For decades, a traditional (and, at times, formulaic) sound defined and powered regional Mexican music, the umbrella term that includes subgenres like banda, norteño and mariachi. But today, música ...

The world first met gyrofield because of a joke. It was 2019, and Kiana Li was a teenage music producer making beats on her computer from her bedroom in Hong Kong. She had 2,000 Soundcloud followers. ...

A music producer is more than a creative who brings a sonic project to life. Just like the songs they create, their work is full of complex layers. They can be arrangers, poets, therapists, engineers, ...

As I greet Mike Dean over a video call, it’s five days until the closing of the first round of voting for the 2026 Grammy Awards. His production work on the Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow is up for 10 ...

On a recent Saturday in Inglewood, about a dozen acclaimed music producers including Dahi — who’s worked with the likes of Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and Drake — and DJ Khalil — who has collaborated with ...

Long before Scott Billington became a staff member at Rounder Records in 1976 and ultimately became the label’s successful producer, he had a passion for music, especially the blues, its purveyors and ...

Phoenix EDM producer/DJ Ekonovah sounds genuinely giddy when talking about his first-ever performance at Dusk Music Festival this weekend. He hasn’t even had the pleasure of attending, he said during ...

A new partnership between BandLab Technologies and Sony is set to bring users production tools that are aimed at making independent musicians competitive with big-budget artists. Starting this summer, ...

Readers of a certain age are acutely aware of the wild ride the music industry has been on over the past few decades — from vinyl to cassettes to CDs to mp3s to streaming, the way we listen to (and ...