Tom Dowd

LOS ANGELES , May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The unstoppable blues-rock juggernaut, and the hardest working man in show business, Joe Bonamassa , released his "lucky" 13th album Driving Towards The Daylight (J&R Adventures) which made its chart debut at #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart, the 8th time a Bonamassa album has debuted at #1. Read More

If music as we know it today is our universe, the 1960s are the Big Bang. Of course, nothing exists in a vacuum, and many of the groundbreaking artists who rose to prominence in the decade borrowed heavily from the artists who came before them, but looking back, there's no denying the '60s were some sort of scary, beautiful explosion of sound. Read More

Any one of Gregg Allman's stories about his life could lure a reader into his new memoir, but the 64-year-old Allman begins My Cross to Bear with his biggest moment of shame, the induction of the Allman Brothers Band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Read More

Why Go: New Jersey's own Southside Johnny is bringing his new band, Southside Johnny and the Poor Fools to the Paramount. Read More

Peekskill and Cortlandt are ready to party this weekend. Read More

LOS ANGELES , May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, internationally renowned guitar superstar Joe Bonamassa will release his first single and the official music video from his brand new solo album Driving Towards The Daylight (J&R Adventures) – his "lucky" 13th album – out May 22 . Read More

Jacksonville native Walter Parks is a blues and rock guitarist, bassist, singer and songwriter. Read More

CLEVELAND , April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  Veritix ® , the Cleveland -based state-of-the-art paperless ticketing, event marketing and relationship management technology company, continued to expand its ticketing business in the entertainment industry, as it supported the recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2012 Induction Ceremony last week as the primary ticketing services provider for the Induction Ceremony and the Free Concert for Cleveland at Quicken Loans Arena.  Tickets to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2012 Induction Ceremony sold out in just a matter of minutes.  Veritix ticketing system handled overwhelming demand to the event, as more than 40,000 fans tried to purchase tickets as soon as they went on sale. Read More

The Band singer and drummer Levon Helm is in the final stages of cancer, according to a note posted on his website Tuesday by his wife, Sandy, and daughter, Amy. Read More

Axl Rose wasn't the only musician who didn't show up to perform Saturday at the 27th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, but it was illness that kept Rod Stewart from reuniting with the Faces and Adam Yauch from joining with the Beastie Boys. Rose's boycott of the 51/2-hour event generated the most sparks, however, because of his very public shunning of the ceremony and his decision not to join with his former bandmates as they became members of the Hall of Fame, which also inducted singer-songwriters Donovan and Laura Nyro and both incarnations of the British rock group the Small Faces and Faces. Read More