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MY FAVORITE AXE: Epiphone Masterbilt AJ-45ME
Gary Blanchard has been performing and writing songs since 1966. He offers uplifting songs that...
Taylor 810e DLX Review
Performer goes hands-on with the gorgeous Taylor 810e DLX acoustic guitar in its latest review....
Reviews: Stanton M.203 DJ Mixer & SCS.4DJ Digital DJ Mixstation
M.203 DJ Mixer - $99 Pros: Sturdy construction, clean layout, replaceable crossfader, quality sound. Cons: None. Aspiring DJs - look no further. If you’re looking to get into the DJ game, the M.203...
Songkick Introduces Tourbox for Artists: Get More Fans To Your Shows
New publishing tool helps musicians power tour listings across all of their pages and profiles…enter once, publish everywhere. If you’re a band looking to tell hundreds of millions of fans around...
Starting an Indie Label and Getting Signed
An Conversation with Anchor Eighty Four CEO Cody Jones LA-based Anchor Eighty Four Records was first established in January 2010, after CEO Cody Jones moved from Northern California to seek a more...
Best Practices for Following up with Press
A Quick List of Do’s and Don’ts [Editor’s note – at Performer, we receive countless CDs each month, and even more digital submissions. And as advocates for DIY and indie artists, we believe in...
Recording Tips: Bass Miking
How to Get That Low End to Sing When we were kids, we didn’t have bass amp simulator plug-ins – we had bass amps and expensive microphones and we liked it! Today we are fortunate to have better...
Women’s Audio Mission Levels the Pro Audio Playing Field
With Help from Kronos Quartet, Telefunken and Manley Microphones Women’s Audio Mission, an entirely female run recording studio and non-profit organization in San Francisco, know their way around...
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...