According to the research report “Musical Instrument Market by Product and Geography – Forecast and Analysis 2021-2025“, the market will witness a YOY growth of 2.11% in 2021 at a CAGR of almost 2% during the forecast period. Furthermore, this report extensively covers market segmentation by product (string instruments, pianos and keyboards, drums and percussion instruments, and others) and geography (North America, Europe, APAC, South America, and MEA).
The musical instrument market is fragmented and the vendors are deploying growth strategies such as product portfolio expansions and product innovations to compete in the market. The market has international and domestic marketers spread across different regions.
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The star of a children’s television show grapples with the meaning of fame.
Steve Burns is best known for playing ‘Steve’ on Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues from 1996-2002. Since then, he has released a rock record for grown ups that received pretty good reviews, toured with The Flaming Lips, made an album of music for children, and appeared in strange plays, mostly in Brooklyn.
Sonic Reducers: One topic. Two music nerds. Five minutes. Everything you need to know.
Push play to watch us run down new albums from Cat Power, Elvis Costello, FKA Twigs, Underoath, Broken Social Scene, Wombats, Garcia Peoples, Blood Red Shoes and more.
Thriving in the music industry, especially during the past few years, are much the same virtues needed in our day-to-day lives: purpose, knowledge, drive, ingenuity, adaptability… Leave it up to accomplished Canadian progressive rock quartet The Garrett Band to both encapsulate and demonstrate all of these, and more, in their powerful and moving new single, “One More Day.”
The second single release from the band’s fourth studio recording, Sound Evolution, the exceptionally talented Vancouver-based artists don’t shy away from shining the spotlight on some pretty tough subject matter across the five-track EP.
For its part, “‘One More Day’ is about dealing with feelings of depression, self-doubt, isolation, and the realization that healing needs to happen so life can be lived in a meaningful way,” songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Sean Garrett explains.
Leading with plaintive piano and punching through with a wall of guitar, “One More Day” runs through a gamut of hard hitting emotions over it’s four minutes. Using his pro-trained, commanding and expressive vocal to big advantage, Garrett sings from the perspective of a keen observer who yearns to be with the tortured central character of the song.
Your eyes don’t lie
Please understand I’ll follow
Cause I’m waiting to hold you
I’m looking to hold you for one more day
Those essential virtues listed above came together as this quartet tried to come together to create their latest album. Plans to gather in Québec to record, as well as some tour dates overseas, were scuttled as the world careened into the COVID-19 pandemic — causing the group to pivot and take a more personal approach to the project.
“This EP has been particularly challenging due to the impact of COVID-19,” Garrett reflects. “With the band not having the ability to meet or record together, a lot of phone calls and emails took place to accommodate scheduling to finish the tracks.”
Talking about adaptability, when the band’s bassist, Gary Koenig, wasn’t available to record, Garrett temporarily took over bass duties; Koenig rejoined the band for the making of a video for Sound Evolution’s single, “The Warning,” in October.
All four members of The Garrett Band are seasoned, life-long music makers. Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sean Garrett and lead guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones have created music together for over 30 years on the west coast. Bassist Gary Koenig has performed with a who’s who of legendary Canadian artists such as Al Harlow of Prism and blues stars Big Dave McLean and Dutch Mason. Drummer Mike “Machine” Mallais has the distinction of being named Maritime World’s Fastest Drummer, along with endorsements from esteemed percussion companies such as Yamaha and Sabian, and appearances on most of the major Canadian television networks.
As we all wait on how the effects of the newest COVID variant will play out, The Garrett Band is staying hopeful and positively focused on the future and many more days doing what they love. “We are looking forward to getting back together as a band and doing live shows and touring.”
Vulnerable and raw, riveting and real, multi-talented Canadian folk singer/songwriter Faeya explores resilience and perseverance with the release of her new single, “Brave Obsession.”
As one-third of her most recent EP release, The Blue Period: Volume 1, the Toronto-based indie artist lays it all bare on “Brave Obsession”’s melody, donning a courageous face as she boldly goes where so few have the resolve to venture: the inner workings of one’s heart.
“I wrote this on my acoustic guitar, inspired by the feeling of hopeless dependency of a young infatuation,” Faeya explains. “This song flowered into its folk-inspired sound over several late- summer days at Dream House Studios in Toronto.”
From there, it was between her, recording engineer, Calvin Hartwick, and instrumentalist, Sean Royle, that “Brave Obsession” grew to the sounds and textures we hear on the final cut. “I had been listening to a lot of music by great folk artists like Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake while writing this song, which influenced its sound,” she adds.
The song unearths the longing and resilience to keep pursuing, even if faced with the possibility of hurt and rejection — a deeply mature and ultimately intimate portrait of conveying the heart’s desires. While many shirk the notion that we could allow our hearts to feel this deep, Faeya allows her emotions to feel every fiber, every fragment of want, which she conveys in her music. “The song is different from the others on the EP because of its guitar origin and conversational lyrics,” she muses. “I wanted to tell a story, but still leave it up for interpretation.”
The Canadian songbird is finding early success in her ethereal ballads, having culminated streams online in nearly 60 countries, and thousands of spins on Spotify alone. Her striking, piano-driven, cinematic style pushes the boundaries of songwriting for Faeya, giving her an instrumentation edge among the peers of which she shares her genre.
Combined with her profoundly poetic lyrics, it’s clear that this gifted songwriter was born to pen the music that most of us would be too bashful, too scared, too reticent to reveal what was really churning inside our core.
This artist, however, is bold, prepared, and not at all afraid of giving what’s inside permission to hang out in the light, and cast away shadows of doubt. On this track, and of the entire EP, Faeya is bravely obsessed with telling the truth.
Hear it firsthand with “Brave Obsession” and The Blue Period: Volume 1 — both available now.
Sonic Reducers. 1 topic. 2 music nerds. 5 minutes.
Push play to watch us mourn the loss of Ronnie Spector, marvel at her unique and timeless appeal, and welcome the wealth of tributes that have come in the wake of her passing.
ALAN McGEE is the outspoken, maverick genius behind the mighty Creation Records and has worked with some of the most significant bands of the last 30 years including Oasis, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, the Jesus and Mary Chain and The Libertines to name but a few.
Join Alan as he discusses his career, the music industry and his relationship with bands such as Oasis and Primal Scream in a live interview and Q&A. Plus a live performance by Creation recording artists.
The Los Angeles show happens at The Viper Room on February 9 and includes former 120 Minutes host Matt Pinfield, artist Shepard Fairey, Willem Wolfe, Daisy O’Dell, Collapsing Scenery, Thou Romeo, Texas Bob Jaurez’s Sparklestars, Willow Robinson and Belowsky.
The San Francisco show is at The Chapel on February 10 and includes Belowsky, Texas Bob Jaurez’s Sparklestars, Seablite and DJ Omar.
The NYC show is at Bowery Electric on February 12 and features writer Rachel Felder, band Beechwood and “more acts announced soon.”
Who knew changing The Village People’s YMCA to a minor key would make it sound so menacing? As one YouTuber posted, “Young man, there’s no place you can go” eeally hits differently in this one.
Sonic Reducers. 1 topic. 2 music nerds. 5 minutes.
We talk about Rush’s Alex Lifeson’s new band Envy Of None, take a spin through their first single Liar, and speculate on why he decided to form another band instead of going the solo-album route.
