Just how much distortion -- and the favored type of distortion, analog or digital -- varies from listener to listener, and that's where the story gets complicated. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve ...

Social Distortion occupies a unique space in the annals of rock history. Despite more than 40 years in the game, there are bands with more historical catalogs; hell, one of those bands (the Rolling ...

The acorn must crack in order for the seedling to sprout. That's the energy I felt when I saw Rashad Becker, a German mastering engineer and artist, perform his own music live at London's multi-venue ...

Sound Particles has announced the release of inShaper, a new waveshaper plugin aimed at music producers and post-production professionals looking for creative distortion with minimal complexity.

Five years on, in the same newspaper, a May 2012 live review of America’s Beach House said much the same thing: “The early 1990s shoegaze scene is not widely regarded as British music's finest moment.

Social Distortion is so ingrained in our local music culture, and us on its lead singer-songwriter Mike Ness, that Ness penned the song "Bakersfield" on the band's 2011 album "Hard Times and Nursery ...