By: Jason Young When Wes Montgomery, the most influential jazz guitarist of the 1960’s,  introduced a new audience to his playing with the seminal jazz-pop album A Day In The Life, he received fanfare and criticism.  Entering the golden age of AM radio with jazz versions of counter-culture favorites, the commercially savvy album presented jazz to a generation reared on transistor technology.  With AM radio music directors now turning their attention to commercial jazz, Wes’s partnership with famed producer Creed Taylor proved good timing. Featuring The Beatles’ hit so ..read more

Press Release:  Source: Howlin’ Wuelf Media CINEMA CINEMA returns, this time with polymath percussionist Thor Harris (Swans, Angels of Light, Shearwater) in tow, to release their seventh full length, Mjölnir. Recorded at historic BC Studio in Brooklyn, NY, with legendary noise producer Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, John Zorn, Boredoms). The album will be released July 14 as a limited edition red 12” vinyl LP, digital download and via streaming platforms by Nefarious Industries. The first song being released is “War On You.” Guitarist Ev Gold had this to say about it: “”We dig i ..read more

Press Release Source: Propeller Publicity Tim O’Brien – photo credit: Scott Simontacchi In this post, singer-songwriter, Tim O’Brien, talks about his song “Cup of Sugar”. ****** The songs started with ‘Bear.‘ It was December of 2021, and the news was all about Russia and would Putin invade Ukraine. I had just read a book on the history of dancing bears. White Nationalism was a prominent topic, the flip side being Black Lives Matter. Trump had lost the election but was ramping up his spoiled brat act. I could imagine the gripes Putin, Trump and the White Nationalists had, even if I didn’t agr ..read more

Press Release Source: Propeller Publicity Two-time folk Grammy nominee Eliza Gilkyson is sharing the first single, the “brightly ethereal” (Folk Alley) “Safety Zone”, from her new album, Home, set for released June 23 on her own imprint, Realiza Records. Premiering today, the song came about after a bad accident Eliza suffered at last year’s Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas. Eliza Gilkyson – Photo credit: Robert Jensen “I left my car in gear when I pulled up and got halfway out of the car, which rolled forward and dragged me down a dirt road, over a low rock wall and into a tree,” she reca ..read more

  By: Jason Young “I got to play behind Jeff a few hundred days a year for almost 15 or 16 years, and that alone was worth the price of admission.” Tom Stephen. In a brilliant display of legendary guitarist Jeff Healey’s career, 2018’s Best Seat in the House, written by former Jeff Healey Band drummer and manager the late Tom Stephen and co-written with author Keith Elliot Greenberg –Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die, shares the drummer’s intimate relationship with the Canadian guitar virtuoso.  Thirty-five years ago, the Toronto blues rocker shook up the guitar world ..read more

By: Rick Landers Rocker – producer – award winning songwriter, Stacy Hogan, has been in the music entertainment business since he was a kid, at 12 banging away on the eighty-eights and getting out and about on tour with an adult country band. His parents and relatives have been in the music making business for generations. And today, Hogan, has continued his family legacy in Nashville, with this own production company, A Writer’s Studio, and fronts the cool relevant rock trio, Sin Shake Sin. Early on, Guitar International magazine interviewed Stacy when the trio had to leave their tour while p ..read more

Press Release Source: Orange Amplification Cliff Cooper, patron of Orange Amplification The official grand opening of the Strawberry Field Forever Bandstand took place in Liverpool on 2nd May 2023. The Bandstand has been donated by Honorary Patron, Cliff Cooper, CEO of Orange Amplification. It sits in the original Strawberry Field garden in Liverpool where John Lennon, as a child, used to jump over the wall into the grounds of the children’s home and listen to the Salvation Army band play. Written by Lennon, the song ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ featured on the double A-side s ..read more

By: Jason Young Now and then, a phenomenal guitar picker such as Marcus King emerges. Just as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Healey, whose meteoric rise to fame during the eighties and early nineties influenced a multitude of guitar-playing hopefuls, King also will leave his indelible mark. Arriving in 2014, the Grammy award nominated artist turned heads immediately with his debut album, Soul Insight, which announced his vocal and guitar mastery alongside his accompanying band (The Marcus King Band). In a short time, he has been featured in Rolling Stone magazine, played the Grand Ole Opry, and g ..read more

By: Rick Landers The Gruene Guitars company’s mantra is “out of the box” that refers to a conversation the company’s owner had with an old pal, both having annoying guitar purchases when their new guitars arrived needing adjustments to sound good. “Why can’t someone make a new guitar that’s ready to go, out of the box?” is how John Byers, president and founder of Gruene Guitars asked, before the two of them said, “Why not us?” Ultimately, John became the founder and owner of the new company and continues in that role today. Based out of San Antonio, Texas, all Gruene guitars are built with all ..read more

Press Release Source: Fran DeFeo PR Today, Pink Floyd has celebrated the 50th Anniversary of its iconic The Dark Side of the Moon album with a listening event timed to a rare total solar eclipse at the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Marine Park (Nyinggulu) in Exmouth, Western Australia. The legendary group invited eight competition winning fans to a special secluded beach location in the region to hear The Dark Side of the Moon in full – with Roger Waters iconic closing lines “But the sun is eclipsed by the moon…” from the album’s final song ‘Eclipse’ timed to align with the e ..read more