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Seasoned Blues-Rock Enclave The Tasty Kings Team Up With Blondie Chaplin For Confident All-Star Laden LP
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1888 Media
Founded by songwriter/musician, Andrew Morse, NYC-based group The Tasty Kings take flight on Native Tongue, their third full-length album (Stand Clear Music), this one with vocalist Blondie Chaplin, a six-decade journeyman from South Africa who’s toured/performed with The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, Rick Danko, Jeff Beck, Brian Wilson and many more. Several other Stones’ alum join the fray as Darryl Jones and Charley Drayton lay down an unmistakable groove. Also along for the ride are Charlie Sexton ...
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Gipsy Kings Co-Founder Diego Baliardo Releases Debut CD, 'Este Ritmo,' With New Group, The Gypsy Evolution
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Mouthpiece Music
Diego Baliardo, one of the founders of the world-famous Gipsy Kings, is carrying on the group’s tradition of playing their unique blend of musical styles with a new generation of musicians steeped in Romani culture. Baliardo is releasing Este Ritmo (This Rhythm), the debut release with his new group, The Gypsy Evolution (March 19, 2021, Moondo Records). The Gipsy Kings were formed in 1987 by two sets of brothers from the Baliardo and Reyes families, Spanish Romani who fled to ...
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Swedish Prog Legends The Flower Kings Reveal Release Of New Album Desolation Rose
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Los Angeles, CA - Swedish progressive-rock royalty The Flower Kings have had a busy year since regrouping in 2012 for the ‘Banks Of Eden’ album, and with a new creative vigor the band are following that with the fantastic new album ‘Desolation Rose’ due out in the USA on October 29, 2013. To be issued in a digi-pack, the US release will also include a bonus disc. The artwork, once again created by Silas Toball, can be viewed above and ...
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Whirlwind Festival 2013: 18 Bands, Nearly 100 Musicians At Kings Place -- October 10-12
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Michael Janisch
Whirlwind Recordings was established in early 2010 by international recording artist, freelance bassist, composer, bandleader, educator and producer Michael Janisch. A US native who relocated to London in 2005, Janisch created the label specifically for the 2010 worldwide release of Purpose Built, his debut solo album. The label has grown exponentially in only three years and now boasts over 30 titles in its catalog, representing some of the most exciting creative music that has been released in the UK, USA ...
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Aimua Eghobamien's Black Sessions at Kings Place on March 3
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Aimua Eghobamien
"A very sophisticated singer with a strong voice..." —Jazzwise Magazine Determined to blatantly marry all his influences on one stage, Aimua Eghobamien combines his jazz and classical backgrounds with Nigerian roots and contemporary sensibilities to reach beyond the limits of genre classification. With original compositions, freshly realised arrangements—of music by Gabriel Fauré, Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastian Bach, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter and Randy Newman—and an exhilarating ensemble this programme is a lyrical exploration of one artist's formation. Collaborating ...
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Legendary Flower Kings Vocalist Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion To Release Second Album 'Powerplay'
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Sweden—Much to the excitement of the progressive rock community around the world, legendary Flower Kings vocalist Hasse Fröberg and his group Musical Companion are releasing a new album. 'Powerplay' is the second album by Swedish progrockers Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion. About a year after the release of their critically highly acclaimed debut 'Futurepast' (Sept. 2010), the band entered the studio to cut the backing tracks for 'Powerplay' (April 2012). The line-up of the band is still the same, Hasse ...
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Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings - Collectors' Edition Box Set (2011)
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Something Else!
A fun opportunity to catch up with Bill Wyman's old-school R&B and blues revue arrives in the form of this sweeping five-disc retrospective focusing on the former Rolling Stones bassist's subsequent Rhythm Kings band. You're to be forgiven, even as the biggest fan of his old group, for not knowing much about what became of Wyman. He's led the lowest of low key existences since leaving the Stones in the mid-1990s. Wyman's Rhythm Kings have made consistent appearances over the ...
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Jeff Golub Band, Featuring Henry Butler - The Three Kings (2011)
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Something Else!
Jeff Golub, a longtime sideman with Rod Stewart and Billy Squier, has compiled the expected all-star amalgam in this tribute to the blues stylings of The Three Kings—Albert, B.B. and Freddie. Yet it is his guitar work, canny and sharp-edged, that holds everything together. Golub's playing is comprehensive in scope—stinging and raw when it needs to be, then bracing and jazz-infused when you might be expecting something more overt. Just as importantly, Golub made varied musical selections, and followed that ...
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Steely Dan Sunday: "Kings" (1972)
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Something Else!
Here's an early indication that Steely Dan wasn't going to dwell on romantic themes in their lyrics; songs about love in fact soon became the exception, not the rule. But a rock song about a late 12th century English ruler? Before you think that maybe the references to Richard the Lionhearted's foreign military adventures was meant to draw a parallel to the Vietnam War still raging on at the time this song came out, there's a short note about it ...
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Coachella 2011: Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon, Kanye West
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JamBase
The 12th Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is set for Friday, April 15, Saturday, April 16 and Sunday, April 17 at the beautiful Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA and the 2011 line-up includes headlining performances from Arcade Fire, Kanye West and Kings of Leon. While music serves as the centerpiece for Coachella, this year's festival will feature an expanded commitment to art, culture and community via a unique partnership with The Creators Project—a global initiative that supports leading ...
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