Month: February 2009

Posted on: February 23, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Great Northern Sophomore Album Coming 4/28; Hear First Single “Houses”

Great Northern (Solon Bixler, Rachel Stolte) released their atmospheric and melodic debut album, Trading Twilight For Daylight in 2007. With its catchy hooks, lush keys and breathy vocals, it was received warmly and created a solid buzz, as well as being featured in ‘Best Of 2007’ lists from Filter, Under The Radar, KCRW and Live 105.

Posted on: February 23, 2009 Posted by: Jay NeuFutur Comments: 0

Mastodon / NeuFutur.com Contest

NeuFutur Magazine, neufutur.com and Total Assault have joined forces in creating a contest to mark Mastodon’s new album, “Crack the Skye”. Mastodon will be unleashing Crack the Skye, on March 24th. To help celebrate the release, Mastodon will be giving away a new Gibson Melody Maker to one grand prize winner.

Posted on: February 23, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Backseat Driver – 5 Steps to Victory (CD)

Backseat Driver has to be the only band the Greencastle area to actually have an intelligent producer work on their tracks, as the tracks on “5 Steps to Victory”, while still replete with the noisy distortion endemic on many discs during the emo era, are very professional. While the disc begins slowly with “A Thousand Battles”, “Washington Portraits” shows a band that is much more spirited and intense, allowing the…

Posted on: February 23, 2009 Posted by: Jay NeuFutur Comments: 0

Tanteo Chocolate Tequila (80 Proof)

This tequila blanco is one of the first tequilas that I have ever tasted that has been flavored. As can be gleaned from the bottle, the varietal of Tanteo that wee are trying is the Tanteo Chocolate. The bottle itself looks hand-blown, with the label having a very homegrown quality to it. Cap it all off with a snazzy seal and a wood-topped cork, and one will be delighted if…

Posted on: February 23, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

MAEGASHIRA Release The Stark Arctic

Available now is the full-length debut from New Jersey-based doom mongrels Maegashira, The Stark Arctic. The six-track, hour-long album was recorded and mixed by Lou Gorra (Halfway To Gone) at Redline Archiving in Little Silver, NJ, and mastered by Mick Mullin (High On Fire, Zodiak, Total Fucking Destruction) and sees distribution through Connecticut’s Spare Change Records. The band had this to say: “The day we thought would never come finally…

Posted on: February 23, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

TEN OUT OF TENN COLLECTIVE CONTINUE SUCCESSFUL U.S. TOUR IN MARCH INCLUDING SXSW SHOWCASE

After two successful tours and album releases in 2008, the “ambassadors of Nashville indie-pop” (Nashville Scene), known collectively as Ten Out Of Tenn, will head West on the third leg of their U.S. tour sponsored by American Songwriter. The tour will kick off March 12 in Louisiana and take and extended stop in Austin for SXSW on March 18-21.

Posted on: February 23, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Baby Shower – Demo (CD)

“Sunset” begins with a compressed synthesizer land that seems plucked out of an early seventies movie, and goes with it, creating a Halloween-like atmosphere (like those .99 CDs at the craft stores) for the rest of the song, with its incorporation of spooky guitar lines. Reminiscent of Bauhaus with “Nosferatu”, albeit with a less impacting set of vocals (the vocals are more along the lines of a Placebo than anything),…

Posted on: February 23, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

VersaEmerge Set To Tour

Recent Fueled By Ramen edition, pop rock female-fronted VersaEmerge is setting the stage to become the breakout band that everyone will be talking about. Recently the band has been preparing for the digital release of their debut EP for Fueled By Ramen with James Paul Wisner (New Found Glory, Underoath). VersaEmerge are excited to hit the road and get their music out to people on a larger scale than ever…

Posted on: February 22, 2009 Posted by: John B. Moore Comments: 0

Frozen River (DVD)

Judging from the news coverage, you’d think Slumdog Millionaire and Benjamin Buttons were the only two movies nominated for Oscars this year. While those two movies have been sharing all the ink, thanks to genre hybrids and amazing special effects, the subtly stellar and so far grossly underrated Frozen River manages to get by solely on fantastic acting and a strong character driven storyline.

Posted on: February 22, 2009 Posted by: Jay NeuFutur Comments: 0

Zyr Vodka (80 Proof)

I know that Zyr has been in the market in selection locations around the United States for the last seven or so years, but I was not privy to it until we received a bottle for review. When one thinks of vodka, the first country that will immediately come to mind is Russia. This spirit is captured in a majestic blue-tinted glass bottle that has a smattering of Cyrillic present…

Posted on: February 22, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

LETHE Studio Update: “This Album Has Been a Long Time Coming”

Psychedelic stoner rock duo LETHE have just released an update on Mnemosyne, their upcoming debut full-length for Reptile Records. Lethe is a two-man project that was started by Dylan Desmond and Joe Proffitt of SAMOTHRACE in 2004. They enlisted a score of friends and guest musicians to aid in the completion of Mnemosyne, including contributions from John Momberg (who has played with Unwed Sailor, Kelpie, Appleseed Cast and Koufax), JC…

Posted on: February 22, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Junior Boys Set To Release New Album April 7, 2009

We’re here to tell you that Begone Dull Care, the remarkable new album from the duo of Jeremy Greenspan and Matthew Didemus, professionally known as Junior Boys, is set for release on March 24th in their native Canada, with the US to follow on April 7th. The album’s release will be preceded by its lead single, “Hazel” on 12″ and digital formats.

Posted on: February 22, 2009 Posted by: John B. Moore Comments: 1

The Tamboureens – Ladies and Gentlemen (CD)

Mining influences as varied as the Beatles (before they discovered LSD and meditation), Buddy Holly and power poppers like Milk N’ Cookies, Central Pennsylvania’s The Tamboureens sound like just about nothing being released today… and that’s a very good thing.

Posted on: February 21, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

AFAS PRODUCE NEW VIDEO FOR ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS’ NEXT SINGLE “EPILEPSY IS DANCING”

his new single “Epilepsy is Dancing”. They in turn invited painters Tino Rodriguez and Virgo Paradiso to create costumes and a mystical environment and choreographer Sean Dorsey and his dancers to bring the dream sequence to life. Antony’s artistic partner Johanna Constantine stars as herself in the role of “Deer Monster”. The video was lit and shot by the up-and-coming directors of photography, Chris Blasingame and Banker White, and produced…

Posted on: February 21, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

The Awkward Romance – To Breathe Is To Compromise (CD)

The Awkward Romance is a bizarre mixture of emo and rock that comes out not sounding like any one specific band, but showcasing different influences throughout. Taking the lead duties of vocals, the sound of “Wake Up, Wonder Twins” really begins to increase the stock of the CD, and the double-vocal assault of “Like Hypochndriacs Need Placebos” just provides another notch in the band’s belt. The music is not at…