Band Weblogs

People are often trying to put together their idea of the best rock group ever, you know like the musical version of a sporting dream team. Well what about Jimi Hendrix and Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones then? …

I think this is an appropriate song of the day: Jimi Hendrix – The Star Spangled Banner …

With the music compilation ‘Pachyderm…So LARGE…We Ran Out Of Room’, Pachyderm Recording Studio celebrates its first year under new ownership of Matthew M. Mueller of Madison WI who also owns The Cardinal Bar in Madison …

With a special occasion like Jimi Hendrix’s birthday (27 November 1942), I thought it apropos to scroll through YouTube videos and look for something unique to post. It’s not as easy finding undiscovered videos as it used to be, though. Rare Jimi Hendrix footage that I’ve found in the past on YouTube …

The Rock Band video game has been released and for some gamers, Christmas has come early. Developed by Boston based video game company Harmonix (Go Red Sox), and acquired by MTV in 2006, Rock Band is all the rage. Some people are saying it’s the best music video game they’ve ever played and god forbid, that it’s even better than Guitar Hero …

One of the best things about discovering bands and listening to new music online is when you can turn what initially begins as a virtual experience into a live music experience. The first time that I heard Souljacker was on their Myspace page after I was tipped off by a friend to check them out …

Something tells me that I’m not the only one who wants to follow Tinariwen into the Sahara desert after watching and listening to them play their mesmerizing and tranquil music. It’s almost as if some spell comes over me and suddenly my current life doesn’t matter any more and I want to explore their world with them. I don’t think I’ve ever had that feeling with a band before …

How cool is Mick Jagger? I say. After hearing about The Rolling Stones‘ upcoming European tour dates, I thought I’d log onto their website to read more about the tour. What I didn’t expect was to see that not only was an official announcement planned yesterday, but there was an exclusive live tour announcement interview [...]

James Sudakow is a musician with an imaginative and groundbreaking approach to the electric violin and viola. Classically trained since the age of four, he has modified his training to revise the instrument’s sound and potential. The artist uses a heavy distortion to play both lead and guitar like riffs and rhythm sections in [...]

Electric violin player James Sudakow credits rock guitarists with giving him the inspiration to create his musical progressive rock expedition. The list is impressive, Jimi Hendrix, Dave Navarro (Jane’s Addiction, Camp Freddy, Panic Channel), and Vernon Reid (Living Colour) are the top three six-string innovators that Sudakow points to as his mentors in sound.
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U2 has released two videos to go along with their latest single, “Window In The Skies” off of the album U218 Singles.
The first video features clips of famous musicians performing and singing in sync with the music like Frank Zappa, Billie Holiday, Simon and Garfunkel, Roy Orbison, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Marley, The Clash, Jimi Hendrix, [...]

An old eight track tape was found at a studio in London and it sounds like it could be Jimi Hendrix playing the Welsh national anthem, “Hen Wlyd Fy Nhadau, The Land of My Fathers.” At this point what everyone wants to know is if it is indeed Jimi Hendrix who is on the recording [...]

Sometimes I wonder what direction Jimi Hendrix would have gone musically had he lived longer than 27 years. Would he have met up with Frank Zappa at some point? Another interesting collaboration would have been Hendrix and bass player Jaco Pastorius. Also, did Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley ever meet? If only they had a [...]

One of the strangest things about living in England, so far away from family and friends in New England, is when Thanksgiving arrives. There’s no one around to share the holiday with that understands what it’s like on a day like today back home. Family that you haven’t seen in awhile, good food, NFL, a [...]

‘101′ or ‘Back to the 101′ depending on where you look on the net is The Strokes’ guitarist Albert Hammond Jr.’s latest release off of his solo album ‘Yours to Keep’. The original release date for the album was October 9th through Rough Trade Records in the UK, but now the single ‘101′ is being [...]