“Like, ‘Is a song a pork-puller or a hog-cranker?’” she ponders aloud, referencing a dense and dirty lexicon of inside jokes she shares with bassist Colins “Bear” Regisford, drummer Kaleen Reading, and guitarist and synth player Maxine Steen, who are dotted around the apartment, ...
He came into the recording industry in an unusual way; as an MIT-trained engineer interested in music, he had designed his own recording studio in an apartment building basement to record his own music. The first Boston album was mostly recorded in this basement studio, often using devices ...
David's 2009 jam session with ambient collective The Orb has grown into an album, Metallic Spheres, to be released via Columbia/Sony Records in October. David's contribution to the charity song Chicago, in aid of Gary McKinnon, sparked the interest of producer Youth (Martin Glover), who re...
With a serene topline melody from Brazilian singer and actress Thalma de Freitas, the song locks into a warm pop-Kosmische embrace with just the right amount of edge. –Jeremy D. Larson Listen: Church Chords, “Warriors of Playtime” 99. more eaze: “a(nother) cadence” Something ...
It sounded almost like a skate punk song, but the idea was there. There wasn't an opening, there wasn't the pre chorus, it was just Louie banging on a guitar and just playing it as fast as he could with bar chords. Adam heard the potential. ...
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. ...
Mr. Kim (Ins Choi) ambles out from the apartment upstairs, where he, his wife and Janet live. He moves slowly—it is 7:00 am. He wears baggy jeans, sandals over socks, a work shirt and a puffy vest. He unlocks the front door; turns the sign to “open” and begins his day. ...
"[I] sit down at the piano and play chords," he told American Songwriter. "And then a melody starts to happen, and then the lyrics start to happen, and then you've got a song." 11 100-91 90-81 80-71 70-61 60-51 50-41 40-31 30-21 20-11 10-1 Bob Marley Marley didn...
a man named Howie would sell Fuller brush products all week long and then we would take boxes of his sales and go apartment to apartment to make deliveries… yo,and we got paid, bitch! for those of you that don’t remember Fuller brush ...
I started learning that song “More than Words,” and I was a new guitar player… [laughter] GC: And it has a bajillion chords in it. And I remember being like, “This sucks. I’m just going to write a two-cord song and it’s going to be great.” [chuckle] BB: I love it....