Livermore, CA—November 2017… Joey McCloud, aka Joey Mack, and podcasting partner JDub often spend 90 minutes commuting to work, Mack in the San Francisco Bay Area and JDub in Oregon. The two friends usually call each other during their commutes to help pass the time, and most often they discuss beer and board games. Eventually, they decided to turn their conversations into a podcast, and the Gaming on Tap Podcast was born.“The podcast is bite sized,” observes Mack. &ldqu

Los Angeles, CA-September 2017… Composer and sound designer Steve Mayer relies on a wide variety of sound sources for his game, TV, and film work. He often uses a mixture of hardware synthesizers and virtual instruments when creating sounds for Leapfrog, Disney, and Ubisoft games, and composing theme music and underscores for HGTV, MSNBC, the E! Network, ABC's High School Musical, and Disney's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. However, Mayer does not rely on synths alone. "I always li

Montebello, CA - August 2017… In response to the explosive popularity of podcasting as a hobby, vocation and creative outlet, TASCAM is pleased to announce the launch of TASCAM Talkback, a bi-weekly podcast created specifically for podcasters and streamers. Designed to help podcasters enhance the art, craft, and content of their shows, TASCAM Talkback will delve into the technical aspects of putting together an ongoing podcast series, as well as the critical and organizational skills requ

Monterey, CA - July 2017… Held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in June 1967, the three-day Monterey International Pop Festival was the first great rock festival and helped kick off the late 1960s music scene, the Summer of Love, and much that followed. From June 16 to 18, 2017 -exactly 50 years to the day later - "Monterey International Pop Festival Celebrates 50 Years" brought two of the same artists (Eric Burdon and The Animals and Booker T., albeit without the MGs) and man

Los Angeles, CA – June 2017… He’s a Grammy-winning producer and engineer who has worked with such artists as Marilyn Manson, Jack Johnson, Los Lobos, Beck, and The Mars Volta. Not surprisingly, Robert Carranza has a firm grasp of the latest digital technology. In addition to his DAW, he employs a TASCAM DV-RA1000HD Master Recorder, and more recently he added a TASCAM DA-3000 Stereo Master Recorder/ADDA Converter to his studio.But Carranza also records to good old analog tape,

Los Angeles, CA – June 2017… Randy Rodarte is a music educator on a mission. While most music teachers school their young charges on classical music and orchestral instruments, Rodarte’s Modern Band program at Pio Pico Middle School in central Los Angeles covers music of the last 60-70 years, including Motown, Beatles, and other contemporary sounds, with students learning on modern instruments including electric guitars and basses, electric keyboards, and drums. As he observes