A main focus of StompTown Revival’s music ministry is about reaching non-Christians and sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ. The duo answered that call on a recent 7-day missions trip to Thailand where the band played numerous concerts in churches, nightclubs, and Buddhist schools, and where Gabe Martinez’s and Brandon Bee’s music and testimonies touched the lives of thousands and led to 20 people converting to Christianity. The Christian…
20 year-old DJ/producer THE FRIM has been extremely busy both on the road and in the studio lately. Currently deep in the midst of the colossal Firepower Tour across the U.S. with Datsik, he is set to release Bassline Skanka, his debut EP on the label of the same name, on November 20. The Vermont-based musician has been making music and toying with different genres since his early teens, but…
Angelique Sabrina, the 14 year old Bahamas native that is turning heads with her debut single and dance craze, “Pull Up,” has just premiered the official Radio Remix Video featuring professional sports’ best cheerleaders and dancers. The brand new “instant upgrade” of the song comes courtesy of Philly’s Number One DJ Ran (99 Power FM, WCW Nitro). Filmed at the Atlanta based P-R-O Convention, the clip stars Angelique performing the…
Columbus, Ohio-band Red Wanting Blue wrapped up the fall leg of its “From The Vanishing Point” tour with a sold-out show at the 1300-capacity House of Blues in Cleveland last Friday. Following a quick stop this past Sunday in West Virginia to tape an episode of NPR’s “Mountain Stage” program with Dr. Dog headlining, the band now heads to Canada for the first time for a series of shows supporting…
Steel Train is a band that seems to be a more electrified version of Vetiver, looking back to the entirety of the American music tradition, with tracks like “Road Song” looking back to both the average Country and Western band and The Beach Boys, all while infusing their own sound to the mixture. The entirety of “Prairies of the Sun” works underneath a very leisurely pace; this is not…
Grammy-Nominated Producer/DJ/Composer/Technologist BT has just released an epic 13 minute Music Video for the song “13 Angels On My Broken Windowsill” from his recent album “If The Stars Are Eternal, So Are You And I.” The sonic journey throughout the video is matched only by the powerful video featuring breakthrough timelapse footage from pioneering photographer Randy Halverson. Watch The Video on YouTube: (Don’t See The Video? View on the Web)…
With a strong dose of John Melloncamp and the raspiness of a Bob Dylan, the Steel Pier Sinners bash through this extended EP almost too quickly to affect their audience. “Essex Road” shows the ebb and flow of the band, in that the twinkling of the high hats provided by Tony flow in perfectly to Ryan’s bass and Meagan’s guitar. Not immediately able to be categorized, Steel Pier Sinners would…
I always thought that Stavesacre was a much harder band than what is found on “How To Live With A Curse”. The style is something that is a blend of Deftones and P.O.D.; Stavesacre open up this album with a radio-friendly track that echoes throughout whatever room individuals are playing the CD in. The guitar work that is present during the opening minutes of the track hides behind the…
Pretty Little Baby is more than just an album, it’s Amy Regan’s mission to reconnect with the single most important element of her music career: her art. After the release of two critically acclaimed EPs, a feature in a national commercial, and brushing shoulders with industry folk, Regan shifted her mind and creative energy to rediscover the pure motivation for creating her music. The result was an album built around one…
At A Loss Recordings confirms the pending release of the debut full-length from Columbia, South Carolina-based experimental punk squad BURNT BOOKS. Comprised of a collective of scene veterans having spent time in previous area acts including Thank God, Guyana Punchline, .fuckingcom, and Tunguska, BURNT BOOKS amalgamate their influences into a unique brew of angst-ridden, off-kilter punk mayhem. Amidst solid bursts of regional stateside touring since their mid-2011 inception, the…
Outer Osmo Ghost Mode is a fictional narrative centered around the interactions of Elda and Dell Banner, two online avatars stuck in the home map of a proto-virtual internet exploration program, Osmo. You create an avatar based on your self, and much like the program Second Life, create a ritual of activities that mirrors some idealized version of your life. Elda and Dell were created by an actual married couple…
European electro-pop duo The Green Children have recently shared the official lyric video for their latest single, “Feel the Light.” In addition to the song’s charming lyrics, the clip features illustrations and animation by Steven Bussey (Queens of the Stone Age, Sia). The track appears on their new Feel the Light EP, available now on iTunes. After meeting at Sir Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and quickly signing…
WHY? has at last unleashed their fifth long-player, a meticulous work of morbid fascination and offbeat romanticism dubbed Mumps, etc. Though there is a mysterious sickness (perhaps of the mind) that lurks about these thirteen songs, one might also imagine the title as describing the musically swole state of these three Midwestern men as they bring their sound into glisteningly buff focus. Yoni Wolf, brother Josiah and Doug McDiarmid are…
Raise Your Fist, the twelfth studio album released last week in the U.S. and Canada by reigning metal queen DORO PESCH, has debuted at #65 on the American Billboard Heatseekers chart. DORO sends a huge thank you to all her fans for making this chart entry a reality! Raise Your Fist was recorded and written in the U.S., Germany, and Scandinavia and features musical guests Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead and…
WATCH THE TRAILER: http://youtu.be/iICiUXQFXdU Eagle Rock Entertainment released Classic Albums: So, the next installment in their Classic Albums series on DVD and Blu-ray. This release tells the story behind the making of Peter Gabriel’s 1986 album So. It was his fifth solo album and the first one to have a title (all others were self-titled). The album spawned a number of hit singles on both sides of the Atlantic including “Sledgehammer,”…
There is no getting around the fact that British novelist Danny Wallace is going to be compared to Nick Hornby. A lot; which is a disservice to both writers, each talented and possessing a knack from writing sympathetic, slightly flawed character. Both write compelling fiction set around young men living in the UK and struggling to make sense of relationships with the opposite sex… wait, maybe there is a connection…
In anticipation of his first-ever live 23-date U.S. tour presented by HARD, Berlin‘s BOYS NOIZE shares a video which shows a glimpse of the so-called “The Trail Of Rave” currently happening in Europe. See the live video, filmed and edited by Sodakat, HERE via Vice’s Noisey. On BOYS NOIZE‘s third album OUT OF THE BLACK, released last month via his own label Boysnoize Records, Alexander Ridha returns with his most proud and critically acclaimed work to date. (download album HERE for review only). Some standout tracks…
A love for classic house music pervades Hercules And Love Affair’s party-starting DJ-Kicks mix, which includes both vintage and modern productions. Few contemporary tracks capture the essence of what made the classics so essential as well as the Love Affair’s own exclusive contribution to the mix, “Release Me.” The music video takes it one step further, giving an explicit nod to visual aesthetic associated with late night television and steamy…
Noisecreep debuted the new video today from tweaker for their song “getting through many a bad night” off their latest album call the time eternity (Metropolis Records). It can be seen at: http://www.noisecreep.com/2012/11/13/tweaker-getting-through-many-a-bad-night-video/ Born of a partnership between Grammy-winning songwriter, composer, drummer, producer Chris Vrenna (Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson) and programmer/guitarist Jesse Hall, Vrenna refers to tweaker as his “passion project”, explaining “I’ve been fortunate enough to have been…
Transmission Party is the brainchild of TJ Byrnes, an upstate New Yorker with a knack for writing killer indie-pop hooks. With a sound that blends the sounds of early Of Montreal twee, with the bright surf sound of The Beach Boys, Byrnes blends his influences to create a sound that is truly his own. Just releasing the debut single, “New Drug,” your ears will be getting a sugary audible treat…