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Calling the Creativity Gods

Everyone gets into a slump sometime. You don’t feel like getting out of bed. You eat like crap and put on weight.

Trying to write a great song seems like trying to climb Mount Everest — although you’re not athletic

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Armored Saint’s Joey Vera

Thriving in a lifestyle and career track full of change and adversity

Joey Vera has been around the block once or twice. He’s proven he’s a survivor in how he has dealt with the ebb and flow of the music

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The Art of Buying Talent

As beautiful as The RockBar Theater in San Jose is, without someone to bring the right talent to the stage, Bay Area music lovers may not ever see the inside.  So owner Susan Cramer brought in longtime talent buyer Jimmy

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2015 The Vans Warped Tour

Pop-punk’s traveling rock-n-roll circus brings organized chaos to the masses

Kevin Lyman, of the event production company 4Fini Inc., created the Warped Tour in 1995 as a skate punk and third-wave ska tour. It has evolved to feature pop punk,

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Aquiles Priester

Out on the road with the PsychoOctopus

I was introduced to Priester’s playing a little over a year ago. As a drummer, I am amazed by his speed, level of skill and technique and have been a huge fan ever

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Studio Session Pointers

10 mistakes to avoid

by Kenny Lewis

As a sound engineer and producer, over the years, I’ve seen practically everything that could possibly go wrong in a studio session happen. Not being prepared, not having the right team and not …

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