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At AVA London 2025,  the UK’s leading festival celebrating music, visual art, and innovation, pointblank Music School delivered one of the event’s standout sessions. Among the day’s highlights was a live deconstruction by our Head of Education and Curriculum, Ski Oakenfull, who guided the audience through Underworld’s euphoric classic ‘Two Months Off’. Using Ableton Live and Push, he carefully unpacked the track layer by layer – from drums and synths to effects and arrangement, revealing the techniques that give it lasting impact. More than just a tutorial, the deconstruction embodied pointblank’s hands-on, practical approach to music education, offering aspiring producers…

Dallas Mavericks shooting guard Klay Thompson and Grammy-winning rapper Megan Thee Stallion are making headlines after their public debut at a high-profile charity event in New York City.The duo attended Megan’s, 30, Pete & Thomas Foundation Charity Gala at Gotham Hall on Wednesday, July 16. At the gathering, Thompson, 35, was spotted wearing what appears to be a $300,000 luxury watch gifted by the “Hot Girl Summer” artist.During the star-studded charity gala, Thompson was captured in a viral video showing off his expensive new timepiece while dressed in a classic black-and-white tuxedo. The four-time NBA champion couldn’t hide his excitement…

Did you have any guardrails in place to avoid getting lost in endless tweaks, or was that part of the process? Guardrails are great when it comes to limiting the tools you have to choose from, or the time you give yourself to finish a work. At the start, we picked about three main instruments to pick from when recording the bones of each song. We would do one instrument track, and then do the final vocal rather than waiting until the end to do vocals, which is typical for me. This way, we knew we had to stay out…

2B Played Music has introduced a new rhythm engine built for creativity. Designed to break the grid, bend time, and sculpt stereo space in new ways, PolyRhythm Delay XL introduces advanced polyrhythmic timing, powerful mid/side control, and built-in shaping tools that bring your delays to life.PolyRhythm Delay XL brings that concept into the digital world. For example, you might set the left delay channel to 4/12 (triplet quarter notes) and the right to 3/16 (dotted sixteenths). These echoes won’t align in predictable ways – they’ll push, pull, and twist around each other.The result is a delay that grooves independently on…

Tyler, The Creator fans are sharing their favorite lines from DON’T TAP THE GLASS, the two-time Grammy winner’s ninth album.Monday, hours removed from the 10-song album’s shrewdly timed release, Tyler asked fans to chime in with their picks, resulting in no shortage of key moments getting some extra shine on the platform formerly known as Twitter. Among them, expectedly, was a widely zeroed-in-on lyric about Ozempic on “Don’t Tap That Glass / Tweakin.’”Closing out the second verse of the first section of the two-part song is a jokingly delivered line about being able to “smell” the weight loss-associated drug, like…

Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s death at 54 prompted Beyoncé Tracee Ellis Ross and others to share emotional tributes honoring his legacy. 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 Beyoncé honored the late Malcolm-Jamal Warner with a heartfelt tribute after the actor and musician died at 54 while vacationing with family in Costa Rica. Costa Rican authorities confirmed the cause of death as asphyxiation on Sunday. The Grammy-winning singer shared…

Applied Acoustics Systems has launched a limited time promotion on resident sound designer Adam Pietruszko’s sound pack Split Personality, a collection of 100 split presets, harmoniously balanced and exceptionally playable.Explore combinations that range from boundary-pushing experimentation to timeless, classic vibes. Create your own layered textures and unlock thousands of unique, inspiring variations. Dive into an extensive selection of drum and percussion splits, as well as dynamic arpeggiated rhythms—ideal for quickly laying down the foundation of a new track.Thoughtfully designed macros add an extra layer of expression, giving you the freedom to shape your sound in real time during performance. With…

As part of its “Creative Effects” promotion, Plugin Boutique is offering a discount on MNTRA Instruments’ dynamic reverb plugin designed for the studio, stage, and beyond.Borealis provides a wide variety of inspiring time-based effects.It transcends conventional reverb plugins by allowing you to create an interplay between your dry input and its wet output, using its envelope follower and unique modulation possibilities.BOREALIS allows you to manipulate a myriad of parameters simultaneously for expressive results with a user-friendly animated interface with 3-axes macro controls.Available for Windows and Mac in VST3, AU and AAX plugin formats, Borealis is priced $79 USD instead of…

Whether you’re writing a pop hit, producing a house track, or composing an acoustic ballad, song structure plays a crucial role in how your music connects with listeners. A clear structure gives your track direction, helps build emotional impact, and keeps your audience engaged from the first note to the final fade.  Knowing how to arrange a song from intro to outro allows you to shape the energy, control the flow, and make creative decisions about when to repeat ideas and when to introduce something new. For both producers and songwriters, mastering structure is a fundamental skill that helps turn…

Kid ‘n Play will headline a lineup of Hip-Hop trailblazers being inducted into the National Hip-Hop Museum on August 23 at DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre. 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 Kid ‘n Play and Jungle Brothers will headline a star-studded class of Hip-Hop legends being honored at the National Hip-Hop Museum’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Saturday August 23 at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre…