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.
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.
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 Victoryâ€, 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 Battlesâ€, “Washington Portraits†shows a band that is much more spirited and intense, allowing the…
Hit The Lights new video for “Drop The Girl” debuts on MTV.com and can be seen here: http://www.mtv.com/videos/hit-the-lights/332348/drop-the-girl.jhtml
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…
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…
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.
“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 “Nosferatuâ€, albeit with a less impacting set of vocals (the vocals are more along the lines of a Placebo than anything),…
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…
Yuill, who imaginatively creates indie folk tunes with electronic elements, is quickly becoming an influential part of London’s popular “folktronica” scene. His full-length North American debut, TURNING DOWN WATER FOR AIR, will be released this Spring.
Hit The Lights new video for “Drop The Girl” debuts today on MTV.com and can be seen here: http://www.mtv.com/videos/hit-the-lights/332348/drop-the-girl.jhtml
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.
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…
CORMORANT bassist/vocalist Arthur von Nagel checked in this weekend with a quick update from the studio. The band has decided to enlist Justin Weis at Trakworx Studios (who has worked with Hammers of Misfortune, Ludicra, Slough Feg, and hundreds of others) to mix their upcoming full-length.
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…
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.
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.
South Philadelphia vegan straight edge natives KINGDOM are set to release their new album “The Rage That Guides†on March 31st, 2009 through Eulogy Recordings. This album was recorded by Drew Faulk In December 2008. They are currently on tour in Europe with Bishop and have plans to tour the U.S. this spring.
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…
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…