Interview: Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong From Clickmusic Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong popped up in 2007 with their debut single 'Lucio Starts Fires', and bagged themselves a couple of support slots with Babyshambles and Kaiser Chiefs towards the end of 2007. You played a Little Noise acoustic session last year - how did that go? You toured with Babyshambles, playing arena dates - how did it feel? We really enjoyed the opportunity to play the harder side of our sound in the fine acoustic surroundings of an arena.

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Duo to play Edgefield before embarking for the Emerald Isle From Gresham Outlook Stephen Sammy Lind, left, and Caleb Klauder began playing music together in 2000 in Portland. Klauder, a veteran of such area bands as Pig Iron and Calobo, plays guitar, mandolin and fiddle, and Lind plays fiddle, guitar and banjo. In addition to playing with the Portland based Foghorn, the duo has played numerous Tuesday nights at McMenamins Edgefield and will play there again on Jan. 29 before embarking on a trip to Ireland, Denmark and Finland. There's a tight-knit but growing community...

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Synthesizers vs Acoustic Guitars-A False Paradigm From www.echoes.org/blog Is Echoes a haven of acoustic guitar or an outpost of electronic music? I ask that question because at a Loreena McKennitt show in Harrisburg, PA that Echoes hosted with WITF, a listener walked up to our table and stated simply, "Less electronic music. February CD of the Month, Echoes has always spun a balance between acoustic and electronic music.

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Funny Top 10 List For A Successful Power Metal Band From www.guitarflame.com In a power metal world, everything steel is good, and anything good must be compared to steel. Your album cover should include at least one of the following: fire, steel, weird glowing magical items, irregularly muscular men, fists thrust into the air, weaponry, magic creatures (preferably dragons), or bright beams of light around somebody/something.

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Acoustic guitar subtleties re-created by DSP From www.eetimes.com Now Fishman Transducers Inc. says it has repurposed the Analog Devices Inc. Blackfin DSP to perform "digital acoustic imaging" instead of modeling, making acoustic guitars with an inexpensive piezoelectric pickup sound as if they were in a pristine studio in front of an expensive condenser microphone. Fishman's digital acoustic imaging algorithm works by comparing the sound of a guitar under perfect conditions-in an ultraquiet studio with a variety of expensive condenser microphones placed...

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