January 2010

Velvet Truckstop: Sweet Release

Sweet Release may be Velvet Truckstop’s debut album, but it sounds like the work of a band who’s comfortable in its own skin and knows what it wants to sound like. Constanten and Cage, being the pros that they are, step onboard only to serve the song; Sweet Release is a solid sample of Velvet Truckstop’s voice from beginning to end. They ain’t tryin’ to be nobody but themselves.

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Charlie Hunter – Self Proclaimed Boutique Artist

Charlie Hunter has certainly proved he's his own man during the course of a career that's found him working as parts of solos, duos, quartets, quintets and larger ensembles both as frontman/bandleader and collaborative participant. He is comfortable with himself to the extent his self-description as a 'boutique' artist sounds both pragmatic and proud.

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Salvador Santana Plans West Coast Tour

Salvator Santana is proud to announce an exclusive run of shows in support of his long anticipated solo debut, Keyboard City, due 2/2/2010. The innovative keyboardist will be sharing the

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Week That Was: A Strong Start to 2010

We expected to ease our way into 2010, but there’s been so many good shows, festival announcements and outrageous adventures to tell you about that we’ve had to hit the

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Classic TAB Tickets Going Quick

Tickets for Trey Anastasio’s tour with Classic TAB went onsale to the general public starting yesterday and within a few hours Red Bank, Washington D.C., Charlottesville, Milwaukee and Boston sold

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AfterNews: Bear Creek/Wanee/Wakarusa

While there aren’t too many gigs played in January, you can always count on the first month of the year to be filled with festival announcements. Just this week alone

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