Juneteenth lineup round-up and Black Techno Matters scorchers

Juneteenth is about emancipation, and it’s expressed in musical joy across the USA today. Here are our friends from Black Techno Matters with their community calendar of events today — one might be near you — plus two recent releases you should hear wherever you are.

The joy of Splines, a module that can make anything from curves

It’s an oscillator, a step sequencer, a modulation and envelope source, a quantizer (with custom tunings) — even a scope, thanks to its interactive, animated visual interface. Thorn Audio’s new Eurorack module can make anything from elegant, precise curves. It’s more than just another do-everything module. Now you’re playing with Splines.

Peter Kirn - May 26, 2026

The best long weekend music gear deals you can get right now

It’s Memorial Day in the USA, Whit Monday in Germany and other parts of the West, and since what’s truly sacred is shopping, that means some deals running through the end of the day.

Peter Kirn - May 25, 2026

Listen to the analog BBD sounds of Morphor; Echon 6 poly is shipping

Peter Kirn - May 14, 2026

Schreibmaschine’s colorful Eurorack creations now do paraddidles, too

Peter Kirn - May 11, 2026

Wish granted: VCV Rack’s Plateau is now a Eurorack module from 4ms

Peter Kirn - May 7, 2026

Make Noise and Tom Erbe have made a mighty morphing spatial Plexiphon

Peter Kirn - May 7, 2026

Intellijel made Swells a playable reverb with faders, rise, fall, ebb, and flow

Peter Kirn - April 14, 2026

Synth Days in Kyiv: inside the wartime Ukrainian modular scene

Kaximia - April 12, 2026