Casa Noble Tequila Partners With Music Icon Carlos Santana
14 July, 2011
Jose Hermosillo, Chairman and CEO, Casa Noble Tequila proudly announced today that music icon Carlos Santana has joined the Board and is now one of the owners of the brand. This new organizational change will allow Santana to be involved in the continued development of the brand which is already recognized ...
| Bluesman Extraordinaire Steve Freund To Host Red House's Weekly Blues Jam
13 July, 2011
Red House Studios, the Bay Area's innovative music school, performance venue and jam club, today announced the addition of Chicago-trained guitarist Steve Freund to its staff. Freund will be hosting Red House's flagship Player's Club Blues Jam every Wednesday evening from 7-10 p.m. Freund succeeds legendary ...
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European Blues Guitar Goddess Ana Popovic To Release Effortless New Back To The Roots Album 'Unconditional' (8.16, Eclectogroove) On Top Of Major Festival Touring
13 July, 2011
On August 16, EclectoGroove Records will release blues guitar goddess Ana Popovic's new album 'Unconditional,' a fluent collection of contemporary and classic blues cuts that epitomize Popovic's grace, talent, beauty and devotion to her instrument and the blues tradition. The ease and confidence on ...
| Packed Crowds 'Relentlessly Rocking' Reviews For Return To Forever IV
13 July, 2011
Crowds flocked by the thousands to kick off Return to Forever IV's world tour last week, with fans and critics unanimously cheering: - "Chick [Corea] is as on his game as much as he has ever been...I've seen many shows in my years on this planet, but none I enjoyed more than this." - JazzTimes - "Return ...
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Japan Blues Festivals - Lance Reegan Diehl Band (L.R.D. Band) Performs In Japan July 20th To The 24th
13 July, 2011
Guitar expert and world-renowned performer Lance Reegan-Diehl will be hitting the road again, with his band, to perform in Japan with JTR Guitars, Olympia Strings, SD amps, Loop X Systems, with Graphtech and DEELEEBOB Music. Lance will be performing with his Band L.R.D. from July 20th until July 24th ...
| Elvis Costello The Imposters Keep Songbook Spinning With New Fall Tour Dates
12 July, 2011
Elvis Costello and the Imposters today answer the call of unanimously cheering audiences and critics from coast to coast, announcing a further extension of the massively successful Spinning Songbook tour with a string of fall dates in the Eastern U.S. Having begun as a brief two-week stint this spring, ...
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'Secret' Movie Star Releases First Music CD Designed To Help Heal
12 July, 2011
Joe Vitale, a star in the hit movie The Secret and author of numerous bestselling books, such as The Attractor Factor, introduces his first ever original CD, entitled Blue Healer. Blue Healer is a fusion genre CD that is specifically designed to move energy through you and help you feel great. This ...
| Black Veil Brides Aim For World Domination With Peavey Amplifiers
12 July, 2011
Black Veil Brides, the latest breakout metal stars to endorse Peavey amplifiers, seemed to come out of nowhere with its viral hit "Knives and Pens." And then, suddenly, the video-and the Black Veil Brides-were everywhere. After "Knives and Pens" racked up more than 27 million views and catapulted the ...
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Guitar God 'Kyoji Yamamoto' Debuts In NY
11 July, 2011
He has a resume that many musicians would sell their souls for. He has over 30 albums to his name, produced by luminaries such as Bob Ezrin (Alice Cooper, Peter Gabriel, Kiss, Pink Floyd). With his bands BowWow and Vow Wow, he has appeared at the prestigious Reading and Montreux festivals and headlined ...
| Appice Drum Wars Invades The Northeast
11 July, 2011
The Rock House in West Greenwich, Rhode Island will kick off the first northeastern USA Drum Wars shows featuring legendary drummers Carmine and Vinny Appice on Saturday, July 30th. Brothers and "rivals" Carmine and Vinny Appice are set to battle it out by performing classic hard rock, pop and metal ...
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Grammy, ASCAP, And Blues Music Award-winner Tom Hambridge Set To Go Boom! On New Solo Cd, For August 30 Release By Superstar Records
08 July, 2011
Grammy, ASCAP and multiple Blues Music Award-winning Tom Hambridge's latest CD, Boom!, has been announced for August 30th release by Superstar Records. Hambridge wrote or co-wrote all of the album's 11 tracks, collaborating with such acclaimed American songwriters including Gary Nicholson, Delbert McClinton, ...
| Rolling Stone Offers First Taste Of New Nick Lowe LP
07 July, 2011
Rolling Stone premiered a new Nick Lowe song "Checkout Time" today, hailing him as "one of the sharpest lyricists in rock." The song is the first to be revealed from Lowe's first new album in over four years 'The Old Magic,' set for September 13 release on Yep Roc. Listen to "Checkout Time" here: https://bit.ly/qB3ExH ...
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Ed Hale Releases New Single 'New Orleans Dreams' That Shines Spotlight On The South
07 July, 2011
Ed Hale is known for being a musician and singer/songwriter, however there is more to his music than meets the ears. On his last solo studio recording Ballad on Third Avenue, a rousing collection of alternative pop-rock acoustic tracks, he sings about love and all the emotions that are forthcoming. ...
| Frank Palangi Set To Release His Debut Offering 'Frank Palangi EP'
06 July, 2011
The musical talents of Frank Palangi have finally brought us the much awaited debut release of "Frank Palangi EP". Along with the producing efforts of Rogers Masson, who has worked in the past with the likes of Marilyn Manson, and The Mavericks, accompanied by Grammy nominated rock-band Day of Fire, ...
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Marilyn Manson Donates Original Art To Benefit The WM3
04 July, 2011
Multi-talented and controversial artist Marilyn Manson donates original watercolor depicting Grove Pashley's infamous image of Damien Echols with his hand on the glass of the prison window during a visit. This original piece will be auctioned to raise money for the defense fund of Damien Echols ...
| Strawman Says... End The Romance
04 July, 2011
STRAWMAN's newest single, END THE ROMANCE is set for release in July 2011, on Why Canned Uzi? Records. Strawman is back, with their new single 'End the Romance', continuing with the proliferation of their brand of De-Prog(ramming) Rock. With the current generation becoming dependent on their social ...
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Joe Bonamassa's Label Leverages Facebook And Other Social Networking Sites To Increase Fanbase And Break Artists
04 July, 2011
Blues-rock guitar hero, singer-songwriter and Billboard's No 1 Blues Artist Joe Bonamassa released his "Infinity" Lithograph last week. The fourth edition in an on-going series of high quality lithograph images commemorating his career, the "Infinity" was limited to 100 prints and sold out in less than ...
| Patti Smith's Outside Society Is The First Single-CD Collection To Span Arista And Columbia Years From 1975 To 2007
02 July, 2011
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee Patti Smith raises the curtain on OUTSIDE SOCIETY, a new collection of her signature songs on the Arista and Columbia labels. The landmark 18-song release marks the first single-CD collection to span Patti's entire body of recorded work. The chronologically ...
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Nashville Roots-rocker Andrew Adkins Returns With The Release Of 'Troublesome, My Love'
02 July, 2011
Songwriter, Andrew Adkins is no stranger to trouble. He spent the past decade as part of the psychedelic/roots-rock band, Mellow Down Easy. "Nearly ten years on the road in a band like Mellow Down Easy can either kill you or really enlighten you," says Adkins. "We all waded through our share of demons, ...
| Gina Sicilia Nominated For A Blues Blast Award!
02 July, 2011
Gina Sicilia is on fire! In 2008 she was nominated for "Best New Artist Debut" at the Blues Music Awards and just released her 3rd album with the VizzTone Label Group. The album debuted at No 11 on the Living Blues Radio chart and was just nominated for a Blues Blast Music award in the "Sean Costello ...
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