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Discover The LSB Experience...

In the summer of 2010 Marcel Luntungan, Hans Sligter and Sjoerd van den Broek performed together for the first time during a session in cafe "De Peuk" in Bussum, The Netherlands. These three men being good singers individually and holding a respectable track record as musicians in various bands and projects was already a known fact, but this spontaneous joint action appears to be a classic example of a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. And so a new band arises; The LSB Experience.

A binding factor and an important musical inspiration for the new band is the American so called “West Coast Sound". Several British acts that are known for using rich harmony vocal arrangements also form a common passion. The LSB Experience setlist now includes songs from: Crosby, Stills & Nash, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, The Eagles, Venice, The Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac and Crowded House, to mention just a few names. Obviously, this cover/tribute repertoire is still expanding as the band is now exploring the possibilities of performing original material as well.

While the original trio formation is more focused on the harmony vocals and acoustic instruments, the LSB Experience also appears with a rhythm section. This 5-piece band, with on drums Peter Deiman and on bass Rob Hendriks, shifts toward the more dynamic, arranged and swinging songs within the repertoire, thus creating an even greater variation in the sound and making the band more versatile.

Thanks to Louie Van Der Stuyft

Nostalgie California : 100% westcoastmusic webradiostation also available as a mobile app

A major event : French major radio network Radio Nostalgie (France) has just created a 100 per cent Westcoast Music / AOR / Californian webradiostation entitled Nostalgie California, just launched on February 20th, 2012. Nostalgie California is one of the 27 webradiostations of Radio Nostalgie. You can listen to it online 24 hours a day at this address.

Nostalgie California is also available via the 100% free app Radio Nostalgie for iPhone/iPad/iPod, Android et Windows Mobile devices.

The playlist of Nostalgie California is a mix of classic hits from Westcoast Music as well rarities and new californian rock music stuff : with 100% of music. Via the mobile apps, you can select the present tune airplayed to put it on your Facebook wall. Each song airplayed is featured with the title of the song and the name of the artist/group.

Terje Fjelde "Julie"

Terje Fjelde sent us this song "Julie" he recorded with great inspirations in mind: David Foster, Pages, Jay Graydon, Burt Bacharach... Terje plays all intruments and his vocals sound close to Randy Goodrum. Listen to it carefully and enjoy!

You can visit his site here!

Interview with Laura Mayne (In English)

On february 8th, we had the pleasure to meet Laura Mayne and release a video interview with her to talk about her career with NATIVE and her return on the musical scene with her recent EP "Native song book vol.1" and upcoming new studio album "Seule et sans armes" to be released soon.

Laura had a very successful career with Native, a duet with her sister Chris, during the 90's. For their second album "Les couleurs de l'amour", they worked with an american team including Billy Steinberg, Jon Lind, Diane Warren and others. It features the song "Dans ce monde à part" which had been covered by Cher under the title "Taking Back My Heart" on her "Believe" album. Laura was also chosen to sing the Pocahontas's theme movie and be the voice of that character for the french version of that popular Walt Disney movie.

If you don't already know who is Laura Mayne, it's a big mistake and I recommend you to discover this very talented artist now!

 

Bill LaBounty exclusive interview for RTL Radiostation (France)

Bill LaBounty is the very special guest of the legendary french radioshow of Sir Georges Lang "Les Nocturnes" on RTL (french nationwide radiostation - number one radiostation) this wednesday, February 1rst from midnight to 3am (French hour - Central European Time) for an exclusive interview of Bill LaBounty recorded in Nashville last november. Bill LaBounty talks about his career, music projects as well as this new 4 CD box set "Bill LaBounty - Time Starts Now: The Definitive Anthology 1975-2011", released a few weeks ago by Warner France. You can listen to the show live on RTL via the online player at this address. Listen to one of the best artist of the Westcoast / AOR music sound!

To know more about Bill LaBounty and his latest news, take a look at his official website as well as at Les Nocturnes radioshow page  .

Photo : Bill LaBounty & Georges Lang - Copyright G. Lang

Bill Champlin sings "Step Up", the theme song on the radio show "The Caring Effect"

The Caring Effect's goal is to make those who care aware of the needs of others and plug them into the ways they can make a difference. Their song “Time to Step Up” was written and performed exclusively for The Caring Effect by Bill Champlin, formerly of the Band Chicago.

“When I was told about the project I thought that it was a great idea. Focusing on the “people” aspect of charities. Thanks for having me on board for this project. Good luck with everything. Be good.” – Bill Champlin

Venice band and Roger Waters band for an exclusive acoustic session live November 2, 2011 on RTL radiostation (Paris)

There are a few great moments in this life about amazing music. One of these was an acoustic session of the band VENICE (Kip Lennon, Mark Lennon and Pat Lennon) during the afternoon of June 29, 11 in the legendary studio of free format radio dee jay Georges Lang at RTL (rue Bayard, Paris, very closed to the Champs Elysees avenue) for a great acoustic session and an interview of VENICE that you can listen to on RTL tonight November 2, 2011 at midnight - french hour (or live on RTL website) from midnight to 3 am. If you love harmony vocals, guitar playing and great songs: be there or be no where!

This precious afternoon, in Les Nocturnes studio at RTL radiostation, VENICE live in acoustic in Paris was a real blast. Some other members of The Wall live tour (Roger Waters) have been featured on this acoustic session too: Jon Joyce (original background vocalist from PINK FLOYD - THE WALL album), G.E.Smith (guitar player - Bob Dylan, Daryl Hall & John Oates) and Robbie Wyckoff as lead singer (with Roger Waters).

November 2, 2011 at midnight on RTL... Let's listen this fabulous acoustic live session from the band VENICE with an exclusive interview of Mark, Kip and Pat Lennon during the program LES NOCTURNES de GEORGES LANG. RTL website has put a special page for this event. The program will be also available online on RTL Les Nocturnes website as soon as possible! Enjoy and keep on rocking!

You can check out our special gallery of this accounstic session on Westcoast Rendez-Vous Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/westcoastrendezvous - see the gallery section.

Special Thanks: Georges Lang and Yves Bigot at RTL. Olivier Saintot (at Virgin Megastore Champs-Elysées record store, Westcoast Musis section - Paris).

Photo : Kip Lennon, Mark Lennon and Pat Lennon at RTL. Copyright: J.-L. Raymond

Inside Musicast Special 5th Anniversary with guest Michael McDonald

Interview with Ned Doheny on Yuzu Melodies

Boris Plantier published a recent interview with Ned Doheny who just released his new album available at HVM Japan.

READ THE INTERVIEW HERE!

2nd edition of Classic Rock magazine featuring Toto's story and lot more....

The second sensational edition of Classic Rock Presents AOR is now available for pre-order. Among the top stuff in AOR issue No.2:  Cover story: the epic, chaotic, multi-platinum tale of Toto, the band who invented AOR.

Features on Houston, Mr Big, The Babys, Roxette, FM, King Kobra, Moritz, Ten and more.

Interview with Journey guitarist Neal Schon, a review of the band’s new album Eclipse, and a major live review of Journey and Night Ranger from Las Vegas.

An exhaustive A To Z Of AOR, covering everyone from Alexa Anastasia to Richie Zito.

The phenomenon known as Yacht Rock – featuring interviews with Christopher Cross and Kenny Loggins!

A celebration of the 35th anniversaries of two key albums: Blue Öyster Cult’s Agents Of Fortune and Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive!

The second edition of AOR also comes with a sensational FREE 15-track CD: Lovin’ Every Minute Of It. Among the tracks on the CD are an exclusive, never-before-released live version of Toto’s Pamela, plus a brand-new studio song from Journey called City Of Hope. Classic Rock Presents AOR issue No.2 goes on sale on May 6. But you can pre-order your copy today – with free UK delivery!

Go here for the full pre-order details.