Feisty Piranhas Selected A 'Top 100 Artist' By Music Connection
VENTURA, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Feisty Piranhas Official Website) - Multi-award-winning Southern California rock group Feisty Piranhas have been selected as a 'Top 100 Unsigned/Independent Artist for 2008' by respected national trade publication, MUSIC CONNECTION, in their year-end December issue. Feisty ...
| Original Master Recording Bob Dylan On EBay
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ eBay) - A piece of American Musical History is on eBay. One of the multi-track master tapes from Bob Dylan's 'Nashville Skyline' album recorded at Columbia Studio A, Nashville, Tennessee on February 14, 1969. This Original Master contains five never before heard out-takes ...
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Rock Band This World Fair Releases Debut Album December 16, 2008
Minneapolis, MN. (Top40 Charts/ This World Fair Official Website) - Minneapolis-based rock band This World Fair releases a self-titled debut album on December 16, 2008 on CSB Entertainment. The band is led by Minneapolis native Chris Kalgren, who writes and performs original music under the stage name ...
| Punk/Rock Band Stark Really 'Puts It To Your Head' On New CD
Jacksonville, FL. (Top40 Charts/ By Laura Jenney/ Mindsweep Entertainment & Promotions) - If EVER there was a punk/hard rock band deserving of both national and worldwide attention and acclaim, (in both my professional and personal opinion as both a music industry exec and a lover of great music); as ...
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Doobie Brothers Signed By ACT Productions To Headline Seminole Hard Rock Orange Bowl Halftime Show
MIAMI, FL. (Top40 Charts/ ACT Productions) - ACT Productions, producer of the upcoming Seminole Hard Rock Orange Bowl Halftime Show, just announced it has signed world famous rock band The Doobie Brothers as the headlining act for the nationally televised January 1st, 2009 South Florida tradition during ...
| Christian Rock Legend Returns With New Single; Album
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ dPulse Recordings) - As lead vocalist and frontman of PETRA during that band's rise to the forefront of the CCM scene, Greg X. Volz is widely recognized as one of the genre's founding artists. With over 7 million albums sold, numerous No 1 singles, 3 GRAMMY Awards and ...
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Guitar Center Announces The Six Finalists For The World's Largest Drum Competition
Hollywood, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Guitar Center) - After months of local and regional competitions held at each of Guitar Center's 214 stores across the country, the top six undiscovered drummers in the nation have been selected from a field of nearly 5,000 competitors. The six finalists will go head to ...
| Big Shanty Is Sold Out On New CD Release Coming From King Mojo Records On January 6, 2009
Vinings, GA. (Top40 Charts/ King Mojo Records) - Among the special guests joining the incendiary guitar work and vocals of Big Shanty are the legendary Col. Bruce Hampton, guitarist Liz Melendez and guitarist Spencer Kirkpatrick a founding member of seminal Atlanta blues/rock band, Hydra. Sold Out was ...
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Welcome To The Dawghouse: Jackdawg Featuring Former Members Of Creedence Clearwater Revival & The Doobie Brothers Has Arrived
Los Angeles, CA. (Top40 Charts/ SonicPast Music) - SonicPast Music announces the release of Jackdawg, the self-titled release from classic rock heroes John McFee (Doobie Brothers/Clover), Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) and the late Keith Knudsen (Doobie Brothers.) The never-before-released ...
| From 'Day Tripper' To One Day In A Life Twenty-Five Year Detour Leads Bill Wren Back To Music
VALLEY MILLS, TX. (Top40 Charts/ Bill Wren Official Website) - Bill Wren was only fourteen when The Beatles took the stage on the Ed Sullivan Show. It wasn't long before he bought a bass guitar at a local music store and learned to play. In high school, Bill and his band performed the Fab Four's 'Day ...
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Moody McArdle - DEBUT Album Fractured Soul
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Moody McArdle Official Website) - 'Fractured Soul' is the fascinating debut album by Moody McArdle, a work steeped in a gritty songwriter style with a commercial rock sound and influenced at every turn by Tommy McArdle's day job. Tommy works in the underbelly of city living ...
| Boss Hog Returns With Bowery Ballroom Show, New York
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ BUST magazine) - Legendary New York band Boss Hog will be returning to the New York stage, at the Bowery Ballroom on Wednesday, December 17, 2008, headlining an incendiary evening of outrageously perverse rock'n'roll, degenerate burlesque, and chasm-like grooves. Led by ...
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Guitar Center On-Stage Winning Band, The Last Vegas, Drops First Single
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA. (Top 40 Charts/ Guitar Center) - "I'm Bad," the first single from The Last Vegas, the winners of Guitar Center On-Stage will be available exclusively on AOL on Monday, November 24 and on iTunes the following day, just two weeks after beating out almost 8000 entrants for a chance ...
| 16 Second Stare - Rockin' in the Desert: Tampa Bay Based Powerhouse Band Sends 10,000 Free Copies of Their Debut CD 'Red Carpet Material' to U.S. Troops Serving in Iraq and Afghanistan
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Mighty Loud Records) - Thanks to Tim Shanks, aka 'Angry Tim,' one of the two lead singers and lead guitarist in the Tampa Bay based powerhouse band 16 Second Stare (www.16secondstare.com), our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are getting ready to rock! Shanks partnered ...
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'The Making of Electric Ladyland' Set for Release in Celebration of 40th Anniversary of Original Release of Jimi Hendrix Experience Set
SANTA MONICA, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Universal Music Enterprises) - Experience Hendrix LLC announces the release of At Last... The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland DVD and companion Electric Ladyland Collector's Edition CD + DVD. The packages will be released on December 9th through Universal ...
| J.J. Cale's First Solo Album 'Roll On' In Nearly Five Years Set For February 24, 2009 Release
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - On February 24, Rounder Records will release J.J. Cale's 'Roll On,' the legendary songwriter and guitarist's first solo album in nearly five years, and his debut for the label. 'Roll On' follows Cale's Grammy-winning, gold-certified 2006 album with Eric ...
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Jackson Browne's Attorney Lawrence Iser Responds To Senator McCain's Comments
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Jackson Browne Official Website) - "This case has nothing to do with selling records. Jackson Browne sued Senator McCain and his party because they failed to obtain permission to use Jackson's famous song and voice in their commercial. Copyrights for songs, like books and ...
| Celtic Rock Group Reilly To Release Their Revved Up Take On Holiday Classics With True Irish Flair
Redondo Beach, CA (Top40 Charts/ Oglio Records) - The Milwaukee-based Celtic Rock band Reilly is set to to debut their new Holiday collection "Kick Ass Celtic Christmas" on Oglio Records, a Fontana/Universal distributed label. Melding classic Holiday standards with the high energy Celtic Rock that Reilly ...
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Doug Keith - Here's To Outliving Me - Drops Jan. 13, 2009
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Cougar Records) - Doug Keith writes quiet revelations, stories wound effortlessly around accomplished guitar playing and a gentle, graveled voice. Here's to Outliving Me (in-stores January 13th through The Cougar Label) introduces Keith's many sides to listeners over the course ...
| Jackson Browne & Friends - Including Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez And Ry Cooder - Will Rock The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium On November 29, 2008
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Jackson Browne & Friends) - On Saturday, November 29, singer-songwriter Jackson Browne & Friends - including Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez and Ry Cooder - will convene for a one-night-only Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to raise funds to help ...
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