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Much like my write-up last month regarding the band Roxy Blue and their triple state mini tour, it was once again a multiple day adventure for those willing to travel around a bit. This months main talent was none other than the Atlanta based national act Kickin Valentina. They began their first night’s performance in […]

The Metal Summit, don’t let the name fool you. This show isn’t just about Metal Music, they are about music of all genres. As far as I know there is no webcast on Facebook Live like them. They are your Island of Misfit Toys, brought together to interview the artists related to the Rock and […]

Ah Spring is in the air and this past Saturday was a gorgeous day under Carolina blue skies with temps in the 70’s. Perfect weather and an equally awesome private outdoor venue in the countryside was host to a mélange of metal bands from all over North Carolina. The bands that performed at the Jamestock […]

  80 GOOD REASONS To Celebrate BOB DYLAN’S 80th BIRTHDAY THIS MONTH   1. His previous 79 years.   2. Most notably, between the hours of 8 and 9pm on the evening of May 17, 1966 in the Manchester, England Free Trade Hall.   3. Chronicles: Volume One.   4. Blonde on Blonde …in MONO, […]

This past weekend brought some much needed live music to several of the Mid-Atlantic States in the Northeast Region of the US with a total of three shows featuring Memphis based hard rock national act ROXY BLUE as the headliner each night. Beginning in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 16th with a Friday night […]

  IMANTS KRUMINS   Above-ardent Fan, Collector and Champion of Good Music (and Credit Risk Analyst for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce by day) born April 6, 1952, Leamington Spa, England died June 9, 2011, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada age 59   Like so many others around the world, my first-ever words with Imants Krumins […]

Singer, songwriter, real world season 1 and real world homecoming: New York cast member Andre Comeau made an appearance on The Metal Summit this past Wednesday. He was on the show to promote his EP and talk about his upcoming new album Clean Break which will be released via EMP Label Group later this month. […]

He is probably one of the most humblest musicians and quietest talents on earth but we caught up with Ronnie “Dawg” Robson, who is a professional session bass player from Toronto Canada, on what he has been up to lately.   For those who have never heard of him, Ronnie has a great bass resume […]

  Throughout that wild and wacky A.D. 2020, one disc seemed to somehow find itself repeatedly, and most happily so, upon the ol’ Pig Player. A disc which via a mere 21 tracks in under 69 minutes presents an ideal, not to mention idyllic picture of two musical careers which, cannily overlapping more often than […]

  In my latest interview with former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, he talks about his new album and touring plans. Stephen Richard Hackett is an English musician, songwriter, singer, and producer who gained prominence as the lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Genesis from 1971 to 1977. Angel Alamo:   How did the idea for […]

  Quote: “The best goll-darn singer you’ve never heard came from the same country as Celine Dion and Drake.” “Yeah, right,” I can somehow see you all sneering right about now: “What the hell good has ever come out of Canada?!!” Well, besides the (very early) Guess Who, SCTV, and of course Young Neil, there […]

A jam-packed weekend revealing that revenge isn’t always a dish best served cold. Especially when you get a bunch of bands, a traveling mob of die-hard fans and two smoking hot cities to showcase the release of a 3rd full-length album titled “The Revenge of Rock.”  US hard rock band Kickin Valentina calls this their […]

INXS may have given fans their final show in 2012. The music continues to live on. KICK The INXS experience gives old fans a chance to hear the music again for new fans who are now discovering the band is an opportunity to walk into a venue and experience the songs live. The live experience […]

Do you remember the days of buying an album, reading all of the credits, listening to the record from the first song all the way through to the very last note on the record then going back to listen to it because there was a cool guitar riff, solo, or bass line that made you […]

Legendary musician Bill Champlin has had a career that is worth mentioning as legendary. Even after so many years writing and touring. He continues to work on a variety of projects with no signs of slowing down. It should be no surprise that he is not coming out with a 14 song album Livin’ for […]

  For those who arrived at the party rather late – meaning the first new Stones record you ever bought had a big red tongue splayed across its label – the five years and ninety-nine minutes contained within Chrome Dreams’ Rolling Stones: The Mick Taylor Years will serve as a more than welcome 72nd Birthday […]

  Tommy Lee Flood has been busy making the media rounds supporting a remastered version of his solo debut album Flood. Tommy Lee Flood took time out to appear on The Metal Summit where Tommy spoke about the solo project, his former band Banshee.              Tommy Lee Flood took questions from the fans who joined in, […]

On Hammer Down Hard’s Facebook page the bio says high energy adrenaline fueled metal.  Hammer Down Hard was not kidding about it as they are high adrenaline fueled metal. When you play both releases 2018’s Total Annihilation and 2019’s Madness Serves Me Well, you can’t tell if the records were released last year, 2000, or […]

Former Enuff Z’nuff singer and founding member Donnie Vie the king of power pop appeared on The Metal Summit this past Wednesday to talk about what he has been up to and also take questions from the fans. Some of the things that were mentioned during the interview is that he and Chip Z’nuff are […]

  I know at least one of his fellow supposedly-lovin’ Spoonfuls resents the situation to this day, but whenever Zal Yanovsky appeared on stage alongside John Sebastian, Joe Butler, and Steve Boone during their halcyon daze in the mid-swinging Sixties, some poor girl in the audience would inevitably capsize the entire proceedings by screeching out […]

Kickin Valentina has released the first single and video “Somebody New” from their upcoming 3rd full-length album, The Revenge of rock will be released on January 22, 2021. Now on to my review. I miss the good old days of rock videos that have cool cars and hot looking women. Whatever happened to those days […]

  “MUSWELL HILLBILLIES isn’t just a better country-rock album than anything by Wilco or Son Volt; It’s a better country-rock album than anything by The Byrds.”   When the esteemed J.R. Taylor first wrote this in The New York Press awhile back, I couldn’t help but laugh. J.R.’s always tossing around outrageous statements like this, […]

  Bob Dee went to upstate New York to work on his latest release, six songs, E.P. Stun Gun. Bob Dee released the first single massive guitar-driven Down, which is different from any of the material he has done in the past. Stun Gun was supposed to be followed by a world tour and another […]

  For all intents and purposes, Lindsey Adams Buckingham has lived a charmed life since first dropping on October 3, 1949.   Raised in the comfy Bay Area opulence of 1950’s Atherton, California, a handsome, athletic golden boy suddenly and forever sidetracked by his elder brother’s Elvis and Buddy Holly 45s. He quit the school […]

  Over-intellectualizing about a subject as pure and simple in its perfection as the Ramones sort of defeats their entire purpose, now doesn’t it? The proverbial “dancing about architecture,” as Steve Martin (by way of Frank Zappa) might well say. Consequently, I’ve shied away from most books and studies concerning Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and […]

  Theresa Carmoney is an independent music artist. Go to her youtube page, and you will find her signing a wide range of songs. The first song I ever heard Theresa sing was a cover of Whitesnake Is this love. I had a chance to interview Theresa Carmoney to talk about her songs and career. […]

  …even after watching Louise Palanker’s absolutely riveting Family Band documentary:   Susan Claire Cowsill is the youngest human being ever to score a genuine Billboard Top Ten hit.   John Patrick Cowsill, still the youngest male of the original family band, retains fond memories indeed of drumming four sets a night inside Rhode Island […]

Twenty-five years ago, BON JOVI, their 6th studio album These Days with Tim Collins as a producer, was released, The album featured the debut of bassist Hugh McDonald. Alec Jon Such fired the year before. I was 16 years old when this album came out. As a teenager in those days, music was the best […]

  BRIAN JONES’ HAIR Not only the longest, and the blondest, but the most distinctive coif to come out of the (first) British Invasion …hence his invariably being positioned as the focal point of the band’s publicity photos, not to mention album covers. “Personally, I always make a point of cleansing my hair after every […]

Hard Features (An Open Letter) | Dear Tour Promoter we want a Blood Sweat, & Beers XXX tour 2021|  by Angel Alamo Before the popular package co-headlining tours, there was a tour that, after 29 years, still stands out. I am talking about none other than the Blood, Sweat, and Beers tour. The line-up had […]