When most people were still collecting comic books and dreading middle school, Ilan Rubin was playing the Warped Tour and Woodstock with San Diego pop-punk band F.o.N.
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Attention tone hounds: here are a few releases for this month. Please check out these albums in your desired format and support the artists that use our pedals!
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Attention tone hounds: here are a few releases for this month. Please check out these albums in your desired format and support the artists that use our pedals! (Yes, the Dispatch Master is one of the most widely used pedals across all genres!)
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Ex Hex is quietly saving rock n roll. They’re not too in-your-face about it, but go to a show, and you’ll walk away in a daze, wondering how the hell you’ve gone this long without having seen these guitar god torch bearers.
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Ohio native rocker Doug Gillard visited the EQD studios for our latest episode of Board to Death! Doug has played in many bands including Guided by Voices, Nada Surf, and Cobra Verde.
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For someone who didn’t grow up with grunge or ‘90s alternative rock, Alicia and her bandmates in Bully have managed to make one of the most exciting, ‘90s grunge/alternative rock records I’ve heard since – well, the ‘90s. Maybe even before that…
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Whitney Petty, guitarist extraordinaire of Seattle’s Thunderpussy, is the first musician we’ve interviewed whose livelihood has been threatened by the Supreme Court, who counts Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready as a super fan, whose first stint playing was with Deerhunter – not too shabby for a first band – and who not only absolutely shreds on guitar but also kills it on bass and drums...
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When he's not building pedals, EQD's Lamont Thomas is Obnox aka Nox. Watch him rip thru the garage-punk barnburner "Enter the Hater" and be sure to scoop up the seven (!) records he's slated to release this year. His latest LP, "Niggative Approach" is out now on 12XU!
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Kurt Ballou's GodCity Studio is the central hub for crushing, oppressively awesome sounding heavy metal records by the likes of High On Fire, Helms Alee, Skeletonwitch, the Dillinger Escape Plan, and Torche. As if that weren't impressive enough, Ballou is also the guitarist in hardcore trailblazers Converge. And he has the greatest business card of all time...
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What's up, nerds? Welcome to Aaron's Bass Hole! This is a new monthly feature on EarthQuakerDevices.com where I'll answer the question, "So what does it sound like on bass?..."
Here at EQD, we don't really think of pedals as just "guitar pedals" or "bass pedals..."
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