is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. Design-wise, Slab bears more than a passing resemblance to Maschine. It’s not just ...

Full disclosure: I play the drums. I play them every chance I get. Although my drumming career has served mainly as a steady education in my own shining mediocrity as a drummer, a reminder that I was ...

Coke Studio 2025, engineered by Verve, won Gold in Experiential Established Ex at The Drum Awards, evolving from a brand activation into a cultural pillar at Ireland’s Longitude and Electric Picnic ...

If you're an aspiring music producer looking to level up your sound, there are several tools beyond FL Studio worth exploring. Every program, from Reaper and Studio One to Logic Pro X and Ableton Live ...

New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results show that eastern and ...

The book, which looks specifically at flat-fronted Victorian terraced house types, is the first in a proposed series of downloadable documents which will eventually cover almost all of the UK’s ...

This year’s NAMM trade show has opened up its doors, so that means there will be a wealth of new musical doodads to lust over. Case in point? Polyend just dropped a hybrid device that combines the ...

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A copyright infringement lawsuit that could significantly impact the reggaeton genre can move forward, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The consolidated lawsuit, filed in April 2023 by Cleveland “Clevie ...

The entire genre of reggaeton is built on a single beat, a syncopated but militaristic drum pattern known as the dembow riddim. Over the past few decades, reggaeton has emerged from a regional Spanish ...

There are several moments on Four Tet’s new album Three that sound like Aphex Twin B-Sides, which is less a sign of a lack of imagination but instead, proof of how widespread a particular take on ...