As part of its 32nd Annual NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards (NAMM TEC Awards), The NAMM Foundation has announced that rocker Joe Perry will receive the prestigious Les Paul Award. The annual award is given on behalf of the Les Paul Foundation and honors individuals that have set the highest standards of excellence in […]
Twisted Sister, fronted by the incomparable Dee Snider, is coming to Badlands Pawn in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for the final U.S. performance of their career ending “40 and F*ck It” World Tour.ed in 1973 by guitarist Jay Jay French, has sold millions of albums worldwide and accumulated numerous charting singles including their massive hits […]
A protégé of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, multi Grammy award-winning musician, actor, author, playwright and activist, Steve Earle was an ambitious Texas songwriter struggling to get his break when now legendary MCA A&R head Tony Brown signed the recalcitrant rocker. Guitar Town, Earle’s debut album, was shocking in its blue collar […]
GRAMMY-winning music superstar Tim McGraw will perform live at the 2016 Belk Bowl FanFest concert being held this year at BB&T Ballpark in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday, Dec. 29. The concert will precede the match-up of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and Southeastern Conference (SEC), which kicks off at 5:30 p.m. at Bank of […]
30 years on FM announce that they have decided to record a modern-day version of their now classic debut album INDISCREET. The band was asked many times to consider re-recording some of these tracks using today’s modern technology and recording techniques and giving the songs the sound of FM as it is today. The band […]
Dwight Yoakam’s new album Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars… is now #1 on Soundscan’s Bluegrass Chart and #6 on their Country Current Chart after its recent release on Sugar Hill Records. NPR Music’s “First Listen” premiered the record proclaiming, “Not only is this album a chance for Yoakam to prove that his material does in fact […]
Legendary engineer, producer, artist, and educator Alan Parsons continues his Master Class Training Sessions at Orb Studios in Austin, November 15th with powerful local rock singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Casey McPherson as the recording artist. The Austin master class is the lastest of similar events held at Abbey Road, London, The Village in Los Angeles, […]
Legendary singer-songwriter and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Marty Balin, best known as lead singer and founder of Je fferson Airplane and hit song maker of Jefferson Starship, has one more award to add to his career, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement / Special Merit Award from The Recording Academy. Balin is also known […]