Here at theToadsour primary interests remain the essay (literature), music (guitar), painting (includingcartoons hand drawn on paper or screen), yet the blogs we often enjoy most have to do with original photography, gardening and cooking, ocean and landscape, construction of all kinds but par...
Moises’ AI even detects the chords and can shift the pitch, allowing you to play along in a different key. Today at Snapdragon Summit, Moises showcased a preview version of the app optimized for Snapdragon and its NPU — now all of Moises AI neural networks are running locally...
“Falling into You.” The single,“It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”was a hit, ultimately peaking at number two on Billboards Hot 100 chart. But dear God, was it ever a weird song. Selected as the leadoff song on the album, it’s placement both as a widely released single...
The guitar is always the heart of my music, but on this particular album I really pushed my voice to be the lead and to carry the songs. Something shifted while I was making it. It was an experience of going inward and discovering what more’s in here that I can look at. A lot o...
to name a few. We can’t guarantee this fall will be any different, but as of now, there’s a slew of confirmed releases: the return of millennium-era pop stars, the tenth LPs from Coldplay and Bright Eyes, gobs of gritty guitar rock, Katy Perry. If you’re going to be dancing,...
I made it very Stroke’sy because I wanted to go back to my roots and show them off with pride. I learnt guitar simply by learning all of ‘Room on Fire’ and ‘Is This It’. I guess it developed my style to be a little bit unique, especially when it comes to chords. The last...
In August 2022, Brownstein lost both her mother and stepfather in a car accident while they were vacationing in Italy. In the following months, she turned to her guitar to process the pain. "I don’t think I’ve played guitar that much since my teens or early twenties," she said in ...
And if it isn't, then too bad, because you have to be there anyway. This year the assembly will feature the golden vocal chords of the Concert and Jazz Choirs, the rockin' and rollin' of Exodus, the jazzy jams of Jazz Band, the hilarious shenanigans of Pardon My French, the ...
Then there are joints like "Rhode Clean," where the harmonized chords reverberate throughout the nearly two-and-a-half-minute-long track and uncovers his progression as a multifaceted artist who raps, sings and creates his own beats. The proudly independent artist, who is now navigating the ra...
I went to school for landscape design.I picked up guitar in college, kind of strummed three chords and the truth sort of thing. And started playing bars, restaurants, ski resorts, little pubs here and there and started getting a name out in Vermont and New Hampshire. And so people were ...