Kerry King of Slayer And The Green Lady Killers

The Green Lady Killers are recording a new album currently and there are a lot of great songs coming together. We have heard a few scratch tracks and we can tell that this is going to up the ante on where they are heading as a band with their sound. Need more proof, check out one of the finished tracks that was released just recently.

CherryBomb and Lady Van Buren of the Green Lady Killers hanging out with Kerry King of Slayer

The Greatest Asset From Britain, Thank You For Lucy Pinder

Many great things have come from Great Britain such as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, BSA, Triumph, Norton and a few other noteworthy items. All the entities listed have left their mark on the world for their achievements but the next great British Invasion is Lucy Pinder. Ms. Pinder, anytime you want to revoke your British citizenship and migrate to the United States and preferably North Carolina, we will handle all the paperwork and be glad to have you as our featured model. Contact us any time.

For the video below, please turn the volume down, but take the video to full screen...

Lucy Pinder on a film set

Lingerie Model, vixen, femme fatale all wrapped up into the gorgeous Lucy Pinder

Your British invasion girl next store, Lucy Pinder

Clutch create a blu-ha-ha, From Classic Rock Magazine

Maryland's finest, the almighty Clutch

Clutch have released the title track from highly-anticipated upcoming album Earth Rocker. Hear it below.

Their highly-anticipated tenth album hits shelves in March and they’ll tour across the US and Europe in the coming months.

Classic Rock recently said of Clutch’s live show: “They’ve proved themselves to be the beating heart of 21st-century rock’n'roll. Out of step with the times but by no means retro, their supremacy is something to be very smug about indeed.”

Coffee And Cigarettes, A Film By Jim Jarmusch

In our over saturated, media soaked brains watching full length movies takes a commitment. What we have come to enjoy as of late, are short films that act more as expose, on a subject matter. There are true masters of the craft and Jim Jarmusch created a master piece with his film based on a series of short monologues, entitled Coffee and Cigarettes. Tom Waits and Iggy Pop play up their roles to a tee and deliver an impact that is as uncomfortable and as it is full of wit and substance, enjoy.

Green Lady Killers Recording New Songs In The Studio

Day 1 of new GLK record tracking. Cherry Bomb listens back after laying down some badass drum tracks

 

Cherry bomb hard at work - drum tracking just about done!

The ladies hanging out at Hanny's in Phoenix, AZ

Cherry and Ivy Rose listening to LVB laying down guitar tracks

Lady Van Buren taking a break from tracking guitars ⚡

Reno Divorce To Tour With Reverend Horton Heat

There is nothing better than getting a direct support slot with a much larger national act. Luckily for us and the fellas in Reno Divorce, Reverend Horton Heat and Jimbo just so happen to be big fans of the band. if you are in the Colorado area in the next few weeks, get out and catch a show from two of the best bands you will ever see live.

Fri - 01.18.13  •  Colorado Springs, CO  •  Black Sheep
Sat - 01.19.13  •  Steamboat Springs, CO  •  Ghost Ranch Saloon
Sun - 01.20.13  •  Winter Park, CO  •  Ullr's Tavern
Tue - 01.22.13  •  Durango, CO  •  Abbey Theatre
Wed - 01.23.13  •  Telluride, CO  •  Sheridan Opera House
Thu - 01.24.13  •  Salt Lake City, UT  •  In The Venue
Fri - 01.25.13  •  Telluride, CO  •  Sheridan Opera House
Sat - 01.26.13  •  Denver, CO  •  Ogden Theatre
Mon - 01.28.13  •  Crested Butte, CO  •  The Eldo
Tue - 01.29.13  •  Vail, CO  •  Sandbar Sports Grill
Wed - 01.30.13  •  Breckenridge, CO  •  Three20south
Thu - 01.31.13  •  Aspen, CO  •  Belly Up Aspen
Fri - 02.01.13  •  Fort Collins, CO  •  Aggie Theatre
Sat - 02.02.13  •  Boulder, CO  •  Fox Theatre

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Reno Divorce will be on tour with Reverend Horton Heat during January of 2013.

Wrench N' Roll - March 1st 2013, Fayetteville, NC

This year we have all sorts of new plans cookin' and we will be unleashing a barrage of events that we are going to be a part of. Our first event of the year will take place on March 1st in Fayetteville, NC at the killer brand new music venue, the Drunk Horse Pub. We are teaming up with the Veterans Motorcycle Club, Friction Magazine and Shooting Star Tattoo for a ride bike and car night along with some of the top talent in the south east. More details will be flowing in the next few weeks so stay tuned.

Rusty Knuckles and the Veterans MC present - Wrench N' Roll on March 1st 2013

Billy Don Burns On The Ralph Emory Show

2012 Song of the Year – Billy Don Burns’ “Stranger” From Saving Country Music

 
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"These are never easy decisions to make, and it’s at about this time every year when I wonder why I pressure myself into making them. This year’s crop of nominees for Song of the Year seemed especially strong; songs that will go on to be marquee songs in each of the nominee’s legacies.

If I were to base the winner simply on importance, it would have gone to Kacey Musgraves’ “Merry Go Round” that stubbornly refuses to leave the mainstream country music charts despite its progressive message. If I based it on being the best pure country song, it would have gone to Eric Strickland’s “Drinking Whiskey.” If I based it on the song I personally liked the most, it would have been Olds Sleeper’s “Bigsky/Flatland.” Tom Vandenavond’s “Wreck of a Fine Man” probably told the best story, and “Good Lord, Lorrie” made The Turnpike Troubadours a legitimate, full-time band that has made it. And the only way I can not justify giving the award outright to Sturgill Simpson is because “Life Ain’t Fair & The World Is Mean” will likely appear on a new album next year, allowing it to be considered again.

Billy Don Burns - album cover photo shoot for Nights When I'm Sober...

All these songs were so equally matched, I chose to let the commenters help decide this one significantly, and that is the first reason the award is going to Billy Don Burns, and his masterpiece “Stranger.” The second reason is since all of these songs are so well-written, it would have been impossible to order them by this attribute alone so I had to start looking at other factors. Where “Stranger” rose above the competition was in the production of the song, and the performance by Billy Don Burns.

“Production” is considered a bad word to some in music, and what’s funny about the production of “Stranger” is that it’s almost outmoded in its approach. It’s certainly not modern, but it’s really not classic either. It works in these strange, late 80′s, early 90′s textures, with lots of space, color, and warmth. It evokes the epicness of anthemic songs from that period like Willie Nelson’s “Pancho & Lefty” or The Highwaymen’s “Highwayman” that a short while ago may have felt hokey, but now harkens back to the last era when you could still hear the overlords of the genre come through your radio. The production is both heavy handed and astonishingly lacking and laid back at the same time. Serious accolades are due Aaron David Rodgers who produced “Stranger” and the parent album Night’s When I’m Sober.

Billy Don Burns is a writer first, but he sings the hell out of this song by structuring it around his vocal strengths. Instead of appreciating his voice for conventional notions of beauty, you appreciate it for its raspy, strained, and torn nature. Instead of singing louder or harder when Billy Don wants to create emphasis in “Stranger,” he counter-intuitively sings softer, or even talks, with the quieter he gets, the more you listen, and the greater impact the words have. Parallel to the story “Stranger” coveys, the song doesn’t rise like most, it falls. In moments Billy barely eeks the words out of his rusted pipes like they are the words of a dying breath, marrying the depth of meaning and story behind the expressions to the sounds he makes, while the music bends and sometimes drops out entirely to compliment the experience of listening to a story that is both tragic in nature, and hauntingly universal.

This song is about losing yourself, which we’ve all done, and will all do again, and how we all start off life with a firm grasp on who we are that life does its level best to wrestle away from us. But inside “Stranger” there is also a glimmer of hope in how the realization of one’s self can stimulate renewal. And above all of that, the beauty of “Stranger” is its fierce simplicity–the attribute of all excellent country songs.

Billy Don Burns seems like one of these artists whose opportunity for a serious, lucrative career in music is unjustly fleeting, but his chance at a long-term legacy in music seems all but inevitable from all of the songs he written, the albums he’s produced, and all the friends he has made over the years. For a long time folks had been trying to get my attention about Billy Don, and the timing apparently just wasn’t right. Whitey Morgan once told me he would never put out an album without a Billy Don song on it. Brigitte London told me he was one of the best songwriter she’d ever met. I poked around and found he’d written songs for Willie Nelson, and produced albums from Merle Haggard and Johnny Paycheck.

But what Billy Don needed was a new album to breathe new life into his musical quest; to bring a new generation of ears to his music. And on the year of the release of this song and his album Nights When I’m Sober through Rusty Knuckles Records, it would have been a desecration of the Saving Country Music seal to not use the opportunity to shine however puny of a spotlight this website wields on what in my opinion might be the artist who is suffering from the greatest discrepancy between remarkable accomplishment and paltry recognition in country music.

Billy Don Burns’ song “Stranger” proves why it is such a travesty that his name and legacy are such strangers to the modern country ear. It’s imperative on all of us to fix that."

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Billy Don Burns is awarded with the 2012 Saving Country Music Song Of The Year

Make Your Own Vinyl Records

One of the great things that technology has done, is to put manufacturing in the hands of the masses. In decades past, working up a prototype of a new product could cost thousands upon thousands to get started. Now with inventions such as the 3D printer from MakerBot, creating your own vinyl records doesn't seem that far fetched.

If you haven't heard of Makerbot and are interested in rapid prototyping, we suggest you dive into their world. Seeing the printers in action at TechShop is just damn cool to see. Making your own DIY records has to be the most punk thing we have seen as of late. Our gears are spinning with ideas for sure.

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"While vinyl records continue to grow in popularity, there have been few innovations in the field since printing pictures on the front was considered revolutionary. Any attempts to explore the capabilities have been considered fleeting gimmicks, like Third Man Records’ Triple Decker Vinyl, or decidedly useless, like paper records that lasted all of two spins. But now, Amanda Ghassaei of the user-created projects site Instructables has taken vinyl into the next century with her invention of the 3D printed record. (Cue the theme from 2001.)

Using a 3D printer and a lotta know-how, Ghassaei has found a way to convert digital audio files into 3D printable 33rpm records that play on standard turntables with regular needles and at regular speeds. For the audiophiles out there, the sampling rate is 11kHz (a quarter of most mp3 audio files) and with a 5-6-bit resolution (most mp3 audio files are 16-bit). Still, despite the compression and relative newness of the technique, it’s a pretty impressive sound for something made on a Connex printer. To judge for yourself, check out the 3D record version of Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place” alongside the official music video.

Radiohead – “Everything In Its Right Place” (3D record version):

Radiohead – “Everything In Its Right Place” (album version):

Ghassaei breaks down the entire creation process in painstaking detail on the Instructables site. While most of her writing is almost indecipherable to anyone without some advanced degree or a superpower, Ghassaei explains how the records work, the exact printer specifications, the successes and setbacks of each stage of testing, extracting the actual audio data, and much, much more to make one question their liberal arts degree. Read through the mountains of details here, or enjoy an easy-to-consume introductory video.

To get started on your very own 3D records, download the Instructables manual here. If your head is still spinning, enjoy the following additional audio samples and some more pretty pictures."

Aphex Twin – “Windowlicker”:

Daft Punk – “Around The World”:

Joy Division – “Disorder”: