Yonder Mountain/Xavier Rudd Ticket Giveaway!!!

Update: Bubba from Facebook was the big winner from all our entries. Hope you enjoyed the show!!! We’ll have more giveaways in the near future so stay tuned… Today only we’re giving away tickets to the Yonder Mountain String Band and Xavier Rudd, playing this coming Sunday night, August 30th, at the Pine Mountain Amphitheater in [...]

Morphine Releasing Album of Live and Unreleased Songs

Ten years after the death of its frontman Mark Sandman, Morphine will be releasing a double-CD of unreleased and live tracks on October 6 title At Your Service. The trio started in Cambridge, MA in the 1989, and quickly became favorites of the regional music scene with their unique sound. The band built their blues- and [...]

Apple Music-Focused Keynote September 9

Sources report that Apple’s recurring keynote event will be held on September 9 this year. For the past few years, Apple has used these September keynotes to announce products like the iPod Touch and reconfigured iPod Nano. Rumors always abound about what new gizmos and services Apple will reveal to the tech-hungry and Mac-devoted. These vary [...]

Guitar Legend Les Paul Dies at 94

Legendary guitarist and music innovator Les Paul died today at the age of 94 from complications of pneumonia. The jazz-influenced guitarist got to play with many notable acts, including Frank Sinatra, the Andrews Sisters and Bing Crosby. He would tour often with his Les Paul Trio, and eventually had syndicated radio and television programs. Paul [...]

Corrected: Tramps and Thieves To Re-Release Mill Ave. Cowboys

Corrrection: The Re-Release of Mill Ave. Cowboys is not until September. We were just too excited. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be at Yucca tonight for the best in Tempe Town Rock all in one place… Our good friends Tramps and Thieves will be re-releasing thier debut EP, Mill Ave. Cowboys this Friday night at the [...]

Leo Fender – 100 Years

Today marks what would have been Leo Fender’s 100th birthday. The music legend, along with fellow pioneers like Les Paul and Adolph Rickenbacher, helped develop the modern electric guitar and thus define the soundscape of the last 60 years. Beginning in the early 1950s the Precision Bass and the Broadcaster guitar (later renamed the Telecaster), Fender [...]