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Shirley King Continues to Chart Her Own Course While Honouring Legendary Dad With ‘Blues For A King’
If anybody has earned the right to add the tagline ‘Daughter of the Blues’ to their professional resume, it’s Shirley [,,,]
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Joe Louis Walker Returns With Dynamic New Album Chock Full of Cool Collaborations
For decades, San Francisco has been the home to some of the most successful, eclectic and influential musical artists and [,,,]
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Sarah Burton Releases Her Affectionate Ode to Bartenders with Single ‘Logan’
A song about a favourite bartender in a southern Texas establishment has become Canadian singer/songwriter Sarah Burton’s clever, creative and [,,,]
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Finnish Metallers Dark Sarah Enter New Narrative Terrain With Latest Release – Grim
Led by the powerfully talented and visionary vocalist/songwriter Heidi Parviainen, Finland’s cinematic metal powerhouse Dark Sarah released their fourth studio [,,,]
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B.J. Thomas Celebrates 50 Years of ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head
One of the most-popular songs of the 1970s, and certainly one of the best known songs to ever be popularized [,,,]
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Covid Isolation Inspires Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Lodge to Pen Inspirational ‘In These Crazy Times’
Sometimes, a songwriter just needs to write. As a way of staving off boredom and listlessness in the midst of [,,,]
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Phil X ‘Right On The Money’ With New Drills Song – Album Coming Later in 2020
If Don Cherry was a music commentator instead of a bombastic purveyor of hockey wisdom, he’d be regularly extolling the [,,,]
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Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall Enlists Top Vocalists on New Album – We Are The Night
One of the most lauded, well-respected, dynamic and prolific hard rock/metal guitarists and songwriters on the planet, Sweden’s Magnus Karlsson [,,,]
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Christee Palace Explores the Danger of Loving Too Much, Too Soon On New Single
A rising star on the Canadian music scene, Toronto-based Christee Palace is rapidly gaining a reputation for her excellence as [,,,]
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Revitalized, Re-Energized Thundermother Return with Pulse-Pounding New Album – Heat Wave
Through the strengthening crucible of the vagaries of the music industry, the ups and downs of road life, the uncertainty [,,,]
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Sojourner Bring International Flair to Their Brand of Metal Music – 3rd Album ‘Premonitions’ Out Now
Creating spectacular soundscapes has become the stock in trade of the diversely talented ephemeral metal band, Sojourner. The quintet, which [,,,]
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Veteran Metal Musicians Come Together to Celebrate 1970s Rock with BPMD – American Made
It’s thanks to young Anthony Menghi that fans of some of the top metal bands in the world have some [,,,]
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U.D.O Returns With Bombastic Brass Orchestra Collaboration – We Are One
Veteran German metal masters U.D.O. are already a powerhouse of a band which has created an impressive library full of [,,,]
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Kim Mitchell Releases First New Music in 13 Years with Single ‘Wishes’ – Full Album Coming Soon
It’s been 13 years since fans last heard recorded original music from a true Canadian rock music icon, Kim Mitchell. [,,,]
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Rik Emmett Enters Contemplative New Phase of Creative Career with The Bonfire Sessions
Over a career spanning more than 45 years, Canadian guitar virtuoso and composer extraordinaire Rik Emmett has created a broad, [,,,]
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Ann Vriend Releases Exceptionally Powerful Song – Hurt People Hurt People
Soulful, and sublimely talented singer/songwriter Ann Vriend has used her prodigious and evocative gifts as an insightful storyteller to compose [,,,]
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Montreal’s Paradise Return After Long Absence With Incendiary New Self-Titled Album
As the 1980s glam metal band Cinderella sung, you don’t know what you’ve got ‘till it’s gone. For Montreal hard [,,,]
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House of Lords Back With New Album Perfect for Our Times: New World – New Eyes
Melodic masters House of Lords have returned with their 12th album, a masterful collection of songs that bridge the gap [,,,]
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Post-Balconies, Jacquie Neville Finds Joy and Fulfillment in New Life and New Music
Formerly the riveting and engaging frontwoman/songwriter for indie-rock darlings, The Balconies, Jacquie Neville has recent embarked upon a life-affirming, emotionally [,,,]
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Toronto’s Devah Quartet Tackle Rush’s 2112 For New Album
Although legendary Canadian rock band Rush last toured in 2015, is not expected to release any new material, and suffered [,,,]
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Ron Keel Band Celebrates Southern Rock Legends with New Album – South X South Dakota
Veteran American rocker/songwriter/vocalist Ron Keel has always been very savvy as to the business side of the music business, and [,,,]
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Canadian Rockers Sven Gali Release Single ‘Now’, With New EP Coming Out June 12
For fans of 1990s swaggering Canadian rock band Sven Gali, the fun and the music seemed to be over before [,,,]
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With New Single ‘Crawl,’ Riley Fires Up His L.A. Guns For New Album
After a successful appearance at the popular M3 Rock Festival in Maryland in August of 2019, L.A. Guns, featuring original [,,,]
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CCR Drummer Doug Clifford Releases Album of Lost Solo Compositions – Magic Window
Sometimes it’s good to do a little cleaning up around the home or garage. You never know what you might [,,,]
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Australian Singer/Songwriter Tullara Examines The Precipice Between Love and Heartache with ’16 Seconds’
A rising star on the Australian music scene, talented singer/songwriter Tullara Connors recently released her first single of 2020, an [,,,]
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German Metal Masters Grave Digger Release Third Volume of Epic Highlands Trilogy – Fields of Blood
Teutonic metal icons Grave Digger love to make music that is epic in scope, cinematic in tone, powerful in musicianship, [,,,]
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Carl Canedy Unleashes new Band Project With Release of Incendiary Album ‘Warrior’
Classic metal sound, with a modern sensibility. That’s the best way to describe the bold and badass new 10-song release [,,,]
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Havok Urge Audiences to Wake Up To Our Social and Political Ills on Potent New Album – V
Powering their way down the rocky mountains from the Mile High City of Denver, Colorado, thrash metal masters Havok have [,,,]
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Maryland Rockers Signal 13 Release Debut EP – Destination Unknown
Roaring in from the shores of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland-based hard rock quintet Signal 13 has unburdened itself from it’s past [,,,]
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Can You See Me? – The Evocative New Release from Singer/Songwriter Maya Rae
Age is just a number, as the old expression goes. And in the case of the soulful maturity of Vancouver’s [,,,]