Category:Rock
The Witching Hour Sessions – Foo Fighters
The Witching Hours Session – 08/04/2018. Foo Fighters Foo Fighters are an American rock band, formed in Seattle in 1994. It was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of Nirvana after the death of Kurt Cobain. Stepping out from behind his battered kit, Grohl writes, plays guitar and …
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The Witching Hours Session – 11/04/2018. Led Zeppelin What the Beatles were to the ’60s, Led Zeppelin were to the ’70s: a band so successful and innovative they wound up creating the prism through which their entire epoch was seen. Zeppelin ushered in the era of album rock — they refused to release singles off …
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The Witching Hour Sessions – Neil Young
The Witching Hours Session – 10/04/2018 Neil Young. Whether electric or acoustic there’s a fantastic ramshackle quality to Neil Young’s work and it’s hard to believe that albums as different as ‘Harvest Moon’ and ‘Arc’ were recorded by the same artist. Always ready to take a risk and immensely prolific over a 50+ year career …
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The Witching Hour Sessions – Aimee Mann
The Witching Hours Session – 03/04/2018. Aimee Mann. Several years after the breakup of ‘Til Tuesday, the Boston new wave band that scored big with ‘Voices Carry’ in 1985 vocalist Aimee Mann (born 1960) launched her unhurried solo career with the mightily impressive ‘Whatever’. After protracted record company miseries that saw a completed second album …
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The Witching Hour Sessions – Electric Light Orchestra
The Witching Hour Sessions – 22/02/2018 Electric Light Orchestra The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970, by songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan. Their music is characterised by a fusion of Beatlesque pop, classical arrangements, and futuristic iconography. After Wood’s departure in 1972, …
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The Witching Hour Sessions – Deus
The Witching Hour Sessions – 20/02/2018 Deus Deus (or dEUS) are a rock band based in Antwerp, Belgium, whose the only continuous members up to the present day are Tom Barman (vocals, guitars) and Klaas Janzoons (keyboards, violin). The rest of the band’s line-up currently consists of drummer Stéphane Misseghers, bassist Alan Gevaert and guitarist/backing …
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The Witching Hour Sessions – A House
The Witching Hour Sessions – 17/02/2018 A House A House were an Irish rock band active from the 1980s into the 1990s, and recognized for the clever, “often bitter or irony laden lyrics of Dave Couse bolstered by the seemingly effortless musicality”. The single “Endless Art” is one of their best known charting successes. Tonight’s …
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The Witching Hour Sessions – The Melvins
The Witching Hour Sessions – 15/02/2018 The Melvins The Melvins are an American rock band that formed in 1983 in Montesano, Washington. They have mostly performed as a trio, as well as a quartet with two drummers in recent years. Since 1984, vocalist and guitarist Buzz Osborne and drummer Dale Crover have been constant members. …
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The Witching Hour Sessions – The Doors
The Witching Hour Sessions – 07/02/2018 The Doors The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. They were unique and among the most controversial and influential rock acts of the 1960s, mostly because of Morrison’s lyrics …
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The Witching Hour Sessions – Sly & the Family Stone
The Witching Hour Sessions – 01/02/2018 Sly & the Family Stone Sly & the Family Stone harnessed all of the disparate musical and social trends of the late ’60s, creating a wild, brilliant fusion of soul, rock, R&B, psychedelia, and funk that broke boundaries down without a second thought. Led by Sly Stone, the Family …
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