An acoustic evening with Shaw Blades November 26, 2007 Rams Head Tavern Annapolis, Maryland By JASON PRICE Well over a decade ago, MTV brought us the acclaimed Unplugged series. VH1 followed suit with the breakthrough series Storytellers. Now seasoned rockers Jack Blades and Tommy Shaw have bottled the magic of these landmark series and taken […]
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Sebastian Bach – ‘Angel Down’ – CD Review
? By JASON PRICE ? Some voices come along every so often that define a genre and even a generation. As time passes, the voices that once ruled the airwaves as the gold standard seem to fade and even the genres they once inspired seem to have little creative life left in them. Luckily for […]
Queens of The Stoneage: Sick, Sick, Sick in Indy
Queens of The Stone Age: ?Sick, Sick, Sick in Indy Murat Theatre Indianapolis, IN 8/4/2007 By JEN X It was in the air of the Murat Theater in Indy: the salty sweet stench of every person in the venue, mixed in with a bit of homegrown and alcohol. The atmosphere was dark and damp yet […]
The Vacancies – ‘Tantrum’ – CD Review
By JASON PRICE Cleveland-based punk band The Vacancies are back with their?latest album, Tantrum.?This is their second?release on?Blackheart Records, and it picks up right where the band left off on?the last record, A Beat Missing or a Silence Added. What I always?loved about the band’s earlier releases was the that they were?truly inviting to the […]
Silverchair – ‘Young Modern’ – CD Review
By JASON PRICE Silverchair first came into our lives in 1995, when the fresh-faced teens from Down Under assaulted alternative rock stations coast to coast with their hit album Frogstomp, featuring such hits as ?Tomorrow,? ?Pure Massacre? and ?Israel?s Son.? It was an impressive and powerful grunge/rock album considering that the band members were in […]
Silverchair: Young Modern Nation – Concert Report
Silverchair: Live at the 9:30 Club Washington D.C. July 24, 2007 By Jason Price Silverchair first came into our lives in 1995, when the fresh-faced teens from Down Under assaulted alternative rock stations coast to coast with their hit album Frogstomp, featuring such hits as ?Tomorrow? and ?Pure Massacre.??Flash forward to 2007, and we find […]
The Vacancies – ‘A Beat Missing or a Silence Added’ – CD Review
By JASON PRICE The Cleveland-based band The Vacancies bring their punk sound and attitude to light on their sophomore release A Beat Missing or a Silence Added.? In a world where punk has strayed more to the “pop” side, The Vacancies play punk the way it was intended to be played. The record is loaded […]
Shaw Blades – ‘Influence’ – CD Review
By JASON PRICE Jack Blades (Night Ranger) and Tommy Shaw (Styx) are no strangers to? the music scene. With?more than three?decades of music history between them,? there is no doubt that this duo has influenced and inspired countless? numbers of performers. They are now paying homage to the sounds that influenced them. Influence is an […]
Virgin Music Festival rocks in US debut – Concert Report
Virgin Music Festival rocks in US debut Virgin Music Festival 2006 September 23, 2006 Pimlico Race Course Baltimore, MD By Jason Price The first U.S. Virgin Festival By Virgin Mobile landed stateside on September 23, 2006, at the home of The Preakness, Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. The Virgin Festival which has been a […]