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Proving It Every Night —
The Jamison Smeltz Interview

Cover art These days Jamison Smeltz can mostly be found with an alto sax in his mouth, off to one side of the stage with miRthkon, one of the bright spots in American progressive music. Heavy guitars meet woodwinds in miRthkon's complex music, and they've graced stages in North America and Europe at festivals including RIO (Carmeaux, France) and Seaprog (Seattle) — and that's just 2013. But before joining miRthkon, Smeltz played with a wide variety of other artists in a dizzying array of styles. I sat down with him after their performance at Seaprog in June 2013.  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2013-11-24)

Mike Keneally - You Must Be This Tall

Cover art In 1987 a 25-year-old guitarist, Mike Keneally, was given the unique opportunity of joining Frank Zappa’s last touring band. Anyone familiar with Zappa knows that he treated music and performance...  » Read more
(Posted by Henry Schneider 2013-11-22)

Ronald Shannon Jackson RIP

I somehow missed this bit of news last month, but legendary drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson left us on October 19, 2013 at the age of 73. In addition to his prominence in the free jazz arena, he was known for adding a muscular drive to fusion recordings of the wilder variety. He died of leukemia.  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2013-11-22)

Spirit - Two Sides of a Rainbow

Cover art The year was 1978. Spirit was operating as a trio, led by guitarist / singer Randy California, a disciple of Hendrix, and his stepfather Ed Cassidy on drums; rounding out the trio was bassist Larry...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-11-21)

The Worm Ouroboros - Of Things That Never Were

Cover art While one might be mystified by the opener “L’Impasse Sainte Beregonne,” a sort of crepuscular instrumental prog dirge highlighted by electric guitar, flute, and bassoon, things take a more...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-11-20)

Travellers - A Journey into the Sun Within

Cover art Travellers was born out of necessity. Ex-Collage drummer Wojtek Szadkowski had some songs that didn’t lend themselves to his other projects, Satellite and Strawberry Fields, so he rounded up singer...  » Read more
(Posted by Paul Hightower 2013-11-19)

Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited tour 2014

Steve Hackett has announced on his newsletter that the Genesis Revisited shows will resume in 2014 after successful 2013 in Europe and North America. He also let drop that he's working on his next solo album, a possible 2014 release.  » Read more
(Posted by Henry Schneider 2013-11-19)

Garrett Sawyer - Chronicles and Vanity

Cover art Garrett Sawyer is a singer songwriter from Southern California and Chronicles and Vanity is his third release. The cover art is of a nice looking middle-aged guy relaxing in a park, strumming...  » Read more
(Posted by Henry Schneider 2013-11-18)

The Inner Road - Visions

Cover art The Inner Road is an offshoot of UK prog rock outfit Coalition, who released their debut, In Search of Forever, in 2010. I’m not sure what it says about the health of Coalition that two of...  » Read more
(Posted by Paul Hightower 2013-11-18)
 

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