Archive for March 19th, 2012

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Lee Loughnane says Chicago is at work on batch of long-awaited new songs

Founding member and trumpet player Lee Loughnane says Chicago has begun creating new music again — something fans have to be hoping leads one of the band’s increasingly rare studio projects. You May Also Like: Chicago, “Get On This” (unreleased, 1994): Saturdays in the Park Chicago, “It Better End Soon”Read More

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Recovering King's X drummer Jerry Gaskill strong enough to pass on thanks to fans for their support

King’s X bass player and vocalist Doug Pinnick says he was walking out of the grocery store when his cell phone rang — and “the ID said: ‘Jerry Gaskill!’” You May Also Like: No related posts.

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For Toto’s Steve Lukather, playing with yet another Beatle hero is simply ‘surreal’

Steve Lukather often talks about the importance of the Beatles in general, and specifically the first solo he heard by George Harrison — on “I Saw Her Standing There” — as the wellspring moment for his own lengthy career in music. This summer will find the multiple Grammy-winning Toto cofounderRead More

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Eagles cofounder Glenn Frey: Don’t call my new solo effort a ‘standards record’

A forthcoming solo project from the Eagles’ Glenn Frey will include tracks like “The Good Life” and “I Wanna Be Around,” both big hits for Tony Bennett, as well as the Beach Boys classic “Caroline No,” and the immortal “Route 66.” But don’t call it a “standards record.” You MayRead More

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Jimmy Page’s early-1970s soundtrack recording Lucifer Rising finally to see release

A lost soundtrack recording from the early 1970s by Jimmy Page has been “revisited and remixed,” according to the legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist — and will finally see release on Tuesday, March 20. You May Also Like: No related posts.

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Sparks Fly On E Street: Bruce Springsteen, "Jackson Cage" (1980)

As Bruce related in his recent SXSW Keynote speech, The Animals’ “We Gotta Get Out Of His Place” is the keystone of much of his music. People are stuck in their situations and desperate to get out. You May Also Like: Reevaluating Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Wild, the Innocent and theRead More

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Steve Lehman Trio – Dialect Fluorescent – (2012)

Travail, Transformation and Flow (2009) served noticed that everyone’s favorite up and coming alto saxophonist has come up and arrived. Now, Steve Lehman is poised to build his nascent legacy as an established artist You May Also Like: Steve Lehman Trio + Craig Taborn – ‘The People I Love’ (2019)Read More

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Half Notes: Killing Joke – Bootleg Vinyl Archives 1-2 (2007)

For Killing Joke fans, 2007 was a pretty cool time. First, there was Inside Extremities, which offered a previously unreleased 1991 concert, and then there are these releases: two three-disc sets (at a very low price-point) of live material from the band’s career throughout the 1980s and early ’90s. OfRead More

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Lost in the Trees – A Church That Fits Our Needs (2012)

A haunting, ultimately uplifting examination on the transformational experience of loss, Ari Picker’s second album as Lost in the Trees follows the suicide of his mother. You May Also Like: Tall Tall Trees via Heist TV: Shows I’ll Never Forget Chris Church – ‘Backwards Compatible’ (2020; 2021 reissue)