Behind the scenes videos from bands are some of my favorite things. I love watching bands recording albums, tour backstage crap, even gear tours. It's cool to see all the different ways that musicians can get to their goal of making their instruments sound like they want them to.
Being in the school band just got a whole lot cooler for some of the kids in the Los Angeles area: Eddie Van Halen has teamed up with the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation to donate 75 guitars from his personal collection to schools that don’t have enough funding to pay for instruments. For Van Halen, it was a simple case of giving back — as he put it simply, “Music education and families are dealing