Sometimes your enemies/Come in the form of a friend.” Much of the new Kashus Culpepper single — “Believe,” which Big Loud released to radio on Sept. 3 via PlayMPE — i ...

Roland is finally honoring its legacy with the TR-1000, its first analog drum machine in over 40 years. It’s exactly what ...

The Roland TR-1000 Rhythm Creator is a direct successor to the famed TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines, each anchoring entire genres of 20th-century pop music and EDM. It's analog, it's aesthetic, and ...

Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal would acrimoniously split shortly after the release of their most musically inventive record ...

(Photo Credit: Jennifer Troche Walsh) Left to right: Johnny Rabb (drums/background vocals), Ed Roland (vocals/guitar), Jesse Triplett (lead guitar/background vocals), Will Turpin (bass/background ...

Thanks to Peter Kirn from the "cdm (create digital music)" blog for writing a comprehensive article about MIDI/80, Downpoly's great music, and the software that we wrote for it: "Radio Shack’s TRS-80 ...

It just got a little easier to practice the drums without anyone noticing your mistakes. Roland has just unveiled the V-Drums Quiet Design kit, which, as the name suggests, lets you play the drums ...

Anyone sharing a home with a musician will appreciate advances in technology that make for quieter practice. Wearing headphones while playing electronic drums is already a good way to keep the noise ...

One of the last surviving figures from the golden age of Memphis’ Sun Records, drummer J.M. "Jimmy" Van Eaton, has died. Van Eaton — who came to Sun as a teenager in the mid-1950s and made his ...

The film features interviews with Pharrell, Phil Collins, the Beastie Boys, Questlove and more. The Roland TR-808 drum machine is responsible for some of the most influential music from the 1980s ...

A sampler and groovebox inspired by the lo-fi character of vintage classics. Greg Scarth finds out what this bargain box has to offer. Sonicware is a relatively young company, but over the course of ...