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Band of Skulls is running a contest to give away a Fender Jazz Bass hand painted by bassist and singer Emma Richardson. The bass is a white Fender Jazz, featuring Richardson’s unique painting style and is the only one of its kind. You can enter the contest on Band of Skull’s web site. Band of Skulls is currently on tour...

Learn The Low End is a new project, associated with No Treble, to host online bass lessons. Learn The Low End’s goal is to bring music professionals and students together in a high quality educational environment. Students have the ability to choose affordable lessons from musicians and interact through email, message boards and video tutorials. For musicians looking for addition...

Mojo’s Music Academy in Colorado, host of the annual Mile High Bass Camp and Rocky Mountain Bass Slam, is running a series of clinics and lessons this November in Longmont and Boulder, Colorado. Doug Johns and Chris Ceja Private Lessons Bassist Doug Johns and Drummer Chris Ceja will be offering private lessons. Date/Time: Thursday, November 12th, 2009, from 5pm –...

Phish bassist Mike Gordon will begin a 10-show solo tour, the “Get Bassed Tour,” along the east coast this week to promote his latest solo CD, The Green Sparrow. After the solo tour, he’ll be preparing for the Phish festival in late October at the Coachella site in California. In a recent Boston Herald interview, Gordon was asked about his...

Bassist Chris Kringel has a new bass method book out, The Bassist’s Guide to Creativity: Expand Your Groove Potential. The book/CD combo is designed to help you “opening your mind, identifying your strengths and weaknesses, and examining the many mental and physical aspects of being a bassist.” The CD contains over 80 tracks, with each music example presented in the...

Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, the creators of The Gorillaz, have asked The Horrors to collaborate on a track for their upcoming album. Horrors’ bassist Rhys Webb said: “Damon got a copy of our album Primary Colours really early, contacted us out completely out of the blue and told us how much he liked it… It was kind of...

Gorgo Bordello bassist Tommy T is planning to release his solo album, The Prester John Sessions, on Easy Star Records to iTunes on October 13th 2009 and to stores November 10th. Tommy T, born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, wrote and produced album. The album consists of 11-tracks features other Gogol Bordello members as guest musicians. “In the ‘70s,...

Michael Manring has updated his tour schedule, including dates through October 2009. Michael shares, “I’ll be staying close to home for the next few weeks to work on some new compositions, but I’ve got lots of trips in the works for the rest of the year and 2010.” Friday, September 18 Solo performance/Special Private Concert and Gourmet Vegetarian Dinner in...

Former Sorta bassist Danny Balis has released his new solo album, Too Much Living. Balis has taken a different approach from his time with Sorta, this album is an old school country record. The album written and recorded following the tragic death of his best friend Carter Albrecht in 2007. Balis has taken a darker path with this work. He...

NYC-based jazz bassist Linda Oh has announced that her debut CD, Entry, will be released on October 6, 2009. In addition to Oh, the CD features Ambrose Akinmusire on trumpet and Obed Calvaire on drums. “So many musicians want to do everything with their first album,” Oh says. “Especially bass players who play upright and electric—Here’s me doing a funk...

Bassists in Fredericksburg, Virginia have a new resource to help them expand their playing; the Bass Forum. This monthly event is designed to help bassists build community and to improve their craft. The Forum is a combination of clinics, performances, and open mic events. The Forum started in May 2009, and it has met three times over the summer. The...

Photographer Steven Parke released a behind-the-scenes book, SMV : making THUNDER last year, and we missed it (doh!) The book includes 40 never-before-seen photos of Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten in studio, recording their Thunder album. The book is available in both soft and hard cover formats, via Blurb. Preview the book here.