by Downtown Magazine | Aug 31, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
Over the past three decades, Tony Harnell has experienced a musical existence like no other. He first joined TNT in his early 20s, his first of three tenures with the band, which led to massive tours of Norway and Japan beyond charting singles everywhere else. After...
by Downtown Magazine | Aug 31, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music, News
Jonathan Edwards first experienced success with the single “Sunshine,” which was RIAA Gold-certified by early 1972. Nearly 45 years later, not only is “Sunshine” still being heard all over the place (e.g. a recent Jeep commercial, HBO’s The Newsroom, Anchorman:...
by Downtown Magazine | Aug 31, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
Kylesa, a metal band with elements of punk and psychedelic-rock in their sound, started in their native Georgia in 2001. However, Kylesa co-lead vocalist Phillip Cope has a long-standing pre-Kylesa history, playing in hardcore-punk bands in the late 1980,s and then...
by Downtown Magazine | Aug 26, 2015 | Culture, Music
Sometimes the most interesting people are only a few cubicles away. In the case of Marc Lawrence, who I worked with on and off for two years at Viacom, he always seemed to have something going on beyond his workload at the office. More specifically, outside of the...
by Downtown Magazine | Aug 26, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
Holly Miranda may have earned her first record deal at the age of 17, but she’s built a great career slowly and steadily. After her ill-fated major label spell as a teenager, she formed The Jealous Girlfriends, who had songs featured on Grey’s Anatomy and...
by Jackie Hart | Aug 25, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
Downtown comes Uptown…for two nights, at least. This Thursday, August 27th, and Friday, August 28th, WFUV Radio and Rockwood Music Hall will be presenting their latest installment of the “Downtown Comes Uptown” series, featuring the Brooklyn-based...
