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Music streaming has forever changed our relationship with music.In the past, we had to visit a record store, go to a live concert, or turn on the radio to listen to our favorite tunes. Fast forward to today, most of the world’s music is available everywhere, all the time.People these days rarely even download music. Just launch Spotify or YouTube music, on your computer or smartphone – and the next song is within seconds away from being played.YouTube Music While this revolution has majorly impacted music consumers (who are now paying only a small fraction of what music used to cost…

Travis Scott took over Coachella this year and built his own city on the festival grounds.Inside Cactus Jack village, all of Travis’ wildest ideas came to life. There were giant statues all over the place, a Vetements tattoo station, a Nike soccer arena, and surprise celebrity appearances. (If you looked close, you even saw a presence from Complex on the walls of the village.)“I’m taking Coachella over through my lens,” Travis told Complex in his recent cover story interview, hinting at his plans for the festival. “I’m trying to create a next-level way to do things.”As promised, the takeover was…

Image Image Credit Prince Williams / Contributor via Getty Images Image Alt Benny The Butcher and J. Cole Image Size landscape-medium Dreamville Fest, J. Cole’s North Carolina-based fête, is officially wrapping up on April 5 and 6. Earlier in the year, organizers dropped the fifth and final lineup featuring Lil Wayne, 21 Savage, Erykah Badu, and of course, the “Power Trip” rapper himself. Whether or not the list stacks up to past editions is up for debate, but one thing’s clear: since its official launch in 2019, the festival has delivered more than a few unforgettable moments. Though originally announced…

Tone Empire has introduced a new audio plugin that aims to bring the authentic warmth of analog tape to your productions.A passive tape coloration effect, TapeZoo is engineered to deliver rich harmonic textures and dynamic depth without the need for active electronics or power sources.TapeZoo offers multiple tape profiles and calibration settings to infuse your mixes with vintage character and sonic glue.TapeZoo featuresBias Control: Adjusts the headroom and saturation intensity, letting you drive the tape harder or keep it clean.Spatial Control: Blend between vintage Crosstalk for mono glue and Aura, a subtle stereo width effect inspired by multitrack tape misalignments…

The weekend has finally arrived, and you hurry to your DAW with the excitement of a schoolboy to start arranging some tracks. You even decide to record a vocal track and suddenly its time to do some mixing.So you insert an equalizer plugin, add some reverb to the tracks and just as if on cue, you add an audio compressor effect and decide to play around with some settings. Your track now sounds a little louder, which is great – but you have no clue what an audio compressor actually does.Part of why you placed in a compressor was because you…

The shift in Loyle Carner’s persona in recent times is exemplified by the opening songs on his two most recent LPs. On “Hate,” the scorching opener to 2022’s hugo, the south Londoner starts by offering to “let me tell you about what I hate.” He rages against racial profiling, the limited opportunities for young Black men, the pitfalls of his own success and his relationship with his father, concluding: “I fear the color of my skin.” Now, on his upcoming fourth album, hopefully ! (Island EMI), he strikes a different chord. The opening track — as yet unannounced — is…

Snoop Dogg’s kids surprisingly didn’t smoke weed for the first time with their dad.During a recent conversation with DJ Whoo Kid, Wiz Khalifa revealed that he accidentally introduced Snoop’s sons to marijuana on the set of Mac & Devin Go to High School.“I did that to Snoop Dogg’s kids. We were shooting High School, the movie, and he was out of the trailer doing his part. And he came back in the trailer and was like, ‘Y’all little motherfuckers is high!’” Wiz remembered, laughing.He added, “I thought they had already smoked, though! I’m like, ‘These are Snoop’s kids, of course…

Michelle Obama revealed she’s hooked on “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” and gave a nod to Lil Scrappy’s mother, Momma Dee. AllHipHop.com Since 1998, AllHipHop.com has pioneered delivering Hip-Hop news. Get our daily email for exclusive, breaking news, and weekly digests, all curated for the true Hip-Hop enthusiast. Stay connected and informed with the heartbeat of Hip-Hop culture. Subscribe now! Subscribe Michelle Obama dropped a pop culture gem during a recent episode of her podcast when she revealed she’s a devoted viewer of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta and a fan of the show’s outspoken matriarch, Momma Dee. The former…

Image Image Credit Prince Williams / Contributor via Getty Images Image Size landscape-medium Rod Wave has been soundtracking heartbreak and struggle for years, and now he’s tapping into something deeper with “Sinners.” Released Friday (April 4), the track doubles as the lead single for the upcoming thriller of the same name. Much like the film, the video for “Sinners” is set in the Jim Crow-era South of the 1930s, with the Florida crooner belting out lines like, “Excuse me, master, I think you’re confused/ I was promised forty acres and mules/ Damn, I feel like a fool, forget the rules,…

UVI has announced an update to its innovative music production multitool which offers limitless inspiration for notes, chords, beats, and more.Available now as a free update, version 1.5 of Mosaiq features an all-new Keyboard Mode, which allows you to play full instrument presets across your keyboard, with 3 round-robin modes for added variation. Ideal for melodic expression and advanced live performance, Keyboard Mode expands Mosaiq with new and exciting creative possibilities.Fun, and instantly rewarding, Mosaiq lets users play a massive library of sound sources across 8 deeply customizable key tracks, tweak with 5 interactive effects, a powerful MIDI sequencing engine,…