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Dave Smith, the Sequential founder and synthmaker known as the father of MIDI, has died, Sequential said. He was 72. Artists including Flying Lotus, Hot Chip, and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon paid tribute to Smith, whose inventions include the Prophet-5, used by a raft of 1980s greats, as well as by Radiohead for their diversion into electronics on Kid A. Born in California, Smith founded Sequential in his mid-twenties, in 1974, and designed and released the Prophet-5 four years later. It was the world’s first fully programmable polyphonic synth, and the first instrument with an embedded microprocessor. In 1981, Smith and Sequential engineer Chet Wood designed a basic MIDI interface and consulted keyboard manufacturers including Roland founder Ikutaro Kakehashi, who had proposed the idea of a ...

The latest Megan Thee Stallion music video has arrived, this time for her recent single “Plan B.” The visual, directed by Casey Cadwallader (the creative director of Mugler) and John Miserendino, places Megan against a stark black background. Watch the video below. “Plan B” was debuted in a Coachella performance the week just before she gave the song its official release. Megan Thee Stallion recently performed her new single at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, which was followed by a solo rendition of her new Dua Lipa collaboration “The Sweetest Pie.” The rapper was recently honored with her very own day in her hometown of Houston, where she was awarded the key to the city. She previously performed “The Sweetest Pie” at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. Content This content can also be viewed ...

On May 9, Young Thug was arrested on charges of participation in street gang activity and conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Today (June 2), the rapper was denied bond by Judge Ural D. Glanville following a seven-plus hour bond hearing in Atlanta, as Variety and The New York Times’ Joe Coscarelli report. Thug’s trial is currently set for January 9, 2023.  Judge Glanville denied Young Thug bond, claiming he’s a potential danger to the community and witnesses. “There has been significant proffers about Mr. Williams being a danger to the community,” Glanville said. “In particular, the state’s proffer that they have taken proffers from other gang members—people who are in this particular indictment and others who are not in this indictment...

Beavis and Butt-Head are back in a trailer for a forthcoming feature that’s coming later this month. It’s titled Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, and it’s out June 23 via Paramount+. See the first trailer for the movie below. (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.) After its original run from 1993 to 1997, Mike Judge’s animated MTV comedy returned for a one-season revival in 2011. Another “Gen Z” Beavis and Butt-Head revival was originally announced as a series for Comedy Central in 2020, but the new episodes will instead appear in 2024 on Paramount+, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Earlier this year, Judge announced that he and King of the Hill co-creator Greg Daniels have launched a new animation company. Judge has promised a revi...