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LA Amp Show '11 - Crimsontone Amplifiers Vermillion Demo

PG's Charles Saufley is On Location in Van Nuys, CA, for the 2011 LA Amp Show where he visits the Crimsontone Amplification room. In this segment, we get to see and a demo of their newest amplifier -- the Vermillion.



PG's Charles Saufley is On Location in Van Nuys, CA, for the 2011 LA Amp Show where he visits the Crimsontone Amplification room. In this segment, we get to see and a demo of their newest amplifier -- the Vermillion.

Killswitch Engage are, from left to right, Justin Foley on drums, guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, vocalist Jesse Leach, bassist Mike Dā€™Antonio, and guitarist Joel Stroetzel.

The metalcore pioneers return with an album for the times, This Consequence, that explores division, war, and other modern-day troubles to the tune of the bandā€™s tandem guitar duoā€™s brutal, lockstep riff-ery.

ā€œWe donā€™t consider ourselves politicians or into politics by any means, but the sense of national unrest, and the unwillingness to work together, itā€™s really grated on us,ā€ admits Killswitch Engage guitarist/producer Adam Dutkiewicz (Adam D, professionally). ā€œItā€™s manifested itself into the songs and lyrics.ā€

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The National New Yorker lived at the forefront of the emerging electric guitar industry, and in Memphis Minnieā€™s hands, it came alive.

This National electric is just the tip of the iceberg of electric guitar history.

On a summer day in 1897, a girl named Lizzie Douglas was born on a farm in the middle of nowhere in Mississippi, the first of 13 siblings. When she was seven, her family moved closer to Memphis, Tennessee, and little Lizzie took up the banjo. Banjo led to guitar, guitar led to gigs, and gigs led to dreams. She was a prodigious talent, and ā€œKidā€ Douglas ran away from home to play for tips on Beale Street when she was just a teenager. She began touring around the South, adopted the moniker Memphis Minnie, and eventually joined the circus for a few years.

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In our third installment with Santa Cruz Guitar Company founder Richard Hoover, the master luthier shows PG's John Bohlinger how his team of builders assemble and construct guitars like a chef preparing food pairings. Hoover explains that the finer details like binding, headstock size and shape, internal bracing, and adhesives are critical players in shaping an instrument's sound. Finally, Richard explains how SCGC uses every inch of wood for making acoustic guitars or outside ventures like surfboards and art.

We know Horsegirl as a band of musicians, but their friendships will always come before the music. From left to right: Nora Cheng, drummer Gigi Reece, and Penelope Lowenstein.

Photo by Ruby Faye

The Chicago-via-New York trio of best friends reinterpret the best bits of college-rock and ā€™90s indie on their new record, Phonetics On and On.

Horsegirl guitarists Nora Cheng and Penelope Lowenstein are back in their hometown of Chicago during winter break from New York University, where they share an apartment with drummer Gigi Reece. Theyā€™re both in the middle of writing papers. Cheng is working on one about Buckminster Fuller for a city planning class, and Lowenstein is untangling Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmannā€™s short story, ā€œThree Paths to the Lake.ā€

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