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Maybe I’m weird, but I like my new guitars to look new
I just saw another advertisement for a new “relic” guitar. This means that you’re buying a brand-spanking new guitar, but they chip and fade the finish and add scratches and dents for you: And the kicker? These “designer guitars” … Continue reading
South By Southwest: the recap
And we’re back from South By Southwest Music festival. It was exhausting, but wonderful. As I said in my earlier rambling, I was sent by Cengage Learning PTR both to work our booth in the Music Gear Expo and in … Continue reading
Goin’ to down to Texas headin’ South By Southwest
Like last year, the publisher I work for has a booth in the Music Gear Expo of South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. I really enjoyed it last year, we met a lot of interested and excited people at our … Continue reading
NAMM is upon us!
If you’re familiar with the music or music instrument industry, you know what NAMM is. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, I’ve written repeatedly about my relationship to, and participation in, the NAMM show. This year is … Continue reading
Bowie’s back!
David Bowie’s last album was 10 years ago. On tour, he was felled by health issues, and with very few sightings and no real interviews, he took the last decade off. Out of the blue, last night, on his 66th … Continue reading
Why make it hard to buy music?
I complained about this before when I was trying to get an Eisenblume single. This time, I discovered (through a tweet by Laney Amplification) a Welsh reggae/metal/punk band called Skindred: I liked the music, and wanted to buy the album, … Continue reading
You can’t you won’t and you don’t stop
The Beastie Boys and MCA (Adam Yauch) formed part of my early musical vocabulary. I was in high school when they first hit, soaking up all the influences that I could, and they seemed to walk the line between the … Continue reading
Johnny Marr and the Healers
I’d known that Johnny Marr was playing with Modest Mouse here in the US, but I didn’t know he had his own group back in England. Johnny Marr is one of the most creative post-punk guitarists to come out of … Continue reading
Rushing Headlong for the Clockwork Angels
Until I received Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland for my birthday, I’d not bought or received a new Rush album since 1994′s Counterparts (which is a great record). Time Machine had a few new songs on it from a … Continue reading
SXSW reflections: Music is alive and well
I’m back from my first trip to Austin, Texas, and my first ever South By Southwest conference/festival. It was an amazing, overwhelming experience. I’m not sure I have the distance from the event to be too coherent about it yet, … Continue reading