Bits & Pieces

Matt is in America! Kanye's business plan includes IKEA, the Bela promises an affordable open source platform for low latency audio, and a new contest by Adam Levine follows the awful tradition of trying to squeeze free work out of artists. Picks of the week from Dinosaur Jr. and Hideki Naganuma!

What awful listener contexts should you take into consideration when mixing? Also: SoundCloud may close, and Kanye is a controversy machine. Picks of the Week from St. Vincent and Sébastien Schuller.

We tackle a few more interesting new musical gadgets, like the Touché and Bitwig. Also: AC/DC ends every song the same way, bad sound mixing advice, and Shure's interesting new dual-diaphragm mic, the KSM8! Picks of the week: Kelley Stoltz and Mike Moll.

Jon Benjamin makes a bad jazz album, Apple releases an intruiging new Music Memos app, and we are wowed by the innovations of Melodyne. POTW: Sleater-Kinney's Modern Girl and October Surprise's There Is No Grace In It.

A Baboom developer buys Matt's EP, Pitchfork readers weigh in with contradictory views, and the inventor of Auto-tune has an interesting history. Also, Bragi Dash smart earphones and great picks of the week from Kishi Bashi and Sizarr!

News of the weird has the FBI tweeting about Wu-Tang's album, Thom Yorke and Adele complain about streaming, and dumb audiophiles argue about 'breaking in' a cd player.

Matt releases his first solo EP, Spotify is hiring a UX expert. ALSO: We discuss desktop music players and a wicked cool new experimental control surface. POTWS: Pure Bathing Culture and Girls In Hawaii.

Mike is officially creating a new album of original music, Rdio files for bankruptcy, Microsoft finally ends the Zune (you read that right). A new DAW appears on iOS and Tim Exile is still inventing the future of music tools. Picks of the Week from The Besnard Lakes and Terranigma!

Mike is back on the show with a special tribute song. Also, we discuss slowing down chipmunks, harmonizators and the balanced keyboard.

Lars joins Matt as they talk about the combination of the visual and the aural, music tastes in relationships and their Picks of the Week that both could agree on.