Paul Cashmere Archives

Graham “Buzz” Bidstrup has lived many lives in music. As drummer, songwriter and producer, he’s been Buzz Throckman in The Angels, the driving force behind GANGgajang, the rhythm on Australian Crawl’s “Reckless”, a key player with Jimmy Barnes, and the creative energy behind the Jimmy Little Foundation. Now, he’s put his story into print with his new memoir No Secrets.

Mississippi legend Marty Stuart turned 62 this week and celebrated earlier with a performance at the Grand Ole Opry with his wife Connie Smith.

Noise11.com’s Chief Operating Officer Nick Kontonicolas has congratulated country music legend Marty Stuart on being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame as a Modern Era Artist.

Former Matchbox Twenty guitarist Adam Gaynor and one-time Smashmouth musician Randy Cooke zoomed into Noise11.com this week with a few yarns about their whacky touring days.

On 29 May 2018 we lost Ros O’Gorman, a beautiful lady, a perfect wife, mother and grandmother.

iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com has returned with an all-star line-up this week. Kevin Rowland of Dexys, Mathias Jabs of The Scorpions and Andrew Duffield of Models are along to share their thoughts with you.

Alanis Morissette must be great. 28 million record buyers can’t be wrong!

Carlos Santana is one of the rock era’s true legends.

Midnight Oil has always been about no compromise. From their very first album, they rewrote the rule book. On stage, they are pure power and passion.

Peter Frampton in the Guinness Book Of Records. Frampton Comes Alive is the biggest selling live album of all time.

Crooning is not just about singing songs about “moon” and “June”. Crooning is an entire genre unto itself. The world has a new crooner. His name is Michael Bublé. He’s only 25 but has taken decades of great crooners and remastered them for his own voice.

Starting a studio and founding a record label in the early 50s was a bold move. Sam Phillips did it though. The decision for his career path also changed music history and created the template for what became rock and roll.

For White Stripes fame came suddenly on the heels of their third album ‘White Blood Cells”. No-one really paid that much attention until then.

Few artists have earned the term legend next to their name. George Benson has. Over a forty year career Benson has succeeded as one of the world’s greatest guitarist and traveled across the jazz, R&B and AC music genres.

In 1988, we were introduced to Joe Satriani with the summer surf instrumental of the year “Always With Me, Always With You”. Satriani, a accomplished San Francisco guitar teacher had worked with a steady stream of students including Steve Vai, Kirk Hammit and Counting Crows Dave Bryson.