Upon returning home from wreaking havoc across European soil TOTAL CHAOS will unleash their brand new highly anticipated album Avoid All Sides to the masses on Tuesday March 11th. For just shy of two decades TOTAL CHAOS has solidified themselves as a staple at the forefront of the American punk scene with their brand of spiky, raucous punk rock. While the scene has constantly been in a state of flux,…
Go Metric #19 / $2 / 1:00 / 88M / 801 Eagles Ridge Rd, Brewster, NY 10509 /[email protected] /Â The zine provided me with some real problems when I tried to crack it open for the first time; the massive amount of windows system font-generated text really put me off. However, after the first piece (the typical letter by the editor), the quality of material really begins to take off.…
Houston’s SCALE THE SUMMIT have confirmed plans to tour from late this month into late March across the southern and eastern United States, playing with a handful of different bands along the way, including several shows with God Is An Astronaut and an appearance by the instrumental quartet at Austin, Texas’ South By Southwest music festival on March 14.
Paul McCartney – Ecce Cor Meum / 2008 EMI Classics / 67 Minutes / http://www.paulmccartney.com / http://www.emiclassics.com / This DVD features material about “Ecce Cor Meum†(Behold My Heart), McCartney’s fourth classically-oriented CD. For those individuals that are not familiar with what “Ecce Cor Meum†entailed, it is a composition, specifically an oratorio in four movements, that is sang in both Latin and English. The primary focus of this DVD…
THE SUN AND THE MOON COMPLETE SCHEDULED FOR RELAUNCH IN STORES MARCH 18th ( THE SUN, original 12-song album produced and mixed by Brendan O’Brien & THE MOON, album reimagined/re-worked by The Bravery) TV placements wild for Top 10 Modern Rock hit “Believe” and “Time Won’t Let Me Go” – on The Hills, Friday Night Lights, Grey’s Anatomy, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty, and more!
Jaded in Chicago #16 / $2.00 / 40M / http://www.jadedinchicago.com / Jaded in Chicago, PO Box 330, Western Springs, IL 60558 / Jaded in Chicago has the feel of a major-print run publication, but the writing and price of a small, intimate ‘zine. There are a large number of advertisements for this issue, and I would put the ad/material ratio at about 1:1, but the fact is the material contained…
All Together has a new release date: May 6, 2008! “Pattern Is Movement deserve your worship.” –Stereogum Boulder-based Hometapes Records will release Pattern is Movement’s fourth album, the enigmatic and astounding album, All Together on May 6, 2008. Pattern is Movement is also kicking off a few months of touring with a show with pal St. Vincent.
Raised in the nuclear wilds of a small town in Eastern Washington,Sue started playing guitar after her teenaged sister abandoned it for other pursuits ( boys). She finally decided to get serious and make a band 3 years ago…Since then -there’s been no looking back:she has been featured in the prestigous “Rockgrrl” festival, performed in NYC’s famous “Bitter End”,featured in Comcast’s Bite Of Seattle and selected to be interviewed and…
Linda Eder – Greatest Hits / 2008 Rhino / 15 Tracks / http://www.lindaeder.com / http://www.rhino.com / Linda Eder is only 47, and at this point in eir career, has 11 different albums of material. Sure, there are Christmas albums and the Greatest Hits album in the mix, but one has to marvel at the sheer amount of music that Eder has created over the years. However, I know I was…
Available from Luaka Bop May 13th 2008 Continuing the trilogy of The Plus 2’s, Moreno/Domenico/Kassin+2, Futurismo nimbly threads the lyricism and playfulness of its predecessors Music Typewriter (2001) and Sincerely Hot (2004). The +2’s arrive on the scene again, this time alongside other bands from Brazil, like Bonde de Role and CSS, all of whom demonstrate that music from other places is no longer considered outside of the mainstream. The…
