Chicago and Kansas Rock The American Freedom Festival
If you were to look up American Rock Music in a dictionary, you may very well find Chicago and Kansas within the definition. Few groups more quintessentially define American rock and roll music.
If you were to look up American Rock Music in a dictionary, you may very well find Chicago and Kansas within the definition. Few groups more quintessentially define American rock and roll music.
In March 1974 a band from Topeka released their debut album, appropriately self-titled, Kansas. Having caught the eye of the legendary Don Kirshner, they soon caught the eyes and ears of the world.
It’s Stoplight Jones. Not Spotlight Jones like my phone was insisting I was trying to type while urgently telling anyone in the area to get toGooseIsland. On the surface they are a group looking like your everyday rock quartet. That’s just not the case. How many times do you see the bassist also double on alto sax? Or is it the alto saxophonist who doubles on bass? Regardless, the answer to this riddle is not often. They feature two vocalists who equally keep your attention from song to song. My list of bands that can do that is pretty short.
Simon Townshend has returned to the music world with his brand new studio album, Looking Out Looking In.
In 1973, The Who introduced us to a troubled English youth by the name of Jimmy Cooper. His struggles with drugs and schizophrenia, within the violent Brighton and London Mod scene, came to life through the band’s second “concept” album, Quadrophenia.
One of rock and roll guitar’s first leading innovators, Jimi Hendrix had the power to pick up the guitar and make mind blowing music that was completely unrivaled in complexity and technique for the time.
From the official music publisher of thousands of popular artists, songwriters, and composers, new music collections from Led Zeppelin – the blues-inspired rock band that significantly impacted rock music forever – are now available for guitar and piano. These include a guitar TAB book for the band’s 2007 reunion concert film Celebration Day, Platinum Album Editions in authentic guitar TAB for Physical Graffiti and Presence, and a piano sheet music anthology.
As I’m driving home one day, I have my speakers cranked up to Sirius XM’s Deep Tracks. Suddenly, a message comes over the radio station, and says they’re playing some of the newest music from classic artists, as part of Music Discovery Week.
I don’t know exactly how they did it, but Rival Sons have somehow discovered the secret to unlocking the major elements behind Led Zeppelin’s infamously signature sound, while at the same time make it sound their own.
On an unusually cool night in Tampa, Florida, at the 1-800-Ask-Gary Amphitheater, a crowd of screaming, diehard fans are raising hell as Rush is just 15 minutes late to arrive onto the stage.
