Live Review of Vanessa Collier in Durham, NCThe Blue Note Grill  Durham, NCContact: nick.losseaton@gmail.comWeb: vanessacollier.comPlayers: Vanessa Collier, vocals, sax, guitar; Ben Rice, guitar; Justice Guevara, bassMaterial: Blues, blues, and more blues was Vanessa Collier’s calling card this evening. With her perfectly stylized sax playing, she opened a can of whoop-ass and kicked it effortlessly off the stage, and in the process gave a nod to her Texas roots: Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Pamela Hart and she seems to have jumped into Joyce Spenser’s skin a little bit. Playing all original material, she had no trouble moving through her new record, which she touted with thoughtful and memorable narratives. She introduced each one to this adoring crowd: “Sweating Like a Pig, Singin’ Like an Angel” was a crowd favorite, as was “Wild as a Rainstorm,” both climaxing into blues oblivion driven by her melodic and punchy sax. Ben Rice on guitar provided tasteful, in the pocket fills that left room for her soaring vocals and complemented the smoldering, low-to-the-ground groove.Musicianship: If you were looking for flashy, over-the-top blues-Magoo nonsense, there’s no place for it on this stage, on such a rare and enchanting evening. Collier’s ensemble was a study in near-perfect musicianship, effortless  playing and, with grace and occasional homage to that distant animal Roberticus Johnsonasaurus Rex, she brought the goods, had the near capacity crowd on their feet and hyper-groovin’ to her well-executed original material.  Her rhythm section was as tight as a drum, and sounding shiny and new, like they had been together for decades, without the cobwebs. Standout lower-register magic-man Justice Guevara and his knee-level slung bass (in the style of Dee Dee Ramone and Dusty Rhodes) gave a visual clue, that no matter where we are in the musical spectrum, we owe so much to the blues, a sound style that scratched out its existence over the eons to emerge as this uniquely American music.Performance: This was as sophisticated a performance as it gets. This quartet—with Collier out front calling the show—was a slow-burn study in how to pace a performance, work an audience into a near frenzy and deliver a set of original material that was engaging as much as it was breathtakingly professional. The sound was excellent, very well mixed, there was little if any downtime between songs and the whole experience flowed like Crown Royal poured over #2 sandpaper: smooth with a little bit of grit!Summary: Every now and then, a Texas sax player steps out enough to make her own mark, blaze her own trail and build an impressive resume in a relatively short space of time. Vanessa Collier is an artist who will be with us for a long time since her talent and writing seem to have no bounds and the sky’s the limit for this remarkable cyclone of sound, sax and song.The post Live Review of Vanessa Collier in Durham, NC first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

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‘Wolfs’ sequel canceled because director ‘no longer trusted’ AppleIt may be hard to remember, but George Clooney and Brad Pitt co-starred in a movie, “Wolfs,” that Apple released just two months ago. On Friday, the film’s writer and director Jon Watts said Friday that a sequel is no longer happening; in a follow-up interview with Deadline, he explained that he “no longer trusted […]
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Close Shave for an Old Oscilloscope Saved with a Sticky NoteWhen you tear into an old piece of test equipment, you’re probably going to come up against some surprises. That’s especially true of high-precision gear like oscilloscopes from the time before ASICs and ADCs, which had to accomplish so much with discrete components and a lot of engineering ingenuity.
Unfortunately, though, those clever hacks that made everything work sometimes come back to bite you, as [Void Electronics] learned while bringing this classic Tektronix 466 scope back to life. A previous video revealed that the “Works fine, powers up” eBay listing for this scope wasn’t entirely accurate, as it was DOA. That ended up being a bad op-amp in the power supply, which was easily fixed. Once powered up, though, another, more insidious problem cropped up with the vertical attenuator, which failed with any setting divisible by two.
With this curious symptom in mind, [Void] got to work on the scope. Old analog Tek scopes like this use a bank of attenuator modules switched in and out of the signal path by a complex mechanical system of cams. It seemed like one of the modules, specifically the 4x attenuator, was the culprit. [Void] did the obvious first test and compared the module against the known good 4x module in the other channel of the dual-channel scope, but surprisingly, the module worked fine. That meant the problem had to be on the PCB that the module lives on. Close examination with the help of some magnification revealed the culprit — tin whiskers had formed, stretching out from a pad to chassis ground. The tiny metal threads were shorting the signal to ground whenever the 4x module was switched into the signal path. The solution? A quick flick with a sticky note to remove the whiskers!
This was a great fix and a fantastic lesson in looking past the obvious and being observant. It puts us in the mood for breaking out our old Tek scope and seeing what wonders — and challenges — it holds.

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3D Printed Boat Uses Tank Tracks For Amphibious PropulsionBoats normally get around with propellers or water jets for propulsion. Occasionally, they use paddles. [Engineering After Hours] claims he is “changing the boat game forever” with his new 3D printed boat design that uses a tank tread for propulsion instead. Forgive him for the hyperbole of the YouTuber. It’s basically a modified paddle design, but it’s also pretty cool.
It works on land, even if it doesn’t steer well!
The basic idea is simple enough—think “floating snowmobile” and you’re in the ballpark. In the water, the chunky tank track provides forward propulsion with its paddle-like treads. It’s not that much different from a paddle wheel steamer. However, where it diverges is that it’s more flexible than a traditional paddle wheel.
The tracked design is actually pretty good at propelling the boat in shallow water without getting stuck. In fact, it works pretty well on dirt, too! The video covers the basic concept, but it also goes into some detail regarding optimizing the design, too. Getting the float and track geometry right is key to performance, after all.
If you’re looking to build an oddball amphibious craft, maybe working with the snowmobile concept is worth your engineering time.

Last Week in DIY and Independent Musician NewsLast week, our tips and advice for the independent, do-it-yourselfers out there covered SoundCloud AI, how to find the right booking agent for you or do it yourself, how to spot. Continue reading
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Music Production for Women offering Master Your Music scholarships MPW have announced that they are offering four scholarship places for female/non-binary individuals to take part in their year long Master Your Music programme

Top 25 New Music Critiques 2024Music Connection offers a variety of ways for unsigned artists to receive recognition for creating exceptional music. Each month, for example, our New Music Critiques area spotlights the recordings of a dozen unsigned recording artists. The cream of the 2024 crop is here on the pages before you. 25 remarkable recording artists, plus 20 Top Prospects who are too good to be overlooked. Unsigned recording artists of all genres are welcomed to sign up for a free critique at musicconnection.com/reviews/new-music-critiques.WRENE . . . 8.6Web: wrene.bandcamp.comStyle: Avant-popPARIS PALOMA . . . 8.4Web: parispaloma.co.ukStyle: Folk-popVENDELA . . . 8.4Web: YouTubeStyle: Alt-popVELVET HALO . . . 8.4Web: velvethalomusic.comStyle: Soft popFERAS ARRABI . . . 8.3Web: ferasarrabi.comStyle: Progressive rockNATALIE JEAN . . . 8.2Web: natalie-jean.comStyle: Country-popSIESKI . . . 8.2Web: sieski.comStyle: PopTHE REQUISITE . . . 8.2Web: SpotifyStyle: Pop-punkNO LOVES . . . 8.2Web: noloves.comStyle: PunkX . . . 8.2Web: instagram.com/theofficialxStyle: R&BORAYVIA . . . 8.2Web: SpotifyStyle: R&BJOSÉ JAMES . . . 8.2Web: SoundcloudStyle: R&BJOHNNY STANEC . . . 8.2Web: johnnystanec.comStyle: AmericanaFIIZ . . . 8.2Web: linktr.ee/fiizmusic Style: ElectropopGORDON GOODWIN’S BIG PHAT BAND . . . 8.2Web: bigphatband.comStyle: JazzMAGALI, A CULT . . . 8.2Web: SpotifyStyle: ElectropopRGB . . . 8.2Web: listentorgb.comStyle: PopCASII STEPHAN . . . 8Web: casiistephan.comStyle: Soul-rockKATELYN TARVER . . . 8Web: katelyntarver.comStyle: Singer-songwriterCAITLIN MAHONEY . . . 8Web: caitlinmahoney.comStyle: Indie-popLUCIE TIGER . . . 8Web: SpotifyStyle: CountryHER LEATHER JACKET . . . 8Web: herleatherjacket.comStyle: Pop-punkMIKKI . . . 8Web: SpotifyStyle: AlternativeDOWNTOWN MYSTIC . . . 8Web: downtownmystic.netStyle: Rock ’n’ rollBRENDA RUSSELL . . . 8Web: brendarussellofficial.comStyle: R&BThe post Top 25 New Music Critiques 2024 first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

Tour the new Hyundai Ioniq 9Emme Hall takes a closer look at the new Hyundai Ioniq 9, an all-electric three-row SUV.
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Daft Punk’s best, worst, and most overrated music, according to RedditA community of Daft Punk fans have collectively voted on the duo’s music, deciding on the best and worst albums, most overrated and underrated works, best and worst songs, worst remixes and more. Some of the results are probably obvious, but others are a tad surprising.
Users on the r/DaftPunk subreddit participated in the voting game over the past two weeks, following a grid template that would get a daily update based on fans’ most upvoted answers. Naturally, there was some passionate debate about each category — especially on the Worst Album, Worst Song, and Most Overrated Album categories — but the fans seem to be in full agreement on at least some of the results.
Taking the crown of Best Album is 2001’s Discovery, which was a pretty unanimous decision; the closest contender was 2013’s Random Access Memories. The former has gone down as one of the top albums of all time, most recently placing 23rd in Apple Music’s Top 100 Albums, but the latter picked up four Grammy Awards in 2014. Perhaps that’s one reason Reddit voters placed it in the Most Overrated Album square. Contrastly, the Most Underrated Album spot was won by Human After All, which received mixed reviews upon its 2005 release, but also picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Electronic/Dance Album.
Meanwhile, the Worst Album by Daft Punk according to Reddit is Tron: Legacy Reconfigured. This remix album was released in 2011 to accompany the duo’s official soundtrack for Disney’s Tron: Legacy. Although technically a Daft Punk album, Daft Punk’s manager Busy P (also the boss at French label Ed Banger Records) said of its release: “I am 100 per cent sure the Daft [Punk] boys were not involved in this side (sad) project.”
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Meanwhile, the title of Worst Song was given to the 2004 track Take Me Out (Daft Punk Remix) by Franz Ferdinand, and the Best Song was awarded to Digital Love, a track from Discovery. Other picks from Discovery include Face To Face as Most Genius Song — likely thanks to the meticulous sampling work by Daft Punk and Todd Edwards — and One More Time, the dance anthem which fans claimed as the Best Chorus Song. The Best Lyrics Song was given to the slow, romantic cut, Something About Us. Todd Edwards, who also appeared on the Random Access Memories track, Fragments Of Time, was voted as Daft Punk’s Best Collaborator.
Two tracks from Random Access Memories picked up some opposing awards in Most Underrated Song and Most Overrated Song. Motherboard was voted as the Most Underrated, while Get Lucky was voted as Most Overrated. The latter is probably unsurprising, given the billions of collective streams it’s accrued across digital streaming platforms.
In other Daft Punk news, fans have criticised the new AI upscale of the duo’s feature-length film, Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, which is soundtracked by Discovery. 
One commenter wrote of the re-release: “Even watching this trailer on a small phone, you can immediately tell AI was used…The crowd scenes in particular are a dead giveaway. It looks so bad, there’s no way I’d spend money to see this in a theatre where the imperfections are going to be giant.”
Another added: “I don’t see why this was needed. It seems like a lazy cash grab.”
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Build Yourself A Useful Resistor Decade BoxIf you’ve ever worked with guitar pedals or analog audio gear, you’ve probably realized the value of a resistor decade box. They substitute for a resistor in a circuit and let you quickly flick through a few different values at the twist of a knob. You can still buy them if you know where to look, but [M Caldeira] decided to build his own.
At its core, the decade box relies on a number of 11-position rotary switches. Seven are used in this case—covering each “decade” of resistances, from 1 ohm to 10 ohm and all the way up to 1 megaohm. The 11 positions on each switch allows the selection of a given resistance. For example, position 7 on the 100 ohm switch selects 700 ohms, and adds it to the total resistance of the box.
[M Caldeira] did a good job of building the basic circuit, as well as assembling it in an attractive, easy-to-use way. It should serve him well on his future audio projects and many others besides. It’s a simple thing, but sometimes there’s nothing more satisfying than building your own tools.
We’ve seen other neat designs like this in the past, including an SMD version and this neat digital decade box. Video after the break.

OLED Screen Mounting, Without The PainThere was a time when no self-respecting electronics engineer would build a big project without at least one panel meter. They may be a rare part here in 2024, but we find ourselves reminded of them by [24Eng]’s project. It’s a 3D printed housing for one of those common small OLED displays, designed to be mounted on a panel with just a single round hole. Having had exactly this problem in the past trying to create a rectangular hole, we can immediately see the value in this.
It solves the problem by encasing the display in a printed shell, and passing a coarsely threaded hollow cylinder behind it for attachment to the panel and routing wires. This is where we are reminded of panel meters, many of which would have a similar sized protrusion on their rear housing their mechanism.
The result is a neatly made OLED display mounting, with a hole that’s ease itself to create. Perhaps now you’ll not be afraid to make your own panels.