Jon MacLennan is a Los Angeles-based musician, artist, songwriter, producer, and instructor with 20 years of experience teaching acoustic/electric guitar and ukulele. A graduate of UCLA, MacLennan ...

Grunge music doesn’t always translate well into acoustic form. After all, the heart of the alt-rock genre is electric guitar distortion and production techniques that give the music more of an edge.

There was a time when the guitar was more of a background instrument in a pop music ensemble. In the early part of the 20th century, pianos and saxes were more likely to stand out as the showy lead ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...