Gibson Guitars was recently raided by police on claims of illegal wood usage. The American police is investigating the company for allegedly using illegal wood to make its instruments. The company states that "Gibson is a chain of custody certified buyers that purchases wood from legal suppliers who are to follow all standards."
This whole issue makes me wonder if there's such thing as illegal wood use? I personally have never heard of anything like that before. Gibson has always made outstanding guitars so this might be the reason why they sound so good lol.
Do you guys think this is a big deal considering there's a lot more bigger problems in today's world to deal with?
I hope this doesn't effect Gibson's quality in guitars.
In a time period where neon/crunkcore/electro/pop bands are being labelled as apart of the "punk scene", it leaves little room for the bands in the "scene" who have been around for a long time that don't adapt to these ridiculous changes. With all these older bands not doing as sucessful anymore thanks for kids only accepting the new trend, it makes us wonder whats going to happen to these bands since they're all getting dropped from their record labels or are now free agents with no where to go. Luckily the long time popular record label Epitaph is still around to support. The label is founded/operated by the god fathers of punk rock, Bad Religion. The were originally known as a punk rock label but they've expanded over time without losing their roots though. Recently the label has signed the bands Thursday, New Found Glory, Every Time I Die, and Story Of The Year. All of those bands were previously popular but have faded as the scene evolved to something ridiculous and they did decided to stick to their guns instead. Epitaph has saved the careers of these amazing bands at tough times like these which is why to me they're considered our saviour of the "scene".
Just this week, the label picked up another great band who is running into the same problems with today's music. They signed the band Alkaline Trio. I'm personally excited to hear another reason from them and i'm glad they're now on a label that cares about music regardless of popularity. Have a listen to Alkaline Trio here if you've never heard of them:
What do you guys think of today's current music trends?
Kill Hannah's van and trailer with over $120,000 in gear and merch inside were stolen from outside of their hotel in Philadelphia. You can see the band's Twitter post about it HERE.
With all the recent thefts that have been hitting bands lately, what do you think should be done to help prevent terrible situations like these? Something definitely needs to be done whether it's different methods, security, or whatever. Lets hear your thoughts.
In case you've never heard of Kill Hannah before, check this out:
After a countless amount of years and albums, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith has quit the band. Joe Perry wants to still continue on with the band though. Is there even a point to this? In my opinion, Steven Tyler was the band and Aerosmith will now just be a cover band of itself. What are your thoughts?
Remember an era of guys with crazy/huge/long hair, women's/gaudy clothing, and eyeliner? Sounds a lot like the trend going on these days but it's not quite what i'm talking about. The only other time period would be the 80's where "hair (glam) metal" dominated the scene. One of the biggest bands in that scene was Motley Crue, who were known for their crazy antics and hits songs like "Girls Girls Girls". It's a good time to reflect on this wild band that continues to tour, write music, and influence a new generation of bands. As well as having their songs continue to carry on to this time period's mainstream and towards future eras too.
I just found this video of Vince Neil on MTV's Cribs recently that I found to be interesting:
It's insane how much money there was in music back in the day which is nothing like it is these days. The term "broke musician" is the only reality that comes to mind with bands of today, even with bands who seem to be making it.
With everyone complaining about how shitty music is these days, it makes for a good time to reflect on bands you listened to in the past. With that being said, it's good to see a lot of bands coming out of hiatus to help improve the state of the music industry. Over the past year we've had bands like No Doubt, Blink 182, Sunny Day Real Estate, and The Get Up Kids making a comeback. These were some of the bands that influenced the new generation of bands, but somehow these new bands got lost along the way and stumbled upon certain tricks to get by (i.e. vocal effects and using tracks to play their instruments for them). I actually found a pretty funny article where The Get Up Kids apologize for inadvertently creating the neon emo fad that's currently dominating the scene. have a look at it here - http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4137393-if-this-is-the-world-we-helped-create-then-i-apologise-the-get-up-kids-get-back
Back when i was growing up, i would listen to a lot of NOFX and 311. Those were bands with great songs and worked hard to get to where they are. If you haven't listened to these bands before, you should step into my nostalgic music 101 class =) Check them out here:
Our Lady Peace's new album, "Burn Burn", just recently came out and it's been 4 years since they've put out an album. Has anyone listened to it yet? I still need to get to a record store to pick it up. After hearing the first single, "All You Did Was Save My Life", i could already tell that i was going to love the new album. This band never seems to disappoint with putting out hit singles and great songs. Check out their first single off that album:
The other day I came across a band called The Dead Weather that happens to be the side project of Jack White. I had no idea he was doing something else outside of The White Stripes and apparently he plays drums in this band. There’s also members of The Kills and Queens Of The Stones in the band as well. I had a listen to their song “Treat Me Like Your Mother” and it’s not bad. Have a listen to it here:
There's too many crappy music videos out there that are just simple marketing tools. So many bands release videos that offer the viewer nothing new and are generally pretty boring and I was blown away to see a video for a song called Tonto by a band called Battles. Not only is this video interesting to the point that it escapes time but its an artistic extension of the song giving the viewer an even more intense experience than the listener might get.
A Battles collaboration with celebrated light artists UVA (United Visual Artists), produced by Warp Films (This Is England, Rubber Johnny, Dead Mans Shoes etc.).
