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.
Over the years, blues-rock artist, Linwood Taylor, has forged ahead nailing down gigs, improving his game and building a reputation as an A-list musician in the Washington, D.C. area with a deep music history rarely fully appreciated.
As Adrian Belew, Tony Levin and Steve Vai approach the band’s upcoming activity, Terry Bozzio enters the fold behind the kit. Danny Carey remains an important part of the BEAT family, and simply his Tool commitments prevent him from being available for this upcoming run in the Fall.
The first official Gallows West single is “Where the River Turns Red.” While Gallows West was born from the Cadillac Wheels universe and the project is tied to that larger creative world, “Where the River Turns Red” stands as the first proper public statement from the band. It is not simply a book soundtrack cut — it is the beginning of Gallows West as its own artist project.
