Top 25 New Music Critiques 2024Music Connection offers a variety of ways for unsigned artists to receive recognition for creating exceptional music. Each month, for example, our New Music Critiques area spotlights the recordings of a dozen unsigned recording artists. The cream of the 2024 crop is here on the pages before you. 25 remarkable recording artists, plus 20 Top Prospects who are too good to be overlooked. Unsigned recording artists of all genres are welcomed to sign up for a free critique at musicconnection.com/reviews/new-music-critiques.WRENE . . . 8.6Web: wrene.bandcamp.comStyle: Avant-popPARIS PALOMA . . . 8.4Web: parispaloma.co.ukStyle: Folk-popVENDELA . . . 8.4Web: YouTubeStyle: Alt-popVELVET HALO . . . 8.4Web: velvethalomusic.comStyle: Soft popFERAS ARRABI . . . 8.3Web: ferasarrabi.comStyle: Progressive rockNATALIE JEAN . . . 8.2Web: natalie-jean.comStyle: Country-popSIESKI . . . 8.2Web: sieski.comStyle: PopTHE REQUISITE . . . 8.2Web: SpotifyStyle: Pop-punkNO LOVES . . . 8.2Web: noloves.comStyle: PunkX . . . 8.2Web: instagram.com/theofficialxStyle: R&BORAYVIA . . . 8.2Web: SpotifyStyle: R&BJOSÉ JAMES . . . 8.2Web: SoundcloudStyle: R&BJOHNNY STANEC . . . 8.2Web: johnnystanec.comStyle: AmericanaFIIZ . . . 8.2Web: linktr.ee/fiizmusic Style: ElectropopGORDON GOODWIN’S BIG PHAT BAND . . . 8.2Web: bigphatband.comStyle: JazzMAGALI, A CULT . . . 8.2Web: SpotifyStyle: ElectropopRGB . . . 8.2Web: listentorgb.comStyle: PopCASII STEPHAN . . . 8Web: casiistephan.comStyle: Soul-rockKATELYN TARVER . . . 8Web: katelyntarver.comStyle: Singer-songwriterCAITLIN MAHONEY . . . 8Web: caitlinmahoney.comStyle: Indie-popLUCIE TIGER . . . 8Web: SpotifyStyle: CountryHER LEATHER JACKET . . . 8Web: herleatherjacket.comStyle: Pop-punkMIKKI . . . 8Web: SpotifyStyle: AlternativeDOWNTOWN MYSTIC . . . 8Web: downtownmystic.netStyle: Rock ’n’ rollBRENDA RUSSELL . . . 8Web: brendarussellofficial.comStyle: R&BThe post Top 25 New Music Critiques 2024 first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

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Daft Punk’s best, worst, and most overrated music, according to RedditA community of Daft Punk fans have collectively voted on the duo’s music, deciding on the best and worst albums, most overrated and underrated works, best and worst songs, worst remixes and more. Some of the results are probably obvious, but others are a tad surprising.
Users on the r/DaftPunk subreddit participated in the voting game over the past two weeks, following a grid template that would get a daily update based on fans’ most upvoted answers. Naturally, there was some passionate debate about each category — especially on the Worst Album, Worst Song, and Most Overrated Album categories — but the fans seem to be in full agreement on at least some of the results.
Taking the crown of Best Album is 2001’s Discovery, which was a pretty unanimous decision; the closest contender was 2013’s Random Access Memories. The former has gone down as one of the top albums of all time, most recently placing 23rd in Apple Music’s Top 100 Albums, but the latter picked up four Grammy Awards in 2014. Perhaps that’s one reason Reddit voters placed it in the Most Overrated Album square. Contrastly, the Most Underrated Album spot was won by Human After All, which received mixed reviews upon its 2005 release, but also picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Electronic/Dance Album.
Meanwhile, the Worst Album by Daft Punk according to Reddit is Tron: Legacy Reconfigured. This remix album was released in 2011 to accompany the duo’s official soundtrack for Disney’s Tron: Legacy. Although technically a Daft Punk album, Daft Punk’s manager Busy P (also the boss at French label Ed Banger Records) said of its release: “I am 100 per cent sure the Daft [Punk] boys were not involved in this side (sad) project.”
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Meanwhile, the title of Worst Song was given to the 2004 track Take Me Out (Daft Punk Remix) by Franz Ferdinand, and the Best Song was awarded to Digital Love, a track from Discovery. Other picks from Discovery include Face To Face as Most Genius Song — likely thanks to the meticulous sampling work by Daft Punk and Todd Edwards — and One More Time, the dance anthem which fans claimed as the Best Chorus Song. The Best Lyrics Song was given to the slow, romantic cut, Something About Us. Todd Edwards, who also appeared on the Random Access Memories track, Fragments Of Time, was voted as Daft Punk’s Best Collaborator.
Two tracks from Random Access Memories picked up some opposing awards in Most Underrated Song and Most Overrated Song. Motherboard was voted as the Most Underrated, while Get Lucky was voted as Most Overrated. The latter is probably unsurprising, given the billions of collective streams it’s accrued across digital streaming platforms.
In other Daft Punk news, fans have criticised the new AI upscale of the duo’s feature-length film, Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, which is soundtracked by Discovery. 
One commenter wrote of the re-release: “Even watching this trailer on a small phone, you can immediately tell AI was used…The crowd scenes in particular are a dead giveaway. It looks so bad, there’s no way I’d spend money to see this in a theatre where the imperfections are going to be giant.”
Another added: “I don’t see why this was needed. It seems like a lazy cash grab.”
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CFTC report endorses tokenizing trading collateral Distributed ledger technology can help solve longstanding challenges in US financial markets, the report says.

Build Yourself A Useful Resistor Decade BoxIf you’ve ever worked with guitar pedals or analog audio gear, you’ve probably realized the value of a resistor decade box. They substitute for a resistor in a circuit and let you quickly flick through a few different values at the twist of a knob. You can still buy them if you know where to look, but [M Caldeira] decided to build his own.
At its core, the decade box relies on a number of 11-position rotary switches. Seven are used in this case—covering each “decade” of resistances, from 1 ohm to 10 ohm and all the way up to 1 megaohm. The 11 positions on each switch allows the selection of a given resistance. For example, position 7 on the 100 ohm switch selects 700 ohms, and adds it to the total resistance of the box.
[M Caldeira] did a good job of building the basic circuit, as well as assembling it in an attractive, easy-to-use way. It should serve him well on his future audio projects and many others besides. It’s a simple thing, but sometimes there’s nothing more satisfying than building your own tools.
We’ve seen other neat designs like this in the past, including an SMD version and this neat digital decade box. Video after the break.

OLED Screen Mounting, Without The PainThere was a time when no self-respecting electronics engineer would build a big project without at least one panel meter. They may be a rare part here in 2024, but we find ourselves reminded of them by [24Eng]’s project. It’s a 3D printed housing for one of those common small OLED displays, designed to be mounted on a panel with just a single round hole. Having had exactly this problem in the past trying to create a rectangular hole, we can immediately see the value in this.
It solves the problem by encasing the display in a printed shell, and passing a coarsely threaded hollow cylinder behind it for attachment to the panel and routing wires. This is where we are reminded of panel meters, many of which would have a similar sized protrusion on their rear housing their mechanism.
The result is a neatly made OLED display mounting, with a hole that’s ease itself to create. Perhaps now you’ll not be afraid to make your own panels.

From Amazon Music’s audiobook bundle to WMG’s subscription streaming growth… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
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Venue Booking Contacts made easy with Booking-Agent.ioNew platform Booking-Agent.io solves two mjor problem for artists and managers trying to book a tour: what are the right places to play and how do I contact the person booking it.
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Kendrick Lamar has surprised released his sixth studio album, GNXKendrick Lamar has surprise released his sixth studio album, GNX.
The album – which clocks in at 44 minutes and 20 seconds in length – spans 12 songs in total, and features title track gnx, for which a music video is incoming.

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GNX arrives hot on the heels of Kendrick’s smash hit diss track Not Like Us, which saw him take aim at Canadian rapper Drake. You can listen to the album in full below:

 
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Authentic Soundware offers the Space Age Sleigh Bells Kontakt instrument for FREE
Authentic Soundware’s Space Age Sleigh Bells delivers unmistakable Christmas charm, and it’s free until December 25, 2024 (requires Kontakt Full 6.7 or higher). I only see one downside to this freebie; it might be wasted on us. Let’s face it: If you don’t already own some space-age sleigh bells, what are you doing with yourself? [...]
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Live Music Society grants to small venues top $1M in 2024The Live Music Society, a non-profit that helps small U.S. music venues, has awarded 34 new Toolbox grants. This year’s Live Music Society grants are the largest in the organizations history.. Continue reading
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Johnny Marr talks artist development and the record industry’s future as he partners with Epidemic SoundJohnny Marr tells MBW about his new artist development partnership with Epidemic Sound
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Community Record Labels offer musicians an alternativeAs independent music stakes a larger and larger claim in the industry, smaller DIY record labels, known as "community labels," are providing the personal touch.
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Audiocube 3D audio software update and huge Black Friday sale
The Audiocube 3D audio software has received a big update and is now available through a huge Black Friday sale. We covered the launch of Audiocube’s standalone 3D audio software for macOS and Windows in August 2024, an ambitious project that was several years in the making. Audiocube is back with its most significant update [...]
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Bitwig Studio 5.3 beta announced Installers for Bitwig Studio 5.3 are now available to users with an active Upgrade Plan, offering them a chance to check out the latest features ahead of the full release.