Brand new Bay Area based urban/hip-hop label, MYX Music Label, is proud to announce a retail and digital distribution deal with the Rob Nonies Label Group (R.N.L.G.). KOCH Entertainment distributes R.N.L.G. throughout North America. The deal encompasses all music and DVD releases from the MYX Music Label catalog and the entertainment content of the MYX television network.
Over two years since the critically acclaimed debut Waltzing Alone hit U.S. shores, Dublin-based pop/folk duo The Guggenheim Grotto is set to release its sophomore recording, Happy The Man, January 27, 2009 on new model indie label United For Opportunity. Released digitally as an iTunes exclusive in October 2008, the album has reached No. 1 on the iTunes Folk Chart. The Guggenheim Grotto will make its way stateside to support…
Sam Moore, lead singer of legendary R&B duo Sam & Dave, was inducted last night into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in Youngstown, Ohio along with Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Journey, The Righteous Bros., Bread, The Pointer Sisters, Sly and The Family Stone and other legendary musical groups.
It’s that time of year again…. the corporate sales pitch at bargain prices, the long lines that result from it and the painfully cheerful music that becomes the soundtrack to your hell. “If only a comedy/metal band would put on a show to distract me”.
BLACK METAL CRUST PUNK: WOE Posts Brand-New DYSTOPIA Cover on Myspace Hot on the heels of misanthropic black metallers WOE’s overwhelmingly well-received debut album A Spell for the Death of Man (Stronghold Records), mainman C. Grigg has posted a viciously feral cover of crust legends DYSTOPIA’s “Anger Brought by Disease” on the band’s Myspace page. What happens when you take a song already brimming with raw power and hatred, and…
Massachusetts’ ALL THAT REMAINS has officially hit the road as direct support for the North American tour for Sweden’s In Flames. “We just showed up in Montreal today to kick off our support run with IN FLAMES!†frontmant Phil Labonte said yesterday. “I’ve never met any of the guys till today. I had the chance to talk with Daniel [Svensson, drums] and Bjorn [Gelotte, guitar] for a bit and they…
Two best friends that have lost touch and a foreigner in a strange land head into the wilderness on a hilariously harebrained expedition when WITHOUT A PADDLE: NATURE’S CALLING comes exclusively to DVD and Blu-ray from Paramount Home Entertainment on January 13, 2009.
Directed by Vern Moen, 02.08 to 06.08 is a 34 minute film about Cold War Kids and the making of Loyalty to Loyalty. The film will be featured exclusively on Youtube for one week only and is available for purchase with the deluxe edition of the Loyalty to Loyalty, available now. It’s a beautiful film which includes insight on the history of Cold War Kids, loads of behind the scenes…
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Headbangers Blog premiered today DIR EN GREY’s new video for the song “Dozing Green,” the twelfth cut from the band’s forthcoming seventh studio effort, Uroboros. The video was directed by the band’s longtime collaborator Hiroyuki Kondo and took two and a half months to create from filming to post-production. Check out the video:
Daytrotter – http://www.daytrotter.com – featured a “Daytrotter Session” with Port Angeles, Washington-based classic rock outfit The Lonely H.
Mushroomhead’s long awaited DVD Volume 2, out now on Filthy Hands/Megaforce Records hits the ground running as it debuts on Billboard DVD chart at #7. This is the highly anticipated follow-up to their 2005 DVD release Volume 1 and features 2 ½ hours of genuine pandemonium, exclusive never before seen content, live footage, videos, video commentary, behind the scenes footage and never before seen band activity.
(1)What acts would you say are your greatest influences, and how do they factor into your sound as a performer? It´s hard to say, even if look in my CD collection I get confused who I like. It really depends on what phase I was going through in my life. The last couple of years I´ve been strongly influenced by the French band Air. They speak to my soul. It´s…
The HOMETOWN THROWDOWN–Boston’s biggest party of the holiday season will be kicking off on Wednesday December 26 – December 29 at The Middle East in Boston, MA (already sold-out) and December 31 at Lupo’s in Providence, RI (tickets on sale now), featuring plastic Santas, dancing Menorahs and a holiday themed backdrop adorning the stage with hard-hitting, horn-driven, action- packed ska-punk delivered with care and conviction by the one and only…
Progressive rock band Satellite revealed the title of their forthcoming album. “Nostalgiaâ€, the follow up to the highly acclaimed album “Into The Nightâ€, will be released by Metal Mind Productions in mid March 2009. Once again, Wojtek Szadkowski and his colleagues from the legendary neo-prog-rock Collage create a genuine musical masterpiece of space, melody and beautiful sounds. More details on the new record will follow as the recording process progresses.
Debut single “Cheater Cheater†enters the top 40 at country radio Joey+Rory celebrated the successful debut of their Vanguard/Sugar Hill Records album The Life of a Song with a party Wednesday night at The Station Inn in Nashville. The album, their first, entered the charts at #10 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums Chart and #61 on the all-genre Top 200 chart. Also this week, Joey+Rory’s debut single, “Cheater Cheater,†entered…
amily Force 5’s sophomore release Dance Or Die out now on Transparent Media Group a label founded by the band, manager Chris Woltman and producer Joe Baldridge with EMI Music Marketing, came charging out of the gate with it’s funky rhythms, contagious club grooves and undeniably hooks, the invasion begun and this musical force of nature is showing no signs of slowing down.
 Britney Spears will be celebrating her twenty-seventh birthday this year with the release of her sixth studio album, Circus. The highly anticipated album set for a December 2nd release features the # 1 hit “Womanizer†as well as collaborations with Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Danja, Guy Sigsworth (Madonna, Alanis Morissette) and more. Britney recently had a triple win at this year’s MTV VMAs. This year marks the 10th anniversary of her breakthrough…
After the release of their new EP, ‘Tempted To Do Nothing,Â’ and opening shows at CMJ for The Dears, Los Angeles outfit Eulogies are ready to take their lilting California pop tunes to some non-coastal parts of the US. The band will cover some serious mileage in the next few weeks – one stint with Darker My Love, one with The Duke Spirit – so nowÂ’s your chance to catch…
The Blue Island Tribe link together a chunky bass line, sizzling horns, and a funky outlook in the creation of a ska rock hybrid that is established as an entirely new entity. This means that the Blue Island Tribe are trying to craft their own sounds rather than merely to gain success through the aping of successful bands’ sounds. This also means that tracks like “Ecstasy†are freaking amazing. No…