Moog Music has announced that after 50 years, Bob Moog is a Doll! The new Bob Moog Soft Vinyl Doll is now available for purchase. This is the official Bob Moog doll authorized by Moog Music. The doll has been customed designed by Archer Prewitt from a sculpture by Kei Hinotani in celebration of Bob’s… Read More Bob Moog Doll Inexpensive Way to Get Your Own Moog
April 1st, 2005: Korean manufacture K-Tar has introduced the first ever 100-key USB-based MIDI controller, the K-Tar 100. The keyboard offers computer musicians a full octave of additional range over traditional keyboards. Because of the extended range of today’s soft-synths, many notes are beyond the range of most USB keyboards. Instead of wasting all of… Read More K-Tar Intros First 100-Key USB Controller
NAMM 2005: Metasonix introduced the latest tube-based sonic violation from Eric Barbour, the TX-2 Butt Probe. Possibly the most offensive product released at this year’s NAMM, the TX-2 promises to be “far more extreme than the famed Sherman Filterbank, and far more tube-freaky than your mother’s enema kit.” The Metasonix TX-2 is made with three… Read More Metasonix TX-2 Butt Probe Puts Tubes Where They Were Not Meant to Be
Apple has introduced the iPod shuffle, a digital music player based on iPod’s legendary shuffle feature which lets users experience their music in a million different ways. The new player comes with a warning, though: “Do not eat iPod shuffle.” Smaller and lighter than a pack of gum, iPod shuffle comes with its own lanyard… Read More Apple Warns – Don’t Eat iPod Shuffle!
Just before midnight on July 20, 2004, an unidentified male was killed in a car explosion in an outer construction site parking lot at the Opryland Hotel and Resort, more than 10 miles away from downtown Nashville and the site of the 2004 NAMM Summer Session. NAMM has been in contact with local authorities who… Read More NAMM Officials Say Show Safe in Spite of Car Bomb Explosion
Instant Music is here. The rise of desktop music production has completely changed the way music is created and distributed. The dozens of remixes of Howard Dean’s infamous “yeaaaaaah” speech show that anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can now quickly and easily publish music to the world. The problems of creation, recording,… Read More Dean Mixes Signal New Era for Electronic Music
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Here’s proof that all it takes to get ahead in the competitive DJ world is a great pair… Of turntables. DJ Portia Surreal, is “up and coming”, according to her site, as a New York DJ and “glowing disco ball vixen”. She’s appeared with some of the DJ world’s headline acts, including Sandra Collins and… Read More Portia Surreal – The Topless DJ
