After a decade-long hiatus from full-time touring, iconic pop-rockers Hootie & the Blowfish“clearly seemed thrilled to be back on stage with a sellout crowd in front of them,” as the Raleigh News & Observer remarked of Friday night’s concert, the second of three shows launching the Group Therapy Tour which drew over 19,000 in attendance in spite of a […]
Seventrain’s 2nd Album “Back On Track” is finally out and it is long over-due. The band has had some line-up changes since their first record and has moved toward Metal and gone away from Hardrock all-together. I think the change has done them some good. This record just plain out rocks….Two horns way up! There […]
Swedish hard rockers Crazy Lixx are back with another sleaze metal gem that harkens back to the best of ‘80s rock, while also keeping a foot planted in the 21st century. “Forever Wild” further cements Crazy Lixx as one of the leaders of the Scandinavian led ‘80s hard rock revival. With huge choruses, memorable hooks and riffs, wailing, emotive […]
As Peter Frampton gets ready to kick off his Farewell Tour tonight in Tulsa, the Grammy-winning guitarist is also celebrating another first in his long and distinguished career: All Blues, his first-ever blues album with his Peter Frampton Band, is debuting at #1 on the Billboard Blues Albums Chart in the U.S. The new collection, released via UMe, also marks his best overall sales numbers and […]
BackStage360 was recently invited to be a part of a special summer concert series, to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. This six performance concert series is based in Tucson, Arizona, and all events will be housed in Tucson’s, 600-person concert venue, Encore, located east of downtown. The series is the brainchild of a partnership between […]
I was so excited knowing that today was the day Legends Event Park in Chickasha Oklahoma was kicking off their summer concerts. I personally love the simplicity of the venue. You have a bar, a seating area where you can bring your own chairs or stand, food trucks are along the side of the seating […]
“Citizen: In The Next Life” is Billy Sherwood’s second release in the Citizen series, which follows the concept that he started with the “Citizen” album released in November 2015. The songs describe the individual experiences in a journey through time and space of a character, “The Citizen” through his own eyes: from an appearance in […]
A great way to kick off the summer concert season at North Island Credit Union Amphitheater with self-proclaimed Soul Hippie musician, Allen Stone opening the show. He is a fantastic showman and phenomenal singer! He kicked everything off with the soulful vibe of the Bob Marley cover, “Is This Love” and rolled right into “Unaware” which […]
In 2010, a marriage in made in melodic rock heaven was consummated between Canadian rock vocalist Harry Hess (Harem Scarem) and German producer Dennis Ward (Pink Cream 69, Khymera) under the First Signal name. The seeds of this union were plante that same year when Frontiers President Serafino Perugino presented Hess some melodic rock songs which had the same vibe and magic as Harem Scarem, whom at the time were on a hiatus. The debut album was greeted with high interest and excellent reviews from the Melodic Rock faithful, […]
Southern California based Sunflower Dead have released a powerful anti-suicide themed song “Turn Away” (Radio Edit), which was produced by Dave Fortman (Evanescence, Distturbed, Slipknot) and released through David Ellefson’s EMP Label Group. The song is the follow-up to “Victim”, which reached #36 on the Mediabase and BDS Rock charts earlier this year – their highest charting […]