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It is Mayhem Monday and our featured band is KORN!

June 9, 2014

We have less than a month until Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. Today for our Mayhem Monday feature, we wanted to spotlight one of our favorite bands, Korn. I am really looking forward to their set at the Festival. We saw them last year at Aftershock and they were the absolute highlight of the three day festival. They have such an intense live performance that truly captivates you from start to finish. Their album, The Paradigm Shift had received instant acclaim since it was first released last October and continues to be one of the best Korn albums and the singles continue to rock the charts. You can pick up The Paradigm Shift on iTunes here. One of my favorite songs on the album is Never, Never and you can check it out here with a tribute video featuring photos by Rockin Ryan: Korn is: Jonathan Davis – Vocals James Shaffer – Guitar Brian Welch – Guitar Reginald Arvizu – Bass Ray Luzier – Drums So make sure to pick up your tickets for [Read More]

MATIVISION RELEASES THE DREAM THEATER 360° INTERACTIVE APP FOR ANDROID

June 9, 2014

Mativision happily announces the release of their DreamTheater360° App on Android on June 9, 2014. The Android DreamTheater360° App offers fans a unique 360° interactive experience into the Grammy-nominated progressive metal titans’ performance, as captured onstage by Mativision® multi-camera 360° video technology at Luna Park in Buenos Aires. (App Promo video: http://youtu.be/d6t3z-vuS0M) Check out the promo vid here: In its first release, the Android DreamTheater360° App will include 2 interactive 360° songs filmed and produced using the Mativision technology, which virtually transports fans directly onto the Luna Park stage right next to the band members and completely immerses them in a unique experience that they can control in real time. Each fan can direct the show by manipulating Mativision’s multi-camera player, and enjoy the concert in any way they want. Fans can seamlessly choose among six different cameras while also having the capability to rotate each camera angle and zoom in and out, by tapping and dragging. More 360° interactive Luna Park songs will be added to the Android App every week, at no extra charge to Android DreamTheater360° App users. The Android DreamTheater360° App is available on the Google Play Store, priced at $9,99. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mativision.dt360Complete About DREAM THEATER: With total sales [Read More]

Multi-Platinum Guitar Icon Ted Nugent premieres new song “She’s Gone” featuring Sammy Hagar

June 9, 2014

Multi-platinum guitar icon TED NUGENT returns with a new full-length album SHUTUP&JAM!, due out Tuesday, July 8 on Frontiers Records. This release marks the first all-new studio album from the Motor City Madman in seven years. NUGENT leads the pack of renowned musicians, handling guitar and vocal duties, alongside bassist Greg Smith, drummer Mick Brown and longtime musical cohort guitarist/vocalist Derek St. Holmes. Special guest Sammy Hagar brings his vocal power to “She’s Gone.” SHUTUP&JAM! is available now for pre-order at Amazon. Today Ted is premiering a new song off the album, “She’s Gone” which features the power vocals of Sammy Hagar. It also features a special performance from one of the most respected drummers in rock, Johnny “Bee” Badanjek of the legendary Detroit band Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. Check out the song here: “SHUTUP&JAM! 2014…the unstoppable firestorm of Ted Nugent, all American MotorCity, high energy R&B&R&R soulmusic erupts once again with what many gungho music lovers are raving to be the best songs and best music and highest energy rockout of my insanely wonderful musical American Dream,” NUGENT exclaims. “Sammy Hagar sings his balls off on ‘She’s Gone’ and Derek St. Holmes proves once again that the MotorCity produces not just the greatest guitar [Read More]

Salvador Santana. Rising Up for a better world. By Patrick O’Heffernan

June 9, 2014

Once in a while an artist comes along whose music and whose character allows him or her to rise up and stand out from the many talented musicians who vie for our attention. This weekend I was fortunate enough to hear and spend time with one such person, Salvador Santana, who is creating the change-the world-anthems of our time and demonstrating the change with his own life Salvador Santana played for a crowded and very happy house Friday night at the Witzend Listening Room in Venice California, literally bringing people to their feet with songs from his latest album, Rise Up, and earlier albums, SSB and Keyboard City. The performance was joyful, high-octane, professional and precisely tuned to the room and the audience. Santana showed a confidence born of years of performing before crowds ranging from 50 to 300,000 people, winning a Grammy and opening for and playing with some of the legends of our time, including his father. Even before the set began, as his crew was loading a seeming warehouse full of equipment [Read More]

Get ready for Latin rock with MANZO RALLY at this year’s Berkeley World Music Festival

June 8, 2014

This year’s Berkeley World Music Festival is just a couple weeks away and we wanted to make sure you know about the great Latin rock band that will be taking the stage. This year, MANZO RALLY will be performing and if you are not familiar with them, allow me to introduce you to some fun rock music infused with Latin flair and will have you moving and shakin in no time. MANZO RALLY is the brainchild of the amazing Gabriel Manzo of Malo. The 11th annual festival is scheduled for June 22nd at Telegraph and Haste St. and will be a day filled with music, dance, crafts and promises to be a lot of fun. We had the chance to briefly chat with Gabriel about his performance at this year’s festival and are pleased to bring that to you here: Music Junkie Press: It is great to hear about MANZO RALLY performing at this year’s Berkeley World Music Festival. Can you tell us about the lineup you have planned for us? Gabriel: I’ve played [Read More]

Black Label Society delivers a spine tingling set at Regency Ballroom for Golden Gods Tour

June 8, 2014

What a night! This past Friday, the place to be was at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco for the Revolver Golden Gods Tour. There was a line around the block as everyone came out in full force to catch Black Label Society perform. Also make sure to check out our coverage of the amazing two opening bands, Devil You Know and Butcher Babies. I think it was a sold out show or nearly sold out since earlier that day they had only a 100 or so tickets left. It was packed from front to back, left to right and the entire upstairs was filled with no empty seats. Black Label Society came out and were behind a full stage curtain, and then the lights went up and the curtain came down. Our photographer Rockin Ryan was in the photo pit and got wildly tangled in the rope but he made it out just in time to catch Zakk take center stage! The crowd went WYLDE as they started with My Dying Time. There was a full on [Read More]

Corinne West pulls you into her orbit with The Promise. By Patrick O’Heffernan

June 8, 2014

By Patrick O’Heffernan, Host Music FridayLive! Turn off your devices, put on your headphones, close your eyes and let yourself be drawn into a new orbit by Corinne West’s gravitational pull in her new album, The Promise. Listening to the nine songs of The Promise feels like experiencing two galaxies merging with each other, slowly, beautifully, sparkling with a billion solar flares. Corinne’s voice is terrifyingly beautiful and her lyrics are urgently luxurious, creating music is that is addictive. The Promise is all of these things, and it is the best thing she has ever done. Corinne can write and perform music that is soft, sweet, painfully authentic and yet feels imminent, like a storm on the horizon. She can infuse one song with insistence and the next with wonder. The Promise, recorded with Jeri Jones and Pam Delgado of Blame Sally, is very personal and yet distant, as if Corinne has taken you into her consciousness and let you join her standing outside of the subjects of her songs. This inside-outside quality is [Read More]