While beginning a discussion for Celtic music and poetry, an interesting diversion arrived...
Starting Sunday Feb. 15 thru the 20th, the process from an 'inadvertent' idea to an actual completed werk, "With You" is a spoken word collaboration with Los Angeles poet Andrea C..
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Top Stories: July 2, 2009 • DEA Joins Jackson Investigation
• Foo Fighters to Rock D.C. July 4th Bash
• News Ticker: Aerosmith, Whitney
• Jackson’s Will Names Diana Ross Guardian
• U2 Launch 360 Tour With Call to Space
• Aerosmith in Boston: Backstage Photos
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Last night’s Aerosmith show in Cincinnati, Ohio, was canceled due to an unspecified “injury within the band,” a post on the venue’s Website announced. Reps for the band had no further comment.
The Drug Enforcement Administration will join the Los Angeles Police Department’s investigation into the death of Michael Jackson and probe whether prescription drugs might have played a role, the AP reports. According to experts, the DEA is often...
The Foo Fighters will take a short break from their extended hiatus when they play a very special Fourth of July party this Saturday — at the White House! Rolling Stone has learned that the band will perform a short set as part of the...
Kevin Jonas took a break from the Jonas Brothers’ current arena tour for a very special reason: to propose to his girlfriend of two years at her New Jersey home. Kevin, 21, has been dating Danielle Deleasa, 22,...
David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash are certainly aware they’ve been working together for a long time, but when Rolling Stone spelled out a number — 40 years — the figure still stunned the trio. “It certainly seems to...
The story of Britney Spears’ new video for “Radar” is a strange one: The song was originally the third track on Brit’s 2007 album Blackout and charted that year on the Hot 100. Then it inexplicably reappeared in its exact same form as a...
While Joe Perry lounges in a giant tour bus with a portrait of himself emblazoned the side, Steven Tyler is in his dressing room, dubbed “the Cave,” mimicking his stage moves in a device that looks...
Michael Jackson’s Will Filed, Names Diana Ross as Guardian Photo: Galella/WireImage
Michael Jackson’s five-page will from 2002 was filed today in a Los Angeles court, leaving all his assets in the hands of the Michael Jackson Family Trust. Michael’s mother Katherine Jackson was named the guardian of his three children, but in the will’s most...
Photo: Sabau/Getty At last month’s Songwriter’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, the Beach Boys’ Al Jardine let Rolling Stone in on his latest obsession: Seattle’s Fleet Foxes.”They’re awesome,” he told RS. “They kind of have the Beach Boys vibe, too — very beautiful harmonies....
The new Death Cab for Cutie video doubles as a feel-good, triumph-of-the-little-guy tale. Director Ross Ching was simply a longtime fan of the band when he made the clip for "Little Bribes", a track off Death Cab's recent Open...
Back in February, we reported that former Silver JewsfrontmanDavid Berman would release a book of cartoons called The Portable February. Well, the book is out now via Drag City. And now that...
-- As previously reported, Animal Collective, Sonic Youth, Belle and Sebastian, Patti Smith, Grinderman, Grizzly Bear, Portishead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Battles are just some of the bands featured in the festival doc All Tomorrow's Parties. due out on...
Based on its ridiculous trailer (below), Mutant Swinger From Mars looks like it accomplished what Tim Burton's infamous 1996 spoof Mars Attacks!tried to pull off, at a fraction of the cost. And, instead of nutbar cameos courtesy...
It's tough to know what indie rock touring is like unless you've actually roughed it cross-country in the back of a dingy van, hitting up questionable diners at 4 a.m. and sleeping wherever you can. But the new book/DVD set The Art of...
M.I.A. makes her video director debut and guests on this Baltimore club bomber from Rye Rye. It's upbeat, lo-fi, and features people in glow-in-the-dark attire breaking down some manic Bmore moves:
DVD Review: "Paraguay According to Agustin Barrios" Paraguay According to Agustin Barrios features eight pieces performed by the internationally recognized guitarist and Paraguayan-born Berta Rojas. The performances are presented alongside biographical descriptions of significant moments in the life and career of Agustin Barrios (1885-1944). The pieces chosen for the film represent the...
Optek Releases New PC Interface for the Fretlight Guitar Optek Music Systems, Inc., the makers of the Fretlight guitar, has announced the release of a new PC interface, Fretlight Studio, for its Fretlight series of electric and electric-acoustic instruments. Fretlight Studio combines four previously separate software packages (M-Player, Improviser, Lesson Player and Video Player)...
The Charlie Farren FMan Guitar: When One Size Doesn't Fit All The concept behind the FMan guitar is simple: Why should a full-bodied electric guitar playing rock 'n' roller be limited to the size of the guitar he plays? What looks and feels good to a gangly teenager might not always be a perfect fit. Enter...
Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Brian Jones Guitars to be Auctioned On Wednesday, July 1, 2009, the London branch of Christie's will conduct a Pop Culture, Rock and Pop Memorabilia Auction that includes a 1970 Fender Stratocaster associated with Jimi Hendrix; a 1958 Hofner Senator acoustic guitar owned by John Lennon in "the early days of...
Bonnaroo 2009 Music and Arts Festival Review and Photo Gallery There’s a sign at Bonnaroo that says, “Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.” This quote encapsulates the complicated feelings I’ve developed toward the visceral, diverse and sometimes overwhelming experience that is Bonnaroo. Although...
Ponderosa Stomp 2009 Photo Gallery Roundup The Ponderosa Stomp is the brainchild of Dr. Ira Padnos, better known as Dr. Ike, and a group of co-conspirators known as the Mystic Knights of the Mau-Mau. The Ponderosa Stomp Foundation/MK Charities is a 501(c)3 cultural organization “dedicated to presenting and preserving the rich...
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2009 Photo Gallery For over twenty years I have had the pleasure of attending and photographing the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and for the last eight years I have attended and photographed the phenomenon called the Ponderosa Stomp. Both events occur late April through early May...
Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan Live Album to be Reissued Albert King never got the mass recognition he deserved. He always seemed to be in the shadow of B.B. But among blues guitarists and fans of the craft, he was the master. Austin, Texas’ Stevie Ray Vaughan, 31 years King’s junior, exploded onto the...
Review: Online Guitar Instruction from Mike's Master Classes Have you ever wanted to study with one of the best guitarists in the world but couldn't afford to take the time to travel across the country, let alone the cost of the lessons themselves? The Mike's Master Classes website aims to alleviate these problems...
National Guitar Workshop Gears Up for 25th Season Founded in 1983 by Dave Smolover, the National Guitar Workshop has since grown from its humble roots in South Kent, Connecticut, to become one of the top guitar workshops in the world. The NGW has built its strong reputation by providing guitarists the chance to...
A "Knees Up" at the Nashville NAMM Nashville. A place of huge belt buckles, the Grand Ol' Oprey and meat. LOTS of meat. Pork, lamb, beef, venison….. I mean these people are serious about their meat!! And it was also the scene (this past weekend) of the Summer NAMM Show, and subsequently...
Tone and Other Mysteries Here we are again. Another “Random Note” from the dusty, cobwebbed inner workings of my mind!! Except right now, I have had a huge spring clean in there and all the dust and dirt have been swept out by the crazy series of shows that...
Camp Freddy MAYhem! If a picture is worth a thousand words…..then I just wrote a novel with these! I mean, it really doesn’t get much better than that – rockin’ Mama Kin with Mr Steven Tyler. Or doing Paradise City with Chester Bennington and Slash. Or doing Surrender...
Horror Movies and Rock Music Billy Morrison, reporting for duty SAH!!! Checking in with the Modern Guitar tribe and letting you all know about a few things happening in my world over the coming months. And (completely non music or guitar related!), the first thing is that this weekend, I...
Ten Months...But Who's Counting! OK. So let’s get the self defamatory, disapproving stuff out of the way first. I do believe that I just reached a new low in terms of…. “I really must get around to”……”I gotta remember to”….. or even….”they’ll never notice I’m not doing it!” I...
Movie Making Madness My life is very bizarre! In the last few weeks, we have begun gearing up for the summer touring, July 3rd album release and all the other various Circus Diablo activities…..interviewed Marco Pirroni from Adam And The Ants for this very site, begun shooting my...
Album Release Date...Ozzfest...More Now I am really pushing it! Two column entries in a month…..I must be getting serious about this thing! And first of all, I have to congratulate the folks here at Modern Guitars for becoming a force to be reckoned with here on the marvelous...
Back From...Well, Just Back, Really! So, the kind folks here at Modern Guitars are allowing me to continue my sporadic ramblings, even though it has been literally months since I last wrote a column And I am not really sure where to begin! – All the various bands and projects...
Where Do I Begin? If it seems like months since I wrote anything here on Modern Guitars .... its because it IS!!! So much goes on around me that I just lose track of where I am, what I'm doing and who I'm doing it with ..... until the...
Goings On Back again kids. And there seems to be a lot of 'behind the scenes' goings on happening at the moment. From TV show pitch meetings, to talk of some Camp Freddy movie soundtrack stuff, to the announcement of some Circus Diablo dates. As usual, there...
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