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Find Your Signature Sound: How Metal Guitar Players Can Stand Out From The Crowd
An Interview with Luc Lemay of Gorguts For metalheads like me, it’s no secret that the genre as a...
How to Tap into the Micro-Influencer Community to Maximize Social Reach
Catching up With Preffy founder Charlie Davis We’ve been writing about how important TikTok can be...
Feedbands: Where Cryptocurrency and Vinyl Collide
Music paired with streaming and crypto (crypto-currencies like Bitcoin, Ether etc.) are about to explode. We know of at least two “crypto streamers” that just launched last month, and we’ve...
VIDEO: Coast Records Demonstrates the Difference with Cloudlifter On and Off
Matt Zutell, founder of Coast Records in Charleston, SC, installs the Cloudlifter CL-4 in the studio so he can get clearer sound from his ribbon mics. In this video example, he demonstrates how the...
2018: The Most Critical Year In Your Music Career
2018 will be the most important year in your musical career and you need to pay attention. It has nothing to do with your new release, or that mini-tour you booked. Nope, this is the nitty gritty,...
VIDEO: Complete Play-through with Audio-Technica Drum Mics
Last month, we selected Daniel Blume as the winner in our recent Audio-Technica Drum Mic Package Studio Challenge. Today he shares his first full play-through in the studio using the drum mic...
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VINYL OF THE MONTH: The Damnation of Adam Blessing [Re-Issues]
VINYL OF THE MONTH: The Damnation of Adam Blessing S/T and The Second Damnation (Exit Stencil/Universal Music) When Exit Stencil Recordings told us they had restored two forgotten Damnation of Adam...
INTERVIEW: EUREKA CALIFORNIA opens up about latest LP ‘Roadrunners’
With a long road ahead and a decade-long one behind, Georgia-based duo Eureka California released their fourth album, Roadrunners, this May. Now available both digitally and pressed on vinyl,...
COVER STORY: Linqua Franqa on Hip-Hop, Linguistics and Social Activism
Between running for office in Athens, performing as Linqua Franqa, helping to unite the city’s burgeoning hip-hop scene and pursuing a doctorate in linguistics, Mariah Parker, only 26, has zero...
GETTING YOUR BAND STUDIO READY with TYLER SMYTH
“So, you’re in a band, huh? You have any music I can hear?” This question has long been the gold-standard in follow up questions to band members everywhere. This is because, for a very long time,...
We want YOU to win and demo Elixir Strings!
Gear Test Challenge: Never tried coated guitar strings before? Here's your chance! If you've shied away from coated guitar strings in the past, it's time to kick old prejudices and outdated beliefs...
The New June/July Issue is Out Now
Performer Magazine releases its latest issue, featuring a cover story on Linqua Franqa (new album, Model Minority, out now!) INSIDE you'll find info on portable PA systems, cryptocurrency &...