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17-year-old Dylan Gardner is one of a new breed of young artists for whom the internet is a great education, an overwhelming wealth of musical knowledge available at the click of a button. An incredibly prolific and talented songwriter, Dylan has spent the last 10 years absorbing this knowledge day and night. The outcome is his debut album Adventures in Real Time, set to be released on May 13th, which was whittled down from 9 albums worth of material, over 100 songs, which Dylan wrote, recorded, and produced entirely on his own, with final sonic and seasoning refinements courtesy of co-producer John Dragonetti (Submarines, Jack Drag).
Continue readingIn 2012/2013, The Who embarked on the Quadrophenia and More Tour, performing their landmark rock opera in its entirety, marking the 40th anniversary of the original 1973 release of this double-album masterpiece. The critically acclaimed and highly successful tour closed at London’s Wembley Arena, with the cameras rolling, to record the closing night of this historic anniversary tour.
Continue readingPhoto courtesy Cinemedia Promotions A Conversation with Michael Penn Mike Ragogna: Michael, what have you been up to recently? Michael Penn: I’ve been busy scoring stuff, I’ve been working on the Showtime show Masters Of Sex and I’ve been working on Girls for HBO and that’s what I’ve been doing. MR: At the moment, you’re […]
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Ireland’s Imelda May is set to release her third album, Tribal, out July 29 with Verve Records. Watch the video HERE for “It’s Good To Be Alive” and the Tribal album teaser HERE. This record marks the first release from May since 2010’s Mayhem, of which The Los Angeles Timescommented, “Dublin, Ireland-born Imelda May’s career is fostered by paying homage to legends like Buddy Holly and Johnny Cash and, more importantly, furthering rockabilly’s cross-pollination into New Orleans jazz, delta blues and amp-splitting punk aggression,” and The NY Daily News hailed, “…she has vocal chops that put nearly any singer from that era to shame.”
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Coldplay have announced that they will mark the release of their new album, Ghost Stories, by playing six intimate shows in six cities around the world.
Continue readingOmnivore Recordings will soon release the full-length version of The Garden Spot Programs, 1950, featuring 24 performances, unheard for 64 years, from country music legend Hank Williams. Rescued from obscurity, these shows originally aired more than six decades ago; The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 collects material from the four episodes now known to exist. Due out May 20, 2014, the set follows the release of Omnivore’s collectible 10” vinyl Record Store Day EP sampler.
Continue readingKISS 40 is a new 2-CD hits compilation that features forty tracks spanning KISS’s incredible forty-year recording career. This set includes one track from every major album release (studio, Alive & hits collections) plus three live selections from the 2000-era. KISS 40 features the band’s biggest songs including rock and roll anthems like “Detroit Rock City,” “Love Gun,” “Beth,” “Rock And Roll All Nite,” “Psycho Circus,” “Forever,” “I Was Made For Lovin’ You,” “Lick It Up,” “Heaven’s On Fire” and “Hell or Hallelujah.” To round out the set for the KISS Army, for the first time ever on a commercial CD the band has chosen to include the following live recordings: “Deuce” (from 2004 tour), “Cold Gin” (from 2009 Alive 35 tour), “Crazy Crazy Nights” (from 2010 Sonic Boom Over Europe tour) and the previously unreleased 1977 demo of “Reputation.” KISS 40 is arriving in stores May 27th.
Continue readingA Conversation with The Both’s Aimee Mann and Ted Leo Mike Ragogna: Of course everybody’s asked you this, but how did you guys decide to become The Both? Ted Leo: Well we were on the road together, we were touring in the fall of 2012. I had a song that I had actually been writing […]
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