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Tony Levin was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by Bass Player Magazine this past weekend in New York City. Richly deserved. And checkout Tony’s latest solo effort, Stick Man, available here.

Moog Music has posted several videos of Jordan Rudess demoing their newest synth, Little Phatty. Visit their YouTube and MySpace pages to view all the clips.
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Les Claypool’s first ever feature film, “Electric Apricot: Quest For Festeroo,” will be released in theaters Nov. 9th by National Lampoon. The mockumentary-style spoof is a comedic character study of four headstrong musicians trying to establish themselves in the jam scene. The film stars Claypool - who also wrote and directed the picture - as [...]

The current issue of Acoustic Magazine chats with Ian about his new acoustic album, current tour and his music, of course. There’s also some speculation of a new Tull album in the Fall.
Can you tell us about the new album, The Best Of Acoustic Jethro Tull and what else Jethro Tull are up to?
It’s basically [...]

Press Release
Symphonic rock icon Lana Lane proudly announces her new studio album “Red Planet Boulevard”. The new album follows Lana’s 2005 art rock masterpiece “Lady Macbeth”, and her highly acclaimed 2006 classic rock covers album “Gemini”. Red Planet Boulevard is a melodic rock album that showcases Lana’s legendary vocals with timeless songwriting all produced in [...]

GHS, maker of fine guitar strings, will produce a signature series with David Gilmour - both sets use the strings actually used by David on his Gibson Les Paul and Fender Stratocaster.
Gilmour has played GHS strings since ‘79 when working on The Wall, but he’s used non-standard gauges that until now were not available in [...]

Keyboard players for the new Ayreon album have been announced. They are (in order of appearance):

Derek Sherinian (Planet X)
Tomas Bodin (The Flower Kings)
Joost van den Broek (After Forever)

An MP3 of the sessions is available now on the Ayreon website.