As a musician and lifelong music-lover, I have attempted to introduce my kids to as much music as possible–from listening to playing. Fortunately, so far, I haven’t annoyed them too much with my music-selection and constant music analysis. Both kids have a love of music, and play instruments… quite well actually. While I don’t take [...]

I recently sat down with Larry Kennedy (@Larrybrick) of The Jellybricks. The Jellybricks are a great, high-energy pop-rock band from Pennsylvania. This year they released their fifth studio album, Suckers, on the New Jersey label Pop Detective. The band has appeared on compilation CDs with the likes of The Smithereens, The Posies, Fountains of Wayne [...]

My latest musical fixation is a young lady by the name of Cheyenne Marie Mize from Louisville, Kentucky. Cheyennes first release Before Lately is a beautiful collection of melancholy folk tunes with the occasional tinge of country and bluegrass. Her voice has an intimate breathiness sometimes reminiscent of Fiona Apple while being more reserved and classy. [...]

In this Indie Movement, we’ve seen and heard it all from those who’ve railed so hard against the recording industry for a more level playing field.  What we’ve ended up with is a democratized business model where the majority vote controls the minority. That’s what democracy means — at least 51% majority wins. Somehow being [...]

The long running Lollapalooza music festival had it’s first evacuation since it began in 1991. The city of Chicago’s Emergency Management, as well as promoter C3 were carefully watching the weather and made the decision to evacuate while the skies were still clear. Officials made the announcements and asked concert goers to leave Grant Park [...]

(Nashville, TN – July 16) The summer of 2012 is full of events marking historical anniversaries, and celebrating worldwide events where The Star Spangled Banner, will ring from sea to shining sea. In July two milestones will be remembered and celebrated. July 20 is the 43rd anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon, and July 21 marks [...]

Walking up Nashville’s lower Broadway on the way to a showcase for Grace Adele & The Grand Band, it was clear it would be standing room only in Robert’s Western World. Phil Harris, of pH Balanced Recordings, and Grammy-winning engineer, put on a party April 14 showcasing a whole lot of talent where the room [...]

Tickets for the 11th annual Download Festival go on sale a mere five days after the end of this years event. On Friday, June 15th at 9am BST a limited number of early-bird tickets will go on sale for the concert which is set for June 14-16 2013 at it’s home in Donington Park, UK. Not [...]

The club Hilly founded in 1973 was intended as a venue for country, bluegrass and blues music but after he found it hard to fill up the schedule with such bands he opened the door to local musicians of all genres. As a consequence CBGB became the geyser from which erupted the american punk scene. [...]

Amingo recently sat down with guitarist Chris Haskett for a Skype video-chat — us in Annapolis, MD and him in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Chris is best known for his role in the iconic post-hardcore group Rollins Band. His hard-driving, eclectic guitar riffs were a perfect counterpoint to singer Henry Rollins’ scolding vocals. The quartet came to [...]