4th Annual Vegas Rocks! Magazine awards to honor Jon Anderson, Carl Palmer and Zakk Wylde
by craig on Jun.15, 2013, under LINKS, ROCK NEWS, ROCK TOUR DATES
The 4th annual Vegas Rocks! Magazine music awards show will celebrate the magazine's 9th anniversary on Sunday, Aug. 25, in the Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel. This year’s show will salute Jon Anderson of Yes with the Voice of Progressive Music award, Carl Palmer from Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Asia will receive the Drum Legend Icon award, Zakk Wylde will receive the Riff Monster award and newcomer Laura Wilde will receive Best New Female Artist award. read more...
Aerosmith to headline Innagural LivingSocial Backyard Festival
by craig on Jun.14, 2013, under LINKS, ROCK NEWS, ROCK TOUR DATES, VIDEO
Aerosmith will be the headliner at the first-ever LivingSocial Backyard Festival on Randall's Island in New York City next month. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts will also be a part of the event sponsored by the social network on July 13th. read more...
Rock Picks of the Week: Stone Temple Pilots, The Winery Dogs, Deep Purple, Five Finger Death Punch, Great White
by craig on Jun.13, 2013, under ROCK NEWS, ROCK PICKS, VIDEO
After firing vocalist Scott Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots this past February, guitarist Dean DeLeo, bassist Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz announced their new singer Chester Bennington of Linkin Park at KROQ's annual Weenie Roast in Los Angeles last month. He is turning out to be a perfect fit, as the newest track from this incarnation of STP is flying up the charts. read more...
It’s the 30th Anniversary of The US Festival ‘Heavy Metal Day’ – I was there…a recap
by craig on May.29, 2013, under INTERVIEWS, ROCK NEWS, ROCK TOUR DATES, VIDEO
Today is the 30th Anniversary of the 1983 US Festival. The US Festivals (US pronounced like the pronoun, not as initials) were two early 1980s music and culture festivals sponsored by Steve Wozniak, formerly of Apple Computer. The first was held Labor Day weekend in September 1982 and the second was Memorial Day weekend in May 1983. The 1982 US Festival was the first major festival since Cal Jam II that was not a charity concert—it was intended to be celebration of evolving technologies; a marriage of music, computers, television and people. That continued in 1983, even though Wozniak had lost millions on the first US Festival. The festival also had large air-conditioned tents featuring the US Festival Technology Exposition— a dazzling display of then-cutting edge computers, software, and electronic music devices. Also making a debut were installations of "out-door rain" - perforated pvc nozzles that sprayed water to fight the fierce hundred degree heat. read more...
