Salvador Santana's New Take on the Santana Gem 'Evil Ways' Opens the CD A Song For My Father, Featuring Young Artists Saluting Legendary Dads SAN FRANCISCO, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Salvador Santana Website) - Salvador Santana's fresh spin on the classic Santana hit "Evil Ways" is the album-opening track on the disc A Song For My Father, a compilation of acclaimed young music artists recreating timeless tunes originally made famous by their legendary ...
| 'Fire Bug' Won The UK Singer/Songwriter Awards 2007 LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts/ Fire Bug Official Website) - The international UK We Are Listening - Singer/Songwriter Awards announce Fire Bug as the superior winners of the first round for their new video "Walk Again" filmed on location in Death Valley. "Walk Again" is taken from the forthcoming "End of ...
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UKs Finest Steel Pulse In Concert March 6th New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ STEEL PULSE Official Website) - STEEL PULSE has been perfecting their original and distinctly high- energy style of reggae music for a quarter of a century. As the only British reggae group to win a Grammy Award (for Babylon the Bandit in 1985), their international success ...
| DJ Mag Top 50 Clubs of the World: Pacha New York & Cielo New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ DJ Mag) - While we may not agree with DJ Mag's Top 100 DJ Poll, their Top 50 Clubs poll looks pretty good to us. Maybe it's because it's the world's biggest DJs that are doing the voting, not some 18 year old trance addict dork. Kudos to New York's own Pacha outpost and ...
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Kenny Loggins To Be Inducted Into Hollywood's Rockwalk! LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Kenny Loggins Official Website) - There are certain voices in popular music that can be identified as soon a song starts. Kenny Loggins possesses such a voice, and for the past three decades he has led his fans on a creative journey that's encompassed numerous hit singles ...
| Vinnie James Announces The Release Of His Long-Awaited New Album 'Songs For The Long Journey' Glasgow, Scotland, UK (Top40 Charts/ Vinnie James Official Website) - Critically acclaimed singer-songwriter and ex-RCA/BMG recording artist Vinnie James has announced the Valentine's Day release of his new album, "Songs for the Long Journey," After a hiatus of more than a decade, the much anticipated ...
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'REFLECTIONS: THE VERY BEST OF STEVIE NICKS' CD/DVD Package Scheduled for March 27, 2007 Release BURBANK, CA (Warner Bros. Records) - Stevie Nicks, one of the most successful female artists in rock history and the embodiment of the transcendent power of music, is scheduled to release "REFLECTIONS - THE VERY BEST OF STEVIE NICKS" on March 27th; it was announced today by her label, Reprise Records. ...
| Phenomenal NYC-Based Beatles Tribute Band The Fab Faux Return to L.A.'s House of Blues Sunset Strip to Stage Their World-Famous, Note-for-Note Live Recreation of The White Album, in Sequence, on Friday, April 20 LOS ANGELES,CA. (Fab Faux) - It's an often-heard regret among music fans that they never got to see the Beatles play live - a rarity even for those who were concert-goers back in the day, given the legendary band's short tenure and dearth of live dates. It's also a widely repeated maxim that NYC-based ...
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ROCKRGRL To Present Women Of Valor Award To Fanny, The First All Female Band To Release Major Label Album BOSTON, MA. (Top40 Charts/ Berklee College of Music) - ROCKRGRL and Berklee College of Music announce a collaboration to present the ROCKRGRL Women of Valor Award to pioneering rock group Fanny, the first all-female band to release an album on a major label. The event takes place Friday, April 20, 8:15 ...
| Woodstock: The Mystery Of Destiny: A Rock Opera NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ www.myspace.com/davidyoungmusic) - In the tradition of the classic rock operas like: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Who's "Tommy", and TSO's "Beethoven's Last Night", this album is a masterpiece in an 18 song musical celebration. Our story takes place the original site of the Woodstock ...
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Debut CD By EverBlue Creates Major Buzz In The Music Industry Asheville, NC (Top40 Charts/ Glass Onyon PR) - Not just another band from L.A., with the release of their debut CD, formidable rock group EverBlue , is about to set the music industry spinning on its ear. Described as, "A sexy, soulful and emotion filled blend of passionate singing, masterful musicianship, ...
| Rock Raconteur Mitch Myers Releases New Collection Of Musical Facts And Fantasies NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Harper Entertainment) - Dear Music Fan: Esteemed writer and public radio commentator, Mitch Myers debuts his first book, THE BOY WHO CRIED FREEBIRD: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling (HarperEntertainment; On-sale date: 4/10/2007; ISBN: 9780061139017) starring a wide-ranging ...
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Neil Young's 'Live at Massey Hall' Set for Release On March 13, 2007 BURBANK, CA (Top40 Charts/ Reprise Records) - On January 19, 1971, Neil Young performed at Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada. In many ways, this was a major homecoming event. He had left Canada in 1966, soon becoming a member of Buffalo Springfield in Los Angeles, then recording his self-titled debut ...
| Highway To Hell to Headline the Gasparilla Festival in Tampa TAMPA, FL. (Top40 Charts/ GARRISON COLLINS) - Highway To Hell, the Ultimate AC/DC Tribute band, has been chosen to play the main 98Rock Stage at 6pm at the Nation's 3rd Largest Festival in Tampa called "Gasparilla" on January 27th 2007. The Festival boasts over half of a million visitors and there ...
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John Fogerty The Long Roadh Home In Concert CD In Stores!! (Fantasy Records) - On October 31st, 2006, Fantasy Records, the original and present label home of rock visionary John Fogerty, will release, on compact disc, the audio companion piece to his 2006 DVD, The Long Road Home – In Concert. This rousing performance dramatically displays Fogerty's boundless ...
| John Mellencamp Set to Premiere First Album of New Songs in Five Years on SIRIUS Satellite Radio NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ SIRIUS Satellite Radio) - Multi-platinum rock artist John Mellencamp will premiere his new album Freedom's Road exclusively on SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI), the week before it will be available in stores and digitally. Mellencamp will play and discuss the story ...
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Firefall Guitarist Debut CD Features All-Star Line-up Colorado (Glass Onyon PR/ www.jockbartley.net) - Rock 'n' Roll is alive and well as rock music legends convene in the Colorado Mountains to record on a hot new CD! Jock Bartley, lead guitarist, songwriter and leader of '70s U.S. rock sensations Firefall, has just completed his debut solo CD entitled ...
| Journey Names Jeff Scott Soto Official New Lead Singer CHICAGO, IL. (www.journeymusic.com) - Jeff Scott Soto has been officially named the new lead singer of Journey. He had been filling in for Steve Augeri, who had to leave the U.S. tour with Def Leppard shortly after it began on June 23 due to illness. "We are so grateful to Steve for all the years he ...
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Journey SS NEW YORK (Sony Records) - Jeff Scott Soto has been officially named the new lead singer of Journey. He had been filling in for Steve Augeri, who had to leave the U.S. tour with Def Leppard shortly after it began on June 23 due to illness. 'We are so grateful to Steve for all the years he dedicated ...
| VH1 Classics Releases KISSOLOGY VOLUME ONE 1974-1977 New York, NY. (VH1) - "KISSology: Volume One 1974-1977" marks the arrival of nothing less than a Holy Grail: 6 solid hours of vintage KISS going all the way back to the deep early roots of the band's classic line-up - Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss - captured and re-mastered ...
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