Vicious Tides in top#15 Rock Charts Worldwide for 8 straight weeks according to Cashbox Music Charts! Peaking at #13 According to Cashbox Rock Charts- Vicious Tides has been in the top 15 played Rock songs worldwide since it’s debut the week of 5/18/2019! We’re very fortunate to have gotten more[…]
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Slight Return’s Vicious Tides feat. Andy Vargas is now #17 on the rock charts!! Behind Slipknot, Shinedown, Godsmack, Papa Roach, Volbeat, Sum 41, Five Finger Death Punch, The Black Keys and other big names! Currently higher than Rival Sons, Greta Van Fleet, Godsmack, Disturbed, Bush, Imagine Dragons, Halestorm, Breaking Benjamin, Panic[…]
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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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This week our song “Vicious Tides” has gone up to #47 on the charts thanks to the great work of our team! Tom McDonough, Ted Mason, Bruce W Jackson, UniversalMusicGroup and our friends that have been sharing the music! Fingers crossed we can break into the top 40 #rlrecordings #mi5[…]
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Vicious Tides- feat. Andy Vargas- lead vocalist for the Santana band, legendary drummer Dennis Chambers, bass guru Tony Green and guitarist Mark Kassa hitting FM Radio Soon thanks to RL Recordings, Mi5 Recordings and Universal Music Group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FIW6IGozQA
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Had a great time at the Experience Hendrix Tour at the Fox Theater in Detroit, MI thanks to my friend Dustin Sears. Enjoyed talking to Chris Layton (Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble), Dweezil Zappa, Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne and Black Label Society), Eric Johnson, Mato Nanji (Indigenous), Johnny Lang, […]
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Had a great time at the 2019 Grammy Awards. Had a chance to network with many musicians and producers across the globe. Check out the gallery on the photos page
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Mark Kassa of Slight Return is one of the music instructors/writers for RL Recordings upcoming “Music Player Magazine”. The cover of the first issue features Twenty One Pilots. Inside there are articles, lessons, reviews and more! Thanks to Roy Oberg (galaxie videos) and Ron Palfrey (graphics) for helping put this together. Here is[…]
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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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