From Jimi Hendrix to Merzbow, artist-made music with distortion has become increasingly widespread over the past half-century, evolving from a niche genre to a mainstream one. A new UCLA-led study, ...

New research suggests that dissonant rock music arouses listeners because its sound is similar to the ones made by animals in distress. PROBLEM: Parents hate it, and radio stations hardly play it ...

It blogs. It books cool local music shows. It’s a must-follow Facebook and Twitter page. It promotes bands, free of charge. So what is Dallas Distortion Music, exactly? Essentially, DDM is Matt ...

PLUGIN WEEK 2023: Yes, it can be a pretty destructive processor if you want it to be, but there's a lot more to effectively using distortion than just cranking up that Input knob and smashing your ...

Just how much distortion -- and the favored type of distortion, analog or digital -- varies from listener to listener, and that's where the story gets complicated. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve ...

From hard clipping to reduced bitrates, there's plenty of creativity to be found by doing things just a little bit wrong When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This past weekend, a young Dallas impresario played a major role in the second annual National Cassette Store Day. It might have slipped by you, as it did me. But Evan Henry, founder of Dallas ...

Social Distortion occupies a unique space in the annals of rock history. Despite more than 40 years in the game, there are bands with more historical catalogs; hell, one of those bands (the Rolling ...

A quarter of a century ago, punk firebrands Social Distortion modded out their sound with country swagger and rock & roll looseness on their influential self-titled, major-label debut. Songs like ...

You probably don't have to guess what "Big Distortion," from guitar hero Joe Satriani's upcoming album Shapeshifting, sounds like. Or is about. By Gary Graff You probably don’t have to guess what “Big ...

Feedback and the drive to recreate the Jesus & Mary Chain's "Pscyhocandy" were the impetuses for the Magnetic Fields' eighth studio album, appropriately titled "Distortion." By Michael D. Ayers ...