It has been announced that David Bowie’s former pianist Mike Garson is holding an all-star celebration in honor of the late icon on what would have been his 74th birthday. The show will also include the members of Bowie’s final touring band and his long-time producer, Tony Visconti. “A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day!” […]
The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971. With five number-one singles and six number-one albums, six Grammy Awards, and five American Music Awards, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s in North America. Founding members Glenn Frey (guitars, vocals), Don Henley (drums, vocals), […]
The Jerry Garcia Music Arts label will release a new album titled “Front Street Outtakes” on January 5. The album tracks are composed of studio outtakes from a 1994 recording session featuring Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead and Sanjay Mishra, an Indian American guitarist-composer. The collaboration showcases a new direction the ever-creative Garcia was […]
The Sully Band, recently named “Best Live Performer” at the 2020 San Diego Music Awards, will stage a live, all-star, virtual fundraising concert on Thursday, January 14 at 7:30 pm at the Belly Up Tavern in San Diego. The free concert will benefit the Challenged Athletes Foundation and can be viewed at bellyuponline.com/sully. Well-known comedian […]
“Roundabout” is a song by the English progressive rock band Yes from their fourth studio album Fragile, released in 1971, making the song 50 years old. It was written by singer Jon Anderson and guitarist Steve Howe and produced by the band and Eddy Offord. The song originated when the band were on tour and […]
Kohaku Uta Gassen, broadcast on Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, is the annual music program in Japan which continues to be the most popular TV program each year for the past 70 years. With an unprecedented viewership of over 40%, it has long been viewed as the true barometer of status for domestic artists with an […]
On Wednesday, December 23rd, Country icons Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson took an animated Christmas-themed trip through Fort Worth, Texas, in the new animated music video for “Pretty Paper.” Nelson originally wrote the song back in 1963, after the star saw a disabled man selling pencils and wrapping paper outside of a department store. In […]
Tony Rice was an American guitarist and bluegrass musician. He was an influential acoustic guitar player in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and flattop acoustic jazz. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Rice’s music spans the range of acoustic from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced New Acoustic music to songwriter-oriented […]
By the time The Band was ready to record their third album, Stage Fright, in 1970, they were riding high from having released back-to-back albums that solidified them as one of the most exciting and revolutionary groups of the late 1960s. Seemingly coming from nowhere and everywhere in ’68, their landmark debut album, Music From […]
As this crazy year comes to a close, Ringo is offering a song of peace, love and friendship – “Here’s To The Nights” available now as a single. Written by Diane Warren, Ringo is joined by his friends, some longtime and some new, including: Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Corinne Bailey Rae, Eric Burton (Black Pumas), […]