REO Speedwagon Rocks the QuickChek NJ Festival of Ballooning
It was a beautiful sunny day at the Solberg Airport in Readington, N.J., on Saturday, July 27th, for the 2013 QuickChek NJ Festival of Ballooning.
It was a beautiful sunny day at the Solberg Airport in Readington, N.J., on Saturday, July 27th, for the 2013 QuickChek NJ Festival of Ballooning.
Bret Michaels and his band rolled into NYC on Friday July 26th to pay tribute to the Men and Woman of the Military and 9/11 First Responders by playing live on the Fox and Friend’s Summer Concert Series.
On Mysterious Boundaries, Celtic guitarist, Tony McManus, collects a gathering of melodic impressions that quietly move us, sometimes hauntingly. At once technically masterful, emotionally nuanced and evocative, the Scottish-born guitarist’s new album will please his fans and attract a wider audience to his fine playing. And with a surname that’s rooted in the word “great”, Tony lives up to his Irish heritage.
If there was ever a time to discover, or rediscover, Iceland’s post-rock ambassadors, Sigur Rós, it is now, with the recent release of their album Kveikur. The band’s seventh album, it is marked by the departure of keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson, who had been on since before the group’s second album, the groundbreaking Ágætis Byrjun.
Just when the evening began to chill, Billy Idol and his hard-hitting band punched in with some heat at the Filene Center, Vienna Virginia, on June 20th.
Tuesday night, June 11th, the legendary Iridium Jazz Club in New York played host to guitarist, Zakk Wylde, for his Book Tour of Doom. It was the second of three sold out nights!
Clocking in at 190 pages, Rush: The Illustrated History from Martin Popoff is a worthy addition to the Voyageur Press line of illustrated books [previous installments have paid tribute to Zeppelin, Queen, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, and others].
Dan Phillips is a graduate of Berklee College of Music. He represented the college at the Montreal Jazz festival in his senior year of undergraduate school. He has been a bandleader in Chicago, New York, Tokyo and now in Bangkok. He is a composer and educator who currently is Lecturer of Guitar and Jazz Studies at Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
One of the quintessential classic rock bands, Styx has been playing the music scene for over three decades with their signature combination of distortion guitars, dominative synthesizer playing, and some of the best harmonious group vocals in the genre.
Over a decade in the making, Cinderella frontman, Tom Keifer, is boldly launching his solo career with a thrilling and terrific new album, The Way Life Goes ; an appropriate title, considering the multiple obstacles he’s faced.
