New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Roadrunner Records) - The Great DEEP PURPLE Debate. On this debut Shockwaves Skull Session podcast episode host Bob Nalbandian is joined by head of A&R at Roadrunner Records, Monte Conner and heavy metal book author/journalist Martin Popoff to discuss and debate on legendary British rock band DEEP PURPLE’s extensive career […]
At all times, legendary hip-hop drummer Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson is a man pulled in many directions. The 37-year-old musician, producer, blogger and hip-hop tastemaker fairly defines multitasking: Aside from anchoring his long-term band The Roots since the late ’80s, he’s an executive producer and producer for other musicians (Common, Slum Village and, most recently, Al […]
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Is an indie band with a number one album on the Billboard charts considered indie anymore? Death Cab For Cutie’s last CD, 2005’s Plans, was their first for Atlantic Records and sold over one million copies. Their new CD, Narrow Stairs, entered the Billboard chart at number one, and three weeks later, is still in […]
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School will be out — along with the sun, one hopes. For many of us, summertime beckons with the promise of music to soothe the savage sunburn, or at least to provide a tuneful alternative to the beach.The issue then becomes: What, where and when? Chamber music or symphony orchestra, serious stuff or […]
Gary Dourdan (born Gary Durdin, December 11, 1966 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an African-American actor, widely known for portraying Warrick Brown on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.Dourdan and his family moved to Willingboro, New Jersey when he was in his youth. At this time his interests included acting, music and martial arts. Later Dourdan moved to […]
Rock Star - Rebel with a causeTHE UNVEILING last week of Coldplay’s new single had all the hallmarks of a punchy declaration of intent, aimed to silence all those ‘namby-pamby’ jibes the band habitually attract.This time, however, the musical hand-wringing is forced to make room for some surprisingly muscular guitar and bluesy vocals. It might […]
TUESDAY NIGHT’S broadcast sped by at such a breakneck pace that the lollygagging speed of a results show seems almost refreshing by comparison. With 45 million votes cast, though, it seems the fleetness of fans’ fingers might rival the speediness of the program itself.That episode — and the music of this week’s mentor, Neil Diamond […]
Dan Snaith, the musical brainchild behind Caribou, may have a Ph.D. in mathematics, but do not mistake him for a number cruncher.“There’s no mathematics or formulae or systems,” Snaith said. “It’s very much aesthetics.”Hailing from Dundas, Ontario, Snaith has put out albums under his Caribou moniker since 2004 and is keeping his musical output steady […]