Kinks Legend Dave Davies To Release New Live Album “Rippin Up New York City: Live at the City Winery”

Much to the excitement of music fans worldwide, Kinks legend Dave Davies will be releasing a new live album titled “Rippin Up New York City: Live at the City Winery” on September 4, 2015 on Red River which is distributed by Sony/RED. The recordings were culled from two exciting live performances by Dave and his band in NYC in November 2014.

Says Dave, “I'm very excited about the live album and the band sounds great. my son Simon did a great job helping me with the production. I look forward to seeing you all on the road this fall.”

In 1964 Dave Davies of the Kinks single-handedly made rock history when he sliced his little green Elpico amp speaker with a razor blade. Little did he know he was creating the 1st heavy metal guitar tone and riff in rock n roll, which he played on his band The Kinks' world wide hit “You Really Got Me”.

Nearly fifty years after influencing generations of guitarists Dave continues to rock and tour. His 2013 return to the U.S. to support the album “I Will Be Me” was a triumph both creatively and spiritually as he found new inspiration for his soon to be follow up album, the highly acclaimed, “Rippin Up Time”. Released in 2014, Dave embarked on yet another U.S. tour to support it. He was joined by Jonathan

Lea on guitar, Tom Currier on bass and keyboards and legendary drummer Dennis Diken of the Smithereens.

The tour swept through venues in Milwaukee, Chicago, New Jersey, NYC and many more. Jim Sclavunos played drums for one gig in Bethlehem, PA. On every date Dave Davies and band played a highly charged set of solo album favorites, Kinks classics and new tracks. At the City Winery NYC on November 24 and 25, 2014 Dave and band put on an amazing concert to an audience of new and longtime Kinks fans, music industry stars and legends. They delivered two exhilarating nights of performances that rocked and ripped up the city’s nightlife. “Rippin Up New York City: Live at the City Winery” captures the live electricity of turbo charged rockers along with delicate and sensitive versions of acoustic favorites from past and present. A true genius who never fails to deliver, this Dave Davies live recording expresses the power, sensitivity, magnetism and creative expression of a seasoned yet spontaneous rock-n-roll visionary.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Intro

2. Rippin' Up Time

3. I’m Not Like Everybody Else

4. I Need You

5. Creepin’ Jean

6. Suzannahs Still Alive

7. See My Friend

8. Strangers

9. Flowers in the Rain

10. Front Room

11. King of Karaoke

12. Death Of A Clown

13. Livin' On A Thin Line

14. Where Have All the Good Times Gone

15. All Day and All of the Night

16. You Really Got Me

Dave Davies tour dates:

Oct 2nd, 2015- The Court of Honor Stage, The Big E, West Springfield, MA. 3pm and 8pm shows. Free with fair admission.

Oct 3rd, 2015 - The Court of Honor Stage, The Big E, West Springfield, MA 3pm and 8pm shows. Free with fair admission.

Oct 4th, 2015 - The Court of Honor Stage, The Big E, West Springfield, MA. 3pm show only. Free with fair admission.

Oct 8th, 2015-The Wilbur Theatre, Boston, MA

Oct 9th, 2015-Tupelo Music Hall, Londonderry, NH

Oct 10th, 2015-Tupelo Music Hall, Londonderry, NH

Oct 11th, 2015-Tupelo Music Hall, Londonderry, NH

Oct 13th, 2015-Musikfest Café, ArtsQuest Center, Bethlehem, PA

Oct 20th, 2015-The Howard Theatre, Washington D.C.

Oct 22nd, 2015-The Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ

Oct 23rd, 2015 City Winery NYC

Oct 24th, 2015-Narrows Center, Fall River, MA

Oct 26th, 2015-The Egg, Albany, NY

Oct 27th, 2015-Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT

Oct 30th, 2015-Uptown Theatre, Napa, CA

Nov 1st, 2015-Ace of Spades, Sacramento, CA

Nov 3rd, 2015-The Roxy Theatre, West Hollywood, CA

Dec 18th, 2015-Islington Assembly Hall, London, UK

 

Click Here To purchase Dave Davies “Rippin Up New York City: Live at the City Winery”:

http://www.davedavies.com/

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Exodus Singer Steve "Zetro" Souza Featured Live On WVOX's Metal Mayhem This Tuesday!

 

Legendary Exodus vocalist and frontman Steve "Zetro" Souza will tell all about the bands forthcoming Blood In, Blood Out album and Fall tour with Slayer and Suicidal Tendencies and more this Tuesday during a special WVOX Metal Mayhem interview with host Matthew O'Shaughnessy at 9:30pm EST, which can be heard globally via WWW.WVOX.COM and 1460 AM locally.

 

Blood In, Blood Out is the famed San Francisco Bay Area's tenth studio album and will be released via Nuclear Blast Records.

 

 

"Another thrashing honor to have one of metal's most ferocious, innovative and powerful singer's return to WVOX", says host Matthew O'Shaughnessy.

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Legendary US Thrashers AFTERMATH Invade WVOX's Metal Mayhem This Tuesday!

Skull-cracking Chicago powerhouse Aftermath have been successfully active since 1985 and this Tuesday at 10:20pm EST, Greek-born singer Kyriakos Charlie Tsiolis will make his debut on Matt O'Shaughnessy's WVOX Metal Mayhem show in New York, heard worldwide on WVOX.com and 1460 AM. 

In the beginning of their career, the group's demos catapulted them into all of the top metal trades around the world. Their Words That Echo Fear demo was voted one of the Ten Best Demos Of The year.

To date, Aftermath has issued three demos including Sentenced To Death, Killling The Future, and Words That Echo Fear. As Well as 1994's Eyes Of Tomorrow, 1986's When Will You Die vinyl release and 2011's 25 Years Of Chaos Box Set.

Metal Mayhem is airborne every Tuesday from 9-11pm and Friday between 6-10pm EST and can be viewed from anywhere in the world on live webcam  from studio 1A at WVOX.com.

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"The Prime Metal Segment" Launched On WVOX's Metal Mayhem Show This Friday

A new earthshaking special feature addition to WVOX's Metal Mayhem show in New York will debut this Friday and every last Friday of the month from 9:30-10:00pm EST.

Hosted by Ed Mischke, 'The Prime Metal Segment' will showcase live interviews, rare and obscure metal and more. Van Williams, Drummer of Ashes Of Ares and Ghost Ship Octavius is scheduled to appear on this Friday's debut airing worldwide on WVOX.COM and 1460 AM locally in New York.

"Expect a whole new twist on heavy metal interviews...Ed's knowledge is great and WVOX is prepared for the worldwide mayhem that is sure to ensue", says Metal Mayhem host, Matt O'Shaughnessy.

 

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Cinderella Guitarist Jeff Labar Crashes WVOX's Metal Mayhem Show In New York This Friday!

 

WVOX Metal Mayhem host Matthew O'Shaughnessy welcomes legendary Cinderella axeman Jeff Labar to his New York area radio show this Friday at 8:10pm EST worldwide on WWW.WVOX.COM and locally at 1460 AM.

Jeff will talk with Metal Mayhem about his new 'One For The Road' solo album and much more. Metal Mayhem comes at you every Tuesday from 9-11pm and Friday from 6-10pm EST and can be viewed on live webcam from anywhere in the world at WVOX.com.

 

Follow Jeff LaBar on Facebook and Visit his Web Page

 

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"Redeemer Of Souls" on WVOX

The Priest!

Host Matthew O'Shaughnessy unleashes The Metal Gods' new opus, "Redeemer Of Souls" in its complete entirety!

This Friday beginning at 7:05pm EST worldwide on WWW.WVOX.com and 1460 AM locally.

Judas Priest's long-awaited new album from start to finish exclusively on WVOX's Metal Mayhem in New York.

Join Matt and your fellow Judas Priest metallions as he brings you scorching and always innovative new Priest songs.

It's a Priest Feast you will not want to miss!

The Metal Gods on Metal Mayhem!

 

 

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Pioneering Rocker RIK FOX (W.A.S.P, Steeler, SIN) In Candid Worldwide WVOX Feature Interview This Friday!

 

The Winged Knight Of Heavy Metal, Polish-American hard rocker Rik Fox will tell his incredible headbanging story worldwide with host Matthew O'Shaughnessy this Friday, July 11th at 9:10pm EST in a comprehensive WVOX Metal Mayhem interview on WWW.WVOX.COM and 1460 AM in New York.

The Amityville, NY born, Greenpoint, Brooklyn raised native and renowned bassist has made an international name for himself since the 1970's and Fox will give O'Shaughnessy the exclusive on his days with W.A.S.P., Steeler, SIN and much more.

"There have been a lot of milestones in my 31 years of doing heavy metal radio...having Rik Fox on this Friday certainly is another one of those rare, groundbreaking moments in time I will not forget and our listeners too!" says host Matt O'Shaughnessy.

In Related News:

Read our Expose Interview with The Winged Knight of Heavy Metal himself - A Hollywood Rock Underground TV Interview with the Iconic Rik Fox, as interviewed by Lisa "Sunshine" Svelnys, our Hollywood Correspondent and hostess of Hollywood Rock Underground TV.

A quote by Rik Fox

“I didn’t look like a regular in L.A., but somehow I still fit in; some people were really intimidated by me, I guess the scent of N.Y. was still fresh on me, and I wore a pair of leather gloves that I had studded like right out of the film ‘Rollerball’ and that freaked some people out.”

Read this and much more, then tune in and hear it yourself on Friday, July 11th at 9:10pm EST at hyyp://www.wvox.com, 1460 AM in New York with host Matthew O'Shaughnessy, N.Y. AM Radios’ Master of Metal!

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Overkill Vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth Invades WVOX's Metal Mayhem This Friday!

Legendary vocalist of New Jersey's international metal powerhouse, Overkill, Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth returns to make some noise with Matt O'Shaughnessy on WVOX's Metal Mayhem show in New York this Friday, July 4th at 8:30pm EST worldwide on http://www.wvox.com/ and 1460 AM.

An American metal institution, Overkill has been true pioneers of the scene for three decades, spanning back to their famed Power In Black demo in 1983.

Albums such as Feel The Fire, The Years Of Decay, Ironbound, The Electric Age and upcoming White Devil Armory prove time and time again why Overkill tears it up on record and live.

WVOX will be premiering new Overkill music during this interview too.

 

OVERKILL

In Union We Stand!

OVERKILL WEBSITE

https://www.facebook.com/OverkillWreckingCrew

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Accept's Wolf Hoffmann In Special Feature Interview On WVOX's Metal Mayhem This Friday!

Founding member and original guitarist of Teutonic Metal Barons, Accept, Wolf Hoffmann returns to Matt O'Shaughnessy's WVOX Metal Mayhem show in New York for a special feature interview on the US Fourth of July at 7:30pm EST.

Heard worldwide at  http://www.wvox.com and locally on 1460 AM.  Hoffmann will give his first American radio interview regarding the group's upcoming fourteenth studio album, Blind Rage, to O'Shaughnessy and discuss the August 19th slated release, the third album featuring singer Mark Tornillo and the eagerly awaited follow up to Accept's successful Stalingrad opus.

While on the air, Accept fans can expect the legendary German guitarist to also speak about the bands new video for the track, Stampede, which was filmed in California, working with master producer Andy Sneap again and upcoming select US tour dates and European shows.

Metal Mayhem rages every Tuesday from 9-11pm and Friday between 6-10pm and can be viewed on live webcam from anywhere in the world via studio 1A at http://www.WVOX.com !

 

 

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TESLA - 4 Hour Radio Special Coming At Ya!

Tesla fans - This One's For You!

You wanted it and now you've got it...

WVOX's Metal Mayhem show in New York presents our Special Tesla Radio Salute.

Friday, June  27th from 6-10pm EST.  4 hours of nothing but Tesla!

The wait it over!  Sacramento hard rock kings Tesla featured up close and like never before in a prime time WVOX Radio Special Presentation.

Host Matthew O'Shaughnessy brings you Tesla like you've never heard before for 4 continuous hours spanning songs from the bands entire career and catalogue.

Plus, a special recent interview with vocalist Jeff Keith and more!

Tesla rocks WVOX's Metal Mayhem on Friday, June 27th...Worldwide on  http://www.wvox.com/ and 1460 AM!

"For all Tesla fans, this will be an incredible and ground-breaking broadcast. The pioneering music of Tesla coming at ya live on WVOX.  Get ready, it's coming!" - Host Matthew O'Shaughnessy

 

TESLA–SO DIVINE OFFICIAL

Follow TESLA on Facebook

http://www.teslatheband.com

 

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Tesla Vocalist Jeff Keith Unleashed In Special WVOX Metal Mayhem Interview This Tuesday!

With Tesla's latest album, Simplicity, the touted follow-up to Forever More and produced by the group with legendary Tom Zutaut, the Sacramento rock kings and singer Jeff Keith return to Matthew O'Shaughnessy's WVOX Metal Mayhem show this Tuesday at 9:30pm EST to promote their US tour dates including a big appearance at New York City's Irving Plaza this Wednesday.

Keith will also discuss creating Tesla's seventh studio album of all-new original material in Simplicity issued in North America on  Tesla Electric Company Recordings with an arrangement through Entertainment One Music And Distribution.

Fourteen new Tesla songs and a 'back to roots approach' it seems on the album, Tesla worked again with producer Tom Zutaut who was instrumental behind some of the group's most successful and biggest albums and smash songs.

"Jeff's big return to WVOX this Tuesday at 9:30pm EST is great for us and all Tesla fans worldwide...I cannot think of any other way to spend a rocking night on the air than this!", exclaims host Matthew O'Shaughnessy. Metal Mayhem is heard worldwide on http://www.wvox.com/ and 1460 AM locally in New York.

 

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THIS SUMMER THE WORLD JOINS TOGETHER TO “MAKE MUSIC”

On June 21^st, 800 Cities Worldwide Celebrate Music and it’s Magic- Be Part Of It !

The world¹s largest annual music event, unified as the Make Music Day celebration (www.makemusicday.org), will be held on the summer solstice‹June 21^st. This international event began in France as Fête de la Musique, and now takes place in 800 cities across 110 countries. This year the number of participating cities in the U.S. will double to nearly 20, including the additions of major markets such as Austin, Nashville and Boston. Celebrations of music will also be taking place in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia.  A full list of all participating cities can be found at www.makemusicday.org. 

What started in France more than 30 years ago has become a global phenomenon with millions of musicians of all styles and skill levels coming out each year to perform for the public. This year¹s daylong musical free-for-all is the largest to date as it continues the mass celebration of music in all its forms‹encouraging absolutely everyone to join together and play.

This year NAMM¹s Mass Appeal, a series of events supported by the National Association of Music Merchants and its members, provides people across the country with the opportunity to make music. This includes people who have never touched an instrument playing and learning alongside experienced musicians. Among this year¹s all-inclusive events are multi-person harmonica and ukulele circles, free guitar lessons, an ensemble of 100 saxophones, traveling sing-alongs and drum-offs. These are a few of the thousands of events in the U.S. and the hundreds of thousands worldwide all taking place in unison on the longest day of the year.

On June 21, from morning to night, people of all ages, creeds, and musical persuasions ‹ from hip hop to opera, Latin jazz to punk rock ‹ perform on streets, sidewalks, stoops, plazas, parks and stores. From high school bands to marquee names, this celebration is open to absolutely anyone who wants to participate.

A few of the music making events that took place at Make Music Day in 2013:

• 400+ Guitarist Play Together In New York's Union Square On To Celebrate Make Music Day
• 175 Keyboards Play Together Breaking Guinness World Record On National Music Day 
• GAMA Presents Free Guitar Lessons For All On New York Streets During Make Music Day
• Privia Piano Bar Travels Through New York Bringing Karaoke To The People
• People Learn To Play Harmonica On Make Music Day

Additional information on the events can me found at www.makemusicday.org. Event special guests and spokespeople will be announced in early June. 

 

About Make Music Day

Held on June 21st, Make Music is part of the international Fête de la Musique, taking place in 800 cities across 110 countries. The daylong musical free-for-all celebrates music in all its forms, encouraging people to band together and play in free public concerts. This year, twenty US cities are organizing Make Music celebrations, encompassing thousands of concerts nationwide. For more information, please visit makemusicday.org.

About NAMM
The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) is the not-for-profit association with a mission to strengthen the $17 billion music products industry and promote the pleasures and benefits of making music. NAMM's activities and programs are designed to promote music making to people of all ages. NAMM is comprised of approximately 9,000 Member companies located in more than 92 countries. For more information about NAMM or the proven benefits of making music, interested parties can visit www.namm.org, call 800.767.NAMM (6266) or follow the organization on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

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Metal Church Returns To WVOX's Metal Mayhem In New York!

US metal titans Metal Church will be the very special guest of WVOX Metal Mayhem host Matthew O'Shaughnessy on Tuesday night, March 3rd at 9:45pm Eastern heard worldwide at http://www.wvox.com/ and locally at 1460 AM.

Metal Church came roaring out of the west coast thriving metal scene in the 1980's and always marched to the beat of their own innovative powerful sound, never following trends or fashions to their great credit. The band will talk with O'Shaughnessy about their latest tour itinerary, upcoming New York area shows and latest album and tenth studio album, Generation Nothing.

"The sheer magnitude and force of the mighty Metal Church's music has always been a primary staple of WVOX's metal playlist going back to the early 1980's and today. It's another headbanging honor to welcome the band back to Metal Mayhem." comments Matthew O'Shaughnessy.

Read our Magazine’s Review of Metal Church’s Album Generation Nothing, Voted as one of the TOP TEN Breakout Albums of the Year in Xombiewoof Magazine’s 2013 Year in Review

Summon the Congregation – with their newest album - Generation Nothing, Metal Church Commands the Masses!

“To say that Metal Church is one of the best of American Heavy Metal is an understatement, they are among Metal’s “Founding Fathers” in Metal and have not dulled with age, in fact they have excelled in their skills, the musical composition is sublime and the Vocals on Generation Nothing are hard, edgy, driven and rich in lyrical context.”

Joseph Timmons- Review Editor : Xombiewoof Magazine

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From Russia with swing!

Saxophonist Lena Bloch unites incendiary playing and cool aesthetics on debut album, Feathery with Cameron Brown, Dave Miller and Billy Mintz - CD Release Concert March 30 at The Drawing Room, Brooklyn

 

"A very serious and talented saxophonist and composer." - Lee Konitz

 

"It's a pleasure to hear a committed musician creating her own exciting sound while also digging deep into the less examined wellsprings of the jazz tradition." - Steve Futterman, The New Yorker

 

"Lena has impressed me as someone in whose person is embodied a true musical spirit. She is a wonderfully creative, unique and imaginative player." - saxophonist Adam Kolker

 

The acclaimed tenor saxophonist Lena Bloch, a Russian émigré who currently resides in Brooklyn, grounds her music in the fertile soil of the present, while honoring significant, left-of-center innovations of jazz past. Committed to the essentials of swing, post-bop exploration and collective improvisation, as well as an avid interest in the still-visionary music of cool-school titans, Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh, Bloch has created a distinctive instrumental and group approach that sets her apart from her peers.

 

Her debut album Feathery, to be released March 18, 2014 on Thirteenth Note Records, is a fitting testimony to Bloch's brisk musical evolution and her commitment to productive freedom. Although contributing players Cameron Brown on bass, Billy Mintz on drums and Dave Miller on guitar were not a working unit, under Bloch's supportive direction they melded indivisibly as a resourceful and consistently inspiring ensemble.

Each member of the quartet contributed at least one piece to the album. In addition, the group recorded rarely performed pieces by two of the foremost of Lennie Tristano's acolytes: "Marshmallow" by Warne Marsh and "Featherbed" by Ted Brown. Lena's own "Hi Lee" is a tribute to her own mentor from the Tristano camp, Lee Konitz.

Veteran bassist Cameron Brown, a former member of the now legendary Don Pullen-George Adams Quartet and a current associate of Joe Lovano, brings his clear sonic presence, swinging lines, and melodic inventiveness to the group. Drummer Billy Mintz, a colleague of Brown's for over 30 years, is a master of texture and dynamics whose orchestrations and subtle swing feel significantly contribute to the continuity of the project's challenging material. Dave Miller, a guitarist from Chicago currently living in New York, combines intuition and precision at a level rarely heard among young players today.

"When I decided to record my first album, I had in mind a recording in which the focus would be on collective improvising, group interplay, spontaneity and unexpected turns rather than the usual 'head - solo - head' format," Bloch has said,  "The rapport and understanding among the four musicians was remarkable. We recorded in one day, in one room, without headphones, the album consists almost entirely of first takes. There were no pre-set arrangements."

The result is a recording that reflects an effortlessness, lightness and elegance as aptly described by the title Feathery.

Lena Bloch was born in Moscow and studied music in Israel, Germany and the United States, where she earned a Master's of Music degree in composition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Since moving to the United States in 2003, Bloch has been a soloist with the Vermont Jazz Big Band, the Ambassadors of Light, the Vishnu Wood Quartet, and the Northampton Jazz Workshop. In 2008 she moved to Brooklyn and has since performed with, among others, Dan Tepfer, Roberta Piket, George Schuller, Frank Carlberg, Putter Smith, Mark Ferber, Sumi Tonooka, Kim Clarke, Vishnu Wood and Vladimir Shafranov as well as several musicians associated with the Lennie Tristano school (Ted Brown, Connie Crothers, Joe Solomon, Bob Arthurs). Bloch has also gained significant recognition in Europe, performing with such diverse musicians as "Embryo", Keith Copeland, Alvin Queen, and Steve Reid.

http://www.lenabloch.com/about/

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Black Label Society's ZAKK WYLDE In Prime Time Interview On WVOX's Metal Mayhem This Friday!

The big Zakk Attack is coming to New York radio as WVOX Metal Mayhem host Matthew O'Shaughnessy welcomes special VIP guest Zakk Wylde of Black Label Society at 8:30pm Eastern on http://www.wvox.com/ worldwide and 1460 AM locally.

Wylde will talk with O'Shaughnessy about the group's touted upcoming disc, Catacombs Of The Black Vatican, due in North America on April 8th. Confirmed for this year's legendary Rocklahoma Festival on May 23rd, 24th and 25th in Pryor, Oklahoma, the Black Label Society mainman will also discuss the bands recent gigs on Megadeth's Gigantour, current 13-city solo trek of Canada, appearance on the forthcoming Revolver Golden Gods Tour and more.

 

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"What an awesome and tremendous way to spend Friday night than with the one and only Zakk Wylde invading our Metal Mayhem show. The bands current single, My Dying Time, from the upcoming album is going berserk with our WVOX listeners and Black Label Society fans!

This will certainly go down as a major milestone in our thirty-one year broadcasting career," Says Matthew O'Shaughnessy.

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