Take It From Me by Edward Lapple My friends, I don’t usually play a musical instrument, but when I do, I play the bass guitar. I like that because I only have to play one note at a time. Chords scare me. I know a lot less about the circle of fifths… more »

The Live Oak Music Festival is a three day concert and camping event held every year on Father’s Day weekend in the hills above Santa Barbara, California. more »

Gary Shider, one of the best-known members of George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic and musical director of the P-Funk All-Stars for much of their history, died on June 16 at age 56 due to complications from brain and lung cancer. Shider inducted into… more »

Register until June 25 at All-Pro Sound for a chance to win a Tascam recording studio package valued at $969.96, including: DP-008 Portable 8-Track Digital Recorder TM-78 Studio Condenser Microphone VL-M3 Powered Stereo Monitors HP-VT1 Stereo… more »

Review by Ken Cote Photos by Music In Pictures Providence, Rhode Island’s hard rockers, Kanerko, made their return to the stage May 28th after a year and a half away. With opening bands Stoic and Burn The Witch, you knew it was going to be a… more »

by Frank Butler While hitting booth after booth at the 2010 NAMM show, we came across EKO Guitars. EKO, an Italian company, puts out some really nice guitars with bodies that look like fine art. The best artisans in Europe build them with the finest… more »

Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois Dan Grigor said he loved these articles because they were “a wonderful look into the mind of the working musician.” I don’t know about that, but it warms my wretched heart. I’m a singer and a harmonica… more »