Call me crazy, but I still love vinyl records.   I could come up with a million reasons for this, some reasonable and some completely fabricated (personally, I like the crackles and pops!), but any time I find another reason to love vinyl records, it makes me happy.
Here is a creative use for record jackets – these are photos of people mashing up their bodies with the faces on various record jackets.  Some of them are really good, and it really makes me want to dust off my old records to …

Concerts seem to be getting more and more expensive every year, especially for all these big name acts. CD sales are down, so more money must be made from live shows and merchandising. Personally, if I’m going to go and listen to music, I’d rather go see a smokin’ hot local band play for 10 bucks, but sometimes these big name acts are often worth it just for the stage show.
Here are the top 10 most expensive concert tickets of 2008, according to average resale ticket prices …

In the recent past, bands who were anyone (and even those who are not anyone) needed to have a myspace page, a facebook group and a last.fm page.  Well, lately there has been a new kid is on the block, and it’s now obvious that if you’re a band and you want to be cool, you need to be on Twitter.
Twitter is now all the rage or social networking (you can follow NoiseAddicts on twitter here) and a ton of bands are starting to market themselves, provide updates and talk …

The ondes Martenot (which is French for “Martenot waves”, also known as the ondium Martenot, Martenot and ondes musicales) is one of the first electronic musical instruments ever created. It was invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot and it’s sound was very similar to a theremin – except with much more control over the timbre of the sound.
I’d stop short of calling it a real synthesizer, but it did have switches to control the sound. It even came with 4 very different speakers that could be switched on …

In keeping with our New Years promise, we are going to be featuring interesting new (and old) bands and other musical artists that we discover.  The idea is to cover many different genres and to expose you to music that you may not have heard (or even have thought of hearing!). Every band might not be in a genre that you would normally listen to, but I encourage you to check each one out as I can promise you that every one will deserve a good listen. …