GUEST POST: Mark Sugar of Black Sites Breaks Down Their New Album “The Promised Land” 


Chicago Progressive Metal band Black Sites just released their new album “The Promised Land?” The band has been fairly prolific over the years, constantly striving to break new ground in heavy music, rather than hit the same beats everyone else does in the genre. Mark Sugar sent in a track-by-track breakdown of the album! 

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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: New Rock and Metal Releases 2-9-24


What new Rock and Metal releases are you looking forward to this week?
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PREVIEW: New Music Friday New Rock and Metal Releases 2-9-24


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Trans-Siberian Orchestra Books 2023 Tour – “The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve – The Best Of TSO & More” 


 

Charity-driven, platinum-selling, Progressive Rock and Christmas Music group Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) today announced its highly-anticipated 2023 winter tour, “The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve: The Best Of TSO And More”. This year TSO brings a completely updated presentation of the unforgettable, multi-generational holiday tradition, which will hit 62 cities and deliver 104 performances in both matinee and evening sets. A product of the imagination of late Trans-Siberian Orchestra mastermind Paul O’Neill and his wife Desi, and based on TSO’s 1999 multi-platinum CD and TV special “The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve” rock opera and holiday album. Tickets for the 2023 holiday tour will go on sale on Friday, September 15 at 10 a.m. local time. Watch a trailer for the tour now! Continue reading


Trans-Siberian Orchestra Books a Winter 2021 Tour for Their 25th Anniversary



Progressive rock group Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) has announced a return to their winter Christmas-themed charity tours for 2021. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the group’s landmark album
Christmas Eve And Other Stories, the tour embarks on, November 17th with l visit 59 cities for 99 performances across ending on Thursday, December 30 in Cleveland and St. Louis. Pre-sales for TSO fan club members will be held on Thursday, September 9 at 10 a.m. local time and Friday, September 10 at 10 a.m. local time. Additional pre-sales will be on Monday, September 13 and Thursday, September 16, both at 10 a.m. local time. General public on sale is set to begin on Friday, September 17 at 10 a.m. local time.

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) Cancels Their Entire Fall 2020 Tour Due to The Pandemic


Trans-Siberian Orchestra, the multi-platinum, critically acclaimed progressive rock group which raised more than $725 million for charity, has announced the cancelation of its fall 2020 tour due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. which is sweeping the globe. The band shared a statement. Continue reading


Watch Trans Siberian Orchestra Perform a New Song “Can You Hear Me Now” Live


Trans Siberian Orchestra is astounding crowds on their annual holiday season tour through the end of the year. The long-running act has been touring for twenty-one years in 2019, and as a result of their charitable efforts, they have raised nearly 17 Million Dollars for local charity organizations in every city they perform. The theme for 2019 is inspired by their smash debut album Christmas Eve And Other Stories (Lava/Atlantic) Yesterday in Newark, New Jersy, the band performed a new song for the first time ever. TSO member and featured singer/musician Kayla Reeves sang the soulful unplugged song ‘Can You Hear Me Now’, which according to the story Chris Caffery told beforehand, was a song written by late TSO leader Paul O’Neil and found on an old tape of his. O’Neil passed away in 2017. Your heart is not ready for this much emotion in a performance! Watch this fan-filmed clip now! Continue reading


Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) Announces 2019 Holiday Season Shows


Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) has announced their highly-anticipated 2019 holiday tour dates. The critically-acclaimed progressive rock/holiday music entity returns with all-new staging and effects is the unforgettable show that started it all, “Christmas Eve And Other Stories”. TSO’s show that started small, performed to 12,000 people in five cities in 1999, which then exploded on to the national scene, eventually playing to nine million fans over the course of an incredible 12 years (through 2011), the mega-hit “Christmas Eve And Other Stories” has grossed an incredible $377 million over 1224 performances. A product of the vision and imagination of TSO’s late founder/composer/lyricist Paul O’Neill, “Christmas Eve And Other Stories” began the unique format O’Neill called “Rock Theater” This year’s multi-sensory extravaganza is set to begin on November 13 and will visit 66 cities for 109 performances across North America before concluding on December 30 (see full itinerary below and online). TSO’s winter tour 2019 is presented by Hallmark Channel.Continue reading


Trans-Siberian Orchestra Announces Their Winter Tour Dates


2018 marks the 20th anniversary of Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO), and thus a celebration is in order. The band has announced their Winter Tour 2018 Tour, their annual November-December trek. This season brings a presentation of TSO’s unforgettable “The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve”, featuring late founder/composer/lyricist Paul O’Neill‘s timeless story of a runaway who finds her way into a mysterious abandoned theater, is set to begin on November 14 and will visit 65 cities across North America, for 100-plus performances, before concluding on December 30 (see full itinerary below). TSO’s Winter Tour 2018 is presented by Hallmark Channel. Continue reading