The Carmina Burana With The Pasadena Master Chorale

Carl Orff’s lusty Carmina Burana holds a special place in the hearts and ears of many non music lovers. Most who have never enjoyed a full performance of the piece may refer to sections of Orff’s work as “that music from Excalibur” or “the theme from Glory.” Indeed, the emotional impact of the cantata, based [...]

If It's So Damned Easy, Anybody Could Do It

Skitzo Calypso has left the building. The popular rock band has left Sellaband to take up the crusade of garnering rock recognition elsewhere saying to the Sellaband community, “Instead of having a long mission statement, regarding our decision to leave, it can be summed up quickly – we don’t feel Sellaband is right for us. [...]

Maitreya, Meet Chuck D.

UPDATE: I am informed by both Maitreya and Sellaband head Johan Vosmeijer that introductions have indeed been made prior to the posting of this article. Apparently Mr. Vosmeijer’s inbox has been bombarded with emails lobbying for that which is in the works already. Kudos to Sellaband for jumping on this and I hope that his [...]

Plagiarism…Getting Mine From Thine

Plagiarism in music is nothing new…damn, I think I just made a very weak joke. But back to the subject, plagiarism is probably the strongest term available to define a phenomena that occurs almost every time a composer sets out to write a popular song. The vast majority of contemporary pop music is written within [...]

My Favorite Guitar (Revisited)

I’m ripping myself off. Actually, I’ve had a few requests to revisit an old article about one of my guitars so here it is, this time with photos. In the past year the guitar made appearances on the albums Out Of Confusion by ConFused5 and The Running Time by SolidTube, both of which I produced [...]

Real Deal Alert…Sellaband's Ariel

There are now over 9000 artist profiles on Sellaband, each one representing the aspirations of unsigned and relatively unknown artists and their hopes of crowd-sourcing a recording budget through what comes down to a pre-sale of 5000 units. Music lovers looking for their next obsession can search the Sellaband website by genre but the the [...]