Funk music history and Black liberation in a full-length documentary, online

Hip hop, new wave, techno, and house are inseparable from funk history – and any discussion of funk in the 1970s demands a conversation about Black liberation. Emmy winner and MacArthur Fellow Stanley Nelson and Grammy-nominated producer Nicole London have produced a full-length history.

Laurie Spiegel interview offers a way of thinking about community, imagination

What could community and imagination in music making look like? Laurie Spiegel’s reflections on the 70s and earlier decades, recorded in 2014, offer some clues, even for a very different time today.

Peter Kirn - April 7, 2025

Working with Alan Parsons, PSP recreates Frequency Translator

The Alan Parsons/Keith Adkins handmade, one-of-a-kind Frequency Translator was a key component of The Dark Side of the Moon. And its sound has been hard to describe, let alone recreate – until now. PSP Audioware worked with the one and only Alan Parsons to model it in plug-in form in a personal passion project they’re releasing as PSP Wobbler.

Peter Kirn - January 20, 2025

Minimoog’s missing link: how an icon was born in summer of 1970

Peter Kirn - December 20, 2024

Here’s Ben Burtt breaking down every single iconic sound design from Star Wars, film by film

Peter Kirn - May 4, 2023

May the 4th: KORG reissues ARP 2600 FS in limited run, for your R2D2 sounds (Gallery)

Peter Kirn - May 4, 2023

T-Rex recreates the Binson Echorec Magnetic Disk Delay – look, it spins!

Peter Kirn - April 18, 2023

Arturia LX-24 recreates 1978 Lexicon 224 reverb – but don’t miss the 2023 flipside

Peter Kirn - April 4, 2023

BOSS DS-1W is the DS-1’s first solid-state distortion pedal update in decades

Peter Kirn - October 6, 2022

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