Turns Out This Lady Probably Invented Rock ‘n Roll Did you know that Sister Rosetta Tharpe would have celebrated her 100th birthday last Friday? For the uneducated, Rosetta Tharpe is the Grandmother of Rock ‘n Roll,...
Sticky Fingers Gig Surprised By Police Drug Search Backstage While Tone Deaf has extensively covered the ubiquitous presence of police drug searches at music festivals around the country, it’s relatively rare that you see...
Johnny Marr: 30 Years Of Meat Is Murder & Going Solo Johnny Marr is a musical treasure, an iconic guitarist who’s legacy can only be matched by a handful of recording artists. Now 51-years old, the Manchester...
Backstage With The Aussies At SXSW 2015 In case you somehow missed it, SXSW, one of the world’s biggest music, film, art, and culture conferences descended on Austin last week, and its...
How To Make Your Song Chart Without A Record Label Lately in the news we’ve read about the interesting, admirable and just straight up hilarious ways local Aussie acts have been racking up numbers on the...
Genre Can Predict When & How A Musician Will Die A study published last year did cemented that musos have a shorter life expectancy than the general public and continuing on this dark yet interesting train of thought,...
Genius Animates Recordings Of His Parents Complaining About His Music For anyone that’s ever had their parents complain that they spend way too much time listening to music, going to record stores and concerts, and...
The 8 Records That Changed Rebelution’s Lives Beginning as reggae enthusiasts in the college town of Santa Barbara, Rebelution quickly grew to become a modern music success story, playing over 100 shows...
