This is BoomBox. As blatant as the URL for their official website, BoomBox sits atop a mountain of inherent, nearly subconscious laws that govern the art of living without limits. It’s a seemingly ironic paradox based on the innate concept of music — nothing about this band is created with a blueprint, no sound is dependent on a trend. BoomBox is what it is.

When I got the pleasure of speaking with the eccentric electronic duo from Muscle Shoals Alabama, Zion [...]

Music is the motivator for Andrea Moreno-Beals. As a long time cellist and vocalist who chose a life on the road with her band Breathe Owl Breathe over a college scholarship to study classical music, Beals loves learning from experience rather than a textbook. Even if she has to answer my phone call in the middle of a grocery store somewhere between Houston and Austin, Texas.

“Although the life style of being a full-time touring musician can be very tiring, unpredictable [...]

Photo of Mark Ronson by Brian Nevins

We live in an age where we literally see technology change and advance on a daily basis. And in terms of music and musicianship, that means we constantly see the standard being pushed to a higher level with new equipment, faster production, more content, and inconceivable fusions in sound. Realistically, those in the industry will never stop trying to create something that is new and innovative and now [...]

There’s a music and camping festival harbored in the Ozark mountains of northern Arkansas called Wakarusa where jam bands, electronic DJs, reggae brothers and stand up bass-pickers alike congregate every summer in the spirit of great music. And every year the esteemed festival, which in 2012 features Primus, Weir, Robinson & Greene and Pretty Lights among others, offers local bands around the South and Midwest a chance to be involved.

The Wakarusa Winter Classic is traveling “battles of the bands,” spanning [...]