Today, we’re featuring a hot new guitarist, Lex Bauman, from the heartland of America; Columbus, Ohio, a stone’s throw from the RnR Hall of Fame in Cleveland. His passion for a career in music began early, but enough of the youth focus, the guy’s a solid guitar player, songwriter and he’s focused and strategic.
More than a little musical magic erupted at Northern Virginia’s Reston Coffee House steps away from the waters of Lake Anne, with the Ken Avis-Dave Kline Duo performing several sets of originals and cover tunes sparked by Ken’s stylish guitar work and Dave’s spins with his formidable violin action.
Our interview today with Welsh artist, Isaac Holmes, presents his personal path learning his craft from a very early age to today. And for Isaac, like many, he’s driven by a passion for music and a need to dig in to the discipline of learning from his guitar idols, then raising his game to create his own stylish original compositions.
The Washington, D.C. area has a very robust music community where musicians weave their ambitions and altruism into a basket of working strategies in order to build an audience of followers, a fan base.
After exploding out of Rotterdam’s underground scene, Dutch artist and multi-instrumentalist ZEP has built a rapidly expanding world of precision-tuned chaos. Here, ZEP is the industrial ringmaster, the tone of his voice shifting with unpredictable urgency as he snarls, wails, and shouts.
Daniel Bachman’s new full length documentary film/album The Witness Tree, is a multimedia documentary project working with biodata sonification of historic trees in Virginia and making music using a variety of different instruments, field recordings, techniques, and human/more than human collaborators. Daniel was recently featured in The Smithsonian Magazine for his unique perspectives on music and the ecosystem of Virginia.
Hailing out of Music City USA (Nashville, Tennessee), there’s a young guitar slinger, Danny Garwood, rolling out some heavy hitter blues, getting stage time with the likes of the legendary Buddy Guy, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, and other world-class artists.
PRS Guitars and Guitar Center today announced that the national retailer is inducting Paul Reed Smith into the Hollywood Rockwalk, the handprint-and-signature tribute outside Guitar Center’s flagship Hollywood store on Sunset Boulevard.
The construction of the Audeze LCD-S20 headphones stands out for its distinctly professional and industrial design, based on a robust chassis that combines aluminum forks, magnesium parts, steel spring arches, and glass-reinforced nylon components.
Pablo Pescatore’s next book, Speed and Precision on Guitar, is scheduled to be released in October and will cover various guitar techniques such as: alternate picking, sweep picking, string skipping, tapping, and more.
