Posted March 28, 2024 at 11:25 pm | No comments
Jillian Matundan’s first full-length album bursts forward with an energy and honesty rooted in navigating life’s highs and lows. Singing to the Moon was primarily written during the COVID pandemic, which forced all of us to fully stop for the first time in our lives. Jillian was just returning to writing and performing her own music —after 15 years of putting it on the shelf—and found herself in the same place as everyone else on the planet, with space and time to face herself.
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Posted March 22, 2024 at 11:34 am | No comments
Legendary folk singer-songwriter Jesse Colin Young announces the first digital re-release single “Fire on the Water,” off his 1982 solo album The Perfect Stranger. “Fire On The Water” features an epic collaboration with Michael McDonald (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan).
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Posted December 9, 2023 at 1:13 pm | No comments
“I think it was a great first night. It was heartwarming to see so many people from both the DMV and music communities come out to support our new venue. It was an outstanding first night with many more to come!” – Michael DeMarco
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Posted November 30, 2023 at 6:49 pm | No comments
My name is Michael DeMarco, and I am the owner of Earp’s Ordinary in Fairfax, Virginia. Four years ago, I started the long process of developing a business plan to create a music venue, restaurant, and bar here in the City of Fairfax.I have a lifelong love of music and have leveraged that love, along with my skills from the corporate world, to create a space for local and touring musicians to showcase their talent as well as provide a welcoming environment for music lovers of all ages to enjoy live performances.
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Posted November 14, 2023 at 12:57 pm | No comments
PRS Guitars has announced the “Dead Spec” Silver Sky Limited Edition. Designed for John Mayer’s prominent work on Dead & Company’s most recent tour, the PRS “Dead Spec” Silver Sky is a significantly modded PRS Silver Sky that pays homage to Jerry Garcia’s iconic “Alligator” guitar tones. Only 1,000 “Dead Spec” Silver Sky Limited Edition instruments will be sold worldwide.
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Posted November 9, 2023 at 6:47 am | No comments
After the lead track, other standouts show off Durwood’s impressive range and versatility, including an original take on “Marshmallow World” with a trap-infused back beat, a more somber, indie rock cover of The Killers’ “Christmas In L.A.,” and a gorgeous, stirring version of the Irving Berlin ballad, “Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep).”
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Posted October 1, 2023 at 10:00 am | No comments
by: Rick Landers Decades ago, banjo man Stephen Wade made an indelible mark on stage performing his now legendary one-man act, Banjo Dancing, or the 48th Annual Squitters Mountain Song, Dance, Folklore Convention & Banjo Contest and How I Lost, in Chicago (1979), and later scored a major coup at Washington, D.C.’s Arena Stage, where I […]
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Posted September 19, 2023 at 10:50 am | No comments
Today – on her 83rd birthday – after a decade lay-off from recording on her own, Sylvia Tyson ,announces the release on November 3rd, 2023 of her most powerful, and most incisive recording to date, At The End Of The Day, on Stony Plain Records – and shares that this will be her final a
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Posted September 6, 2023 at 7:55 pm | No comments
Twenty years since the release of his best-selling album ‘Blues Deluxe,’ which celebrated what the US government had declared “the year of the blues” with a mix of originals and reinterpretations of classic songs, superstar Joe Bonamassa is taking stock of how far he and the genre have come with Blues Deluxe Vol. 2, out October 6th via J&R Adventures.
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Posted September 5, 2023 at 5:34 am | No comments
In celebration of the 50th anniversary, Jesse Colin Young has announced a fully remastered release of one of his most iconic albums, Song for Juli, due out on September 15. Originally released on September 4, 1973, the all-new version will be available on all streaming platforms as well as extremely limited-edition vinyl.
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