Tremolo. Delay. Overdrive. Fuzz. Condenser. Dynamic. Phantom power. Daisy chain. Ground, lift. Passive, active. EQ. Direct, bypass, signal, gain, frequency. Musicians standing still onstage with an ear cocked toward the monitor and an index finger held in the air, signaling […]
I’d heard Greta Van Fleet on the radio, and their strong resemblance to Led Zeppelin is unmistakeable. To the point where some dudes I know diss them for it, but I think sounding just like Led Zeppelin could hardly be a bad […]
Cruz Contreras is lean and fit at the front end of his 40s, with a tan deepened by playing festivals throughout the American West for much of the summer. His salt-and-pepper hair flops down in locks when he stomps the […]
The week leading up to AmericanFest offers up a slew of outstanding new roots music releases, from a couple that you most likely have heard about and a bunch more that I do not want to drop off the map. […]
“Shut up and sing.” It’s a sentiment heard by virtually every artist with an opinion at some point in their careers. Setting aside the fact that it relegates artists to the status of a jukebox, it also ignores the fact […]
Composer and Conductor John Williams celebrated 40 years of making movie music with the L.A. Philharmonic this Labor Day Weekend with a three night stand at The Hollywood Bowl. Hollywood is the birthplace of film, and movie fans loved every […]
Crossing the border to another season, please entertain if you will conjecture of another time, a trip without a passport, through an extended, not-too-sprawling sonic cosmopolis, an uncommonly thoughtful, adventurous tribute album. Two views: the first is my brief Voice […]
