Music

Mini-wireless electric guitar connects with Mac and iPad

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About the size of a miniature ukulele, the Jivix JamStik features real strings that can be pressed, strummed, and bent, as well as piezo and infrared sensors so the Jamstik can be used as a MIDI controller. There’s even a GuitarHero-like tutorial to help you learn.

MXR DC Brick

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One of the best things I purchased for my guitar pedals.

The man who buys headstones for blues musicians

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Steven Salter has made it his mission in life to find unmarked graves of blues musicians and mark them with a headstone. You can follow the headline link to read about Steven and the project, watch the video below, and make a donation through his web site.

Phil Everly dies at 74

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If you are not familiar with the Everly brothers, you are certainly familiar with the bands and singers upon whom they’ve had a profound influence, bands like the Beatles and Beach Boys. Here’s a very young Phil and Don Everly singing Bye, Bye, Love.

Steve Jobs calls an audible and does a little dance

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This is a great story, via MG Siegler, who was there when it happened.

Jonathan Mann is a pretty talented musician and publisher of the “Song a Day” YouTube channel. MG Siegler is, among other things, a writer for TechCrunch. This story takes place in the summer of 2010, in the midst of Antennagate.

Eddie Vedder and Julie Andrews cover the Stones? Not quite

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This is brilliant. Eddie Vedder brings Jeanne Tripplehorn on-stage to cover the Stones’ classic “Shattered”. The twist is, Tripplehorn does it in a dead-on Julie Andrews voice. I couldn’t help thinking as I was listening to this, “Hey, I can finally understand the words.” Heh.

Logic Pro X gets major update

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Apple on Thursday released a major update to its professional audio recording and editing software, Logic Pro X. There are feature enhancements and more than 450 bug fixes in this release. […]

Nirvana, Kiss, join big cast of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2014

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Pretty impressive group of nominees:

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced next year’s inductees: Nirvana, Kiss, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Cat Stevens and Linda Ronstadt will all join the class of 2014. The E Street Band will be given the Award for Musical Excellence and Beatles manager Brian Epstein and original Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham will both receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers.

ToneCloud for BIAS amp modeling

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ToneCloud is a sharing platform that allows BIAS users to interact with each other and share their custom amps right inside BIAS. Users can now explore popular and latest custom amp models, and can further search by music genres or keywords. Also, sharing is more intuitive than ever: an upload button is always visible in BIAS no matter in what stage of the amp creation process, this makes sharing much easier and faster.

This company is incredible. Good work.

Guitar Lesson: In The Style of “Voodoo Child (slight return)”

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Anthony Stauffer:

> I created the Slight Return lessons to share what I’ve learned from this song over the past 18 years. I’ve taken the major themes that Stevie used when he played it, and distilled it into three different solos – beginner, intermediate, and advanced. These lessons will allow you to start working on this style of soloing, no matter what skill level you’re at.

I really like Anthony’s lessons. This is a paid lesson, but there are plenty of free videos available too.

New Beyoncé album smashes iTunes sales record

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It took Beyoncé just three days to become the fastest worldwide selling album ever on iTunes, according to Apple. According to information the company released on Monday, the new album sold 828,773 in its first three days. […]

Beyoncé releases latest album exclusively on iTunes

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We all know that iTunes has a lot of power in the music world, and it’s had its share of exclusives over the years, but the newest release is bit different for Apple and Beyoncé. Nobody knew about the release beforehand. […]

The Les Paul Foundation awards grant to “Little Kids Rock”

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The Les Paul Foundation awarded Little Kids Rock with a grant that will power music education initiatives in public schools over the next year. To further the partnership, the foundation’s Executive Director Michael Braunstein visited Lower Manhattan Community Middle School- MS896, a Little Kids Rock school in New York City, on Wednesday, December 11th surprising the students with a delivery of Epiphone Les Paul electric guitars. Simultaneously, supporters of Little Kids Rock’s Chicago chapter delivered Epiphone Les Paul electric guitars to Edwards Elementary in Chicago and the young rockers jammed via Skype from nearly 800 miles away! The guitars will be used to augment the successful Little Kids Rock music programs.

Les continues to give.