Don’t hesitate to judge this album by its opening track.
LA post-hardcore/soul punk/progressive band letlive. arrests listeners immediately with the extreme intensity of “Banshee (Ghost Fame)”, an enthralling rock performance that leads off their latest Epitaph release The Blackest Beautiful.
Give the lion’s share of the credit to the group Read more...
The first trilogy of heroic hardware from Vertigo Sound is complete: The Munich-based audio masterminds have launched their latest release, the VSP-2 Dual Mic Pre 1976.
Vertigo Sound has eschewed the vastly more common Integrated Circuit design of today’s gear, instead creating their VSP-2 with a 100% discrete Twin Op Read more...
When an artist is working on a record that they expect will debut at #1, it’s understandable if they take no chances with the mastering.
But the band we’re talking about here is Vampire Weekend, and it’s no surprise they went in adventurous new directions at every turn with their Read more...
The 135th AES Convention is right around the corner, set to take place at the Javits Center in New York City from October 17 through October 20.
This year, the Audio Engineering Society (AES) isn’t just zeroing in on the technical side – the organization is also taking a broader Read more...
Guitarists and the people who love them will be converging on Brooklyn in glorious fashion this Sunday. That’s when the Third Annual Brooklyn Autumn Guitar Show takes place at Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg, from 11 AM to 5 PM.
As noisy as it is fun, this buy/sell/trade event is a Read more...
