12-TET has some specific merits and many shortfalls, simplistically it excels at providing a simple system for handling complex chords and changing keys and hence became standard in the transition from Classical to Romantic music and its ultimate – and perhaps inevitable – ascent (some say desc...
A magic key sequence that displayed a special dialog box chock-a-block full of controls each of which dumped all sorts of arcane data about the application's innards when invoked with various obtuse key chords. A simple interface that tunneled directly into the calculation engine, allowing said...
This June, the Criterion Channel celebrates Pride Month with a lineup full of queer artists who have taken up the camera to expand our understanding of desire, identity, and history. At the center of the month is Queersighted: Turn the Gaze Around, a selection of films that subvert the he...
Years before the group's signature song "May 17" emerged, Lagwagon burst onto the punk scene with a sweltering debut entitledDuh. It's an early example of the type of unmistakable sound that Fat Wreck Chords would go on to engineer for legions of pop-punk listeners throughout the '90s. ...
This provides the flexibility to change the midi thru output with the individual pattern played. For instance one can assign all major chords to one output while all minor chords get routed to another one.Typical "style" smf structureA style-like smf structure starts typically with an ...
with raucous moments of freefalling fuzz, cheekily biting choruses, and a palpable sense of camaraderie, but thing are definitely different on the Madrid quartet's third outing. This is the first time we see the Madrid four-piece properly embracing pop - “Boy”, “Good Bad Times”, and “...
Here's to hoping 3.1 has a couple more amp models (Laney and Super Reverb would be great). But honestly, at this point, the unit has more than lived up to its potential, despite starting off with an underwhelming selection way back when it came out. Line 6 really stepped in and took...
that came out firing on all cylinders. Produced by The Doors' Ray Manzarek, the disc featured a cover of The Doors' "Soul Kitchen," but also showed an edge with the energetic title track, the driving "Nausea" and attention-grabbing opener, "Your Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not...
Chairman- Understanding that the genre was always about more than three chords played very fast, Edmonton's Chairman are both a time capsule from that sweet spot in time when punk split into post-punk and new wave, and an important reminder that time capsules dug up years later are usually...
Bad Religion’s modern era stands head-and-shoulders above any other punk band. The professors of four-chords and dense vocal harmonies followed a magnificent 2000s with ‘The Dissent of Man,’ packing 15 anthems into a wildly diverse Bad Religion record. Addictive sing-alongs like “The Devil...