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The 2nd Annual SoCal Blues and Jazz Fest was held May 16 – 18, at Murrieta Amphitheater. BackStage360 was fortunate to cover the Saturday line-up which included Cassius King and the Downtown Rulers, The Kodi Lee Band, Orianthi, and Los Lobos. Each artist delivered spectacular performances. From the time I walked in, I just wanted […]
STAN LYNCH, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, long-time drummer and founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, announces today the formation of THE SPEAKER WARS. After two decades of recording and touring multiple albums with The Heartbreakers, STAN moved to the other side of the recording console and shifted his focus to production […]
ROCK & BLUES GUITAR LEGEND GARY HOEY RELEASES HIS FIRST ALBUM IN SIX YEARS. “AVALANCHE” ON WAZOO MUSIC GROUP (HOEY’S OWN LABEL) FEATURES SPECIAL GUEST LITA FORD ON VOCALS ON “YOU KNOW I WOULD” AND GARY’S SON, IAN HOEY, IS FEATURED ON “DEAR MAMA,” A TRIBUTE TO GARY’S MOTHER AND “SUMMER’S HERE”. GARY SAYS, […]
It was another memorable night in Memphis on Thursday, May 9 as The Blues Foundation announced the winners from the 46th Annual Blues Music Awards at Renasant Convention Center. The big winners were Ronnie Baker Brooks (Contemporary Blues Album, Contemporary Blues Male, Song of the Year for ‘Blues In My DNA;’; Sue Foley (Acoustic Blues Album, […]
Final Gravity, a progressive hard rock band based in Los Angeles has just released their new offering. An album entitled Surviving Humanity. Perfect title for this collection of tunes that was actually written over 10 years ago. The band members originally came together in 2010 and wrote the songs, performed one show opening for one […]
The pendulum swings, too and fro. In life some of the hardest hits happen when you least expect them. We are compelled to learn from these hits to find ways to rebuild the structure of our livelihood. It is no different with live music right now. A connection is desperately needed, and an outlet is […]
At first glance if you didn’t have the address pulled up on your GPS you would drive right past the parking lot where the nationally famous Coach House is nestled in the coastal valley of San Juan Capistrano. It’s a place where rock legends are notorious for showing up to have intimate live performances. The […]
Lady Zep is an all female Led Zeppelin tribute band based in Los Angeles, CA who recently was featured on Alert The Globe. Alerttheglobe.com is a Live Streaming Concert Series website that presented “Lady Zep”, live from the Coach House stage for a special event. The legendary Coach House in San Juan Capistrano is not […]
Greg’s step-father. Flip Wilson. Two British documentarians. Surprise party. Robert Kardashian. Cue cards. An Assistant Director. “Screenplay” by Syd Field. Girl in the laundromat. Literary agent. Variety classified ad. Free option (with strings). David Jacobs. Staff writer gets the axe. A riddle? More like notches. That shaped the key. Which unlocked the door to my […]
Would you pay $8.50 to see the Beatles perform? In the late summer of 1964 that was a lot of money for a boy not quite ten years old. It was all the money I had earned mowing lawns. I was saving to up to buy a Schwinn Stingray bicycle. You know, the cool Malibu […]