Posted February 18, 2011 at 8:13 am | No comments
Behind the Player brings fans a behind the scenes with one of rock guitar’s most famous players and the lead guitarist for the legendary rock icons KISS, Ace Frehley. The DVD allows viewers the chance to sit down with Frehley while he discusses his life as a rock guitarist, his beginnings in the rock world, musical influences, groundbreaking work as a founding member of KISS, solo career, gear, thoughts on digital recording, and his gives his take on the long anticipated 2009 solo album Anomaly. With such in depth conversations the DVD provides viewers with an up close and personal look at one of the most recognized names, and faces, in rock history.
Posted in: Classic Rock, DVD Reviews, Reviews
Posted February 18, 2011 at 8:00 am | No comments
EarMaster Pro 5 is a software program that operates on both Mac and Windows platforms, and is designed to aid, develop, and enhance the ears of every musician that takes the time to work through the program’s lessons. This aural skills training program is an excellent tool for both self-guided study and as a resource in the class room.
Posted in: Gear Reviews, Reviews
Posted February 17, 2011 at 12:00 pm | 2 comments
That’s what you get when the combine Buckcherry and HellYeah sharing the same bill in New York City for the Jägermeister Music Tour. While initially this may seem like odd touring combination, make no mistake that these two bands are carrying the torch for pure American Rock n’ Roll, HellYeah with their blend of “spirit lifting” southern rock and Buckcherry with their distinctive commercial driving crotch n’ rock.
Posted in: Concert Reviews, Metal, Reviews
Posted February 17, 2011 at 11:00 am | No comments
Certainly, one of the favorite opening riffs of guitar players around the world is that of the country-rock track “Hotel California,” and a guitar feast at the end of the track, performed as a stringed duet by Don Felder and Joe Walsh is a nice surprise. The song continues to be an enormous favorite of Eagles fans and is listed on Rolling Stone magazine’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” at #49. The lyrics conjure up the decadence of the hotel with its “sweet summer sweat” and the girl whose mind is “Tiffany twisted, she got the Mercedes Benz.”
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Posted February 17, 2011 at 9:00 am | No comments
2010 was a huge year for Florida based metal band Nonpoint as the band’s eighth studio album Miracle was released to critical acclaim, helping to launch the band to the top of the modern metal world after 13 years of working together as a band. The album immediately grabbed the attention of promoters worldwide and 2010 saw high-profile Nonpoint performances at some of the world’s biggest music festivals including Ozzfest, Rock on the Range Summerfest and the legendary Download Festival.
Posted in: Interviews, Metal, Metal Interviews
Posted February 17, 2011 at 9:00 am | No comments
Very few musicians will be able to accomplish and achieve as much success and acclaim as guitarist Fareed Haque. His career is still in full force with many endeavors yet to come, but so far he’s worked with an incredible number of diverse artists that range from Sting, Paquito D’Rivera, Joe Zawinul, Vieaux Faraka Toure, Dave Holland, Larry Coryell, Kurt Elling, Zakir Hussein, and the list just keeps going and growing.
Posted in: Classical, Classical Interviews, Interviews
Posted February 16, 2011 at 11:00 am | No comments
The Door’s bluesy album, L.A. Woman, was released in April 1971. Three months later the group’s iconic front man, Jim Morrison would be found dead, in what remain mysterious circumstances, in Paris. The dreamy and bluesy track “Riders on the Storm” is a haunting song with the atmospheric sounds of rain and thunder, and the trickling rain effects of from the keyboard of Ray Manzarek’s Fender Rhodes piano.
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Posted February 16, 2011 at 9:00 am | No comments
Jazz guitarist and inventor, Les Paul, brought us more than his electric “Log” guitar fashioned out of two pickups, and the triptych coupling of a slab of 4 x 4 lumber and the two halves from an Epiphone hollow body guitar. He brought us more than a delightful legacy of jazz, but a mountain of amazing guitar techniques to examine and study. His deep curiosity and rich inventiveness roamed the world of electronics and sound, luring him like sirens to seemingly insurmountable production and recording challenges. Good for us that Mr. Paul’s intense curiosity was welded to an equally tenacious spirited drive.
Posted in: Guitar Hero Interviews, Interviews, Jazz, Jazz Interviews
Posted February 15, 2011 at 11:00 am | No comments
When the Dave Matthews Band hit the radio, there was no confusion that the group’s sound was unique to anything else consumed by music lovers. Eclectic, cacophonous, and drenched in superb musicianship, the Dave Matthews Band steamrolled on to the Billboard’s charts with their 1998 debut album, Remember Two Things, that was released on the Bama Rags label. By 2002, the album went platinum. But, it’s the DMB’s avid fans that pushed tapes of the group’s performances around that got the big buzz going for the group. But, it was there third album, that “Crash into Me” hit the charts reaching #7 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart. And in 1998, the song “Crash into Me” was nominated for a Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals Grammy.
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Posted February 15, 2011 at 10:00 am | One comment
Although Immortal Dominion has issued several releases thus far, the latest from this Colorado-based band Primortal (on 427 Records), is undoubtedly their strongest yet. Comprised of band members Ray Smith (vocals), Brian Villers (guitars/vocals), Louis Micciullo (guitars), Bryan “Ed” Schmidt (bass), and Casey Glass (drums), the group has teamed up with renowned producer Sterling Winfield, who is best known for his work with such best-selling metal acts as Pantera and Mercyful Fate.
Posted in: Interviews, Metal, Metal Interviews
