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Posts about studios, recording, sound gearhead stuff.
Acoustic Americana in the East Bay
The Back Room in Berkeley kicked off in mid-April with Laurie Lewis and Friends, and a mission to recreate the intimacy of the old 75-seat Freight & Salvage which itself has moved on to bigger and better things. The Back Room,
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EPs Make Sense for Local Bands
Local bands struggle to produce a CD when an EP will do just as well. To understand this, it’s helpful to remember that bands like the Ramones and the Misfits sold more t-shirts than
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When Technology Strangles Music
You like it, therefore, the reasoning goes, you'll like it even better by the baud-load. There's no room in the streaming algorithm for expanding the listener's exposure or appealing to the imagination
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Science Finds that Musical Skills Are Genetic!
Scientists have found that extolling practice as the road to good musicianship becomes a dead-end unless it’s in one’s genes. Dr. Miram Mosing, a Swedish psychologist has studied musical ability among 2500 twins, half identical and half
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