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Anthem Names Frank J. Tanki General Manager AXS TV and HDNET MOVIES

Anthem Names Frank J. Tanki General Manager AXS TV and HDNET MOVIES

Posted June 18, 2020 at 2:30 pm | No comments

As General Manager of AXS TV and HDNET MOVIES, Frank J. Tanki will oversee all business strategy and day-to-day operations, including programming, sales, operations, creative, marketing, communications, research and human resources.  He will also play an integral role in working with AXS TV’s key MVPD partners and developing additional content distribution opportunities.

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Rolling Stone Life and Death of Brian Jones – Out Today June 12

Rolling Stone Life and Death of Brian Jones – Out Today June 12

Posted June 12, 2020 at 9:30 am | No comments

“Rolling Stone Life and Death of Brian Jones” is the 5th acclaimed music documentary for Spanish filmmaker Danny Garcia. His other releases include “The Rise and Fall of The Clash”; “Looking for Johnny”, about New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders; “Sad Vacation”, a film chronicling the final months in New York City of the Sex Pistols

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Legendary Photographer Elliott Landy LIVE on Coastal A&E May 30th at 11:00 AM EST

Legendary Photographer Elliott Landy LIVE on Coastal A&E May 30th at 11:00 AM EST

Posted May 29, 2020 at 11:17 pm | No comments

Elliott Landy’s mesmerizing photographs have been published worldwide for decades in all print mediums including covers for Rolling Stone magazine, Life, The Saturday Evening Post and many more. Landy’s legendary album covers (Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline and Van Morrison’s Moondance for example) are revered to this day and have been celebrated by a young generation of fans eager to discover the “new” world of vinyl records and the visual and highly artistic elements of the covers. 

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Dion Releases “Song for Sam Cooke (Here in America) with Paul Simon

Dion Releases “Song for Sam Cooke (Here in America) with Paul Simon

Posted May 29, 2020 at 2:25 pm | No comments

Dion’s new album, Blues With Friends, is released by KTBA Records on Friday 5th June and is available for Pre-Order worldwide at: KTBArecords.com Dion releases his sixth single “Song For Sam Cooke (Here In America)” with Paul Simon today. The single is taken from his upcoming album ‘Blues With Friends’ released on Friday 5thJune via Keeping The Blues Alive Records.

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Folk Musician & Storyteller John McCutcheon  Releases 41st Album Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine

Folk Musician & Storyteller John McCutcheon Releases 41st Album Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine

Posted May 28, 2020 at 8:47 pm | No comments

“This is not the album I’d planned to do this year!” protests McCutcheon.  Following his last release, To Everyone In All the World: a Celebration of Pete Seeger, in honor of the folk icon’s 100th birthday, he had stockpiled over 30 new songs as a pool for a new album of McCutcheon originals.  “But that pesky virus kind of put a kink in the notion of gathering a bunch of my pals and going into a windowless recording studio for days on end.  I mean I love these folks, but…”

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Remembering A Beautiful Moment With Bob Dylan: The Story Behind the Photo Session

Remembering A Beautiful Moment With Bob Dylan: The Story Behind the Photo Session

Posted May 25, 2020 at 9:22 pm | No comments

In early 1969 Bob Dylan called and asked me to take a picture for the back of his new album, Nashville Skyline. He had the front cover already picked out—a picture of the skyline of Nashville, where he had recorded the album.One afternoon, I went over to his place. As we left the house, he grabbed a hat, and asked, “Do you think we could use this?” I had no idea if it would be good or not, so I told him “Take it, and we’ll see.”

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Debra Devi  to Release A Zillion Stars Overhead on April 23

Debra Devi to Release A Zillion Stars Overhead on April 23

Posted April 18, 2020 at 12:04 pm | No comments

What happens when a pint-sized female singer/guitarist JamBase calls a “supersonic fretburner” meets Gov’t Mule bassist Jorgen Carlsson? Add Amfibian drummer John Hummel for gorgeous rock and fierce jamming — recorded by John Agnello and mixed by Sylvia Massy on Debra Devi’s new EP, A Zillion Stars Overhead.

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Fender Music KK Announces The Made in Japan Heritage Series

Fender Music KK Announces The Made in Japan Heritage Series

Posted March 18, 2020 at 8:28 am | No comments

Fender Music KK, part of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) one of the world’s leading musical instrument manufacturers, marketers and distributors, announced today the launch of the Made in Japan Heritage Series

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Elliott Landy Launches Kickstarter for his new book Contacting the Band

Elliott Landy Launches Kickstarter for his new book Contacting the Band

Posted February 29, 2020 at 10:53 am | No comments

I have launched a Kickstarter campaign to finance my new book, Contacting the Band. It will feature selected contact sheets of the photos I took of The Band in the late Sixties for their first two albums, Music From Big Pink and The Band. It will allow fans of The Band a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the process and frame by frame progression of these landmark photo shoots

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Fender Releases the ’54 Eric Johnson “Virginia” Stratocaster!

Fender Releases the ’54 Eric Johnson “Virginia” Stratocaster!

Posted February 11, 2020 at 12:09 pm | No comments

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) today released the Eric Johnson “Virginia” Stratocaster guitar with the Grammy® award winning artist Eric Johnson. As part of this unique collaboration with the singer, songwriter and guitarist, Fender has recreated Johnson’s 1954 “Virginia” Stratocaster in the Fender Custom Shop

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