Moog Music–originally led by Bob Moog–revolutionized music by inventing the first practical keyboard synthesizers. The company has a series of short documentaries called Giants which looks at the iconic people who helped make
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Thinking of going back to school? Here’s an option. Maybe. The department of music and design arts at the University of Huddlesfield in the UK has a new course in “electronic music, cultures,
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It takes a special kind of band to deliberately obscure their appearance. But if you manage to do it right, then it moves from being a silly gimmick to an important piece of
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Warp drive is possible! (And we didn’t need Zefram Cochrane, either.) Can First Contact be far behind? Let’s zip over to music news for March 11, 2021. If you’re a Canadian musician working
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Now that the Super Bowl is in the books, the annual impeachment event starts today. This will be weird, of course. Cleanse your pallet with some music news for February 9, 2021, first.
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David Mullaney may have started out as a jazz accordion player, but that didn’t stop him from changing the world of electronic music. At the end of the 60s, synthesizers were insanely big,
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This was a momentous day for music in 1954. Texas Instruments introduced the first-ever transistor radio: the Regency TR-1. And now, more music news for October 18. Why was Arcade Fire’s “Creature Comfort”
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Electronic music has been part of culture for going on almost fifty years now. We might have got into it sooner if a couple of inventors/composers/pioneers been a little luckier. This paper from
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What is it about cassettes–a hateful, obsolete technology, in my opinion–that engenders so much love in certain quarters? The Vinyl Factory wanted to find out, so they made a film. [I]n the past,
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The last 12 months have not been kind to music fans. We’ve lost Lemmy, David Bowie, Prince, Phife Dawg, Frank Sinatra Jr., Maurice White, Glenn Frey, and Keith Emerson to name a few.
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I’d have this print in my office. Officially named the Electric Love Blueprint, it features over 200 electronic artists and inventors printed out on a circuit board from a Theremin. Further details at
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