Gear Reviews
7 Tips For Boosting Social Media Engagement for Musicians
As a musician, you probably already use social media to promote your songs, invite people to your gigs, and grab the attention of new fans. But, are you satisfied with your performance on social media? Does it help you sell more tickets to your concerts or gain more...
IK Multimedia unveils AXE I/O premium audio interface with unique advanced guitar tone shaping
IK Multimedia proudly announces AXE I/O™. This high-end audio interface and controller is now available, and delivers premium sound and innovative features designed for guitarists seeking the perfect way to record with world-class tone and professional techniques. The...
Marketing Your Streams with Feature.fm
Music streaming has changed the landscape of the music business greatly for consumers, labels, and for artists too. Obviously, for consumers it’s an amazing way to have the world’s music at their fingertips, in their pockets, accessible from basically anywhere in the...
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6 Rules For Not Pissing Off Music Supervisors
I'm writing from the beautiful Hyatt in Los Angeles while finishing up details on a music supervision project for a film. This one was a beast. Over 30 cues (and six original compositions), in various styles, plus less than three weeks to temp, turn, and place. Every...
Live Review: Metro Station in Boston
Trace Cyrus undoubtedly knows how to command a crowd. Despite not touring for five years, the boys of Metro Station didn't miss a beat when they electrified a packed house at Boston's Brighton Music Hall this past Monday. And of course, Cyrus was in rare form. Opening...
PHOTO GALLERY: Caspian 10th Anniversary Show
Caspian Larcom Theatre (Beverly, MA) October 18, 2014 Highlight: Two-hours of chronologically ordered, post-rock brilliance Beverly and beyond gathered for a wistful reunion, honoring a decade of Caspian in their hometown. Sure, it is the music that inspired feats of...
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Song Premiere: Holding Out [Spire Studio Version] by Handsome Jack
We tasked the gritty rock band Handsome Jack with the job of recording a track from scratch using the ultra-mobile Spire Studio recording device. They filmed a series of behind-the-scenes videos for our YouTube channel documenting the process (see below) and the final...
PaMu Scroll Bluetooth Earbuds Review
If you’re like us, you’ve likely been bombarded with a never-ending barrage of the “latest and greatest” earbuds, headphones, and other such devices vying for your attention since the dawn of the iPod (who are we kidding, since the dawn of the Walkman for us old...
Phred DockStar Koa Review
A few years back we had an opportunity to review the Phred Ernesto VH3, which was a hollow-body thinline guitar reminiscent of the instrument Trey Anastasio plays in Phish. While there’s a several-years long waiting period for one of those guitars, and a starting...
Industry News
LANDR and ProTools announce partnership
LANDR, the world’s #1 A.I.-powered cloud based platform for music creators, and Avid Technology, manufacturer of ProTools and many other content and media management tools, announced their new partnership today. The partnership between the manufacturer of ProTools and...
Dear Live Music Fan, Thank You
We, the music industry, ask a lot of you, the live music fan. [Editor's note -- it's hard to know how to feel about live concerts nowadays. As the father of two small girls, I get a twinge of pain even thinking about them coming to me one day, asking to attend a large...
FREE PDF Cheat Sheet: Top 10 Social Media Tools For Musicians
Get the PDF Cheat Sheet & Start Using These Tools to Boost Your Social Reach! Leah McHenry understands the real world challenges for every-day musicians because she is one. Having started her music career completely backwards, she found herself learning the NEW...