What to do on a Wednesday night in San Diego? I decided to check out one of my favorite vocalist at the House of Blues in beautiful downtown San Diego. Rock-turned-country artist Aaron Lewis brought his “Sinner” tour to The House of Blues to warm up a sold-out crowd Wednesday with songs from his country […]
Self-described “drive-through-metal” parody band Mac Sabbath partners up with mariachi-meets-metal band Metalachi to please any diverse crowd. The packed house crams up to the stage that has been decked out with a BBQ grill, several mustard and ketchup squeezy bottles and mannequin clown heads billowing smoke on cue flanking the ends of the stage. A […]
Please accept this invitation to discover R.E.M.itation! The worlds most authentic R.E.M Tribute Band! Even if you weren’t a hard core REM fan this So Cal based tribute band is respectfully worth giving up some rem‘s for any night of the week and they might have you realizing you were a bigger fan than you knew! On the beautiful Earth Day of April 22, 2017 The Strawberry Bowl Festival Amphitheater in Garden Grove, California was filled to it’s acoustically perfect capacity with shiny happy people! Yep! I said it! R.E.M.itation is the brainchild of Rich Slepack who plays the role of Bill Berry on […]
The G5135-PS Patrick Stump Signature Series Gretsch® Stump-O-Matic Electromatic® CVT is built to the exacting specs of the Fall Out Boy singer/guitarist. A tonally versatile solid-body model, it features a set neck and string-through-body design for ringing sustain, three Mega’Tron™ humbucking pickups, TV Jones®-designed circuitry with two-position rotary switch for activating the middle pickup, three-position […]
The Coach House, located in San Juan Capistrano, opened its doors for what is to become an amazing evening with multi-platinum selling, GRAMMY-nominated singer/songwriter Geoff Tate. The lucky people in attendance that night experienced what Geoff is calling “The Whole Story ‘Ryche’ Acoustic Tour”. The band will be highlighting songs from all 17 albums of […]
UFO is an English rock band which was formed in 1969. From early hard rock to heavy metal this group is the definition of British heavy metal. Over a career spanning 48 years, UFO has released 22 studio albums, 14 live recordings and 16 compilation albums. They achieved success in the late 1970s and early […]
On the heels of his recently released solo album, United States based, Ted Poley (Danger Danger), delivers again. This time teaming up with Trixter’s, Steve Brown and the results are a lively and addicting trip back to hard/melodic rock’s heyday! Released under recording giant, Frontiers Music, Srl, Ted and Steve’s side project, Tokyo Motor Fist’s, […]
I have very quickly become a huge fan of the AOR symphonic and melodic rock that is currently coming out of Europe and Place Vendome, may well be my favorite so far this year. Based in Germany, Place Vendome, is the brainchild of Frontier, Srl, President, Serafino Perugino. That being said, what could possibly go wrong […]
I keep hearing Rock is dead, and then I hear music like this and call BULL! Rock is alive and well, and Maps To The Hollywood Scars’ first EP, Volume One, gives you just that. From moment one, that crunchy guitar and steady rock beat makes your toe start tapping and you chin to start […]