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Arts & Crafts Productions and Founder, The Untold City Aaron Miller is a publicist, artist manager and online content coordinator for Arts & Crafts Productions, working actively with artists including: Broken Social Scene, Feist, Hollerado, Timber Timbre, Stars, The Darcys, and many, many more. He is also the founder of street level visual website, lifestyle brand and event promotion team The Untold City and above all else, a life-long music obsessive. Categories: Best Indie, Best Electronica and Best Rap

On October 28th, 2010 at a press conference in New York, Gibson dramatically unveiled the new Gibson Firebird X. Very soon, we suspect within the next few months, the so-called "revolutionary" robot guitar will be available at a Gibson retailer or a Best Buy near you! YAY? Well, what the heck is it? I've narrowed down some of the cool features for you:

• It's a self-tuning: you can choose the key you want and it will tune itself. Like it literally tunes itself.. the tuning knobs move on their own and everything. It's creepy as shit.
• You can have 55 custom presets.
• You can change the mini-humbucker pickup configuration for over 2000 types of pickup combinations (EQ, single coil mode, series/parallel etc. with true-noise canceling technology).
• There will be third-party apps, I haven't figured out what they'd all do yet (i'm assuming patches), but their will be apps! Get excited third party developers! You can sell your apps through the Gibson app store. Chaaa-Chiiinng!!
• You can firmware update the guitar's "engine hardware" via a computer through the Gibson interface.
• Compatible bluetooth pedals (cableless), the pedals have rechargeable batteries (or AC adapter works too), you can recall patches from the guitar itself
• Revolutionary computer interfacing, basically you can record your badass riffs at a pro-audio level
• The guitar emulates iconic guitar tones with analog technology, not digital modeling.
• Cool shit like a resonator, no more bending down to change settings, and acoustic guitar sounds that are "indistinguishable" from an acoustic guitar's electric output.

But don't get excited just yet. The price tag is around $5500 USD (**SUCKKSSS**) and the first run is limited to 1800. I say, don't run out to get it. Why? The first version of everything like this is a mess. Let Gibson have time to perfect it and take some time to try it out for yourself. A lot of people think it's going to be a piece of crap. How do you digitally reproduce analog sound? Is it really possible? If it was at this point, we still wouldn't be lugging around tube amps and pining over vintage single-coil (**SWWEETT***) guitars. Lets just say that with a $5500 price tag and a limited run of 1800, the guitar is going to be bought by collectors only. We doubt that this version (at least) of the Gibson Firebird X won't be "chang[ing] music forever," as Gibson's chairman and chief executive officer Henry Juszkiewicz proclaims. Gibson is not the first to come out with the ROBOT guitar! If you're a digital/synth aficionado and are interested in this type of guitar, here are some recommendations from us to you with love, and they're 1/2 of the Gibson price tag: Most BANG for your Buck: Let us not forget the custom Manson M1D1 Mirror (later replaced by the M1D1 Black after Matt smashed the beautiful instrument on stage) co-created by Hugh Manson and Matt Bellamy of Muse.  You can buy Manson guitars with similar features if you can get your hands on them before they sell out:  Manson Signature DL, and the Manson Signature MB-1 Standard (Matt Bellamy series). These guitars are fantastic quality (god-like), and super cool. The Manson Signature DL has badass pickup configs and various optional built-in effects, can you say mmmmmmmm MXR Phase 90 and Fuzzzzz Factory?? My personal recommendation is the Signature MB-1 Standard, it's most unique because it has a MIDI control screen/XY-pad which can be connected to a Kaossilator, Kaos pad or similar synth (***YESSSSS!***): Overview of the features: or check it out in action (mind this dude's messy bedroom), watch the vid in HD!: Best without the price tag: There is other stuff around and available right now for a grand or less, check out the MOOG Guitar Model E1 in sexy black or red. When it was released it received little interest from the music community, but don't let that stop you. You can find one around for about $1000 USD used right now, if I found one used I would pick it up immediately. I don't think they'll stay at that price for long as I suspect the Gibson Firebird X release will re-peak interest in this kind of guitar. The features are extreemellly cool! Moog guitar demo: Other decent MIDI controller guitar options: Check out the Parker Fly Mojo MIDI, it has great tracking speed. I am ambivalent about this guitar. I personally think it still isn't as great as the Mansons and it has a $3000-$4500 price tag. I wouldn't buy it new for sure, but if you find one used for a reasonable price and you have time to fool around with the MIDI features, go for it. For a comprehensive overview of the Mojo MIDI, and I meaaannn comprehensive check this out. Happy Robot Guitar Buying and thanks to the great people in the Guitargeek.com community for their opinions on the Firebird X! -Daniela Oliva, Executive Producer

I had a brief but interesting conversation with my friend Nikki Teen the other day, it went something like this: Me: Are you going to go to any good shows coming up? Nikki: I just went to The Kills, bunch of indie kids, You? Me: I wanted to see Warpaint but they never play LA Nikki: I saw the Kills two times this past month, but I don’t know... They’re not as good live as on their albums. Nikki: Blowing up is all about who you know now. Her comment made me think.. is blowing up, playing national tours and being able to live off your music really about the people you know? Networking is part of why we play shows and go to conferences, right? BUT, Who are these people we're trying to meet? Where do they come from? What do they do?  Is it one person or a group? Is that why we are all so apathetic? We're waiting for that person? God forbid that person catches us choking on a drink or looking like this.. or danciiiiinnggg yeah yeah! maybe we'd blow our chance to meet THAT person... and they just walked on by..... A few weeks prior to my conversation with Nikki, I read a comment by forwarded by Bob Leftsetz (if you are a musician and haven't heard of the Leftsetz Letter, subscribe now: CLICK. He will email you more then your girlfriend and ramble more then your grandma, but it's worth the read). Anyway, Bob forwarded an email from a well-known musician who claimed that success in music, in most part, is all about if you can hang. Musicians are notoriously good at hangin' mmmmk? Don't tell me how to hang!!!! BUT Who should we hang with? Who do we impress? Is it THAT person we are waiting for? Other musicians? Friends? Is it a company? A sugar-daddy? A group of people? If said person happened to arrive and we successfully "hang" with them, what would they do for us? Would they invest in us? Book us? Market us? Help us get distribution? All of the above, (hopefully) and for a simple return on their investment. Right?... So, how do we make them do this?  Do they have to like us? Do we have to have talent? Does talent matter anymore? Or is everything, including our success, just based on our ability to hang with the right people? ....JESUS, call of this can't be dependent on our ability to hang, can it? I personally think that talent DOES matter. And hell, you need a lot of it, or some other kind of appeal because Hey, lets be honest - we're all competing with this:   ...and competing with THAT sucks for everyone. Fuck that! Between The American Idol franchise, The Voice, booty-shakers, stargazers, and innovators, the music market is rough right now, brutal even. Television networks, producers, and labels are publicizing some of the best talent out there. We got competition man! And you know what? We're not only competing with that seasoned musician who's been struggling for 25+ years trying to make it. Its that 15 year old down the block, with tons of high school friends, who convinced his mom to take him to an Idol audition! Regardless of what anyone says - FIRST, you have to be good. You have to be talented. You have to be tight, you have to have a cohesive vibe and you have to be personable. How you get to that point is another blog post in itself. BUT, there is more... If you want this, which every band gigging from bar-to-bar in a does... and if you're sayin you don't.. don't kid yourself! You got to impress these, and these people are The People You Need to Know: Oh yeah, no problem! They'll just flock to your music... 'cause your music rocks. NO! That's not how it works! That's a lot of people to impress and trust me, they're little punks. Consumers have entertainment at their fingertips. They can vote to see who they want, listen to what they want without commercial interruptions, download what they want, and buy what they want.., and you have a lot of competition! Remember?  So how do we go about impressing The People? You start with one person: and if you can get one person to really like you and your band, I mean **GUSHHH** over you like a 13-year-old over a Jonas..... then one will become two, and two will become three, three will become four.... Because, a fan who loves your music will tel al friend, who will tell a friend, who will tell a friend.  Like some giant messed up Ponsi scheme (minus the fraud).  Soon enough, you will have 20 million hits on Youtube faster then Rebecca Black. And if you’re just too uptight and too cool for school You can’t get to know the people! the people want to CONNECT with you. They want exclusive access to you: what you're doing, where you're playing, your new songs, what books you like to read, and how many cats you have. So chill out, take off the sunglasses and hang with your fans. Give them benefits for passing on your music, interact with them, be friendly,.... do it regularly! Think of new and innovative ways to get them involved with your band and your music. ***CONNECT*** Nikki was right, it is about the people you know. Just make sure you’re hanging with and getting to know the right people. You feel me? -Daniela Oliva, Executive Producer