After the popularity of ZZ Top's collaboration with Jeremiah Weed in an ad featuring ZZ Top's song "I Gotsa Get Paid," ZZ Top are releasing a 4-song teaser EP called Texicali featuring songs from their upcoming full-length album: Next Tuesday, June 5, will see the release of Texicali, a four track digital collection from ZZ Top that offers the first new studio recordings from … [Read more...]
Meet the New Boss, Worse Than the Old Boss
David Lowery, of Cracker and Camper Von Beethoven fame, recently wrote an article titled "Meet the New Boss, Worse Than the Old Boss," which is based on a talk he presented at a previous SF Music Tech Summit. In the article, Lowery argues that the current digital distribution model is hurting artists more than the old model that was driven by a few large record labels. The … [Read more...]
Butch Vig Discussing the Recording of the Track “Drain You” By Nirvana
I found this clip of Butch Vig discussing the recording of the track "Drain You" by Nirvana to be really interesting: The entire documentary that this clip came from where the entire Nevermind album is discussed is currently on YouTube in two parts. Watch Part One and Part Two. … [Read more...]
New Music Tuesday
Today was a good new music Tuesday for guitar-based music fans: Joe Bonamassa's new album Driving Towards the Daylight was officially released. I've been listening to this album for a couple of weeks now, and I think it's his strongest album of the last few years. It's a somewhat more focused album than last year's Dust Bowl, with a more straight-forward blues-rock … [Read more...]
Heritage Guitars
Premier Guitar magazine has profiled Heritage Guitar for their June 2012 issue. I didn't know much about Heritage Guitar until a few years ago, and I find their story to be quite interesting. If you're not familiar with the Heritage Guitar story, they were founded by former employees of Gibson when Gibson moved their headquarters to Nashville. A group of employees did not want … [Read more...]