Jamaica’s reggae megastar received a hero’s welcome when he came home after seven years in a US jail. ‘No guts, no glory – that’s my genesis,’ he says in a rare interview

John Newton was sold as crew to a slave ship, enslaved for a time and later became an abolitionist. While on a ship Newton was one of the most profane men the captain had ever met. In a culture where sailors habitually swore, Newton was admonished several times for not only using the worst words the captain had ever heard, but creating new ones to exceed the limits of verbal debauchery.

Great bouncy electronic tune I made.

Time to unleash the mad chords. The middle section is supposed to sound wrong. I did that on purpose.

I wanted to deliberately create a piece of music that was bad. It was just a fun exercise to see if I could break through my automatic habit of making stuff which I like the sound of. In my opinion, I actually only partly succeeded here, because there are actually bits of this that I quite like. But at least it made me create something quite different to what I would have otherwise.

Here is a synth tune I made. The idea was to create a synth version of the kind of lead harmonies that you sometimes get in heavy metal music; in particular, the harmony lead lines in the song Alexander the Great by Iron Maiden, and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Metallica. It's not meant to sound like heavy metal though, just inspired by those kinds of lead harmonies.

Yuri Suzuki, the designer that brought you cabs that create music from street noise and helped Disney turn your earlobe into a speaker, is launching a Kickstarter through his company Dentaku...

Imagine and Jump mash up,it is really good

You shouldn’t need us to tell you that the music industry—namely, how it chooses to monetize songs—is hopelessly broken. Despite the fact that vinyl sales are increasing, the traditional ways that artists made money (namely, by selling records and touring) are yielding less and less—this, despite Iron Maiden’s new funding model and Beats Music, which aims to pay musicians more for streaming music.

This song is called "Kuiper", like the Kuiper belt at the edge of our solar system. This song reflects the ambiance of space and the speed of asteroids whizzing by.

Amazing skills.

The 66-year-old songwriter, made the criticisms at the Royal Academy of Music, where he trained for six years from the age of 11. Speaking to the Sunday Times ahead of a private dinner, he cited a lifelong passion for classical music which in turn inspired his own music. He said; ‘If you love Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Beethoven, you can’t help but be influenced. They wrote the greatest melodies and the most beautiful things of all time.’

This is a medley of the second full length record yet to be released by indie rock outfit A Social State. This record was produced, mixed, and mastered by Steven Haigler. Steven produced and mixed artists such as The Pixies, Bob Mould, Brand New, Local H, Fuel, The Dear Hunter, The Scenic, Oleander, Jimmies Chicken Shack, Quicksand and more. Release date To Be Announced..

A federal judge has left stable the rate U.S. Internet radio service Pandora Media Inc must pay songwriters to license their music, a performing rights organization said Friday. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers said the judge following a non-jury trial set Pandora's rate to license songs registered with the association at 1.85 percent for five years through 2015.

Here is my new piece of music. It is called Celebration. You will like it. This is a fact.

Trans Siberian Art Festival in Novosibirsk closed without Gergiev who was stuck in New York.

How digital technology is transforming our relationship with sound

An instrumental electronic tune I made. I have never been to Sacramento, I just like the sound of that word and chose it for this piece.

Or, why he is a modern-day rock god.

Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has reignited the controversy over drummer Bill Ward’s absence from their reunion by saying his former colleague wasn’t well enough to take part.