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Nick Ray has been selected for a Mackie Home Studio Makeover!
New Orleans singer/songwriter Nick Ray been selected as the winner in our recent Mackie Home...
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[VIDEO] Hands-On With the Simmons SD2000 Electronic Drum Kit
This kit rocks 🥁 I've really been digging the SD2000 so far, excited to dive into some of the more...
Steampunk Guitar Building with Tony Cochran
Every guitar has stories to tell. Some were played by masters, many were destroyed, and all contain a secret history that only exposes its...
CASH Music Delivers Free, Open Source Tools For Musicians: an Interview with Maggie Vail
“We're building a totally free platform of tools for artists and labels to sell, share, and promote music directly to their fans. We feel it's vital that all musicians have access to basic web tools...
Record Review: Young Hines
Young Hines Give Me My Change Nashville, TN (Readymade Records) “Flashes of ’60s folk festival gold, textures of CSNY” Young Hines kick starts his new record with a snazzy blues riff in “Young...
Record Review: White Birds
White Birds When Women Played Drums Philadelphia, PA (Grizzly Records) “A happy, heartbreaking collection of lo-fi gems” What makes a great breakup album? Ask these guys. Made up of members from the...
Record Review: The Touré-Raichel Collective
The Touré-Raichel Collective The Tel Aviv Session Tel Aviv, Israel and Bamako, Mail (Cumbancha) “Inspired collision of world music powerhouses” Opening up The Tel Aviv Session, it was painstakingly...
Record Review: Shook Foil
Shook Foil Little Significance EP Atlanta, GA (Self-released) “Gold Foil” Whether Shook Foil’s intricate interplay of styles is intentional or not, the results are undeniably impressive. Upon first...
Record Review: Rocky Votolato
Rocky Votolato Television of Saints Seattle, WA (Undertow Music Collective) “Grand solo exploration yields mighty contribution to American folk” Originally hailing from Dallas, and now a Seattleite,...
Record Review: Pretend Surprise
Pretend Surprise HOTmath Wilmington, NC (Self-released) “Colorful math rock” HOTmath sounds like the epitome and the perfect name for a math rock album, but the Wilmington group Pretend Surprise has...
Record Review: Poor Moon
Poor Moon Illusion EP Seattle, WA (Sub Pop) “Sub Pop supergroup’s jangly ruckus” What happens when members for Fleet Foxes, Crystal Castles, and The Christmas Cards join forces? You get Poor Moon,...
VINYL OF THE MONTH: Not an Airplane
Not an Airplane It Could Just Be This Place Modesto, CA (Self-Released) “Rollicking alt-country harmonies and emotional breakdowns” Not an Airplane will surely appeal to the Wilco or Mumford &...