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“There was a back door to the studio that led out to the street. I went out and I'm not kidding you, but this guy pops out of a trash can – it was Ginger Baker!”: Jimmy Douglass on his early days working for Atlantic Records

Having shaped rock, R&B and hip-hop across five decades, Grammy-winning engineer and producer Jimmy "The Senator" Douglass reflects on his extraordinary career

MusicRadar

“It’s marketing. It’s trolling”: AI band The Velvet Sundown are an ‘art hoax’, confirms 'spokesman'

But does it matter?

MusicRadar

“Was not good”: Timbaland just made a beat on Rhythm Roulette and the internet hates it

“This was by far the worst episode ever," is one of the kinder comments

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"This is not something to be afraid of - this is something that we need to use": Timbaland says he spends 10 hours a day using controversial AI music generator Suno

Timbaland's endorsement comes a day after Thom Yorke and ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus sign a joint statement demanding AI platforms like Suno cease training their models on copyrighted material

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“Our studios were right beside each other. I’m working on Missy; he’s working on Kelis. I walked in, and I heard Caught Out There. I walked back to Missy and said, ‘We gotta rethink’”: Timbaland on being inspired by the “genius” of Pharrell Williams

“Who does a hook like that?”

MusicRadar

“Suddenly I smelled burning”: Timbaland's beat for Nelly Furtado's Maneater was so fire that flames started coming out of the speaker when he played it to her

Furtado has also reiterated her love of Oasis, and says that “I feel like Noel Gallagher taught me to play guitar without him knowing"

MusicRadar

'Verzuz' will return after Swizz Beatz, Timbaland lock in new distribution partnership with X

Swizz Beatz and Timbaland are bringing the “Verzuz” series back with a new major platform for viewers to watch musicians face off in a song-against-song battle

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Justin Timberlake: Everything I Thought It Was review – pop pariah dances past the discourse

Painted as a villain following Janet Jackson and Britney Spears controversies, the pop-R&B megastar gets back to brass tacks – and bed-rattling

The Guardian - UK

Timbaland apologises for saying Justin Timberlake should put a 'muzzle' on Britney Spears

He has faced a huge amount of backlash for his recent comments

Marie Claire

Timbaland apologises to Britney Spears for saying Justin Timberlake should 'muzzle' her

The music producer had faced a backlash online after his comments about her memoir

Evening Standard

Timbaland apologises to Britney Spears after claiming Justin Timberlake should ‘muzzle’ singer

Timbaland, 51, was widely criticised for saying Timberlake, 42, should have “muzzled” Spears, reacting to claims in her new memoir

The Independent UK

Jay-Z’s 20 best tracks – ranked!

Twenty-five years after his biggest-selling album Vol 2… Hard Knock Life, we appraise the work of a rapper who has a good claim to be the greatest ever

The Guardian - UK

Timbaland’s rap partner Magoo dies aged 50 as pals warn ‘time is short’

Timbaland’s rap partner Magoo has died aged 50.

Evening Standard

Americans at Eurovision - performers from Flo Rida to Dita Von Teese and stars who won

The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 comes to a close later tonight with its highly-anticipated Grand Final and to mark the occasion we have taken a look back at some past entries from the contest

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Brandon Deener: the hip-hop producer turned Afrofuturist artist

He worked with Missy Elliott, Timbaland and Lil Wayne and is now showing a new side to his art at a fascinating new exhibition in New York

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Akai Pro drops a Timbaland edition of the MPC Live 2, and it comes with “the hardest drum sounds ever put inside an MPC”

“This is the peak of when technology, culture and excellence come together,” says Timbo

Mic

Diddy and Jermaine Dupri finally agreed to a face-off — but not on Verzuz

Meanwhile, Verzuz co-founders Swizz Beatz and Timbaland are embroiled in a legal battle with video streaming company Triller.

The Independent UK

Is this the best road trip music?

The power of music and tailoring your soundtrack is rooted in science, a cognitive neuroscientist says

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