The terms “Supergroup” and “power trio” are extremely applicable to the band The Winery Dogs. Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater, Avenged Sevenfold, Adrenaline Mob, Metal Allegiance), Billy Sheehan (Talas, Mr. Big, David Lee Roth) and Richie Kotzen (Mr. Big, Poison) build …
On the evening of May 23, 2000, I had a major lesson in music performance royalties. Blues legend Son Seals from Chicago did the song “Let It Go” on the “Conan O’Brien” show. He performed the song …
If your song is almost ready for prime time, before you get it mastered, consider the following three myths about mastering.
Myth 1: Even a bad recording can sound like a million bucks.
Sometime in …
What do you get when you combine live rock music, Gourmet Man Food, whiskey, bourbon, and NXT wrestling?
Louder Than Life — The perfect recipe for a festival.
Day one was dreary, cold, wet, insanely muddy, and Champions Park in …
Alfonzo “Zo” Rachel is a fascinating man. He’s a trained martial artist master the former owner and operator of a training dojo. Rachel’s also an accomplished musician, the drummer and founder of …
We’ve all heard of those infamous band meetings where members arrive late—only to talk (and sometimes scream) about important (and sometimes completely unimportant) matters in a disorganized fashion. Just watch Metallica’s documentary DVD, “Some Kind of Monster” …
When Hollywood director Ridley Scott began production of The Martian in early 2014, he thought a GoPro camera would make for a cool prop to be worn by the astronauts in the film as a part of their space suit. …
Whether it’s simply being asked for his expert opinion or to work with someone on a single song, video or an entire album project, David Mobley, songwriter, producer and co-founder of the pop/rock group ‘Crosswindz’ has pretty much seen it …
With the advances in gaming technology, the music business has been able to produce games that let users sing, play and dance along with their favorite songs, using controls shaped as dance mats, instruments and microphones. Here are some of …
