To use backing tracks or not? It's one of the hottest topics in the world of rock and metal and there are some very nuanced responses to the question when it comes to how you present your band in the ...

One of the hottest and most controversial topics sparking debate on social media recently is whether or not real rock bands use laptops or backing tracks to enhance their live performances — and ...

Hard rock band Santa Cruz has been blasted on social media after footage of the group performing with a pre recorded vocal track went viral. In the video, which can be seen below, frontman Archie Cruz ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - So, all you rock fans, it seems at least a couple of times a year there’s a kerfuffle concerning bands and artists using backing tracks during their shows. If you have no idea what ...

The use of backing tracks—pre-recorded material or other selected sonic elements from a band’s record—played during an artists’ live performance is essentially a public secret. The world is familiar ...

Foreigner's Kelly Hansen minced no words while discussing bands that rely on backing tracks for live performances, imploring fans to "tell them to go fuck themselves." The singer, who's fronted the ...

One of rock’s great hypnotic bass lines was improvised in the studio as tape rolled. After Neil Young’s minor-chord guitar intro, bassist Billy Talbot fell in with drummer Ralph Molina’s wanderlust ...

Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx confidently strides along the stage at what could be any one of the band’s seemingly endless stream of shows. After more than three decades of living on the edge in the ...

There has been a lot of collective outrage in recent years over the ways that various pop and rock stars are "faking" live performances. I think that's valid to a certain degree, especially in regards ...