Featuring Snoop Dogg, Damian Marley, Buckshot, Kurupt, Too Short, Sen Dog, & Young De B-Real, a rapper of Mexican and Afro-Cuban heritage, is best known for being the lead rapper in the hip hop group Cypress Hill. Since the group’s formation in 1988, the pioneering rap-rock quartet Cypress Hill — founders B-Real, DJ Muggs, and Sen Dog, along with newest member Eric Bobo — have come a long way from…
Equal Vision Records is proud to announce the signing of Melbourne, Australia’s CLOSURE IN MOSCOW. The band – vocalist Chris DeCinque, guitarist/vocalist Mansur Zennelli, guitarist Michael Barrett, bassist Brad Kimber, and drummer Beau Fair – will be permanently relocating to the U.S. at the top of 2009 and heading straight into the studio with producer Kris Crummett (Dance Gavin Dance, Anatomy Of A Ghost, Fear Before The March of Flames)…
Parplar is the Young God debut from the fabulous, itinerant force of nature Larkin Grimm. She’s got an elemental voice that comes from somewhere under the earth. She alternately moans like a woman-in-full orgasmic release, wails like a banshee, or coos like a crazed little girl, depending on her mood. Parplar was co-produced by Michael Gira (Devendra Banhart, Akron/Family, Angels Of Light, Swans) and Larkin Grimm. It was recorded at…
Del Marquis of Scissor Sisters will be digitally releasing a series of solo EPs the first Tuesday of every month from December through April. The EPs include collaborations with Joan As Police Woman and Basement Jaxx vocalists Vula Malinga anf Sharlene Hector. The first EP, “Hothouseâ€, will be released December 2. The title track addresses how gay rights were used as a divisive tool by the Bush administration and the…
Cracked teenage geniuses I Set My Friends On Fire are heading out on their first US tour with Karate High School and You, Me & Everyone We Know.
Check out Duran Duran’s exclusive behind-the-scenes interview from Zune’s Green Room series. The Green Room series consists of video podcasts that take music fans behind-the-scenes with their favorite artists. The series gives fans access to exclusive, backstage interviews with artists such as Oasis, The Presets, and Janelle Monae. There are three total videos for Duran Duran’s Green Room interview, and they can all be downloaded for free through the Zune…
With Christmas just around the corner, Pam and Mel Tillis are happy to announce their holiday tour, “A Tillis Family Christmas.†Pam, Mel, Mel Jr, and Carrie April will spread Tillis holiday cheer with stops all across the nation as well as one performance in Canada. The tour dates are listed below.
INO Records’ Band Completes Nationwide Radio Station Visits, Fan Meet and Greet Events, Hard Rock Cafe’s Pinktoberâ„¢ event and More
Montreal’s BENEATH THE MASSACRE has debuted at number 22 on the Billboard New Artists Chart, scanning nearly 1,600 units in the first week of release for the band’s second full-length, ‘Dystopia.’ With an Oct. 28 release through Prosthetic Records, ‘Dystopia’ is the follow-up to 2007’s ‘Mechanics of Dysfunction,’ and the band recently completed several weeks of touring as part of the Cleansing The Nation Tour alongside Suicide Silence, Emmure, After…
Royce 5’9 and his M.I.C. imprint are teaming up with One Records for the release of Royce’s highly-anticipated forthcoming solo-LP Street Hop, due out in the first quarter of 2009. The album is executive produced by DJ Premier and has generated a major buzz through overwhelming critical praise.
According to ApexFollowers, Interscope Records’ very own Scooter Smiff has a brand new music video featuring Chris Brown, check out “Head Of My Class†below! Also be sure to go to Scooter’s official site to grab his embeddable widget with news updates, video content, and more. From performing at the Grammy Awards to his role on TV’s Lost and his first dramatic feature with John Malkovich, “this Scooter Smiff is…
The praise surrounding the Explorers Club’s album Freedom Wind typically references the band’s reverence for the classic summery pop sounds of the 60s and 70s and their love of timeless pop songwriting is undeniable. There are songs that would not sound out of place on oldies radio – and the band captures both the sound and spirit of an era where the radio could be relied on for great music.…
Atlus U.S.A., Inc. today announced to eager fans awaiting the release of the upcoming RPG epic Persona 4 that there will in fact be no enhanced or expanded version of the game released, as was the case with the game’s predecessor, Persona 3.
This is the latest video from Val Emmich for “Get on With It†shows off Val’s supreme sense of humor and ability to laugh at himself as he battles and obstacle course of Ninja’s, a slip n’ slide, being mauled by dodge balls, running through tires as he tries to “Get on With It.â€It’s definitely a day brightener it’ll just make you smile….and most likely laugh! Val has also recorded…
Academy Award winner actor and Grammy nominated songster Jamie Foxx will release his J Records sophomore album Intuition on December 16. The first single, “Just Like Me” featuring T.I., impacted multiple radio formats on November 10 and will be available via all digital music providers on November 11. “Just Like Me” was co-written and co-produced by The Dream and Christopher Tricky Stewart, the same duo responsible for such hit songs…
Animal Collective will be celebrating the January release of their newest album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, with a trio of US shows. The first on January 20th – the day of the album’s release – in New York City, followed by shows in Chicago and Los Angeles. All tour dates listed below.
The Parts That Showed is the sophomore album release by the Viking Moses an outfit that was initiated by Southern Missourian Brendon Massei in 2003. Their latest album was recorded on the Oldham family farm in central Kentucky by Paul Oldham (Will’s younger brother and bassist), featuring the talent of Spencer Kingman (of Spenking), John McCauley III (of Deer Tick), Cody Brant and Jacob Soto (of Flaspar) and Evelyn Weston.…
We Landed on the Moon!: John, Melissa, Josh, Jon, and Spence, recorded their self-titled debut album in 2006. The band formed after Jay Chandreskhar (Super Troopers, Beefest), asked them for a song for the soundtrack for Dukes of Hazzard. Their latest record, These Little Wars; is an album filled with beautifully intimate female vocals, whirling synthesizers stacked on interlocking guitars, danceable rhythms and wonderfully layered songwriting. In the vein of…
Boston/New York band Hooray For Earth embark an East Coast Tour this December to support their latest record Hooray For Earth, releasing January 13th on Dopamine Records. Members include singer/guitarist Noel Heroux, bassist Chris Principe, drummer Seth Kasper (also a member of Wild Light), and keyboardist/guitarist Gary Benacquista.
In November 2009, QUEENSRYCHE — Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton, Scott Rockenfield, Eddie Jackson and Mike Stone — will board the MSC Poesia to headline “ShipRocked,” an unparalleled five-day rock and roll music cruise. Departing from Fort Lauderdale, Florida on November 15th, ShipRocked will sail to Ocho Rios, Jamaica and Grand Cayman, before returning on November 20th.