Because he really liked one of my mixes, one which we refer to as Girls Who Play Guitars, after the opening track and the rest of the content. It’s a mix made up almost exclusively of acts who include at least one woman, preferably playing guitar or singing but not always the case....
I've only scratched the surface with this thing And he's putting the time in: "There are so many nuances to it. I commit at least two to three hours a day, no matter what, to playing the pedal steel. I started after the last Conspirators' t...
As was hinted at with the "Give Me a Sign" EP, "My Religion" is a welcome return to the more melodic hard rock songwriting of TNT's past. I for one am thankful that they moved beyond the alternative-rock thing they had done on the past few albums. "My Religion" is chock full of...
“We learnt everything from the Wipers,” Kurt told an English fanzine in 1990. “They were playing a mixture of punk and hard rock at a time when nobody cared.” Indeed, it’s pretty easy to hear Nirvana’s power-chords-by-a-power-trio roots in this dark tune originally off of th...
As a massive guitar geek whose compositional reach has always exceeded his technical grasp, I had two favorite tricks with the Tascam besides the obvious one of layering guitars until they sounded huge. The first was backwards solos, an old trick from studios that recorded on reel-to-reel magn...
Taylor Swift is one of our Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century for how she changed the sound and image of pop superstardom at the highest levels.
INSPIRATION: Like many tracks onShadowlands,Bittersweetwas largely influenced by the abstract minimalism of a passing thought. Much as I love progressive long-form songs & thoroughly layered productions, I’m also very intrigued by the concept of simplicity, both thematically & structurally. ...
Dogs, guitars, home, health, mumble, mumble. More coming, I swear, because why even have this thing if I don’t write? ADHD is a hell of a thing – how did I cope with it so well for so many years without even knowing I was doing so?
as violeiros do in relation to their guitars by often giving them female names (Graeff & Pinto,2012). Another dimension is that in African music, “opposing pairs such as father/mother, boys/girls, male/female, men/women, and mother/child are regularly designed to express a dichotomy between...
American people have the habit of saying “Thank you” when something kind is done for them or something polite【1】___(say) to them, no matter【2】___ easy the thing is. This habit is learned by people of many【3】___ countries. You should say “Thank you” when someone gives...