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Music Review: Stone Sour – House of Gold and Bones, Part 2

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Here’s an analogy I put together for what Stone Sour’s House of Gold and Bones, Part 2 sounds like. If Metallica’s Master of Puppets and Pink Floyd’s The Wall got together and had a baby, while concurrently Tool’s Lateralus and Queen’s Night at the Opera also had a baby, and then by some miracle those [...]

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Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington joins Stone Temple Pilots (New Song Preview)

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Okay… so it actually sounds kinda cool, and the sonic fingerprint of the DeLeo brothers behind the “STP sound” is still there. But Chester, while being eminently suited for nu-metal vocal styles (don’t get me started on the limp musical direction Linkin Park has taken in recent years), just doesn’t cut it for me here. Sure, he’s [...]

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Music Review: Stone Sour – House of Gold and Bones, Part 1

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A stone sour is a drink made of one part whiskey and a splash of orange juice, with or without an addition splash of sweet and sour (I’ll be damned I might actually teach your guys something). Stone Sour is a band made up of one part rock and a splash of melody, with or [...]

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Exclusive: TMRZoo.com Goes One-On-One With Pierce The Veil’s Vic Fuentes

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Pierce the Veil, a progressive post-hardcore band hailing from San Diego, California, has made themselves popular with teenager and young-adults alike. Embracing their Hispanic roots, they bring fire to the stage and make all of their live shows unlike any other. This four-piece group consists of singer Vic Fuentes, brother and drummer Mike Fuentes, bass [...]

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Music Review: Metallica Bassist Releases Newsted Metal EP

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I was a little surprised when I saw that Jason Newsted was working on a new EP. I was aware that he had been working as an artist while healing from a shoulder injury. I’m kind of glad he’s back. For nostalgic sake. Looking back, his albums with Metallica weren’t bad (by rock and roll [...]

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Exclusive: Blind Melon’s Christopher Thorn Talks to TMRZoo.com

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Rock and roll is timeless. Since its creation in the 50’s thousands of great bands have graced our ears with earth shattering percussion, meaty bass riffs, brain melting guitar, and vocals that strike an emotional nerve on an incomparable level.  Most of us daydream about what it would be like to sell out stadiums; the [...]

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Lets Get 420 Smokin’ with a Lil’ Bit of Jay B – Kendrick Lamar “Swimming Pools” (Smoke Edition)

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We are going to kick off 420 with this phenomenal smoked-out video from “Get Money Boys” artist Jay B. Jay B’s profile on the label’s website has this bio: “Money is what makes the world go round”, or at least that’s what they say. For some people, the goal is to simply make it, and for other’s [...]

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Dick Wagner Live at South Shore Music Company

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On April 17, 2013 Dick Wagner performed his phenomenal electric guitar along with acoustic accompaniment at South Shore Music Company in Weymouth. He performs at Barnes and Noble in Burlington on the 18th, Thursday night, at 7 PM (directly across from the Burlington Mall, off of Route 128/95) To see the “Maestro of Rock” up [...]

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Charlie Farren Releases Rare Composition by Boston’s Brad Delp – To Perform at Tcan in Natick Tonight

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“Tuesday” is the title track from the upcoming solo album from Charlie Farren.  It was written by Brad Delp of the groups Boston and RTZ and Farren does a stunning job of capturing the voice – and the emotion – of Delp. Back in 1988 when this writer was managing Mission Control Studios for genius [...]

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Resveratrol and Leucine may be able to Help you Lose Weight Faster

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A cocktail of resveratrol and leucine may be able to help you lose weight faster. Nutritionists at the University of Tennessee write in Nutrition and Metabolism that this combination boosts fat and glucose burning in cells. The amino acid leucine and its metabolite HMB not only stimulate the production of muscle fiber, they also reduce [...]

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Listen to Anthrax’s Cover of Cheap Trick’s “Big Eyes” from New EP “Anthems”

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Anthrax has released a teaser from their upcoming EP Anthems. This disk will be a tribute to the music the New York thrash band grew up on in the 70′s. Anthems is a surprising mix of classic rock retools including Boston and Journey…. wait – what! 

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Music Review: Genya Ravan – Cheesecake Girl (Audio Preview)

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This biographical CD is a companion to Genya Ravan’s book, Lollipop Lounge, and it is a departure from her previous solo discs – Undercover(2011), For Fans Only(2002), And I Mean It(1979), Urban Desire (1978), Goldie Zelkowitz (1974), They Love Me, They Love Me Not (1973), and her CBS debut, Genya Ravan with Baby (1972), Ravan’s [...]

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Brossard Picks Releases New St Patrick’s Day “Deluxe” Guitar Pick

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Saint Patrick’s Day is around the corner. This means I will be brushing up on songs by my favorite Irish artists for the drinking day gig. A bit of music from U2, Thin Lizzy and even Boston’s own Dropkick Murphy’s are must haves for the for the celebration of all celebrations. If you want to [...]

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Music Review: Jimi Hendrix – People, Hell, and Angels

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The great Eddie Kramer explains that Jimi Hendrix himself came up with the title People, Hell and Angels on a YouTube video worth watching. Kramer notes that Jimi Hendrix is “stretching out the boundaries” on the 1968-1969 recordings and what would be essential would be an entire video special from Kramer on every track on the disc.  [...]

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Guitar Giveaway: Win A Buddy Blaze Vivian Campbell ‘Lightning Storm’ Shredder

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Buddy Blaze Guitars has joined forces with Seymour Duncan and Floyd Rose to give away a very special guitar: The Buddy Blaze – Vivian Campbell 25th Anniversary Shredder VC-II / LS modeled after the historic guitar used by Campbell in his Whitesnake days. In 1987, Buddy Blaze and Vivian Campbell designed the Buddy Blaze Shredder, [...]

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Music Review: The Groundhogs Live at the Astoria

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The line-up of the mighty Groundhogs 1998 tour was Tony (T.S.) McPhee on guitars & vocals with bassist Eric Chipulina and drummer Pete Correa – see Wikipedia for a pretty good “family tree” of members of the venerable outfit.  Providing wonderfully deep accompaniment to McPhee’s churning guitar and redoubtable rough-edge vocals – anathema to the [...]

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