Naughty or Nice is a solid contribution to the winter warmer format, with a good amount of sweetness and just enough spice notes to keep the beer varied throughout. The beer pours with a very dark color and a small amount of off-white head. The beer has a small amount of hop presence that provides further complexity to this effort. Naughty or Nice is able to have a lower ABV…
Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Hamish Anderson is a prolific singer, songwriter and guitar player. His self-titled debut EP is releasing today. After topping the Triple J Unearthed charts in the pop/rock category with a demo track, Hamish picked up his guitar and headed to Sydney to record a five-track EP in BJB Studio with producer Eric J. Dubowsky (Art vs. Science, Weezer, Bluejuice). The EP was engineered by Jean-Paul Fung (Birds…
Shadow Kingdom Records has given worldwide release to the double-CD reissue of PALE DIVINE’s 2007 release Cemetery Earth . The fully remastered Cemetery Earth album is contained on disc one, while disc two contains Demo 2006, as well as live and rehearsal material. Don’t miss out on this stellar release from one of traditional doom’s most underrated bands. Digital copies can be previewed and purchased atshadowkingdomrecords.bandcamp.com. Cemetery Earth is available on…
SARA ALINA has just released her new single “Die With This Life,” available now on iTunes. The Florida teen has also unveiled a new music video for the song; check it out here: http://youtu.be/bxronLw2HnM. “’Die With This Life’ is a song about living your life to the fullest and realizing that you have done everything you wanted with no regrets,” SARA explains. “I wrote this song because it inspires happiness.…
Melbourne thrash grind unit, KING PARROT, will be leveling North America on a near-six-week run of live assaults. As the tour kicks off in Ventura, California this Friday, the band will ravage their way through nearly three dozen cities including an appearance at this year’s Tone Deaf Touring Showcase at SXSW featuring Spirit Caravan, Iron Reagan, Pilgrim and more as well as two additional SXSW abrasions. The band will be…
Six is your latest album. How did the release move from initial thought to finished effort? Initially, I wanted to develop a technical and progressive musical project that was still viable enough to resonate well with a large demographic of people. I love heavy metal music, and I want the public to understand this genres sophistication. With this in mind I am discovering formulas to make my original ideas more attainable…
Nestled against the vast open expanse of Joshua Tree’s National Park, Pioneertown’s Pappy & Harriets, is a legendary honky-tonk saloon. This April, electric pioneers Simian Mobile Disco will head into the desert for a very special show presented in conjunction with FYF and with Seattle band Earth supporting. No computers; no racks of gear; just one synth and one sequencer each, a system they have created. They will perform and…
Man Overboard’s The Heart Attack Tour, presented by Alternative Press Magazine, runs May 20 through June 21 in the U.S. and Canada and features support from Transit, Forever Came Calling and Knuckle Puck. MO guitarist Justin Collier states: “It has been a while since we have gone out on a headlining tour, but we couldn’t be more excited to hit the road and play an extended setlist of songs from…
A Fresh Bottle & A Brand New Day contains a number of distinct compositions that stand up to repeat listens. Norfolk County Jail is a track that touches upon a wide array of styles, moving effortless through punk, folk, and alt-country, as Sunshine Riot is able to immediately impress listeners. Natural Causes is a soft and sedate sound that gradually picks up steam. The guitar and bass dynamic that is…
Only out a week, the first release in Fred Armisen’s Hometown Heroes series is thus far a bonafide hit everywhere, locally at least! So let’s keep it going! For the second volume of this acclaimed series, Fred has again reached into his deep supply of locally-pressed records to present two more under-sung local heroes from the history of music, a 7″ featuring The Bjelland Brothers’ “Sparkling Apple Juice” and Taste of New York‘s “Can We…
How are all you smell-fetishists out there? How about you lovely, sensual scent-thusiasts, always ready for a new eau de parfum to call your own? We’re not talking about those of you spending random evenings wishing you were surrounded by warm, dank body odors in the dirty clothes hamper at Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy‘s house, but those of you with a nose for complexity and design in the fragrant-world surrounding you! You…
Earlier today, Bea Miller rolled out the first teaser for “Rich Kids,” kicking off a month that will see the roll out of some of the incredible music that she’s been working on for the past few months. Bea will release an EP in the Spring and full-length album later this year. More info to come on Bea Miller very soon. Check out the teaser on her Facebook page…
In honor of Record Store Day on April 19th, we’re very excited to announce that we’ll be once again pressing the two latest (and previously out of print) SICK OF IT ALL albums on limited edition colored vinyl! 2010’s ‘Based On A True Story’ LP boasts a slick gatefold jacket, with SOIA’s iconic dragon logo embossed on the front cover. Special striped vinyl on red, black, and white. 2006’s ‘Death To Tyrants’ LP features…
Alabama Shakes will play a series of U.S. headline dates this spring. The run will kick off with a two-night stand at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC (April 25 and 26). A ticket pre-sale begins this Friday, February 28, at 12:00 PM local time at http://alabamashakes.frontgatetickets.com/. Tickets go on sale to the public on this Saturday, March 1, for all dates except Washington, DC, where tickets will go on…
JOSHUA SCOTT JONES–known as one half of the country duo Steel Magnolia–has just debuted the music video for his first solo single “Honk (If You’re Tonky)” exclusively with Billboard.com. The song–which serves as an introduction to JOSHUA’s forthcoming full-length album THE HEALING due out later this year–is available now on all digital retailers, including iTunes and is being serviced to radio today (2/27). JOSHUA revealed to Billboard the inspiration behind…
The sheer amount of events that are active at any point during the Arnold Sports Festival is astonishing. Fencing, karate, and powerlifting events are putting competitors to their limits. The tens of thousands of attendees that make their way to the Greater Columbus Convention Center could take a step in any direction and be entertained, informed, amazed, or shocked. This is a world-renowned festival, an exaltation of fitness, and it will…
Ruining Lives is the follow-up to the acclaimed 2012 release Carved Into Stone and continues to show the band on an upward trajectory, proving that despite having a long, illustrious career PRONG can still make records that matter and re-invent themselves without negating their roots. With Tommy Victor in the producer’s chair and Steve Evetts (Hatebreed, Sick Of It All, Sepultura) once again coming in to put his trademark shine…
Video on Vimeo – https://vimeo.com/83274223 Video on YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDA-lzxcFyQ Track on SoundCloud – https://soundcloud.com/skating-polly/01-alabama-movies-5 “Wicked and hellacious” – Prefix “thunderous ugly pop tune kicks things up a thousand notches and thrills throughout.” – Prefix Born from an impromptu jam at a Halloween party in 2009, Skating Polly is a punk/rock/pop duo made up of stepsisters Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse. On their second album Lost Wonderfuls (produced by Exene…
Combrichrist are prepping their audience with a remix EP for the searing first single “FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS” which will be released worldwide on February 28, 2014. Featuring remixes by Ryle, NITRO/NOISE, Darksiderz, Ginger Fish (Rob Zombie, ex-Marilyn Manson) and more (full tracklisting on left), the eight-track EP also includes a non-album song, “You Belong to None”. EBM Network has premiered the “DeathElectro Remix by Ryle” and can be…
The Upslope IPA is a formidable experience. The beer pours with a small head and with a ruddy reddish-brown coloration. The initial nose of the Upslope IPA is very astringent, linking together citrus notes with hints of grass. Despite a 10% ABV, the beer goes down extraordinarily easy. There is a fairly substantial hop backbone that permeates the beer at all points. What the Upslope does is push the boundaries…