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OC Bands Battle for Best Of
by Valerie Oxford
posted 2007-03-14
I was recently invited to go see some bands play as part of the Orange County Music Awards competition. What are the Orange County Music Awards you ask? I had never heard of it, and I grew up in Orange County! So I went and took along my pen and paper, ready to jot down my notes. This is what I found out. The Orange County Music Awards is a best of Orange County competition to showcase local independent bands and solo artists who either live or work in Orange County, California.
Aaron Lewis
by Valerie Oxford
posted 2007-01-18
A unique solo acoustic concert, that’s what the billboard on the 91 freeway said as I drove past it every night on the way home from work. I didn’t know much about Aaron Lewis other than he is the lead singer of Staind, a band with a taste of 80’s hard rock, 90’s grunge and current alternative rock sounds. I was intrigued by the prospect of hearing how this would translate into a solo acoustic show, so I had to go check it out…
Thirty years on...
by Stephen Miller
posted 2006-09-25
Thirty years on, dinosaurs roam the Earth or at least The House of Blues for one night. Tuesday, July 25th, The Buzzcocks live at the Anaheim House of Blues at Downtown Disney…
Virtual guitar site amps up with LAMP
by Tina Gasperson
posted 2006-09-19
Chordbook.com is a virtual playground for guitarists. The site is one of the most popular guitar chord databases on the ‘Net, and was once listed as one of the BBC’s top 10 educational sites…
Rax 2.0
by Peter Kirn
posted 2006-09-14
Rax 2.0, a music utility from plasq, the creators of Comic Life, brings the same kind of easy access to virtual musical instruments and effects plug-ins that Apple’s Front Row provides for music, videos, and photos…
Adapter
by Steve Ackerman
posted 2006-09-04
Americanrockstar’s latest release, Adapter, is a foray of intense, high-energy audio tracks that rock harder and deeper then anything that we have heard from them before. Aside from the many setbacks that have plagued ARS and this release over the last year, they have really put together a great album…
Artigner Custom Guitars
by Ryan Ackerman
posted 2006-07-31
After my last article on painting custom guitars, I decided to investigate building a guitar from the ground up. After searching around the web for a while, I started looking up custom guitar builders to see what they were doing. After talking with many of them, I quickly became interested in the artistry and devotion to the craft…
WRAD: The Aloha Collection
by Paul Spindle
posted 2006-06-28
I’m strolling along the beach in front of Marriott’s Waiohai resort at Poipu, when I look up and see a local sitting there playing a guitar. Being a guitar player myself, I have to stop and listen. ‘I can never pass up the opportunity to listen to live music, no matter what kind.’ Anyway, he’s playing a real good slack-key style and using some very interesting open tunings…
Magic in a Can!
by Ryan Ackerman
posted 2006-05-20
Painting a guitar with a spray can? It doesn’t seem very professional, it doesn’t even sound like it would work. Now I’ve heard that Eddie Van Halen painted his own guitar with plain old bicycle paint, so why cant anyone do it? I’ve been bored with look of some of my guitars lately, so I thought “why not?” So I decided to take a deeper look into the concept…
An Interview With Selena Cross
by Steve Ackerman
posted 2006-05-15
Selena Cross, the beautiful, redheaded Aussie songstress with a sultry style and refreshing sound that her fans have come to know and love. After taking some family time off last year, Selena hit the studio once again to put the new EP The Meaning In Sunnyville together. Earlier this year we had the opportunity to chat with Selena about her albums and experiences. We hope you enjoy the interview as much as we did…
At the Sounding Edge: Music Notation Software, the Final Installment
by Dave Phillips
posted 2006-04-06
Dave wraps up his discussion of music notation programs with a look at FOMUS and a new one on the horizon, MuseScore. “This month we take a look at the FOMUS and MuseScore music notation programs…”
Dead Slow for Hell
by Daniel Gannaway
posted 2006-02-15
When I interviewed Phonoss in April of last year for ProMusicNews I predicted the awakening of a prodigious and newly evolving solo talent. Inside of a year, and here he is delivering Dead Slow for Hell, his rocking sophomore effort. DS4H clocks in at just over 24 minutes and is chock full of short, chugging rock songs with a dirty, indie bent. Darker and grittier than the more acoustic indie/folk/rock of debut ELIMINATOR, DS4H is packed with huge singable chorus/bridge combinations, and showcases an artist pushing his creative boundaries to great success. Without further adieu, time for a quick catch up with Phonoss…
Open-Source Radioware
by Doc Searls
posted 2006-01-20
Last weekend I was sick with a fever and was dreaming crazy dreams in the middle of the night. For some reason I kept noodling in my brain about Hugh Hewitt and Salem Communications. Hewitt is a writer, blogger and popular conservative talk-show host. Salem is a large broadcast group owner with a Christian mission. It also owns the Salem Radio Network, which syndicates Hewitt, Michael Medved and other personalities…
SUMMER STORM | a collection of ukulele ditties
by ProMusicNews
posted 2006-01-15
“Written and recorded in Hawaii and New Zealand, SUMMER STORM – Daniel’s sixth solo outing – references laidback island life with the ukulele’s nylon strings, while wrapping it up in the kind of dynamic folk/indie-rock/electronic feel.”
Here is an interview with Daniel as he discusses this amazing new release with us…
Podcasting in Linux
by Vincent Danen
posted 2005-12-19
Two of the most interesting phenomenons on the Internet right now are arguably blogs and podcasts. The former are personal diaries, and can be written by anyone from the fellow next door to executives in big companies. The latter can be considered something similar to “radio on demand”. A podcast is simply a method for distributing multimedia files using the RSS standard. Clients exist for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Depending on your needs, there are different clients you can use in Linux ranging from full graphical tools to simple shell scripts…
At the Sounding Edge: Music Notation Software for Linux, Part 3
by Dave Phillips
posted 2005-12-16
In this month’s stop on our tour of Linux music notation programs, we look at the MusiXTeX music typesetting software. MusiXTeX was created by Daniel Taupin, Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler. MusiXTeX currently is maintained by Christian Mondrup and other volunteers…
At the Sounding Edge: Music Notation Software for Linux, Part 2
by Dave Phillips
posted 2005-11-15
“Common Music Notation (CMN) is a Lisp-based language for creating and editing musical scores. It provided a full complement of music symbols and other scoring amenities, such as score sizing and text underlay. Output from CMN is in the Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format, which is printable by any PostScript-compatible printer. In addition, your output files can be viewed with standard Linux PostScript viewers, such as GhostView and GhostScript…”
Inside a Luxury Synth: Creating the Linux-Powered Korg OASYS
by Peter Kirn
posted 2005-11-09
In the world of digital music, there’s been a longstanding divide between the hardware synthesizer and the computer. You can hook a keyboard controller to a computer, or even build a custom Windows PC into a keyboard frame, like the OpenLabs NeKo. Fundamentally, though, the two categories have remained distinct—until this year’s launch of the Korg OASYS, that is…
At the Sounding Edge: Music Notation Software for Linux, Part 1
by Dave Phillips
posted 2005-10-26
Dave starts a new series on music notation software and explains why Linux has some of the best available on any platform.
“When I was an untutored rock musician, I envied my colleagues who could read and write music notation. They could access and study material that literally was a closed book to me. So, at one point in my musical life, I dedicated myself to mastering the basics of notation…”
At the Sounding Edge: A September Trio
by Dave Phillips
posted 2005-09-28
What common goal is shared by the Toledo Area LUG and Toledo Hip-Hop? Building a recording studio with open-source software that the whole community can use.
This month’s column is in three sections, indicating the rather busy month I’ve been having. In truth, it’s been more fun than business. So without further ado, here’s the 411 from Studio Dave for September 2005…
