After two magical shows in the U.S., one at a wedding chapel in Las Vegas and the second at a Cemetery in Los Angeles, Glasvegas will make a triumphant return to the states to join the Kings of Leon on their U.S. Tour for 12 dates starting September 9th in Connecticut and ending their leg on September 26th in Milwaukee. Glasvegas will also be headlining a handful of U.S. dates…
Lisa Germano has completed a new album. It’s called “Magic neighbor”. It’s in production now, and it’ll be out mid September. Lisa hid herself away for a long while, and I was beginning to despair, then suddenly this beautiful music started coming my way. I think this is one of her best albums yet. The depth of feeling in her words and singing is truly remarkable, and she never fails…
This is a brand of post-hardcore emo that comes through with a tremendous amount of energy. Mixing together A Static Lullaby with a number of acts like Between The Buried and Me, “Goodnight†comes through with churning guitars and a number of catchy vocals. Everything is ultimately transferable to mass radio, but the band is still able to put a growling, heavy sound into many of their tracks.†While a…
Sharpen your fangs, The Helsinki Vampires are back. And this time, they’re Back In Blood. THE 69 EYES return with their ninth studio album, which has been hailed a latter-day Appetite For Destruction. With blood on their hands and AC/DC on their stereo, the bloodsuckers have combined their past to focus on the future. Turning their back on the comic book glam of Angels, The Eyes have opened a heavier…
The style of music that The Class of 98 is not stuck in the brand “emo†category that seems to fit a wide array of bands well, but rather the music on tracks like “Everywhere You Go†are transcendent of little-meaning genre tags. Rather, the sedate fuzz of The Class of 98 is rock without all of the posturing and bull that has really demarcated emo from rock in the…
Starting off “Pleasure†with a guitar-led beginning that would be proper in the soundtrack for any action hero movie, Classic Case frequently inflame the senses of their listener with tremendous amounts of different sounds. The disc begins with “Modus Operandiâ€, a hard-hitting track driven by the twin assault of drums and guitar, topped off by the late-nineties alternative sound of Jared’s vocals. The follow-up track, “Down And Outâ€, restraining the…
And you thought the drugs were a problem? The success the guys in Aerosmith had in the late 70’s and again in the early/mid 90’s is matched only by their mythic reputation for hovering up mountains of blow in the 70’s and 80’s. In Hit Hard: A Story of Hitting Rock Bottom at the Top, Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer touches a little on his troubles with drugs, but spends the…
There seems to be more of a mixture of current rock with the emo sound that is prevalent; what results is a band that does not alienate a high amount of their listeners right from the start of the disc. Tracks like “Hospitalized†are high-energy romps that take some of the shrill guitar work of bands like Converge and insert them with the looking-back, hair-bandish solos of bands like Brand…
Jive Recording artists Cage the Elephant announce today that they will be joining Silversun Pickups for a string of North American dates this summer. The band has also secured key festival spots at All Points West (8/1), Lollapalooza (8/9) and Outside Lands Music Festival (8/30).
IThe tour kicks off July 2nd at a FREE Tones Of Death-sponsored [http://tonesofdeath.com] show at Fontana’s in New York City and will run through 19 cities before winding down on July 31st at the Central Illinois Metalfest in Urbana, IL. Said MASTER mainman Paul Speckmann of the tour, “I am once again looking forward to returning to my home turf and crushing along with Goreaphobia and Dreaming Dead for three…
Rosaline is a six piece melodic post hardcore band from Chicago, IL that began playing shows in early 2004. After independently releasing their debut full length album “We’re all Just Passing Through” in 2005, Rosaline continued to emerge around the Midwest as one of it’s premier acts, capturing attention with aggressive, sincere and flowing music. A melodic ambient backbone combined with honest emotional intensity create the unique sound that defines…
On their second full length, Florida’s Clock Hands Strangle still manages to keep the sound indefinable. Compared to everyone from the Meat Puppets to Death Cab for Cutie, the songs swirl from influence to influence, many times within the same track. The result is not bad, just not terribly original either, sounding a bit like an MP3 player stuck on shuffle. When focused, on tracks like the more rock-oriented “As…
Breast Implants are increasingly getting more common in all fifty states. Where they used to be some of the most uncommon types of cosmetic surgery out there, it seems to me that most individuals know one of their friends or family that have gotten the procedure done. After some problems were ironed out in the eighties and early nineties, the safety of this procedure is without comparison.
Odium have announced the dates for their upcoming East Coast tour with Aquila. The tour comes in support of their recently released debut album, “At The Bottom”, produced by Greg Dawson (The End, Moneen, Starring Janet Leigh) and released on Year of the Sun Records. Fans can sample tracks from Odium’s debut online at www.MySpace.com/OdiumMusic “We’re all really excited to be hitting the East Coast in support of this album…
Classical Ass if an odd band to categorize. Think equal parts Trans-Siberian Orchestra, They Might Be Giants, Anal Cunt, and Fu Manchu and one might have a little of an idea about their general sound. Each track has about the length of an Anal Cunt track and the same general subject-matter (You Make Me Wish I Was Deaf), but the arrangements have more of a White Stripes/Hives type feel. There…
Critical Praise for Pseudo Slang: “Pseudo Slang make the thinking fan’s kind of hip-hop.” – Chicago Sun Times The Song: Pseudo Slang’s “Chill Out $” is a track that lives up to its title, both lyrically and musically. Tone Atlas, the production half of PS, has created a beat charged with soothing and transient electronic jazz chords, rhythmically supported by crackling vintage drums. Over this Emcee Sick, along with guest…
Critical Praise for Del: “…Del’s reputation has remained strong in both fan and critic circles.” – Thrasher Magazine “The Homosapien is one hell of an entertaining MC” – YRB The Song: Del the Funky Homosapien’s recently released, entirely free new album, Funk Man (The Stimulus Package), covers a wide range of issues affecting the world right now. That’s not all it covers though, as “King Of Fighters” finds Del asserting…
This is a single that is attempting to raise money for Katrina victims. This means that you should throw them some money, even if the music captured on the disc is atrocious. Let me say, this music is only going to be impressive and salient to a very small segment of the population. This is not because it is bad or anything, but that it is done is a classic…
California black metallers LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH were recently invited to take part in the soundtrack to Undead Knights, a new PlayStation game from leading video game/publisher TECMO. The game was unveiled earlier this month at the illustrious E3 Expo — the Electronic Entertainment Expo — an annual trade show for the computer and video games industry. In Undead Knights, the player is the anti-hero, battling the wrath of fearless…
LA-based, piano-led pop/rock phenomenon JACK’S MANNEQUIN has confirmed a date on Jimmy Kimmel Live on July 30th. An intimate “studio stage” performance will air that evening on ABC TV. Check local listings for details. “Swim” will be the new single from THE GLASS PASSENGER album and is currently making quite an impact at Hot AC radio. A new video for the track was filmed last week and directed by Steven…