Drum machine lovers, you now have the beat gear equivalent of Matt Harding and Where the Hell is Matt?. Kamoni, aka sonic creator, composer, and experimenter Micah Frank, takes his favorite devices out on the road, piecing them together into an epic YouTubular jam. Doepfer and Korg, Elektron and Aka...

One of the best gauges of an economy is tax collections. No one pays taxes unless they have to, so collections are a real-world, real-time analysis of the US economy. And the best source I know of for tracking taxes is The Liscio Report, by Philippa Dunne & Doug Henwood. Tax collections are down...

It's hard to see who will benefit from last week's interest rate cut. Whenever rates move either up or down there are always winners and losers but this time round the winners are hard to spot....

It’s been eight years since Ableton Live introduced its signature screen layout for live performance: clips, scenes, sends, tracks, and devices. For the first time, a single controller combines all the basic elements of that Live set in a single hardware layout. Akai’s APC40 is a plug-and-play, ...

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (January 5 – 11, 2009) Global stock markets reversed course during the last three days of the first full trading week of 2009 as investors were confronted by dreadful economic data, escalating layoffs and a bleak earnings outlook. As investor ...