Chaos in Tejas is pleased to announce the 2nd round of artists set to take over Austin, Texas next June. The legendary d-beat Japanese band Framitd & Infest have been added, alongside New Jersey shredders Screaming Females, post-punkers Total Control, The Men, Wiccans & loads more. Look for more announcements in the upcoming weeks, including ticket info! Chaos in Tejas takes place from May 30th to June 2nd 2013. Chaos…
Mercury Nashville/19 Recordings/Interscope artist Scotty McCreery debuts at No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200, No. 2 on the Top Country Albums charts and No. 1 on the Top Seasonal Albums chart with Christmas With Scotty McCreery, selling over 40,000 albums. As the holiday season begins, this is the best-selling holiday album so far this season. “I owe it all to my fans,” said McCreery. “It’s just incredible that…
Starting out their “The Rising Horizon” with a track that recalls both The Nekromantix as well as 45 Grave, the end results of this debut by The Starvation is a retro-rock song couched in the rockabilly tradition. “Purgatory” is a bizarre mashup of Billy Joel, Bright Eyes, and the “goth Elvis” vocals reminiscent of Danzig. What comes to bear throughout a great deal of the disc, and really comes…
The first effort from “Eminem Presents: The Re-Up” was a weak track from Eminem featuring Cashis. This is the second single from this album, and this will determine largely whether “The Re-Up” will be a success or just another album that will be gathering dust at music stores worldwide. The immediate thing that one will notice about “Get Low” is that the strings of the backing beat provide an…
Texas occult metal band VENOMOUS MAXIMUS will release its new album Beg Upon the Light on October 30 via Occulture Records. The award winning group recorded at Origin Sound in Houston with a head space described as “somewhere between a Alejandro Jodorowsky film and a New Orleans voodoo den.” Beg Upon the Light‘s striking cover art was designed by artist Dann Miller and builds on the band’s ever-evolving thematic that involves, among other things, magic,…
Indie pop singer/songwriter Simon Spire hits the U.S. with a new album titled Four-Letter Words out today! Spire has also released a new video for the single, “Uncomfortable,” from the forthcoming release. Originally from New Zealand, Simon Spire’s musical journey brought him to New York where he has lived for the last few years and where he ultimately wrote and recorded the new material. Four-Letter Words was produced by Rich…
This week Southern California killers NAILS will storm the West Coast on a six-city tour supporting Converge, alongside Torche and Kvelertak. The riot will originate in Seattle this Wednesday and spread through Portland, San Francisco, Pomona and Los Angeles before burning down Mesa, Arizona on October 30th. NAILS will drop a new 7” via Southern Lord at the turn of the year. The Obscene Humanity 7” captures three…
The cover of “Centuries Before Love and War” seems very organic and natural, but the first track on the disc, “Centuries” seems to have all the electronic accouterments of a Fischerspooner coupled with a tender bit of indie rock that is comparable to the releases of Bright Eyes. The guitar work is intense during “Movies of Antarctica”, which allows Stars of Track and Field to add to their overall…
Los Angeles (October 22, 2012) – Gerardo Ortiz, The King of the Corrido, is racking up honors and triumphs faster than we can announce them… Once again he leaves us breathless with his extraordinary accomplishments. First, on October 18, he dominated the Billboard Mexican Music Awards, winning in no fewer than 7 of the 11 categories in which he was nominated. This young singer-songwriter won in the following…
Atlas B Salvesen is a folk singer at heart and a philosopher of his own head. Born and raised in the Midwestern field state of Iowa, USA there is a ghostly sense of isolation and alienation that permeates his music. He is a lyrically minded songwriter with a scattershot focus that sees him contemplate such divergent subjects as war, love, apocalypse, self-destruction and religion; sometimes in the same song. His…
The hard edge of Stars Are Falling look more to a classic metal sound than to any hardcore style that might be the darling of the day. Saying that, the music that Stars Are Falling place on “The Consequence of Revenge” will undoubtedly be able to stand the test of time much better than anything else released this year. While the heaviness of the music here may not be…
Texas Is Funny Records (Heat Dust, Pillow Talk, Yes Inferno) is excited to welcome Diving and Sixteen to its growing roster of bands. At the end of the year, the San Antonio-based label will issue a split CDEP featuring three new songs from both outfits. Austin, TX’s Diving formed in late 2009 and released its debut EP, Places And The Objects You Find There, in December of 2010. Like emo…
Stars and Stripes is one of my all time favorite oi bands. I understand that they are sort of a joke band in the sense that they make fun of a lot of the problematic oi constructs, but I’ll be damned if they don’t do it in a way that only acts like Hard Skin can even begin to approximate. The first album that Stars and Stripes cut (“Shaved…
You Know I’m Gonna Miss You is the latest track released by 7 Horses, and it showcases an act that can create an effort that is far beyond their constituent parts. The track begins with a lively arrangement that resounds in listener’s hearts and minds long after the track ceases. I feel that the bass is a hidden treasure here, as it provides the perfect counter-point to the vocals…
Chicago’s epic doom metal act EARTHEN GRAVE announces that the band has parted ways with longtime drummer Scott Davidson. Davidson played on the group’s 2009 Dismal Times debut EP and recently-released full-length album Earthen Grave. The band issued a collective statement this week: “We wish Scott all the best with his many other projects including his long time running Chicago’s Rebel Radio, his Sabbath/Dio tribute band Heaven & Hell Chicago…
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“Pumpkin” has a “Midnite Vultures” feel to it, making this introduction to “Drowaton” interesting to say the least. “Torts” continues this interesting sound as it brings Starlight Mints into a carnival atmosphere, with little connecting these first two tracks. It is really only during “What’s Inside of Me?” that the band really sets down and comes with a serious approach. Mixing a Fastball style with a piano line that…
Following the recent release of their latest full-length, You’ve Been Had!, the band took a brief live hiatus. But SEIZURE CRYPT welcome the return of guitarist Bishop Nazz back to the frontlines, joining bassist Grand Mal D, drummer Douglas Williamson, and dueling vocal ninjas Mike SOS and Tom The Madness. With a local show in Whitestone this weekend, more area gigs booked for November and December, and more already in…
Starkweather is a cult band for a reason. The music that they commit to disc when “Croatoan” starts out is nothing less than furious. The track is about seven minutes long, and it shows Starkweather’s trek through a number of different genres and sounds. This means that there is a ton of death and thrash metal, but that there are breakdowns present that would make both Pantera and Black…
LA-based artist Harlan is pleased to announce his second release, the 1984 EP, which came out digitally on September 25th; the 1984 is a New video just added. This follows his previous Native Son EP which was the perfect blend of funk, soul, and R&B. Now with the release of 1984, his music has taken on a new energy. Imagine Prince meets Genesis meets Gnarls Barkley. Harlan grew up studying…