Above: an image of the very beautiful Yamaha E45 - an ultimate home organ from the analogue era. In 1980, what would it have cost to equ...

Recording and mixing a musical composition is often underestimated as a task, with the emphasis placed on the musicians rather than the re...

In the finest of music biz stories, there comes a point at which the hand of commerce takes over, the essence of the initial excitement go...

Any UK dwellers old enough to remember a mid 1980s alt comedy show called Who Dares Wins , may recall a clever and well played sketch in w...

Ah, that enduring slogan… How much can you remember? Was the BPI’s infamous anti-piracy campaign a ’70s thing? An ’80s thing? Was the slo...

Is there really something special about them? Does it actually matter, when you have two pickups directly sensing the vibration of metal ...

Last week, I took a look at the moderately retro Adobe PhotoDeluxe image editor of the late 1990s. But now it’s time to draw a deep breat...

If you’re one of the forward-thinking souls who started working with digital images as a consumer in the 1990s, chances are you’ll remembe...

Zero Guy. He’s the one who pops up in your Unfollowers tab on Crowdfire. He followed you, then you followed him back, and then he unfollow...

Whilst, through history, there’s been a tendency for some musicians to look down on reggae, the style remains one of the most difficult fo...

The adverts have gone, the homepage is aspiring to impersonate Twitter, and mobile users can’t find the landing pages. What on earth is g...

Okay, so you’ve probably seen the title, suspected it was empty clickbait, and taken a look just to marvel at the audacity of the post. Bu...

Watch an old live rock performance from the 1970s, and in the backline you’ll see amps. Just amps; no effects. Right up until the end of t...

Back in early 2013, I wrote a post about Flickr’s attitude to its own ‘licence’ categorisations . Flickr had confirmed to me that the offi...

Those cupboards you never look in… They’re full of stuff like this… Well, they are if you’re a beyond-help hoarder whose floorboards are s...

Whether or not punk rock’s guitar style had a definite beginning is open to lively debate. And for good reason. The punk genre might have ...

Before the market for music tuition was revolutionised by free options online, it was possible for many local and decidedly average musici...

The Fender Stratocaster’s vibrato system is remarkable. Not just because it’s graced, and even defined, some of the most important recordi...

Introduced in the early years of ‘modern music’, Fender’s Jazzmaster (b. 1958) and Jaguar (b. 1962) guitars have a similar look. They sh...

Churn. It's the practice of calculatedly following and then unfollowing on Twitter - purely to build an audience. Churn is something in ...