The holiday season got off to a ‘wonderful’ start today with the digital release of the two-song single by singer/songwriter Jolie Holland and soul icon Booker T. Jones. In the most heart-felt collaboration of the year, Holland and Jones met to record the classic Louis Armstrong track “It’s A Wonderful World,†in honor of the song’s 40th anniversary.
OST: Heartworn Highways / 2007 Hacktone / 26 Tracks / http://www.hacktone.com Heartworn Highways is a documentary similar in style to All My Loving, but the subject material is a little different. Where All My Loving was a child of the sixties in terms of the bands covered and individuals’ feelings about rock music, the director of Heartworn Highways, James Szalapski focuses on the folk and roots rock sounds that were…
EP Out Dec 11th on Kanine Records / Winter US Tour With The Cold War Kids / NPR Song of the Day in November/Make Rolling Stone October Hot List Charlie Waller & Mark Ronson (With BBC Concert Orchestra) Cover Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Blackâ€
Prosthetic Records is proud to announce reissues from Bay Area metal legends TESTAMENT. Both to feature new liner notes, 1997’s ‘Demonic’ was remastered and 1999’s ‘The Gathering’ will include the previously only available in Japan, “Hammer Of The Gods”. Both will see a worldwide release through the label on Jan. 8, 2008. Previously released through Spitfire Records and currently out of print, both records are a welcome addition to the…
Let’s Stay Friends Receives Universal Praise & Reaches CMJ Top 10/ Out Now on Frenchkiss Records Tim Harrington & VH1 Sponsor PSA For Africa (Truly Bugged Up!) http://www.nothingbutnets.net/ Click Here To View Debut “Patty Lee†Video and Sold Out Bowery Ballroom Performance http://www.mediafire.com/?cyejqxtbd0l
The Selfish Gene – The Grand Masquerade / 2007 Ruff Road / 12 Tracks / http://www.theselfishgene.com / The Selfish Gene’s “The Grand Masquerade†starts out with brooding and dark strings, the title track giving a blend of goth and classical styles to individuals that are ensure of what the band sounds like. The chaos increases considerably, explodes, and a timid, shoegazing style of indie rock ultimately comes forth. “Weight of…
Intermission to the Moon, the debut release from Tooth and Nail Record’s artist A Dream Too Late, appears in stores and online today. Produced by Steve Wilson (Jonezetta, Hawk Nelson), Intermission to the Moon draws from the band’s multi-faceted sonic strengths while drawing on lyrics that challenge the listener to dream their own big dreams. With the release of Intermission to the Moon, A Dream Too Late is allowing the…
Fictonal- A tribute to the cure Finally, a good tribute album. 99% of the the tribute albums suck, but this one is really good. This is a Swedish Import that i got for $7 at NRM, and it was money well spent. Most of the covers are dance songs, and as a oddity, they have some substance behind them. I guess it is only Brit and American dance that is…
Candlebox, who have sold six million records worldwide is scheduled to enter the studio in December to begin work on their fourth studio album and first for Silent Majority Group. The band featuring original members Kevin Martin, Peter Klett, and Scott Mercado will also announce a new bass player soon. The new album is scheduled for a late Spring release and the band is planning to tour throughout the year.…
Leiana – No Going Back / 2006 Page / 10 Tracks / http://www.leiana.com / Female fronted rock with a tinge of punk. Leiana comes forth on “No Going Back†with a style that Lennon did a few years back and that Avril wishes that ey could do. “2 B Unkind†is the first track, and while it shows the intensity of eir vocals, the limp guitar work during the track…
Explosive, Oakland, CA quartet SAVIOURS will unleash its sophomore full-length album Into Abaddon on January 22 via NYC’s Kemado Records. Episode one of an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the making of the band’s new record has been posted online by Ground Control Magazine.
This compilation CD is great, because punk bands cover 80`s metal songs,. These are real metal songs, like Metallica`s “Motorbreath” and “Running Free” by Iron Maiden. There are a few hair band covers, which serious add to an already strong album. This album has 19 tracks. I really recommend picking this album up since, this has a lot of amazingly good sounding bands on teeny tiny labels. Great original shit.…
Fo Yo Soul Entertainment/Zomba Gospel recording artist KIRK FRANKLIN, the top-selling Contemporary Gospel artist in Soundscan history, will add another tour de force to his vast discography with the forthcoming release of his seventh CD, THE FIGHT OF MY LIFE. Franklin, who is credited with revolutionizing gospel music, will release this exceptional collection of all new material on December 18.
The Blakes – S/T / 2007 Light in the Attic / 13 Tracks / http://www.myspace.com/theblakes / http://www.lightintheattic.net / Light in the Attic have really came into the public eye in the last few months. Whether it be through the Summer Records Anthology or the countless reissues of older (forgotten) music, Light in the Attic are doing their own part to marry the current and past of music. The Blakes are…
As Tall As Lions have announced some December tour dates with Silverchair and The Receiving End Of Sirens – All confirmed dates are below. The band will release a new digital EP entitled Into The Flood November 29th on Triple Crown/East West and Stereogum has debuted a new track “Into The Flood”
This tape is a great compilation of different Athens, Ohio bands. The only bad thing about it is that the tape was made in 1995, so most of the bands would no longer be around. This comp has almost every mainstream style of music, from punk to alternative to metal. Its a pretty good tape, and i only had to pay $3 for it in a music store down in…
Through the years, Parisian-based Mike Ladd has fused a combination of genres, from hip hop to poetry to rock to electronic music, to form his own incredible incarnation of afro punk. Whether spitting searing freestyle polemics, rocking punked out jams or teaching at universities, this is an artist who knows very few bounds. And we’d have it no other way. Ladd’s music is equally fearless yet sensitive, raw yet sophisticated,…
Music Video Distributors has been around since 1986, when it was founded by Tom Seaman, who had floated around the music industry for years before that. In the twenty-plus years since the company was founded, they have rapidly become one of the most premiere companies in producing and distributing band videos. 2006 saw the company grow even further, as MVD opened up a record label of sorts, making available albums…
HeadCount, the volunteer-run voter registration organization that registered nearly 50,000 voters in 2004 through alliances with Dave Matthews Band and other artists, has announced an ambitious plan to stage voter registration drives at more than 500 concerts over the next year, with a goal of registering 200,000 new voters.
Nice guy punk rock with 5 members. This fits in perfectly with bands on Epitaph and Fat Wreck. They had some talent, but they sold their soul to Epic, was canned, and then signed to Interscope. None of the instruments stand out much because they are too clean sounding, so they mix together. Unwritten Law is not without its charm however, because the songs are not that bad sounding, but…