Joe Satriani is the world’s most commercially successful solo guitar performer, with six gold and platinum discs to his credit (including one more gold award for the debut album by his band Chickenfoot), and sales in excess of 10 million copies. His forthcoming 15th studio album, Shockwave Supernova (due out July 24, 2015), is already being hailed as yet another creative breakthrough – this for a guitarist who has routinely topped guitar magazine polls since the release of his first full-length album, Not Of This Earth, in 1986.

Since September 18, 1970 (the day his idol Jimi Hendrix passed away), Satriani has dedicated himself to the artistry of instrument. While still a teenager in his hometown of Westbury, New York, he taught guitar to another budding six-string hopeful, Steve Vai. A few years later, Satriani moved to San Francisco and played guitar in a popular new wave band, The Squares, and briefly joined The Greg Kihn Band before the release of Not Of This Earth.

Satriani’s reputation was already growing in guitar circles – along with Vai, some of his other students were Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Testament’s Alex Skolnick – but in 1987, he broke through to the masses with his second studio full-length, Surfing With The Alien, a massive seller (it hit No. 29 on the Billboard 200) that included the radio hits “Satch Boogie” and the title track. The success of that album caught the attention of Mick Jagger, who asked Satriani to be his lead guitarist on his first-ever solo tour, in 1988.

As a live performer, Satriani has toured the world with each new release (his last concert tour for 2013’s Unstoppable Momentum saw the guitarist touch down in 32 countries). In 1993, he joined Deep Purple as a temporary replacement for Ritchie Blackmore during a Japanese tour. In 1996, Satriani founded the multi-guitarist traveling experience called G3, which has seen him share stages with Vai, Eric Johnson, Yngwie Malmsteen, Robert Fripp, among others. And starting in 2009, Satriani traversed the globe again as a member of Chickenfoot. The all-star band (which also includes singer Sammy Hagar, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith) has issues two albums, their debut and 2011’s follow-up, Chickenfoot III.

Satriani’s solo discography includes a host of classics, including 1989’s Flying In A Blue Dream, The Extremist from 1992, Is There Love In Space? (2004) and 2010’s Black Swans And Wormhole Wizards. His 15 Grammy nominations have been for songs such as “Always With Me, Always With You,” “The Crush Of Love,” and “Summer Song,” as well as full albums like Surfing With The Alien, The Extremist and Super Colossal. 

Satriani has appeared in motion pictures such as Christopher Guest’s 2006 release, For Your Consideration, and the 2011 Brad Pitt starrer, Moneyball. Through the years, he has designed and endorsed guitars, amplifiers and effects pedals for Ibanez, Marshall and Vox. His JS Series of guitars through Ibanez has been one of the company’s most popular and consistent sellers.

Lyndenthal is a progressive rock writing & recording project.  Band members are:  Mark Krueger, Guitars.  Tony Jefferson, drums, percussion, vocals.  Terry Michaels, keyboards, acoustic guitar, vocals.  Rob Wessel, Guitars, bass, vocals, Mark Walczynski, bass, vocals.

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The Belgian-Scottish band Stereo Grand is back with a new album due for release in autumn 2016 entitled “Somewhere A Silver Bullet Lies ». It’s been four long years since their last album “The Invisible Wall”, with singles “Stereo” and « Into Dust” filling the airwaves across the country. Stereo Grand’s first offering from the EP “I’m Coming Home”, gave us the classic “Yeah Yeah”, an instant radio hit, and the subsequent demand for live performances followed. From their debut album release in 2013, Stereo Grand toured non-stop until their self-imposed exile in 2015 to begin their follow-up record.
“Somewhere A Silver Bullet Lies” is Stereo Grand’s most accomplished work to date as the collection of songs defines the groups’ ambition to create emotional pieces with no regard to musical style boundaries. For “Somewhere A Silver Bullet Lies”, Stereo Grand’s first mission was to create their own working environment that suited their unusual writing and recording needs; with band members living in both Belgium and Scotland, it was important to have the freedom to write plus the equipment to record within each session. Taking the reins on artistic direction and production was task for the highly regarded Jean Lamoot (Ferber Studio Paris, Noir Désir, Girls In Hawaii, Alain Bashung, Absinthe Minded, Rivière Noire,…).
“Somewhere A Silver Bullet Lies” forms a rich soundscape of post-indie rock. The album blends elements of vintage rock with futuristic sounds, orchestral musicians combine seamlessly with Stereo Grand’s five-piece core to deliver their vision of future rock music.

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