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10 music theory tricks every producer and songwriter should know
This bad rep is entirely unjustified, however, since, regardless of whether you're a composer, songwriter, producer or DJ, ...
How Flemming Rasmussen produced Metallica's Master Of Puppets
It was on 3 September 3, 1985 that Metallica began the recording sessions for Master Of Puppets at Sweet Silence Studios in ...
Boston is all over Tom Petty sideman Mike Campbell’s illuminating new memoir, ‘Heartbreaker’
In a Boston.com Q&A, Tom Petty sideman Campbell talks Boston nights, tours with Dylan, and the Old Boston Garden: “The floor ...
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Zach Top Talks Rising Fame and How Fans Are “Starving” for Real Country Music
Climbing to the top of country music, Zach Top discussed his rise in fame and how fans were "starving" for real country.
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This acoustic guitar virtuoso has turned Sleep Token’s Euclid into the most gorgeous instrumental you’ll hear this weekend
UK guitar wizard Mike Dawes has released a studio version of his Euclid cover, after live recordings of it went viral last ...
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Blue Veil
almost surgically traces the edges of cool minor chords and discordant clusters. If you were to illustrate Blue Veil, it would look like seven streaks of black ink, or maybe seven slashes in a ...
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Heavy Song of the Week: Wolfgang Van Halen Flexes His Guitar Skills on Mammoth’s “The End”
The opening guitar tapping is unquestionably of the Van Halen lineage, and the verses find Wolfgang getting a bit prog before he starts hammering the big major chords for the chorus. His guitar skills ...
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Upcoming Special Programs on WFMU
on Double-Dip Recess with Roger (on Sheena's Jungle Room Stream) Actor, comedian, singer (half of Garfunkel and Oates), voice actress and Jersey City native, Kate Micucci, will be dropping in to visit ...