Beat English

1 min read

What is more important: the song or the arrangement? It‘s a question that has been hotly debated for generations. The 80s suggested it was all about shiny surfaces, glittering details and sprawling intros. In the 90s, on the other hand, CDs of MTV‘s

Stereophile

4 min read

TAKE HEED! Unless marked otherwise, all letters to the magazine and its writers are assumed to be for possible publication. Please include your name and physical address. We reserve the right to edit for length and content. The interview with Twisted

Cowboys & Indians

2 min read

Owner Jay LaFrance loves to recount the musical luminaries who have graced the Longhorn Ballroom’s stage, but some of his favorite stories about the venue involve guns or crime. There’s still a bullet hole in a back door from when some angry husband

Computer Music

1 min read

Industrial music is meant to disturb. Art terrorism taken to the extreme and reflected in the fashions of its fans. It was as nihilistic as punk, but with an intellectual bent, fuelled on apocalyptic science-fiction and a fetish for machinery. It emb

The Atlantic

4 min read

Valuable original recordings and rare tapes have vanished over the years—a process that Jack White and the National Recording Preservation Foundation are looking to stop.

Stereophile

4 min read

I remember the exact moment I became an audiophile. It was 1954. I was 12 years old. My father’s friend, Mitch Rose, wanted to buy a “hi-fi set,” which was what they called them in those days. Mitch asked my father to go with him to help pick one out

Beat English

1 min read

For many years, Beat has been inspiring its readers not only with practical and musical topics, but above all with the tight integration of editorial content. From the very beginning, Beat has been about creating, about the structured building of ide

NPR

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The life of Toto's "Africa" has perhaps reached its logical end with Max Siedentopf's absurdist art installation "Toto Forever," which will play "Africa" in the Namib Desert "for all eternity."

Beat English

1 min read

For many years, Beat has been inspiring its readers not only with practical and musical topics, but above all with the tight integration of editorial content. From the very beginning, Beat has been about creating, about the structured building of ide

NPR

1 min read

Irish singer/songwriter Hozier sits down with NPR Music's Bob Boilen to discuss the lifetime of listening that led to his new EP, Nina Cried Power, and what American blues means to him.

Retro Gamer

1 min read

Merman: Did you program any of your own sound or music routines? No, my programming skills were very basic and I didn’t know how to write sound drivers. I used existing SoundTracker playback routines for Amiga music. Fortunately I worked with Shaun H

Electronic Musician

12 min read

After debuting on Derrick May's epic Transmat compilation Techno 2: The Next Generation with the lush-sounding single I Believe (1988), Lenny and Lawrence Burden grasped the nettle and started their own 430 West label. Frequently assisted by brothers