Thieves Like Us: Chillwave on the Cheap
Sep 01, 2010
Drew Hinshaw What’s the grittiest part about being the keyboardist in a broke and perhaps dysfunctional electropop trio? When the cash-strapped singer is looking to pawn off some equipment—say, a Roland Juno-6 that’ll fetch a More...
Front Line Assembly: Wilhelm Leeb on Analog Versus Virtual
Sep 01, 2010
Drew Hinshaw Bill Leeb’s 24-year-deep discography with industrial techno project Front Line Assembly (and before that, Skinny Puppy) thrums, buzzsaws, and shrieks like a near-exhaustive history of the synth in EBM—from noisy, More...
Weekend Warrior: Tana Hergenraeder
Sep 01, 2010
DAY GIG I recently landed a great job at one of Billings’ top architecture firms as a junior interior designer. HOW I GOT STARTED At age five, I sat down at my grandmother’s piano and played “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” by More...
MAJORminor: Cale Hawkins
Sep 01, 2010
Seventeen-year-old soul jazz keyboardist Cale Hawkins is an old pro at a young age. The high school senior from Bemus Point, New York, has played keyboards since age ten, records and markets his own indie releases, and has More...
The Masters of Subversive Synth Rock Return
Sep 01, 2010
The first thing you need to know about Devo is that their creative collaboration was forged in the aftermath of the 1970 shooting of unarmed students by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University, where principals Mark More...
New Orleans Piano with Josh Charles
Aug 18, 2010
Josh Charles knows a thing or two about New Orleans-style stride, boogie, and gospel piano playing. He should--at 13 years of age, he approached the legendary Dr. John and asked to be his student. After hearing what the young More...
Printz Board Masterminds the Synths of the Biggest Pop Show on Earth
Aug 01, 2010
Even six hours before showtime, the areas surrounding the HP Pavilion begin to vibrate, looking more like Times Square approaching New Year’s Eve than parking lots in a nondescript corner of San Jose, Calfornia. The reason? The More...
12 Jazz Piano Firsts
Aug 01, 2010
1899   Scott Joplin writes “Maple Leaf Rag,” which becomes the first huge hit of the ragtime era. In those days, “hit” meant sheet music sales.  1917 At age 18, Duke Ellington forms his first band in Washington, DC. More...
Javelin: Signature Sounds of No Más
Aug 01, 2010
From your first listen to the slice-and-dice grooves and abundant synth earworms on No Más, one thing is clear: Nobody else sounds like Brooklyn duo Javelin, and they sure as heck don’t sound like anybody else. By turns disco, More...
Tunng, On Creating Seamless Folktronica
Aug 01, 2010
“Tunng has always tried to blend together sounds that really shouldn’t fit,” says vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Lindsay. Masters of combining disparate styles as well as sounds, the adventurous British ensemble More...
Weekend Warrior: Craig MacDonald of 11STEPS
Aug 01, 2010
DAY GIG After working for 30 years managing a large computer firm, followed by three years as H.R. director for an environmental consulting firm, I’m now semi-retired, working part time as a keyboard consultant at my local More...
MAJORminor: Emma Murray
Aug 01, 2010
“When I was 13 and home sick from school,” says this 15-year-old singer-songwriter from Massachusetts, “I started writing a song, and instantly fell in love with songwriting. Ever since then, it’s been my passion, and my dream More...
Hot Discovery - Wes Bailey of Moon Taxi
Jul 28, 2010
We'd heard a lot of buzz from various friends in Nashville about Moon Taxi, a band that combines the joyful jamming of Phish and the multi-movement prog of early Yes and Genesis with a tight songwriting sensibility that non-musos More...
Adam Wakeman on Tour with Ozzy Osbourne
Jul 15, 2010
In these exclusive videos shot at tour rehearsals in Burbank, California, Ozzy Osbourne's keyboardist (and incidentally, son of Yes keyboard legend Rick Wakeman) Adam Wakeman shows senior correspondent Robbie Gennet how to play More...
Flying Lotus On Splicing Bebop and Hip-Hop DNA
Jul 01, 2010
On Splicing Bebop and Hip-Hop DNA Flying Lotus is best known for the bumper beats that bring Adult Swim viewers back from commercials into the late-night world of Cartoon Network. It’s a niche audience, and his freeform beats More...
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