Gear Reviews
SPEAK Easy on Defying Stereotypes & Confronting Industry Prejudice Head-On
Defying Stereotypes & Confronting Industry Prejudice Head-On "Falsely accuse me, they call it blackmail/I have to be twice as good because I'm a black male!" This has been my credo since I entered the professional world and began trying to establish a career for...
TWB: Mega Ran on Touring While Black
Touring While Black. One Artist’s Journey Navigating the Country’s Highways in a Post-Ferguson America Tour Time. My favorite two words to utter, or type, because as a musician, we all dream of getting on the road and knocking down stages in strange places, making new...
Guest Column: The Contemporary Role of Confederate Iconography in Southern Music
The Contemporary Role of Confederate Iconography in Southern Music [Editor's note - as with all the articles in this month's social justice issue, what follows are the thoughts and ideas of the author. These do not necessarily represent those of Performer Magazine,...
How To
Live Review: Performer Presents The 14th Annual One Night Stand
Slims// San Francisco, CA// February 4 Unlike most one night stands, it was one that most people did not regret. And it was one that brought an eclectic crowd of San Francisco residents to dance the night away at Slims as local bands performed their favorite cover...
Legal Pad: Developing Your Band’s Website
TWITTER, FACEBOOK, TUMBLR AND A HOST OF OTHER SITES provide no shortage of free and easy avenues for bands to instantly upload content and receive feedback. Yet it remains important to keep a traditional band website as an anchor for remote sites and to potentially...
Live Review: Consider the Source
The Stone Church // Newmarket, NH // February 26, 2011 The night started out rocky for Consider The Source, who began their journey earlier in the day in New York. Breaking down just an hour away might have sent the band back home, but with the help of some loyal...
Buying Guide
IK Multimedia iRig Mic Studio Review
IK Multimedia iRig Mic Studio PROS: Works with iOS & Android, great companion apps. CONS: Older 30-pin cable sold separately. PRICE: $149 Connecting a smartphone to a microphone isn’t a new idea. When a company offers a mic that works with a smartphone and a...
IK Multimedia iRig Acoustic Review
IK Multimedia iRig Acoustic PROS: Great audio quality, non-permanent, non-intrusive, inexpensive. CONS: None. PRICE: Smartphones and tablets have become very useful in recording, especially for electric instruments, but for acoustics, a microphone was pretty much the...
How BandLab is Changing Cloud-Based Recording & Collaboration
CAPTURING TRACK IDEAS ON-THE-FLY How often does this happen to you? You have a killer song idea, maybe just a snippet of a melody, and it's been kicking around in your head long enough now to where you feel you must record it somewhere. So, what do you do? Do you...
Industry News
Sennheiser and Apogee announce partnership at NAMM Show
At Winter NAMM, audio specialist Sennheiser and Apogee Electronics, industry leader in digital audio conversion technology, have announced their collaboration. At the NAMM Show in Anaheim, Apogee’s Betty Bennett and Sennheiser’s Peter Claussen have jointly announced...
Ladies of Boston Rock! Live Review and Gallery
This past Thursday at Boston's Brighton Music Hall, some of the most talented local female musicians banded together to show the city what they're truly made of. From the very start of the evening, DJ Leah V relished in her role of musical curator. Orchids were...
News From NAMM: Sennheiser launches evolution wireless D1 systems
Anaheim, CA, January 22, 2015 – At NAMM, Sennheiser has launched evolution wireless D1, a range of digital wireless microphone systems that lets bands go wireless the easy way. With systems for vocals or for instruments, a band’s life is made simpler: transmitters and...