Southern California duo Best Coast is friends Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno. The pair met nearly a decade ago through the LA music scene and shared passions for art, food and local culture. Best Coast released their debut album Crazy for You in the summer of 2010, and the critically-acclaimed, Jon Brion-produced follow up The Only Place in the summer 2012, which placed on both Spin and Rolling Stone’s Best of Albums of…
Following the success of the inaugural edition in 2012, Dungeon Works Productions and Evenko are proud to present En Route to Heavy MTL 2013 and the selected twenty bands that will be participating from the months of January to June to win one of two opening slots at this year’s 2013 HVY MTL. Battle 4 of the BOTB will take place on Thursday, April 4th at Les Katacombes (1635 St-Laurent Blvd) with special guest judges Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed) &…
Italian thrash/melodic-death metallers Roots Of Pain sign a deal with Memorial Records for the release of their debut album entitled “Countdown To Armageddon” which will be available from april 18th on all digital stores. The first comment of the band about the new songs and the concept: “This album represents our restart point and a goal achieved with patience and dedication.The recordings brought us together even more as a band,…
Meet CHROME PONY, hailing from Nashville, Tennessee, who just came back from a successful week at SXSW. The duo have just released their debut video for “Ciggy Stardust,” on Baeble yesterday afternoon, which will surely stop you dead in your tracks. The colorful piece is intriguing, as it features brothers Kyle and Tyler Davis rocking out amongst kids on bikes, and a not-so-pleasant farmer they meet in their journey. Reminiscent…
The dearth of prom dress stores in dallas is absolutely astonishing. It is not as if the sheer amount of places are limited, but that the quality wedding dresses dallas tx stores simply do not exist. The simple fact is that marriage is quite possibly the most momentous occasion that a couple can have, and it becomes incredibly difficult to find the companies that will make one’s wishes come true.…
In response to recent criticism of U.S. EDM (Electronic Dance Music) rave-scene and Insomniac Events founder Pasquale Rotella, EDM event promoter and clothing brand INTO THE AM has released an editorial response to the industry on their blog at http://intotheam.com/content/pasquale-we-trust-how-insomniac-events-has-shaped-american-edm. INTO THE AM CLOTHING has also announced a Limited-Edition Sale of a new merch design “In Pasquale We Trust” in honor of Pasquale Rotella and Insomniac Events for their ambitious…
One of the very first things that I used my cellular phone for was to find ringtones. It was always a difficult experience to find a program that would cut up an MP3 (I always used Goldwave) and to go through the track to find precisely the right beginning and ending spot. The process meant that I would normally be spending half an hour to an hour to make one…
The 19th annual North by Northeast Music Festival is adding a little spectacle to this year’s event. Walter Sickert & The ARmy of BRoken TOys has been welcomed to the NXNE 2013 lineup, which includes The National, Buke & Gase, Iceage and hundreds more bands that will fill Toronto Jun. 12 -16. Stay tuned for more details on Walter Sickert & The ARmy of BRoken TOys‘ mind-altering showcase. Walter Sickert…
Beginning this week we will be releasing fan-only pre-sale tickets for some this summer’s North American tour dates. Watch our Facebook, Twitter & website every Tuesday as we announce new concerts as they become available. Pre-sale tickets for the following concerts will be available on Wednesday March 20, 10am local time through our website: June 20 – Midland, MI – Midland Festival June 29 – Hyannis, MA – Cape Cod…
Craze is a new pre-workout that contains inclusions that are shown to provide substantial benefits (Caffeine, Phenylethylamine) to those wishing to have additional energy whenever they step foot into their workout center. Along with a substantial dose of vitamin C, Craze contains a number of additions that separate their workout from the rest of the pack. The Citrus reticulata (Mandarin orange) extract provides additions to the digestion rate, while the…
White Woods is the alias for Julia Kugel, better known for her work as the guitarist and vocalist for Atlanta’s riotous garage rockers The Coathangers. Under her solo moniker, Kugel delivered a heartfelt blend of golden-oldies and subdued Americana with her debut single on Suicide Squeeze last year. Now Kugel is back with another two-song White Woods offering, exploring the same kind of sultry vintage sounds that made her first…
Fresh off of last September’s successful reunion tour of Spain, the Dream Syndicate will play its first North American show since 1988 at Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCa in North Adams, Massachusetts on June 22, 2013, just a few weeks after the band wraps up a nine-city tour of Europe the month before. The band’s Spanish shows last fall were named Best Live Show of the Year by…
Chicago downbeat electronic artist, Mister Lies, heads out on tour in support of his debut LP release. He will be joined by Light Asylum, Beat Culture, XXYYXX in various cities. Mowgli is out now on Lefse Records and full dates below. STREAM: “Lupine” – https://soundcloud.com/mister-lies/lupine “Hounded” – https://soundcloud.com/mister-lies/hounded “Align” – https://soundcloud.com/mister-lies/align “Dionysian” – https://soundcloud.com/mister-lies/dionysian WATCH: “Hounded” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HbILc7X0BY “Dionysian” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGR5-BNIJDs For more information, or to contact Mister Lies for interview or review purposes, please…
Leegit (aka Lee Lambert) announces the first video from his soon to be released debut album ‘I Am Leegit‘ on Smash Box Records. As you’d expect from the subject matter the promo for ‘Trippin With My Shades On’ is bedecked in vibrant colours and a sense of disorientation as Leegit struggles to come to terms with being stuck ‘at the bottom of the bottle again‘. But salvation is at hand…
With the recent exoneration of front man Randy Blythe from all charges in the Czech Republic, LAMB OF GOD announces today a tour of secondary markets May 16th through June 20th. The tour continues the support of the album Resolution and hits 30 markets not yet visited on the current album cycle. Support on all dates will be Decapitated with Terror appearing through June 10th and The Acacia Strain appearing…
LIGHT– the state-of-the-art nightclub by Cirque du Soleil and The Light Group– will open at Mandalay Bay the weekend of April 26 with headliners Nicky Romero and Axwell. On Friday, April 26, LIGHT resident DJ Nicky Romero will be joined by Clockwork and Andy Caldwell. On Saturday, April 27, Axwell will embark on his inaugural Las Vegas residency as he takes over LIGHT with Hook N Sling. Check out the…
New York Metallers PRONG have confirmed that they will be heading over to Europe this Summer. The band is scheduled to play a handful of festival dates as well as a string of headline dates. Currently, the tour is scheduled to kick off June 23rd in Clisson, France at Hellfest and will run through July 14th in Serbia at Exit Fest. More dates are expected to be announced in the…
Today Making Movies’ track “Cuna de Vida” – from the band’s brand new album A La Deriva (released March 5 and produced by Steve Berlin) – is featured on AOL Spinner’s “Song of the Day.” Download the song here. The young Kansas City- based band hits the road next week for a Spring Tour that winds through parts of the Midwest, south, and west. Making Movies’ complete list of currently…
Kaotoxin Records, in cooperation with Total Deathcore and Clawhammer PR, is proud to unleash the debut EP of France’s brutal and technical Deathcore band YEARS OF TYRANTS. Produced at the Iguana studio (Necrophagist) with Rise Of The Northstar and ex-Resistance members, Leading the Blind is a 23+ minutes long (nine tracks) showcase of, not only a high level of musicianship and technical abilities, but also songwriting skills, mixing blasting parts and…
Fat or skinny, Elvis put on one hell of a show and nowhere is there a better example of just how great he was as a performer than the Aloha From Hawaii via Satellite recorded in 1973 (ok, maybe with the exception of his 1972 Live from Madison Square Garden shows). It’s an amazing example of just how bad ass a performer he really was (for the record, despite the…