I love donuts, but the biggest problem that I have with them has to be the freshness that one usually gets. If you pick up donuts from a Wal-Mart or similar place on a weekend, chances are good that they will have been cooked on a Friday. With the latest product from the Nostalgia Products Group, The Automatic Mini Donut Factory, there is no chance that an individual will ever…
Rite of Passage / Mediaskare Records is proud to announce the addition of Los Angeles, CA based band THE SHEDS to its roster of artists. The band, which features brothers Mac, Evan, and Morgan Miller along with drummer Mark Blaker, formed in 2005 as a way for the brothers to play cover songs for fun. Over the years the band transformed from just a cover band into a full-fledged group…
Striking about this disc is the great recording that marks this, a live show. Everything that surrounds Brindell sounds studio, with the only minor weakness comes with some of the ancillary instruments, which do sound somewhat live. What is interesting about this disc is the fact that Brindell’s own brand of vocals mesh in only the most tangential ways with the instrumentation on the disc. Take a listen to “4AM…
There are a number of ways to get into even the most well protected computer system. Where there is much to do about one’s hacking abilities, the ability to get into these systems and showcase the amount of loopholes that are present is an important one. Metasploit is a framework that does just that, giving companies the knowledge that they need to ensure that they do not lose valuable data.…
“I know it’s electronic music,” Brian Lindgren says, “but sometimes I feel like an old-timey traveling musician with an M-Audio Trigger Finger instead of a guitar.” As Mux Mool, Lindgren has been criss-crossing the country by himself for years, collecting records, loops, and samples, and rocking parties in towns both large and boondock-small. Lindgren is a self-confessed nerd to the bone, an incurable doodler, a Star Trek: The Next Generation…
I believe that this is the first time that we have had a Pineapple-infused (or even flavored) vodka. The genesis of our receiving this bottle came in a get-tgoether that we hosted. Where we have a number of different vodkas on our shelves, the one attendee asked us if we had a bottle fo pineapple vodka. Since we were not aware that this flavor existed, we simply had to try…
The Santiago Steps are a band that really don’t portray a specific style in their music. Starting off “Points & Corners” with tracks that draw together indie-rock with America-era 70s rock, the band will please fans of all style. The incorporation of a synthesizer along with the straight-forward delivery of the vocals on “Meant 4 U” makes the track come forth with a bizarre style of dancability. What is perhaps…
Highly anticipated, “The 7 Tour” will begin this evening in David Crowder*Band’s home state of Texas in front of a sold out crowd. Nearly half of the shows sold out months before the tour began. Spanning September through November, “The 7 Tour” will hit over 30 clubs and theaters across the U.S. including key markets such as: Dallas, Texas, Los Angeles, Calif., Portland, Ore., Seattle, Wash., Chicago, Ill., New York,…
“Song of America”, a 13-week radio series hosted by renowned American baritone Thomas Hampson, begins airing on October 1 on radio stations across the country, from KMXT-FM in Alaska and KALW-FM in San Francisco to WFIU-FM in Indiana and WFSQ-FM in Florida. More than 140 stations across the country have already committed to airing the series. Reflecting Hampson’s deep passion and decades-long advocacy for the music of his country, “Song…
Oakland based punk band Emily’s Army has been selected for the mtvU Freshman 5. Every semester, mtvU identifies five up-and-coming artists that are primed to jump from campus favorites to household names. This fall the “Freshman 5” line-up includes Washed Out, Skrillex, Wallpaper, SBTRKT and Emily’s Army. mtvU is the first network to air each “Freshman 5” artists’ music videos on television. Past “Freshman 5” alums include Amy Winehouse, Silversun…
Kyle Eastwood has been releasing albums since 1998, but I do not feel as if ey has really had that one defining moment for eir as a musician. However, I believe that Eastwood’s work on Songs From The Cheateau represents eir magnum opus, and that each of the tracks here provide listeners with a great insight for whom Eastwood is and will be in the years and albums to come.…
Sandy Dillon is the oughts’ version of Cindy Lauper, pre-suck Liz Phair, and Shirley Manson. Totally pop-tinged alternative rock with a sultry voice that doesn’t really break any new ground in terms of musical style or arrangement. Sure, the early sixties Bond-like orchestra (in “It Must Be Love”) and synth-noises copped from Massive Attack might be aurally pleasing, but not ultimately sating. Each track treads the same ground as the…
Vancouver folk metal band Scythia were honoured to hear the news this week as their sophomore album “…Of Exile” just released this past friday on September 23, 2011, reached the #1 position on Earshot’s Canadian Loud Charts. !earshot – The National Loud Chart For the Week Ending: Tuesday, September 27, 2011- http://earshot-online.com/charts/index.cfm?intChartTypeID=106&dWeekOfID=2011-09-27 “I would like to thank the djs, music directors and college radio stations for embracing Scythia’s unconventional style…
The opening track to “Come With Me” is “Turn on the Music”, and from the opening strains of that track, Roger Sanchez seems to have cemented eir place in the dance hall of fame. There is not that much happening in regards to differing beats or sounds on the track, but the repetition gets tattooed into a listener’s head, while the smooth vocals will get individuals grooving even as they…
Metal knows no cultural or geographical bounds. That is precisely why Denmark’s Anubis Gate has came out of the gate with some of the most furious metal that we have heard so far in 2011. The band is able to tie together a number of disparate styles and sub-genres of metal into something that is fully unique. The band’s sound has changed considerably with Jacob Hansen out as vocalist and…
Montreal-based quartet The Barr Brothers have released their self-titled debut via Secret City Records. The official video for single “Beggar In The Morning” premiered HERE on NPR’s All Songs Considered. Artist Stephen Bircher used road-kill bones to build puppets, which were then animated and bear the likenesses of Andrew and Brad Barr, Sarah Page (harpist) and Andres Vial (multi-instrumentalist). While discussing the inspiration behind the video, director Sebastian Lange said:…
Good Neighbors is a great horror movie that will have viewers wondering throughout the entirety of the title. Where a city is driven into frenzy by a string of murders, a few neighbors attempt to understand what could lead to such gruesome acts. Louise (Emily Hampshire) and Spencer (Scott Speedman) are joined in the neighborhood by (Victor) Jay Baruchel. As the film goes on, viewers will be chomping at the…
Chakachas’ “Jungle Fever” (the S-Man’s Jungle Edit) is the first track on “Choice”, and the whole “classics” tag is nowhere more deserving than it is on this track. However, the game is bumped up further with the inclusion of the very-Santana like guitars that are dominant throughout “Darkest Light”, a track by Lafayette Afro Rock. The track sounds almost as if it was sampled for an early nineties rap track.…
David Guetta is widely regarded as the world’s biggest DJ and is one of the most influential and in-demand producers on the planet. His new album Nothing But The Beat was released last month and debuted in the top five in twelve countries. The album has already spawned the platinum summer smash “Where Them Girls At” featuring Nicki Minaj and Flo Rida. New single “Without You” featuring Usher which was…
Rising from the filth-lands of Uddevalla and Ljungskile, Sweden, NECROCURSE was spawned in 2004 with a penchant for all things brutal and ugly. Featuring current and past members of Nifelheim, Necronaut, Runemagick, Deathwitch and Swordmaster (among others), the band is now ready to unleash their chaos upon an unsuspecting underground via Singapore’s Pulverised Records in 2012. Comments the band in a collective statement: “The time has come for the death…