Houston Calls are you on the other end? If you’re looking for thoughtful lyrics, upbeat songs, and an all out dance party then when Houston Calls you should definitely listen up. Hailing out of Rockaway, New Jersey Houston Calls delivers a gem with their new disc, A Collection of Short Stories. The bands debut release on Drive Thru Records offers listeners a fun, and happy release from a world of…
The Luyas is the project of Pietro Amato, Mathieu Charbonneau, Stefan Schneider, Jessie Stein and occasionally Sarah Neufeld. The band first came together somewhat haphazardly, the initial result of which was their debut album, Faker Death, which the band released independently, and then on Canadian boutique label, You’ve Changed Records. In 2009 the band made a record with old friend and Canadian master, Jeff Mcmurrich, maker of the coolest records…
“Dancing On The Moon” is a rich entry to the world of Lisa Bell, as her vocals marry together all the strengths of artists like Sheryl Crow, Feist, and even Shania Twain. The instrumentation works nicely in the creation of compelling and alluring music, all while allowing Bell’s vocals to shine the brightest they can. “No Time” is a confident track in the sense that it clocks in at four…
Jaime Laredo, Music Director and Conductor at Vermont Symphony Orchestra, is among the two hundred and twenty-nine leaders in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sector who have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The new Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members announced today join one of the world’s most prestigious honorary societies. A center for independent policy research,…
Fox has released two modern classics on Blu-Ray for the first time: 1985’s Cocoon and 1999’s The Thomas Crown Affair. Where it will still take a number of years to transfer the contents of Fox/MGM’s library to the Blu-Ray format, releasing these two titles from different decades will hopefully garner enough sales to merit further journeys into the vaults. The Thomas Crown Affair (Blu-Ray) / 2010 Fox / 113 Minutes…
A queer Lords on Acid. Yup. Using a repetitive beat without much in the way of aural bells or whistles, Houston Bernard uses that same style (repetition) to pound eir’s first hit into your head. “Ride It Cowboy” is the Sheep on Drugs / Lords of Acid / Lolita Storm-influenced track that is probably the best known track by this rapper, “Str8 Actin’” uses the same style to pound another…
CHEAP GIRLS, Paper + Plastick’s resident power-pop trio, recently announced a month’s worth of tour dates, which include two weeks with up-and-comers The Menzingers. The band has been chugging across the country in support of their 2009 sophomore album My Roaring 20’s, the follow up to their debut, Find Me A Drink Home, which was re-pressed on Paper+ Plastick in 2009. “My Roaring 20’s… feels like a Breakfast Club for…
Cage the Elephant- Matt Shultz (vocals), Brad Shultz (guitar), Daniel Tichenor (bass), Lincoln Parish (guitar) and Jared Champion (drums) – are set to embark on a new run of U.S. spring tour dates that will take the band from coast to coast, beginning in San Antonio, TX on April 30 and wrapping in Noblesville, IN on May 29. They will be performing new songs as well as playing fan favorites…
The emotive guitar work that starts off “Arcadia” really does more to establish a voice for House on a Hill than any type of melodramatic, over the top type of warbling could do for a comparable emo band. The band seems to be influenced heavily by the mid to late nineties emo acts, taking cues from acts like Jets to Brazil and the Appleseed Cast. Nowhere on “Ladyslipper” does the…
Throughout the course of the last twenty-five or so years, Tim Allen has rapidly moved up from time as a stand-up comedian to a television and even to a silver screen star. It is thus not surprising that Allen’s next challenge would be as a director, so here we are with eir own, self-funded title Crazy on the Outside. In this film, Allen plays Tommy, an individual that was sent…
It seems as if Deadly Impact was a film that went under a great many radars when it was first released, but Fox / MGM has looked to rectify that with the release of the movie’s unrated version. In Deadly Impact, a set of hard-nosed individuals played by The Sopranos star Joe Pantoliano and Sean Patrick Flanery (from The Boondock Saints) strike out against one another. This is because Thomas…
After their very successful European tour with KAMELOT, ADAGIO are re-releasing their latest album “Archangels in Black,” initially released in February 2009, with new packaging featuring slipcase and exclusive multi-track content! The album was produced and mixed by Stéphan Forté and Kevin Codfert at Kevin’s own studio in Paris. Björn Engelmann ( RAMMSTEIN, MESHUGGAH, etc ) did the mastering at Cutting Room Studios in Sweden. All in all, “Archangels in…
New York based Clockwork Music and Paris based CO2 Activity have teamed up to bring an extraordinary event to Europe. The Just Blaze & Alchemist “Soundclash Tour” is set to hit the following cities/venues in May 2010. May 6 London, United Kingdom / East Village May 7 Bordeaux, France / BT59 May 8 Nantes, France / Jongl’Hop May 9 Amsterdam, Netherlands / Bitterzoet May 11 London, United Kingdom / East…
Columbus, Ohio progressive blackened death metal hellions LOCUSTA released their debut full-length via Kentucky-based Pragmatic Records [http://www.myspace.com/pragmaticreleases] upon an unsuspecting underground earlier this year. The 10-track, self-titled offering was recorded/engineered by Brian Simakis at Capital City Studios, mastered by Dan Randall at Mammoth Sound Mastering and features strikingly stark cover art by local artist Stefan Hoza [viewable here: http://tinyurl.com/2wonvgw]. Formed in the fall of 2006, LOCUSTA take their name from…
House of Fools plays a weird brand of emo music, where soulful vocals in a dreamy vein blend with an electronic sound scape. This is the case with the shambling “Better Part of Me”. At some points, it sounds as if there are two different songs going; luckily, House of Fools are like Bright Eyes when it comes to tying disparate elements together, and that is why the act is…
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I have been a Pet Shop Boys fan for about a decade now, and while I stick with a great many of their classic tracks, I feel that they have had a nice progression over the course of the last few years. “Pandemonium Live” is their latest effort, and it showcases the entirety of one of their storied live performances. This time out, the tapes were rolling at the O2…
An Horse just released a remix EP digitally last month, called Beds Rearranged, and they are currently on tour with Kaki King. An Horse about the “Postcards” video: “The video was done by Celeste Potter, who has done 99% of An Horse’s artwork, everything from our albums to all of our merch. We knew Celeste would come up with something amazing, so we talked to her about making a video…
Q:What’s your story? How’d you fall into music? My mom bought me a guitar with lessons for my birthday when The Beatles hit and I’ve been playing ever since. I started writing songs about a year later. I fell into music from the earliest time I can remember. I’ve been into music since birth. LOL
The original electro-funk song contains 2 additional remixes – the first by UK’s multi-award winning Breakbeat duo NAPT, and the second by Breaks producer S.T.Louder. Like many J.Viewz songs – this one also features the talented Noa Lembersky on vocals (whom can be recognized as the lead singer of J.Viewz Live and by her performance on one of their previous singles together – Smooth Criminal) This single is the second…