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“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” —Jim Morrison It was on July 3rd, 1971, that Jim Morrison died in his apartment in Paris. A gifted singer, a talented musician and an outstanding poet, the frontman of The Doors will always be remembered as an iconic piece in music history. R.I.P.

Happy Canada Day! Here are 27 Canadian albums everyone should know.

Music From Big Pink was released on July 1st 1968. This was The Band's first out of 10 albums they would release as a project apart from Bob Dylan.

For more than one reason, there is no festival in the world as magnificent as Glastonbury.

Gary Clark Jr Tour

Deap Vally - Baby I Call Hell at Glastonbury June 30th 2013

Bosnian Rainbows, our Band Of The Week.

Bosnian Rainbows is our Band Of The Week. The project is commanded by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, who announced last year that his main band, The Mars Volta, would go in an indefinite hiatus.

He has certainly kept busy with his solo releases, but this is his next step in a solid alternative band, while keeping many of the experimental elements he is known for.

The band is completed by the Mars Volta drummer Deantoni Parks, keyboardist Nicci Kasper and singer Teri Gender Bender. Their self-titled debut album was released on June 25th.

This video is from their second single, "Turtle Neck". Enjoy.

Drum kit comparison between Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts and John Bonham. Does size really matter?

From “Alive" to “Do the Evolution," Stone Gossard has engineered some of Pearl Jam’s biggest riffs. How does he recognize a great one? “It’s usually about sort of stumbling," he says. “My methodology is not knowing what I’m doing and making that work for me. You pick up a guitar and the first thing you do is maybe you throw a capo on it, but you don’t throw it across all of the strings, and you D-tune that string, and then you strum on that for a second, and then maybe you tune up the bottom string and do something with that. You have a thing that you do that’s good, but that thing is also your cliché, so you’re always trying to push it someplace new that still feels like it comes from what you like."

Stone Gossard spoke with us about his solo album Moonlander, thoughts on touring and his all-time favorite riff.

Today marks the 4th Anniversary of Michael Jackson's death. The whole world was shocked, as everybody expected his return to the stage for the This Is It world tour, and we'll always wonder what would have happened if he was still here...

MJ's death was surrounded by controversy, the same way his life always was. But one thing is certain: He will always be the greatest pop artist in history.

Long live the King of Pop!

Fleetwood is bone thin, over six feet six and has a penetrating, slightly frightening gaze; one imagines him in a black waistcoat, a headmaster in a Brontë novel. “I like working,” he says, and tosses off the suggestion that he is “hard-nosed.” “I may crack a whip every now and then,” he chuckles, “but I don’t crave command. I’m exactly the way I was at school.”

Happy 66th birthday Mick Fleetwood! Read our 1980 cover story on how Fleetwood Mac is more than the sum of their parts.

Pro Tools 11 is here.

The leading software in music and post-production recording is back with its latest and most advance product... yet. The new AAX plug-ins use the renovated Avid Audio Engine, which main focus is to enable the user to maximize the number of operations with the least CPU processing. It promises to be smooth and, at the same time, extremely productive.

With Pro Tools 11, Avid wants to stay at the top of the audio software world. And they definitely will.

This week's Band Of The Week comes from the cold lands of Norway. Gazpacho's music has been described as "classical post ambient nocturnal atmospheric neo-progressive folk world rock". With that said, it's just a matter of listening their music to really understand their world and be a part of it.

This song, 'Black Lily', comes from the band's latest album, March Of Ghosts.

Enjoy.

Summer is already here.

This September Nine Inch Nails return with their newly announced album Hesitation Marks. 

Black Sabbath is back. 

http://www.youtube.com/embed/a7iIgci6m30

Foo Fighters’ first track, “This Is a Call,” is even more entrancing. Boisterous yet bittersweet, it’s either the fragmented story of a wildly dysfunctional family or a raucous punk-rock fantasia. By the song’s end, its vibrant palette of punched-up guitar sounds and precise, powerful drumming has magically elucidated — and obliterated — its meaning.

“This Is a Call” was released 18 years ago today.

Happy Birthday to Sir Paul McCartney, who turns 71 today. One of the greatest musicians and songwriters of all time!

It was today, June 18th, but in 1948, that the long-play vinyl debuted as a different option for recorded music. It allowed more capacity and, more importantly, it introduced a new way for artists to present their music to their audience: the album. It's legacy will last throughout the ages.

Street Wisdom in a random LA corner.

This video of Iggy Pop giving a tour of The East Village is truly awesome. 

Sonny & The Sunset's 2012 Album, “Longtime Companion”.

This is a project commanded by Sonny Smith, an American musician, playright and multimedia artist. This song, taken from the 2012 album “Longtime Companion”, shows the very core of Smith's influences, by blending old and new, country and blues, into a modern classic. Enjoy!

The acclaimed producer talks about the connection between music and nature, and how we can learn to listen to the world around us. A nice way to start the week, everybody.

Despite the anger and bitterness, Hail to the Thief is more musically inviting than Radiohead’s last two outings. The album’s fourteen tracks — particularly the percussive, mesmerizing “There There” — are more tuneful and song-focused than 2000’s Kid A or 2001’s Amnesiac. Electronic textures still abound amid the guitars and piano — there’s still synth-y sonic schmutz and squiggles that seem like data transmitted from another plane of sound. But there are so many delicious melodies here, so much that’s both soothing and twisted and catchy, so much to sing along with, even if our prognosis is grim.

Radiohead’s Hail To the Thief was released 10 years ago today.

While musicians are the ones creating the art they want to share with the world, it is in the music studio where the magic happens. Where dreams become reality, and stories become legends.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

My Guitar !