Monthly Archives December 2012

(PCM) Asher Monroe fans, listen up! We have some REALLY exciting news for you! To celebrate the release of his new video, “Why Worry”, Asher Monroe is giving one lucky fan the opportunity to win a private UStream performance! Just imagine being able to tell your friends you had a 15 minute virtual date with Asher! With a promotion powered up by FanGate, it’s so easy for you to enter the contest!

Simply enter on Facebook here. Then while watching his video for “Why Worry”, share the video to be entered into the contest! Good luck, and don’t forget to tell all of your friends how awesome Asher Monroe is!

(PCM) The ZAPPA FAMILY TRUST honors the American Composer’s “Signature Guitar Compositions” on iTunes. Released on this year’s anniversary of FZ’s death (December 4), FRANK ZAPPA PLAYS THE MUSIC OF FRANK ZAPPA–A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE features the classic recordings of “Watermelon In Easter Hay,” “Black Napkins” and ”Zoot Allures,” as well as the earliest versions from the Vault at the time of the original CD release in 1996 (still available from Barfko-Swill). It was one final wish of the Composer that these not be performed by anyone else; Dweezil Zappa is the sole exception with respect to the latter two works.

This marks the first time the Zappa Family Trust has announced the significance of this Compilation. In the liner notes for the digital release of FRANK ZAPPA PLA...

(PCM) THE BLACK CROWES will return to the road in 2013 with their “Lay Down With Number 13” world tour. The first leg will encompass dates in the U.K. March 24-30 and the U.S. April 2- May 4. Tickets for this first leg go on sale Friday, January 11 at 10:13 AM LOCAL TIME and ticket link information will be available on Tuesday, January 1 at http://www.blackcrowes.com/.

The iconic and influential band has also announced the March 19 vinyl release of the live WISER FOR THE TIME (Silver Arrow/Megaforce Records). Its mammoth eight sides on four vinyl albums will contain 26 songs–15 acoustic and 11 electric–from the band’s five-night, sold-out NYC performances in the fall of 2010. These never-released-before versions will also be available as a double album digital download.

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It’s destined to be a night to remember, and it’s all to help out a great musician.

Los Angeles’ music royalty will come together for the “Brotherly Love: A Night for Our Brother Phil Alvin” benefit concert, Saturday, January 26 at The Observatory Theatre (Santa Ana, California). The line-up features a virtual who’s-who of the Los Angeles music community including a reunion of The Original Blasters: Dave Alvin, Phil Alvin, John Bazz and Bill Bateman; X; The Knitters; James Harman; Frank Fairfield; and the Mike Ellred Trio. Overseeing the evening’s festivities is M.C. Big Sandy. Other special guest performers will be announced in the coming weeks.

Tickets for the benefit are $30 and all proceeds will be used to cover Phil Alvin’s medical bills from a recent illness...

(PCM) You may remember the name Vita Chambers, as she was the opening act for Justin Bieber’s “My World Tour”! Vita is signed to SRP Records, following in the footsteps of Rihanna and Shontelle, both of whom got their starts on the label.  She is currently gearing up for the release of a new music video for her new single “Fix You”…check out the teaser below:

(PCM) CONTINENTS have released their second behind the scenes studio update for their forthcoming release Idle Hands, out January 22^nd, 2013. Guitarist Tom Weaver and Darryl Sweet get to work and take fans through the recording process at Studio Six in Swindon, England with producer Stu McKay. Watch all of their shenanigans here.

 “The build up to recording of Idle Hands was intense. We were desperately trying to polish off the material we already had and still were writing most of the lead guitars while in the studio. That worked in our favor though; it meant that we could continue to be creative there rather than laying down riffs we’ve had for months. We spent a long time getting our guitars to sound the way we wanted...

(PCM) Old Crow Medicine Show (OCMS) reveal more details for the broadcast of their sold-out show on December 31, 2012 at the Ryman Auditorium. The show will broadcasted live by Sirius XM Outlaw Country (Channel 60) as well as WSM 650 AM Radio, home of Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry.

Outlaw DJ Elizabeth Cook will be hosting the Sirius XM broadcast. Outlaw Country, created and executive produced by E Street Band member “Little Steven” Van Zandt, is home to the freaks, misfits, outcasts, rebels and renegades of country music.

Listeners who can’t tune in to the band’s performance via Sirius XM can hear the performance broadcast live on WSM 650 AM radio or streamed at wsmonline.com. WSM 650 AM is the most famed country music station in the world...

(PCM)Fantastic LA indie rockers Saint Motel have recently premiered their new music video for “Benny Goodman” and the video is definitely on its’ way to becoming a viral sensation!  The video directed by lead singer and one time film student A/J JACKSON and features two viral sensations combining creative forces: Miles “Baby Boogaloo” Brown and Derrick Tuggle.

The video now has over 38,000 views and is steady climbing! The band has also decided to join in the giving spirit of the holidays with a free download of “Benny Goodman” now here: http://soundcloud.com/saintmotel/saint-motel-benny-goodman. The song is off their debut full-length album VOYEUR, released earlier this year.

Kristyn Clarke recently had a chance to catch up with Saint Motel vocalist A/J Jackson to discuss the “B...