Ever wonder why your guitar feels hard to play? Beyond a steady practice schedule lurks rusty strings, fret-outs, not enough relief, bad intonation, and action that can be seen from a satellite. There are many string options, heavy and light... Continue Reading →
Thomas Osatchoff, together with family, is building a self-sustaining home near a waterfall. Recent poems have appeared in Abstract: Contemporary Expressions, Cold Mountain Review, CutBank Literary Journal, and elsewhere. Thomas is currently putting together poems for a collection that draws... Continue Reading →
Juan Ysaguirre is an artist that makes music under the pseudonym 'Secret Tween.' He uses only a phone to record his music and has several releases available for streaming. During this pandemic, a close family friend of Ysaguirre's, Louis Manuel... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year everyone! Quick intro and plan for the year. Going to do a lot more videos on pedals, guitars, amps, especially vintage Big Muffs and Stomp Under Foot pedals. Expect more from The Borfski Press as well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C5MvNUVh98
Hey everyone, I'll occasionally (maybe monthly, maybe weekly, maybe whenever the hell I feel like it) be posting my Big Muffs and their circuits for (Big) Muff Mondays. Since I got this one out so late some of you may... Continue Reading →
In 1991, Frank Zappa was chosen to be one of four featured composers at the Frankfurt Festival in Europe. Among those composers were American John Cage, German Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Russian Alexander Knaifel. Even though Zappa was fighting prostate cancer,... Continue Reading →
Mantrana Agarwal is just another person who is crazy enough to believe she can change the world. She calls herself a lazy workaholic, and a disorganized perfectionist. That said, Agarwal writes an article every day in the blog, A Highschooler's... Continue Reading →
Is It Worth It? It's easy to find yourself asking if something is worth it. Not trying to get too existential here, mostly focusing on tasks. You can easily misconstrue laziness with tiredness, especially last year with so many people... Continue Reading →
J Mascis, Billy Corgan, Frank Zappa, and many others have a huge impact on why I’m so drawn to Big Muffs. The Mascis sound is undeniably the ’76 Ram’s Head Big Muff. Such a huge, open, and lush tone coming... Continue Reading →
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