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Kid Pistol wins #MakeMusic contest from American Rock Scene.

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Our interview with this phenomenal musician, Anders Osborne.

Skager of the American Rock Scene interviews Peter Klett, founding member and guitarist for Candlebox.

Here's a little taste of the new release from veteran of the stage and screen Brent David Fraser. Look for Brent's new album the third week of March 2012.

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Last week the heavy metal world sort of got "Punked". An article came out on a blog stating that presidential hopeful Rick Santorum had declared war on heavy metal during a recent speech. The article written by Keith Spillet was complete satire although who wouldn't want to believe that Gwar played Mitt Romney's inauguration when he was elected Governor. We decided to get to the bottom of all the madness that surrounded this most innocent piece of journalist brilliance.

Enjoy the interview, Keith is quite a funny guy and we had a blast!

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Grandfathers of Thrash Mace giving away first new song in 23 years

Earlier this week the story broke that Seattle grunge engineer(Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains) Dave Hillis's first band Mace has reformed. Now they want their fans to have the music for free.

Dave Hillis started his career as a 17 year old guitarist for the legendary thrash metal band "MACE." In the mid 80's, they released two LP's on Enigma Records in the US and Blackdragon Records in Europe. They were featured on Metalblade Records Metal Massacre V, recognized in the Trashmetal Encyclopedia and fanzine's around the world as a pioneering force in heavy metal. Led by Dave's furious guitar work they Charted in the UK. and Japan's top 20; touring with the likes of Slayer, Anthrax, Raven, Death Angel and Testament.

Of course everyone knows Mace guitarist Dave Hillis went on to work on some of the biggest albums in rock history as a producer. (Pearl Jam "10", Alice In Chains "Dirt"...etc) but Mace was always in the back of his mind. Hillis told American Rock Scene, "I always wanted to remix the old songs, and when I opened my own studio I had to do it, and it was so much fun that we thought we would try a new song and that was so much fun that we said why not teach these young kids how it was done back in the day".

A huge part of the Thrash scene back in the 80's was the underground tape trading movement. That would help spread the word like wild fire. Says Hillis when asked how important underground trading was, "We got all our shows on tour and fanzine reviews and interviews that way, giving it away on the internet today is just an extension of that".

Mace is using the 21st century version of tape trading and is giving away Haarp Strings 2012 to their fans for free and they are encouraging them to give it away to anyone they want, no strings attached.

Free Download of Mace's new song "Haarp Strings 2012

The WIRED! band has won the hugely prestigious International Blues Challenge this weekend, beating out over one hundred other acts representing nearly every state and over sixteen countries. The band won a huge prize package, including nearly a dozen headlining positions in prominent blues festivals across the country.

WIRED! represented the Washington Blues Society in the challenge.

Each local blues association, which number into the hundreds, hosts a local competition to determine one band and one solo/duo act to send to Memphis to represent their organization in the International Blues Challenge (IBC), which takes place on the legendary Beale Street.

Starting mid-last week, 110 bands and over 80 solo/duo acts from sixteen countries and forty states entered the four day long competition, sponsored by The Blues Foundation, a Memphis-based non-for-profit that is dedicated to preserving our blues music history, celebrating recording and performance excellence, supporting blues education and ensuring the future of the uniquely American art form that is the blues.

Find WIRED! in all the places below:

WIRED! Website
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WIRED! CD Baby

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Recently, the American Blues Scene had the opportunity to chat with the iconic Robert Cray. Listen in as we cover all kinds of subjects!

You can find Robert at these sites:

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Robert Cray's Website

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Tripping Icarus is a Minneapolis band, formed in 2009 by Andrew Reiner, Chris Kluwe, and Matthew Marshall. It happened like this: Chris knew Andy and Andy knew Matt. They came together and recorded a four song instrumental demo. Using this, they lured Matt's long time friend and former band mate Jesse, into the fold, and kept him chained to the walls of the rehearsal space, letting him out only to gig and record. Jesse has long since surrendered to an irrevocable case of Stockholm Syndrome and so is free to go about what's left of his life, the rest of the band certain of his inability to psychologically break free of them. Tripping Icarus recorded its debut EP at Pachyderm Studios the weekend of the Summer Solstice 2009. Following this, they gigged extensively in the Twin Cities and out-state Minnesota. In the summer of 2010 they began recording their first LP, Perfect Citizen, at Flowers Studios in Minneapolis. Their friend and producer, Andy Lindberg, died unexpectedly near the end of the recording sessions. This record, dedicated to Andy, will be released in the spring of 2011.

As a side note to the music, Chris is the starting punter for the Minnesota Vikings and Andy is the Executive Editor for Game Informer magazine.

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Shawn Skager throws down another killer interview for the American Rock Scene. This time with the red hot rock band, Pop Evil...

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