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Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials Celebrate New Release in Wilmington on August 3
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Chris M. Slawecki
Alligator recording artists Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials will celebrate the release of their new Alligator CD, Jump Start, with a live performance at the Riverfront Blues Festival in Wilmington on Friday, August 3, 2012. Mixing smoking slide guitar boogies and raw-boned Chicago shuffles with the deepest slow-burners, Lil' Ed Williams and his rip-roaring Blues Imperials — bassist James “Pookie" Young, guitarist Mike Garrett and drummer Kelly Littleton — deliver gloriously riotous, rollicking and intensely emotional blues. Currently celebrating ...
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Empresarios Return for Summer with "Volume" EP
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Press Junkie PR
The kings of Washington, DC’s Tropicaliente sound, Empresarios, have been busy in the studio and are back with a summer scorcher! The Volume EP features four brand new tracks with instrumental versions. As the Empresarios prepare to drop their second studio album, they continue to expand their sound, cross-pollinating multiple musical genres while embracing the warm, sunny vibes of Caribbean culture. The EP starts off with a spectacular collaboration between the Empresarios and Australian producer Omegaman. The result of this ...
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Ligro Releases "Dictionary 2" on MoonJune Records
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Chris M. Slawecki
MoonJune Records continues its streak of astonishing musical discoveries from Indonesia with Dictionary 2, the first international release by Jakarta's celebrated jazz-rock trio Ligro. Founded in 2004 by authoritative guitarist Agam Hamzah and rounded out by agile bassist Adi Darmawan and exhilarating drummer Gusti Hendy. Ligro when read backwards, means “crazy people" in the Bahasa (Indonesian national) language – but crazy in the very best sense of the word, signifying fearlessness, playful abandon, and a healthy disregard for shopworn musical ...
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Rick Estrin & the Nightcats Celebrate New Release in Morrisville, PA
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Chris M. Slawecki
Sacramento-based rocking blues masters Rick Estrin & The Nightcats will celebrate the release of their new Alligator CD, One Wrong Turn, with a live performance at the 30th Annual R&B Picnic in Morrisville on Saturday, July 21, 2012. Harmonica icon/vocalist/songwriter Rick Estrin, along with The Nightcats — jaw-dropping guitarist Chris “Kid" Andersen, singing drummer (who plays standing up) J. Hansen and dynamic multi-instrumentalist Lorenzo Farrell (electric and acoustic bass, organ and piano) — serve up fresh and modern original blues ...
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Guitarist Grant Geissman's "Bop! Bang! Boom!" - July 17 Release On Futurism Records
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
Eclectic new music from jazz guitarist/composer Grant Geissman, with special guests, including Albert Lee, Larry Carlton, Mike Finnigan, Russell Ferrante, Leland Sklar, and Van Dyke Parks. “From loping funk to boogaloo to earthy blues shuffles, with a haunting ballad, a beautiful samba and an urgently swinging post-bop romp thrown into the mix—along with touches of classical, flamenco and zydeco—he covers all the bases with authority on BOP! BANG! BOOM!” —from the liner notes by Bill Milkowski Non-musical highlights include original ...
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Music Legends Magma To Release New CD "Felicite Thosz"
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Paris, France - One of music's most innovative and eclectic ensembles, Magma, has released a new CD titled 'Felicite Thosz' internationally on Seventh Records (June 2012). Having emerged unscathed from STAR WARS, don't just sit there waiting for the end of the world. Take a leap into the MAGMA universe and grab their new studio album which is not to be missed under any circumstances: a trip which will lead you from Japan to the Urals via Central Asia with ...
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Buckwheat Zydeco to Perform in Camden, NJ
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Chris M. Slawecki
"Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics...propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances." — The New York Times Grammy Award-winning American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat" Dural Jr. - along with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco - is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. Buckwheat Zydeco will perform as part of the Sunset Jazz Music Series at Wiggins Waterfront Park in Camden on Tuesday, July 17, ...
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Brazilian Singer Luisa Maita on Tour
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Chris M. Slawecki
Brazilian siren Luisa Maita is returning to North America with her signature mix of samba, alternative pop and downtempo electronica. Hailed by NPR as “The New Voice of Brazil," Luísa Maita will be previewing new material from her forthcoming album to be released in early 2012. Luisa Maita has been busy since the release of her critically-acclaimed debut album Lero-Lero on Cumbancha Discovery in 2010. In 2011 Luisa won the Best New Artist award at the Brazilian Music Awards, the ...
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