Gear Reviews
RODE AI-Micro Interface REVIEW
Musicians or content creators on-the-go certainly have their choices for gear but finding practical items can be a crap shoot; either too expensive or it falls short on quality or function. Rode’s AI-Micro can provide connectivity for two audio channels while fitting...
REVIEW: Electro-Harmonix Ripped Speaker Fuzz Pedal
If there’s a golden age of Fuzz, this might be it; every version and variant is available to the player, and Electro-Harmonix has more fuzz flavors than you can shake a stick at -- from classic to modern, with their new Ripped Speaker Fuzz putting an interesting twist...
Webinar Spotlight: How To Get YouTube Views and Grow Your Career
Learn how the industry’s foremost digital experts use YouTube and data to effectively grow a musician’s career. The music research and analytics platform Viberate will be hosting a free online panel with a live Q&A session with: Jay Gilbert, the strategic mind...
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With Create Music Group, Data is the Name of the Game
You can gain traction — even some success — all by yourself as an independent artist. We’ve seen many examples of this, whether it’s the perfect playlist add that results in thousands of new followers/listeners and millions of streams, or even the right placement on a...
PHOTO GALLERY: Train and Goo Goo Dolls Take Over Xfinity Center
This past Saturday night (August 17) at Xfinity Center in Mansfield proved to be a fulfilling one for fans of Goo Goo Dolls and Train. Both bands, who have respectively been in the business for over 30 years, embarked on a joint North American summer tour that kicked...
Premium Lyrics: Curated Words for Serious Songwriters
“Why do I find it hard to write the next line? Oh, I want the truth to be said.” Spandau Ballet’s "True" In 1983, while staying at his parents’ house, Gary Kemp wrote the lyrics to what would become Spandau Ballet’s biggest hit. The song, “True,” was about several...
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REVIEW: Roland JD-08 Boutique Series Desktop Synth Module
You can read our companion review of the JX-08 that launched alongside this for more context on the Boutique series as a whole, but for now let’s focus on the JD-08, specifically. Unlike the JX, we don’t have much hands-on experience playing the original JD-800 that...
REVIEW: Roland JX-08 Boutique Series Desktop Synth Module
When the original Boutique series synths were announced a few years back, the JX-8P was one of the ones I was most looking forward to – of course I knew they’d have to cycle through the Junos, Jupiters, D-50s and so forth before they hit this sleeper, but here we are....
REVIEW: Mojave Audio MA-37 Large-Diaphragm Tube Condenser Microphone
Vintage Tube Microphones have always been coveted to the point of being unattainable. David Royer of Mojave recognized that users want new versions of these classic microphones and their MA-37 shoots for the Sony C-37a’s style and characteristics and hits a bullseye....
Industry News
Are Music NFTs Dead?
To a casual observer, all of the news stories about crypto and NFTs recently would lead you to think that the entire space is dead. The naysayers of crypto and blockchain are already doing their victory laps and tossing about their “I told you so’s”. The true...
Win a Kramer Guitar, a Maestro Pedal, KRK Headphones PLUS Get Your Track on Vinyl
Get Featured on "The Sound of KRK" 7-inch Vinyl PLUS Win Awesome New KRK, Kramer and Maestro Gear for Your Home Studio! Performer is teaming up with KRK (and other Gibson Brands) to give artists a killer opportunity to be included on a very special 7" colored vinyl....
VOTE NOW for MACKIE ACROSS AMERICA VINYL FINALISTS
The choice is YOURS! After an exhaustive nationwide search, we found 10 amazing artists from all over the States to participate in a project we're calling "MACKIE ACROSS AMERICA" -- we sent each artist new Mackie gear to record brand-new tracks with, and each one put...