Month: June 2010

Posted on: June 28, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Swedish Death Metal Squadron INTERMENT Post New Song

INTERMENT, the prime purveyors of putrid Swedish death metal featuring members of Demonical and the now-defunct Centinex, return with their much-anticipated and long-overdue debut full-length, Into The Crypts Of Blasphemy. Check out new track “Night Of The Undead” at the band’s official MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/intermenthorde Said the band of the song in a collective statement: “‘Night Of The Undead’ summarizes the album supremely and brings forth the dark and filthy…

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Posted on: June 28, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Michael Weston King – A New Kind of Loneliness (CD)

“Here’s The Plan” sounds as if Billy Joel dropped eir piano and decided to pick up a guitar. That is to say that Michael Weston King plays a classic brand of pop music that will have individuals singing along no matter their age or musical tastes. The opening track to “A New Kind of Loneliness” may be over five minutes but King is enough of a storyteller to keep individuals…

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Posted on: June 28, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

A-TRAK AND OBEY JOIN FORCES AGAIN TO RELEASE CD DELUXE PACK OF DIRTY SOUTH DANCE 2

DJ A-Trak and OBEY launch the official Dirty South Dance 2 Deluxe Pack, exclusive to www.obeygiant.com / www.obeyclothing.com and a handful of select shops worldwide. In addition to the mixtape’s CD release, the Dirty South Dance 2 Deluxe Pack includes a limited-edition T-Shirt and screen-printed poster featuring new visual packaging by OBEY’s Shepard Fairey. After the success of the first DSD installment in 2007 through OBEY Records, both A-Trak and…

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Posted on: June 28, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

King Elementary – Kudzu (CD)

King Elementary start off “Kudzu” with “For the Birds”, a track that shows a tremendous amount of the band’s influence coming from the psychedelic sixties (the guitar solo present on the track sound a hell of a lot like “Break On Through”). Other tracks, like “Thief of Hearts” maintains this earlier influence but really allows Morgan’s vocals to look at bands like the Von Bondies and The Strokes for form…

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Posted on: June 28, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

NeuFutur Introduces Son Lux

Classically-trained composer Son Lux (Ryan Lott) has kept busy in the wake of praise for his last album “At War With Walls & Mazes”. He just released his Weapons EP on anticon. and is working on his sophomore follow-up. Lott also recently spent a good deal of time working on the upcoming These New Puritans album arranging brass and woodwinds. In the spirit of collaboration, Son Lux has been commissioned…

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Posted on: June 28, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Jeremy Denk Appears at Three Top U.S. Festivals – Bard, Mostly Mozart, and Tanglewood – Over Just Eight Days (Aug 13-21)

Jeremy Denk’s summer reaches its acme in mid-August, when he appears at three of the season’s most prestigious U.S. festivals – Bard (Aug 13-15), Mostly Mozart (Aug 17-19), and Tanglewood (Aug 21) – to give six prominent performances in little over a week. In repertoire ranging from solo and chamber to orchestral, and from composers of the First Viennese School to those of the Second, the versatile pianist collaborates with…

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Posted on: June 28, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Cast King – Saw Mill Man (CD)

It is very rare to get a chance to hear a musician that has been working on eir skills for 65 years; the resulting music on “Saw Mill Man” has a patience inherent in it that really shows this maturity. I would say that ey sounds like Johnny Cash, even though King is six years eir senior. There is little excess to this disc; every track essentially consists of King’s…

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Posted on: June 27, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Paper Garden Records Presents: Multiverse Playground Part II @ Urban Outfitters’ Space 15 Twenty in Los Angeles, July 11th!

Featuring music from PEASANT, MIGHTY TIGER & MONSTER + live art by GREGORY SIFF “Paper Garden Records authentically releases music worthy of success based on its artistic merits, a quality rarely found in today’s music industry.” – Nate Welker, Saddle-Creek Records “Every once in a while, a label comes along that’s so good it’s untouchable in its musical discretion. Paper Garden Records is that label. With artists like Peasant, SAADI,…

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Posted on: June 27, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Kill Van Kull – Edge of Sunrise (CD)

It is very rare to see that a band has been together for such a long time. Barring the years that they were trying to get back together, Kill Van Kull has been a band since 1983. It is thus not surprising to hear such talent and ability come from each member of the band. The one thing that individuals might have worried about, the freshness of the style of…

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Posted on: June 27, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

NeuFutur Magazine Introduces Ghosts on Tape

If you live in the western hemisphere, chances are you won’t understand a single word Regina sings, and that’s okay. The Helsinki-based three-piece band sing in their native language of Finnish, lending a surreal, otherworldy quality to their distinguished blend of electronic beats, folk and world music, wild percussion, and slightly-hazy melodies. “Puutarhatrilogia” [“Garden Trilogy”], the band’s first album to be released in the states, is a delightfully trippy and…

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Posted on: June 27, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

EXMORTUS ANNOUNCES NEW LINE-UP/UNVEILS NEW SONG

After two years of relentless touring Los Angeles based neo-classical death metal unit EXMORTUS is back on the war path and getting ready to head into the studio to record a follow up to their heralded debut album In Hatred’s Flame released on Heavy Artillery Records in late 2008. Since the departure of former vocalist and guitarist Balmore earlier this year, EXMORTUS have recruited new guitarist Sean Redline while lead…

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Posted on: June 27, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Kill The Hippies – Erectospective (CD)

Kill The Hippies are the first band to ever do a reverse chronology for their complete retrospective. Most the time, individuals have to suffer through the caterwaulings of a very green band that really had no clue before getting to the gold. On both of these discs, the newest tracks open up the disc before going back into the annals of the band’s history (Kill The Hippies started in 1993).…

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Posted on: June 27, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

INTER ARMA have an extensive US tour on deck

6/30 @ The Triple – Richmond, VA – w/ MUTILATION RITES, PLAGUE THE SUFFERING 7/1 @ Slims – Raleigh, NC 7/2 @ 585 Wells St. – Atlanta, GA 7/3 @ The Junkyard – Gainesville, FL – w/ HOT GRAVES, MUTILATION RITES 7/4 @ The Brass Mug – Tampa, FL – w/ HOT GRAVES, FATAL 7/5 @ The Joint Collective – Sarasota, FL 7/6 @ Warehouse 8B – Jacksonville, FL –…

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Posted on: June 27, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

2CENTS REMAIN ON THE ROAD WITH TWO UPCOMING TOURS

Out of all the up-and-coming metal bands out there at the moment, few are as hard-working/hard-touring as 2Cents. Comprised of the brother tandem Adam (lead vocals, drums) and Dave O’Rourke (guitar, vocals), and Adair Cobley (guitar) and Jason Wendell (bass), 2Cents recently completed a tour opening for Korn, and has also played alongside such renowned acts as Five Finger Death Punch, Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage, Rise Against, Pennywise, Static X,…

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Posted on: June 27, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Killjoy Confetti – The Fun Is (CD)

It is honestly hard to really assign Killjoy Confetti with a specific style of music. Comparison between them and other diverse and experimental bands may do better justice; the band during tracks like “Excuse The Blood” really mix Nico-era Velvet Underground with Patti, using progressive, Queens of the Stone Age-type of rock to fuel the track. The challenge that Killjoy Confetti really give their listeners during the opening two salvos…

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Posted on: June 26, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

The re-issue of “Penetration”, one of the most significant albums by Controlled Bleeding, to be out in August!

Name any given musical style and there’s a 99% chance that Controlled Bleeding had already explored it. Some still call them an industrial group, which is nothing short from inappropriate. Sure, their music is strongly based on electronics and most of their works is pure cybernetic noise but this formation goes beyond industrial and beyond music itself in that matter. In 1992 the band surprised their fans, releasing “Penetration” for…

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Posted on: June 26, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Killing the Dream – In Place, Apart (CD)

Killing the Dream starts out their “In Place, Apart” with a fury that has not been heard since Strike Anywhere’s “Exit English” or “Siren Song of the Counter-Culture-era” Rise Against. In fact, lead vocalist Elijah has more than a passing similarity to Rise Against’s vocalist Tim, a comparison that only gets stronger as the disc continues to spin. What does provide a major problem at the onset of “In Place,…

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Posted on: June 26, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

“FIRST STRING ACTOR” JEFF DANIELS STRUMS HIS WAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY BEGINNING AUGUST 20th

Most widely known for his roles on screen, Jeff Daniels has garnered critical acclaim in many films including “The Purple Rose of Cairo” and “The Squid And The Whale”. On stage, he was most recently nominated for a Tony Award in the Broadway play “God of Carnage”. Now, Jeff Daniels is gaining notoriety as a musician for his unique and spontaneous one-man show which returns to the road on August…

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Posted on: June 26, 2010 Posted by: Jesse_Hayges Comments: 2

Skelanimals Dance Party: Keep The Party Alive (We Hope)…

Independent game developer, Flying Penguin, has partnered up with those cute, cuddly, and somewhat creepy critters called Skelanimals in a new rhythm based game for the iOS platform. Priced at a decent $2.99, here in the USA, this game isn’t cheap enough for an impulse by, but if you’ve got kids like I wish I did, it’s not a break the bank, pull grandpa’s gold tooth and sell it at…

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