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The Story of the Kalamazoo Gals

It all started with the above photograph from 1944. Author John Thomas, a law professor and musician, in the preface to his new book Kalamazoo Gals: A Story of Extraordinary Women & Gibson’s “Banner” Guitars of WWII, writes : “I can no longer recall just how I stumbled upon this photograph. But I do know that [...]

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Scenes from Tilted Axes 2012

Coverage of 2012 Tilted Axes with images, video, and sounds.

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Yomo Toro and the Latin Grammy Awards Tribute

A few months ago, the event producer of the XIII Latin Grammy Awards got in touch with me about a slideshow I’d posted on Guitarkadia back in September of 2008 of the late Cuatro legend Yomo Toro. Mr. Toro was notified earlier this year that he’d receive a Trustees Award from the Latin Recording Academy [...]

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No Strings Attached Over There

“No Strings Attached”, a short video I produced about a Brooklyn musician and artist who makes instruments out of found objects, went up on Narratively, a new online publication, this past Thursday. I go into the back story in my newsletter so if you like to read it, please sign up here. The back story, [...]

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Taking A Break. Will Be Back in October.

Every once in a while the body and mind needs to pause and regroup. I need that for mine this month. I have quite a few things to sort out before I can regularly post new content on this blog and I want to avoid having long breaks between posts. Therefore, I’m taking September off [...]

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Guitarkadia on The Atlantic

Proud to announce that the Guitarkadia Portrait of Mark Nilsen just went up on The Atlantic. You can also read an interview with me on the site. (More after photo) If you’re new to Guitarkadia via The Atlantic, please scroll below and watch previews of upcoming videos. My video and interview archive is here. My [...]

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Bio: David “Fuze” Fiuczynski

The following bio is provided by David Fiuczynski. You can watch the Guitarkadia Session with David here. David “FuZe” Fiuczynski – Guitar Born in the US, FuZe grew up in Germany where he was always interested in mixing and “fuzing” different music elements. Studying at New England Conservatory in the 3rd Stream Dept only furthered [...]

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Guest Post at New York Guitar Festival

David Spelman, co-founder of New York Guitar Festival, invited me to do a guest post at the NYGF blog. It’s up and you can see 3 video previews of upcoming docs I’ve shot during the festival in January.

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Patrick Grant : Tilted Axes – Preview

Preview of the upcoming short documentary “Patrick Grant:Tilted Axes” Subscribe to Guitarkadia and keep posted on all upcoming docs and stories.

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Happy New Year!!

2011 was the “year of reboot” for me. I’ll tell you that story later. But this is shaping out to be a great year already with a ton of cool projects in the works. I’m blessed to have made connections with some great people in the past couple of months and can’t wait to bring [...]

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Last Days Here

“LAST DAYS HERE tells the story of Bobby Liebling, lead singer of the cult hard rock/heavy metal band Pentagram. Frozen for decades in his parents’ basement, Bobby’s music is finally discovered by the heavy metal underground. With the help of Sean “Pellet” Pelletier, his friend and manager, Bobby attempts to overcome years of addiction, loneliness, [...]

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I Err Therefore I Am

This past year alone I’ve heard news of several of my favorite local bands break up. Break up of any kind hurts. It makes you feel wrong, and/or wronged. When it happens it’s hard to make yourself understand that “it” simply wasn’t meant to be. And it’s hard to not sigh, bitch and moan about [...]

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Don’t Worry, I’m Yours

What would a mashup of Bobby McFerrin, Jason Mraz, and Israel Kamakawiwo’ole sound like? Like what you hear below. One of DJ Dain’s (Andrew Bowers) epic 87 track albumThe Mashups. Don’t Worry, I’m Yours [Remastered] (Jason Mraz vs. Bobby McFerrin vs. Israel Kamakawiwo’ole) by DJ Dain

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