Jul 27, 2010,
By Sylvia Massy
Back at the beginnings of modern civilization, soon after the invention of the wheel, the recording of music was often done through a haphazard collection of 2-track radio consoles slung together with raw wire and powered by fossil fuels. Human beings spilled their souls onto long, winding strips of plastic tape, rearranging iron particles and rewriting history. ...
Jul 27, 2010,
By Sarah Benzuly
A lone Pro Tools rig may have been gathering dust on the bus while Disturbed hit the festival circuit in Europe last summer, but that didn’t keep guitarist Dan Donegan from seeking out a private room after soundcheck to lay down some riffs that would become the creative spark for their latest album...
Jul 9, 2010,
By Sarah Benzuly
In 2003, most Stone Temple Pilots fans thought the band was kaput: Lead singer Scott Weiland continued to battle his heroin addiction and took center stage with super-group Velvet Revolver, while the rest of the bandmembers continued to make music under the name Army of Anyone. ...
Jul 9, 2010,
By Barbara Schultz
L.A. punk band Social Distortion announced a new deal with Epitaph and a new album-in-the-making in the same breath this summer. The forthcoming sixth release will be the band’s first studio album in six years, and engineer Duane Barron ...
Jul 9, 2010,
By Blair Jackson
Where do you go artistically as a singer when you’ve seemingly covered every base there is, from solo voice to intricate vocal ensembles, jazz to pop to classical, and earned 10 Grammys and a Billboard Number One single along the way?...
Jun 24, 2010,
By Blair Jackson
In the context of what usually gets played on the radio and goes on to become a hit, Bobby McFerrin’s 1988 smash, “Don’t Worry Be Happy” is definitely an anomaly; even, dare we use the word, a “novelty.” After all, it’s one singer, performing all the parts a cappella, on a lilting, vaguely Caribbean-sounding song with an uplifting message as simple as its title. ...
Jun 24, 2010,
By Sylvia Massy
In order to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, you must be prepared. You must pack the essentials: water, matches and, of course, an SM58. Forget the Swiss Army knife. The Shure SM58 is a hammer, a weapon, a spoon, a pestle, a dildo, a scepter—and a damn good mic on just about everything....
May 21, 2010,
By Barbara Schultz
Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews opens his album Backatown with the original instrumental “Hurricane Season”: It’s a wild ride as lines blur between up-tempo jazz, funk, R&B. ...
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