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Making a Living as a Freelance Guitarist

Making a Living as a Freelance Guitarist

Posted August 23, 2012 at 11:53 am | 2 comments

Making a living as a freelance guitarist is not easy. It requires flexibility, professionalism and years of hard work.

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CD Review: Accept Emerges from Hibernation with the New CD Stalingrad

CD Review: Accept Emerges from Hibernation with the New CD Stalingrad

Posted August 23, 2012 at 11:44 am | No comments

After a 14-year hiatus, Accept emerged from their metal hibernation in 2010, boasting a new powerhouse lead singer, Mark Tornillo, as well as their most successful and arguably strongest album yet, Blood of the Nations.

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Scum of the Earth Guitarist Riggs talks The Devil Made Me Do It and the coming of the Zombie Apocalypse

Scum of the Earth Guitarist Riggs talks The Devil Made Me Do It and the coming of the Zombie Apocalypse

Posted August 20, 2012 at 9:13 am | No comments

Scum of the Earth was formed in late 2003 by former Rob Zombie guitarist Riggs, an in-your-face singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer.

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Loudon Wainwright III and Mary Chapin Carpenter Live at Wolf Trap

Loudon Wainwright III and Mary Chapin Carpenter Live at Wolf Trap

Posted August 19, 2012 at 12:11 pm | No comments

An evening of homespun humor and country ballads and rock rolled into Wolf Trap starting with an expressive set by Loudon Wainwright III, followed by Mary Chapin Carpenter, both Grammy winning artists.

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Adler in Line-Up for The KISS Kruise

Adler in Line-Up for The KISS Kruise

Posted August 16, 2012 at 9:01 pm | No comments

Adler, the new band led by former Guns N Roses drummer Steven Adler has been added to the lineup for The Kiss Kruise.

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KISS Releases the KISS Monster Book

KISS Releases the KISS Monster Book

Posted August 15, 2012 at 9:47 am | No comments

Iconic Rock Band Launches a Larger-Than-Life Journey Through 40-Years of KISS, with Limited-Edition Book Of Rare Photography on August 21 at Viper Room; Unseen Photographs, The Real Story, Exclusive Material

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Fagan, McDonald and Scaggs: “The Dukes of September” Serve up a Triple Play

Fagan, McDonald and Scaggs: “The Dukes of September” Serve up a Triple Play

Posted August 14, 2012 at 12:22 pm | One comment

It’s 8pm sharp on an unseasonably cool summer night at The Filene Center at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia, and a large audience is on hand expecting to hear their favorites from three musical icons of the classic/adult contemporary rock genre, The Dukes of September.

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Retro, Rain & Rollicking – Squeeze and The B-52s Roam into Wolf Trap

Retro, Rain & Rollicking – Squeeze and The B-52s Roam into Wolf Trap

Posted August 6, 2012 at 12:37 pm | No comments

Extreme summer heat and a forecast for severe thunderstorms would fail to prevent thousands of new wave and retro rockers from filling The Filene Center at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia, as Squeeze and The B-52s were on tap for an evening of feel good music and memories.

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Steve Brown Talks about Trixter’s New Audio Machine Album

Posted August 5, 2012 at 8:22 pm | No comments

If you grew up in Bergen County, New Jersey, during the ’80s and ’90s you couldn’t help but know one of the members in the band Trixter.

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Bret Michaels at the 2012 Quick Chek Balloon Festival

Bret Michaels at the 2012 Quick Chek Balloon Festival

Posted August 1, 2012 at 9:45 am | No comments

Depending on where you stand, Bret Michaels may be most notable to you as the front man of rock’s most iconic and enduring band, Poison, or as a reality star in his over the top VH1 Series Rock of Love, or even as the winner of Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice.

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