How to Start a Cassette Collection in the 21st Century
When you walk into a record store, the cassette section (yes, record stores have cassette sections again) won’t be just filled with old cassettes, but rather freshly shrink-wrapped albums from…
How to Make Your Musical Magnum Opus on an iPad
For all the things that Apple’s iPad does right—high-def movies on the go, games, increasingly common coffee-shop payment terminal—it rarely gets its due as a powerful music tool. Whether you…
The Best Podcasts for Everyone
Podcasts are to radio as streaming services are to television, and we are lucky enough to be living through the golden age of both. You can find a podcast about…
How Audio Pros ‘Upmix’ Vintage Tracks and Give Them New Life
AudioSourceRE and Audionamix’s Xtrax Stems are among the first consumer-facing software options for automated demixing. Feed a song into Xtrax, for example, and the software spits out tracks for vocals,…
The Buzzy, Chatty, Out-of-Control Rise of Clubhouse
It was an app called Highlight. Using your phone’s location, it would help create serendipitous meetups by pointing out people nearby who had a mutual friend or shared your interests.…
Good-bye Zoom. Hello Low-Key Ambient Snooping
One year into our all-remote existence, executives at white-collar companies are realizing two things. One is that they’re pleased (stunned, even) by how productive employees have been. They’d worried that…