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Benjamin Ricci
REVIEW: Fender Fighter 12” Powered PA Speaker
I’ll admit, Fender is probably not the first name I think of when it comes to PA gear. But in...
[VIDEO] Unboxing the Simmons SD2000 Electronic Drum Kit
One of our Simmons SD2000 gear testers, Richard Thomas, has unpacked his new kit and provided an...
Recording Tips: Bass Miking
How to Get That Low End to Sing When we were kids, we didn’t have bass amp simulator plug-ins – we had bass amps and expensive microphones and we liked it! Today we are fortunate to have better...
Women’s Audio Mission Levels the Pro Audio Playing Field
With Help from Kronos Quartet, Telefunken and Manley Microphones Women’s Audio Mission, an entirely female run recording studio and non-profit organization in San Francisco, know their way around...
Steampunk Guitar Building with Tony Cochran
Every guitar has stories to tell. Some were played by masters, many were destroyed, and all contain a secret history that only exposes its...
CASH Music Delivers Free, Open Source Tools For Musicians: an Interview with Maggie Vail
“We're building a totally free platform of tools for artists and labels to sell, share, and promote music directly to their fans. We feel it's vital that all musicians have access to basic web tools...
Record Review: Young Hines
Young Hines Give Me My Change Nashville, TN (Readymade Records) “Flashes of ’60s folk festival gold, textures of CSNY” Young Hines kick starts his new record with a snazzy blues riff in “Young...
Record Review: White Birds
White Birds When Women Played Drums Philadelphia, PA (Grizzly Records) “A happy, heartbreaking collection of lo-fi gems” What makes a great breakup album? Ask these guys. Made up of members from the...
Record Review: The Touré-Raichel Collective
The Touré-Raichel Collective The Tel Aviv Session Tel Aviv, Israel and Bamako, Mail (Cumbancha) “Inspired collision of world music powerhouses” Opening up The Tel Aviv Session, it was painstakingly...
Record Review: Shook Foil
Shook Foil Little Significance EP Atlanta, GA (Self-released) “Gold Foil” Whether Shook Foil’s intricate interplay of styles is intentional or not, the results are undeniably impressive. Upon first...
Record Review: Rocky Votolato
Rocky Votolato Television of Saints Seattle, WA (Undertow Music Collective) “Grand solo exploration yields mighty contribution to American folk” Originally hailing from Dallas, and now a Seattleite,...
Record Review: Pretend Surprise
Pretend Surprise HOTmath Wilmington, NC (Self-released) “Colorful math rock” HOTmath sounds like the epitome and the perfect name for a math rock album, but the Wilmington group Pretend Surprise has...