Preview The Waifs New Album

From Compass Records, The Waifs are to release their long awaited new album Beautiful You on August 14. Artist: The Waifs Title: Beautiful You UPC: 766397465326  Singer-songwriters Donna Simpson, Vikki Thorn, and Josh Cunningham (along with bassist, Ben Franz and drummer, David Ross Macdonald) make up Australia’s folk-rock band The Waifs. Their 2002 radio smash “London Still” was followed by a tour with Bob Dylan and ARIA Awards including Best Independent, and Best Blues And Roots [...]

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Preview George Lynch’s New Album

George Lynch's new album Shadow Train is to be released on July 17. Legendary guitarist George Lynch’s long awaited “Shadow Train” project finally comes to light in this all new 18 track deluxe edition two CD set! George’s stellar guitar work, along with vocalist Gregg Analla, bassist Gabe Rosales, keyboardist Donnie Dickman and drummer Jimmy D'Anda, create honest, soulful and meaningful rock, blues and hard rock based music, that makes this release a must have for [...]

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Noel Gallagher featured on The Late Late Show

Noel Gallagher performs hit song Lock All the Doors on The Late Late Show. Artist: Noel Gallagher Title: Lock All the Doors UPC: 602527818436 Japanese pressing of his debut solo album includes two bonus tracks. Check out the interview and performance below. The Noel Gallagher interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsygBFgUoCc

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An EXCLUSIVE interview with Jason Wade of LIFEHOUSE!

Meet Me On The Wastelands: An EXCLUSIVE interview with LIFEHOUSE’s Jason Wade  By Stephen SPAZ Schnee When a successful band goes on hiatus, they seldom return. If they do decide to give it another go, it tends to be a long while before they get back together, intact and ready to rock. So, when the band Lifehouse announced, in July of 2013, that they had left the comfort of a major label – Geffen Records – and were on [...]

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Video Premiere! The Proclaimers – “You Built Me Up”

An American Exclusive PopMatters Video Premiere! The Proclaimers "You Built Me Up" "Emotional honesty, singalong raucousness, and political fire... A true gift to the stage." –The Guardian (Nashville, TN) April 17, 2015– Best known for the hit singles “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)" and “Sunshine on Leith,” the identical Scottish twins known as The Proclaimers are anticipating the release of their 10th studio album, LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE DOGS, out May 5th on Compass [...]

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RIVAL SONS – MAY/JUNE US TOUR 2015!

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Compass Records Presents: THE PROCLAIMERS / Let’s Hear it for the Dogs!

"Emotional honesty, singalong raucousness, and political fire... A true gift to the stage." –The Guardian (Nashville, TN) April 7, 2015– Best known for the hit singles “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)" and “Sunshine on Leith,” the identical Scottish twins known as The Proclaimers are anticipating the release of their 10th studio album, LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE DOGS, out May 5th on Compass Records.  The album follows a banner year for the duo that included the Toronto Film Festival debut of Sunshine [...]

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To There From Here: An EXCLUSIVE interview with COLIN HAY!

To There From Here: An EXCLUSIVE interview with COLIN HAY By Stephen SPAZ Schnee  Many successful musical careers follow a fairly similar path – an artist starts out playing dingy clubs and begins to build a grassroots following. This hopefully leads to a record deal and some level of commercial success with their debut album. If the artist is extremely lucky, they’ll build upon that success with even more hit albums and become enormously popular [...]

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An Exclusive Interview with Kate Pierson of The B-52s, on Her New Album: Guitars and Microphones!

Guitars, Microphones and Lobsters that Rock: An Exclusive Interview with Kate Pierson By Stephen SPAZ Schnee As one of the founding members of The B-52s, Kate Pierson’s career has been an exciting and influential one to say the least. Forming in 1976, the quirky Athens, GA-based quintet released their debut album three years later and ignited a retro-fied New Wave movement with the single “Rock Lobster.” Though many critics thought the single and the band [...]

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It Wasn’t Meant To Be: An exclusive interview with JOHNNY CONTARDO!

  It Wasn’t Meant To Be: The  JOE JAMMER Sophomore Album Saga An EXCLUSIVE interview  with vocalist  JOHNNY CONTARDO  (Sha Na Na) By Stephen SPAZ Schnee In the mid-to-late ‘60s, Joe Wright was one of the hottest guitarists in Chicago. Although his skills on the six-string were well known locally, he was virtually unknown outside of the Windy City. That all changed when a certain British rock quartet by the name of Led Zeppelin came [...]

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