Cardi had a little fun with a pint-sized humanoid in San Francisco. She ran her hands over its tiny silver body, got a little flirty, and then seemingly was caught off guard by its weight. She put her arms around its neck, it tilted forward, and they both hit the pavement.
You’ll be able to livestream the famous K-Pop group’s first concert in three years on March 21st, the day after the new BTS album comes out. You might want some coffee, though; the show starts at 7AM ET that day.
The latest trailer for Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic is here, and it makes the movie seem like it’s really going to hammer home how Joe Jackson’s tough parenting turned his children into (dysfunctional) stars.
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Combining real analog circuits with digital synthesis and sampling makes the TR-1000 powerful but overwhelming.
This high-tech cosmic kalimba is available as a limited Launch Edition with three exclusive resonators, and orders are expected to ship in April. That’s not cheap for an obviously niche instrument, so maybe check out some of the early reviews before carving out space in your studio budget.
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All You Need Is Kill is a feast for the eyes, but the animated feature’s soundtrack is also an absolute knockout, and you can listen to it now on all the major streaming platforms.
Ahead of Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe’s Japanese theatrical debut on January 30th, Bandai Namco Filmworks has announced that SZA’s “Snooze” has been selected as the movie’s opening theme.
On December 31st, MTV shuttered its 24-hour music channels across the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Australia, and Brazil. It signed off with one last music video: “Video Killed the Radio Star.”
Did the new Knives Out’s impressively ornate seminary gym seem a little familiar? It’s not just you, it was one of the world’s subtlest Rickrolls.
Image-Line is currently beta-testing a web-based version of FL Studio, the DAW of choice for producers such as Metro Boomin and 9th Wonder. It will be a streamlined app designed for beginners learning the basics of music production. But when you’re ready to make the jump, projects created in FL Studio Web can be imported to the full desktop suite.
An analysis of social media posts following Swift’s album release found “inauthentic” activity online. The Taylor Swift media ecosystem is divided over what it means.
The anger over fake songs is boiling over into action.
The sample-focused DAW gets an MPC-like hands-on interface.
Gaming’s biggest awards show might be losing its luster, but last night’s annual Game of the Year medley was as good as ever. The transition from Hades II to Pauline’s song from Donkey Kong Bananza? Chills. And of course, there was a lot of Flute Guy, who even brought a custom PVC pipe flute.
Sure, The Game Awards had Miss Piggy and Rowlf the Dog making up a song about Geoff Keighley. But that’s nothing compared to Koda Kumi’s live performance of one of the most iconic Final Fantasy bangers in the franchise’s history.
The band was one of the higher-profile acts to leave Spotify over Daniel Ek’s war profiteering. But its songs briefly reappeared in the guise of an AI clone. An act called King Lizard Wizard uploaded seemingly AI-generated songs with the same names and lyrics as the real deal. That ran afoul of Spotify’s policies against impersonation and the songs were removed. In a statement provided to Australian site The Music, frontman Stu Mackenzie said he was:
“Trying to see the irony in this situation... But seriously wtf we are truly doomed.”
