With their brand new two-track EP, B.O.Y., recording artist Miles Francis offers two upturned, unexpected renditions of famous boy band hits. Francis reworked *NSYNC’s “I Want You Back” from 1996 along with (our personal favorite) Backstreet Boys’ “The Call” from 2000. The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist’s gripping take brings new dimension to the tracks. “Boy band music dominated my life when I was young,” they …
As many DJs and audiophiles know, the more a record is played, the more warp and static noise can develop. MasterSound’s turntable weight is designed to solve that. At 405-grams, this solid, high-grade aluminum accessory has been engraved with surgical precision and reduces a turntable’s noise floor, while its anti-slip base stabilizes warped records, eliminating skips. Especially useful for DJs, it can be used to …
Iranian Dutch singer-songwriter Sevdaliza announced her upcoming Raving Dahlia EP (out 25 February) with “The Great Hope Design,” an ominous and bewitching track she wrote and produced with Mucky (aka Reynard Bargmann). The song comes along with the reveal of Sevdaliza’s robot—a Femmenoid named Dahlia which was created “to convey the harsh truth about navigating in the music industry as a woman who does not …