Matthew Hager: Halo Circus to launch summer tour with crowdsource startup RoadNation
“The system is broken, that’s why we are doing this. We have to put the power back in the hands of the fans and the artists,” says Matthew Hager, double platinum music producer and bass player in Allison Iraheta’s explosive alt rock band, Halo Circus. He is sitting on one end of a blanket-strewn brocade couch in Halo Circus’ recording studio; front woman Iraheta is perched on the other end, nodding and interjecting her thoughts....
Vanessa Campagna’s star is rising fast as she crosses lines from classical to country to pop
Vanessa Campagna has sung with symphonies, she has shared the stage with Reba and Blake Shelton and Loretta Lynn, she can and does belt pop and rock with the best of them, she has been on Star Search, she wrote the music for an Oscar winning film, and has herself been the subject of a PBS documentary. And that is only the beginning of the career of a 22-year old woman the press has called a “vocal powerhouse”, a “precociously gifted...
A conversation with bluesman David M’Ore: Passion, Soul and Fire
Guitar pyrotechnics are no longer rare in blues or rock these days. Most lead guitarists can and do shred hot licks in the middle of blues and rock songs, giving audiences a bit of an electric thrill. But there is a difference between hot and heavy guitar shredding and chops that come from the heart and not just the fingers. One delivers electricity, the other delivers emotion along with the energy. This is what David M’Ore does; ...
HBO’ The Latin Explosion: a celebration of “todos somos Americanos”
HBO’ The Latin Explosion: a celebration of todos somos Americanos, but we need more A joyful record of Latin music in America, except California Two unforgettable images flowed across American television screens this week: on Monday the HBO documentary The Latin Explosion: A New America reprised 1980 news footage showing sign-waving white crowds in Miami protesting Cuban immigrants fleeing Castro; on Thursday night on the...