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• Rushing Into The New Year

  The year 2012 will bring Rush fans something they haven’t seen in about five years: A brand-new studio album. This one’s been in the oven for a while having been started back in 2009, but it looks like it’s almost done since the group is reportedly done with recording and was planning to begin mixing [...]
  
  

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• Van Halen Preps For 2012 Tour with New Album Release Looming

  Van Halen is kicking back into high gear starting next month with the start of their 2012 tour on February 18th and the release of their new album on February 7th. The group announced plans for their upcoming tour during a special performance at New York’s Café Wha? last week. The album, entitled A Different [...]

  
  

• CD Review: Aqualung 40th Anniversary Special Edition

  What good is a reissue anyway? In many cases, not much. One often gets the sense that reissues are just another way to milk a bit more cash from some classic music. Such is not the case with Jethro Tull’s Aqualung 40th Anniversary Special Edition and Collector’s Edition. This one is not one of your [...]

  
  

• Review: Lindsey Buckingham at Tulsa Hard Rock

  Story and Photo by Scott Smith In 10 seconds, most rock guitarists would lose a six-string shoot-out against Lindsey Buckingham. The guitarist, singer and songwriter with Fleetwood Mac is an artistic monster on the stage, and as brilliant as his finger-picking rhythm patterns and searing lead breaks are on the Mac’s “Rumours” and “Tusk” albums [...]

  
  

• CD Review: Journey’s Greatest Hits Volume 2

  Spinning up Journey’s Greatest Hits Volume 2 CD for the first time provided for me an experience that was true to the band’s name. Listening to those hits took me on a musical journey back to the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Although the compilation includes tracks that were recorded between 1978 and 1996, it [...]

  
  

• Tyler Tumble Postpones Aerosmith Show in Paraguay

  Steven Tyler has certainly suffered through his share of mishaps over the last few years and recent reports out of Paraguay reveal that the flamboyant front man has once again found himself on the losing end of a brief battle with gravity. Tyler, who is in the South American country with the rest of Aerosmith [...]