Stabbed in Back play a brand of fast, thrashy punk that tries to sound like DRI but ultimately more updated; this is a less tongue in cheek version of Sum 41. The track “Hopeless Romantic” is a few seconds over two minutes, but the band already seems to be running into a problem of not having enough in the way of material to fill their tracks. The track does…
Addicted to punishing their audiences in-person, road warriors XIBALBA’s latest trek is underway tonight in Pensacola, Florida. Following a slew of seemingly endless tour dates this year, including the recent massive North American tour with Alpha & Omega and Power Trip, for the next three weeks SoCal hardcore outfit XIBALBA will tear through the country alongside Santa Barbara-based Harness and Long Island kingpins Backtrack. XIBALBA devastated audiences with…
I thought this was going to be much more of a jazz album than anything else. I guess that was due to the fact that SSM is an acronym much as Medeski, Martin, and Wood. Don’t be confused; when “Exit Strategy” starts out, all that one is hit with is a very noise and loud band in the rockabilly meets rock tradition. In a sense, the band reminds me…
Metal brethren, we’ll make this as quick and painless as blunt force trauma: speed metal punks MUNICIPAL WASTE have teamed up with grindcore legends NAPALM DEATH for a co-headlining North American fall tour that will make fans around the world chew their arms off in envy! Launching on October 26th in Springfield, Virginia and presented by AMP and Hails & Horns magazines, direct support on the tour will come…
HELLS HEADBANGERS announces January 22nd, 2013 as the release date for VOMITOR’s third and latest album, The Escalation. HELLS HEADBANGERS will handling the release of VOMITOR’s The Escalation in North America and South America while INVICTUS PRODUCTIONS will be handling the album’s release in Europe and the UK. Tracklisting and album cover (also attached) to follow below. Done bleeding the priest, after drinking the devil’s poison, VOMITOR increase the nuclear heat…
The Historic Jonesborough Bluegrass Series will present an award-winning night of music with Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, The Boxcars and Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road on Saturday, October 20th. Produced by Mountain Music Entertainment and nestled in Tennessee’s oldest town, the Historic Jonesborough Bluegrass Series was recently awarded the NETTA Pinnacle Award. Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice are at the top of their game with the recent honor of…
“Relocated Australians regulate crushing pop sounds.” Creative Loafing Charlotte “The music is pop and dance oriented but also hard-edged and nasty.” Philadelphia Daily Local News DEBUT FULL LENGTH ALBUM OUT CO-PRODUCED BY WAZU, KEVIN MCMAHON (TITUS ANDRONICUS, REAL ESTATE, SWANS, THE WALKMEN) AND RICK PARKER (BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, THE HANGMEN) One for fans of Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Eurythmics, NIN, Bauhaus, The XX. Never has heartbreak sounded so enticing…
The Malaco Music Group is proud to announce that both The Georgia Mass Choir’s, “I Still Have A Praise Inside Of Me” Featuring Rev. Milton Biggham & Mississippi Mass Choir’s , “Lord, You’re The Landlord” appears on the Mediabase National Gospel Chart at #21 and #28 respectfully. The Georgia Mass Choir, ‘I Still Have A Praise’ Full CD made its “Hot Shot Debut” onto the Billboard Gospel Album Charts this…
Slightly Stoopid has been riding high since their seventh studio recording, Top of the World, was released earlier this year. It entered the Billboard 200 at No. 13, Billboard‘s Independent Albums chart at No. 3, and the Rock Albums and Alternative Albums charts at a peak position of No. 4. Now, the band is pleased to announce the video for the album’s title track, which had its online debut on…
It has been about six months since I last heard SSM. SSM last time (on their self-titled full length album) was a band that had talent but did not always turn it into successes on the album. This is a six-song EP of newer tracks. The disc starts with “Put Me In”, a dance-worthy track that unfortunately has the vocals hidden to a fault behind the rest of the…
Can you introduce yourself? How long have you been active? – I’m LexRox and I’m 16 years old. I’ve been singing since I was about 3 years old, but knew I wanted to be a performer when I was 11. Ever since then I’ve been working nonstop on my music career. How does a track move from initial thought to finished effort? – For me, it starts out as just…
We’re very pleased to announce that LA’s one and only Busdriver is preparing a new album for Big Dada, to be released in the first half of next year. To mark this momentous event, we have one of the best free downloads we’ve ever offered you. Busdriver has put together a seven track EP which once again reminds us that, rather than being one of the most eccentric MCs out…
I have been lucky enough to hear of the Teen Idols before I approached this album but not lucky enough to have actually heard them. SO, I cam into this review with no pre-established notions about what either of the bands sound like. This is always a plus for me, as I do not have to go and delete any possible bias I have towards the band before I review…
Arizona sludgedemons GODHUNTER have completed the primary writing stages of their newest planet-raping audio thunder, set to be recorded and released in 2013, but have more pending matters to attend to first, as the band prepare for a few massive regional live performances this week Tonight the Tucson-based GODHUNTER will add devastating support to the Mesa, Arizona stop of the mammoth, ongoing national tour including Sourvein, Weedeater and the…
Pretty Lights – the musical vision of producer Derek Vincent Smith – will close out 2012 with four very special shows. On Friday and Saturday, December 28 and 29, Pretty Lights will play Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, VA with Bassnectar. Each artist will play both nights, with one headlining on Friday and the other headlining on Saturday. The two-night stand marks the first-ever electronic music shows at the historic venue,…
Purchasing a piano should be seen as the time when a family can be said to truly have achieved success. I believe that even beyond its desire as a status symbol, it provides a considerable amount of gravitas to wherever one is living. There is a company that can create Rebuilt Steinway, ensuring that the cost that a family will be out is considerably smaller than if they had to…
Judi’s vocals are hard to get into, being simultaneously shrill and gruff, much like Apocalipstick’s lead, Jackie. If one can imagine it, “Rock This” is an ideological, harder sequel to the soundtrack to “Josie and the Pussycats”, which actually makes sense since the individual who was mainly responsible for “Josie’s” tracks was Kay Hanley (from Letters to Cleo). “I Hate You” moves into the territory of Bitch and Animal,…
The reason Bill O’Reilly is so annoyed by comic actor Stephen Colbert is because he has managed to not only pull-off a perfect homage to the conservative blowhard, but found a way to be incredibly successful at it, with a popular talk show on Comedy Central, a DVD and a series of books. This summer Colbert and his crew even managed to make a poke fun at the absurdity of…
Split Habit is an interesting band. While the first track on “Put Your Money”, “Rebel” is a perfect bowdlerized and mollified version of the original pop-punk mold of the Ramones, “City Girl” is a dangerous mix of frat-rock and an extensive Weezer CD collection. However anemic this track is, the sheer fact is that Split Habit is able to go and make the track one that every listener of…
First off, how is there not another band so far named The Kicks? Secondly, the latest full length from The Kicks is unabashed melodic rock just begging for a stadium. The Nashville band cites everyone from Queen and Aerosmith, Springsteen and the Foo Fighters as influences, but in addition they also sound a bit like (and this in no way is intended as a slam or to be ironic)…