For Your Grammy® Consideration – “Best R&B Collaboration or Duo/Group Performance” – “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” by Tony Lindsay and MC Revolution. Papa Was a Rolling Stone – The Temptations classic Motown hit song in a reimagined modern arrangement that features a collaboration of incredible musicians including: Tony Lindsay[…]
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FYC – For Your Grammy Consideration “Best Instrumental Composition” – Peace, Love and Tranquility by Mark Kassa and Slight Return® featuring David K Mathews on Keys
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FYC – For Your Grammy® Consideration “Best Rock Performance” – Rocking in the USA by Mark Kassa and Slight Return®
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Bernard Purdie & MC Revolution The MC Revolution is a musical collaboration between two well known artists, guitarist/producer Mark Kassa and bassist/arranger Christian Fabian. Their mission is aimed at honoring the greats of our time and they have come out of the gate with a bang! They tackled one of[…]
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Taylor Swift at the 2025 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles
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𝐒𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧® 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐲 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫! 𝐒𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝟔 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝟓 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬- “𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦”, “𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠”, “𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞”, “𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞” 𝐚𝐧𝐝 “𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨”. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨[…]
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Thank you Fox 2 Detroit and Charlie Langton for the interview and feature on his show this past Sunday! We talked about the Grammy Awards, Taylor Swift, Mylie Cyrus, Billy Eilish, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Miles and more! Here is the link to the interview https://www.fox2detroit.com/video/1412987 #grammyawards #buddymiles #jimihendrix #taylorswift[…]
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Good luck to all my friends with entries for the Grammy Awards. We’ve got an uphill battle but it is an honor to be in categories alongside Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Wolfgang Van Halen, Eric Johnson, and others. #SlightReturnUSA #santana #jeffbeck #vanhalen #ericjohnson #tommcdonough
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We’re back on the Grammy Awards first round ballot for the 6th consecutive year. This time we are in the categories of “Best Rock Song” and “Best Rock Album” “Best Rock Peformance” (Gustavo Alarco feat. Slight Return) and “Best Music Video” (Slight Return feat. Gustavo Alarco”. Our version of the[…]
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Mark Kassa is featured on the cover of the Prestige Awards UK Magazine for the 2022/2023 year. The annual publication has named Slight Return® the 2022/2023 Midwest USA Band of the Year. Slight Return is, once again, on the first round Grammy Awards Ballot in multiple categories- for Best Music[…]
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Really enjoyed the 2022 Grammy Awards in Las Vegas. Met some great people including Chris Stapleton, Stewart Copeland, Ricky Kej, Lonnie Park, Kitt Wakely, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Sangeeta Kaur, and more. Saw some great performances and enjoying after parties and networking along the way and shot some promo photos with[…]
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Have a great 4th of July! A while back I was invited to play the Star Spangled Banner at Huntington Arena in Ohio. It was a privilege. Here is the clip from Fox Sports #fourthofjuly #independenceday #ohio #jimihendrix #rlrecordings #mi5 #tommcdonough #tedmason #universalmusicgroup #toledo #walleye #markkassa #slightreturn #hockey #ice
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Tri-Tone Ventures Trademark Licensing Video – Welcome to the D®,The D®,Hail the Heroes®,It’s a Detroit Thing®, It’s a D Thing, So Detroit®
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Great meeting blues icon Buddy Guy at the Recording Academy luncheon in Beverly Hills
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More new ventures! I will be writing articles, reviews and lessons for the upcoming online music publication “Music Player Magazine” (launching in early 2019) with Tom McDonough and RL Recordings. Here is a preview of my first review- “Sound House Studio” in Seattle, WA with Jack Endino Review of Soundhouse Studio-Jack Endino
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Good times at the Grammy Awards 2018 Chicago Chapter Gala at the Atelier Manarchy. Good luck to all the nominees! – Mark and Marilyn Kassa
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Mark Kassa and Howard Hertz had a great meeting at House of Representatives Congresswoman-Brenda Lawrence’s office with Mike McGuinness on #DistrictAdvocate Day on behalf of the Recording Academy to thank them for helping to pass the “Music Modernization Act” and supporting music creators. #supportmusic @RepLawrence Recording Academy / GRAMMYs Howard Hertz Slight Return USASlight Return UK Mark[…]
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Slight Return is on the Grammy Awards ballot in three categories for the song “69 Days Till Freedom” It’s a long shot to win but we’re grateful to be on the ballot. Thanks to our friends Pete Thompson Glenn Letsch and Victor Ghannam for putting their great talents on the track!
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Grateful to be selected to speak at the Recording Academy -Grammy’s-Chicago Chapter-forum at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. Tina Tchen of Buckley Sandler LLP, former chief of staff at the White House flew in from New York to conduct the event.
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The 2018 Slight Return Press Kit- w/George Clinton, Jack Endino, Billy Cox, Andy Vargas, Dennis Coffey, Davey Pattison, Tony Lindsay, Dennis Chambers, Pat Lewis, Jim Diamond. Slight Return is: Mark Kassa (guitar/vocals), Eddie Apple (bass), Ronnie Karmo (drums), Tony Mitchell (percussion/vocals)
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