Archive for May 2023

Royal Blood has announced they’ll return to North America for a fall tour. The English rock duo of drummer Ben Thatcher and bassist/vocalist Mike Kerr will split the run into two legs.

Charles Berthoud takes things to a different level in this new video. Watch him take a double-neck basstar and put together something excellent.

You may recognize Dave Koltai as the sound designer for Supro and Pigtronix, but he’s also a fantastic musician. Koltai just released his solo debut album, “Daughter of Mercury,” and enlisted Living Colour’s rhythm section of Will Calhoun and Doug Wimbish.

Death By Audio has unveiled a new pedal called the Disturbance that combines an “extreme filter, flanger, and fazer” into one unit.

The always versatile Tim Lefebvre recorded with Scott Fisher at Sonic Ranch recently, and they’ve just released an official video for one of the tracks.

Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury revealed he has a new autobiography coming this fall. “Life?… & Napalm Death” covers his life and his 36 years in the iconic grindcore band, which influenced the shape of extreme metal.

This week we’re checking out a cool Lolly bass built by Gaetano Costanzo. We’ve featured one of his works before with some amazing woodworking, and this one is no different.

When Jermaine Morgan has something to say about bass, I like to listen. From his #groovesandmotivation series, here’s a new video on the problem of making things complicated (and how to avoid it).

Meet Chris Semal, a long-time bassist (and more). One of Chris’s superpower moments was jamming with Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones.

Lusithand Devices has unveiled a crushing new distortion pedal for bass called the Ground & Pound. The circuit’s creation was dreamed up in an attempt to recreate Tool bassist Justin Chancellor’s sound.

Happy birthday to our good friend, Leland Sklar! We’re celebrating today with this funky tune by Starblaster. Here’s “3am Funk Dance Party.”

The Funky Knuckles have returned with their fifth album, entitled “The Way It Is.” The band has always had a diverse sound, but this time they’ve really gone off the deep end.