Jake Ingalls is the Millennial textbook definition of a working musician: pragmatic and...
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Dan Rodriguez On Letting Go Over Emotions & Overcoming Writer’s Block
We first met Dan Rodriguez when we selected him to be our recent Elixir Strings artist of the...
Catching Up With Ronnie Baker Brooks
Blues Master Ronnie Baker Brooks on Family Legacy and Staying Current in a Modern Age Let’s talk...
Stream the FREE Elixir Strings New Music Sampler Vol. 3
Stream our FREE playlist, featuring the most recent Elixir Strings "artists of the month" as they drop some killer new music. Over the past few months, we've been bringing you behind-the-scenes...
COVER STORY: Georgi Kay Opens Up About the Road to Self-Production
It’s been four years since a confident 22 year old, wearing a leopard pattern button-up and wide brim hat, swaggered into a recording session I was helping to curate in Bali, Indonesia. It was the...
Enter our MASSIVE Mitchell Guitars Giveaway!
We're looking for 12 awesome axe-slingers to win, demo and record with new guitars from the Mitchell Guitars lineup. Got what it takes? Enter below... With a full range of instruments to...
SHURE ANNOUNCES “FOR THOSE WHO TOUR” INITIATIVE TO SUPPORT ARTISTS AND CREATORS
Today, Shure announced “For Those Who Tour” (FTWT) Chicago, a year-long initiative to support, encourage, and inspire artists and creators as they take their talents on tour. For almost 100 years,...
Protect Your Home Studio With These Insurance Tips
Whether we're talking about our vintage Martin, our one top-shelf condenser mic or that Echoplex we managed to get restored into working order, often times about the only really nice things we have...
Tracklib Presents The State of Sampling
[Editor’s note – special thanks to Tracklib, who conducted exhaustive research to bring you the information and findings in the following piece. We have partnered with them to republish their study...
4 Tips For Creating Your Own Custom Samples
Initially made popular in the late 1970s and '80s, sampling has changed the face of modern music. By chopping and changing old music, instrumental recordings and ambient sounds, musical masterpieces...
The New Feb/March Issue is Out Now!
Performer Magazine releases its latest issue, featuring a cover story on Georgi Kay. INSIDE you'll find info on the state of the industry, the year in sampling, getting the attention of music...
How to get your production music into the right hands
Finders, Keepers: How to get your production music into the right hands via music libraries Production music libraries have become the go-to music tool for many producers and music teams looking for...
2019 State of the Music Industry
It’s 2019; look at that number again. 2019. Doesn’t that kind of blow your mind? We are pretty much closer to 2040 than we are to 1999. Is this what you thought it would look and feel like? I want...