If the thing your latest song is missing is a live drum track, plug-in developer Voxengo might just be able to help you. However, rather than selling you a new bit of rhythmic software, the company is ...

Metallica's "Lux Æterna," the band's new single released Nov. 28, is still being discussed by metal fans. One point of discussion — and a topic that will be unsurprising to longtime Metallica ...

Novation’s Circuit groovebox is a pretty beloved piece of entry-level music making gear. And with good reason. Its two polyphonic synth tracks and four sample-based drum tracks give it a surprising ...

Drive your drums hard or chill them right out with our guide When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Perhaps the most underappreciated ...

As a screenwriter and composer, Darren Callahan is always searching for a creative spark. For his new instrumental album, “When a Pill Becomes a Law,” the industrious Dayton-native found inspiration ...

The Avenged Sevenfold fan site AvengedSevenfoldNews.com has been posting isolated drum tracks from the band’s catalog over the past few days, and though they’ve been out in the world for a couple of ...

With GarageBand for the Mac, Apple created something no one else had – a relatively inexpensive, very powerful music recording studio right on the computer. Several iterations later, GarageBand came ...

Devotees of Sly and the Family Stone’s introspective funk landmark, “There’s a Riot Goin’ On,” rightly celebrate Sylvester “Sly” Stewart’s early experiments with a drum machine. Sublime achievements ...

Drummer is one of GarageBand’s best features. It’s a virtual drummer that comes up with entire drum parts for your song. Or rather, it’s 15 drummers, each of whom has a different style, from hard rock ...

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Algoriddim is adding an impressive new feature to its Djay app for iOS: a set of sliders that let ...

This seminal record was one of the most exciting tracks for me when I first got into music. It was partly because Goldie was part of an identifiable scene, along with 4 Hero and Rufige Kru - they were ...