10.30.2018

VIVEIRO ROCKS! GUEST POST FROM CHRIS KLONDIKE MASUAK


Today's guest post is from Chris Klondike Masuak Canadian-born Australian rock musician, guitarist, songwriter and record producer.

I pick Pony Boy up from the bus stop after school most days.

If it’s sunny I wait sitting on a brick wall swinging my legs and looking out over a 12th-century convent to the low green coastal mountains, disappearing into soft haze.

The bus swings round the corner pretty much right on the button and Pony Boy bursts out, talking a mile a minute about how he didn’t do anything at school.


We’ll stop at a bar on the way home. Spanish bars aren’t the frosted glassed sleazy dives we used to stand in fear and wonder outside of as kids in northern Canada. He’ll continue his monologue over hot chocolate and churros, stopping occasionally to talk to one of the patrons in whatever language suits them, which in this joint usually means “Deep Galego”.

Most of the old folks in town know Pony Boy. On those sunny days they’ll all be out sitting along the walkway beside the bay in the precious sunshine. He’ll stop and say hello to them, making sure that the ones who don’t see so well know it’s him. He shakes their hands or gives high fives. They’ll talk for a while about this and that while I stand back and watch.

If we don’t notice them when we walk past, they’ll wave and yell “Hola!”. He waves back and yells, telling them where we’re going.

We seem to have become a fixture. If I’m out on the street by myself, people I don’t even know will ask “You’re by yourself today? Where’s your boy?”

As we walk along he keeps up a running monologue, mostly about the various ways you can defeat zombies or the mechanical attributes of the robots he likes to build.


We’ll usually end up walking along beside the water to the music school and we’ll stand outside for a while, playing by the antique cannons and listening to the students clamouring away.

Violin concertos, bagpipes, rock bands...it’s the luck of the draw on any given day.

Some days we’ll walk further along the waterfront to the sports centre.

In July you can forget about swimming for a few weeks. Viveiro is home to Resurrection Fest, one of Europe’s biggest metal/thrash festivals. When that’s on, it’s impossible to get to the pool. It’s annoying.

A couple of years ago Motorhead did their final concert there. Last year Iron Maiden played. This year it was KISS and Scorpion.


We can hear it all from my place at the far end of the bay..

During the festival our medieval fishing village is choked with people. At first the locals were worried about all those strange kids with tattoos, piercings, dressed in black.

These days, they don’t even bother calling in any extra police. The 60,000 concert goers cause less trouble and are infinitely more polite than any couple of drunken Brits!

In August there’s a giant festival stage set up in the town plaza. Every night music drifts out across the water and echoes against the hills.

The bars are overflowing and while you listen to the concerts you can fill up on the free tapas!

The other night I was making my way back home after playing a Rock 4 West Papua benefit. It was 4 AM and the streets were still buzzing with activity. Some kids recognised me and yelled “Hey, Masuak!”

Without even trying, Viveiro Rocks!

10.19.2018

DETROIT ROCK LEGEND MITCH RYDER: HAS A NEW CHRISTMAS CD TAKE A RIDE!!


Take A Ride This Christmas With Rock/Soul Legend MITCH RYDER On His First-Ever Holiday Album!

Of the many gifts given to the world by the Detroit music scene, from the 4th time Hall of Fame nominees The MC5, The Stooges, The Rockets is the one "gift" who started THEM ALL  the unforgettable voice of MITCH RYDER.

Whether performing with or without the amazing Detroit Wheels, Mitch has been one of the most dominant figures in the Motor City’s soulful/rock music scene for the last 5 decades, stuffing the world’s musical stockings with such sweet hits as “Devil With A Blue Dress On,” “Jenny (Take A Ride)”, "Detroit" and a whole lot more!

Just got this new press release presenting a collection of brand new recordings to celebrate the spirit and soul of Christmas, called Christmas (Take A Ride), which finds the blue-eyed crooner offering fresh takes on holiday classics made famous by Elvis Presley, Stevie Wonder, and Bruce Springsteen along with seasonal favorites “Let It Snow,” “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” and more!

Christmas (Take A Ride) will be available on both CD and digital starting October 26 via Goldenlane Records, a division of Cleopatra Records, Inc.

Also be sure to watch for a new album from Ryder featuring very special guest appearances by James Williamson (The Stooges), Sylvain Sylvain (NY Dolls), Walter Lure (Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers), Joe Louis Walker, Brian Auger and more! YES!!



Track List:
1. What Christmas Means To Me
2. Blue Christmas
3. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
4. Someday At Christmas
5. Jingle Bell Rock
6. Santa Claus
7. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
8. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
9. Sleigh Ride
10. Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
11. Let It Snow
12. Put A Little Love In Your Heart

10.10.2018

THIRD MAN RECORD'S BEN BLACKWELL FINDS RARE JACK WHITE CASSETTE RECORDING


An amazing Cassette Week update:Third Man Record's Ben Blackwell pulls a box of cassettes from his basement and discovers...

Ben Blackwell states, The cassette, titled 'He Once Ate A Small Child' is, as far as I can tell, the rarest physical release of a Jack White performance. And prior to the mention here, the release was completely undocumented. I doubt more than a half-dozen people even knew about it.

And he's granted Discogs permission to share the track via our YouTube channel. Read Ben Blackwell's Why Cassettes Are The New 45s and listen to the rarest physical release of a Jack White performance of Blondie's One Way Or Another HERE.


DISCOGS LAUNCHES CASSETTE WEEK OCT 8-13

Cassette Week Begins Today; Runs Through October 13, 2018 Leading Up To Cassette Store Day  CASSETTE WEEK 2018

PORTLAND, OR October 8, 2018 - Today, Discogs, the world's foremost Database, Marketplace, and Community for physical music, launches Cassette Week (October 8-13, 2018). Cassette Week celebrates the humble cassette format throughout the week, leading up to Cassette Store Day (Japan, UK, USA) taking place on Saturday, October 13, 2018, around the world. Cassette Week begins with The Cassette Resurgence: An Apple, An Van, And The Go by Sean Bohrman (Burger Records).

Other features throughout the week will feature Ben Blackwell (Third Man Records) laying out why cassettes are the new 45s, while uncovering a previously unknown, non-Googleable Jack White appearance around the time the White Stripes were forming; and underground radio legend Bobbito Garcia breaking down how cassettes spread hip-hop culture, and his radio show, all around the globe.

25TH ANNIVERSARY ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME CONCERTS ON VINYL!


"THE BIG MOTHER OF ALL ROCK CONCERTS[1]",
FEATURING A WHO'S WHO OF ROCK AND ROLL
MAKES ITS VINYL DEBUT ON OCTOBER 19

THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY ROCK & ROLL
HALL OF FAME CONCERTS: NIGHT 2, VOLUME 1

Pressed onto 180 Gram Vinyl, the Collectible Album ($24.98), Available
For the Very First Time as an LP, Features Ten Blistering Live Performances
from U2, Mick Jagger, Metallica, Jeff Beck, Bruce Springsteen and More!

Fairfax, VA (October 10, 2018) - The date: October 29th and 30th, 2009. The event: rock 'n' roll royalty held court at Madison Square Garden for what the Philadelphia Inquirer called "the big mother of all rock concerts."

The legendary, history-making concert -- featuring a who's who of rock from the '50s to the '90s -- including artists performing together in unprecedented combinations that will most likely never be witnessed again can be found on THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME CONCERTS: NIGHT 2, VOLUME 1, a brand-new vinyl release exclusively fromTime Life and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Being released to vinyl for the very first time, THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME CONCERTS: NIGHT 2, VOLUME 1 features 10 performances from the second night of the critically-acclaimed and highly-rated HBO special, winner of the Primetime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing. Available for lovers of classic rock everywhere just in time for the holidays, the limited-edition 180 gram pressing will be available on October 19 and priced to add to every music collection for $24.98srp.

Highlights include:

Mick Jagger and Fergie in a blistering version of the Stones' classic "Gimme Shelter," with U2 as the backing band
U2 invites Bruce Springsteen to join the band on their song "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
Ozzy Osbourne rocks with Metallica on the Black Sabbath classic "Iron Man"
Plus Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Guy, Lou Reed, Ray Davies, Patti Smith, Black Eyed Peas and Billy Gibbons and more!

THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME CONCERTS: NIGHT 2, VOLUME 1


Format: Vinyl LP
Run time: 40:42
Genre: Classic Rock

Track Listing:

Side One
"Great Balls of Fire" -- Jerry Lee Lewis (1:56)
"People Get Ready" -- Jeff Beck with Sting (4:33)
"A Day In a Life" -- Jeff Beck (4:45)
"Sweet Jane" -- Metallica with Lou Reed (4:57)
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" -- Metallica (4:26)

Side Two
"Iron Man" -- Metallica with Ozzy Osbourne (3:06)
"Vertigo" -- U2 (3:57)
"Because the Night" -- U2 with Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and Roy Bittan (4:20)
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" -- U2 with Bruce Springsteen (5:42)
"Gimme Shelter" -- U2 with Mick Jagger, Fergie and will.i.am (5:00)
About Time Life
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CHUCK AND B'S ROCK SHOW WITH BLACK IRISH 313 @ BLIND PIG 10-20



Chuck and B's Rock Show

Life in Michigan is hosting a rock and roll party with Captain Ivory and Black Irish 313 from Detroit. Come celebrate with us and enjoy outstanding live local rock music at the historic The Blind Pig A2 in Ann Arbor. 

Both bands have new music available. Imagine if Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple were playing at a small club and Eric Clapton and Duane Allman stopped in to jam. That is what is going down at this show. Don't miss it!!

Doors are 8pm. Music starts at 9
Cover is just $5 and goes toward the bands.
18 and over  GET TICKETS HERE

Artwork by Robert "Nix" Nixon
We'll have 40 limited edition screen prints designed by Nix at the show !!

MOTOR CITY FUNK NIGHT: CREATURE FEATURE!


Funk Night returns to Marble Bar for this October's Creature Feature!

Live performance by The Gripsweats from Nashville.

Heavy duty funk and soul spun by 
Scott Craig, Frank Raines and Eastside.

Come party with us!

$5 all night

10.09.2018

POP SOUL SINGER MAJOR. IN DETROIT 10-21 AT THE FOX THEATRE


"The Hope Dealer" in a world full of darkness and negativity, MAJOR.s music and message speaks toward light, positivity, and love.



MAJOR. had an immense single last year titled "Why I Love You" that was praised by Stevie Wonder, Patti LaBelle and more as the next biggest wedding song of all time, MAJOR. released another timeless classic this year titled , “Honest” late last year.


Even More is executive produced by Grammy Award winning Harmony Samuels (Janet Jackson, Ariana Grande, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Brown, Ciara) and offers features from newcomers such as Kris Kasanova and NSTASIA.



With over 5 Million streams on Spotify and 6 Million on Apple Music, MAJOR. Is generating a lot of buzz and is set to be one to watch for in 2019 and isn’t slowing down any time soon!


MAJOR. - Even More // ALBUM

Album Release: 9/7/18

LISTEN HERE

Genre: RnB

Album Features: NSTASIA, Andre Troutman, Kris Kasanova

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