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I can't stop thinking I'm listening to Green Day. Green Day if...

I tend to avoid politics where possible, as I generally consider that the only qualification a politician needs is the ability...

Its nigh-on impossible to make a profit from music these days, so why do we still do it?

Sample libraries are the modern media composers most important asset — so its a shame that using them in real-world projects can land you in legal hot water.

Is yours one of this month's tracks to be scrutinised by the editorial team? Click and find out...

I'm writing this shortly after returning to work after the Christmas holidays and I'm currently cut off from the outside world...

So you want to be a media composer? Paul Farrer reminds us that its not about the music you love, its about whats right for the show.

In A Forest Without Trees

Goonies Never Say Die

If the defining characteristics...

In A Forest Without Trees

Goonies Never Say Die

If the defining characteristics of 'post‑...

Mixing can be simple, you just have to think one step ahead...

Editor-in-Chief Paul White ponders where 2010's new tools will lead us...

It doesnt do to get too precious about audio quality. In fact, sometimes a bit of lossy compression might be just what your music needs.

Lost In Sound

Atila Neves

Atila Neves has a PhD in particle physics, and would thus seem...

Music technology forums: the case against.

If the postal system hasn't completely melted down by the time you read this, you should still be looking forward to Christmas...

No-one likes having their work criticised, especially when the criticism is baffling, surreal and second-hand. But thats the lot of todays composer for the media.

More of your submitted recordings undergo the SOS 'Juke Box Jury' treatment.

With musical instruments, its the interface that counts...

Where did this year go?

As they say oop north: where theres virtual brass, theres muck.

The editorial team audition another crop of your submitted tracks. Is yours one of them?