Power to the songwriter
by Aaron Triplett
I’ve spent most of my life — 35 years — as a professional guitarist in rock bands. I joined my first band, Intruder, at age 14 and began playing gigs. I started writing …
September 23, 2012
Sacramento, CA
by Teri Doty
The long awaited Aftershock Festival had finally arrived. Took a 5 hour haul to Sacramento to witness some of the greatest bands around. But first…let me make a quick comment about the …
Production: DIY – Recorded under the supervision of Rich Hinklin, who was part of the “Seattle Sound”, working under Jack Endino (helped w/ Nirvana, Soundgarden, Gits recordings) and now has been teaching audio engineering at Seattle Arts Institute for many …
All the journeys of this great adventure It didn’t always feel that way I wouldn’t trade them because I made them The best I could, and that’s enough to say
Some days were dark I wish that I could live …
Attention-deficit-disorder rock in a tragic era
by Teri Doty and Tamara Halbritter, Music Insider Magazine
Ever hear of the Boogaloo Cats? That’s the name of the band that vocalist Forrest Day, bass player John Sankey and guitarist Terrell Liedstrand — …
Ending “pay to play” gigs
by Stephen Stern, executive editor
The Equal Rights Amendment of the 14th Amendment was adopted In July 1868, but it seems most venue owners failed to get the constitutional memo. Rather than support the …
A marriage between the technical and creative
by Erich Gobel, engineer, West Triad Studio
Fellow engineers may know the great feeling you get when you mic up an instrument, begin to shape the sound of a recording and then hit …
by Brian McKinny
Cab Ride Home is a thrash/speed metal band from Manassas, Virginia that has, like most bands do, evolved from their original incarnation into something slightly different from where they started. The current incarnation of Cab Ride Home …
by Mark Schulman, guest writer
Hello everyone. If you haven’t already seen my DVD, A Day In the Recording Studio: A Musicians Complete Guide To Recording Drum Tracks In the Studio, then you need to stop reading this article …
