Performer Magazine

Old Man Markley Interview

Punk/Bluegrass Outfit on Using Craigslist to Find a Tour Bus, Home Studio Gear & Their Fiddle Player The wholesome, backyard nostalgia of bluegrass intertwined with the rowdy romp of punk. Those two genres usually don’t mix, and when people hear the concept the...

Jeff Beck’s “Led Boots”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQIdjHcS4m4 Taken from Beck's highly influential 1976...

Ice’s “Time Will Tell”

Chilly outside? Then warm up with ICE on this glorious Funk Friday. Enjoy!...

LEGAL PAD: The End of the First Sale Doctrine?

AS A MUSICIAN, YOU WILL BUY AND SELL HUNDREDS OF ITEMS over the course of your career. From...

Funk Friday with The Funkees

by Performer Magazine | Mar 30, 2012 | Videos

The Funkees made some of the nastiest, haaardest funk and Afrobeat in the 1970s. Check out some videos from these eastern Nigerian masters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0QbL3rM1Vw...

Tre Williams on Transitioning from Hip-Hop Hook Singer to Soul Powerhouse

by Jacquinn Williams | Mar 2, 2012 | Interviews and Features

In a musical landscape fraught with Auto-Tune, 808s and faux strings, The Revelations - featuring Tre Williams - continue to stay true to soul. Their ’60s and ’70s inspired songs explore issues like...

Spotlight: The Suicide Dolls

by Arthur Orfanos | Mar 2, 2012 | Interviews and Features

On Recording Noise Rock with the Right Producer GENRE: Garage Pop HOMETOWN: New London, CT ARTISTIC APPROACH: To put a new spin on noise rock and No Wave. thesuicidedolls.bandcamp.com Since 1994,...

Spotlight: Brite Lite Brite

by Margaret Price | Mar 2, 2012 | Interviews and Features

GENRE: Indie Electronica HOMETOWN: Boston ARTISTIC APPROACH: DIY work ethic and passion for the craft. www.britelitebrite.com When Brite Lite Brite’s Andrea Stankevitch and Luke Johnson sit down to...

Spotlight: Secret Colours

by Shawn M Haney | Mar 2, 2012 | Interviews and Features

Colouring Outside the Lines of Pop GENRE: Experimental Space Pop HOMETOWN: Chicago, IL ARTISTIC APPROACH: Creating impactful pop magic secretcolours.bandcamp.com EP3 by Secret Colours Having...

Spotlight: Paper Anchors

by Beth Ann Downey | Mar 2, 2012 | Interviews and Features

A Cocktail of Tech, Talent and Female Empowerment GENRE: Indie Electro Piano Rock HOMETOWN: Springfield, MO ARTISTIC APPROACH: To demonstrate creativity and let computers unlock endless...

Interview with Doomtree’s Lazerbeak and Dessa

by Garrett Frierson | Mar 2, 2012 | Interviews and Features

Hip-hop has been benefiting from the music of Doomtree’s seven members since 2001, but a new decade has brought a new spirit of...

CHURCH MICE: On Accidentally Writing, Recording, Financing and Self-Producing Their Own LP

by Heidi Schmitt | Mar 2, 2012 | Interviews and Features

On the DIY process: “The art - the actual jacket that the record is in - we're going to be painting and screen-printing from home, completely by ourselves.” After two years and change, Nashville...