Kidderminster musician to open guitar store in town (From Kidderminster Shuttle)
Kidderminster musician to open guitar store in town 8:00am Tuesday 14th February 2012 in Local By William Tomaney A MUSICIAN from Kidderminster is rocking into town with his guitar business. Phil Preece will open Beryl Guitars at Mercian House, Coventry Street on Saturday. mr Preece, who studied music at Kidderminster College, started designing and manufacturing [...]
New Nashville Part 3: BERRY HILL
Berry Hill Just a few more streets over from the 12 South area near the 100 Oaks Mall is the Berry Hill neighborhood, a growing area that contains a mix of businesses, shops, music studios, and eateries, all within a stone’s throw of each other. This quaint neighborhood is home to Blackbird Studios, Martina McBride [...]
Linkin Park Edges Out Trey Songz for Top Spot on Album Chart
Linkin Park and the R&B singer Trey Songz lead a wave of new releases on the latest Billboard album chart as the music industry gears up for its all-important fall sales season. Linkin Park notches its fourth No. 1 with “A Thousand Suns” (Warner Brothers). it sold 241,000 copies in the United States, according to [...]
Intimate exchange
SHOW: Wonderboom – up Close and Personal VENUE: Old Mutual Theatre On The Square, Sandton IN a recent CitiVibe interview, Wonderboom frontman Cito explained how these up Close and Personal concerts (this past Sunday and Monday) would draw a line under the 15-year history of the band to date and allow them to move on.The [...]
Grammy noms yield some surprises
Adele scored six Grammy nominations. Photo credit: Courtesy Sony Music Careful, Grammy…you might hurt yourself trying to demonstrate your hipness this year. Bon Iver? Mumford & Sons? Skrillex? All nominated in major categories instead of the usual niche pockets (if at all)? Wednesday’s “The Grammy Nominations Concert Live!!” (yes, two exclamation points officially required) marked [...]
Guitar potpourri served up to locals
Participants learned a lot about guitars at the Guitar fair and Care workshop at the Fort Morgan Museum and Public Library Saturday. O.J. Metzgar, who teaches classes at Downtown Sound, and library employee Lanny Page brought some of their own guitars and some from the store to show people the different kinds of instruments available [...]
STEVE SMITH: Classic rock, pop and country
STAGECOACH FEST LINEUP ANNOUNCED The annual Stagecoach country music festival, one of the country’s largest, will be held next spring on April 27-29 at its usual venue, the Empire Polo Club in Indio. Contemporary hitmakers Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean and Blake Shelton are headlining. Among the veteran acts performing include the reunited Alabama, [...]
PHOTO CALL: Producer Alicia Keys and Cast of Stick Fly Meet the Press – Playbill.com
PHOTO CALL: Producer Alicia Keys and Cast of Stick Fly Meet the Press By Matthew Blank20 Oct 2011 The Broadway cast of Lydia R. Diamond’s Stick Fly, produced by Alicia Keys, greeted the press with an Oct. 20 photo op. Tony-nominated director Kenny Leon (Fences, A Raisin in the Sun) directs Stick Fly, which will [...]
Glen Campbell, Royal Festival Hall, London
Ordinarily Glen Campbell’s “Final Farewell Tour” would invite scepticism, there being many famous pseudo-retirees who have embarked on lavish farewell tours only to pop back up on stage a few years later. Hello again Barbra Streisand, George Michael, Cher … In Campbell’s case, however, the farewell is genuine. in June the Arkansas-born singer of “Wichita [...]
Una Ibanez es la voz de Espina en los escenarios
Algunos sostienen que su música es una copia descarada de Joe Satriani. Otros consideran que es una propuesta interesante y prometedora dentro de una escena rockera con una diversidad de subgéneros que yacen en el ‘underground’. No obstante, a Francisco Espina aquello no le incomoda y afirma que simplemente toca lo que siente con su [...]