Jordan Rudess has two exciting releases available now: A new solo CD and a new book. New Solo Album NOTES ON A DREAM This solo album features Jordan’s piano versions of some of Dream Theater’s favorite ballads as well as three original, progressive piano pieces. This album will be available on iTunes and CD Baby soon, but you can purchase … Read More

Head to the Roadrunner site to check out the debut of the new Dream Theater video for A Rite of Passage! Click here to see the video.

The long awaited album by Mr. Fastfinger has arrived! The album, titled “The Way of the Exploding Guitar” is now available worldwide! With some great guests including none other than Jordan Rudess (“Big Trummors”) it is a 50 minute musical adventure only for the strong at heart! For more information on the album and to order it visit the Mr. … Read More

Roadrunner Records, Dream Theater and The End Records have all teamed up to deliver some awesome pre-order deals. There are four different configuartions of the new album available including a special edition and Delux Collectors Edition Box Set. Click here for details and ordering.

RandoRadio.com is celebrating a full year of live streaming 24/7. They are really proud of the progress our live stream has made over the last 12 months and to celebrate a 3-Day Event that will feature lots of live free form broadcasts, in-studio performance and special encore presentations of past live in-studio guests will be held from Friday May 1 … Read More

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From Mike Portnoy – Originally, my intention was to record several shows and combine them to make one compilation CD/DVD release…but in reviewing the tapes, it became very obvious that the NYC and LA footage each offered very different perspectives of the shows we did…each with their own distinct personalities and both having their own charms (and flaws…). The NYC … Read More

The fine folks at DTNorway have put a new interview with Jordan up to download as a podcast! You can check it out by subscribing using the following link – http://dtnorway.com/podcast.xml In other news, RandoRadio is soon celebrating the 1 year anniversary of their live stream, and as part of it will be re-broadcasting the DEEP SPACE performance by Jordan … Read More

New York progressive metal veterans DREAM THEATER will take their PROGRESSIVE NATION tour overseas for the first time with a run through Europe and the UK throughout Sept, Oct and Nov 2009. PROGRESSIVE NATION founder and mastermind, DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy, once again hand-picked the bands based on musicianship, originality and diversity…not necessarily by popularity and marquee value. He … Read More

Progressive metal veterans DREAM THEATER have announced BLACK CLOUDS & SILVER LININGS as the title of their tenth studio album. The band commenced work on the album – their second for Roadrunner Records, following up 2007’s Systematic Chaos — in October of last year. Roadrunner will release the record on June 23. In addition to the standard version CD, the … Read More