The Number That Moved the Snare Open any drum sequencer and you will find a dial labelled swing, usually a percentage. Most producers treat it as a feel knob. It is better understood as one of the most successful pieces of interface design in electronic music, because it reduces a drummer's lilt to a single […]
A song written at Wesleyan in 2005 as a deadpan parody of the rock-star fantasy spent the next twenty years becoming the most efficient delivery vehicle for that fantasy in pop. The production didn’t fail the irony. It made the irony unkillable.
