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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...
COVER STORY: Snail Mail Delivers the Quintessential Post-Breakup Album
When I talk to Lindsey Jordan, the woman behind the band Snail Mail, at noon on a weekday, she has...
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...
PHOTO GALLERY: Anderson. Paak & The Free Nationals Live at The Orpheum in Boston
Oxnard, the third studio album from R&B auteur Anderson .Paak, possesses the reassuring familiarity and funked out undertones that have become synonymous with his catalogue. The record contains...
Moogfest Announces Initial 2019 Lineup
Moogfest Announces Initial 2019 Lineup featuring GAS, Kimbra, Tim Hecker & The Konoyo Ensemble, Matthew Dear, The Field, Martin Gore, William Basinski and More Celebrating the 15th year since...
CASSETTE OF THE MONTH: “Look Bad/Feel Bad” by Kiss Concert
CASSETTE OF THE MONTH Kiss Concert - Look Bad/Feel Bad (Worcester, MA) “If Neutral Milk Hotel had a baby with a young Modest Mouse and it was good at math.” Look Bad/Feel Bad by Kiss Concert Look...
How to Grow a Successful YouTube Channel with Agufish
We recently worked with rising YouTube guitarist Agufish (real name Hunter Engel) for a promotion with Elixir Strings and their specially coated acoustic guitar strings. Hunter produced some killer...
Go Behind-The-Scenes at Furnace Record Pressing
Go behind the scenes of the record pressing business in our in-depth interview with President & CEO of Furnace Record Pressing, Eric Astor Furnace Record Pressing in Alexandria, VA is no...
COVER STORY: John 5 Returns With New LP, New Tour and Advice for Live Performers
John 5, The Tele-Loving Veteran Returns With New LP, New Tour and Advice for Live Performers Guitarist John 5 is no stranger to touring, so when we got the news that the axe-slinger was hitting the...
BOOK REVIEW: Jeff Tweedy’s “Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)…”
Anyone who has heard a Jeff Tweedy interview or listened to one of his records knows the Wilco frontman is introspective, clever, and dryly funny. That his new memoir shares these traits is no...
VIDEO PREMIERE: Holiday Gunfire – “Imaginary Friend”
Performer is super excited to premiere the brand-new video for "Imaginary Friend" by Birmingham's Holiday Gunfire. Says Lester Nuby III of the track: "'Imaginary Friend' is the song that helped us...
KT Tunstall on the Making of Her New Album, WAX
“Long live vinyl!” KT Tunstall signed off on our interview, signaling her deep adoration for an age that came before her. The singer-songwriter is known for her 2004 album Eye to the Telescope,...