Sound

Yellow Submarine, Ringo Starr’s turn on Revolver, has been a gateway for children into the music of the Beatles since its release in 1966. A new reissue of the album makes that relationship more explicit: Giles Martin, son of original producer George and the sonic custodian of the Beatles catalogue, says his “de-mixing” of the album – using AI to separate individual instruments that were originally squeezed together on four tracks – was done in part with a playlist-listening younger audience in mind.Martin recently told…

Hip-hop wouldn’t sound the same without Migos.The trio of Atlanta rappers — Offset, Quavo and Takeoff — dominated the 2010s as they built a catalog of booming trap hits like “Handsome and Wealthy” and “Hannah Montana” before entrenching their place in the mainstream through 2016’s “Bad and Boujee,” which shot to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their rapid-fire triplet delivery, termed the “Migos Flow,” showed up even when they didn’t, becoming the factory-standard cadence for a generation of rappers and spilling over into…

Audio-Technica is bringing back its iconic Sound Burger portable turntable. After nearly 40 years and countless clones, the updated model adds a few new features to make it more appealing to modern listeners. To start, the 2022 Sound Burger includes Bluetooth connectivity and a built-in lithium-ion battery with USB-C charging. In other words, you won’t need to source a trio of C-cell batteries to power the new model. According to Audio-Technica, you can expect to get about 12 hours of continuous playback from the 2022…

If you’re old enough to remember the birth of the first portable cassette players, you might also remember Audio-Technica’s AT727/770, a quirky portable record player that was better known by its other name, the Sound Burger. It hasn’t been made in decades, but that’s about to change: Audio-Technica (A-T) is bringing the Sound Burger back in all of its retro glory as a $200 limited edition model, to celebrate the Japanese audio brand’s 60th anniversary. 1. The new AT-SB2022…

The first song I remember hearingI used to sit and watch westerns with my grandfather. He had a record player next to a little cocktail bar, with a seven-inch of Wand’rin’ Star by Lee Marvin from Paint Your Wagon on one side and I Talk to the Trees by Clint Eastwood on the other. Neither could sing, but both are fantastic.The first single I boughtJack and Jill by Raydio, sung by Ray Parker Jr, who went on to sing Ghostbusters. There are funny lines about Jack wandering down the hill to get the love he couldn’t get from…

The European Space Agency (ESA) this week released 5 minutes of haunting, crackling audio – revealing what Earth's magnetic field sounds like.Earth's internal magnetism, called the magnetosphere, generates a comet-shaped field around the surface of the planet that provides protection from harmful solar and cosmic particle radiation, as well as erosion of the atmosphere by the solar wind, according to NASA.Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark took magnetic signals, measured by ESA's Swarm satellite mission…

For Kid Bloom, it’s all about the journey. This past summer, the Los Angeles native released his debut album Highway, a synth-laced, 80’s pop-inspired LP that he worked on through the pandemic. “There were great collaborators that I was blessed to work with, but for literally 90% of it, I was in my room, fresh in the pandemic, just trying to figure it out,” he says. “I didn’t sit there and say to myself, ‘Okay. I’m going to make an album.’ I literally said ‘How can I push myself?’ and also, ‘How can I make music? What’s…

Photo: Thiradech (Shutterstock)Freddy Krueger has a new problem to worry about. Researchers say they might have found an improved way to fend off frightful nightmares: a dose of sound played during sleep. The method could boost the effectiveness of an existing therapeutic treatment for people with chronic nightmares.Just about everyone has had a nightmare, with about three-quarters of people thought to have experienced at least one by early childhood. But some people grapple with especially frequent nightmares that…

Pull down your Notification Shade twice and tap the gear icon to access the Android Settings app. You can also access this app from within the App Drawer by swiping up from the bottom of the display.  Also: The best music streaming services Accessing the Adaptive Sound setting in Android. Image: Jack Wallen Enabling Adaptive Sound in Android 13. Image: Jack WallenAlso: The best Pixel phonesNow, all you have to do is experience music from your Android device in a way that will automatically adapt to your…

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