Filed under: Tastings, Beer, Trends, Festivals, Celebrations Last week, we discussed the possible financial benefits of homebrewing. After last night's Extreme Beer Homebrew Challenge at Jose Pistolas for Philly Beer Week, I was reminded of one of the other major advantages of homebrewing: The abili...

A hundred years ago, milk stouts were regarded as nutritional . This was no doubt the function of a clever ad campaign by Mackeson, but it worked. Much like Americans now dose themselves with echinacea, in pre-war England they prescribed a glass of stout. I have attempted to revive the practice unde...

I ask you: what is the foundation for rhythmic electronic music? I suggest that the humble step-sequencer is the backbone of many of today’s musical genres and memetic evolutions. To have electronic rhythm, you need to start with a clock and go from there, dividing it into fractions and multip...

The Cupertino-Mushroom Kingdom gap has been closed: you can now mix and match DS and iPhone/iPod touch for wireless control of music and visuals. DSMI, the homebrew library that has enabled wireless and serial MIDI connections from the Nintendo DS, has come to iPod touch and iPhone. That means anyon...

In the past, we’ve already wrote two articles about putting custom firmwares on your PSP. To summarize: custom firmware is a firmware that’s developed by the community, not by Sony. These CFWs usually have all the possibilities of an official firmware, with a few benefits. Probably the b...

Now, why would anyone imagine this wouldn’t have widespread commercial appeal? If you enjoy real analog insanity - crazy noises that challenge the ears - you’ll like these videos sent to us by Hans Tammen, the composer, “endangered guitar” artist, and director of NYC’s ...

DyNAmic sequencer from Lo-Fi Massahkah on Vimeo. Ready for some musical genetic engineering? Much of the sound of electronic music today grows out of the use - and abuse - of specific designs. The electronica beats bred in discos and techno, Detroit and Berlin have a direct lineage to analog step se...

The mead stopped bubbling a week ago, so after giving it sufficient time to settle, I racked it yesterday. Right away things became challenging. My small, 1.5 gallon fermentation vessel had vanished. Poof. Not in my office, not in the boxes with my other homebrew stuff, nowhere. I found the screw-to...

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Fire up your NES emulator and get ready to ROCK, chiptune-style. 4 whole songs! It's D-Pad Hero. The controls are pretty visually explicit, but if you don't get it: If a circle comes down the left channel, hit the A button as it crosses the line (ala guitar hero). Ditto right channel, B button. If t...