DIXIE DREGS CLASSIC LINEUP BACK TOGETHER FOR FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS
The Dixie Dregs were seemingly an exercise in how not to be successful in the music business. Five guys playing complex, southern-flavored rock music. Or was it jazz? And oh yeah, there was no singer....
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MAC SABBATH ARE THE UNDISPUTED CHAMPIONS OF ‘DRIVE-THRU’ METAL
Maybe you've heard of speed metal. But fast-food metal? Heavy metal has a staggering number of sub-genres. Death metal, thrash metal, doom metal, stoner metal, power metal, black metal, grindcore, ...
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WITH ‘PANGAEA,’ EVERYTHING COMES TOGETHER FOR JASON McCUE
If geological history is to believed, the earth was a much less divided place eons ago. About 200 to 300 million years ago, the continents were, to put it not very scientifically, smushed together. Th...
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DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, TIGERS JAW LEAD THE WAY AT FIRST ALT 92.1 FM SNOW SHOW
Photos by Alex Seeley Emo legends Dashboard Confessional and hometown heroes Tigers Jaw led the bill at the inaugural Alt 92.1 Snow Show on Sunday, Jan. 28 at the FM Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre, ...
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MIZ’S COMEBACK STORY UNFOLDS ON ‘A YEAR AGO TODAY’ (SONG PREMIERE)
Mike Mizwinski — the singer, songwriter and guitarist who performs as Miz — opens his soon-to-be-released new studio album, “A Year Ago Today,” with an introspective, country-flavored tune called “Bei...
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H81R’S MICHAEL LELLO’S FAVORITE ALBUMS AND SHOWS OF THE YEAR
ALBUMS 1. Ryan Adams - Prisoner 2. The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding 3. Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want? 4. The National - Sleep Well Beast 5. Spoon - Hot Thoughts 6. Tige...
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BLACK CROWES’ LEGACY IN FULL FLIGHT AT IRVING PLAZA
Photos by Toktam Tayefeh NEW YORK — Defining The Black Crowes was always a bit of a fool’s errand. In the ’90s, their hit songs were played on mainstream radio alongside the likes of Madonna and Mi...
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TONEY ROCKS IS ‘NOT GONNA RUN’ (VIDEO PREMIERE)
Toney Rocks sees his new song, “Not Gonna Run,” as “a kind of personal anthem.” “It says everything that it needed to say,” says the Las Vegas singer, songwriter and guitarist. It just took a l...
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DUSTIN DOUGLAS & THE ELECTRIC GENTLEMEN BRING SRV RETROSPECTIVE TO KIRBY CENTER LOBBY SERIES (VIDEOS)
Dustin Douglas & The Electric Gentlemen will bring their SRV Retrospective show to the FM Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre, PA, on Saturday, Nov. 18, as part of the venue's Live from the Chandelier Lo...
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MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA, TIGERS JAW A STUDY IN CONTRASTS AT TERMINAL 5
Photos by Angelo Santoro NEW YORK, NY — During a recent stop at Terminal 5 (capacity 3,000), one band showed you don’t need an arena to effectively play arena rock, and another proved you don’t nee...
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