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Prizes For All In Guitar Center's Your Next Record With Travis Barker Competition

posted: April 7, 2011

It’s no secret that association with mainstream acts can lead to big things for any artists’ career. Dr. Dre introduced the world to Eminem, then Eminem introduced 50 Cent. Jay-Z and Lil Wayne collaborated with Drake…
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Artists And Fans Win Big In Travis Barker Competition

posted: March 24, 2011

If you take a look back at the past fifty years, each musical decade boasts at least one drummer that all music fans” from the teenyboppers to the indie kids”can name right off the bat.…
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Announcing Guitar Center's Your Next Record With Travis Barker Competition

posted: March 1, 2011

We are proud to announce that Guitar Center’s Your Next Record Competition is back!  Last month Brandon Green scored big in the “Your Next Record with Keith Urban” Competition. The music mega-store has again teamed…
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Soundcheck: Hot Ticket Tours – This Year’s ‘Can’t Miss’ Show Line-Up

posted: March 1, 2011

Now that the snow is finally melting and Spring is right around the corner so is the Spring/Summer concert season. Every year, I anticipate festival line-ups and envision my ideal headlining mash-ups, and every year,…
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Soundcheck: Can A Drummer Get Some?

posted: February 8, 2011

Is it possible that the most ground-breaking hip hop album of 2011 will come from a punk? Punk rocker that is, as in Blink 182, +44, bad ass super drummer, Travis Barker. While he’s floated…
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Putting Back the Boom-Bap in Rap: Q&A with Nottz

posted: November 9, 2010

Nottz wants to restore the boom-bap in rap.  He misses the kind of hard-hitting bass patterns that formed the undercarriage of so many of hip hop’s no-frills golden moments before Diddy added glamor to the street…
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