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Image Image Credit Allen Berezovsky / Contributor via Getty Images and Alex Goodlett / Contributor via Getty Images Image Alt Megan Thee Stallion attends a 2024 Los Angeles Lakers vs. Minnesota Timberwolves basketball game and Klay Thompson #31 of the Dallas Mavericks during a preseason game against the Utah Jazz Image Size landscape-medium Key Takeaways: Megan Thee Stallion’s courtside appearance with Klay Thompson highlights the growing crossover between Hip Hop and the NBA. She sat next to Klay’s mom, Julie Thompson, sparking fan reactions and ESPN commentary. The moment adds to Megan’s busy October, with Hottieween and new music on…
Image Image Credit Dimitrios Kambouris / Staff via Getty Images and Dimitrios Kambouris / Staff via Getty Images Image Alt Ty Dolla Sign and Ice Spice attend the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards Image Size landscape-medium Key Takeaways: Ty Dolla $ign confirmed Ice Spice recorded a verse for “New Body,” but it remains unreleased. Kanye West revealed that Ice Spice’s team is preventing the track from being included on the album. The track has evolved since 2018, with versions featuring Nicki Minaj and Doja Cat that were also never cleared. There’s a version of Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s…
If you’ve been around BPB for a while, you’ve likely heard the impact of some of Ewan Bristow’s weird and wonderful creations. His latest release is UZU, a frequency domain filter, inspired by Harmor’s Phaser. Ewan is a Bristol-based (UK) developer who has given us freebies like EB-CatNip (frequency-shifting delay – Plugdata), EB-Diøne (sampler – Plugdata), and the more recent, LOCD (phase-lock distortion). This time, Ewan is back with a new plugin that should delight FL Studio users and excite others who perhaps missed out on some Image-Line gems! I mentioned recently that I hadn’t had much experience with FL…
Developer Witch Pig releases Apocalypsis, a free multi-FX-mangling plugin for macOS and Windows. If multi-FX-mangling sounds a bit out there, my other consideration was calling it a free doomsday device, because this plugin is absolute chaos. We’ve covered quite a few Witch Pig plugins now, like Black Mirror Reverb, Angel Dust, and Starscraper. If those plugins have taught us anything, it’s that we should always expect the unexpected from Witch Pig. The developer typically takes an alternative approach to common effects, and the results are often a very dark or quite ethereal character. In this case, Apocalypsis lives up to…
If I’m after a 70s-style lead or bass, I’ll open Monark and start with the Mini Lead PWM preset for a thick, expressive lead, or Deep Moog Bass for something more foundational. From there, I’ll tweak the filter cutoff and resonance to taste, possibly increasing the filter envelope amount for added bite. To give it that authentic analog feel, I’ll run it through RC 24 with a short plate reverb to dial in just enough to add space without losing punch. Or maybe through Guitar Rig 7 Pro using the Warm Tube preset for subtle saturation. Then I’ll bring in…
2B Played Music is once again giving away one of its popular one-knob plugins. This time, QFX Wax is free until October 24, 2025, using the coupon code WAX25. If you’ve been following BPB for a while, you probably already have a handful of 2B Played freebies in your plugin folder. The developer regularly runs limited-time giveaways on its website, and QFX Wax was last offered for free back in June 2024. We’ve also seen other QFX-series plugins go free, like QFX Echo and QFX Color, as well as some of their other plugins like 2B Reverbed, so this is…
Every producer starts in the same place — staring at a blank project, wondering what button to press first. Whether you’re in Ableton, Logic, FL Studio, Pro Tools, or Studio One, the fundamentals of digital music-making never change. These 20 universal DAW skills are the foundation of every great producer’s journey. Master them, and you can make music in any software. A Comparison Guide of the “Big 4” DAWs: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, and FL Studio 🧠 LEVEL 1 — Beginner: Foundation Goal: Learn to navigate, record, and save your first ideas. Focus: Exploration, setup, and organization.…
GullDSP has released Circulate, a free and open-source phase smearing plugin for Windows that delivers a unique take on all-pass filtering. Circulate works by using banks of all-pass filters to delay and scatter the phase of your audio around a center frequency. The result is a phase smearing effect that sounds hollow and slightly reverberant. The effect can sound very good with the right settings, and it’s especially effective on transient-heavy material like percussion, plucks, or bass hits. It doesn’t change the frequency balance of your sound, just the way the phase relationships interact, which can make drums feel more…
Image Image Credit Screenshot from Ice Spice’s “Baddie Baddie” video Image Alt Screenshot from Ice Spice’s “Baddie Baddie” video Image Size landscape-medium Key Takeaways: Ice Spice’s latest release blends music, fashion, and digital culture in a multi-platform rollout. The visual features cameos from Olympic gymnast Sunisa Lee, model Anok Yai, and rapper Bb Trickz. The video also includes behind-the-scenes moments from Paris Fashion Week, tying music and fashion into one rollout. Ice Spice brought out all the baddies for her new “Baddie Baddie” visual companion, which arrived on Wednesday (Oct. 15). The video, which she co-directed with the Evil Twins…
Image Image Credit Paras Griffin / Contributor via Getty Images Image Alt Singer Summer Walker performs onstage during TwoGether Land Music Festival at Fair Park Image Size landscape-medium Key Takeaways: The new album wraps up Summer Walker’s Over It trilogy, which began in 2019 and helped define her R&B sound. Latto is confirmed as a guest feature, with more “rap girls” expected to appear on the project. Walker plans to tour again following her run with Chris Brown on the “Breezy Bowl XX Stadium World Tour.” Summer Walker’s Finally Over It finally has a release date. On Wednesday (Oct. 15),…