Back By Popular Demand, Once Again: Delta Wires, respected long-time Rockin’ Big Band Blues mainstays from the San Francisco/Bay area music scene, return to Livermore to perform locally at Almost Famous Wine Lounge, 2271 S. Vasco Rd., Friday, December 13. Show: 7:30pm. Tickets: $12.51-23.18. Info: (925) 384-5870 or visit www.almostfamous.wine. Ernie Pinata’s searing and impassioned harp on the […]
The Blues Foundation launches its 40th year by saluting the 2025 Keeping The Blues Alive (KBA) honorees during International Blues Challenge week, Tuesday, January 7 through Saturday, January 11. This year’s KBA recipients are The Rhythm Room; Blues Blast Magazine; Charlie Hussey; Big Ed’s Blues Jam; Little Steven’s Blues School; Cincy Blues Society; Jefferson Street Sound Museum; and Ryszard Gloger. Keeping The Blues Alive Awards are chosen annually […]
What a double bill! Billy Walton, one of the Tri-State area’s busiest, most popular rock guitarists, who fronts high-energy group Billy Walton Band, joins Philly favorites Low Cut Connie for a pre-Christmas banger at Anchor Rock Club, 247 S. New York Ave., Saturday, December 14. Doors: 7:00PM. Show: 8:00PM. Info: (609) 808-4990 or visit anchorrockclub.com. The show is being presented […]
Swedish hard rockers Seventh Crystal have released their highly anticipated third studio album “Entity”, out now via Frontiers Music Srl. The new track and accompanying visualizer video “Siren Song” are also available now. Describing the new single, the band had to say the following: “According to Greek mythology, sirens were beings who with their beautiful, […]
Each year, The CMA Awards nominees and winners are determined by more than 6,000 industry professional members of the Country Music Association, which when established in 1958, became the first trade organization formed to promote an individual genre of music. The first CMA Awards Banquet and Show was held in 1967. Similar to the Oscars […]
“The songs on Saratoga deserve nothing less than your full attention. Eddie’ 9V’s latest album announces his new groove with the crisp, purposeful beats of the opening title track, an instant favorite that gets under your skin with its almost disco-style harmonies and joust of horns and slide guitar” – THE ROCKPIT Ruf Records releases Saratoga, the new studio album […]
Get ready for the 9th Annual New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival at the historic New Orleans Jazz Museum, 400 Esplanade Ave., taking place Thursday, January 16 through Saturday, January 18. An astonishing array of talent from far and wide gathers to both perform and celebrate homemade-stringed instruments in the world’s most musical city. Tickets/info: (504) 568-6993 or visit NewOrleansCBG.com. New Jersey […]
Bachman Turner-Overdrive, the legendary rock n’ roll band behind worldwide hits such as “Takin’ Care Of Business” and “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet”, has announced an extensive tour across Canada in April and May of next year titled, Back In Overdrive Tour 2025. Multi-platinum April Wine and Headpins, two fellow Canadian rock bands, will open in support. Tickets go on […]
Every now and again, art offers up the perfect storm. When creative worlds collide with a furious cacophony of power, licks and lyrics, magic happens. Such is the case with Kings of Mercia, whose second album, Battle Scars, is the continuation of a story as unlikely as it is glorious. When guitarist Jim Matheos of prog-metal powerhouse […]
