Gear Reviews
YAMAHA Presents: The ULTIMATE Guide to Portable PA Systems
Looking to get started with a portable PA system, or even upgrade your old PA rig? Performer Magazine and Yamaha present a FREE GUIDE to help you set up the best portable PA system for your needs. Click here to download the PDF or flip through the tablet-enhanced...
Logjam Prolog Drum Pedal Review
Performer takes a closer look at the Logjam Prolog Drum Pedal in its latest gear review. Bringing drums and percussion into the electronic world has been problematic in the past for some players. However, Logjam has found a unique way of making it easy and natural...
VIDEO: MikelParis Explores the Bose S1 Pro Part III
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...
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Louisville’s Forecastle Festival gets bigger, weirder, happier and hippier.
Forecastle Festival did it again. It grew in both size and clout. Swelling from 30,000+ in 2012, to nearly doubling that figure this year, with just over 60,000 who flocked to the banks of the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky. Unified by music, art and activism...
PHOTO GALLERY: SomeKindaWonderful Live in Boston
SomeKindaWonderful are a grooving up-and-coming soul/R&B/rock band from Cleveland, OH via Los Angeles. They recently released their debut, self-titled album and we caught up with them live at Brighton Music Hall in Boston last week. Check out the photos below!
The Importance of Being Nice on Tour
[Editor's note: the following article was guest-written by the band Our Friend & The Spiders; check 'em out in the video below] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P-PDBvahG0 Touring is only easy for a selected few. For most bands, touring is synonymous with packing,...
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The Guitar Mod Chronicles: Re-Floyding a Strat and Sheptone Pickup Review
In April of 2017 a friend of mine passed away suddenly. He was great guitar player, and I was really saddened by his sudden absence in my life. In a lot of ways, it hasn’t been easy coming to grips with it. I’m not going into it detail, but you get the idea. He had a...
Short Scale Guitars and Short Money Upgrades – A Squier Mustang Story
This past Christmas my wife was kind enough to get me a guitar. She knows I’m passionate about guitars, guitar playing and music in general. She also knows guitars aren’t cheap. One night I saw a Fender Squier Bullet Mustang, with two humbucking pickups. Finished off...
Mackie Announces All-New Expanded FreePlay Series
Mackie today announces an all-new personal PA plus matching portable Bluetooth® speakers - FreePlay Series Personal PA and Portable Bluetooth Speakers. Available in three models, the FreePlay LIVE, FreePlay HOME, and FreePlay GO, the FreePlay Series delivers stunning...
Industry News
When Should Bands Release Full-Length Albums?
So, why and when should your band release a full-length album? Actually, the answer to this one is really easy! Yet, almost no one will get it right, because the answer is all about your marketing plan, almost no one does that right. Let’s see how your answer stacks...
Performer and Avid select Accent to Demonstrate Pro Tools Cloud Collaboration
Accent is a phenomenal a cappella group who we're excited to announce as the winners of the two Quartet interfaces and new Pro Tools software in Performer Magazine and Avid's recent giveaway. The group consists of six members across five different countries, so...
The Six Best Podcasts For Musicians
Because being a musician consists of a lot more skills other than just playing your instrument, here are a few podcasts to get you to the next level or at least out of writer’s block. SONG EXPLODER The Song Exploder podcast has captivated musicians and non-musicians...