Category: Discovery

  • 12 Essential Guitar Pedals for Your 2016 Holiday Wish List

    12 Essential Guitar Pedals for Your 2016 Holiday Wish List

    Happy holidays, dear Flypaper readers and Soundfly students! If you’re anything like me, that is, a chronically dissatisfied gear nerd, this is the time of year when many manufacturers and distributers offer great deals on their products, upon which we must pounce like the bargain-savvy consumers that we are.  Heck, it’s our right as Americans! This year,…

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  • Music Publishing News: Amazon and Google Under Fire for Not Paying Songwriters

    Music Publishing News: Amazon and Google Under Fire for Not Paying Songwriters

    By Songtrust Every month, our friends at Songtrust compile a monthly round up of the most noteworthy developments in music publishing. Catch up on all the industry news in our Music Publishing News archive! APRA AMCOS reports record revenues. Australian collecting society APRA AMCOS reported revenue of ⅓ of a billion Australian dollars for its financial year 2015-2016.…

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  • The Ultimate List of the Top 25 Times Metal Bands Covered Pop Songs

    The Ultimate List of the Top 25 Times Metal Bands Covered Pop Songs

    + Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. Everybody loves a great melody. Some of us just can’t get enough of that sweet, addictive chorus hook found in the most timeless songs of the popular…

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  • The COMPASS: Philadelphia, PA

    The COMPASS: Philadelphia, PA

    I’m a lifetime Philadelphian and proud of it. It’s an interesting place to grow up and be a musician. Philly is a big East Coast city that can feel like a small town of connected, but decidedly distinct neighborhoods and music scenes. The city is full of some of the oldest stuff in the country and…

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  • Song Kitchen: “Peg” by Steely Dan

    Song Kitchen: “Peg” by Steely Dan

    Welcome to the latest edition of Song Kitchen! Well aren’t you in for a treat, because today we’re gonna be heading down to the City of Angels, the Big Orange, Tinseltown, that’s right — Los Angeles! This city is Americana through and through, home to some of the greatest music ever recorded. We’re here visiting the resident…

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  • Sounds of Battle: Compositions That Defined the Wars of the Early 20th Century

    Sounds of Battle: Compositions That Defined the Wars of the Early 20th Century

    In 1942, half-starved and weak from war and lack of supplies, members of Leningrad’s Philharmonic Orchestra gathered in the midst of the looming threat of bombardment to pull off one of the most extraordinary musical feats of all time. The city had already endured almost a year of brutal siege by the German Army —…

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  • Loud Silence & Quiet Sound: The Illuminating Music of Toru Takemitsu

    Loud Silence & Quiet Sound: The Illuminating Music of Toru Takemitsu

    Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) was arguably the most well-known and influential Japanese composer of the 20th century. In addition to composing prolifically for the orchestra, Takemitsu wrote many chamber works, solo guitar music, electro-acoustic pieces (incorporating the use of magnetic tape loops and found sounds), a number of pieces that feature soloists playing traditional Japanese instruments…

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  • MoMA PS1’s Best Warm Up Season Yet Put Focus on Challenging and Diverse Bills

    MoMA PS1’s Best Warm Up Season Yet Put Focus on Challenging and Diverse Bills

    Photos by Nicholas Nazmi and Max Alper Damn, summer in the city is officially over. This could mean quite a few things for New Yorkers: no more drinking the day away on your buddy’s roof, no more getting out of your cool office job early on Fridays, no more indestructible flying roaches or humidity so thick you…

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  • Why “Sympathy for the Devil” Should Never Have Been a Hit

    The Rolling Stones’ classic hit “Sympathy for the Devil” is one of my all-time favorite songs — it’s unique in almost every way. The material it mines is fairly unexplored in popular music, particularly with the lyrics from the perspective of the Devil (which led to the perception of Mick Jagger and his gang as Devil worshippers…

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  • The COMPASS: San Diego, CA

    The COMPASS: San Diego, CA

    By Little Hurricane We are Little Hurricane, we’re a rock and roll band and we love San Diego, California. We are a duo, currently finishing our third full-length album. We met a few years ago on Craigslist and have traveled all over the world since. Over the years we’ve gotten to see some amazing places…

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