Articles
On an average day, something like twenty to thirty submissions land in our inbox, from musicians releasing their first single to veterans out on tour behind a catalog twenty years deep. Nearly all of it gets read. Very little becomes…
SAE Institute Amsterdam has built its reputation on practical, industry-standard training, and much of that training runs through Audient gear. The company’s interfaces, preamps, and consoles show up in nearly every room on campus, from the smallest vocal booth to…
Most guitar strings end the same way. A player breaks one in the middle of a set, pulls the whole set off, and drops the coil in a case pocket or a trash can without a second thought. Multiply that…
Every summer, I look forward to the Davis Music Festival. Now in its 14th year, the festival transforms downtown Davis into a celebration of live music, with performances taking place on outdoor stages as well as many of the venues…
With so many of our string players recording at home for the first time, Mojave Audio wanted to share this video from their Media Library. Stevie Blacke of All Things Stringed shows how he records in his home studio. Stevie…
Released in 1967, “Itchycoo Park” by Small Faces is a prominent example of tape flanging. The song was a major inspiration to a couple of young men who, in 1971, went on to found Eventide and create the world’s first…
The Noise Room presented Soft Swells, Elle Belle, and Misty Boyce live at the Hemlock Tavern in San Francisco on Friday, September 1st, 2017. We’d covered and followed these artists over the years and were glad to have them playing…
There are few guitars that carry as much allure as the Robbie Robertson Last Waltz Fender Stratocaster. Interest in the guitar picked up again around the 40th anniversary of The Band’s final concert in November 2016, when Fender’s Custom Shop…
Jonathan Richman usually performs in the San Francisco Bay Area during the first week of December. It’s the time of year when a group of my close friends get together to celebrate birthdays, holidays, and the year that has past.…
Okkervil River is elated to share a three part mini-documentary that captures a behind-the-scenes look at making Black Sheep Boy. They’d almost forgotten it was filmed, let alone that they’d kept the footage. Filmed (mostly) by Zachary Thomas, a founding…
