Bob Moog changed the face of popular music by producing the first ever commercially available synthesizers. The first Moog Modular was knocked up for fun as a project for his musician friend Herbert ...

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are one of the greatest songwriting and producing duos in music history. Meeting in the same ’70s Minneapolis music scene that produced Prince, the pair formed the band Flyte ...

Like many of the most important figures to emerge in the foggier, drearier strains of grunge, metal, and post-rock, Dylan Carlson is a Seattle native. In the late ’80s, Carlson founded the band Earth, ...

Tony Dawsey is the guy that people like DJ Premier and Jay-Z (and many, many others) look to when they need perfect sound for their records. You could spend hours with this super-humble New York ...

Terre Thaemlitz is Comatonse’s ambassador of sound and scale. As an artist, she has been versing the masses on what “diverse” means in a 20-year career of near-continual invention and reinvention, ...

In 2014, Red Bull Music Academy came to Tokyo, Japan. To hold an Academy in this country – the birthplace of so much influential music-making technology, and so many inspiring evocations of what the ...

For many young indie music fans making their way through the “alternative” section of their local record store in the mid-’90s, it was the music of Stereolab, and in particular the voice of chanteuse ...

From discovering a teenage Leroy Burgess, to writing, producing and arranging disco and ’80s R&B classics like Inner Life’s “I’m Caught Up (In A One Night Love Affair)” and Fonda Rae’s “Touch Me (All ...

Every year, artists from around the world came together in a different host city to learn from musical luminaries – and each other – and collaborate in custom-built studios. Many Academy alumni went ...

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James Murphy almost singlehandedly brought back the cultural exchange between indie and dance music with his band LCD Soundsystem, the attached DFA label, and cult singles like “Losing My Edge” and ...

Magic Mike has been the driving force behind Florida’s huge bass music phenomenon since the late ‘80s, but his earnings go beyond exploring the ultimate ‘boom’. The man has also played a crucial role ...