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LEE ROCKER of The Stray Cats fame today (12/10) announced the January 22 release of his new solo album GATHER ROUND on Upright Records (his label distributed through Orchard). Get ready to “Gather Round,” start “Pickin’ and Grinnin,’” enjoy a “Dirty Martini,” do the “Doghouse Shuffle” and place a bid at the “Graceland Auction.”
Calling All Crows (CAC) announced its 13th annual benefit concert featuring Chadwick Stokes & The Pintos Live from the Ballroom which will stream online Saturday, December 19th. Stokes will be performing with his band the Pintos in their first and only virtual show of the year, with money raised from the concert helping channel the power of music toward community change for women and girls. Tickets for the concert are $25 and are available at noonchorus.com/calling-all-crows.
On the heels of her release of the single ‘Deep Blue Water’, songweaver Robin Lewis shares the public release of her first full length album titled Earth & Sky along with a video for the lead single ‘Ease My Worried Mind’ produced and filmed by NoCoast at The String Cheese Incident studio in Louisville, CO. Lewis’s music guides hearts to beat to the same rhythm and is centered around vulnerable moments of the human experience.
Legendary singer/songwriter Don McLean released his iconic album American Pie in 1971, and now 50 years later will perform at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on “The Day The Music Died,” February 3, 2021. This historic night will honor Richie Valens, Buddy Holly, and The Big Bopper as it marks the 62nd anniversary of the 1950 plane crash that killed the American rock ‘n’ roll musicians.
This is not nostalgia, but it does take the faithful listener to a different time and a different place. Trevor Beld Jimenez does the impossible. He is able to bring the past to today. Trevor’s debut solo album, I Like It Here, conjures images of the past and those sweet and simple pleasures we once all took for granted. The magic of his music is the ability to conjure up these emotions.
When the eponymous debut Beachwood Sparks record hit in 2000, it was a bolt out of the blue. As if the so-called alt.country scene that sprang up in the mid-90s need never have happened, it drew on the cosmic country of a more sun-scorched psychedelic age - legendary records like The Byrds' Notorious Byrd Bros, Flying Burrito Brothers' Gilded Palace of Sin and The Grateful Dead's American Beauty - and brought to it the jangle-pop sensibilities of a group raised on Echo & The Bunnymen and The Clean.
Singer/songwriter/activist David Huckfelt releases his newest track “Book of Life,” from his upcoming album Room Enough, Time Enough out February 26th.
In partnership with the City of Paris and under the patronage of UNESCO, electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre is teaming with French VR startup VRrOOm to take us into the New Year with a live stream trailblazing concert-spectacular set in the virtual environment of the planetary landmark Notre-Dame de Paris. The unique visual world created by Jarre in VR will also be the official midnight news image coming from the City of Paris.
From average Joe by day to guitar hero at night, GUITAR MAN tells the incredible rise of blues-rocker Joe Bonamassa, whose hard work and determination have made him one of today’s top-selling blues artists. With more #1 Blues albums than anyone else in history, Bonamassa pulls back the curtain on his incredible career, allowing us to see his remarkable musical achievements and pioneering style.
