by Jeff Maisey | Mar 29, 2019 | CD Reviews, Music, Music News
Kinetic Element “The Face of Life” (Melodic Revolution Records) In my early teenaged years, I used to slouch down into my bean bag chair with headphones strapped onto my cranium. With only the dim blue glow of the stereo amplifier serving as light in my otherwise...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 29, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Luther Dickinson has his talented fingers in so many projects. His solo records. A stint with The Black Crowes. Work on an album with ex-Replacement Tommy Stinson’s group, Bash and Pop. And, of course, playing and touring with his brother, Cody,...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 15, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey California-based Celtic-rock band Tempest used to make semi-annual appearances at the ol’ White Horse Pub in Virginia Beach, pulling in a couple hundred fans on an off-night while touring the country where they’ve played huge outdoor events like the...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 4, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey From his early days as a member of British Invasion pop/rock band The Hollies in the 1960s to a lifelong career of social activism and songwriting as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash and beyond, Graham Nash has remained a people’s favorite. Nash...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 28, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison M.C. Taylor, the songwriter and leader of Hiss Golden Messenger, moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to earn a graduate degree in folklore after living in San Francisco for a decade and playing in bands there. He needed a break. So he crossed the...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 20, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Get this straight: Anderson East is from Nashville, but he’s no country singer. On his latest, “Encore,” East is a flat-out blue-eyed soul crooner, backed by arrangements Curtis Mayfield would love. He’s St. Paul without the...
