Gear Reviews
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 highlighted a few more coming soon. Streaming is a messy horse race between...
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, down and dirty, boring sausage making of the music business that you...
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 If you've shied away from coated guitar strings in the past, it's time to kick old prejudices and outdated beliefs to the curb. Elixir's Optiweb coated strings rule; they feel more like...
How To
Is Guitar Center in the Dead Pool?
Part 1 of 2: In Which MUSIC Group Parts Ways with the Retail Giant I've personally bought tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment at Guitar Center (GC), but not recently. As the largest brick-and-mortar music retailer in the world, with hundreds of locations...
How To Leverage Free Music Sites to Increase Fan Engagement
Free music online can either spread like wildfire or sink like a stone. It largely depends on the work put into promotional efforts. Many bands post their album for free and think “I’m done! Our album is free and available, and who wouldn't want a free album?” Well,...
4 Simple (But Effective) Tips For Selling Your Music to TV, Movies & Commercials
Most musicians don’t exactly dream of hitting the big time by being background music, however any time a film or TV studio, production company or someone else wants to use your composition, they need to pay you for the synchronization license. This practice of Sync...
Buying Guide
VIDEO: A Closer Look at the Bose S1 Pro PA System
We recently got a hands-on look at the Bose S1 Pro at Winter NAMM, and were pretty impressed with the build quality, feature set, and smart controls it afforded to working musicians. So, we enlisted the help of filmmaker and musician MikelParis (touring keyboardist...
REVIEW: Amp Hook by The Wishbone Workshop
Placing a microphone in front of a speaker should be a simple task. But sometimes the actual logistics, as well as the fact that singers and drummers seem to get the better working mic stands at gigs and sessions, leave guitarists with a mic draped over an amp -- with...
VIDEO: Cameron Cooper SHREDS on Elixir Optiweb Strings
Our friend Cameron Cooper SHREDS with his new Optiweb coated strings from Elixir Strings. Watch the full video below and stay tuned for an exclusive track premiere soon on our site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbMOV-dN_Vs
Industry News
Avid Launches Music Creation & Cloud Enabled Collaboration Innovations for Pro Tools
Avid today announced a new version of its fully cloud-enabled Pro Tools application, the industry-leading digital audio workstation software used by award-winning artists and the largest media companies in the world. Powered by the MediaCentral Platform, the...
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[PHOTO GALLERY] Kevin Devine live in Boston
Kevin Devine, along with with Pinegrove and Petal, performed live at Royale in Boston, MA on December 10th, 2016. Whether it was Kevin Devine himself or not, someone procured a great fall tour that found the second to last night of it in Boston at Royale. Kiley Lotz...
Winners Announced in Electro-Voice Giveaway
Congratulations are in order for Ainjel Emme and Scarlet Canary, winners of our recent Electro-Voice ND series microphone giveaway! These two artists will each receive a new gear bundle consisting of ND series mics to fit their stage needs. They'll also be posting...