As a follow-up to our Inaugural Industry Meetup post, we’re bringing you an incredible live video of a performance right from our very own office space! Old friends Jukebox the Ghost (Tommy Siegel, Jesse Kristin, Ben Thornewill) stopped by to kick off a our new monthly series. Little did we know they’d roll out with Whitney Houston’s classic, “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
Enjoy!
Though we’ve recently moved our office, Suite 268, our performance space and loft in New York City, is still alive and thriving. We recently invited Rachel Yamagata to stop by the space to perform “You Won’t Let Me” and “Dealbreaker,” off of her new record, Chesapeake. Her voice is just incredible!
Read the exclusive on AOL Spinner.
New York City offers a scene of wonderfully talented and creative people from all different areas of the music industry. To further the launch of our new B2B portal, we’ve decided to throw an Inaugural Industry Meetup on the third Thursday of each month.
We had to kick it off big with this first event so we invited old friends Jukebox the Ghost (Tommy Siegel, Jesse Kristin, Ben Thornewill) and our new neighbours Foursquare, Fueled, 20X200 and Clearspring.
We have some amazing footage from the stage coming your way but you can take a sneak peak by flipping through the photos below. Enjoy!
The following is part of Travis’ blog series and eBook “The Musicians Guide to Better Sounding Drums”
To me, the cymbals are the most important component to a great sounding drum kit. In fact, I often like to consider myself a “cymbal player” instead of a drummer. Your cymbals are your color instruments, it’s what completes and expresses your personal style.
You can dampen, tune and manipulate your drums all day. But with the cymbal: What you hear, is what you get. Let’s look at three ways to get the best sounds out of your cymbals: Continue reading
A few weeks back I posted about the NPR 100, a series from back in 2000 that recounted “the stories behind 100 of the most important American musical works of the 20th century, across all styles and genres.”
In light of the passing of banjo legend Earl Scruggs, take a minute to listen to this episode which has a brief history of Earl — from his early days in North Carolina to his stint with Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys — and the story behind the development of Scruggs style banjo playing and the song that catapulted it into the American consciousness: Foggy Mountain Breakdown (original recording here).
There’s also lots of incredible footage of Earl and the Foggy Mountain Boys from the Grand Ole Opry on YouTube which I’d highly recommend exploring. Here are some good places to start:
Ground Speed: http://youtu.be/csSEZbRCEuc
Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms: http://youtu.be/zDgYN5qeG4Y
Little Rabbit Run: http://youtu.be/8uOy3WdT3mY
Salty Dog Blues (starting with a great rendition of “So Doggone Lonesome” from Johnny Cash): http://youtu.be/arCypiTi260
If I Should Wander Back Tonight (with some fantastic Dobro work by Uncle Josh): http://youtu.be/YORY20sG5rE
