SPIN has premiered the new music video for Diamond Rugs single “Blue Mountains,” which is off their self-titled debut that came out in April on Partisan Records. The video, directed by Colin Devin Moore, takes the group (featuring John McCauley & Robbie Crowell from Deer Tick, Ian St. Pé from The Black Lips, Steve Berlin from Los Lobos, Hardy Morris from Dead Confederate, and Bryan Dufresne from Six Finger Satellite)…
After nearly two years of nonstop live demolition, West Coast gore-torn death metal goliaths, EXHUMED, recently entered the studio to record to the follow-up to 2011’s All Guts, No Glory full-length. The band is currently tracking drums at Trench Studio in Corona, California with John Haddad (Hirax, Abysmal Dawn, Intronaut). Everything else will be tracked at Arcane Digital Recording in Chandler, Arizona with Ryan Butler (Misery Index, Landmine Marathon, Phobia).…
Fresh off last week’s new single “Ladies In The Back (feat. Teki Latex)”, Star Slinger is back this week with a pair of surprises for fans. First, he’s dropped his dancefloor-ready remix of Little Dragon’s recent single “Sunshine” for Absolut Blank. To celebrate the collaboration, Absolut Blank will present Little Dragon and Star Slinger performing together on Friday, October 19th in the UK. See below for details and grab tickets…
LAMB OF GOD is looking to honor the brave men and women of our United States military by incorporating soldier’s names and faces into a video presentation during their upcoming U.S. tour. If you are in the military, or have a husband, wife, brother, sister, friend or family member who has served or is actively serving, and wish to be included in this video tribute, please take a moment to…
I first was turned onto The Soviettes when their track “Paranoia! Cha-Cha-Cha” was featured on April’s Rock Against Bush compilation. Finally, we are given more than a taste from the Minneapolis act, and they do not disappoint in the least. Mixing the earliest strains of British punk with the straight-forward rock strains started in America, The Soviettes make radio-friendly tracks that are nearly impossible to ignore. Whether it is the…
Continuing on its journey through the Pacific Northwest the Spotify Bus next made its way to North Portland, during the week of MUSICFEST NW. Spotify met up with Radiation City for an intimate performance in the city’s Peninsula Park. Watch them perform “Hide From The Night” off their Cool Nightmare EP, out on Tender Loving Empire. After making their SXSW debut this March, the dream-pop quintet was deemed one of…
Piano Tuning Houston is the place that individuals should check out if they would like to purchase a piano. The sheer stock that they have at any one given time far outstrips other piano places that would be in the area, while the price range that this stock possesses is far lower than similar types of stores. I believe that the customer service that is offered on this website is…
Death metal pioneers INCANTATION have recorded an exclusive track for Decibel Magazine’s Flexi Disc series, which is available only to subscribers. For their contribution to Decibel, INCANTATION founder John McEntee dug into his vault and pulled up the tune “Degeneration,” off the self-titled 1989 demo from his pre-INCAN tech-thrash band, REVENANT. INCANTATION gave the song a proper reworking and the deathed-up, newly-recorded version of the song will appear inside the…
Man Overboard recently announce a US tour with Never Shout Never. Before that tour begins on November 20th the band will play two shows in eastern Canada in Toronto and London. Next week they head out on the road for several headline shows before starting a West Coast trek with Taking Back Sunday and a UK tour with New Found Glory. Mini Canadian Invasion 2012 Nov. 17 –…
El Ten Eleven will be kicking off their North American tour next week and are pleased to announce the acts that they will be bringing along with them. New York via Miami producer Michna will be main support for the majority of the run, performing his blend of futuristic house meets hip-hop from his new EP on Ghostly International. Fellow Ghostly act Beacon, whose slinky R&B-fueled music was described by…
Consider this Generationals’ New Orleans record. But it’s not really a “New Orleans” record. When Grant Widmer and Ted Joyner got off the road after touring for most of 2011 supporting their previous LP Actor-Caster, they decided this time they would write and record in New Orleans. “The weird thing is we always go elsewhere to make records,” Widmer said. Both grew up in the city but since they have been recording music as Generationals…
Following a short run of live dates at the close of the Summer, SONS OF TONATIUH will again bring their slow-roasted sludge sorcery to the stage as the Parade Of Sorrow Tour 2012 lives on! Set to commence October 11, 2012 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the band will drag their audio ruckus through 15 cities including a stop on the Southwest Terror Fest, a two-day auditory assault organized by Arizona sludge…
BLACK COBRA drummer Rafa Martinez was featured in a colossal piece commemorating the 50th anniversary of the James Bond franchise, published today on the National Heavy Metal sector of Examiner.com. Obviously a superfan of the entire Bond legacy, Martinez offered so much personal insight into the franchise of movies — even staging a photo shoot with help from Bay Area photographer Shannon Corr – the feature’s author Mark Morton designated…
What brought you into creating music? I grew up in a family of artists and musicians. I was always surrounded by music and art. I remember picking up a dusty, pink, acoustic guitar in my uncle’s attic and someone teaching me “Sloop John B”. I think that’s what got me started. It was a great era and I listened to bands like The Beatles, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix,…
Current members of Killswitch Engage and Shadows Fall and ex members of Overcast and Cannae have combined forces in the project DEATH RAY VISION. These veterans of the Boston metal scene play a raw brand of metallic hardcore that recaptures the energy of their old school hardcore roots infused with all they have learned and experienced as musicians over the past decade. The songs are short blasts of energy and…
Welsh rockers Future of the Left are returning to the U.S. for a nationwide fall tour in support of their new album, The Plot Against Common Sense, released earlier this summer on Xtra Mile Recordings. Kicking off October 30th in Baltimore, the 3-week run in support of Andrew Jackson Jihad will bring the band to Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Philadelphia and more. More dates will be announced soon! The Plot…
One of hard rock/heavy metal’s fastest rising new bands, Candlelight Red, have just announced tour dates with Fozzy. The band continue to inch their way towards a big breakthrough, as evidenced by their just-issued Demons EP (which was produced by Sevendust’s Morgan Rose). They’ve also just unveiled a new, striking video for the title track, which has been hitting hard and climbing the charts at active rock radio. In August…
Whenever I go to the gym, there are a number of individuals that have a gallon of water and nothing else. It is important to be properly hydrated during a workout, but the human body excretes salts and other minerals that are desperately needed. When one is drinking only water, they are left with a mineral imbalance. This wreaks havoc on bodies and forces individuals to achieve smaller gains than…
Helsinki vampire/goth rock outfit, The 69 Eyes, has joined the popular Mobile Backstage community where fans will be able to easily access new content (whether it be video, audio, text or photo) from the band. Fans can also create their own content to share and connect with one another. Visit the Mobile Backstage landing page: http://bit.ly/QG74xY to join the community via Facebook or the official iOS & Android apps. Commented…
Heart of Hearts has an exclusive unreleased track “Fortunate Jim” on the just Bleek Records compilation. Download it for free here. Stream it here. Heart Of Hearts is the solo work of Greg Hatem. The Baltimore-based project began recording in 2010 in a residential warehouse space onto a dusty old 8-track tape machine. Two years later, Hatem has traded in his worn tape heads for shiny new digits to produce…