July 23, 201811:35 AM ET Kraftwerk performs with ISS astronaut Alexander Gerst. LARS GOTRICH TwitterFacebookTumblrInstagram First things first: Why hasn't this happened, yet? Kraftwerk, thinking about and making electronic sounds for the future since 1970, performed with an astronaut in-orbit live on Friday night. The collaboration, with German astronaut Alexander Gerst — currently on [...]
James CridlandFollow I am a radio futurologist, at https://james.cridland.net - and I run https://podnews.net — the daily podcast news website. May 27 A radio. Or a smart speaker. Or something. I rather like this tweet, from the UK industry group Radiocentre, which does a very good job of explaining radio’s multiplatform nature: It’s [...]
Thirty years after his death, the creator of the classic Pride anthem You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) is the subject of academic symposia. Not bad for a drag queen who was ‘just trying to get on to the radio’ On a sunny Thursday afternoon, the theatre at the University of Sussex is playing host to [...]
Like a modern version of a medieval minstrel, a singer named Jess Magic is helping A-list entrepreneurs get in touch with their inner child in private “songversations.” Jess Magic, far right, guides her spiritual disciples at Soul Salon. CreditZak Krevitt for The New York Times To Chad Mureta, a Silicon Valley app guru, the [...]
Bless this acid house: dancing in face masks and white gloves. Photograph: Matthew Smith/Rex/Shutterstock It was the year I got my first job, the year I broke up with my boyfriend, the year I flew to Barbados and met Imran Khan on a beach, but of all the crazy life-changing moments, none had more impact [...]
For some counter-culture genres of music, the digital revolution has been a blessing as well as a curse. It's 6pm on a cool January evening in Bethnal Green, east London. On the top floor of a nondescript building, a group of young, mostly male, music producers mill around, playing pool and throwing darts. A lot [...]
EMI Music Publishing owns or administers more than two million songs, ranging from contemporary artists like Drake to classics by Queen, Carole King, and the Motown catalog.CreditRichard Perry/The New York Times By Ben Sisario Seven years ago, Sony entered a complex deal with Abu Dhabi for control of the EMI Music Publishing catalog, a trove of [...]
Smartphones are making it much easier to access the white stuff OLIVER PAYNE The UK's nearly earned the status of being the "biggest consumer of cocaine in Europe" and the blame is being aimed at smartphones. Ben Wallace, the UK's security minister, outlined that making connections via encryptions and smartphones is making it easier for [...]
Phil Morse May 15, 2018 | Read time: 3 mins Forbes reports today that interactive streaming music services – Spotify, Apple Music, Napster, Deezer, Tidal and so on — now account for the majority of recorded music industry revenue and are growing at better than 50% per year. The numbers, they report, say that the download [...]
We show you how to pick apart a DJ mix so you can learn new tips and tricks that you can add to your DJ toolbox. 17 MAY, 2018 We’ve written previously on how copying other DJs can unlock your own creativity but what we haven’t dived into is how you’re meant to go about [...]