Rockpalast father Peter Rüchel celebrates his 80th birthday today
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EPITAPH – New live album “A Night At The Old Station” coming April 28, 2017
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Over the years, the Old Station in Anderten near Hanover has become a practical and popular starting point for an upcoming Epitaph tour. With the band members coming from Flensburg, Dortmund, Celle, and Berlin, it’s not just convenient, but also, as Cliff says, a good place to recharge your batteries before the show gets on the road. “We’ve been meeting up there for about fifteen years,” says Cliff, “and we (more…)
SIENA ROOT – A Dream Of Lasting Peace – in stores now May 26, 2017
With a vast discography and a reputation of being an extraordinary live act gained in more than 400 live shows, Swedish root rock band Siena Root is releasing their seventh album due to production-related reasons now on May 26, 2017, with Hänsel & Gretel/MIG Music. The cover artwork of „A Dream of Lasting Peace“ was designed by Sofia Sagerberg, Patrik Kindwall and Siena (more…)
COMMANDER CODY – Special live recording for the Record Store Day April 22, 2017
MIG Music celebrates this year’s Record Store Day with a true live treat. The musicologists have found a rare live recording by COMMANDER CODY and band. This precious piece will only be available on April 22. The title of the album: “Claiming New Territories – Live at the Aladin 1980″. There are only 1.000 units of this limited 180g vinyl edition available (more…)
Forgotten Jewel of Prog-Rock rediscovered – TWENTY SIXTY-SIX & THEN
To the considerable ranks of MIG Music’s jewels of German rock history comes another treasure: the album “Reflections On The Future” by Mannheim band TWENTY SIXTY-SIX & THEN from the year 1972.
To clarify one thing up front: This edition has nothing in common with those unspeakable re-releases from before. The material has been carefully remastered and extended with eight new bonus tracks (studio live (more…)
Iain Matthews on the enhanced re-release of his album “Walking the Changing Line”
Although I hadn’t realized at the time, this recording was one of the most important of my career; a comeback of sorts. It was my one and only concept album and would reap dividends for the rest of my career which, by the way, is still some thirty years, after the fact, moving forward.
It was 1987 and I’d been denying the creative muse (more…)
Blues brothers: New DVDs in our “Live At Rockpalast” series
MIG Music transforms February 24, 2017, into a day for the blues – with three new releases in the series “Live At Rockpalast“: the concert of Champion Jack Dupree from 1980, George Thorogood from 1980 and Pat Travers from the year 1976, one of his very first shows in Europe. All three of them love the blues, each interpreting it in his very particular (more…)
Fairytale – On tour in April with Irish folk legend Gerry O’Connor
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Tex-Mex queen Patricia Vonne on tour 2017
In spring 2017, the American singer and songwriter Patricia Vonne will visit Europe for several concerts again. Last fall she swirled over German stages and took her audience for a good 90 minutes to Texas. And at the end of the set, probably everybody wondered “what, are we already finished?”
Patricia Vonne, dressed in velvet and lace but with a cowboy hat and booties, is always (more…)
SIENA ROOT are signing with MIG Music
The Swedish band SIENA ROOT has signed a worldwide record contract with M.I.G. Made In Germany Music in Hanover. “A Dream Of Lasting Peace” is the sixth studio album of the Swedish retro rock pioneers and is already scheduled for release end of April this year. The psychedelic and progressive rockers of SIENA ROOT already have an established and loyal fan base in (more…)