The Rebel Era is upon us: acclaimed Detroit musician GRiZ (Grant Kwiecinski) has finally unleashed his new album as a gift to his fans. Following yesterday’s premiere of album single and accompanying music video for “Hard Times” via The Fader, today the record is available to GRiZ enthusiasts for free download on his newly revamped website, MyNameIsGRiZ.com, which was also unveiled today. GRiZ’s Rebel Era will be available for purchase everywhere…
Seattle/BK rapper Aaron Cohen is kind of a lone wolf, and for good reason. He touches on some of those personal motivators on “My Mother and My Music”, from the pending mixtape Potential Fans, dropping on Decon/Mass Appeal for free in November. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rDe3nzsTXQ#t=58 http://noisey.vice.com/blog/premiere-aaron-cohen-my-mother-and-my-music
Video director Jeremiah, who has worked with Dom numerous times in the past, directed the stunning clip shot mostly in Super 8, explains of the new video “low lighting plunges Dom in a grainy darkness that pictures the entropy we face everyday in our civilized lives, and that the song indirectly evokes.” On working with Jeremiah, Dom says, “[He] was the only person who could capture the ordinary moments of…
In his ode to “Hipster Girls,” from his KILT 2 mixtape, Iamsu! addresses the girls that have the confidence and creativity to do their thang and look good doing it. “Everybody love a girl with a few goals.” Filmed partially on Haight Street in San Francisco and in Berkeley, the video director Aris Jerome takes viewers on a journey through the sun-drenched California streets showing everyday people. Backed with the chillest, grooviest, most Earl Klugh-iest beats from Trackademics, the song represents Su…
Today, Toronto’s Animal Parts revealed a second track, “Grey Owl Call, the,” from their forthcoming Six Arms To Hold You EP. Of the latest single Beats Per Minute said, “it’s the interlocking melodies between all the musicians that makes “Grey Owl Call, the” something really remarkable.” Six Arms To Hold You is the second EP of a two-part series released by Animal Parts this year, much like the preceding Other Rooms (8/19), Six Arms To Hold You will be released in…
Michigan’s hardest working rock band, POP EVIL have achieved another milestone with yet another Top 10 Active Rock single with “Deal With The Devil.” Previous top ten singles have included “Boss’s Daughter,” “Monster You Made,” “Last Man Standing” and “Trenches,” which went all the way to #1 earlier this year. This is the band’s sixth time entering the top ten on the Active Rock charts. Front man Leigh Kakaty comments…
Old-school death metal purists WARMASTER and AxisOfMetal.com have joined forces to debut a brand new track off the band’s upcoming sophomore release, The End of Humanity. Aptly titled “Barbarians,” the song delivers the sort of relentless pummel that any self-respecting battle-monger would want as the soundtrack to his next slaughter. Dead Beat Media and Slaughterhouse Records have set October 30 as the release date of The End of Humanity, the…
Astralwerks Records and deadmau5–each credited with pioneering the genre’s evolution from esoteric subculture to its undeniable place in mainstream culture today, have joined forces. Kicking off the relationship, Astralwerks will release the brand new mau5trap compilation album “We Are Friends Vol. 2” on November 12, 2013 with its pre-sale launching on October 22, 2013. In their exciting new partnership, Astralwerks will be the U.S. home to future deadmau5 artist…
Virginia troubadour Mike Aiken’s newest video, “Dance With The Wind,” premieres worldwide today on THE BOOT. Aiken was inspired to write the song when a friend asked him, “what makes a love affair last?” Mike’s 20th wedding anniversary certainly played a part in his ability to answer that question. “This one is, without a doubt, for my wife Amy,” he admits. Aiken and co-writer Tim Buppert (“She’s Sure Taking It…
This imperial IPA packs a strong alcohol percentage (9.5%) and a complexity that shows itself during all facets of the experience. The initial pour is an amber / honey with a lighter, more ethereal head. With an intial sip, hints of citrus (orange, tangerines), mango, and a hint of bitterness, the 17th Anniversary opens up to a moderated unity of hop and malt. The higher ABV provides the perfect…
NO2 Black Full Cycle is an essential supplement that will allow those that take it to have power throughout the entirety of brutal workouts, while having the pump that they require to stick with the regimen until the final rep. MRI performance starts out their NO2 Black Full Cycle with solid doses of Vitamins C (3005) and D (200%). The two layers present here (HemoCycle Brown and Beige) provide ample…
Gary Numan‘s forthcoming album Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) is premiering today via Vice’s NOISEY. The full length electro and industrial offering will be released on October 15th, stream the record five days in advance below. To pre-order on iTunes click HERE. LISTEN TO SPLINTER (SONGS FROM A BROKEN MIND) Numan is gearing up for a run of dates in the US and UK, including performances next week at iconic Los…
LOWCITYRAIN stream the entirety of their self-titled debut album on Decibel magazine’s website. Released this week in North America by PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS, LowCityRain expresses erstwhile Lantlôs mastermind Markus Siegenhort’s penchant for the music and aesthetics of the original Wave movement, interpreting the lifestyle of the 1980s in his own way. Despite his roots (and current endeavors in) extreme metal, his main inspiration therefore comes from post-punk and wave bands such…
IK Multimedia – the global leader in mobile music-creation apps and accessories – is proud to announce that iRig® BlueBoard, a groundbreaking new wireless MIDI pedalboard for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac, which gives guitarists, bassists, vocalists and keyboard players hands-free wireless control of mobile and Mac music apps, is now available from musical instrument and electronics retailers worldwide. Hands free – cable free iRig BlueBoard is the first wireless…
LIONESS is releasing two creepy new videos–and just in time for Halloween. The Kevin Hegge (She Said Boom – Fifth Column documentary)-directed video for the band’s new single, “Temptation”, premieres today (October 10th). Hegge explains that the original idea for the edgy “Temptation” short came out of a conversation he had had with Lioness frontwoman Vanessa Kathleen. He explains: “It’s a exercise in discovering the strange spot shared by pain and pleasure as a…
Cher’s latest album, Closer to the Truth, debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard charts this year, making it her highest-ranking debut as a solo artist. As part of the Sonny and Cher duo, she reached No. 2 in 1965 with Look at Us, but she had never previously surpassed No. 4 as a solo artist. Cher has announced the Dressed To Kill tour coming up in 2014 to support…
Fri 11/01 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echoplex Sat 11/02 – Tucson, AZ @ Night of the Living Fest at Old Tucson Studios Sun 11/03 – El Paso, TX @ The Lowbrow Palace Mon 11/04 – Austin, TX @ Red 7 Tues 11/05 – Dallas, TX @ Bryan Street Tavern Wed 11/06 – Oklahoma City, OK @ The Conservatory Thurs 11/07 – Memphis, TN @ Hi-Tone Fri 11/08 –…
Beach 119, the documentary short film directed by MAC Presents’ Marcie Allen and Jessica Beutler, will be screened as part of Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1 on Thursday, October 24th at Industry City in Brooklyn, NY. Beach 119 chronicles one street’s recovery while elsewhere everything is back to normal. Just 23.8 miles away from Manhattan, on Beach 119th Street in The Rockaways, neighbors joined together to deal with the…
Weathermaker Music, the label owned and operated by Maryland rockers CLUTCH (Distributed by RED) has announced the signing of the DC quartet LIONIZE. This is a big step for both the label and LIONIZE as they join forces to release the bands 5th album. LIONIZE is the first independent artist to sign with Weathermaker Music, a label that has, up until now, served as the exclusive platform for all things…
17-year-old twin sisters Anna and Sonya Kupriienko are Bloom Twins, an experimental pop duo with a smoky, soulful sound and compelling combo of pop familiarity and indie weirdness. In the dark, dreamy video for their cover of Kish Mauve’s “Fahrenheit”, Anna sings and plays the piano and Sonya jangles the tambourine with her feet. Bloom Twins just won a nod as MTV Iggy Artist of the Week by a landslide 78% competing against Hunters. The Twins are working on their debut EP of original music which…