Month: December 2018

Fillmore

TURKUAZ are set to bring a colorful funk rock set to San Francisco out on their Life in The City Tour

December 5, 2018

Next year there are so many great bands that are coming to San Francisco and one that you won’t want to miss is TURKUAZ. The Brooklyn-based nine piece band is set to head out on their Life In The City Tour.  The band is sure to bring a kaleidoscope of colors and personality to the stage. They will be heading to the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco on February 2nd. They will have support from Paris Monster. They will be out on tour in support of their fifth full length album Life In The City. The album was released on September 28th and you can pick it up by heading here: http://smarturl.it/500dxo It will be one amazing fun night of psychedelia, alternative, rock, funk and R&B. To give you a taste of what to expect check out their video for the album’s title track, Life in the City.   The band also recently released their second single “If I Ever Fall Asleep,” produced by Jerry Harrison of The Talking Heads, who worked on a couple songs on the [Read More]

Gear Highlight

Guitar News: PRS Private Stock “Graveyard II” Limited Edition Guitar

December 5, 2018

Check out the latest Guitar News from PRS Private Stock: (STEVENSVILLE, MD) December 5, 2018 – PRS Private Stock is proud to announce the McCarty 594 “Graveyard II” Limited Edition model. Earlier this year, PRS announced an eighty-piece limited run of Private Stock “Graveyard” guitars based on the vintage-inspired McCarty 594 model. The Graveyard II also takes the McCarty 594 model as its platform, but adds a unique aesthetic.   The Wood   In early 2018, PRS purchased more than 150 curly maple tops from the outskirts of a Graveyard on top of a moun­tain on the East Coast of the USA. The Gravestones were dated around 1884, and the trees were clearly at least that old as they were forty feet to the first limb. The trees were logged in 2017, and the tops very closely resemble the wood used on guitars coming out of Kalamazoo in 1959.   “At first I thought the wood appeared to be some sort of sub-species of “Michigan” red maple, but with more thought it may just be the [Read More]

music

Carlos Sé’s debut EP  introduces the Sé Sound of East LA.

December 5, 2018

Patrick O’Heffernan (Los Angeles) Carlos Sé, a friendly East LA roquero singer/songwriter with a light touch on the guitar and a knack for clever penetrating lyrics, handed me a copy of his debut EP  Ready or Not, Here  I Come a few weeks ago at a Dia de los Muertos event and I am still playing it.  The EP’s six songs are easy to listen to and quickly get under your skin. Playing a  blend of reggae, rock, and Latino fusion born of the La Maravilla Projects in East LA, Sé artfully pulls the varying styles together as a singular music form – the “Se  sound”. Although Each song is different, the tropical/Lationo fusion/reggae rock Sé Sound runs through them all, making them instantly recognizable to his fans. “Asi Lo Quiero” (soundtrack for his animated video) moves with a tropical beat as Sé tells us how he likes life, while “No Quiero Bici” is a harder rock-driven story about the choice of skating vs biking on his path through life. “Van Gogh” moves back to [Read More]

Video

The Word Alive release new video. Contributed by Alex Bock

December 5, 2018

In October The Word Alive introduced ‘Rise’, the new League Of Legends theme song, which they were part of alongside Mako and The Glitch Mob. The video got over 7 million views in the first 24 hours alone. Definitely a new highlight of their career was the live performance of the song at the opening ceremony of the World finals in Incheon, South Korea. Watch it here: Today the band released a brand-new song ‘Human’, taken from their current record ‘Violent Noise’. Check out this amazing video (feat. Sincerely Collins): Follow the band on their social media to stay updated. Look out for tour dates in 2019!! https://www.facebook.com/thewordalive http://wearethewordalive.com/ https://twitter.com/thewordalive https://www.instagram.com/thewordalive/