Khaled Dajani: Alt-Fusion Guitarist Plays Record Release Show at Pianos on Jan. 30th

Khaled is a groundbreaking artist originally from Saudi Arabia, whose unique brand of Alternative World Fusion music combines Hard Rock, Spanish style guitar and Middle Eastern music elements. Dajani moved to the U.S. over 10 years ago to pursue his dream of playing rock music and is completely self taught. Khaled is playing a record release show at Pianos on January 30 to celebrate the release of his fourth disc, Luci - a concept album that brings...

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Pink Cream 69 - 'Ceremonial' CD Review (Frontiers Records)

German melodic hard-rock band Pink Cream 69 is back with their eleventh disc, Ceremonial, which is their first studio disc since 2007’s In10sity. For anyone who isn’t up to speed with PC69’s music - to give a reference point - the band’s original vocalist Andi Deris left in 1994 to join Helloween. This isn’t to say that PC69 is a power metal outfit – rather they play gritty but melodic, guitar-driven arena rock and their sound would fit well sharing...

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Tim Kasher (Cursive) Announces March Shows at Knitting Factory and Maxwell's

(Photo: Jess Ewald)Tim Kasher, frontman for Cursive, has announced a new run of solo tour dates in March. The tour will begin on March 12th at The Space in Hamden, CT and will wrap on on March 23rd at Schuba's in Chicago, IL, and includes two New York area shows on the 14th at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn and the 15th at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ. A full itinerary is below.Kasher is currently getting ready to record the follow-up to his 2010 debut...

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Snakecharmer - 'Snakercharmer' CD Review (Frontiers Records)

Newcomers, UK rock band Snakecharmer is a super-group comprised of long-time veterans from some very successful British blues/hard-rock band and the band’s self-titled debut album comes out on Frontiers Records on Feb. 5th. The band plays bluesy, guitar-driven arena rock so it shouldn’t come as any surprise that the band was brought together by original Whitesnake members Micky Moody (guitar) and Neil Murray (bass). Other members of the band include...

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The Neighbourhood: California Indie-Pop/Trip-Hop Band Plays Glasslands Gallery on Jan. 14th

Just one year ago California’s The Neighbourhood revealed their music to the public for the first time, and they will be at Glasslands Gallery on Monday (Jan.14th) to tout their newest slew of releases. The core of the band’s sound is an approachable meshing of pop and R&B, but a mischievous production aesthetic that embraces sound manipulation and sampling complicates the mix along with dark lyrical subject matter, making the overall experience...

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Everest Cale & Stone Cold Fox - Live Photos from Show at Pianos, Jan. 4, 2013

Last Friday, Brooklyn band Everest Cale premiered the video for their song "Beast" (title track from the band's latest EP) and followed this with a full live set. I reviewed "Beast" last year and compared the band's roots-rock sound to artists like Kevn Kinney and Connor Oberst but the band hits much harder when playing live. While Everest Cale haven't abandoned their core country-blues sound, their live interpretation is closer to Crazy Horse than either of the artists that I mentioned earlier. I was speaking to bassist Aaron Nystrup after...

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Charlotte Sometimes: 'The Voice' Finalist Hosts Birthday Bash and Free Show at Norwood Club on Tues., Jan.15th

New York alt-rock singer (and Warped Tour veteran) Charlotte Sometimes is hosting a birthday bash for her 25th birthday along with playing a free show on Tuesday, Jan. 15th at Club Norwood (241 West 14th Street). [Note: the email to RSVP is on the show poster]Before celebrating her 25th birthday, pop songstress Charlotte Sometimes has already found herself praised by critics and superstars alike. As Blake Shelton, her coach on NBC's The Voice recently...

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Steve Howe Leaves Asia (band) / Newcomer Sam Coulson Named as Replacement

Guitarist Steve Howe has announced his departure from Asia and he will be replaced by Sam Coulson (who has the reputation as a shredder, so I'm not sure I see the fit). Remembering back to something that Geoff Downes had posted circa 1999 - 2000, one of the reasons he pulled out of the then Asia reunion was that Steve Howe wasn't invited to participate. I had always heard that Howe didn't get along with John Wetton so Steve's departure doesn't...

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Mission of Burma Plays Bowery Ballroom on Friday, January 18th

DOWNLOAD: Mission of Burma - "Second Television"(Photo: John Foster)Mission of Burma are coming back through town next Friday night, Jan. 18th for a show at Bowery Ballroom. The band is touring behind their gloriously noisy and rumbling disc Unsound, which came out last summer on Fire Records, and the band is bringing along a full horn section for this show. Opening for Burma is Exclamation Pony (featuring Ryan Jarman from The Cribs and Jen Turner...

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Wake Owl - 'Wild Country' CD Review (Vagrant) // Show at Rockwood Music Hall on Feb. 22nd

Wake Owl began with primary member Colyn Cameron, who started writing songs around age 16. The Vancouver, by way of Southern California, native traversed the world in his late teens and early 20s and his vast travels acted as a songwriting catalyst: after returning home to British Columbia and spending a brief period playing in other bands, Cameron began creating and recording his own songs as Wake Owl. Now also comprised of multi-instrumentalist...

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Win Tickets to One of 16 Broadway Productions and a Gift Card to Tony's Di Napoli Italian Restaurant from Broadway's Season of Savings Book

Season of Savings and Broadway World present the “You Take The Town” Sweepstakes!"To ring in the New Year, we’re giving YOU a chance to win dinner and a show on us! Visit our Facebook page each day from January 7 - 23 to enter for your chance to win! One lucky winner will be selected each day to receive two tickets to a different participating Season of Savings show and a gift card to Tony’s Di Napoli. Entries must be posted by midnight each day. ...

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Camper Van Beethoven to Release 'La Costa Perdida' - First Studio Album in Nine Years / Show at Stage 48 on Jan. 19th with Cracker

(Photo: Jason Thrasher)Camper Van Beethoven – the beloved, genre-mashing musical unit and one of the bands that created the indie rock genre – has confirmed its first album in nine years with La Costa Perdida (January 22 / 429 Records). The release will mark CVB's first album recorded as a unit with the band cutting songs organically with all in attendance and produced entirely by the band's members. La Costa Perdida vividly depicts untamed characters...

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