Truth In Shredding (Free subscription) | yesterday
Guitar Center Announces the DRUM-OFF REGIONAL FINALS Thursday, December 3rd in Five Cities Nationwide! Events to Feature Exclusive Performances by Some of Today’s Top Drummers, Plus Celebrity Judges and a Special Roland V-Drum Showcase November 24, 2009 - Westlake Village, CA – Guitar Center announced today that several of the nation’s top drummers will perform at the upcoming Drum-Off...
andPOP.com News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The rock star turned tattooed porn star spectacle is getting back to music with his new project, Beserk, CHARTattack.com reports. The nu-metal group will include the drummers from Velvet Revolver, Incubus and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, along with Godsmack singer Sully Erna. Bezerk will perform on January 8th at the Guitar Center Drum-Off ‘09 Grand Finals [...]
badgerblog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
21 November (Saturday) - Raleigh - Sten Ove Toft (Norway, improv/noise), Jon Eriksen (Sweden/Norway/Connecticut, experimental/industrial), Subscape Annex (Raleigh) - badgerhaus - Time 8pm sharp, free with donations requested for traveling performers Jon (pictured) used the audio portion of a video of himself talking and processed the audio into some fascinating drones. Sten then performed with a minimalist...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Organic, Inc., a leading digital communications agency, and Guitar Center today announced the launch of their new Wish List Poster Creator. Live now, the new service provides a fresh spin on traditional static wish lists by letting consumers showcase items they want this upcoming holiday season in an interactive, musically-themed “poster” they can share with...
Blog in Dm (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The Jewish Music Report posts "Ethnomusicology – the Americanization of Niggunim," the notes for a lecture given to an ethnomusicology by the Chabad shaliach at the University of Washington. Natch, it reflects a Chabad-centric view of the subject Over at Vos Iz Neias: "Satmar to Open Subsidized Wedding Hall." Complete wedding package including music, entertainment [fake] flowers....
kingblind (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
When Jack White produced and performed on Loretta Lynn’s brilliant Van Lear Rose album, he not only proved that his skills as an exuberant frontman could be just as affecting from outside the spotlight, but he also showed the world that a 70-something-year-old country music legend could still rock out as hard as the Guitar Center generation. Well, a lot has happened since then (White’s...
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Kirby Kelly Crowned King of the Blues On Thursday November 12th in front of a capacity crowd at House of Blues in Hollywood CA, Kirby Kelly of Sherman, Texas beat out more than 4,000 guitarists to be crowned Guitar Center’s 2009 King of the Blues.
Truth In Shredding (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Guitar Center's King of the Blues 2009 Champion - Kirby Kelley Guitar Center's 2009 King of the Blues Champion This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
Marketingsherpa Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Marketers at multichannel music equipment retailer Guitar Center this week launched customizable wish lists to help customers steer friends and family toward their desired holiday gifts. The lists are designed by professional concert poster artists to resemble posters from different musical genres, says Scott Archambault, Director, Customer Acquisition, Guitar Center.
Rush Is a Band (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) kicks off today and runs through this Saturday, November 14th at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, IN. As previously mentioned on this site, both Neil Peart's original Slingerland drum kit and his Snakes & Arrows kit will be on display at the show. The Slingerland kit was recently purchased on eBay and restored to a playable...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
This one's from a couple months back, but I missed it at the time. Reader Amber Walker sends in this fantastic video interview with Tom Delonge of the band Blink-182 from the Guitar Center blog, where he makes many of the points that we discuss here, noting how technology has made it cheaper to make, promote and distribute music, and he thinks the big opportunity is in giving your music away for free,...
Crate Kings (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Look out Guitar Center, Best Buy, Dr. Dre, Monster Cable have partnered up to bring DJ‘ing even farther into the mainstream. With the creation of an in-store area appropriately named “Club Beats”, the retailer plans to offer a broad selection of DJ related and music making products. Best Buy sees this DJ-focused offering as something [...] Related posts: Record Store Day Offers Another...
If You Have To Ask (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Guitar Center announced today that MÖTLEY CRÜE's Tommy Lee and the STREET DRUM CORPS' Frank Zummo will present "Bezerk" — an exclusive project commissioned by Guitar Center, featuring some of today's top drummers and artists — as part of the upcoming Drum-Off Grand Finals, taking place January 8, 2010 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. Artists performing in "Bezerk"...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Who knows what kind of deal with the devil the top five contestants in the Guitar Center-sponsored "King of the Blues" contest have rigged up, but who wouldn't sell their soul for a title like that? Not to mention the $25,000 in cash, a reissue of a vintage '59 Les Paul guitar, a distribution deal through iTunes and all manner of musical product endorsement deals? Aaron Loesch, 2007's winner...
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
(Iverson, shown in happier days, before learning Guitar Center has a strict, “you brandish it, you bought it” policy) While I’m very pleased to welcome Clint and Jimmy Conley to Austin later today, I am hopeful the topic of their younger brother, Grizzlies G Mike, doesn’t come up. I hate to give this wonderful family a [...]
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