine & Odeal

Premiere: NATIVE Sound System Call On WANI, BOJ, Odunsi The Engine & Odeal

Just last month, NATIVE Sound System—the music project from Nigeria’s NATIVE Magazine—dropped their debut album, NATIVEWORLD, an ambitious, globe-trotting project that united artists and creatives from across the diaspora. Nestled between contributions from the likes of Knucks, Arya Starr and Teezee […]