Carl Verheyen, recognized as “One of the Top 10 Guitar Players in the World” by Guitar Magazine and “One of the Top 100 Guitarists of All Time” by Classic Rock magazine, today announced that he will bring his three-member Carl Verheyen Band on a September tour of the West Coast, stretching from Seattle to Southern […]
Today, Insomniac announced the first round of talented artists performing at the 4(th) annual Beyond Wonderland, Bay Area. The fan favorite event will bring top dance music acts back to Shoreline Amphitheater & Grounds in Mountain View, Calif. for two days of celebration, Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27. Dozens of artists will perform […]
He brought us songs like “City Lights,” “Release Me,” “Crazy Arms,” “Heartaches By The Number,” “For the Good Times,” “Night Life,” and the list goes on. He helped to pioneer Nashville’s ‘honky-tonk’ sound; and he left an undying legacy on music with his inimitable wide-ranging baritone voice. Ray Price, country music legend, may have passed […]
One of the most highly anticipated tours of the summer kicks off TODAY when the annual HONDA CIVIC TOURPRESENTSONE DIRECTION ON THE ROAD AGAIN arrives in San Diego, CA. at Qualcomm Stadium. The Southern California show marks the beginning of the U.S. leg of the multi-platinum-selling band’s worldwide stadium trek that has already visited countries […]
August 16th, 1957 Buddy Holly and The Crickets, still being billed by the band name only, begin a six-night engagement at Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater, the first white rock act to play the venue. Although crowds boo a little at first — many, including the venue, assumed they’d be seeing R&B vocal group The Crickets — […]
xpatriate Englishman Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), a brilliant and eccentric photographer, gained worldwide fame photographing animal and human movement imperceptible to the human eye. Hired by railroad baron Leland Stanford in 1872, Muybridge used photography to prove that there was a moment in a horse’s gallop when all four hooves were off the ground at once. […]
Life He was born in New York, New York, in 1886, and attended Columbia University,[1] graduating with a B.A. in 1912. He studied photography with Clarence H. White, a faculty member at Columbia. His first successes came selling photographs to magazines including Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Harper’s Bazaar. (However, he was quick to insist that […]
August 13th, 1964 The Kinks score their first hit as “You Really Got Me,” written by Ray Davies on his mother’s piano, enters the British charts. Releases 1965:The Beatles, Help! 1966:The Supremes, “You Can’t Hurry Love” Recording 1930:Guy Lombardo, “Go Home And Tell Your Mother” 1952:Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton, “Hound Dog” 1959:Brenda Lee, “Sweet […]