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Music Gear Review: Yamaha SessionCake Personal Amp and Headphone Mixers
About the size of a stomp pedal box, the battery-poweredSessionCake modules are compact amplifier and headphone mixer combos that interconnect over a short (included) analog ... -
Buddy Rich Centennial at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, CA
To honor drumming legend Buddy Rich's centennial, Rich's daughter Cathy Rich, Red Hot Chili Pepper's drummer Chad Smith and Buddy Rich Band drummer Gregg Potter ... -
Evanescence at Sony Centre For The Performing Arts in Toronto, Canada
Evanescence has been firing up their engines for the last two years, after having taken several years off. Last month, they released Synthesis, an album ... -
The Neighbourhood at White Oak Music Hall in Houston, TX
Grab a cigar, ladies and gentlemen, and get comfortable in a lounge chair whilst basking in a performance from the Neighbourhood. The five-piece rock band ... -
Music Gear Review: PSP Nexcellence Spring Reverb
PSP’s new Nexcellence (ver 1.0.2 tested) is a spring reverb emulation plug-in inspired by the “Necklace” reverbs made by Hammond Organ company starting around 1959. ... -
Richie Sambora and Orianthi at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, CA
Bon Jovi co-founder Richie Sambora and former Alice Cooper and Michael Jackson's This Is It! guitarist Orianthi came to the Clive Davis Theater at the Grammy ... -
X at the Novo Theater in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles punk rock band X is currently on tour in Latin America celebrating their 40th year together as a band. X recently played at ... -
The Used at The Observatory in Santa Ana, CA
The Used's sold-out performance was held at the Orange County Observatory bringing hardcore fans out on a windy Monday night. The venue was the perfect ... -
Music Connection's Top 25 New Music Critiques of 2017
Each year, Music Connection staffers listen to scores of demos and unsigned band releases submitted to us. Of all these submissions, here is the cream ... -
Lori Bell & Ron Satterfield - blue(s) (8/10)
Celebrating a 25-year partnership that has run parallel to their multi-faceted solo careers, veteran SoCal jazz greats Lori Bell (flute) and Ron Satterfield (guitar, vocals) apply their virtuosity ... -
Carol Welsman - For You (9/10)
For six-time Juno Award nominated jazz interpreter extraordinaire Carol Welsman, the title For You isn’t simply pointed at all of her worldwide. It’s a celebration of the power that ... -
Lil Pump - Lil Pump (7/10)
Miami’s Lil Pump, an up-and-rising rapper from the Soundcloud viral wave, spares no enthusiasm in his self-titled debut project, displaying his strengths through a string of straightforward songs that ... -
Prophets of Rage - Prophets of Rage (9/10)
Rebels with a cause is the rap/rock supergroup Prophets of Rage, comprised of members of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill. Edgy, poignant ... -
King Krule - The Ooz (9/10)
Arriving four years after his previous release, King Krule’s sophomore album, The Ooz, delivers a concoction of punk, ambience, jazz and bossa nova that makes for a dark ... -
Music Gear Review: Mackie Redesigned MR Series Studio Monitors
Mackie has the latest version of the MR Series powered studio monitors that are designed for home/project studios, small edit bays or multimedia game/content ... -
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New Music Critique: Mayten
Seattle-based Mayten loves retro-vintage computer sounds and he weaves them frequently into the fabric (or techno tapestry, as it were) of his compositions. With musical ... -
In This Moment at Riverside Municipal Auditorium in Riverside, CA
Veiled in macabre costumes and theatrical makeup, In This Moment, ripped into the Riverside Municipal Auditorium in Southern California on Wednesday, Oct. 25, and quite ... -
Halestorm at the House of Blues in Anaheim, CA
On a brisk fall night, Anaheim, CA was in for a treat as the Grammy Award-winning hard rockers Halestorm brought their ‘Halloween Scream’ 2017 headlining ... -
A$AP FERG - Still Striving (7/10)
A$AP Ferg returns with the light and loose Still Striving, packed with fun and stylish songs. Ferg enlists help from a variety of collaborators including Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky, ... -
Brand New - Science Fiction (10/10)
Only Brand New can sneakily release a digital album overnight and hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200––with the physical due in October. All it took was eight ...
