When I listen to my favourite music I’m often left wondering ‘how’d they do it?’ How do you get that special access to see behind all...

A band website is the new music press kit. It’s a vital part of your music promotion. Most networking happens online in today’s music...

Drumroll please! The finalists for the MixedByAli contest have been selected! First off, it was a REALLY tough decision. We received so...

It’s time to enter the 2016 International Songwriting Competition. It’s time to enter the 2016 International Songwriting Competition....

There was a time when bands made as many manifestos as they made records. A manifesto is a statement of your artistic vision. It spells...

Lots of people get on their high horse when talking about artificial intelligence in the arts… It’s the end of creativity! It’s killing...

Get your track mixed by Derek ‘MixedByAli’ Ali. Ever wondered what your track would sound like if a mega-star mix engineer mixed it? Well...

This article was inspired by one of our readers’ comments. Dee suggested I check out Charanjit Singh who used a TB-303 before acid house...

Do What Yourself? How to be successful in a music career is totally different. Parts of the old music industry have become obsolete. And...

Giving artists the space they need to create. All artists need space to create. Ideas are simple. But without the right resources to turn...

Sometimes you play the gear. And sometimes the gear plays you. Live gear setups rule. It’s the first thing I check when I get to a show....

The creators guide to crowdfunding. How do you make a music project happen? Good question. The romantic in me wants to say that it’s all...

Expand your beat-making horizons. We’ve all felt it before: four-on-the-four fatigue. That feeling when you’ve listened to too much music...

It’s time to stop underestimating deep learning machines. Machines that do ‘deep learning’ — like LANDR — are a form of advanced...

Let me guess: you use MIDI controllers regularly as a music producer. Or maybe ‘MIDI’ makes you think of elevator music, cheesy computer...

Time to update your producer toolkit. There’s no shortage of innovative VST plugins out there right now. The hardest part is picking from...

A MIDI keyboard controller is an essential piece of music gear in today’s home studio. A piano melody here, a beat there… Having both the...

The only guarantee is change. Music is more contested right now than a Steph Curry layup. The same words keep coming up in...

LFOs. If you’ve been ignoring them, you’re out of the loop. No, I’m not talking about the British techno group from the 90s. I’m talking...

“Hard work overrides talent when talent ain’t working” I met a mixing virtuoso during the filming of Dave Pensado’s show Pensado’s Place:...