Harmonix, developer of the Guitar Hero franchise, MTV and Electronic Arts today announced Rock Band, a new platform for music gamers.
Rock Band will allow gamers to “perform” music from the world’s biggest rock artists with their friends as a virtual band using drum, bass/lead guitar and microphone peripherals, in addition to offering deep online connectivity. [...]

Mekarer, who may be the MacGyver of the music world, has turned a sponge into a snare drum, using a guitar pickup and a piece of string:

Here’s his English explanation:
“I use Reaktor to translate the signal with its amplitube to snare drums. Each punch, with sound a snare drum (not the same snare all the [...]

There may soon be no love lost between bands and the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia. At least eight bands have had their equipment ripped off while on tour in the city since March.
“Don’t walk on the street at night in Detroit, and don’t park your van in Philadelphia,” said Alan Redmond, drummer for La [...]

Authorities in Scotland are racing against the clock to locate more than 30 people feared to be at risk from anthrax after they attended the wake of a man who apparently died from the disease.
Pascal Norris, an artist and musical instrument-maker, died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 8 July. He had been using untreated animal [...]

What happens when a tabla drum machine loses its mind?
Classical hindustani glitchtronica.
According to its owner, Jesse Stiles, “My tabla machine, which i love dearly, has lost its freaking mind.
“It has a “composer” mode where you can program two beats of up to 100 steps each. I was programming a regular 32 step loop when it [...]