Sabian has posted three great videos, featuring Jojo Mayer, for it's Omni line. In the demo video series JoJo discusses his quest for a crash/ride that will actually do both. What he says he discovered in the Omni is a cymbal that not only does both, but really delivers a [...]
Crap! I was looking forward to upgrading my phone and not my MP3 player. Hypebot recently reported that ComScore's Digital Year in Review ranked music listening as last in a list of top ten popular mobile activity activities. Maybe that's because a mobile phone is still a phone and now [...]
Radiohead broke ground in the industry with its release of In Rainbows Radiohead broke ground in the industry with its release of "In Rainbows," and its online pay-what-you-want model. Their forthcoming album will, not surprisingly, sell by a more traditional model--the price is this. Even so, the band is still [...]
Back in 2011, Wilco announced that they were parting ways with their record label, deciding to release under their own label. I originally sited a post by Sarah Szczerbiak post on Culturemob.com, but have since found the news well covered by Billboard. The story had caught my attention because Wilco [...]
A buddy of mine asked me where he could find a good percussion instructor. Here's a short list of places that came to mind. I searched Craigslist and found a couple of ads, including one for Percussionplayer.com. This one looks promising. Most everything I found in a quick search is [...]
It's old school, but print collateral still has a place for promoting your band. Rule number one - create decent quality collateral! The primary pieces used by my bands are in-venue posters (11x17 with color) and postcards for use as give-aways and in-venue promotion. Print collateral has obvious application for [...]
