His 10 Best Acoustic Moments

Edit NME 05 Apr 2016
Jack White is famed for his skills with an electric guitar, and his frenzied playing and thunderous live shows have produced some incredible live moments ... ‘You Don’t Know What Love Is’ The original, electric version appears on the band’s final album ‘Icky Thump’ but for the single release, Jack and Meg White unplugged the guitars for a stripped-back interpretation of this embittered and snarky ballad....

The Verb, Boston: Hotel review

Edit The Independent 05 Apr 2016
For a rock’n’roll hotel, The Verb is surprisingly quiet. I arrive in the evening expecting to be greeted by a bustling saloon and booming tunes ... There’s little evidence of the Sox once inside the hotel though ... There are jukeboxes, electric guitars and Fender amps dotted about throughout ... ....

Museum Awarded $39,983 Exhibit Planning Grant by NEH (Arkansas State University)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Apr 2016
(Source. Arkansas State University). 04/05/2016. JONESBORO - Arkansas State University Museum announced today it has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the amount of $39,983 (planning grant category) ... Marti L ... (Left to right). Kern Kennedy, piano; Sonny Burgess, electric guitar and lead vocalist; Russ Smith, drums; Jack Nance, trumpet; Joe Lewis, acoustic guitar; and Johnny Ray Hubbard, double bass....

Margaret Glaspy Announces Debut Album 'Emotions And Math' Out 6/17 Via ATO Records (Shore Fire Media Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Apr 2016
Recorded at Sear Sound in New York City and mixed by Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, Lucius, Weezer), 'Emotions And Math' sees Glaspy tackling topics of insecurity, love lost and found, and life on the road with clarity, honesty and a cutting sense of humor, all backed by gritty, fiercely performed electric guitar....

James May assembles 440,000 viewers for BBC4 show

Edit The Guardian 05 Apr 2016
Former Top Gear presenter’s fears that no one would watch him restoring a mower are confounded, but show is outgunned by ITV’s Marcella with 6m. @johnplunkett149 ... Even May himself expressed fears that no one would watch the show, the first of a three-part series on BBC4 called James May. The Reassembler ... Related. James May ... The next two episodes see May reassembles a phone and an electric guitar ... Related ... No flipping ... ....

The Valhalla Art, Music & Theatre Festival Announces Its Most Entertaining, Eclectic Season Yet! (Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Apr 2016
Over-the-top talent on banjo, guitar and piano ... With guitar, fiddle, pedal steel, bass and three-part harmony, they started as friends and now are a full blown ... Each outrageous tale he spins is met by the whine and wail of the steel guitar, the furious double-neck electric guitar and mandolin, and the relentless thump of the upright bass and drums....

Pickford Ensemble Performs Up Against the Screen II: New Music with Film (Pepperdine University)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Apr 2016
(Source. Pepperdine University) ... Under the direction of Pepperdine professor of music N. Lincoln Hanks, The Pickford Ensemble's three student composers were each assigned a large segment of A Little Princess, and have composed a score especially for the unique instrumentation of the group, which features the combined sounds of flute, clarinet, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion, piano, and strings ... (noodl....

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to Open 2016 Inductee Exhibit April 6 (The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Apr 2016
Before this, he would wear five different guitars at once during solos ... While Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple was known for being more of a Stratocaster guy, in the exhibit visitors can see the 1961 Gibson ES-335 TDC he played on the first five Deep Purple albums, including 1967's 'Hush.' This featured guitar was one of Blackmore's first electric guitars....

The long goodbye: James May pottering about in a shed is perfect slow TV

Edit The Guardian 04 Apr 2016
Forget Top Gear … on his BBC swansong The Reassembler, May is given complex objects that’ve been taken apart, and all he has to do it put them back together. It’s charming, transfixing – probably the best show he’s ever done ... Related. James May ... When reassembling an electric guitar, specifically a cheap Japanese knock-off of the classic Fender, he riffs about Pythagorean tuning and opens up about his intense phobia of wires ... James May ... ....

Stevens 3D-Printed Robot to Star at Liberty Science Center (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Apr 2016
Stevens previously collaborated with the Science Center in spring 2015, when four student Senior Design team projects - a mobile robot, model-scale self-coupling and detachable trains running on a track, an Ironman-like body armor suit and an open-source electric guitar - were exhibited for four days....

Monday’s best TV: The Vikings Uncovered; Marcella; James May: The Reassember

Edit The Guardian 04 Apr 2016
There’s compelling evidence for a Viking presence in North America, a new suspense drama from the creator of The Bridge and James May tinkering away with a lawnmower to compelling effect. Plus the best movies and sports action. The Vikings Uncovered. 8.30pm, BBC1 ... 9pm, ITV ... Later this week he’ll try to piece together an electric guitar and a rotary telephone, but first up is a classic Suffolk Colt petrol lawnmower in more than 300 bits ... ....

This week dance rules out on the bleeding edge

Edit The Examiner 04 Apr 2016
There is a long history of “experimental” music developing in the context of a broader theatrical setting ... This week, however, ODC Theater will host a four-performance run of a new evening-length dance play that will bring five dancers together with the live performance of a band of four musicians ... on Friday, April 8 ... Cairns made the transition from analog delay on his electric guitar to more elaborate circuits on a modular synthesizer....

MORE THAN 30 GRAMMY® WINNING AND NOMINATED ARTISTS TO PERFORM AT INAUGURAL GRAMMY PARK™ IN BROOKLYN, N.Y., MAY 5 ̶ 8, 2016 (Grammy Awards - The Recording Academy)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Apr 2016
(Source. Grammy Awards - The Recording Academy). Ten Concerts Featuring Artists Awarded With 40-Plus GRAMMY Awards Set For Brooklyn's Picturesque Prospect Park Bandshell And The Historic Kings Theatre. SANTA MONICA, Calif ... Additional special events and programs will be held at LeFrak Center at Lakeside, Prospect Park ... Each concert requires a ticket ... Thursday, May 5. 8 p.m ... John Patitucci Electric Guitar Quartet (Patitucci, GRAMMY winner) ... ##....
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