Shinedown headlines X-Fest this weekend. The Herald-Dispatch Shinedown has been named as this year's top headliner for the 2009 X-Fest at Harris Riverfront Park. Sep. 09, 2009 @ 07:38 PM HUNTINGTON -- For more than six years, Shinedown has been hammering out Florida-sized melodies for the hard rock masses. However, it took great ambition, a gutsy studio decision and an inescapable summer anthem to turn them into crossover pop stars. Enter album number four "The Sound of Madness," the Jacksonville, Fla., band's largest commercial success to date, and an album that guitarist Zach Myers says they simply had to make. "When we got together to begin writing sessions for ("The Sound of Madness"), we decided we wanted it to be an over-the-top, 'let everything go' kind of record," Myers said in a recent telephone interview. "We had to try to make it the hardest material we've written, but we also wanted it to be filled with lots of hooks for crossover potential.
" Tickets are $35 advance and on sale now at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena. Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace bring rock to arena. Jan. 27, 2010 @ 08:54 PM "Life Starts Now" is more than the title for Canadian rockers Three Days Grace's third and latest album. It is the band's newfound philosophy, finding hope in the darkest of days and the strength to persevere through recent challenges in their personal lives. These were challenges that Three Days Grace bassist Brad Walst said shook the Toronto-based band to its core.
"All of us went through some difficult times over the last couple of years," Walst, 32, said in a recent telephone interview. "We dealt with illnesses and deaths in our families, and it gave us a different perspective on life. That's really what this record is about. " The Three Days Grace/Breaking Benjamin co-headlining tour makes a stop at Huntington's Big Sandy Superstore Arena on Tuesday, Feb. 2. Show time is 7 p.m. About 'Life Starts Now' Fans of Three Days Grace know well their reputation for writing gray themes. There's a shimmer of light that splits the dark on "Life Starts Now. " A return to rock. Jake Owen to perform at festival. Courtesy of www.myspace.com/jakeowen Jake Owen will perform at 9:30 p.m. today at Huntignton’s Rib and Music Fest. Aug. 08, 2008 @ 12:00 AM HUNTINGTON -- Growing up, country singer Jake Owen hit the golf course instead of the stage.
At the age of 12, the Vero Beach, Fla. -native made professional golf his life's goal and imagined teeing up alongside Tiger Woods in one of the Sunshine State's many PGA tour stops. At 15, he was good enough to beat competitors twice his age and equally experienced in local tournaments. When it was time for college, Owen and his fraternal twin brother Jarrod were competing at Florida State University in Tallahassee. A tragic water-skiing accident soon derailed young Jake's green jacket dreams.
"I had reconstructive shoulder surgery when I was 20-years-old, and that did me in," Owen said in a recent telephone interview. Depressed and unsure of his path, Owen eventually borrowed a neighbor's guitar and started learning some basic chords. "Good songs," he laughed. 3 Door Down brings gritty sound to Big Sandy arena. The Herald-Dispatch No Published Caption Courtesy of www.3doorsdown.com The rock band 3 Doors Down will perform with fellow rockers Hinder on Wednesday, May 20, at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena. May. 18, 2009 @ 08:11 PM HUNTINGTON -- What a difference a decade in rock music makes.
Now, 15 million album sales and six No. 1 singles later, they're huge stars, and their music is used to wake up astronauts and to bowl with those curmudgeonly Geico cavemen. It's just another hectic year in the life of tiny Escatawpa, Mississippi's famous five. 3 Doors Down performs at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $37.75-$40.50. Lead vocalist/lyricist Brad Arnold and company couldn't imagine the ride would carry them this far. The song was selected for Atlantis's pilot Greg "Ray J" Johnson, the 54-year-old leader of the current mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope and huge fan of the band. "Great wake-up song, I really appreciate that," Johnson told NASA's Mission Control Center. Hinder returns Introducing SafetySuit. Avenged Sevenfold, Shadows Fall top X-Fest bill. Mark Webb/The Herald-Dispatch Buckcherry rocks X-Fest 2007 at Harris Riverfront Park in Huntington.
This yearÕs headlners include national acts Avenged Sevenfold and Shadows Fall as well as Pop Evil, Egypt Central, Another Black Day and Midnight to Twelve. Sep. 04, 2008 @ 12:00 AM HUNTINGTON -- In years past, some of the biggest bands in rock music have played to throngs of black T-shirt-clad fans by the riverside at local rock station X106.3's annual X-Fest daylong concert. Disturbed, Nickelback, Staind, Three Days Grace, Seether, Papa Roach and Hinder are just a handful of names that have graced the stage in recent years.
This year's festival is building a buzz around town with festival headliners Avenged Sevenfold and extreme heavy metal act Shadows Fall on the bill. Local rock station X106.3 hosts its 12th annual X-Fest concert Saturday at Harris Riverfront Park. Other national acts on the bill include Pop Evil, Egypt Central, Another Black Day and Midnight to Twelve. X Fest cometh. Cobra Skulls Devin Peralta Talks Bringing the War Home DEFINE THE MEANING. Jennings embraces darker, harder sound on new record. Shooter Jennings joins Alice in Chains for a performance Monday, April 18, at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena. Apr. 14, 2010 @ 06:34 PM HUNTINGTON -- Shooter Jennings knows that his latest project will challenge his listeners. It's a 71-minute concept album called "Black Ribbons," full of distortion-heavy dark rock, featuring his new backing band, Hierophant.
It's also a complete 180-degree turn from the scuffed country sound he crafted during his four-year-run in Nashville. The son of country music legend Waylon Jennings, young Jennings admits he's always loved rock music, and "Black Ribbons" melds a wide range of his influences, from Nine Inch Nails to Lynyrd Skynyrd, from the Beatles to Ministry. "We have become so consumed with this record," Jennings said with notable excitement in a recent telephone interview from the world-famous Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Okla., where he and Hierophant were preparing to take the stage. Spreading the word But, why a video game? Alice re-chained Comments.
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New Songs, Top 10 Song Lists and more. The Daily Times - Carolina Chocolate Drops bring little-known African-American stringband tradition back to East Tennessee. Damon Albarn calling it quits with Gorillaz? Consequence of Sound. Update: Read the whole interview from the Sydney Morning Herald here. We hope you had the chance to catch Gorillaz on the Plastic Beach tour. Because if you didn’t — what were you thinking? — it might have been your last chance. According to W.E.N.N (via Jam! Albarn said, “It’s been an unqualified success — bizarrely… But… we always think that when we get to a point where we’ve achieved something that it’s time to stop, don’t we? Illustrator and co-founder Jamie Hewlett agrees, saying, “This would be a wonderful point to leave Gorillaz; at the end of this tour, I think… This tour, with these people, is a one-off.
Now, the W.E.N.N story appears to have been taken down from the site, but if this is true, the timing is a little bizarre. The quotes do seem to refer specifically to touring, so perhaps Albarn and Hewlett are signifying a halt to the live shows as opposed to shelving Gorillaz creatively. Rock Music News & Reviews. Bandcamp. Music News Blog l Myspace. The 30 greatest lead singers of all time. As usual, Ask MusicRadar posed the question, and you answered in your thousands. Who is the best lead singer of all time?
Well before we start the rundown, let's get the rules out of the way... Solo artists don't count. Apologies to Marvin Gaye. Good. You know the songs - Jimmie Mack, Nowhere To Run, (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave - but do you know the voice behind them? Drug and alcohol problems plagued Reeves during her heyday, and in-fighting with the other members of The Vandellas eventually led to the dissolution of the group.
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David Redferns/Redferns/Getty Images Helen Humes' career led her, variously, through blues, big-band jazz, R&B and even a day job at a Sears department store. It used to be that singers had to tackle the so-called Great American Songbook if they wanted to prove they had chops. The range, the pacing, the inflection, the restraint: Singers defined themselves by how they interpreted a lyric and how they made the listener feel it. The songs they sung were often covered by many other vocalists of different styles. Some 210 of the greatest singers of the recorded era are profiled in a mammoth new book. A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers By Will Friedwald Hardcover, 832 pages Random HouseList Price: $45.00 "There's certainly nobody who had a career like Helen Humes," he says.
Alan Lomax: Recording The World. Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the WorldBy John SzwedHardcover, 352 pagesPenguin GroupList price: $29.95 The first time I saw Alan Lomax was at a meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, an academic group then too new to have developed its own orthodoxies. They were still debating the defi nition of music, the meaning of dance, the function of song, all with a sense of wonder and urgency. The founders of the discipline were all there—Charles Seeger, Mantle Hood, Alan Merriam—but the doors were still wide open. I was a graduate student new to the world of folklorists and ethnomusicologists and eager to connect with them somehow. The big event that night was a concert of African music by the Nigerian drummer Olatunji, who had added to his group some of the members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, and the mixture of the two musics had the scholars puzzled. Later, I worked for Alan on occasion, though never for money, as it was understood that he was always short, and I had a day job.
Boogie Woogie: Born In The Backwoods Of America. Hide captionOmar Sharriff performs in Marshall, Texas in December 2010. Ron Munden/EastTexasTowns.com Omar Sharriff performs in Marshall, Texas in December 2010. Many picturesque villages in East Texas are trying to reinvent themselves as tourist destinations for weekenders from Dallas and Houston. One such town is Marshall, which was the center of the state's plantation economy before the Civil War.
Harrison County had more plantations, more slaves and, after Reconstruction, more lynchings than any other county in Texas. Cotton was king on Marshall's vast plantations. To try to keep these newly freed men from walking away to a better life, the logging camp owners built what were called "barrel houses. " To the white world of East Texas, this music was invisible. "My mother was a stone-starched Baptist. "So I needed to get on a piano so that's where I went. " Alexander grew up in Marshall in the 1940s and '50s. "I used to watch him and his brothers in the backyard," Alexander recalls. Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Etched In Stone At Last. Who Were The Cowboys Behind 'Cowboy Songs'? Hide captionAn integrated cowboy crew at mealtime on the Merkeson Ranch in Texas in the 1890s. Courtesy of the Gillette Brothers An integrated cowboy crew at mealtime on the Merkeson Ranch in Texas in the 1890s.
A hundred years ago, a collection of folk music forever re-tuned the American songbook. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John A. Lomax introduced the country to the music of the American West, and helped propel the cowboy to iconic status. In the 1940s, a radio show made for the Library of Congress recorded Lomax talking about his earliest memories of cowboys. Hide captionCharley Willis and his wife, Laura, in the late 1800s. Courtesy of Franklin Willis Charley Willis and his wife, Laura, in the late 1800s. "I couldn't have been more than 4 years old when I first heard a cowboy yodel and sing to his cattle. But just who were these cowboys that Lomax saw? No one is sure how many African-Americans worked as cowboys in the trail drives, but estimates run as high as 1 in 4.
How To Dance To Bebop : A Blog Supreme. Hide captionBarry Harris remembers just how people danced to bebop in Detroit dance halls. John Rogers/johnrogersnyc.com Barry Harris remembers just how people danced to bebop in Detroit dance halls. It's often said that bebop — the blazingly fast style of jazz developed in the 1940s — wasn't a dance music, and that this led to the decline of jazz as popular music. As pianist Barry Harris and drummer Billy Higgins prove in a backstage 1992 interview, this isn't exactly true. "We went to see Bird [Charlie Parker] at dances — we did not go see Bird at concerts," Harris says, as the two greats reminisce about the virtuosic dancing that accompanied the virtuosic music. That interview is the first of Jazz at Lincoln Center's new podcast of short conversations with jazz greats.
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