For Los Angeles based trio, Foster The People, this year included three headlining sold-out U.S. tours, a gold album for their debut release Torches, two Grammy® nominations for ‘Best Alternative Album’ and ‘Best Pop Duo/Group Performance,’ and a 3x platinum single in “Pumped Up Kicks.” With 2012 around the corner the band is excited to announce they’ll be back next Spring; kicking off a national tour on May 29th with…
Southern California death thrashers SACRIFICIAL SLAUGHTER are seeking a record label to release their next full-length album. In following up their split release with Oklahoma City’s ENFUNERATION (American Death Thrash on Horror Pain Gore Death Productions), SACRIFICIAL SLAUGHTER intends to raise the bar higher in terms of composition, production, and overall sonic devastation. As such, the band seeks a label with an equally strong business presence on the world stage…
San Diego area brutal death metal/slam band Pathology will be embarking on a 2-week headlining west coast headlining tour in January. The quintet is touring in support of their latest album, Awaken to the Suffering, released in September on Victory. The tour sees the band rejoined by vocalist Jonathan Huber, who sat out on the band’s recent US tour with Grave and Blood Red Throne due to a badly broken…
No Work Dancing begins with Molina (oh yeah), a slow and steady-paced track that touches upon the pop-rock of the sixties just as much as it does on Weezer and slacker rock. The titular track for No Work Dancing has a more insistent beat, with the drums tattooing a rhythm on listeners’ hearts. With a nod to early Rolling Stones and Monkees, the narrative quality of the instrumentation here establishes…
The Drive EP begins with the titular track, a song that updates the work of the Goo Goo Dolls into a mature and intensively emotive format. The vocals have that little bit of punk stylings playing at the periphery, which provides the band with a truly unique style. The fullness of the instrumentation is shown as well during Drive, with a resplendent bass line adding that much to the track.…
Do It All Over Again is a flipping of the traditional guy and girl song that will have listeners ecstatic. By reversing these gender roles, Janzen is able to provide a voice to all of womankind. In terms of instrumentation, there is a layered approach taken that stashes a fuller sound in the background. Everybody Knows Better moves Janzen into a more pop sound; hints of Sheryl Crow and Alanis…
“God Dethroned, the final year. 2011. When the decision was made to do it this way Michiel, Henk and I supported Henri’s decision, of course, but it would be a lie to say we were happy about it. His reasons for doing it are -of course- his own and he looks to other horizons after playing with God Dethroned for 20+ years. He is building his own guitars, speakers and…
American metal maniacs UNEARTH have secured the direct support slot on the March 2012 tour of HEAVEN SHALL BURN! Check the dates below. PROGRESSION TOUR 2012 Presented by Impercion.com, Metal Hammer, Fuze, Slam, in-your-face.de HEAVEN SHALL BURN + UNEARTH + RISE TO REMAIN + NEAERA + special guest 20/03/12 – FR – Paris – Petit Brain 21/03/12 – DE – Köln – Live Music Hall 22/03/12 – DE – Hamburg…
Metallica celebrated its 30th anniversary as a band last week, performing four shows at the Fillmore Theatre in San Francisco, CA, exclusively for members of their fan club, the Metallica Club. In August, Metallica Club members around the world were able to enter a lottery for a chance to purchase tickets to all the Fillmore shows at a cost of $19.81 for a four-pack of tickets to all of the…
Upon finishing recent tours with Talk Normal and The Kills, and a hostile takeover of the 2011 CMJ Music Marathon, tireless San Francisco post-punks Weekend are now announcing Winter show dates on the West Coast. Weekend have been touring hard behind their debut album Sports since it arrived on Slumberland Records in November 2010. Between seeing their track “End Times” promote the Showtime hit Dexter, touring with Wire, and suffering…
Called a “masterpiece” by both the Baltimore City Paper and Portland, Oregon’s Willamette Week, St. Even’s debut album Spirit Animal now yields its second single in album opener “Blinding Love.” Spirit Animal is out now via Dustbin Records and the album’s title track has also just been released. Isn’t it cool when the title track of an album actually ends up elsewhere? Such is the case with “Spirit Animal.” The…
Killswitch Engage has been confirmed as the headliner of the 14th Annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival. The festival helped to launch the career of the Westfield, Mass., band and the festival vets went on to sign with Roadrunner Records. With over 1.5 million records sold in the United States alone and a Grammy nomination under its belt, the band will return to the NEMF stage in 2012.About this…
Desert thrashers REBIRTH have launched a campaign on Kickstarter.com, a funding platform for creative project, to raise funds for the completion of their forthcoming album, From The Ashes, Arise. Vocalist/lyricist Marshal “Fucking” Beck (REIGN OF VENGEANCE) issued the following statement regarding the campaign, “I’ve decided that if the extreme metal community does not step up in getting this REBIRTH album completed that we are going to re-write what we’ve already…
After twelve years of making music, including six studio projects, participation in over 21 compilations and additional recordings, two books and over 1.6 million albums sold, the GRAMMY ® recognized David Crowder*Band will unveil their seventh and last record, Give Us Rest or (a requiem mass in c [the happiest of all keys]) on January 10, 2012 (sixstepsrecords). Announced initially to their fans, the celebrated band revealed their final plans…
Gunshyassassin.com has recently teamed up with Dark Descent Records and HORRENDOUS to debut the track “The Womb” from the band’s forthcoming album The Chills. This highly anticipated CD follow-up to the twice-pressed Sweet Blasphemies cassette, The Chills, is set for a January 2nd, 2012 release date. The Chills defines the kind of mucked up, motoring, and morbid Swedish/American death metal that HORRENDOUS has been delivering with malice since 2009. To…
Having just wrapped up their near three-week tour supporting Kyuss Lives! and The Sword, BLACK COBRA’s first headlining tour in support of their new album, Invernal, kicks off in Brooklyn tonight. The duo will hammer their way around the country on a fifteen-date headlining tour on their way back to San Francisco, the first nine dates bearing support from Zoroaster and The Body. Three new West Coast dates have been…
Chickenfoot –the supergroup featuring guitarist Joe Satriani, drummer Chad Smith, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and frontman Sammy Hagar – have earned a GRAMMY nomination for the “Best Recording Package,” for the creative 3D design of their recent Chickenfoot III (eOne Music/earMUSIC/Edel) album. The GRAMMY-nominated band plans to return to Los Angeles with touring drummer Kenny Aronoff to perform at the Mark & Brian Christmas Show on December 15th…
Looking ahead to the end of the month, the CT-rapper Chris Webby’s “There Goes The Neighborhood” tour rolls through NYC at the legendary Irving Plaza on Thursday, December 29th! Pre-sale tickets are available now via LiveNation! If you don’t know who Chris Webby is, you’re probably over the age of 25 and not paying attention, so ask your younger brother or sister, and watch them go ape sh*t. IDLE WARSHIP…
Acclaimed singer-songwriter, Rachael Yamagata has sold-out 10 of the dates on her current U.S. tour in support of her third release Chesapeake, which was released on October 11th through her own Frankenfish Records. Sold out markets on the tour (so far) include: Northampton (10/28), Boston (10/30), Washington, DC (11/1), Baltimore (11/2), Brooklyn (11/4), Pittsburgh (11/5), Los Angeles (11/29), Hoboken (12/20), and New York (12/21-22). Yamagata recently stopped by NPR’s Tell…
In 2009, Cleveland’s Dylan Baldi began writing and recording lo-fi power-pop songs in his parents’ basement, dubbing the project Cloud Nothings. His music quickly started making the Internet rounds, and fans and critics alike took note of his pithy songcraft, infectiously catchy melodies, and youthful enthusiasm. Baldi soon released a string of 7″s, a split cassette, and an EP before putting out Turning On – a compilation spanning about a…