Rainy Day is pure pop-nothing more and nothing less-and that isn’t bad at all, when the practitioner is Young Hines. Hines seems to be basted in the moorings of 60’s era roots rock and pop. His voice is a pleasing, albeit slightly strained tenor. His first full-length release, Give Me My Change, was released in April and he has been getting some play here and there ever since. It’s deserved! Check out Young Hines by visiting his sketchy web site, but don’t stay there…
Read MoreThe Loudness Wars Continue One of the most frustrating things about music today is the extreme failure of the supposed “engineer” in charge of recording tracks, which insist on pushing each instrument to the saturation point. This tactic, argued and discussed all over the internet (Google “loudness wars”) and well demonstrated in this video, removes the dynamics of music and sets everything loud. It’s a failure of massive proportions. One of the things that almost always turns me off of a video track or group is the obvious use of this musical saturation in the mix. You can take a group with…
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