Monthly Archives: September 2012
Anthrax Issue Open Letter to Fans
Anthrax has issued an open letter to fans, expressing gratitude for what it calls “one of the best years of our career" following last...
Crenshaw Launches Subscription Series for New Releases
Marshall Crenshaw is distributing his newest music via a subscription-based service. The singer/guitarist/songwriter/producer made the move after conducting a funding campaign that asked fans to...
Danny Schmidt
On his second Red House Records release, Danny Schmidt displays the same level of wit and lyricism that made his last release such an...
Social Distortion
After 30-plus years, seven studio albums, a live album, and two DVDs, Social Distortion may have just
released its masterpiece.
The band came rocking out of...
Steve Vai Releases Mic Locker App
Guitarist/composer Steve Vai has teamed with Allen Sides to create an iPhone/iPad app called the Oceanway Microphone Locker. Based on the CD-ROM Sides created in...
Brian Wright
Brian Wright draws on the stylistic legacies of an eclectic bunch of influences, some quite obvious. There’s no mistaking his debt to classic Velvet...
Main Drag Music Set to Host NYC Stomp Box Exhibit
The NYC Stomp Box Exhibit at CMJ Music Marathon 2012, slated for October 19-20, will be hosted this year at Main Drag Music in Brooklyn. The...
Jonathan Kreisberg
There’s a whole new generation of jazz guitarists very conversant in the traditional language of the form, but with their own other influences. Jonathan...
Royal Trux
>Royal Trux took the Velvet Underground’s “Heroin” and made a career of it. The band was founded after the implosion of Washington, D.C. punkers...
Campaign Launched to Raise Funds for Hendrix Park
Funds are being raised to finance a Sound Wave Wall that will find it's home in a park named after guitarist Jimi Hendrix. The...