STEEL PANTHER: ‘WE HAVE ALL THE DISEASES’
It’s late morning at Duff's in Brooklyn, and the smell of yesterday’s beer mingles with today’s hairspray. That can only mean one thing: The boys from Steel Panther have arrived from L.A. to talk abou...
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TOOL’S METHOD AND MADNESS ON DISPLAY IN EPIC NEW JERSEY SHOW
NEWARK, NJ -- Tool, who infamously works at a snail's pace -- five albums in 26 years -- has a vocalist who doesn't front the band on stage and bars cellphone photography at its shows. It demands a lo...
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EXCLUSIVE: OLD CHARADES ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, STREAMS NEW TRACK
Scranton and Philadelphia band Old Charades today announces a new album, "Iron-Jawed Angels," and debuts the title track here as well. The band says the album will most likely be released in late fall...
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EXCLUSIVE: J. ALAN SCHNEIDER VISITS ‘BORDER TOWN’ AND EXPLORES COLLABORATIVE RECORDING PROCESS
For his new album, "All Lit Up," J. Alan Schneider decided to bring some friends into the recording process, a departure from his 2016 debut EP, "Lo & Behold." "I've played in bands and record...
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JAY BLAKESBERG’S VISIONS OF JERRY GARCIA
Rock photographer Jay Blakesberg, whose new book "Jerry Garcia: Secret Space of Dreams" focuses on the legendary Grateful Dead singer and guitarist, always had a goal when he was shooting the late mus...
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BLUES TRAVELER LOOKS BACK ON ‘FOUR’
By the time Blues Traveler released "Four" in late 1994, the band was primed for a breakthrough. Formed in Princeton, the group had honed its chops in dinky New York City clubs, built a fan base via w...
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NELS CLINE and YUKA C. HONDA EMBRACE THE RANDOMNESS OF CUP
CUP -- the musical partnership between husband and wife Nels Cline and Yuka C. Honda -- is an exercise in opposites. Cline, the experimental guitarist known for his longstanding membership in Wilco, "...
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LITTLE FEAT’S BILL PAYNE ON LOWELL GEORGE’S LEGACY, ‘WAITING FOR COLUMBUS’ and ROBERT HUNTER
When Little Feat got together 50 years ago, the goals set by keyboardist Bill Payne and singer-guitarist Lowell George were twofold, Payne says. "One was keeping it elastic so if we needed to inclu...
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IMMEDIATE FAMILY RIFFS ON PLAYING WITH JAMES TAYLOR, KEITH RICHARDS and WARREN ZEVON
If you're a casual music fan, you probably never heard of Danny Kortchmar, Waddy Wachtel, Leland Sklar and Russ Kunkel. But if you've listened to the radio in the past 40 years, you've certainly heard...
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MORE FANS FLOCKING TO GOOSE AS BAND PLOTS JAZZ CAFE, MERCURY LOUNGE VISITS
The Goose is flying south for the fall. The four-piece improvisational rock band from Norwalk, Conn., will make its way to the River Street Jazz Cafe in Wilkes-Barre on Friday -- just a few miles from...
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