Beyond Hatred / 2008 First Run Features / 85 Minutes / http://www.firstrunfeatures.com / Individuals may have seen Beyond Hared when it was first released on the arthouse / documentary circuit last year, but Olivier Meyrou (Celebration, Poisoned Ink, The Meal)’s documentary has just made it to DVD. The action in Beyond Hatred starts out after a 2002 incident in which three French skinheads, trolling for an “Arab” to beat up,…
Believe’s new album “Yesterday Is A Friend†is getting its first reviews. Below you can read a fantastic review done by Bob McBeath for one of the most important websites about progressive rock www.progarchives.com.
The fabulous itinerant mountain woman / prodigy Larkin Grimm has signed to Young God Records (who’s previous discoveries include Akron/Family, Devendra Banhart and Fire on Fire). The album is in progress and will be finished end of May. It will be released September ’08. It’s produced by Young God Records head Michael Gira and Larkin Grimm.
One of the hardest-working, coffee-fueled, howling, growling duos to come out of Vancouver, The Pack A.D., have just announced their upcoming Funeral Mixtape will be released on Mint Records on August 12, 2008. This EP proceeds their Mint debut, Tintype, and takes their blues to a grittier level.
Profane Existence #49 / $5 / 104M / http://www.profaneexistence.com /Â It has been quite a few years since I was lucky enough to come across a copy of Profane Existence (the last issue I got to review was #38). In the meantime, the issue has moved from a newspaper to a more traditional magazine style and the content has exploded into the post-100 page range. This is not just interviews…
    Cutting-edge hard rock / metal bands THE SWORD and WITCHCRAFT will join Ozzy Osbourne and Metallica amongst the live acts chosen to participate in OZZFEST 2008, set to take place on Saturday, August 9 in Dallas, TX. The dynamic, Austin, TX based band and the respected Swedish psyche-rock quartet will each bring their critically acclaimed live sets to the OZZFEST arena as part of the just-announced one-day stadium spectacular.
Brooklyn orchestral popsters, Clare & the Reasons, have a few key East Coast dates this summer. Mid June, the band will be at the Berklee Performance Center with My Brightest Diamond, after which they’ll return to New York for a Joe’s Pub Date.
Delta Spirit will showcase tunes from their debut “Ode to Sunshine†on stages across the nation this spring starting on May 17th. After opening sold-out tours for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cold War Kids, and Dr. Dog to ardent acclaim, the Southern California-based collective recently signed to famed Rounder Records and plan to release their debut album in late summer/early fall of 2008.
Philadelphia’s BRASS have officially released their new three-song EP, A SMALL BREATH, for free digital download. For more information, go here. For instant gratification, voila!
Profane Existence #48 / $5 / 104M / http://www.profaneexistence.com / Profane Existence brings forth another strong batch of interviews (this time, making sure a wide selection of global bands such as Migra Violenta and The Dagda are covered), but it is actually in their informational articles that the zine truly makes its worth known. Specifically, the exhaustive discussion of the current genocide in Sudan by Dave Trenga is of a…
Alternative rock mainstays Local H return with their seventh album on May 13, titled 12 Angry Months. The band’s debut on Shout! Factory, 12 Angry Months is Local H’s first new studio album since 2004’s Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles?
Tickle Me Pink is heading out on the road with Finch, Scary Kids Scaring Kids and Foxy Shazam 7.18 – San Diego, CA @ Soma 7.19 – Pomona, CA @ The Glasshouse 7.20 – Pomona, CA @ The Glasshouse 7.22 – St. George, UT @ The Electric Theater 7.23 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues 7.24 – Los Angeles, CA @ Key Club 7.25 – Ventura, CA @…
Paste Magazine: “If you enjoy both Yo La Tengo and My BloodyValentine, then this Brooklyn quartet is for you. Every song on the Like Bees EP delivers gorgeously in those veins.” Metromix: “Dirty on Purpose have grown into a band more likely to influence than be influenced.” Blogcritics: “Dirty on Purpose are more than what is seen and heard onthe surface. A closer listen reveals the intricacies and nuances of…
Multi-instrumental, singer-songwriter George Stanford is ready to make his full-length debut on June 3rd with Big Drop (Mercury Records)- an eleven-song pop-rock collection that harkens back to an era when musicianship and storytelling ranked supreme. While not on the road supporting such acts as Babyface, Sara Bareilles and Martin Sexton or playing events ranging from Sundance to the Green Apple Festival, Stanford made time to record a video for his…
Big Machine Records singer/songwriter Fisher Stevenson is quickly garnering the attention of country radio programmers and music fans alike with his debut single “No Tomorrow Here Tonight” from the forthcoming Nathan Chapman produced, self-titled debut album.
July 2000. 40 pages, normal size. This magazine from Minneapolis is very cool with a definite uber-political stance. In fact this magazine is so awesome that they offer free subscriptions to prisoners. http:///www.profaneexistence.com has the latest copy of the magazine in a .PDF format. Events worldwide are listed for the next few moths. A very interesting piece is one the following page, detailing the crackdown of Skuld Records, a German…
Nashville, TN – The World Famous Nashville Palace will play host to “Breakfast with the Stars†as a tribute to the late Billy & Bettie Walker. The breakfast event will take place on Wednesday, June 4 from 7 a.m. – 11 a.m. and will host musical performances starting at 8 a.m. Tickets are $25 per person and include the breakfast. In honor of the family of Bettie & Billy Walker…
Vulture’s Wisdom, Volume 1, first chapter of the trilogy, is a nod to the golden era of hip-hop and features production from The Architect “They (Souls of Mischief) were the first ‘fresh to death’ group. They were the ’93 version of me” – Kanye West
Blackmarket will release their self-titled EP on June 24, 2008 on No Office Records. Recorded with Sean Slade (Radiohead, Dinosaur Jr., Hole) and Matthew Ellard (Morhpine, Weezer, Elliott Smith), the self-titled EP captures Daryl Lamont (vocals, guitar), Langdon Chieffo (drums), Mikey Emerson (bass), and Jason Brindis (guitar, keyboards), on their journey through insightful lyrics, catchy melodies and overall brilliant musicianship.
For individuals that focus in on fighting-sports movies, TKO originally was named Urban Assault. The movie features Andre McCoy (stunt double for Lawrence Fishburne in The Matrix), Daz Crawford (Blade II, Game Over, Wentworth), and Anthony Ray Parker (The Marine, Xena, and Two-Eleven). These actors come together in a story that focuses in on an unlicensed fight tournament that is held by a crime syndicate at the bottom of a…