Media Credit: File - The Battalion [Click to enlarge] The Flyers are a band that don’t like to do things in a conventional manner. From its indie-rock sound to its use of varied and often random instruments, The Flyers are making an impression on the local music scene. When lead vocalist-guitarist-cellist-trumpeter, Bob Turek, a [...]
The Academy Is is not quite a band that has found its way into everyone’s music dictionary. It hasn’t even made it “big” yet, spending most of the summer as the opening act for pop-emo-punk giant Fall Out Boy. In fact, the name of the band’s headlining fall tour, the “Sleeping with Giants Tour,” [...]
Two Scottish teenagers have reached the final of a BBC Two programme searching for the next British classical music superstar.
Jeremiah Brunnhoelzl, guitarist for the band Strept, due to play at 7 p.m. and 9:10 p.m. at Friday’s concert, said his band is one of the fest’s secular acts. But Strept has played at Nameless Youth’s venue before. He said there isn’t a problem fitting in with the Christian rockers.
On Thursday, locally based music Web site Detour announced it would host Rock City, a music festival to take place March 5-8. Monday night, publisher Anthony Morrow released a statement saying Rock City would be moved to next summer. Controversy immediately flared last week on MySpace.com and local music blogs when musicians and fans [...]
New Age CD II, pianist, composer and arranger Hector Contreras’ most recent offering is as the title would suggest, New Age music mixed in with a good helping of Ambient music. As New Age it is melodic, with hints of natural elements, the sounds designed to be most pleasing to the ear, a style of [...]
1. First, some classical music. Classical music that soars. Majestically, gloriously, rapturously … Music that stirs the soul and makes you proud to be British. Big music, fit for the most tragic romantic epic, for a film about the Somme, and in this case, for a montage of the nation’s cuddly mammals, its fields, [...]
THOMAS TROTTER performs as a soloist with, among many others, the conductors Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Chailly, and Sir Charles Mackerras. He has performed recitals in Berlin’s Philharmonie, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, both the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, and London’s Royal Festival Hall.
NEKO CASE grew up in Washington, attended art school in Vancouver, left home and quit school at the age of 15 and submerged herself in the world of country, gospel and punk music. She claims no genre, nor utilizes any classic formula for her songs and singing. More than anything she thrives in the [...]
Warner Bros. plans to put this same managed digital copy feature on the Harry Potter movie Order of the Phoenix, coming to home video on Dec. 11. Disney is planning a second-quarter-2008 debut of its first DVD with the feature.