Archive for April, 2012

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Lee Loughnane says Chicago is prepping new downloadable concert, still writing new songs

Lee Loughnane says Chicago is preparing to release a downloadable new concert DVD, focusing on the last year’s performances, even as work continues on its first new music in decades. You May Also Like: Chicago, “Get On This” (unreleased, 1994): Saturdays in the Park Chicago, “It Better End Soon” fromRead More

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Final Dio studio album Master of the Moon to be reissued as deluxe picture disc

The last studio release from Dio is set for a deluxe picture-disc reissue on June 5, courtesy of Niji Entertainment Group. This is the first time that 2004’s Master of the Moon, which included the Ronnie James Dio favorite “The Eyes,” has ever been issued as a picture disc inRead More

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Neal Schon open to Journey reunion with Steve Perry — but only if Arnel Pineda stays, too

Journey had been through a string of lead singers since Steve Perry’s mid-1990s departure before finally finding chart success again with Arnel Pineda, a Filipino singer whom founding guitarist Neal Schon discovered on YouTube. You May Also Like: No related posts.

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'It would have left him speechless': Ronnie Montrose's widow thanks everyone for moving tribute

Leighsa Montrose has posted a heart-felt thank you message for everyone involved with last weekend’s concert tribute to her late husband, the guitar virtuoso Ronnie Montrose. You May Also Like: No related posts.

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One Track Mind: The Thirteenth Assembly, "Nosedive" (2011)

Anyone who has heard Mary Halvorson perform even just once has likely caught her trademark move: the sudden burst of notes quavering, akin to hitting the whammy bar but with a little more nuance. You May Also Like: Illegal Crowns [Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson, Taylor Ho Bynum + Benoît Delbecq]Read More

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New Music Monday: Norah Jones, Rufus Wainwright, Steve Kuhn and George Harrison

The last week of April 2012 brings us yet another stack of platters that matter — this time from the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Eddie Gomez, Norah Jones and Rufus Wainwright. You May Also Like: Norah Jones – ‘Pick Me Up Off the Floor’; Puss N Boots – ‘Sister’ (2020)Read More

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Phil Collins – Live at Montreux (2012)

If somebody told me, before a 1996 concert, that Phil Collins was going to be performing “Los Endos” — the closing track from 1976’s A Trick of the Tail, Genesis’ first project after Peter Gabriel’s departure — I would have been thrilled. You May Also Like: No related posts.

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Eddie Gomez – Per Sempre (2012)

Always an impressive technician, Gomez has an identifiably soulful sound — sometimes from the very first plucking of his bass. That has carried him through an impressive array of settings You May Also Like: Bill Evans – Another Time: The Hilversum Concert (2017)

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Sparks Fly On E Street: Bruce Springsteen, "You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)" (1980)

You May Also Like: Reevaluating Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle’ Carl Weingarten – ‘The Simian River Collection 1980-2020’ (2023)

Steely Dan Sunday: "The Second Arrangement" (1979, unreleased)

Steely Dan Sunday: “The Second Arrangement” (1979, unreleased)

If not for a young man’s goof, Steely Dan’s ‘Gaucho’ might have had a third hit: “The Second Arrangement.”