Steve August, Jazz Pianist, composer and arranger and author resides from beautiful Northern Michigan and has performed in the area for over 20 years in clubs, resorts and in concerts. He performs often in a solo as well as a group setting. He has performed with many of his own Jazz trios and Jazz quartets and as a sideman in various settings. He recently achieved a Master of Music degree…
PROTEST THE HERO announces that they will be playing the Ernie Ball stage every day of this summer’s Vans Warped Tour. The Whitby, Ontario five-piece is touring in support of FORTRESS (1/29/08), their sophomore Vagrant release that debuted at #1 in Canada and #95 in the U.S.  Protest The Hero just wrapped up a sold-out Canadian tour with Silverstein and as the tour moves south, their first U.S. date…
The second round of artist announcements has been made by the A3C Hip Hop Festival premiering the legendary Jeru The Damaja, with Southeastern underground stars, Little Brother and recent Atlantic Records signee, B.o.B. Further propelling the festival into the role of showcasing the best in Hip Hop today, the A3C is solidifying its place in the festival world as an event which features the newest emerging artists coupled with established…
Steaming Dookies is an ongoing techno industrial electronic project founded by me, Billy Pfrommer, a lifelong Chicago musician who, for the last 5 years, have been known to most of the area as the party animal side man and rhythm guitarist for Chicago punks Genral Patton and His Privates. After many tours of active duty with the Privates, I decided to try my hand at electronica, and almost overnight, developed…
FESTIVAL is the work of Brooklyn-based sisters, Alexis and Lindsay Powell and Come, Arrow, Come! is their debut release. The album was recorded in Nashville with engineer and co-producer Jeremy Ferguson of Battle Tapes Recording and is being released on Greg and Jessica Weeks’ Language of Stone label in Spring 2008.
Jeremy Jay resides in Angel town, next to Larchmont where he hang out. He’s tall (6’3) blond (really) and handsome and wants a cat for his apartment. He writes and plays piano and guitar. He says one of his favorite things to do is drive around with the moonroof open and listen to music with his friends. It seems that hes both a small town boy and a big city…
Kaz is an award winning songwriter born in Scotland but now living in Australia. She won the first prize in The Great American Song Contest, Pop category, in 2003. Kaz was born in Dundee, Scotland but now calls Melbourne Australia home. It took many years of writing and performing before finally getting into the recording studios. The result was “The Dinner Party”, recorded with a superb band of session musicians…
Not since the late 1960s and early 1970s has there been a musical artist who so completely spoke for an entire generation. After the breakup of the Beatles and the tragic deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, there were few music icons left of their magnitude – until the meteoric success of Nirvana and their breakthrough Nevermind. Following Kurt Cobain’s suicide three years later, Kurt became the…
January 1, 1981 a new emcee was born. Terrell “Smokey Da Bandit†McSee was introduced to music at an early age, with his influences being that of N.W.A., Ice-T, Ice Cube, DJ Quik, MC Eiht, Spice 1, Prince, and Whodini. The inspiration to emcee came to Smokey at the age of 11, when his uncle, Arthur Williams, was murdered. Smokey used rap as his voice to shout out to the…
NEW YORK – ‘THE TRUTH’ is on the way, and judging from every early sign, Sho’Nuff Records/Capitol Music Group quartet CHERISH is about to prove beyond doubt that in 2008, America wants ‘THE TRUTH,’ the whole ‘TRUTH,’ and nothing but ‘THE TRUTH.’
Strecker is a veteran of the rhythm rock / blue scene having toured with such acts as Asleep At The Wheel, Shawn Colvin and the Bill Strecker Band, sharing the stage with the likes of Jaco Pastorious, Steve Goodman, and Richie Havens, and working with legendary manager Albert Grossman (Bob Dylan, Todd Rundgren). On his recent solo effort ‘Smoke & Clouds’, Strecker has created a record that comes from the…
At a very early age Tony Berdych knew that music was to play a major role in his life. At four years old he made a guitar out of an old cigar box, a piece of wood and some rubber bands. During his childhood he frequently visited his neighbors house in Detroit to plunk out songs by ear on the piano. He bought his first Gibson guitar at 10 years…
Pennywise–one of punk’s most credible and influential bands, who’ve sold over three million albums worldwide–have revealed the album title and track listing for their forthcoming CD, due out March 25 via MySpace Records. Beginning March 25, fans around the world will be able to obtain a high quality, DRM-free, 320kbps MP3 free download of the REASON TO BELIEVE CD from MySpace for a period of two weeks.
Dustin O’Halloran, also known as one-half of the acclaimed duo Devics, has revealed himself as a highly individual musical virtuoso with his new collection of stunning instrumental piano sonatas, “Piano Solos vol. 2.” The classically-inspired pieces prompted Grammy-winning K.D. Lang to invite O’Halloran on tour with her this spring, beginning in Toronto, February 21.
Debut Single ‘Takin’ Off This Pain’ Topping Charts MCA Nashville will release Ashton Shepherd’s debut record “Sounds So Good,” produced by Buddy Cannon (Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire), March 4. Shepherd co-wrote 10 songs for the 11-track album, 7 of which she single-handedly penned, including the debut single “Takin’ Off This Pain.”
Upon returning home from wreaking havoc across European soil TOTAL CHAOS will unleash their brand new highly anticipated album Avoid All Sides to the masses on Tuesday March 11th. For just shy of two decades TOTAL CHAOS has solidified themselves as a staple at the forefront of the American punk scene with their brand of spiky, raucous punk rock. While the scene has constantly been in a state of flux,…
THE SUN AND THE MOON COMPLETE SCHEDULED FOR RELAUNCH IN STORES MARCH 18th ( THE SUN, original 12-song album produced and mixed by Brendan O’Brien & THE MOON, album reimagined/re-worked by The Bravery) TV placements wild for Top 10 Modern Rock hit “Believe” and “Time Won’t Let Me Go” – on The Hills, Friday Night Lights, Grey’s Anatomy, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty, and more!
All Together has a new release date: May 6, 2008! “Pattern Is Movement deserve your worship.” –Stereogum Boulder-based Hometapes Records will release Pattern is Movement’s fourth album, the enigmatic and astounding album, All Together on May 6, 2008. Pattern is Movement is also kicking off a few months of touring with a show with pal St. Vincent.
Raised in the nuclear wilds of a small town in Eastern Washington,Sue started playing guitar after her teenaged sister abandoned it for other pursuits ( boys). She finally decided to get serious and make a band 3 years ago…Since then -there’s been no looking back:she has been featured in the prestigous “Rockgrrl” festival, performed in NYC’s famous “Bitter End”,featured in Comcast’s Bite Of Seattle and selected to be interviewed and…
Available from Luaka Bop May 13th 2008 Continuing the trilogy of The Plus 2’s, Moreno/Domenico/Kassin+2, Futurismo nimbly threads the lyricism and playfulness of its predecessors Music Typewriter (2001) and Sincerely Hot (2004). The +2’s arrive on the scene again, this time alongside other bands from Brazil, like Bonde de Role and CSS, all of whom demonstrate that music from other places is no longer considered outside of the mainstream. The…