Archives for: "May 2010"
A Whole Movie of Jazz
05/31/10 05:24, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: 1948, a song is born, benny goodman, danny kaye, howard hawks, jazz, louis armstrong
Musical Musings with Paul Bourgeois
If you haven’t guessed it yet I am a movie freak, and I love movies about music. I want to share a movie with you. Wouldn’t it be really cool if you could see Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Buck and Bubbles… more »
Heart Rocks Harrahs Rincon, BFMN Was There
05/30/10 14:57, by wakitu, Categories: Music News, BFMN Exclusive, Artist Interview, Bands, Dan Grigor, Featured Artist , Tags: ann wilson, barefootmusicnews, craig bartok, dan grigor, debbie shair, heart, kristian attard, nancy wilson
Went to see Heart perform at Harrah’s Rincon and got our socks knocked clean off (those of us who indulge in wearing them)! Ann and Nancy Wilson thrilled their very loyal and responsive fans with past favorites and a few songs off their upcoming… more »
Download at Donington Will Deliver
05/28/10 12:05, by wakitu, Categories: Music News, Festivals and Events, Bands , Tags: ac_dc, aerosmith, deftones, download festival, live nation, megadeth, rage against the machine, stone temple pilots, taking dawn
Fourteen more bands have recently been added to the three-day Download Festival line-up, June 11-13. Some of these acts will be playing on the brand new Jägermeister acoustic stage – bringing the total of stages to five.
This has got to be one of the… more »
Zach Rask Wins Louis Armstrong Jazz Award
05/27/10 21:13, by dang, Categories: Music News, Percussion, Featured Artist, Awesome Nobodies , Tags: dan grigor, led zeppelin, louis armstrong, moby dick, rural oddities, zach rask
Tony Bennett once said, “The bottom line of any country in the world is ‘What did we contribute to the world?’ … We contributed Louis Armstrong.”
As if we had anything to do with it, contribute we did. We liked him,… more »
KISS Announces USA Tour, Competition for Unsigned Rock Band to Open
05/25/10 15:52, by wakitu, Categories: Music News, Bands, Featured Artist , Tags: eric singer, gene simmons, guitar center, kiss, paul stanley, tommy thayer, wounded warriors
You read our story about their fantastic concert at Wembley Arena, and saw the exclusive photos by our Moonshayde. Throughout their 37-year career, KISS has sold 80 million albums, played in front of millions of people and become an integral part of… more »
Let’s Have a Level Playing Field
05/25/10 15:52, by ed.lapple, Categories: BFMN Exclusive , Tags: amplifier, distortion, ear method, edward lapple, signal path, signal to noise level
by Edward Lapple If you are going to record your music, you need to know the basics of proper level setting. Say that you want to record your guitar. What would the signal path be? Well, the strings vibrate over a magnetic pickup; the output… more »
Slipknot Bassist Paul Dedrick Gray Found Dead
05/24/10 16:44, by wakitu, Categories: Music News , Tags: _2, dead, des moines, iowa, masks, metal band, paul gray, rat, slipknot
Urbandale police say 38-year-old Paul Dedrick Gray, the bassist for the Grammy-winning Iowa metal band Slipknot, has been found dead in a suburban Des Moines Town Plaza Hotel room by a hotel employee. Foul play wasn’t suspected and the Polk County… more »
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