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G9231 Squareneck Bobtail A/E - Steel, gretsch
Gear Box

With innovation at its core, the Gretsch® G9231 Bobtail Steel Square-neck A.E. will impress your audience with its sweet quality of tone at cutting volumes. Incorporating a special combination of an all-steel body with our renowned Gretsch Ampli-Sonic™ “Spider” cone diaphragm spun from 99 percent pure aluminum, the Bobtail Steel offers a new tonal signature […]
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drops, frank zappa
Drops

Frank Zappa’s 3-CD Lumpy Money Project/Object set and his 2-CD Road Tapes, Venue #1 and Road Tapes, Venue #2 performance albums will be reissued, and Road Tapes, Venue #3 will debut on May 27 from Zappa Records/UMe. All four titles will be available on CD and digitally. In 2008, to mark the 40(th) anniversaries of […]
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Branford Marsalis Quartet, drops, Kurt Elling
Drops

One topic we got into was picking the best singer to work with our band,” Marsalis recalls. “My candidate was Kurt Elling, because he has the most flexible voice around, is always in tune and is a true jazz musician. When I met Kurt two years ago at a Thelonious Monk Institute competition, we had […]
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Drops, Tours

Country legend Johnny Lee, known for his dynamic stage presence and smash No. 1 crossover hit “Lookin’ for Love,” will release his first studio album in 10 years, You Ain’t Never Been to Texas, June 3. “I’ve been holding on to some of these songs for years and wanted to wait until it was just […]
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drops, Lifetime in Hell, Wicked Maraya
Drops

In the spring of 1991 WICKED MARAYA, signed to an independent record label, begin rehearsals on the songs for what is scheduled to be their debut CD. The band decides to team up with producer Jim Morris (Savatage, Iced Earth), known for his melodic fused production, and they begin with the pre-production, and start recording “Lifetime In […]
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drops, the kinks
Drops

RCA/Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release a newly expanded edition of Everybody’s In Show-Biz, The Kinks’ 1972 album masterpiece, on Friday, June 3. First released in August 1972, Everybody’s In Show-Biz was The Kinks’ tenth studio album, arriving within a year of the acclaimed Muswell Hillbillies (the group’s debut album […]
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events, Rocklahoma
Press Releases

The daily band lineups are now available for Rocklahoma—America’s Biggest Memorial Day Weekend Party—May 27, 28 & 29 at “Catch The Fever” Festival Grounds in Pryor, OK just outside Tulsa. Rocklahoma celebrates its 10th Anniversary in 2016 with a lineup of the best current rock artists and classic bands, includingScorpions, Disturbed, Rob Zombie, Five Finger […]
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drrops, wallflowers
Drops

With the release of The Wallflowers’ second album, Bringing Down the Horse, on Interscope Records, May 21, 1996, band leader Jakob Dylan transformed overnight from the scion of one of rock’s living legends to a presence in his own right (or write, as the case may be, as the chief songwriter). The album went quadruple-platinum, […]
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photographs, raveneye
Image of the Month, Promos
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drops, savage master
Drops

Savage Master were formed in October 2013 by guitarist Adam Neal and Stacey “Savage” Peak in Louisville, Kentucky (of all places), featuring a lethal does of female vocals soaring on Lucifer’s wings, over sick rockin’ guitar riffs straight from the depths of hell. Regarding musical influences there are two bands who did leave a lasting […]