When Tom Holkenborg was a young musician growing up in Holland, he spent so much time playing music and recording that his friends dubbed him The name...
As the band kicks into overdrive and the guitarists do hair windmills, hot coffee and cream spill out over the audience, injuring even more fans. It's...
Why is it that we work longer hours with fewer breaks than we used to five years ago? Computers were supposed to make our jobs easier and quicker, so...
In my opinion, few things are as important in the studio as performers' headphones. I can overcome a buzz in the system, and I can overcome bad converters....
Signal and sample processing have progressed by leaps and bounds since the dawn of computer-based music, and Carl Stone is one of the privileged few who...
Producer, guitarist, and composer Michael Brook was looking for a follow-up to RockPaperScissors (Canadian Rational, 2006), a world music album that melded...
When it comes to the independent music scene, few people are more knowledgeable than Derek Sivers (see Fig. 1). He began his music career as a guitarist...
The old refrain You ought to be in pictures usually refers to potential actors and actresses, but nowadays it could also apply to independent musicians...
GrooveLily is not your average rock 'n' roll power trio. Two out of three members have graduate degrees in music; the third graduated from Princeton with...
Some bands find their beginnings in the desire to make it big, to become popular enough to gain fame and fortune, and incidentally, to make satisfying...
