Archive for July 10th, 2012

by / on July 10, 2012 at 3:29 pm / in Concerts, Rock Music

Suit dismissed against Journey, Neal Schon; former bandmate Gregg Rolie announces solo dates

A circuit court judge in Warren County, Virginia, has dismissed a $50 million suit against Journey and its founding guitarist Neal Schon, after Tareq Salahi charged both with scheming to break up his marriage

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by / on July 10, 2012 at 2:56 pm / in Concerts, Progressive rock, Rock Music

Renaissance returns with new live album, concert dates and planned studio effort

Prog-rock vets Renaissance — led by vocalist/lyricist Annie Haslam and guitarist/composer Michael Dunford — have returned with a new live album, a series of fall concert dates and a planned studio project.

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by / on July 10, 2012 at 2:32 pm / in Pop Music, Rock Music

New Freddie Mercury documentary to include rare footage, unreleased demo tracks

A new documentary focusing on the late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury will include a snippet of the unreleased Michael Jackson collaboration “There Must be More to Life Than This”

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by / on July 10, 2012 at 8:11 am / in Jazz, Uncategorized

Tony Monaco – Celebration (2012)

The way I see it, there are two figures in the good ‘n’ greasy kind of organ soul-jazz today who tower above all others: Joey DeFrancesco and Tony Monaco.

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by / on July 10, 2012 at 7:37 am / in Desert Island Discs, Fusion Jazz, Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Desert Island Discs: Double Album Edition

Travel back with us now to a time when rock stars, given a chance to make one good album, would often double down. Did “more” necessarily equal “better”? Well, no, actually. But that’s an argument for a different day.

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by / on July 10, 2012 at 7:02 am / in Dance Music, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Download: thenewno2, "Make It Home" (2012)

“Make It Home,” the electronica-drenched lead track from thenewno2′s forthcoming full-length thefearofmissingout, finds George Harrison’s son doing things both expected and completely, very-neatly unexpected.

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