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By: Jim Villanueva Raised on the scenic shores of the Golden State in the city of Monterey, singer-songwriter Lauren Shera grew up over 300 miles from the Sixties-Seventies California folk scene center of Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. Yet despite a generation and the geography...

Current Classics is your source for discovering new music from Current AND Classic artists! This week, here great stuff from Alabama Shakes, Foo Fighters, Chrissie Hynde, Butch Walker, Echosmith, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, The Bots and Paul Rodgers of Bad Company fame...

By: Jim Villanueva Armed with numerous instruments from American guitars to an Andean charango purchased in Peru, the five members of Humming House blur musical borders on their third studio offering, Revelries, due on March 24. The Nashville quintet’s 11-song set manages to meld...

  By: Jim Villanueva From the glamorous life of being a lauded young singer and songwriter to the life in the gutter in which he eventually ended up as a drug addict and alcoholic, Michael McDermott, songwriter and frontman of The Westies, has experienced plenty of personal...

Podcast featuring U2, George Ezra, The Compulsions, Damien Rice, more… By Jim Villanueva Jim Villanueva began his radio/syndication career on the switchboard at 95.5 KLOS/Los Angeles before managing the station’s music research department and assisting in the...

By: Jim Villanueva Throughout my career I’ve been privileged to speak with – and on a handful of occasions befriend – many of the biggest names in the history of rock. I’ve been equally honored and lucky to champion and converse with countless artists and bands bubbling just...

DISCO TECH: THE TING TINGS TRANSFORM CLASSIC SOUNDS INTO CURRENT DISCO DITTY’S ON SUPER CRITICAL By: Jim Villanueva Katie White and Jules De Martino from the UK duo The Ting Tings were on a mission to party and play till the break of day when they landed on the non-stop drink and...

MERCY ME: INCENDIARY INDIE ROCK SIBLING DUO CLEMENCY SERVES UP SIZZLING SIX-SONG EP YOU’VE GOT THE FIRE BY: Jim Villanueva Brothers Jason and Paul Watkins of the emerging rock duo Clemency hail from tiny Yukon, OK, which sits a tick over 17 miles from Oklahoma City and a touch...

BY: Jim Villanueva Midge Ure laid the foundation for his musical legacy as a member of two visionary bands, Visage and Ultravox. It’s fair to say that in the late 1970s and 1980s the native Scotsman was at the forefront of what has eventually evolved into EDM. “Back in the late...