2012

Guitar Genius Orianthi (INTERVIEW)

She is not yet 30, but her skills on the guitar has already garnered her some impressive high fives from fret masters such as Carlos Santana and Steve Vai. Hailing from Australia, Orianthi knew early on that her future followed the yellow brick road not through academic poppy fields but along the gleaming stretched out strings of an electric guitar; it’s incredible hum and vivre capturing her soul in such a way that she dropped out of school early and ended up in the promised land of masqueraded broken dreams, where the young lady has actually beaten the jesters and is succeeding where many young musicians have cemented in dead-end non-musical gigs.

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Field Report Openining For Aimee Mann

Partisan Records is excited to announce that Field Report have confirmed a run of fall tour dates supporting Aimee Mann. Beginning after a headline appearance at LA’s Hotel Café on

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Reverend Peyton

While the name of the group may be an oxy-moron the trio that makes up Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band has produced some foot stomping tunes with their newest album Between The Ditches.  Coming from the southern foothills of Brown County, Indiana the players put fourth a mix of blues, country, rockabilly that’s meanders in an out of each other during these 14 songs.  

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Paper Diamond Announces Night Vision Tour

Hot off a continuously successful festival season, relentless Paper Diamond is once again hitting the road on his headling Night Vision Tour 2012. Paper Diamond will also return his hometown state’s

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Picking & Fishing With Jimmy Herring

Having been an integral part of the Widespread Panic sound for the past six years, he has just popped out a new record, Subject To Change Without Notice, that captures a lot of different spirits: Jazz, blues, rock, mystical mind explorations and good-time hootenanny banjo picking fun. Although Herring takes a humble approach to his career, having played with everyone from the Allman Brothers to Bob Weir and Phil Lesh to Bruce Hampton, his guitar playing is bordering on being flawless. Just don’t try and call him a genius.

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