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Crown of the Continent Guitar Workshop & Festival August 24-31 Featuring Top Artists

Crown of the Continent Guitar Workshop & Festival August 24-31 Featuring Top Artists

Posted August 1, 2014 at 8:29 pm | One comment

For the first time, a blazing female lead guitarist—blues star Ana Popovic—will join the exclusive ranks of Artists-In-Residence (AIRs) in northwestern Montana, at this summer’s week-long Crown of the Continent Guitar Workshop & Festival.

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Brad Whitford of Aerosmith – Playing for People is the Best Sensation in the World!

Brad Whitford of Aerosmith – Playing for People is the Best Sensation in the World!

Posted August 1, 2014 at 9:05 am | One comment

Aerosmith is out on the road for their North American summer “Let Rock Rule” Tour. Seeing Aerosmith is more than enough to satiate any rock fans needs. Add Slash and the Conspirators to the bill and you get a raucous adrenaline-fueled North American tour that spills over and drenches fans with a definitive summer rock ‘n’ roll experience.

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KISS and Def Leppard Rockin’ with Ferocity at PNC Art Center

KISS and Def Leppard Rockin’ with Ferocity at PNC Art Center

Posted July 31, 2014 at 5:12 am | No comments

Do you want a concert where the band’s songs have monstrous licks, catchy hooks, and infectious grooves? Do you want it performed while smoke pours up from underneath stage and fireworks shoot at you from every direction? Do you want it all on the same stage…. in one night?

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Joel Hoekstra of Night Ranger – High Road is Feel Good American Rock n’ Roll!

Joel Hoekstra of Night Ranger – High Road is Feel Good American Rock n’ Roll!

Posted July 30, 2014 at 10:32 am | No comments

Hard work, perseverance, and simultaneously having your hands in multiple projects seem to be the new business model for musicians nowadays. Case in point. guitarist Joel Hoekstra. When he is not out touring on the weekends with Night Ranger he can be found on Broadway’s Great White Way, turning heads with his blazing eight-finger solo in the play Rock of Ages. When he is not there in the winter months, he can be seen playing arenas with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra!

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James Young of Styx on the Roller Coaster of Highs and Lows

James Young of Styx on the Roller Coaster of Highs and Lows

Posted July 29, 2014 at 3:23 pm | No comments

If there has ever been a band that is difficult to place a label upon or box into a genre, it’s STYX. The Chicago spawned rockers are just as well known for their hard rocking singles as they are the lush ballads, that propelled them to superstardom in the 1970s and 1980s.

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U.K.’s Lindo Guitars Releases a New Effects Pedals

U.K.’s Lindo Guitars Releases a New Effects Pedals

Posted July 29, 2014 at 12:30 pm | One comment

Lindo Guitars have introduced their new line-up of guitar effects pedals for players looking for distortion, overdrive and delay effects. Their pedals are built in the U.K.

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Tipton and Faulkner of Judas Priest Talk Redeemer of Souls

Tipton and Faulkner of Judas Priest Talk Redeemer of Souls

Posted July 14, 2014 at 5:29 am | No comments

Judas Priest have outdone themselves with their 17th studio album; Redeemer of Souls.
Released on July 8, 2014, metalheads around the globe are already singing its praises.

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PRS Celebrates the S2 Series’ First Anniversary with Three New Semi-Hollow Models

PRS Celebrates the S2 Series’ First Anniversary with Three New Semi-Hollow Models

Posted July 9, 2014 at 3:19 pm | No comments

On the first anniversary of the S2 Series, PRS is adding three new models to the lineup: the S2 Mira Semi-Hollow, S2 Custom 22 Semi-Hollow, and the S2 Singlecut Semi-Hollow. These three new models further PRS’s desire to create a complete product offering inside the S2 Series.

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Frank Hannon of Tesla – The Simplest Approach is Always the Best

Frank Hannon of Tesla – The Simplest Approach is Always the Best

Posted July 8, 2014 at 11:53 am | No comments

Tesla have gone back to the basics with their newest CD, Simplicity. From the way they wrote these 14 riff blazing songs to the way they were recorded – as a team and live, the album is reminiscent of the way they recorded their debut album back in 1986.

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DVD Review: Little Feat Live in Holland 1976

DVD Review: Little Feat Live in Holland 1976

Posted June 23, 2014 at 11:12 am | No comments

The primordial approach and inescapable influence of southern rock band, Little Feat. has recently been released in the form of the band’s new live album, Live in Holland 1976, comprised of previously unreleased classic recordings.

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