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Arturia Summer Sale now live Savings of 50% are now available on individual Arturia software instruments, effects plug-ins and sound banks until 15 August 2023.

Arpeggios: Basic types and how to use them
In this comprehensive guide, we break down what arpeggios are, the basic types, and how to use them in your music.

Grammy Museum Announces Summer ProgrammingPhoto by Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

UPCOMING GRAMMY MUSEUM IN-PERSON PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

7:30 p.m.

A Conversation With Taj Mahal

Four-time GRAMMY-winner Taj Mahal will discuss the making of his album Savoy.

Thursday, July 27, 2023

7:30 p.m.

Spotlight: Ibrahim Maalouf with Special Guest Angélique Kidjo

The GRAMMY-nominated artist & trumpeter will discuss his latest projects and collaborations, followed by a performance. 

Friday, July 28, 2023

7:00 p.m.

Summer Spotlight Series with GALE

Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to attend an exclusive performance with Latin Pop's new It Girl, GALE… By invitation only! Sign up at LaMusica.com for your chance to win a ticket for you and a guest to be part of this unique experience with GALE on Friday, July 28!

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

7:00 p.m.

Under The Welcome Mat: Rolling Up The Welcome Mat Short Film Screening & Conversation With Kelsea Ballerini

Join us for a very special, exclusive screening of Kelsea's brand new short film surrounding her latest album, followed by an intimate conversation. 

Friday, August 4, 2023

7:00 p.m.

Spotlight: Stephen Sanchez

Stephen Sanchez will join us on the Rooftop to discuss his rising career, breakout song “Until I Found You,” and latest music, followed by a performance.

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

7:30 p.m.

A Conversation With Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins Moderated by Allison Hagendorf

Front man Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins will discuss his career, recent music, creative process and more

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

7:30 p.m.

Spotlight: Nanna

Nanna Hilmarsdóttir from the band Of Monsters and Men will discuss her first new solo album and perform.

Thursday, August 10, 2023

7:30 p.m.

Spotlight: Ambré

GRAMMY award-winning self-taught musician, producer, and writer Ambré will discuss her new project, who's loving you?, and perform. 

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

7:30 p.m.

Spotlight: Reneé Rapp

The incredible rising star will discuss her career launch, new music, and perform.

For more information and ticket links to programs, click here: grammymuseum.org/visit/public-programs

Crypto Biz: Binance slashes costs, Ripple ready for US banks and crypto VCs returnThis week’s Crypto Biz looks at Binance’s ongoing efforts to curb declining profits, Ripple’s expectation that U.S. banks may soon adopt XRP and the first signs of venture capital returning to crypto.

ChatGPT comes to Android next week, but you can sign up todayTwo months after launching for iOS, ChatGPT is available to “pre-order” for Android users who want to take the ubiquitous chatbot on the go. If it’s anywhere as popular as the iPhone version, expect to see some big numbers over the next few weeks.
Of course any mobile user can access ChatGPT or other OpenAI tools via the web interface, but the superior experience of a dedicated app has proven extremely compelling, to put it lightly. iPhone users downloaded it half a million times in the first week, impressing everyone until Threads came along and blew it out of the water.
The ChatGPT app on Android looks to be more or less identical to the iOS one in functionality, meaning it gets most if not all of the web-based version’s features. You should be able to sync your conversations and preferences across devices, too — so if you’re iPhone at home and Android at work, no worries.
Of course it won’t be completely identical, since the two mobile operating systems differ in many ways. For instance, the June additions of Siri and Shortcuts to the app on iOS clearly won’t be making the transition, but it’s likely Android users will get something similar.
On Twitter, OpenAI said that the Android app would be “rolling out to users next week,” presumably in the U.S. first. No plans were mentioned for other countries, but it’s likely that they’ll follow after a few weeks or months. It was in a dozen more countries one week after its original release.
You can sign up to be notified when the app goes live by hitting “pre-register” on the Play Store.

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Spotify to finally raise flagship Premium price in the US next week, reports Wall Street JournalMore price rises coming in multiple global territories from Daniel Ek's company, says WSJ
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PRS Announces Special John McLaughlin GuitarPRS Guitars has announced a Limited-Edition Private Stock John McLaughlin Signature model. Only 200 of these instruments will be made in 2023.

The PRS Private Stock John McLaughlin is a classic instrument that has been meticulously spec’d by Paul Reed Smith to honor John McLaughlin. All of the woods were specially chosen by Smith for their tone, figure, and weight. The specs are fairly straightforward: maple top, mahogany back, hormigo neck (a tone wood used on marimbas for sound-producing tines) with an African blackwood fretboard, 22 frets, 25” scale length, Pattern neck, PRS’s patented Gen III tremolo, and PRS Phase III tuners.

Some of the more particular details on this model are in the finish, pickups, and electronics. The guitar is finished in high-gloss nitro with an unfinished neck with clear grain filler for a smooth, natural playing feel. The TCI pickups feature American Alnico and are paired with volume and tone controls with a 3-way toggle pickup switch and two mini-toggle EQ switches. The mini-toggles act as tuned high-pass filters when engaged (in the up position), removing shelved low-end and allowing the high frequencies through for more clarity and musical highs.

“Playing music is a way of being. Playing an instrument requires you to move out of the normal level of consciousness. If you’re thinking, you’re not playing. If you’re playing, you’re not thinking. If you have problems with your instrument, you’re not going to move out of the thinking zone and into your own world. This is why I love my guitar. For me, it’s perfect.” – John McLaughlin

“Being John’s guitar maker is an honor I fought decades for, and to now be able to give him a signature model is a special moment for me and hopefully the industry,” said Paul Reed Smith. “These guitars were designed to both feel like magic when you pick them up but also disappear in your hands so you can just focus on playing. John is capable of playing at extraordinary speed and with this instrument, you hear every note. Finding that balance as a guitar maker and coaxing every bit of sound out of the guitar was the key.”

Paul Reed Smith and Paul Miles have signed each Private Stock John McLaughlin model on the back of the headstock. As an added detail, John McLaughlin has autographed the backplate of each instrument.

For complete specifications and a video from John McLaughlin, please visit www.prsguitars.com.

About PRS Guitars:

PRS Guitars is a leading manufacturer of high-quality instruments in Stevensville, Maryland and has provided some of the world’s most renowned musicians with instruments since 1985. The PRS team of highly skilled craftspeople design and build a wide variety of musical instruments and gear for worldwide distribution, including electric, acoustic, and bass guitars as well as boutique-style guitar amplifiers and effects pedals. The PRS SE Series complements the Maryland-made PRS line by offering highly approachable and more affordable electric, acoustic, and bass guitars. Carlos Santana, Mark Tremonti, John Mayer, Jimmy Herring, Myles Kennedy, Zach Myers, Mark Holcomb, Tim Pierce, Orianthi, David Grissom, Mark Lettieri, and Rhonda Smith are among the artists currently playing PRS instruments and/or amplifiers.

PRS Guitars Info: www.prsguitars.com

Latest Mixed on Focal playlist released Designed for those auditioning models from Focal's range of loudspeakers, the Mixed on Focal playlists feature a wide range of tracks mixed by professional engineers using the company's monitors. 

Beastie Boys announce 25th-anniversary reissue of Hello, Nasty albumBeastie Boys have announced the 25th-anniversary re-issue of their pivotal album, Hello, Nasty.

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The iconic New York hip-hop trio are commemorating the 25th anniversary of their 1998 album Hello, Nasty with a special vinyl reissue. The deluxe quadruple-vinyl edition, initially released in 2009, will be re-issued to hit the shelves on 8 September.
This box set includes two discs with a total of 21 remixes (including one by Fatboy Slim), B-sides, and live versions, in addition to the original 22-track album. Each vinyl is pressed on high-quality 180g vinyl and packaged within a book-style quad-jacket.
Last year, Beastie Boys celebrated another milestone, the 30th anniversary of their third studio album Check Your Head with limited-edition box sets and colour-vinyl reissues.
Fans can check out the full tracklist on Beastie Boys’ web store and get a sneak peek of the 4xLP box set via an Instagram post below:

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Beastie Boys aren’t the only group celebrating over two decades in the game. The Chemical Brothers are marking 30 years making music with the release of the duo’s 10th studio album, For That Beautiful Feeling, in September.
Talking of retro hip-hop memories, a Sotheby’s auction is currently underway containing nearly 120 hip-hop-related artefacts. These include a ring designed by Tupac, the SP-1200 sampler RZA used on Enter The Wu-Tang, and RZA’S original three-page handwritten liner notes for the Enter the Wu-Tang record.
Also included in the collection is Afrika Islam’s SP-1200, the very machine that recorded Ice-T’s iconic albums Rhyme Pays, Power, O.G. Original Gangster, and Colours. Additionally, Afrika Islam’s two Technics 1200 turntables, showcased during his DJ performances at The Roxy are also available to buy.
Check out the collection and pre-order it at beastieboys.com.
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Turns out the Seinfeld theme was “Frankenstein-engineered from multiple sampled bass guitars”The Seinfeld theme is one of the most recognisable bass lines in history – and as a result many have questioned how it came to be.
Used in the long-running US sitcom to underscore Jerry’s opening monologue – and also used in between scene transitions – the bass line has puzzle many for years as to its origins. Suggestions have included a preset from an ’80s synth, the Yamaha DX7, the Korg M1 and the 360 Systems MIDI Bass.
However, an innocent comment on social media has ended up paving the way for revealing the answer once and for all. When an Instagram user suggested that he thought it was the 360 Systems MIDI Bass that was used, he got a response from Seinfeld soundtracker Jonathan Wolff.

“I never owned any product from 360 Systems,” he confirmed. In fact, none of the suggestions were correct – it turns out that the Seinfeld bass sounds were “Frankenstein-engineered from multiple sampled bass guitars using sample edits, compression, EQ, phase manipulation and gain staging.”
“I selected a narrow frequency (filtered obviously through a separate bus), reverse-phased it and (slightly flanged, delayed, and detuned to avoid cancellation) added it off-center back into the mix,” Wolff continued, after adding a ‘nerd warning’. “Full stereo, it looked weird on a scope but had little audible effect. However, when summed mono, it created a sharp nasal edge to the bass.”
However, videos exist of Wolff appearing to play the sound of a Kurzweil synth. “I triggered the notes using a keyboard controller, which (to nice folks viewing interview videos of me working) is sometimes confused with the actual source,” Wolff explains. “No synth for you.”

Wolff had previously revealed that the slap bass links changed episode to episode to fit with the beats of the monologue. The sound itself, he explained, has also evolved over time.
“It got to the point that the peeps in my office would leave me little sampled bass sounds when they had a minute and got weird sounds out of it,” Wolff told Mel Magazine in 2021. “I’d often incorporate them into Seinfeld cues, so in that way, it stayed fresh, while evolving to become a little more aggressive, more nasal, more weird.”
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Musician Jackie Venson calls out predatory behavior by venues, promotersBy many measures, independent musician Jackie Venson is having a great year. But shifts in booking, venue, and merch policies are threatening the one source of income she and most. Continue reading
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Why TikTok launching a music streaming service matters so muchWe’ve heard whispers in the industry of TikTok launching its own music streaming service for a while now. Finally, they’ve just rolled out the first iterations of it in select. Continue reading
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8 Tips to help you successfully pre-promote your next releaseMaking the music is only half the battle, now that it’s time for promoting you may have a lot to learn when it comes to getting the word out about. Continue reading
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