by Darren Paltrowitz | Apr 12, 2017 | Culture, Entertainment, Music
Singer/songwriter CAT — also known as Catherine Pierce — first turned heads as one-half of the band The Pierces. The Pierces made five full-length releases — starting with 2000’s Sony-released self-titled album — before calling a hiatus...
by Darren Paltrowitz | Mar 31, 2017 | Culture, Entertainment, Events, Music
Launched last year, The Meadows Music & Arts Festival was a two-day event launched by Founders Entertainment, the team behind Governors Ball. Headliners at Citi Field included Kanye West, J. Cole, Chance The Rapper, The 1975, Grimes and Metric. Food and drink...
by Darren Paltrowitz | Mar 20, 2017 | Culture, Entertainment, Music
Chris Shiflett has been the lead guitarist of Foo Fighters — one of the world’s biggest rock bands — for over 15 years. Prior to joining Dave Grohl and company, Chris played guitar in No Use For A Name and Me First & The Gimme Gimmes....
by Darren Paltrowitz | Mar 20, 2017 | Culture, Entertainment, Music
While James McCartney notably played on the acclaimed Flaming Pie and Driving Rain albums of father Paul — also co-writing two songs on the latter studio release — 2010’s Available Light was his first crack at recording his own solo effort....
by Darren Paltrowitz | Mar 17, 2017 | Culture, Entertainment, Music
There are a lot of interesting facts about the band known as Occurrence. One such thing is that the duo, Ken Urban and Cat Hollyer, live in different states and trade demos via Dropbox; Ken is in Manhattan while Cat is based in Kansas. Another factoid is that Ken is a...