After its 1970s heyday, prog rock receded in on itself, but now a new wave of bands are embracing long, difficult songs and fantastical lyrics and finding fans for it, too At the end of 2008, the journalist Jerry Ewing pitched an idea for a new magazine to a publishing company. His idea was a magazine dedicated entirely to progressive rock, long reviled in the critical mainstream as the ...
Pigeons by Adam Perry Midlake and Animal Collective proved to the sometimes stuffy indie-rock world that music school isn't necessarily a cardinal sin. Meanwhile, Brooklyn's Here We Go Magic with lyrics like I want to be a sunset harkens back to when David Byrne and other art school vets made rock 'n' roll both sophisticated and fun. "Collector," the upbeat single on the band's new Pigeons ...
Blackwater James’ self-titled album takes off with rockets. Their music is reminiscent of heavy rocker bands like Guns N Roses, Poison, Mötley Crüe, and even Kansas. Yet they are not a retro band; more accurately they are blazing a rock and roll revival. Beginning with “All Fired Up” and “Rock Steady” – songs that solicit all-night jamming – Blackwater James brings in blues rhythm to accent the beautiful lyrics of “Wake Me.” James tells of “Shaking of the anger, moving through the fear
Johnny Cash February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003Technically considered a country music artist, Johnny Cash actually transcended the genre to be one of the most important singer-songwriters of any music, period. With an authoritative deep voice, a cannon of songs that sounded like a freight train coming your way, and lyrics that made you feel as if he lived them, Cash exemplified all that is American music. To many, he and his wife and musical partner, June Carter Cash are considered country
The Defining Force of Southern Rock Comes to the Wicomico Youth Civic Center Stage (Salisbury, MD) Lynyrd Skynyrd, the band which helped define Southern Rock, will perform in concert at the Wicomico Youth Civic Center on Friday, October 16. Tickets to the 8:00pm show go on sale Friday, August 21 at 10am. After releasing its first album, “pronounced leh-nerd skinnerd” in 1973, Lynyrd Skynyrd was quickly propelled into fame. Their down home Southern lyrics when coupled with Bri
