“It’s not the size of the pencil, it’s how big you write your name,” once said the music legend, who died Sunday, at the age of 67. Ronnie James Dio was the vocalist for several groups, such as:
Ronnie & The Red Caps
Ronnie Dio & The Prophets
Elf
Rainbow
Black Sabbath
Dio
Heaven and Hell (Dio-era Black Sabbath Reunion from 2006-2010)
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The audio from Eddie Vedder’s recent performance at the Kennedy Center Honors, a cover of the Bruce Springsteen song “My City of Ruins,” has been released as a single. Its proceeds will benefit Artists for Peace and Justice Haiti Relief. The single is available for 99 cents at either Pearl Jam’s official website [...]
Apparently, WinAmp has similar features as TuneUp. However, if you use iTunes (and until the next megabyte-heavy iTunes version has these features), TuneUp really adds an extra something to iTunes.
Italian classical/avant-garde pianist Alessandra Celletti will make it stateside in December to play three shows: In New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. For the West Coast shows, tickets are available through Amoeba Music for about $20 each. You can get more information at Amoeba’s website, as well as [...]
The studio iteration of the Smashing Pumpkins evidently includes: Billy Corgan on vocals, guitar, and whatever else; Mark Tulin on bass; Mike Byrne on drums; and Kerry Brown producing/engineering/etc.
In this embedded video, Brown (incidentally, ex-Pumpkin D’arcy Wretzky’s ex-husband) answers questions from fans, with bassist Tulin co-hosting and drummer Byrne manning the camera:
Head Pumpkin Corgan is [...]
Under the old Music Industry 1.0 scheme, large corporations sign contracts with recording artists. More often than not, since lots of money is at stake, the corporations tell the “artist” what to do. In turn, these musicians usually sacrifice any ideal of art (if they were previously motivated this way, but many are not) for [...]
Seven Minute Silence have been gigging around the Greater Los Angeles Metro Region (specifically: LA County, the OC, and the IE) consistently since early April. Here are the details for one of their upcoming shows:
Saturday, October 24, 2009
8:00pm – 9:00pm
Doll Hut
Anaheim, CA
7MS bass player Miggy Caraballo has uploaded several of their recent shows [...]
To provide examples of what’s right with Music Industry 2.0, we will periodically examine the career path of independent metal band Seven Minute Silence, or 7MS for short. The band consists of:
John Ingles – vocals, guitar
Matt Bidart – guitar, vocals
Miggy Caraballo – bass
Nick Bidart – drums
They have so far exemplified the ideals of Music Industry [...]
Last Thursday, Sky Saxon of the Seeds passed away. His recent artistic output was a collaboration with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins called “Choose to Choose Love.” Will interest in Saxon’s work increase after his death, as it has done countless others in the past?
Later that day, the King of Pop Michael Jackson passed [...]
