With Ace Enders: June 19th Vineland, NJ Hangar 84 June 20th Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Small’s Theatre June 21st Cleveland, OH Grog Shop June 23rd Pontiac, MI Pike Room June 24th Grand Rapids, MI The Mixtape June 26th Madison, WI The Loft June 27th Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen June 28th Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock Social Club With The Cab: July 5th Columbus, OH The Basement July 11th Buffalo, NY Mohawk Place…
Crews aren’t all the rage in hip-hop like they used to be, especially crews hailing from the Pacific Northwest. Sandpeople, a 10-member collective from Portland, Oregon is here to change all that with “Hate Aside,” the first official single from their nine-song EP, Long Story, Short… due out May 26 via Sandpeople Music. “Hate Aside” finds crew-members Sapient, ILLmaculate, Iame, and Ethic spitting over an infectious piano loop accompanied by…
Mixing together the guitar lines of Bryan Adams and The Cure along with the vocals of some of the best post-nu wave bands (like The Cure and Depeche Mode), Cerulean comes out of the gates quickly with “Here is Hopingâ€. Creating an innocuous rock sound, Cerulean continues to amaze – the smooth vocals of Rick provide a perfect hiding space for hard, rocking guitar lines during “Like Fading Starsâ€. Unlike…
Let the world tremble! Metal Blade Records and Slave Pit Inc. have joined forces again to announce the re-signing of the mighty GWAR…here we see Metal Blade Owner & CEO Brian Slagel and GWAR lead singer Oderus Urungus holding the carefully crafted document that spells DOOM for the human race. Untold legions of slaves are already laboring without pause to prepare the world for the first release in what shall…
mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, is heating up the stage this summer with the first-ever “mtvU Sunblock Music Festival,†a four-city Festival featuring the hottest and most buzzed about performers. Co-headliners Boys Like Girls and Gym Class Heroes, with special guests The Academy Is, The Veronicas, and NeverShoutNever! are partnering with mtvU and MTV to bring this killer musical event to MTV’s summer-themed Sunblock programming on mtvU, MTV, MTV2, MTV…
The harder instrumental opening to “Lizard In The Wires’†first track “Brothel really belies the more Radiohead/Muse/Placebo sound of the vocals. What is most exciting during the track is the nuanced sound of the arrangements; far from just using power chords, the band creates a full sound by having interesting contrasts (most interesting of which being the interplay of the deep bass and the much lighter guitar). The guitar noodling…
US DATES: Jul 1 The Basement Columbus, OH Jul 2 Schuba’s Chicago, IL Jul 3 Summerfest Milwaukee, WS Jul 10 Sticky Fingerz Little Rock, AR Jul 11 Downtown Street Festival Huntsville, AL Jul 12 Forecastle Festival Louisville, KY Jul 25 D-Fest Tulsa, OK Jul 31 Backbooth Orlando, FL
“Who’s that girl?” people have been asking ever since a vintage video of 10-year-old Justin Timberlake performing the Paula Abdul hit “Opposites Attract” with an equally young girl at a Tennessee festival surfaced on www.perezhilton.com earlier this week. That girl is Ashley Arrison, who, like her friend Timberlake, has been hiding those MC Hammer pants in a deep hole in the backyard of her childhood home. Also like Timberlake, she…
Following in the footsteps of their conceptual album “Dear Diary” from FM Static, the band has teamed up with Youth Specialties to bring a free devotional guide to youth pastors. The “Dear Diary” Bible study guide is designed as a Vacation Bible School or outreach for teens. “This is something special that has never been done on one of our records before,” shares Trevor McNevan of FM Static. “It’s a…
The guitar work that starts up the “Indicia†EP is reminiscent of late-nineties Christian rock music, in the vein of a Delirious? or even a Switchfoot. The fact is that The C Elliott Project is ready to take the radio world by storm, and as soon as they wrap up a video, they can take the video world by storm. While individuals might have a problem with how full of…
El Michels Affair’s collection of instrumental covers of fifteen Clan classics, Enter The 37th Chamber, has been helping Wu-Tang fans realize their dreams. The soulful instrumentals providefans with the chance to spit their own verses to their favorite beats, in the privacy of our own homes of course. The latest candidate for a vocal makeover, “Duel Of The Iron Mics,” is from GZA’s 1995 solo release Liquid Swords and features…
The cry of love from our Creator is evidenced all around us from starfish to stars, snow peaks to mountain streams, songs of joy from tiny winged creatures. Do we hear the cry? Do we see the art and power of God’s design? Overwhelmed and pressed and into our daily lives, we often miss the glory, the treasure, right beside us. A hot cup of coffee, the legs that move,…
Conversion from one format to another is always an interesting time, because it is very compelling to see exactly what titles make it onto the new format first. Sometimes, there are decision that will make viewers wonder, but I have to think that Fatal Attraction is one of the films that deserved to be placed on Blu-Ray relatively early in the format’s life cycle.
City of Souls is the fourth book in the Zodiac series, and the title itself shows further evolution and explication by Pettersson of eir alternate reality. The title goes by quickly, the rich prose of Pettersson going down like the sweetest drink. The story line that is weaved through this title is fleshed out but does not feel unnecessarily dragged down or wishy-washy; events, characters, and actions taken by these…
Cellador play a very clean and full-sounding brand of metal that has definitely decreased in popular since its heyday in the middle to late eighties. The style of music thatg Cellador plays during tracks like “Forever Unbound†is only paralleled by acts like Dragonforce in the current period. The guitar work is the first thing that individuals should hear in this track, with the splashy drums coming in soon after.…
Metal Mind Productions will re-release 3 more albums from the discography of the best and the most spectacular thrash metal band in Poland – Acid Drinkers. “The State of Mind Report†is their seventh studio album originally released in 1996. Titus: “It’s a report on the state of our own minds, on our changing personalities. Litza is certain about his religious beliefs, while my opinion about it is completely different. 
Like wearing a cowboy hat with a Sex Pistols t-shirt, the Von Ehrics have no problem mixing dirty country with a little punk rock. The Dallas-based trio thankfully sounds like nothing else being played right now. On Loaded, their third effort and first for Wisconsin indie Crustacean Records, the band is at their best so far in their admittedly short career. Loud, fast guitars and drums serve as the perfect…
LOWER CLASS BRATS are hitting the road with UK Punks VICE SQUAD all along the West Coast and Southwest in June. Before that gets underway, they will be doing a date with UK Oi! legends COCK SPARRER in San Antonio! the BRATS are also taking the shenanigans back to Europe for another tour. COMBAT ROCK will be releasing their upcoming 7†ep “Thoughts About You†and the new title track…
311 SUMMER UNITY TOUR: 06/16 Cleveland, OH Time Warner Amphitheatre 06/17 Columbus, OH Lifestyles Communities Pavilion 06/19 Detroit, MI Freedom Hill 06/20 Cincinatti, OH Riverbend Amphitheatre 06/21 Indianapolis, IN The Lawns 06/23 Saratoga, NY SPAC 06/24 Boston, MA Comcast Center 06/25 New York, NY Central Park Summerstage 06/27 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Art Center 06/28 Washington DC Nissan Pavilion 06/30 Philadelphia, PA Penns Landing 07/01 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless…
Three-fourths of an hour of music await the listener of “Desperate Northâ€. This ample amount of time means that Celestial can set the stage for large things, devoting the entirety of tracks like “Into This Earth of Shallow Intent†purely to set the mood for everything that ultimately follows. One just hears the tension level rise as Celestial works in repetitious ways, in the style of a more metal Vangelis.…