Seattle-based musician and composer Johnny Unicorn, while being a full-time member of Autumn Electric, somehow has found the time to record his next album. Angels in the Oort Cloud is available for streaming now, and will be released in physical form this fall. » Read more (Posted by Jon Davis 2014-07-17)
Johnny Winter, a Texas-bred guitarist and singer who was a mainstay of the blues-rock world since the 1960s, died on Wednesday July 16th in his hotel room in Zurich. He was 70 and had been on tour in Europe. » Read more (Posted by Peter Thelen 2014-07-17)
Four giants from the Venezuelan music scene and an Emmy Award winning singer based in Canada merge their talents and passion for music into an exceptional eclectic prog band. ProgDay is pleased to host Backhand's first performance in the US. » Read more (Posted by Peter Thelen 2014-07-16)
Bassist Charlie Haden, who helped change the shape of jazz more than a half-century ago as a member of Ornette Coleman's groundbreaking quartet and liberated the bass from its traditional rhythm section role, has died. He was 76. » Read more (Posted by Peter Thelen 2014-07-12)
Japanese avant-garde band OOIOO will be doing a set of dates in the US and Canada to support their new album Gamel, released on Thrill Jockey Records. » Read more (Posted by Jon Davis 2014-07-12)
Il Tempio delle Clessidre's concert DVD of their Seoul, South Korea performance in Oct 2011 is finally ready for release. Word reaches us that the DVD will feature contributions by our own Henry Schneider, taken from what he has written about the band and the show. » Read more (Posted by Jon Davis 2014-07-03)
Getting around from city to city can be expensive for a band, so Unreal City are reaching out for help from the people who love their music. They've launched a crowd-funding project to get them going on the road in 2015. » Read more (Posted by Jon Davis 2014-06-30)
If you are a baby boomer like me you cannot have avoided listening to Casey Kasem and his top 40 countdown. He was quite a knowledgeable man when it came to pop music. He and Dick Clark were icons of pop music. Casey has now passed away at age 82. » Read more (Posted by Henry Schneider 2014-06-16)
Starting June 17 in the Czech Republic, Ian Anderson will be taking his "Best of Jethro Tull" set around Europe, hitting Romania, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Hungary, and the UK. Towards the end, he will be adding in material from his new album Homo Erraticus. Then in September, he'll bring the mixed set to North America. » Read more (Posted by Jon Davis 2014-06-08)
They haven't exactly been officially announced yet, but fairly substantial rumors have been surfacing regarding the promised live performances of the new version of King Crimson. As Robert Fripp said last year, the new/old band will concentrate initially on North America. » Read more (Posted by Jon Davis 2014-06-03)