Some people just refuse to play their guitar like everyone else. Take this guy for example. Is strumming not good enough for you? Nobody likes a show-off.
Actually, “acousto-tap” (as the technique will be know from this point forward) seem to be in vogue at the moment: Eric Mongrain should be familiar [...]

There are 3 drum loops which have been the underpinning of pop music for a generation. Unless you’ve been living without TV and radio for the last 20 years you will have heard them all, you just may not realise it.
To kick things off we have great little documentary about the ‘Amen Break’, the [...]

Delia he ain’t, it’s true. Here he is again,, selling things. If you like all that, then scope out his set at the recent London Beatbox Convention, performing with a mic and two kaos pads. Impressive.

Some music for a Tuesday:
The clever chaps over at Make have been posting home-made synth projects for ages, with this marvellous epilepsy-inducing robot-shaped noise cabinet being among my favourites.
The internets are full of hands-on music too. The Dub Selector has been around for ages but is still worth 5 minutes of anyone’s lunch hour. [...]

TuneCore are a US-based internet start-up that aim to help with the digital distribution of your original music by handling the submission of your work to the online music retailers.
[We are] a music delivery and distribution service that gets artists’ original music (even cover versions) and record label releases up for sale on iTunes, Rhapsody, [...]