Dead Guitar Strings and Coated Sets
What actually wears out a guitar string, a seven-year-old set on a Gibson ES-175, a recording guitarist’s heresy, and the arithmetic of coated versus uncoated.
What Was Right There: CBGB, the Bowery, and the Three Stores I Never Looked At
Growing up in Brooklyn, I spent my Sundays at CBGB’s hardcore matinee chasing music. I never noticed the leather shop or the kitchen equipment store right beside it.
The North Shore’s Lost Jazz Age: When Duke Ellington Played Gold Coast Mansions and Nobody Wrote It Down
Before the Hamptons, the North Shore’s Gold Coast estates hired Black jazz musicians to play for white money — and left almost no record behind. Here’s what we know.
The Strat vs. The Les Paul Guitar
Fender built a tool. Gibson built a weapon. The Strat vs. Les Paul debate isn’t about specs — it’s about how you believe sound should be made and what kind of player you want to be.
Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedys: Political Philosophy in Three-Minute Bursts
Punk didn’t ask your permission. That was the whole point. It arrived like a fist…
The Vaudeville Summer Colony of St. James: How Stage and Screen Legends Transformed a Quiet North Shore Village Into a High-Society Retreat
Before the Hamptons became a cultural shorthand for Long Island wealth and celebrity, before the…
