Month: April 2009

Posted on: April 26, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

FORT WORTH BUZZ BAND THE BURNING HOTELS WRAP UP RECORDING ON THEIR FORTHCOMING RELEASE NOVELS

Fresh off winning Fort Worth Weeklies Album of the year Ft Worth buzz-band The Burning Hotels refused to slow down as the band immediately hit the studio and recorded their forthcoming 2009 release Novels currently being mixed by Mark Needham (the Killers). Primed for conquest the band has also just wrapped filming their feature role in Walden Media’s film, Bandslam, starring David Bowie and Vanessa Hudgens to be released later…

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Posted on: April 26, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

KREATOR To Kick Off North American Tour

German thrash masters Kreator, who released the critically acclaimed Hordes Of Chaos full-length earlier this year, will kick of their headlining North America tour next week with special guests Exodus, Belphegor, Warbringer and Epicurean! “We can’t wait to see all our American friends again,” said vocalist/guitarist Mille Petrozza. “It has been a long time since the last tour!” Bona fide metallers are advised not to miss this tour.

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Posted on: April 26, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Boris – Pink (CD)

The noise that Boris brings to his “Pink” is something that swaddles the music that is contained within. In a sense, the singing that begins the album in “Farewell” is fairly sedate, even though the music that surrounds it is raunchy as all get out. Tracks can be seven or eight minutes and it does not matter; Boris creates a soundscape with each of the tracks on this disc that…

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Posted on: April 26, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Video: J*DaVeY – “Slooow”

Critical Praise for J*DaVeY: “Freaking futuristic electro jazz, retro-soul bittersweetness, next-level hip-hop schematics, and punk-funk sleaze on a suavely savage double-disc debut, this Los Angeles duo specializes in baby-making music for 22nd century robots.” – Spin Magazine

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Posted on: April 25, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

‘Yesterday & Today’ is the new album from The Field released on Kompakt in May.

Stockholm’s own Axel Willner, aka The Field, joined the Cologne based Kompakt family back in 2005 with the release of his cherished 12” debut “Things Keep Falling Down”. His uncanny ability for sampling the all too familiar into something new combined with the adoration for Kompakt co-owner Wolfgang Voigt’s GAS and M:I:5 music projects from the ’90’s and the shoegaze rock of Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine brought forward a…

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Posted on: April 25, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

The Book of Lists – Red Arrows (CD)

The Book of Lists really feel as if they come out of the early-nineties alternative scene. This album starts off with “Through Stained Glass”, and it honestly feels as if Depeche Mode, The Smiths and R.E.M. sat down for a bonfire. Not quite college-rock, the lightly-tinted (with grunge) style of music that The Book of Lists play maintain a relevancy even as the tracks tend to look back. For example,…

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Posted on: April 25, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Brokencyde Reveals New Album Title and Comments On Senses Fail’s Buddy Nielson

Albuquerque, NM-based crunkcore innovators Brokencyde have announced the title for their upcoming debut, “I’m Not A Fan But The Kids Like It,” which is set for a June 16, 2009 release through BreakSilence Records. “The title of the record comes from when we performed at a show and at the end of the night the promoter said, ‘I’m not fan of your music but I guess the kids like it.’…

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Posted on: April 25, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Children Unleash “Power Spirit”

New York City’s Children are about to deliver an electric shock to the world of contemporary metal. Their debut, Hard Times Hanging At The End Of The World, ripples with speed, precision, and a visceral intensity that is seldom seen in any genre of music these days.

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Posted on: April 25, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Bolt Thrower – Those Once Loyal (CD)

Twenty years is a long time for a band. Bolt Thrower has been around 1986, and they play a classic brand of metal that meshes together growling vocals with virtuosic guitars. The tracks all hover around a manageable length (three to four minutes) and it is rare to be given anything resembling a break during “Those Once Loyal”.

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Posted on: April 25, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

New Chase Pagan “Gun and the Sword” Release

Though he’s a twenty-something year-old from the small town of Mountain Home, Arkansas, Chase Pagan’s music sounds like it grew out of a man who has soaked in the spirit of a vast array of musical eras and subcultures. His new album, Bells & Whistles, channels everything from honky-tonk theatricality to the stripped-down intimacy of a folk troubadour to the visceral nature of independent rock music. Ultimately, it’s Pagan’s unique…

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Posted on: April 24, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Art Brut Announce Amazing US June Tour, 5 NYC Dates, 5 Chicago Dates, 4 LA Dates + More Cities

“If we can’t change the world/ Let’s at least get the charts right!” Art Brut ‘Demons Out!’ Does British pop deserve Eddie Argos? A chart fixture in France, iconic in Germany (where his lyrics have been the subject of a lecture at Berlin University under the tile ‘The Depressive Dandy’), lionised by the cream of alt.America (Craig Finn and Jeffrey Lewis are fans) and a world class blogger to boot…

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Posted on: April 24, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Bold – The Search: 1985-1989 (CD)

It is immediately noticeable that Bold is an older band; the recording on the opening track “Burning Like Thieves” is slightly rough. However, the fury in which they play their music is as unadulterated and as current as a band coming out today. The mixture of punk and metal that seems to be the primary influence behind Bold’s music is exactly what “hardcore” music came from; hints of Metallica and…

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Posted on: April 24, 2009 Posted by: John B. Moore Comments: 0

Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella! (CD)

A cappella is not supposed to sound this good. The vocals-only genre exists solely for our amusement and ridicule, right? Andy, the dork from The Office was in a college a cappella group, so it’s gotta be uncool, right? Ben Folds may have finally made the oft maligned musical form hip with the release of Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella!

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Posted on: April 24, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

NUMERO GROUP TO RELEASE THE LATEST IN THEIR ECCENTRIC SOUL SERIES: SMART’S PALACE!

After exposing the world to lost gems from labels hailing from Miami to Chicago to St Louis, the newest in Numero Group’s Eccentric Soul series unearths the story of Wichita, Kansas’s only black-owned record company. Smart’s Palace tells the tale of the Smart family, whose various members owned clubs and restaurants, record imprints, were radio hosts, promoters and, perhaps most importantly, played in the bands that made up that backbone…

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Posted on: April 24, 2009 Posted by: Jay NeuFutur Comments: 0

Combier (80 Proof)

We get a ton of vodka, tequila, rum, and the like at NeuFutur HQ, but we have not received too terribly much in the way of liqueurs through the time our alcohol review section has been active. Combier is a great addition to anyone’s liquor cabinet, but it is only just now that the spirit has hit American store shelves despite being available for 175 years. The orange bouquet that…

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Posted on: April 24, 2009 Posted by: Jay NeuFutur Comments: 0

Sin City (Blu-Ray)

Sin City is a stellar film. It only makes sense that Dimension / Buena Vista would give it the treatment that it deserves, resulting in a Blu-Ray release that will have viewers in awe from start to finish. The picture itself is sharp as all get out, tying together crisp and clear audio with a video that seems to even improve on the original theatrical print. The feature presentation on…

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Posted on: April 24, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Meat Puppets Announce Spring US Tour Dates / “Sewn Together” Out Soon On Megaforce!

Everyone from Nirvana to Pavement to Stone Temple Pilots cite Meat Puppets as one of the most significant American bands. The highly influential Meat Puppets started as a punk rock band, but established their own unique style, blending punk with country and psychedelic rock. Meat Puppets later gained significant exposure when the Kirkwood brothers served as guest musicians on Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. The band’s subsequent album Too…

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Posted on: April 24, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

The Boils – Hockey Anthems (CD)

This is a six-song EP, and this is even a shorter album considering that The Boils never get above two and a half minutes on their tracks. “The Orange and the Black” is the first track on this EP, and it represents The Boils’ love for the Philadelphia Flyers. Did I say this is about hockey? Yeah. Even though hockey sucks, the music that is put out on this EP…

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