Chrome Canyon has done a rework of Universal Robot Band’s classic 1982 disco-funk club anthem, “Barely Breaking Even.” You can stream the dance floor-ready track here. About Chrome Canyon: The future never came. The year 2000 arrived, a new millennium was born, and yet we were not greeted with hover-boards. Our computers did not sprout legs and profess to love us. Enter Chrome Canyon. If we can indeed recover yesterday’s…
Milwaukee-based wrecking crew ENABLER have just announced a new string of North American live assaults set to run from mid-October through the first week of November. With shows booked as part of the annual CMJ conference in New York City, this year’s installment of the massive Fest, Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas, the eleventh annual incarnation of The Fest in Gainesville, Florida and more, ENABLER will share the…
BIGBANG initially kicked-off their global tour, “BIGBANG ALIVE GALAXY TOUR 2012,” in Korea in March, where they played for more than 30,000 fans, with three shows selling out instantly. They stormed Japan playing 13 sold out shows for more than 210,000 fans. They made history in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing with 3 shows and more than 32,000 tickets sold. BIGBANG Alive Galaxy World Tour 2012 has sold out in every…
Tickets to the October 27 date sold out within two hours of going on sale, while only limited tickets remain for October 26. It’s an incredible feat to fill an NBA arena two times over for a dance event, but all the more impressive when you consider that the lineup to Sensation “Innerspace” had not even been revealed…until now. New York City has a rich house and techno music history…
Volcom Clothing and the most re-freshest of all children’s shows YO GABBA GABBA!, have teamed up to create the most awesome apparel and accessories collection featuring the Yo Gabba Gabba! characters and their celebrity friends. Products designed to celebrate the Volcom and Yo Gabba Gabba ‘Happening’ showcases art by DEVO’s MARK MOTHERSBAUGH, THE FLAMING LIPS mastermind WAYNE COYNE, thee FOO FIGHTER DAVE GROHL and his daughter Violet, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE’S JON…
In support of their upcoming album Vital, Florida five-piece Anberlin has been tapped to support iconic rockers The Smashing Pumpkins for select dates in October. Beginning the jaunt on October 2 in Winnipeg, Canada, the tour will continue through October 20 in Minneapolis. Releasing their sixth album Vital on October 16th, the album is now available for pre-order with an exclusive track via iTunes. PRE ORDER: ‘VITAL’ LISTEN: ‘SELF STARTER’…
Watch the Miu Miu short film, Its Getting Late, featuring Zola Jesus performing Ixode as herself, Patricia Clarkson, Aubrey Plaza, Gemma Arterton, and Rinko Kikuchi. In the translucent LA dusk we discover four women living very different lives – a high-flying professional in her elegant glass office, a mother bathing her daughter, a chic blogger with her laptop and a film editor working with old movie clips in a screening…
Bad Books, a collaboration between Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra will release their sophomore album II on October 9th. Today Triple Crown and Favorite Gentleman Records launch a physical pre-order for the album in conjunction with the debut of the latest single off the album, “It Never Stops.” This October Bad Books will hit the road for tour dates across the United States. See below for complete list of dates. Stream/Share It…
There are a number of hydraulic power units that are available, but they are omnipresent in all sorts of different farm-based corporations. They are the reason that individuals are able to power all of the implements that they have. The sheer amount of power that these machines can put out is much more than a human or animal could put out, and are focused in to a specific area. Pretty…
Beginning today, Green Day’s forthcoming album Green Day ¡Uno! is available to stream in its entirety a week prior to it’s official release date via the band’s Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/greenday), powered by Nokia Music / AT&T. To hear the album, click on the tab that says “Hear ¡Uno! Now.” Green Day ¡Uno! is the first installment in the band’s upcoming trilogy of albums Green Day ¡Uno!,Green Day ¡Dos!, and Green Day ¡Tré! Green Day ¡Uno! will be…
Keith Williams is an artist that provides an expansive addition to jazz with each track on New Beginnings. The context in which each of these tracks exist is considerably more dense and detailed than much of the fare that is currently popular. I believe that the instrumental arrangements that are encountered during the opening of New Beginnings (in particular, the ending of Fever and the start of Cry Me a…
How Can You Help Someone With an Eating Disorder? An eating disorder is one of the most rampant problems that have been plaguing the country for quite some time now, thanks to all the fast food chains and the over hyped calorie losing regimes that do the rounds nowadays. But what can you do when you find out that one of your close ones is suffering from an eating disorder…
Aaron Embry’s debut album Tiny Prayers arrived in stores today via Community Music. Recorded at home last year, the album is a spare, captivating 10-song collection that introduces Embry – who honed his songwriting by recording and touring with artists including Elliott Smith, Willie Nelson, Daniel Lanois, and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, among many others – as a singular artist. Tiny Prayers can be streamed in full all…
Some of the largest public outrages against the police came through the tragic mishandling of events. These events, which include the fatal shooting of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in Chicago and the later bombing of MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia disproportionately involve African-Americans. This is not merely coincidence but rather shows a sad fact of policing, one that is described by “Black (1980)…[who] found that encounters between police and African…
AIMEE MANN quote: “I’ve been such a fan of Tom Scharpling and his videos and I’ve come to really trust his opinion and ideas about many, many things. When Tom and I were first talking about doing a video together, I quickly realized that I wanted to do two and not just one, and that maybe it would be slightly more cost effective to do two at once, and that…
Due to an overwhelming demand from metal fans worldwide, Grammy-nominated and Juno award-winning Banger Films is setting out to raise funds to make what has become known as “The Lost Episode” a reality. Metal Evolution: Extreme Metal “The Lost Episode” covers co-director Sam Dunn’s favorite genres: Death Metal, Black Metal and Grindcore, and he is reaching out to metal fans to help make it happen: https://vimeo.com/49472617 “Hundreds of fans have…
LA-based indie rock band Wires in the Walls is proud to announce the release of the music video for Tremolo, the first song off their debut full-length album New Symmetry. Directed by De la Vega (www.delavega.me) and produced by Cathartic Films, the video uses innovative camera placement to capture breathtaking visuals of a hoop dancer’s journey through some of the most beautiful spots in Southern California. Tremolo can be streamed…
Minneapolis-based musician Mark Mallman’s historic event, “Marathon 4: Road Rogue,” is a transcontinental, bio-generated, one-man, non-stop, seven-day, 150-plus hour music performance starting in New York on September 15th and concluding in Los Angeles on September 22nd. While traveling cross-country from New York to Los Angeles, the “Marathon 4” van will stop in the following cities to meet, greet and welcome guest musicians on board to jam with Mark Mallman: 09/15…
Melbourne, Australia’s Husky has scheduled a four-week, North American tour this October in support of their debut, Forever So, available now on Sub Pop. The tour begins October 26 in Portland, OR at the Doug Fir Lounge and will end on November 17 in Philadelphia, PA at Johnny Brenda’s. Please find a full list of tour dates below. Husky’s Forever So has seen coverage from the likes of Entertainment Weekly,RollingStone.com, Pitchfork, NPR, Paste, Pop Matters,…
Aguilera has been in the studio for the past year working on her highly anticipated 5th studio album. Working with writers and producers such as Alex Da Kid, and Sia, the album also features collaboration with CeeLo Green, Aguilera’s co-star on The Voice. ‘This album is about self-expression and freedom, “Aguilera says. “There is a lot I have gone through personally over the past few years and this record represents…