The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The story of the electric guitar, part 1
There are few instruments more powerful than the electric guitar. When the first primitive models appeared in the 1920s, no
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Electric Guitar
The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 962: The History of Distortion and Feedback
Once upon a time not that long ago, all music was expected to sound clean and clear. Pure, accurate, right
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Random music news for Tuesday, April 5, 2022
This Twitter rat hole looks to be very, very deep. It’s almost as deep as music news for April 5,
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There’s been a survey of the greatest guitar riffs of all time. Thoughts?
A British company called Muse Group (it deals in music content and software) conducted a survey of 1500 people throughout
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Random music news for Friday, April 1, 2022
Aliens are among us. Really. Be paranoid about that as you look through music news for April 1, 2022. No
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 942: The story of the electric guitar, part 3
In assessing the popular music of the last half of the 20th century, rock music was undeniably king. It was
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 941: The story of the electric guitar, part 2
For centuries, music and nice and clean. While different instruments gave notes different timbres, the frequencies of these notes were
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 940: The story of the electric guitar, part 1
There are few instruments more powerful than the electric guitar. When the first primitive models appeared in the 1920s, no
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Random music news for Monday, April 26, 2021
Before we begin, please give it up for this rooster who gave it his all. Now go out there are
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A cool art installation: 70 birds play the electric guitar
This just might make your day. 70 birds naturally playing guitar in random synchronicity is one of my favorite art
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Cool read: A history of guitar distortion.
The thing that gives the electric guitar is sonic power is its ability to use distortion and volume to the
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