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  • I think of music as falling in a range. On one end of that range is the most packaged, over-produced pablum. At the extreme other end of the spectrum are sounds as primitive as rain hitting leaves on trees in a forest. The early days of the music tha...Read more

  • Switzerland-based Transatlantic Flight is a young group with high aspirations. At only 16-17 years of age, the group has a very clear direction for their music, which they hope will modernize 60's British Invasion rock n' roll. While the 'Brit-Rock' inf...Read more

  • Cover Bands, In!! Monday, 8 March 2010

    We’ve broached the topic of covering another artist’s music in this blog, but that was from the angle of covering the one-off song. Plenty of artists have used this approach to break out of obscurity. The American Idol franchise is built on this p...Read more

  • The Outer Vibe is a pop-infused rock n' roll group from Grand Rapids, Michigan who are self-proclaimed 'revivalists' of the high-energy power and free spirit of the classic rock greats such as Led Zeppelin and Queen. The group is known to be quite a tou...Read more

  • The 4 Best Widgets For Musicians Thursday, 4 March 2010

    There is an overload of social media sites out there which can be a good thing and a bad thing for musicians depending on how you're using them. One way to use social media sites efficiently and make sure you're sending fans a consistent experience on e...Read more

  • In 1993 I attended an Allman Brothers concert at the Great Woods amphitheatre in the suburbs of Boston. Little did I know that this would become one of the more infamous shows in the bands then 25 year history, one that would add fuel to the fire of th...Read more