How Two Music Startups Turned Templates Into Educational Tools

How Two Music Startups Turned Templates Into Educational Tools

In a market saturated with low-quality sample packs and template stores, AbletonTemplate.com and FLStudioTemplate.com provide resources that focus on accuracy, reliability, and professionalism. As music producers themselves, the team behind these platforms is delivering high-quality, genre-accurate templates to help producers create professional tracks while improving their skills. What Are Sample Packs and Music Production Templates?…

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GHOSTBUSTER – SPIN

GHOSTBUSTER – SPIN

As I pull up to Sunny War’s small, red and black Craftsman bungalow, the last remnants of the 4 inches of snow that fell earlier in the week are melting under the blue, cloudless sky over her historic Glenwood neighborhood in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  She invites me in to sit at her small dining room table….

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Every Public Enemy Album, Ranked

Every Public Enemy Album, Ranked

A Long Island hip-hop crew called Spectrum City evolved into Public Enemy in the mid-’80s, signed to Def Jam, and became one the most politically outspoken and musically innovative groups the genre had, and has, ever seen. Chuck D and Flavor Flav have been the group’s only two consistent members over the years: the high-minded…

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What He’s Got – SPIN

What He’s Got – SPIN

DENM still remembers hearing Sublime on the radio as a kindergartner. The SoCal native, born Mac Montgomery in 1990, grew up with songs like “Santeria,” “What I Got,” and “Garden Grove” serving as the soundtrack to his life. Just 6 years old when lead singer Bradley Nowell died of an accidental drug overdose, DENM didn’t…

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Evan Felker is Back in the Saddle

Evan Felker is Back in the Saddle

When Evan Felker got back to making music again with Turnpike Troubadours in 2022, it came with a new sense of balance. On the road, life tended to unfold at night at the microphone, but on his ranch in Central Oklahoma, Felker was up early and working with his hands. With about 200 cows, his…

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9 ESSENTIAL VINTAGE PORN SOUNDTRACKS

9 ESSENTIAL VINTAGE PORN SOUNDTRACKS

One of the more intriguing reissues of the 2020s is a rare, 50-year-old album by a band with a crap name. In Fall 1972, Greene Bottle Records, a subsidiary of Paramount, released the debut album by a New York City group called Pool-Pah, who combined odd synth excursions and strutting funk with winding prog arrangements…

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Hayley Williams Unveils 17 New Solo Tracks

Hayley Williams Unveils 17 New Solo Tracks

In lieu of a more traditional album release, Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams has dropped 17 individual new tracks on DSPs through her Post Atlantic imprint, which is distributed by Secretly Distribution. They were produced by Daniel James and also include contributions from Brian Robert Jones, Joey Howard and Jim-E Stack. Williams debuted the shoegaze-steeped “Mirtazapine”…

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