Team Bastardized is happy to announce the signing of Give em Blood. The Graz-based Hardcore-/Metal-Outfit will release its next Album via Bastardized Recordings. This is what the band has to say: We are very happy to announce that we just got signed to Bastardized Records. After months of searching for a record label, it feels like we’ve made the right decision. These guys really know how to do it by…
The sheer amount of additions that are provided to viewers with this edition of The Muppets are substantial. Making sure that this is not just the feature, the inclusion of the full soundtrack on the digital copy disc will ensure that viewers can rock out. There are a number of fake movie trailers that involve the Muppets, while they further shake up a camera test with everyone’s favorite felt creations.…
Sixfinger is a band that is into the current revival of emo-rock that bands like Brand New, All-American Rejects, The Good Life, and a number of other bands (many from New Jersey) have been pushing. First off, this album suffers from a compressed recording, which really makes the album feel as if I am listening to it off a tape. Still, there is enough emotion on this album to…
Sergent Garcia brings his vibrant Latin and reggae sounds back to North America this July for an 8 city tour, including San Diego’s Asi Suena Latin Rock Fest, Madison’s La Fête de Marquette and Montreal’s Festival Nuits D’Afrique. Already a household name in Europe, 2011’s highly celebrated Una y Otra Vez was Sergent Garcia’s first album in over 5 years and solidified his legacy as a salsa-reggae superstar this side of…
Berry Horny (Summer Berry) / Horny Goat Brewing / http://www.hornygoatbrewing.com When a beer is touted to have a fruit flavor in its profile, I typically expect to have an inoffensive beer with little more than a touch of the fruit it contains. This usually creates an inoffensive brew that is forgettable soon after one finishes it up. This is not what Berry Horny does. Rather, the beer is able to…
Actor, Director Mykelti Williamson is internationally known for his critically acclaimed role of “Bubba” in the Oscar winning movie “Forrest Gump” and other high profile movies, Heat, Con Air, Lucky Number Slevin, August Rush and ATL, as well as hard hitting television roles in, Boomtown, “24”, CSI:NY, and currently in the role of “Limehouse” in the hit FX Television series, Justified. Whether it be feature films, television or Broadway where Williamson…
Phineas & Ferb: The Perry Files is a collection of the various P&F episodes that focus on everyone’s favorite penguin, Perry. This creates a solid DVD that allows parents to sit back and take it easy; Disney has added a few extra googahs to this DVD release to keep children happy. This means that viewers will be taken in to the world of the OWCA (Organization Without A Cool…
The Village Voice, the nation’s largest alternative weekly newspaper, is thrilled to announce the addition this year of The Official 4Knots Music Festival After Party. The show will be held immediately following the Festival at the Beekman Beer Garden Beach Club at South Street Seaport and will feature the Black Lips with Kid Congo Powers + The Pink Monkey Birds. Tickets are only $15 and go on sale tomorrow…
Teen Spirit is a film that focuses on the machinations of Amber Pollock (Cassie Scerbo, of Make It or Break It) in eir desire to become the prom queen. Connected at all points through eir high school career, Pollock finds eirself unable to reach out to those that ey originally associated with. Turned into an apparition, Pollock wants to receive the accolades that were unavailable to eir during eir…
Planechase is a different variant of Magic: The Gathering. In this style, players attempt to wrest control of their settings from their competitors . Each plane has different effects that buff the player, while many present players with a chaotic effect that may either benefit or hurt them. There are four Planechase sets released in the 2012 edition; each provides players with a revisited mechanic from earlier sets. We received…
Over the past two decades, Del the Funky Homosapien has been establishing himself in the world of Hip-Hop. From his early 90’s Elektra releases to his cult classic Deltron 3030, Del the Funky Homosapien has proven his place in Rap History. While awaiting the release of his upcoming album Deltron 2, Del the Funky Homosapien has once again teamed up with Parallel Thought to produce Attractive Sin, a follow up…
As announced earlier this week, Agnostic Front will be appearing at the CBGB’s Music Festival on opening night in NYC at Webster Hall on July 5th along their 30th Anniversary tour route, performing the classic Live at CBGB’s set list. And to top it off, fellow NYHC legends Madball will also be on the show. AF vocalist Roger Miret said, “We are very excited to be performing on the opening night of…
Metalhit.com, under license from Firebox Music, have re-issued all three albums from Finnish doom metal legends, COLOSSEUM. The band are best known for their severely atmospheric and richly depressive doom compositions. Their first album, “Chapter 1: Delirium,” is often heralded as a “must have” for all doom enthusiasts. The band boasts Juhani Palomaki, of YEARNING fame, on vocals, who sadly passed away in 2010, leading to the band’s departure. In…
ENCHANT, the San Francisco Bay area’s long-running Prog Rock institution, has finally returned to the scene they once helped shape and establish! Originally founded in 1989 and with seven studio albums under their belt, it’s been a long silence for ENCHANT since their last official release, the Live At Last 2CD/2DVD set from 2004. ENCHANT is currently at work on an overdue, brand-new studio album, and have signed a new…
Forming in early 2009, South Coast rockers The Afterparty have recently added the finishing touches to their debut studio offering ‘Restless’ with producer Matty O’Grady (You Me At Six, Deaf Havana). The four track EP will feature lead track ‘Sticks & Stones’ and new single ‘So Much To Say’, and is scheduled for release on July 2nd 2012 via Engineer Records. Vocalist Nic Matthews revealed that ‘Restless’ is “a record we’re all…
Singer, songwriter, piano-slayer and blogger Amanda Palmer is preparing to release her first new studio album in four years with her new band, The Grand Theft Orchestra, featuring Michael McQuilken, Chad Raines and Jherek Bischoff. Recorded in Melbourne with producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Modest Mouse, Xiu Xiu), the album, Theatre Is Evil, will be released in September 2012. Palmer re-solidified her title as the queen of crowd-sourcing when she…
disKonnekt, the upcoming release from electro-industrial masters Decoded Feedback explores the themes of alienation and existential angst so prevalent in today’s society. On their latest album, band members Yone Dudas and Marco Biagiotti delve into the complex relationship between man and machine, and consider how virtual environments can disconnect us from the real world. DF’s trademark aggressive sound and atmospheric melodies remain front and centre on disKonnekt and have been…
Faris McReynolds, who alone comprises the Los Angeles-based one man band ExDetectives, today posted the video for “The Lawn”, the first single from the debut ExDetectives album Take My Forever, out now on Post Planetary Records. The video, directed by Larisa Laivins, is a dreamy ramble through a sundrenched city. Laivins says the clip is “inspired by being a teenager having no specific destination and just wanting to be out…
Give and Take In is the first track on the titular EP, and it immediately shows Christie Lenée as an upbeat female pop rocker. The energy in which the vocals blend in with the horns will immediately draw in listeners, all while Lenée packs the track full of catchy melodies. Before I Go continues this trend, but provides listeners with a different side to Lenée. The slower tempo of…
Sidi Touré will tour North America for the second time ever this summer in support of his new album, Koïma (released April 17 via Thrill Jockey). Last fall, Sidi was here for his first ever North American tour in support of his Thrill Jockey debut, Sahel Folk, and played such prestigious venues as New York’s Lincoln Center, Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music, and the Chicago World Music Festival.…