Gear Reviews
Lace Electric Cigar Box Guitar REVIEW
While its design and features may not be for everyone, the new Lace Electric Cigar Box Guitar is certainly unique. We were impressed with the sound, and the price isn't off the charts. Whether it's right for your arsenal will be up to you, but you can read our review...
Mackie Launches All-New SRM-Flex Portable Column PA System
Ultra-compact and lightweight design, premium sound quality, and flexible control Today Mackie announces their latest entry into the portable PA market, the all-new SRM-Flex Portable Column PA System. Featuring an ultra-lightweight design, legendary SRM Series sound...
Akai MPK Road 88 REVIEW
Editor's note - we received the Akai MPK Road 88 MIDI Controller for review this summer. We opened it up, plugged it in, and played with it for a few weeks before it was scheduled to be returned to Akai. After we shipped the unit back, and wrote up our thoughts, it...
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5 Reasons Why You Didn’t Reach Your Crowdfunding Goal
It can be incredibly disheartening and even soul crushing to run a crowdfunding campaign that fails. Just because your campaign failed, however, it doesn't mean you're a terrible artist – it could just mean you ran a terrible campaign. With crowdfunding being a...
Quick Recap: Starsailor Live in Cambridge
Starsailor's 2001 debut album, Love is Here, was poetically moped out music at its finest. The album's hymnlike harmonies fit lovely against luminous guitars and keyboards. James Walsh's piercing voice has always been the perfect mix of being captivating while...
Cover Your Ass (and Cover Songs) with Loudr
An Interview with Chris Crawford, CEO/Founder of Loudr on New Ways to License Indie Music It's long been widely known that recording cover songs is a great way to get a new band or artist known. Even after multi-platinum success, Whitney Houston will forever be...
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Erica Synths Black Double Bass Eurorack Module Review
We’re big into synthesis, so when new modules come out in the Eurorack community, we can’t help but wipe the drool from our computer keyboards. The good folks over at Eric Synths in Latvia recently sent us their Black Double Bass Module to test out. So, we racked it...
KRK ROKIT G4 Review
Read our review on the next-gen KRK ROKIT 5 G4 studio monitors... We already have a set of ROKIT 5's from the 3rd generation of the famed yellow-woofer company’s lineup, so when they asked us to check out the new G4 line, it was a no-brainer. Luckily, we had a...
Prestige Troubadour RS REVIEW
How does the one-pickup beauty stack up to its peers? Read our expert review on the new Prestige Troubadour RS guitar below... So, getting a modern single cut electric opens up some choices; go “authentic” and have the same version as everyone else, or go boutique,...
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Download Our FREE Insurance Guide for Musicians [Part II]
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INSURANCE BASICS: What’s The Difference Between a Claim and a Lawsuit?
A few months back, we posed a question to our readership, asking if they had any entertainment insurance-related questions that they wanted answered in the pages of Performer. In our last two installments (here and here), we tried to break down a number of insurance...
ZT Amplifiers Announces New California-Built Custom Shop Line
Benicia, California-based ZT Amplifiers has launched its new Custom Shop line of guitar amps, built in-house with American parts by owner and Chief Engineer Austin Gibbons and his team. The Custom Shop takes the company’s mission of making compact, lightweight,...