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Online Guitar Lessons
Quite a lot of YouTube fuss about one particular guitar website where users can learn to play guitar online through streaming video. Perhaps it’s more accurately described as “interactive guitar lessons” due to the fact that you can ask questions of the guitar teacher and get personal replies to your guitar playing problems – of which there are sure to be many!
In recent years the internet has grown more and more into a vehicle dominated by video and this is sure to continue. Webmasters in the niche of online guitar lessons have taken full advantage of this fact and now deliver hundreds of hours of virtual guitar lessons at a very economical price when compared to what it would cost to learn guitar attending private lessons with a local teacher. That’s if you can even find a good one to go to.
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Learn Spanish The Easy Way
Just into our desks this morning was a cool learn Spanish channel on YouTube which is posting up some awesome content about how to make learning Spanish vocabulary easier than ever before. A few of us here either have tried or are currently trying to learn to speak Spanish so it immediately caught our attention. I can say that I’ve never been so impressed with a vocabulary course before. The method is simple and actually very clever. Check it out.
Springsteen infidelity rumors denied. Springsteen infidelity rumors denied.
Dexateens- Singlewide Dexateens- Singlewide
Mike Patton and Alan Moore collaborate, black t-shirt wearing metal heads rejoice Mike Patton and Alan Moore collaborate, black t-shirt wearing metal heads rejoice
Weezer, Blink 182 unite two generations of suprisingly popular outsiders Weezer, Blink 182 unite two generations of suprisingly popular outsiders
Old 97s announce summer tour and chance for fans to see Rhett Miller shirtless Old 97s announce summer tour and chance for fans to see Rhett Miller shirtless
Creepy daughter from “Cape Fear” to tour with newly social recluse and rock legend. Creepy daughter from “Cape Fear” to tour with newly social recluse and rock legend.
HEALTH ready sophmore album, no sign of caps lock key in future HEALTH ready sophmore album, no sign of caps lock key in future
Cold War Kids, Sam Jones ask fans to finish their work. Cold War Kids, Sam Jones ask fans to finish their work.
EMI puts the kibosh on Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse/David Lynch Project EMI puts the kibosh on Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse/David Lynch Project
Springsteen infidelity rumors denied.
Remember a few fonths ago when Bruce Springsteen was accused of being the other man in a New Jersey couple’s divorce? According to the woman accused of doing the E Street Shuffle with The Boss, it’s all a lie.
Normally, tabloid news like this wouldn’t even register on our radar, but any chance we have of helping Bruce clear his name is a chance we’ll take.
Dexateens- Singlewide
Somewhere between the ramshackle Hootnany-era Replacements and the well oiled rock machine that is the Drive-By Truckers lies the Dexateens. On their latest album, Singlewide (Skybucket Records), the band take this apprach to it’s logic extreme. The music seems at times like its ready to fall completely apart at the seams, but other times it carries a feeling of beauty and majesty that is sorely lacking in most country-fried rock bands.
That’s the beauty of Singlewide; it feels like a peek into a practice room, while the band obsesses over newly discovered arrangements and chord progressions just long enough to create something beautiful. Sometimes the songs fade out, and sometimes they fall apart, but it’s always interesting what happens in the middle.
Lyrically, Singlewide tackles some of the same things as the Truckers effortlesly handle; small town life, isolation, speaking up for the good ol’ boy without pandering to their sensibilities and drinking too hardwhile loving too long. But the Dexateens tackle these themes with a bent edge that recalls the much missed Ass Ponys- these are simple tales, but with a skewered, almost sinister edge. One need not look any further than the single “Can You Whoop It?” to find that edge. In it, singers John Smith and Elliot McPherson confess a love for “Ronnie Dio” and “Vaseline”. It’s a combination that might cause a bristle at first, but with tight harmony singing as good as Smith and McPherson’s, it’s easy to get sucked in by the sweetness.
In the end, that’s the Dexateens: they sing like the Louvin Brothers, look like Pavement and chronicle the decaying Americana sound like The Band, and they just might be one of the best unknown bands in this old, weird America.
Mike Patton and Alan Moore collaborate, black t-shirt wearing metal heads rejoice
Former (and current) Faith No More lead singer Mike Patton has lent a hand to an upcoming audiobook project by Alan Moore, acording to Billboard.
The project, set for release next year is “semi-autobiographical” according to Moore.
Weezer, Blink 182 unite two generations of suprisingly popular outsiders
Nineties geek rock pioneers Weezer have announced a string of dates opening for millenial geek punk hep cats Blink 182. Expect plenty of power chords, ironic t shirts and songs written about how girls just don’t understand being performed rather ernestly by suprisingly good looking men. It’s very meta, you see.
Tour dates are below.
Old 97s announce summer tour and chance for fans to see Rhett Miller shirtless
Alt-Country veterans the Old 97s have announced plans for a summer tour, with opening sets by band members Murry Hammond and Rhett Miller. Check out the tour dates here
Creepy daughter from “Cape Fear” to tour with newly social recluse and rock legend.
Actress-turned singer Juliette Lewis announced a tour yesterday with Cat Power and the Pretenders. Lewis is preparing to release her second album, Terra Incognita on September 9th, which features production by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta. This marks a continued change in Cham Marshall of Cat Power, who just ten years ago was giving live [...]