The latest installment of DJ Ekin’s 5 Questions features Timbaland addressing such topics as the top 3 most complete artists, comparisons to other producers, and advice for new music makers who seek to gain his attention. Related posts:Black Milk Talks Tronic + J Dilla Comparisons.No I.D. Interview: Favorite Producers, Beattapes, Scoring MoviesTimbaland Leaving The Music Biz? Related posts:

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The Smashing Pumpkins have released the first track from the band’s upcoming “album,” Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, which will span 44 songs over the course of 11 (!) discs. “A Song for a Son” finds front man Billy Corgan crooning and snarling over piano, guitars, and 19 year-old Mike Byrne’s...

For the record, I went on a date with Natalie Portman when I was 15. How you like them apples, Superstar? K-OS - I WISH I KNEW NATALIE PORTMAN

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If only it were real. Thomas Mascall’s Touchtable PMP concept scales down the DJ experience to such beautiful levels. ���At 1:8 the size of a traditional DJ setup, the Touchtable offers theoretical touch controlled scratching and sound manipulation, MIDI functationality, and the ability to...

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Liam Clancy, the last surviving member of the seminal Irish folk band the Clancy Brothers, died on Friday at a Cork hospital at age 74. The balladeer, who Bob Dylan described as “the best ballad singer I’d ever heard in my life,” suffered from incurable pulmonary fibrosis (which also afflicted his...

Three Lobed Recordings issued a statement over the weekend that Philadelphia-based acoustic guitarist Jack Rose passed away over the weekend of a heart attack; he was 38 years old. Rose was self-taught and made a name for himself originally as the guitarist in the band Pelt in the 1990s, but...