
Rock Band Essentials: Gear That Shapes Your Signature Sound
The gear you choose to play for your band’s unique rock sound is important. The tone and atmosphere that make your music unique comes from each instrument, amplifier, and pedal.

The gear you choose to play for your band’s unique rock sound is important. The tone and atmosphere that make your music unique comes from each instrument, amplifier, and pedal.

Very few bands get to cherish the success of an acclaimed debut, and back in the heyday of punk, even fewer made it into a studio to record. For a

The second solo album, following 2014’s You Should Be So Lucky, from veteran Benmont Tench, The Melancholy Season, is aptly titled as the pianist/singer/songwriter delivers a record that ebbs and

Alabaster DePlume is unlike any artist of today. He’s a singer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, and philosopher all at once. He recites his poems over a backdrop with some of the UK’s

Recorded in an 18th-century farmhouse in Maine, these songs from singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kris Delmhorst (KD) about the ghosts of the past and present seem to fit the setting. She

The Lowtimers are a 5-piece Americana band led by songwriters Austin Smith and Mark Tegio. Formed through years of touring up and down the West Coast, the band blends soulful

Paper Sister is a four-piece post-punk shoegaze band from Austin, Texas. It is influenced by the Smashing Pumpkins, PJ Harvey, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pixies, At the Drive-In, The Sundays, Mazzy

While the late great David Johansen will always be synonymous with The New York Dolls, he went on to arguably greater pop-culture notoriety by reinventing himself with his kitschy alter-ego

Rock music has always been a microcosm of its influences. The way blues snuck its way into the genre’s most incredible songwriters, the punk attitude being determined by societal standards

Few vocalists can bring the sheer power and passion of Mike Farris. With his first album since 2018’s Silver & Stone, Farris continues to move further away from strict gospel