I also know where my mother was. She was on the ground yelling at my father to get his ass down from the tree, a detail prudently omitted from her published account of the tornado. None of us knew for sure where my youngest brother Collyn was, but my father could see from his ...
So I curiously re-entered my favorite church basement to find six airtight musicians blasting away with horrible symmetry, squawky sax shards playing against dissonant guitar chords and wonderfully unpredictable rhythmic cells. To put it simply, Zs took me to the nether regions of musical abstraction...
Music is all about patterns. Once you know those “rules” and patterns, you can figure out pretty much anything on your own. And with practice, it’ll become second nature to transition between major and minor chords and learn the correct positioning for many of these chords. Constructing M...
Mike Pickering: "I understand what the equipment can achieve, but it doesn't really suit me and I don't really bother with it. I prefer to work with Paul, standing by the piano with a dictaphone or small tape recorder on top. He'll play chords and I'll sing what I think. If you...
Here's what you should know about FN Meka, the virtual artist who was at the center of mounting controversy over its signing by a record label.A virtual artist?Yes. You read that right. FN Meka is a virtual artist.According to an article published by Music Business World...
The BB Preamp makes me feel like a rock star, even with just simple chords and rhythm. I like how dialing the pedal's gain from low to high gives a wide ranges of clean boost to distorted gain. So tasty, this pedal. 1 ayman_ibrahim 290 over 9 years ago Best boost pedal This...
You know, you’re the only one who has told me that you figured it out. Everyone else is like, “So Decibel, what’s going on?” And I’m like, “Oh, for fuck sake.” The cool thing is that it’s the name of my production company as well. So I was like, “Yeah, we’r...
Mike Mushok has called Staind’s first new album in 12 years,Confessions of the Fallen, “definitely different.” But as different as some things are onConfessions— like the introduction of electronic elements or Aaron Lewis finding his inner screamer — the first single released from it, “Lo...
Blink-182 are one of the most beloved bands of the last 30 years, and were a major pillar in the foundation of the pop-punk genre. But which of their albums is the best? That's what we want to know during this week's Loudwire Nights Album of the Week poll. You'll have until ...
the sum of their parts; “skeleton songs”, Pharrell once called them. "I was really into a minimalism thing," he told NPR in 2013. "The least amount of sounds we could use, the better... I just thought everything was so heavy at the time, so I was like, 'Oh, you know what?