Music

Shred Your Guitar Into The Deep, Black Night With Amphones

Published

12 years ago

September 19, 2012

This is a really cool product coming out for people like myself: a guitarist who is a night owl. The problem with playing guitar at night is that when you want to rock out, you can’t! Your neighbors complain, the cops get called, the next thing you know you’ve got a few bodies in the basement and the lies just keep piling up, making the story harder and harder to keep straight. Sorry, that escalated quickly.

Anyways! To help out those guitarists who love to shred into the wee hours of the night (or have roommates/parents/significant others that can’t stand the constant noodling) then VOX and Audio Technica might just have a solution for you: Amphones! Aside from the horrible name, this is a really cool product that combines headphones with amplifiers.

You see, the way that it works is you plug the amphone into your guitar and then fiddle with some knobs on the side of the cans to get the desired tone. There will be four different models: The AC30, the Twin (modeled after classic American amps like the Fender Twin Reverb), Lead (high gain), and one for bassists. The phones are self-powered and can be used with standard MP3 players by simply removing the 1/4″ adapter.

Below is an awfully cheesy video for the product as well as a picture of the four models. You can also hear audio samples here. Someone snag me a ‘Lead’ and an ‘AC30’ please?

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Music

“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

2 weeks ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…