Search results for 'jethro'

News

KREATOR, MOONSORROW, SWALLOW THE SUN Members Join Forces In BARREN EARTH

BARREN EARTH is the name of a new Helsinki, Finland-based project featuring members of KREATOR, MOONSORROW, SWALLOW THE SUN and MANNHAI, among other bands. Formed in the fall of 2007, BARREN EARTH's music "combines elements of modern and traditional (death) metal with '70s prog rock and folk," accor...

News

TOMMY BOLIN Book Author To Guest On 'Big Daddy In The Morning'

Greg Prato, author of the new book "Touched by Magic: The Tommy Bolin Story" — which is said to be the first book to focus entirely on the life story of guitarist Tommy Bolin — will be a special call-in guest this morning (Wednesday, December 24) at 8:15 a.m. CST on "Big Daddy in The ...

News

TOMMY BOLIN Book Author To Guest On KKFI 90.1 FM

Journalist Greg Prato, whose work has appeared in a variety of sites and magazines, including All Music Guide, Billboard.com, RollingStone.com, Record Collector, and Classic Rock, will be interviewed by Stormin' Norman of Kansas City's KKFI 90.1 FM on Monday, December 22 at 7:00 a.m. CST. Greg will...

News

Late DEEP PURPLE Guitarist TOMMY BOLIN: 'Touched By Magic' Book Available

To many, Tommy Bolin was the legitimate heir to Jimi Hendrix's rock guitar throne. Stints with the JAMES GANG and DEEP PURPLE — as well as solo albums and a groundbreaking release with jazz-rocker Billy Cobham — certainly proved that the adulation was rightly deserved. And with a techno-color fashio...

News

LED ZEPPELIN Bassist, Ex-THE DARKNESS Frontman To Appear At This Weekend's MANSONS GUITAR SHOW

LED ZEPPELIN's multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones is among the star studded lineup of guests that are set to appear at Mansons Guitar Show, held over two days (October 25-26) at Exeter, UK's Riverside Leisure Centre. According to Total Guitar, Saturday's performances will be headlined by Martin B...

News

URIAH HEEP: Munich Footage Available; New MICK BOX Interview Posted Online

Jeffrey Easton of Metal Exiles recently conducted an interview with guitarist Mick Box of legendary progressive rock veterans URIAH HEEP. An excerpt from the chat follows below. Metal Exiles: There has not been a URIAH HEEP recording since 1998's "Sonic Oragami". Why a 10-year absence of new materia...

Review

Blood Ceremony

Have flute, will travel, and Toronto's BLOOD CEREMONY gets a lot of mileage out of the instrument on its self-titled debut album. A fascination with 70s occult rock — or "witch rock" in this case — that pays homage to acts like COVEN, AFFINITY, and BLACK WIDOW drives the vehicle, while the style cle...

News

BLOOD CEREMONY Set To Release Debut Album

Canadian doom-psyche band BLOOD CEREMONY has completed work on its self-titled debut album, due on September 30 in North America via the London, England-based independent label Rise Above Records. Born out of an obsession with '70s occult rock, BLOOD CEREMONY bears witness to the heavy bands of yest...

News

It's Official: New GUNS N' ROSES Track To Debut In 'Rock Band 2'

Harmonix, the world's premier music video game development company, and MTV Games, a division of Viacom's MTV Networks, along with marketing and distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc., today revealed at the 2008 E3 Media & Business Summit new features for the next evolution of the groundbreak...

News

UK Digital Radio Station PLANET ROCK Sold

Award-winning radio station Planet Rock has secured a fantastic future with a little help from its friends! Four British rock stars and one rock and radio fanatic have teamed up to save the digital radio station from closure and help build the brand, it was announced today (Wednesday, June 4). Rock...

News

Ex-KISS, MOTÖRHEAD, IRON MAIDEN Members Featured On 'The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Tribute'

Cleopatra Records has released a two-CD set called "LedBox - The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Tribute" on the Deadline label. This 25-song double CD set contains contributions from many great classic rock artists, including the following: Eric Bloom (BLUE ÖYSTER CULT) Brian Robertson (MOTÖRHEAD, THIN LIZZY...

News

ROBB FLYNN: 'If It Weren't For SLAYER, There Would Be No MACHINE HEAD'

MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn has issued the following update: "'We're number 2! We're number 2! We're number 2!' That's what us and the SHADOWS FALL guys were jokingly chanting at the Grammy after-party last night. Yeah it was disappointing, but man, we've joined an elite group of Grammy 'losers...

News

LED ZEPPELIN Photographs Uncovered After Thirty Years

Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports: It was 1972, and the world's biggest band of the time, LED ZEPPELIN, was due to play at the Sydney Showground. No one was to know it would become one of the great concerts, and thankfully, photographer Ted Harvey was there to capture the moment. But the d...

News

METALLICA, RUSH, KISS Snubbed By ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

According to the Chicago Tribune, the nominees for the March 2008 induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame were announced yesterday (Thursday, September 27) and they are MADONNA, THE BEASTIE BOYS, JOHN MELLENCAMP, DONNA SUMMER, LEONARD COHEN, AFRIKA BAMBAATAA, THE DAVE CLARK FIVE, THE VENTURES...

News

Report: IRON MAIDEN, DEEP PURPLE Skipping Mumbai Due To Entertainment Tax

The Times of India reports: It seemed great news for Mumbai's rock music aficionados when they heard that international band AEROSMITH was set for a June 2 performance in the city. Then came the disappointing news that the band would be giving the city the skip, in favour of Bangalore. And that's no...