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From my New Atlas newsletter. I suspect most of us are not the target demographic. https://newatlas.com/music/lava-music-me-4-carbon-spruce-play/

This was in my New Atlas email newsletter today: https://newatlas.com/automotive/ev-acceleration-record-eth/

Don't like your guitar teacher? Courtesy of today's New Atlas newsfeed, here is the mu6label (huh?) for you do-it-yourselfers: https://newatlas.com/music/mu6label-smart-guitar-learning/

This surfaced in my New Atlas email this morning: https://newatlas.com/music/seymour-duncan-hyperswitch/ It looks like a programmable pickup selector switch that gives you a whole bunch of options.

Ever wonder what an iPad grafted onto an electric guitar would be like? Wonder no more: https://www.guitarworld.com/news/devil-and-sons-icaster

We watch CBS's Sunday Morning every week (after I fulfill my obligations as the "Coffee B*tch"). This morning we're watching the segment on the Italian capital of accordion manufacturing, Castelfidardo. The story mentioned the ascendancy of rock and folk music and acoustic guitars one of the...

Miss the music of the '90's? WXPN is at it again with their "90's A-Z" programming. All music of '90's 24x7 until they run out of songs some time next week. More info here: https://xpn.org/program/90s-a-z/

Janis Ian recently announced she was retiring from writing, and is now out on her final North American tour. We saw her last night at The Scottish Rite Auditorium in Collingswood, NJ, and she was phenomenal: I don't know that I've ever been in a audience so enraptured, enthralled, silent, and...

Today's New Atlas email includes the Caseic guitar case with built-in amp: https://newatlas.com/music/caseic-guitar-case-combo-amp

In what is starting feel like a regular occurrence, here is yet one more travel guitar, courtesy of today's New Atlas email: https://newatlas.com/music/enya-nexg-smart-guitar

In today's New Atlas email is info about the new Positive Grid Spark Mini battery-powered amp: https://newatlas.com/music/positive-grid-spark-mini

Today's New Atlas email includes the Mogabi Smart Guitar, now subject of a Kickstarter campaign: https://newatlas.com/music/mogabi-folding-smart-travel-guitar

We went to WXPN's World Café Live last night to see Michaela Anne - young singer songwriter now based in Nashville with a beautiful voice (BFA in Jazz Vocal Performance from the New School). She's on tour opening for Joe Pug. My current favorite cut from her Desert Rose Dove CD is: We stuck...

From today's New Atlas feed, Steve Vai's new Ibanez: https://newatlas.com/music/ibanez-hydra-guitar-steve-vai/

In today's New Atlas email is the Lava Me 3 "smart guitar". https://newatlas.com/music/lava-me-3-carbon-smart-guitar/ Interestingly, it is not actually played in the embedded video.

Now playing/streaming on WXPN are the "2021 All-Time Greatest Albums". Just happened to tune my office receiver to XPN (we're about 1/4 mile from their studio), and they're playing Les McCann's "Compared to What". One of my favorite tunes, so its off to a good start. Which was immediately...

I've been updating my Joni Mitchell library with items from the Joni Mitchell Archives as they're released. Today's email from the JMA features a duet version of "You Can Close Your Eyes" with Joni and James Taylor recorded in October, 1970 and broadcast in December 1970 on BBC. The backstory...

I heard Andrea von Kampen on last week's All Songs Considered from NPR, and was taken with her voice. Bought the CD, and I am entranced with her voice and music. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC13AVxPft4O7k9MQwprDW3Q

Today's New Atlas newsfeed included Loz Blain's review of Lava Music's Me 2 carbon fiber guitar. Interesting looking instrument. https://newatlas.com/music/lava-me-2-freeboost-review-carbon-guitar

Yet another guitar-related item from New Atlas - the Fender Mustang Micro headphone practice amp: https://newatlas.com/music/fender-mustang-micro-review/ The author, Loz Blain, is one of my favorite New Atlas columnists.