The end is nigh. And honestly, it looks really, really fun. Marvel Studios has just shared the first trailer for Thor: Ragnarok, the third solo film starring the Asgardian hero. While the last two ...

Guitarists today are spoiled for choice, and that goes doubly true for players who use computer-based amp modeling software. I’m one such player, and I don’t miss the size, weight, deafening volume, ...

Evanston, on a supposedly quiet Monday morning, is noisier than you might think. “OK, what’s that guy so angry about?” Fred Armisen asked as a garbage truck barreled down Sherman Avenue. A moment ...

Photoshop tutorial showing how to make text look like it's written in dry, fine beach sand from scratch. Subscribe! subscribe subscribe subscribe subscribe If You See a Purple Parking Space, Here’s ...

The former 'SNL' cast member breaks a lot of glass and generates a lot of laughs on his new album, but is everything meant to be funny? By Frank DiGiacomo Editor Fred Armisen has few equals when it ...

Sometimes simpler is better. The iconic Jaws theme song used just two notes to set an ominous tone, and the equally iconic sound effects in Friday the 13th used two syllables to make Jason Voorhees’s ...

Just a year and a half ago, the latest and greatest of Adobe's Firefly generative AI offerings involved producing high-quality images from text with customization options, such as reference images.

Since rolling out the redesign of its Firefly app in April, Adobe has been releasing major updates for the generative AI hub at a near monthly clip. Today, the company is introducing a handful of new ...

PLUGIN WEEK 2025: Given the endless bombardment of new plugins, plugin packages and seemingly inescapable plugin subscriptions you’d think most DAWs had no onboard plugins at all. But the stock plugin ...

AI startup Stability AI has released Stable Audio Open Small, a “stereo” audio-generating AI model that the company claims is the fastest on the market — and efficient enough to run on smartphones.

In this edition of our arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim chats with the pioneers of French electronic music, Scratch Massive. The duo have been blending techno and cold-wave sounds for more than ...