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Related to guitars – the tools and the toys
The return of Slowdive is exciting for many, many reasons, but for guitar nerds like me, one of them is a chance to get a look at what wonderful noisemaking toys the band are using now. History has shown, however, that they’re not necessarily the gear hounds that their fans might think. Comparing their setups […]
Quite an eventful week last week for fans of My Bloody Valentine, particularly those who sling guitars themselves. No, they didn’t finally release the new music they’ve been promising since… fuck, who even remembers. At least not in the conventional sense… So to begin with, Kevin Shields finally announced he and the legendary guitar manufacturer […]
The year of Wet Leg continues, as the duo are wrapping an Australian tour and will come straight back to North America for a short North American run – their Toronto club debut sandwiched between major festivals – before more fests in Europe and back to North America for more shows through October, then back […]
Japanese musical equipment powerhouse Roland turns 50 years old this year, and they’re celebrating the milestone with some pretty cool festivities. They’ve taken their 808303.studio online real estate, which previously housed a pretty cool brower-based version of two of their legendary instruments – the TR-808 drum machine and TB-303 bass synth – and added a […]
I declared my position on the phenomenon of “Blue Monday” hereabouts last year and while that hasn’t changed, I’ll not let the opportunity for some low-hanging fruit content pass me by. So here’s a clip of New Order appearing on Dutch music programme Countdown on May 27, 1983. Before a live performance of the single, […]
Guitar pedal demo videos are a dime a dozen these days, but those by proper musical legends such as Colin Newman of Wire are rather rarer. That’s why this 10-minute video with him exploring the Eventide H9 multi-effects – which he’s used with Wire as well as his Immersion and Githead projects – while discussing […]
The losses in the music world over the past year have been immeasurable, but the loss of Andy Gill from Gang Of Four remains one of the bitterest, and a number of projects he was working on at the time of his passing have since become posthumous tributes to one of the most influential musicians […]
So the news is that My Bloody Valentine are back. Not with new material, don’t be silly – those two new records they promised would be done last year are, in fact, not yet recorded, as per the New York Times feature below – but their catalog is back. All their albums are now up […]
The URL for GuitarGeek.com may no longer exist was a meaningful internet entity – it now goes to the YouTube page for some guy who will teach you Led Zeppelin riffs – but in the early days of the web, it was a magical place for guit nerds like myself who were a) unhealthily obsessed […]
When I first started doing web development many many moons ago, Javascript was that annoying add-on that was super-picky about quotes and semicolons but was necessary for state-of-the-art tricks like rollovers and image swaps. Now, it’s the language that underpins pretty much everything on the web, that which keeps me employed, and more importantly, that […]
