This upcoming Friday February 12, 2010, the band known as Great White will be performing in Chicago at the House of Blues. This will be a great show! Tickets for this show can be purchased directly from Live Nation for a special offer price of 2 for only $10… For more information visit: http://www.livenation.com/edp/eventId/411073
Great White w/Rev Luv
Friday 02/12/10 at 8:30 PM - 17+ The House of Blues
329 North Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60654
Them Crooked Vultures have posted YouTube streams of all the tracks from their forthcoming CD. The decision to stream the disc – which hits record stores on November 17 – was apparently made in response to an unauthorized leak of the album.
We are proud to announce that Chicago Music Exchange has been featured in Comcast On Demand’s Local Channel. They made a short piece on our store and have captured the essence of our location. If you have a moment, take a look at it!
Guitar Fixation has written a great review on our shop recently. Check it out on their website! It’s been an honor to have such a write-up and we would like to share an excerpt from it:
“The shop is as close as you can get to guitar heaven. Not only do they carry nearly every guitar that you can imagine, but the store also has a very comfortable and relaxed vibe to it. From the sheer size of the space to the comfortable sofas that are everywhere – this place redefines the guitar shopping experience.”
This is a banner year for the wide-armed “Americana” music brand. An Americana category has been added to the Grammy Awards, Elvis Costello followed the duo of Allison Krauss and Robert Plant into the loosely defined genre with his Secret, Profane and Sugarcane, and Billboard published the debut Americana sales chart as part of its first supplement devoted to the category.
The name of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s new God & Guns is missing one of the disc’s most important “G’s” — guitars. But they’re only absent in that title, because track-for-track it’s dozen songs feature some of the biggest, brawniest tones in the legendary southern rock band’s 30-plus-years career.
One way to assess the breadth of Jimi Hendrix’s enduring influence on music is to look at some of the guitarists he’s inspired. Here’s a list of 10 — some obvious, some not — who have not only carried on Jimi’s licks and tricks, but subscribed to his artistic message: “be yourself.”
Next month the unlikely duo of Son Volt’s Jay Farrar And Death Cab For Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard will release One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: A Tribute To Big Sur, a collection of twelve songs that were inspired by Jack Kerouac’s legendary 1962 novel Big Sur and will accompany an upcoming documentary of the same name. That got us thinking about other tributes to musical and literary icons, so here’s a quick list of some of the artists who came to mind. If you’ve got any additions, feel free to post them below in the comments section since we just finished our summer reading list.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Acclaimed guitarist and inventor Les Paul died this week from complications of severe pneumonia at White Plains Hospital in New York at the age of 94. He revolutionized the music industry with the invention of the Les Paul Electric Guitar and Overdub Multitrack Recording. According to Gibson Guitar, Les Paul died with his family and friends by his side.
Motley Crue will put its annual Crue Fest on ice next year in order to focus on its next album. Speaking to Billboard.com, bassist Nikki Sixx said that when this year’s Crue Fest winds down in about a month, the band will take “quite a bit of time off.”
