by Darren Paltrowitz | Mar 20, 2017 | Culture, Entertainment, Music
Chris Shiflett has been the lead guitarist of Foo Fighters — one of the world’s biggest rock bands — for over 15 years. Prior to joining Dave Grohl and company, Chris played guitar in No Use For A Name and Me First & The Gimme Gimmes....
by Darren Paltrowitz | Mar 20, 2017 | Culture, Entertainment, Music
While James McCartney notably played on the acclaimed Flaming Pie and Driving Rain albums of father Paul — also co-writing two songs on the latter studio release — 2010’s Available Light was his first crack at recording his own solo effort....
by Darren Paltrowitz | Mar 17, 2017 | Culture, Entertainment, Music
There are a lot of interesting facts about the band known as Occurrence. One such thing is that the duo, Ken Urban and Cat Hollyer, live in different states and trade demos via Dropbox; Ken is in Manhattan while Cat is based in Kansas. Another factoid is that Ken is a...
by Downtown Magazine | Mar 7, 2017 | Culture, Entertainment, Music
2016 was a breakout year for critically-acclaimed singer/songwriter Frances in her native England. Following the success of her 2015 single “Grow,” Frances was nominated for both the BBC Sound Of 2016 and the BRITs Critic Choice Awards. She also performed...
by Darren Paltrowitz | Feb 27, 2017 | Culture, Entertainment, Music
Born in Santiago, Chile, Yael Meyer began writing original music at the age of eight. About a decade later, she attended the Berklee College Of Music on a scholarship. While living in Boston for Berklee, Yael wrote and produced her debut album, Common Ground, which...