Alongside Death will be available worldwide on July 29, 2009. Featuring 8 tracks of unholiness, Alongside Death is the band’s first full-length since 1994’s The Priest Of Satan and is an attestation that pure black metal is alive, well and more abhorrent than ever! Featuring members of Tyrant, Eternal Darkness and Vinterland, the long player was recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio Beast in Sweden by Peter Bjärgö (Tyrant, Arcana,…
The intensity in which The Cringe start off “Scratch The Sruface†was really a surprise, in that there was no lead-up to the track, just Rob’s guitar leveling the audiences from the first riff. “Been Alone†is much more of the same radio-friendly type of rock that really has polluted the nation’s airwave, but done in a slightly more palatable style. There is a certain amount of musicianship that is…
Waxing Gibbous is the fifth solo album from Falkirk’s Malcolm Middleton, and early consensus says it’s his best yet. Following last year’s low-key Sleight Of Heart, this is the album Middleton was making while he took that diversion, composed from years’ worth of scribbles in notebooks, which were “chiselled and connived into being songs.†Though self-produced, the album was recorded with the help of a few friends: it features backing…
WILD YOUNG HEARTS, the long-awaited second album by effervescent UK pop trio Noisettes, which debuted at #1 on the iTunes UK album chart – will be released in the U.S.on Mercury Records in September. The new album’s hit single, “Don’t Upset the Rhythm,” was a #2 smash on the UK national chart. The follow-up single, the ’60s-tinged soul gem “Never Forget You,” is scheduled for release on both sides of…
With a hectic Devil Makes Three touring schedule and a new studio record to promote, one might wonder how Pete found the time to write solo material, assemble a band, and self-produce a record. Well, he has done it! Stepping out with a collage of musical influences, “Straight Line†is a fair bit different from his primary band but one key element remains the same- Pete Barnhards defining vocal style,…
Crime in Stereo come forth with the same type of open-air guitars that individuals have learned to expect from the band. Tracks are relatively quick, but the effect that they will have on a listener will not disappear quite as quickly. During tracks like “I’m On The Guestlist, Motherfuckerâ€, the band moves into the realm previously only traversed by acts like Rise Against. The guitars are still distinct, a hallmark…
Boys Like Girls have announced the September 8 release of Love Drunk, their highly anticipated sophomore release on Columbia Records. Produced by Brian Howes [Puddle of Mudd, Chris Cornell, Hinder] and S*A*M and Sluggo [Metro Station, Cobra Starship, Gym Class Heroes] in Vancouver and New York City, Love Drunk is the highly-anticipated follow-up to Boys Like Girls’ self-titled debut, which has been certified gold by the RIAA and sold more…
Columbia Records proudly announces the release of Love Is The Answer, the eagerly-awaited new studio album from Barbra Streisand, available everywhere on Tuesday, September 29. The first full-length collection of new studio recordings from eight-time Grammy award winner Barbra Streisand since 2005’s Guilty Pleasures, and first new Barbra Streisand album since Live In Concert 2006, Love Is The Answer presents the artist as a cabaret and jazz singer of emotional…
The clarity in which Crime In Stereo constructs their tracks on this EP is simply amazing; everything is meshed together perfectly to allow a track with a speedy tempo and hard-hitting beats the same ease of discovery as the average pop-punk sound. The speed does not slow during “I’m On The Guestlist Motherfuckerâ€, where Crime In Stereo assumes a slightly Rise Against meets Strike Anywhere type of sound. The gritty…
The premiere of the new album by the progressive rock band Believe is just around the corner. The band’s third full-length album entitled “This Bread Is Mine†will be released by Metal Mind Productions on 31st August in Europe and 6th October in USA (via MVD). Just to give you a foretaste of the new material, the band posted on their official Myspace site a full version of the title…
This fall, Curb Records will release Southern Voice, Tim McGraw’s first studio album in two and a half years. Recorded in Nashville with his longtime producer, Byron Gallimore (Faith Hill, Sugarland, Phil Vassar), Southern Voice is the follow-up to Let It Go, which debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 in April of 2007. McGraw will support his new album with an extensive tour in 2010. Lead single “It’s…
Prosthetic Records’ has signed Seattle’s Trap Them. The band’s sound combines elements of old school Swedish death metal, punk, and d-beat and takes influence from bands such as Entombed, Black Flag, Nasum and Tragedy. Trap Them has spent time on the road with Napalm Death, Disfear, Skeletonwitch, Victims, Rotten Sound, Toxic Holocaust, and Coliseum, amongst others and has appeared at Maryland Death Fest & New England Metal and Hardcore Fest.…
When it comes to musical phenomena, Abrogation is surely one of the most unique bands ever to emerge on the European melodic death metal scene. Their uncanny combination of crushing music and German lyrics caught the attention of Nuclear Blast who agreed to release one of the group’s finest albums to date – “Das Blut der Totenâ€. This exclusive re-release brings this forgotten metal gem back to glory… The band’s…
With the same sort of detached-from-punk style of Fugazi, Crain looks wistfully back at the wall of sound bands to make a track that feels fit for the Nation of Ulysses-era as much as the later-Fugazi era. The vocals on tracks like “Monkey Wrench†even incorporate a little bit of Danzig to what is already a hard-edge sound. The great thing about “Speed†is that even (almost) 15 years after…
New Starz Original Action Series ‘Spartacus: Blood and Sand,’ Coming to Premier Fan Event with Panel Discussion, Ultimate Fan Pack Giveaways, Sneak Peek and More First Look at Upcoming Official “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” iPhone/iPod Touch Game, Motion Comic San Diego, Calif. – July 23, 2009 – Fans will be able to enter the arena of the eagerly anticipated Starz original series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” at the 2009 San…
Tiny Mix Tapes “Like The Pixies, Yourself and the Air are experts at building songs around distinct guitar movements that shift seamlessly into one another on a smooth rotation. Best of all, they do it without sounding like a shallow imitation…” Punknews.org “Yourself and the Air play a surprisingly mature and thoughtful brand of indie bearing more than enough melody and wistfulness to get by.” chicago INNERVIEW “The delicious music…
The highly anticipated debut album from fun., Aim And Ignite, approaches its August 25th release date with two very exciting North American tours. Beginning August 14th in El Paso, Texas, Nate Ruess (The Format), Andrew Dost (Anathallo) and Jack Antonoff (Steel Train), who are collectively known as fun., will embark on a two-week tour with admirers, Hellogoodbye. Soon after, the carnival-pop outfit will head out on their first headlining tour…
Just seconds into Cool Device’s self-titled debut, through the blistering gnash of distorted chords, its clear front man/guitarist Jason Frederick has some demons to exercise. You can’t blame the guy; the whole reason he started Cool Devices was a reaction to news that his old Columbus, OH-based group The Means were getting back together without him. Now based in Chicago, Frederick’ new band Cool Devices manages to rip through seven…
Sandpeople, a 10-artist collective, recently hit the streets of the city they call home, Portland, Oregon, for the video shoot of their latest track “Hate Aside.” This video, a behind the scenes look at the shoot and at Sandpeople themselves, is both a serious and hilarious take on who the hip-hop group really are. From the opening cut of a dubbed Muppets movie to the group’s closing remarks, placed at…
An American Affair is set in 1963, where JFK’s affair with a CIA member’s wife is seen as nothing too far outside of the norm. A stacked cast, including Gretchen Mol (Rounders), Mark Pellegrino (National Treasure), and James Rebhorn (Cold Mountain) take up this historical piece and make each of the players living and breathing. Where there has been a number of films made in the last twenty years about…