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NEW RELEASES

Los Lonely Boys - Live At The Fillmore - $13.95 Tori Amos - Beepkeeper - $13.98   Kenny Chesney - Be As You Are - $12.95 Grammy Nominees 2005 - $13.98 Aviator - Soundtrack (2004) - $13.98 2 Pac Loyal To The Game (2004) - $11.98 Ludacris - Red Light District (2004) - $11.95 Joss Stone - Mind Body & Soul (2004) - $13.48 Phil Vassar - Title Tbd (2004) - $11.98 Christine Mcvie - In The Meantime (2004) - $13.98 Papa Roach - Getting Away With Murder (2004) - $12.98 Alan Jackson - What I Do (2004) $12.95 Paul Westerberg - Folker (2004) - $12.98 Saliva - Survival Of The Sickest (Explicit) (2004) - $12.98 R. Kelly - Happy People/u Saved Me (2004) - $16.98

 

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TOUR UPDATES

Joe Jackson and Todd Rundgren are teaming up for a U.S. tour Starting April 13 in Melbourne, Fla. through May 21 with the final show in Redwood City, Calif. Here are Jackson and Rundgren's tour dates: April 13: Melbourne, Fla. (Maxwell C. King Center) April 15: Clearwater, Fla. (Ruth Eckerd Hall) April 16: West Palm Beach, Fla. (Pompano Beach Amphitheatre) April 18: Jacksonville, Fla. (Florida Theater) April 20: Greensboro, N.C. (War Memorial Auditorium) April 21: Harrisburg, Pa. (Forum Theater) April 23: Annapolis, Md. (Rams Head On Stage) April 24: Philadelphia (Kimmel Center) April 26: Washington, D.C. (Warner Theatre) April 27: New York (Beacon Theatre) April 29: New Brunswick, N.J. (State Theatre) April 30: Mashantucket, Conn. (Foxwoods Casino) May 1: Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (Bardavon Opera House) May 3: Cleveland (Playhouse Square Center) May 4: Ann Arbor, Mich. (Michigan Theatre) May 6: Cincinnati (Taft Theatre) May 7: St. Louis, Mo. (Roberts Orpheum Theatre) May 9: Nashville (Ryman Auditorium) May 10: Columbus, Ohio (PromoWest Pavilion) May 12: Saint Paul, Minn. (Fitzgerald Theater) May 13: Milwaukee (Pabst Theater) May 14: Chicago (Cadillac Palace Theatre) May 17: Los Angeles (Wilshire Theater) May 18: San Diego (Humphreys) May 20: Santa Rosa, Calif. (Luther Burbank Center) May 21: Redwood City, Calif. (Little Fox)   The Los Lonely Boys kick off their Latin Brotherhood Tour May 3 in Hidalgo, Texas. Here are Los Lonely Boys' tour dates: March 4: Grand Prairie, Texas (Nokia Center) May 1: New Orleans (Fairgrounds Racetrack; Jazz & Heritage Festival) May 3: Hidalgo, Texas (Dodge Arena) May 4: Austin, Texas (The Backyard) May 5: San Angelo, Texas (River Stage Pavilion) May 6: El Paso, Texas (El Paso County Coliseum) May 7: Albuquerque, N.M. (Sandia Casino Amphitheatre) May 8: Tucson, Ariz. (Anselmo Valencia Amphitheatre) May 28: Virginia Beach, Va. (USO Patriotic Festival) June 15: New York (Madison Square Garden, w/Santana)   Premium seating is available for these and many other Concert & Sporting events - SEARCH FOR TICKETS NOW!

 

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BIRTHDAYS

February 22 Bobby Hendricks (The Drifters) (1937) February 23 Lasse Johansson (The Cardigans) (1973) Jeff Beres (Sister Hazel) (1971) Michael Wilton (Queensryche) (1962) Howard Jones (1955) Brad Whitford (Aerosmith) (1952) Steve Priest (Sweet) (1950) Rusty Young (Poco) (1946) Johnny Winter (1944) February 24 Michelle Shocked (1962) Lonnie Turner (Steve Miller Band) (1947) Paul Jones (Manfred Mann) (1942) February 25 Justin Jeffre (98 Degrees) (1973) Mike Peters (The Alarm) (1959) Dennis Diken (The Smithereens) (1957) February 26 Erykah Badu (1971) John Jon (Bronski Beat) (1961) Michael Bolton (1953) Jonathan Cain (Journey) (1950) Mitch Ryder (1945) Paul Cotton (Poco) (1943) Fats Domino (1928) February 27 Josh Groban (1981) Jeremy Dean (Nine Days) (1972) Chilli (TLC) (1971) Paul Humphreys (O.M.D.) (1960) Neil Schon (Journey) (1954) February 28 Pat Monahan (Train) (1969) Cindy Wilson (The B-52's) (1957) Ian Stanley (Tears For Fears) (1957) Phillip Gould (Level 42) (1957) February 29 Ja Rule (1976 March 1 Nik Kershaw (1958) Roger Daltrey (The Who) (1944) Mike D'Abo (Manfred Mann) (1944) Jerry Fisher (Blood, Sweat & Tears) (1943) Harry Belafonte (1927) March 2 Chris Martin (Coldplay) (1977) Jon Bon Jovi (Bon Jovi) (1962) Mark Evans (AC/DC) (1956) Dale Bozzio (Missing Persons) (1955) Jay Osmond (The Osmonds) (1955) Lou Reed (1942)

 

BIO OF THE WEEK

Los Lonely Boys are a family tradition.   The family band is a great rock’n’roll institution - from the Everly Brothers and the Beach Boys to the Black Crowes and Hanson. There's something about the unstudied perfection of sibling vocal harmonies that creates a distinctive, irresistible style. Los Lonely Boys, three brothers, aged 21-25, from a tiny town in West Texas, are about to write a new chapter in this compelling saga of America's musical families. They began as their father’s backing band. Now, Los Lonely Boys will make their own mark. Los Lonely Boys are the three Garza brothers: Henry on guitar, Jojo on bass, and Ringo on drums. This remarkable trio of brothers has been making music together since they were small children and now has a decade of professional experience under their belts as well. Los Lonely Boys write, sing, and play music drawn from diverse sources, blending their influences into a seamless style. Weaned on Tex-Mex, country, blues, and rock pioneers like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry and Fats Domino, and such pop music giants as The Beatles, Los Lonely Boys augment those solid basics with red-hot guitar playing, percolating rock and Latin rhythms, and dynamic interplay and luscious vocal harmonies -- all three brothers also sing -- to produce songs rife with engaging hooks, expressive lyrics, and melodic sumptuousness. The band's self-titled debut album is packed so tightly, it's hard to believe all of this music was created by a trio. Though Henry, the oldest of the brothers, has been hailed as the inheritor of the great Texas guitar tradition epitomized by Freddie King, Johnny Winter and the Vaughan Brothers, he is also the greatest young player in the burgeoning Latino rock guitar style pioneered by Carlos Santana. Backed by tight, intense rhythmic support from his brothers, Henry’s playing makes Los Lonely Boys one of the most exciting new bands to emerge in the new millennium. Ask no less an authority than Willie Nelson, who has called Los Lonely Boys his favorite band and invited them to record this album at his own Pedernales studio. "Everybody seems to be digging us, which is great," Henry says. A fast and affable talker, he has a colloquial conversational style reminiscent of another Texas musical hero, Doug Sahm. Henry relates how their father, Ringo Garza, Sr. taught the boys how to play music family style, by his own example. Garza played with his seven brothers in a family conjunto group, The Falcones. "Our dad had five brothers and a sister and they had a great conjunto band in the '70s and '80s," Henry explains. “They did a mixture of stuff that nobody was playing back then, a mixture of conjunto with country music and Spanglish. They were really popular in South and West Texas; they had a top 10 song once. They basically just fell apart after the tragedy of one of the brothers dying, the drummer.” " My dad was always into rock and country apart from playing conjunto music. He wanted to be like Elvis and the Beatles. He started playing when he was eight. We learned from him at home at first. He would let us come to gigs and watch him, then when we got older he let us come up and sing a song with him. We listened to our dad more than the radio. [He] was our biggest influence… We looked forward to the chance to get up with his brothers and sing 'La Bamba.' We were into oldies like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, none of the stuff that was being played on the radio. I just wanted to write my own songs, man, I wrote my first song when I was four years old. He brought this little guitar home to me and put it in my hands and I knew I thought 'I'm never gonna let this thing go, man.' I went into my room when I first got it and put a couple of notes together just by ear, found a way to play it, wrote some lyrics, then I showed it to my dad. My influence was totally my dad. I would hear him singing about girls leaving, just from listening to him sing I got this idea and I wrote a song called 'She Left Me.' It's just got a few lines in it.” Henry's middle brother Joey aka Jojo also began playing guitar before switching to piano and then, finally, bass. The family band became complete when younger brother Ringo picked up playing the drums. "When Ringo was nine my dad gave him a drum set," Henry recalls. "I taught him to play it and he learned in like 30 minutes man, it was like it was meant to be. And since Ringo is his real name, that’s freaky, right?!! He's been playing ever since.” The boys had soon percolated into a musical unit of their own. After the breakup of their father’s band, the boys began backing him at his solo shows. The band played their first show with their father while still pre-teens. "We were backing my dad, because after he left his brothers he started playing in country bands and stuff with other guys, emulating the music of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings and the outlaw gang. My dad’s got kind of that image." The music they made with their father was a mixture of classic rock'n'roll, country and Tex-Mex. Recognizing that his sons possessed prodigious talent, Garza relocated the group to Nashville. Although Los Lonely Boys flew under the radar of the record industry along Music Row, their time in Music City did benefit the three brothers greatly. " We were in Nashville back and forth through the 1990s," Henry explains. “When we first went to Nashville we were still playing with my dad, but we started growing as individuals and writing for ourselves and I guess we just kind of outgrew him in a sense. We needed to get away from dad, not in a bad way, but we started working on our own and all of a sudden we were playing our first gig in Atlanta, without him. Things weren’t going so well in Nashville, so we came back to Texas and started doing our thing here.” Solidified as a trio, the band developed a reputation as one of the most exciting live acts on the extremely competitive Texas and Southeast circuit, but the years of studying the classics allowed Los Lonely Boys to develop their superior vocal and songwriting skills as well. "We got our harmonies from listening to our dad's brothers' band," Henry says. "He taught us and we learned by listening to him, just by ear, we never took lessons or anything, he just told us the sky was the limit so we would just listen and listen and listen and kept playin' and learnin' and practicin' through our whole childhood, never stopping." The brothers never even bother to arrange their spectacular vocal harmonies. " We just fall into place automatically," Henry says. "When we're writing a song, if I'm writing Ringo will just automatically sing the harmony and Jojo will come in with his. It just comes out. It's kind of freaky cause it's kind of magical, man, we're all three brothers and we all have a deep passion for music. When we play together it's spontaneous, it's so natural." The album's opening cut, "Senorita," sung in Spanish and English, is a perfect example of the group's approach. "My brother Jojo was writing music and I was thinking of some lyrics to rhyme to it," Henry recalls. "I rhymed 'bonita' with 'senorita' and we came up with these chords and just made it into a song, man. We speak Spanish slang all the time in Texas, it's not really proper Spanish, it's more of a street slang. The rhyme was kind of catchy. We've known the traditional Chicano music or conjunto music, tropicale, Latin music. When we grew up our father and all them did that, so we sort of went the other way. It wasn't easy, because people would say 'you don't sound like a Mexican band' and we can do that too but we wanted to do something that was us, something new. That's what me and my brothers did, and now we're bringing it around to where we're recording it and people will be able to hear the way we do it in today's world. I think it's going to go over real well, even in the Hispanic community, because I don't hear anything like that other than Santana." Though the brothers know how good they are as a live band, they are amazed at how well the recordings worked out in the studio. "We tried to record before and I was never really happy with the way it came out," Henry admits. "But on this album I can honestly say I'm happy with the whole thing, the guitar tone, the guitar parts, vocal parts, the way the whole vibe of the record … I'm really proud of it." " It's kinda crazy, we're like the Mexican Beatles," Henry concludes. "People always ask us what kind of style we play. I tell 'em it's a cross between Stevie Ray meets Santana, Jimi Hendrix meets Richie Valens, or the Beatles meet Ronnie Milsap. I call it my music burrito theory. What we've done is made like our own tortilla, right, with all the knowledge of all the greats that are out there, I can't even think of 'em all right now, but we put 'em inside the tortilla, fold it up in there, we make our own burrito and we're sellin' it to the world, y'know?” Check out these Los Lonely Boys products: Los Lonely Boys - Live At The Fillmore - $13.95   Los Lonely Boys-Texican Style (2004) DVD $12.62

 

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MUSIC HISTORY

49 years ago Billboard reviews James Brown's debut record "Please, Please, Please": "A dynamic, religious fervor runs through the pleading solo here. Brown and the Famous Flames group let off plenty of steam." (1956) Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" becomes his first top-10 single. (1956) 48 years ago In a small club in Blytheville, Arkansas, Jerry Lee Lewis plays "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." Although Lewis did not write the tune, it was a favorite of his since he first heard it a year earlier. This is the first time Lewis adds his own words to replace those he has forgotten. (1957) 42 years ago The Beatles form their Northern Music Publishing Company. Many years later it's sold to the one-gloved wonder, Michael Jackson. (1963) 41 years ago The Rolling Stones' third single, "Not Fade Away" (a remake of the Buddy Holly tune), is released in the U.K. on Decca Records. It becomes the group's first British Top Ten single. (1964) 39 years ago The Beatles release the single "Nowhere Man" b/w "What Goes On." (1966) 37 years ago Genesis, a group formed as a songwriters' cooperative by three English schoolboys, Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford, release its first single, "The Silent Sun." (1968)   McGraw-Hill, Inc. outbids eight other American publishers and pays $150,000 for the U.S. rights to Hunter Davies' authorized biography of the Beatles. (1968) 36 years ago T-Rex leaves on a tour of England with a concert at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. The opening act is David Bowie. He didn't perform a musical act rather a silent one man mime telling the story of a young Tibetan Buddhist monk. (1969)   The Foundations' "Build Me Up Buttercup" peaks at #3 on the pop chart. (1969) 35 years ago Simon & Garfunkel's album "Bridge Over Troubled Water" enters the U.K. chart at Number One and stays there for nearly forty weeks; it remains in the Top Ten for 126 weeks. The title track goes gold in five days. (1970) 32 years ago Roberta Flack receives a gold record for "Killing Me Softly With His Song" which is Number One for five weeks. It is rumored the quietly murdering artist in question is folkie Don McLean. (1973) 30 years ago John Lennon's "#9 Dream" peaks at #9 on the pop chart. (1975) 29 years ago Former Supreme Florence Ballard dies of coronary thrombosis in Detroit. Despite being an original member of the premiere female vocal trio (they had ten Number One pop hits in the 60's), she lived on welfare her last few years after losing an $8.7 million suit for back royalties against Motown Records in 1971. Florence Ballard was 32 years old. (1976) 27 years ago Ex-Sex Pistol bass player Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen are arrested by police in their room at New York's Chelsea Hotel and charged with drug possesion. (1978)   The Police starr in a TV commercial for Wrigley's chewing gum. They have to dye their hair blonde which helps create the band's look. (1978) 26 years ago In a Rolling Stone article titled "Advertising Creeps into Rock," it is reported that Journey has developed an advertising relationship with Budweiser Beer. Such business ventures will become commonplace over the next few years. (1979) 19 years ago The Dream Academy's "Life In A Northern Town", which was produced by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, peaks at #7 on the pop chart. (1986)   INXS' "Listen Like Thieves" LP enters the Billboard chart. The LP, which contains the title track as well as "What You Need" will eventually hit #11. (1986)   A Fine Young Cannibals show in Boston is delayed until 2AM because somebody lobbed tear gas into the club. (1986) 16 years ago The Grammys are awarded: Tracy Chapman wins Best New Artist; Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry Be Happy" wins Best Song and Record and Jethro Tull wins the first Hard Rock/Metal Grammy. (1989) 13 years ago Kurt Cobain and Courney Love marry. (1992) 11 years ago Eddie Van Halen, Chris Issak and B.B. King are among those who gather for the groundbreaking ceremony for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. (1994) 10 years ago Original Temptations singer Melvin Franklin dies of a brain seizure. (1995) 5 years ago The Grammys for 1999 are announced and Santana ties Michael Jackson's record of eight Grammys in one night including ones for Album of the Year for Supernatural and Record of the Year. The album's single "Smooth" wins Song of the Year giving the album a total of nine awards. Sting wins Best Pop Album for Brand New Day, Phil Collins wins Best Soundtrack for Tarzan and Jimi Hendrix wins his first Grammy for Best Long Form Music Video for "Band of Gypsys - Live at Fillmore East." Elton John is honored with the Living Legend Award. At a press conference afterwards, John calls award shows like the Grammys "bulls--t." (2000)

 

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