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New Music Weekly magazine has nomimated singer/songwriter Miko Marks as “Best New Country Artist 2006″ for the 2006 New Music Weekly Awards being held on November 18th in Hollywood. Miko recently released the third single and first music video “Mama” (featuring Grammy winning Erykah Badu in the title role) from her full-length album “Freeway […]

I just listened to an excellent interview with Liam O’Maonlai & Fiachna O’Broainain from the Irish band Hothouse Flowers and Jon Russell over at KYOU radio.
The Hothouse Flowers have an interesting sound and hearing the diverse selections of songs that Jon played during the interview gave me more of an insight into their musical style. […]

Sugar Land, Texas–October 12, 2006– Ed Maly is a Texas original. He was born and raised in the Longhorn state and began playing guitar at the age of five. After paying dues in many bands during his high school days and at local clubs, Maly started releasing recorded music in 1995. Six […]

Laurens Vernot is a multi-talented musician that has dubbed himself as The Lava Province and his recent release Strangeway explores his affinity for crafty melodious rhythmic pop-rock with lyrics that are easily assimilated. Does this sound like your cup of tea? It certainly sets me right. This music reminds me of favorite 70s bands like […]

Calling on Indie Bands and New Artists – Upload your Music for Free and Win a Guitar for Most Sent MP3 Musicgrams
Music Fans: Spread Your Music Around and Become the Featured Fan and/or Win Great Prizes
Delta, and B.C. – October 9, 2006, www.MP3Musicgrams.com, a free music promotion site featuring MP3 music uploads and Musicgrams, calls […]

Eleven years is very long time between albums but some people can get away with it and pick up where they left off, like Bob Seger.
Face The Promise is a fantastic new album from Seger. This is the deluxe set with a DVD. What I learned about Bob in the DVD, besides watching some choice […]

New York, NY–Sept 25, 2006– Wabi Sabi Productions, a non-profit organization that produces shows, videos, events, and performances dealing with social, health and political community issues, have focused on the ongoing tragedies of hurricane Katrina.
Producer, writer, and director, Emmitt Thrower and Hip Hop Artist/Activist “Shakka” have teamed up to undertake the psychological and emotional […]

Do you get excited or do you break out in cold sweat when you hear the word “open mike?” Tom Heany has some great advice on how to prepare yourself for bearing your soul in front of an audience.
Here’s a cool idea: Openmikes.org is an online database of Open Mikes occurring in the US and […]

Nashville, Tennessee–September 11, 2006– Southern rock icon Neil Carswell has put together some of his best work to date with a new album titled Good Man’s Journey. Carswell had previously headed up the enormously successful band Copperhead. Carswell did not have too look far to find his roots in blues and classic rock waiting […]

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Albuquerque, New Mexico–August 26, 2006– The Knights (a.k.a. King Richard and the Knights) had their beginnings in 1961 in Albuquerque, New Mexico during a time when instrumental rock ruled with great bands like The Ventures and The Fireballs. Those days seem light years away now, but Dick Stewart is still going strong […]

Mirrome Records recording artist, Miko Marks has won the local level of the Colgate Country Showdown in her home state of California. She went on to compete at the state level on August 13 at the San Mateo County Fair.
This was the 25th Anniversary of the Colgate Country Showdown, which has grown into the […]

Artist: Cactus
Title: V
Genre: Blues-Rock
Label: Escapi Music
Cactus Website
Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice are one of the greatest rhythm sections in rock music history there is no denying that. They helped to put Vanilla Fudge and countless other bands on the map over the last 40 years. Cactus was one of those bands that came and […]

The Raconteurs are set to play the Vegoose Music Festival on October 28th in Las Vegas, NV. Tickets go on sale Saturday, August 19 at 10:00 am PST on www.vegoose.com.
Vegoose is a Halloween festival extravaganza which takes place on Saturday and Sunday October 28th and 29th at the Sam Boyd Stadium. The festival […]

Artist: Particle
Title: Transformations Live (DVD) & Transformations Live For The People (2 CD Set)
Genre: Rock-Fusion-Jazz-Blues-Techno-Jam Band
Label: Shout Factory
Particle Website
Since 2000, Particle has been bringing their extraordinary musicianship and instrumental jazz-rock-blues-fusion techno-flavored jams to sold-out shows across the country. They have one studio album that was released in 2004 titled Launchpad and have […]

Johnny Gee & Step By Step - (LP/Cd)
He’s the man who made the Midwest the legendary Northern Soul spot that it is, and has scored 14 chart hit songs during his long career, but Johnnie Gee remains something of a “Legend” to many R&B and Soul fans who know his songs by heart but often […]

Malicious
Since our last communication, the video for Heavy M-T-L (Heavy Metal) has been added to Much Music and Much Vibe.
Check it out right here! Malicious - Heavy M-T-L (Heavy Metal) video link: http://www.odoublef.com/video/heavy_mtl2.mov
Heavy M-T-L is a ‘blinder’ of a hip-hop track with big bouncy grooves and an infectious hook. We’d like to thank Flow […]

It’s 5:45 a.m., the sun is slowly rising above the ocean on the eastern end of the beautiful Bahama island Nassau. SosaMan, real name Brandon Major is still awake from the night before glued to Russel Simmons’ biography, “Life and Def” - Sex, Drugs, Money and God.
This Caribbean artist continues to explore all the dimensions […]

Austrian Guitar Phenom Alex Machacek Makes Stunning Stateside Splash with [sic]
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www.alexmachacek.com
“Alex Machacek’s music starts where other music ends. He is playing some amazing guitar on [SIC]. He is going where other people stop. It is so nice to hear. So spontaneous. Wild New Music. Thinking and Deep Musician. He has done some very deep excavation […]