Summer is here and U.S. music fans are getting an early taste of Vacation, the debut album from Australia’s Big Scary via the debut single Falling Away. In addition to offering the album version and Jacques Renault remix of the track as a free downloads, Big Scary are also releasing a new video for Falling Away by acclaimed director Daniel Cummings of Picture Machine Productions (behind the videos for Bon…
Heartless Bastards have confirmed a run of September tour dates, in addition to their previously announced summer tour. The 8-date tour, in support of the band’s recently released record Arrow, (Partisan Records), begins at Thirsty Hippo in Hattiesburg, MS on September 5th and culminates on September 15th at Santa Fe, NM’s Railyard Plaza. The tour includes stops in major Southeast and Midwest cities, including Kansas City, Louisville, and St. Louis.…
ODDLAND has teamed up with Heavy Blog is Heavy.com to premiere the music video for “In The Eyes Of The Mourning.” The video clip was shot earlier in May by visual artist Santeri Ojanen, who is also the brother of ODDLAND’s singer/guitarist Sakari. This intriguing, eerie video is for the lead track from ODDLAND’s debut album The Treachery Of Senses, released on May 8th. The band has checked in…
On Buffalo Killers‘ fourth full-length effort Dig. Sow. Love. Grow. the Ohio-based trio have created an album that stampedes with the ferocity of their first two albums (the Dan Auerbach-produced Let It Ride from 2008 and their self-titled debut from two years prior), yet it also incorporates much of the loose, organic nature from last year’s highly-praised album 3. Dig. Sow. Love. Grow. is a heady synthesis of not only…
Commando is the band’s stand out track and is one that will be garnering significant play as listeners find out about it. Far In Between is a track that ties together bits and pieces of a wide array of musical genres. Hints of Weezer, early emotive rock, and punk all unite during this introductory track. Sprinkle a little bit of Psychedelic Furs on the resultant mixture and one will have…
Teams, the musical project of 22-year-old multi-instrumentalist Sean Bowie, draws inspiration from blissful tunes of days past. Inspired by the 70’s and 80’s the LA-based producer weaves chillwave and R&B to create addictive electronic dance music. Today, White Iris Records releases Teams 7″ Love Distance / Glow Fam. The A-side “Love Distance”, penned in a mansion in Venice Beach, is a breezy electro number. Conversely, the B-side “Glow Fam”, which…
Sir Andrew Davis, music director and principal conductor of the world-renowned Lyric Opera of Chicago, will add the post of chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to his considerable credits, beginning in January 2013. The appointment was formally announced on Monday in Australia, and his initial contract in Melbourne is for four years. Davis’s contract with Lyric Opera of Chicago was recently extended through the 2020-21 season. He…
The style of electronic-infused indie rock put forth by Slow Runner reminds listeners of The Anniversary and The Red Hot Valentines. Essentially, Slow Runner would have fit in perfectly with the band scene as of 2000”Break Your Mama’s Back”, the track that opens up the disc is something that is more than just a smart rock song, but something that also is deep in regards to the arrangements that…
Maya Solovey’s new EP, Forte hit stores TODAY and is currently streaming in its entirety at AOL Spinner until Sunday. Recorded, produced, and mixed by two-time Grammy Award Winner, Bassy Bob Brockman (Notorious BIG, Christina Aguilera, Bob Dylan), Forte brims with an exuberant American sound: colossal drums, cinematic strings, grand percussive pianos, rollicking guitars, tasteful electronics, and most notably Maya’s full-bodied beatific voice, which sounds as if were made from…
The mixture of sludgy rock (a la Foo Fighters) with the polished rock of a band like Weezer and just a hint of emo rock makes Slowride hit off strongly with “A New Day Is Upon Us”. The splashy drums during the track continue the chaos given by the uncertain guitar work that dominates the track. “The Year of the Snake” mixes a pop-emo sensibility with a punk fury that…
Down and dirty with seventies rock is something that a number of bands are trying to do nowadays. Some bands, like The Strokes and Kings of Leon, fail miserably and have to have major label pushes to save any amount of face, while bands like Slowride incorporate rock with bubbly three-chord punk and are overlooked by popular media. Maintaining this balance is hard to do, but D.H. as well…
Tommy Steele is traveling throughout his home state of Michigan to promote his thought-provoking new single, “My Side of the Street,” with visits to powerhouse radio stations and Harley-Davidson® dealerships events. The single, on Triple Creek Records, was delivered to programmers via CDX and Play MPE; Tommy’s radio promotion team goes for adds this week. Tommy Steele HOT ROD H-D Pictured at Hot Rod Harley-Davidson in Muskegon, Michigan are Kyle…
Legendary Indianapolis’ Crusty Crossover Thrashers of the Extreme RADIATION SICKNESS, will be releasing their first studio album in 20 years on Abyss Records on Friday, June 22nd as part of the label’s Summer of Sickness Campaign 2012. Entitled Reflections of a Psychotic Past, the new album from RADIATION SICKNESS features seven brand new tracks and will also include a re-mastered copy of the 1990 release The Other Me, A Journey…
The style of music that Slow Motion Reign starts out their album with is something that one would not necessarily tie to Serj (from System of a Down). However, one thing does link the two bands, being the ability to rapidly change styles and have that gambit work. Even if Slow Motion Reign has a slow start, they do kick into something much harder during “Twilight Skylight”. This is not…
Future Of What premiered a full, downloadable stream of their debut EP Moonstruck today on TheFader.com: http://www.thefader.com/2012/06/18/download-future-of-whats-moonstruck-ep/. The Brooklyn band’s EP can be heard and downloaded in its entirety for free on the site all week long in advance of its June 26th release. On Friday, RCRD LBL premiered a free MP3 download of “Back To The City”, the second track released from Moonstruck, and the song can also now…
There are a number of different protein efforts that are currently available from companies. However, the Top Secret 100% Whey Protein is one of the few that attempts to distance itself from the rest of these products. This is because of the inclusion of AstraGin, a blend that increases the amount of protein that will be absorbed by the body. I feel that the gains that I have made while…
Even though I have heard of Slow Gherkin before, I had never heard of them until Asian Man sent me their latest CD, “Run Screaming”. Slow Gherkin are definitely a trandescendent treat, as they have weathered the storm that ravaged all of the typical Ska acts of the mid 1990’s. This is due to the fact that Slow Gherkin is no typical band, as they successfully modified indie rock, ska,…
To celebrate his recent triple album release on Astralwerks, Eric Prydz Presents Pryda, Eric Prydz is excited to announce more live dates (see listing below) across the U.S. in addition to his headlining the IDENTITY festival in 15 cities in July and August. These are his first live dates in the U.S. since 2007. The IDENTITY festival is North America’s first travelling electronic music festival and features the most cutting-edge…
Seattle-based Beat Connection has teamed up with Spotify and Filter to offer a full album preview of their new The Palace Garden LP. Stream it now at Spotify. The quartet performed at SXSW ’12 and launched its first headlining North American tour with White Arrows last week, revisiting the markets they played to with STRFKR on a sold-out tour this past fall. Beat Connection began when members Jordan Koplowitz and…
Hearing Bon Iver live is, quite simply, all consuming. It is a vivid and powerful display, with of an audio range oscillating from a whisper to an absolute wall of carefully constructed sound. In conjunction with an emotional range from bitter hope to vibrant joy, its can be hard to know how to take it. It bears repeating. While on tour, shortly after the release of Bon Iver, Bon Iver,…