Wednesday, October 15; 12:00 AM “The Show I’ll Never Forget” is a book that should open with a disclaimer warning that not all concert experiences are as wild as the ones detailed therein. Drug use, violence and parties backstage are all featured in this anthology of stories by a large variety of writers describing their [...]
For its 29th edition, the Clearwater Jazz Holiday offers another jazz-and-miscellaneous sampler, ranging from superstar crooner Tony Bennett to 16-year-old rising star Grace Kelly. Some of the names on the program are familiar to even the most casual fans R B singer Patti Austin, smooth-jazz saxophonist David Sanborn, neo-swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Here [...]
Owen Thomas never counted on TV news to be a muse or a promotional outlet for his rock band. But the vocalist-guitarist for the Elms wrote “This Is How the World Will End” after watching CNN, and Indianapolis station WTHR (Channel 13) uses the song to promote its anchors and reporters — a campaign that [...]
(Top40 Charts/ HYENA Records) - Marco Benevento continues a year long push behind his debut studio album, Invisible Baby, with a seven city Northeast tour in November. The Brooklyn-based pianist will lead a trio featuring bassist Reed Mathis and drummer Andrew Barr for the first three shows in Hartford, New York City and Burlington. He’ll [...]
(by Jenny Fisher - October 15, 2008) Steve Schankman started booking local and regional bands while in college at the University of Missouri St. Louis. It was as a side job to bring in money to support his studies and his love of new cars. But things got serious fast less than a year after [...]
Taylor will hold free concerts in five N.C. cities Sunday through Tuesday, according to a news release from Obama’s N.C. press office. He will be in Wilmington on Tuesday in support of Obama’s Campaign for Change and to encourage early voting. Details of the visit have not yet been announced. Taylor, who was raised in [...]
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“Take Me” is the CD’s explosive intro, with rat-a-tat guitars as well as pretty three-part harmonies. “Dirty Pretty Things” has a rolling metal quality that reminded me a bit of the band I Mother Earth.
MANAGUA — Mario Sacasa was just another musician in the United States, where no one knew his family name. But here, where history is built into the very scenery of cities, Sacasa cannot escape his family’s link to one of Nicaragua’s darkest chapters. Sacasa is a descendant of the Somoza family, dictators who ruled Nicaragua [...]
But these entertainers aren’t kids, or even teenagers. The Imagination Movers are a band of four 30-something guys from New Orleans who launched a new show on the Disney Channel in the United States last month. “Tick-tock goes the clock, but I’m all right,” they rap in a song about bedtime. And, “when you clean [...]