Archive for March, 2010

Ex-Guns N’ Roses/current Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan has apparently joined the reunited Jane’s addiction after original bassist Eric Avery quit once again several months ago. The news comes via Twitter, of course, from Jane’s guitarist Dave Navarro. The nipple ring king tweeted the below picture of the band practicing with Duff.

Not only can music bring people from different backgrounds together, but those from different generations as well…the best way to come together may be over music.

I was two drinks into the night recently when the subject of Dave Grohl came up between me and a dear friend. The topic was actually “people who would be better than Meg White to work with Jack on the new White Stripes album”. Not that she isn’t a total little treat, she’s just been [...]

Fortunately there are many ways to help you shut your eyes, and before you spend the evening trying to count sheep, catching up on MASH reruns, or mixing red wine with Ambien, you should try serenading yourself to sleep with some good music.

For over 20 years, singles including “Where the Streets Have No Name”, “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” have remained radio mainstays. March 9th, 1987 saw the beginning of a magnetic love affair between a band and the rest of the world that still shows no signs of slowing. If anything, it’s this album (not that U2 didn’t have any other work of merit) that has likely kept U2 in the spotlight for the proceeding 20+ years since its release. In theory, had they continued on with the trend set by The Unforgettable Fire, they might’ve slid off the pop culture radar at some point. Instead, they shifted modes, focused on crafting 50 powerful minutes of driving, tension-and-release, writing-heavy, music and ended up mainlining themselves into the affections of everyone while securing their position as major contributors to modern rock music.

To see Dave Grohl play drums is to witness something otherworldly, somewhere in that mass of sweat and hair is a relentlessly pounding soul that is completely addicted to caffeine. It’s of little surprise to this writer that Grohl recently admitted his addiction to the world, I mean how else could a human play drums [...]

Thanks to Lt. Commander Jill Bogler at USS Kelly, a Star Trek fan club, for reviewing our album, Vitamin String Quartet Explores The Sounds of Star Trek, in their April newsletter.

This is EXACTLY what good music is supposed to do … enthrall us and remind us how we felt…I am proud to recommend the Vitamin [...]

Billboard has reported that recently reunited Sunny Day Real Estate (SDRE) is set to record its first new material in 15 years with the original, touring lineup that consisted of Jeremy Enigk, Dan Hoerner, William Goldsmith and Nate Mendel. Throughout the tour a new song was played, which I happened to catch at a show in Portland last fall, and Jeremy had said on stage there was a possibility of recording in the future. Well it looks like they had been writing and planning such an album all along.

After five albums of genre and mind bending exploration, Pink Floyd found themselves in the studio once again to complete what would soon be Dark Side of the Moon. The material from the album had actually been written and the concept developed before the recording took place, but the impact wouldn’t be truly felt until [...]