For this year’s “Thrash & Burn Tour”, fans get to choose which up-and-coming band will join the tour as the opening act for headliners WINDS OF PLAGUE and supporting acts CHELSEA GRIN, AS BLOOD RUNS BLACK, FOR THE FALLEN DREAMS, UPON A BURNING BODY, IN THE MIDST OF LIONS, and LIKE MOTHS TO FLAMES-so make your voice heard! To vote for the band of your choice, please click the link…
True Panther Sounds, home to indie dreamers Girls, Barcelona’s Delorean, Tanlines and Glasser are proud to present the North American release of Midnight Remember by Australia’s Little Red. While the Melbourne-based five-piece started off with a sound steeped in classic garage and R&B Midnight Remember marks an incredible and shocking evolution. The guitars and choruses soar, at once completely contemporary and referential of classical rock’n’roll from Television to Bruce Springsteen.…
THREE METRE DAY is an acoustic modern roots trio created by players Hugh Marsh, Don Rooke and Michelle Willis. The sound of the band features original songs sung in combination with old instruments, forming a strong, intimate and identifiable texture. The parts are so interwoven it’s hard to distinguish one instrument from another. Michelle sings and plays portable pump organ, Don slide guitars, and Hugh, violin. Starting with a basis…
DIVINE ASCENSION are sure to delight legions of symphonic, progressive metal and female-fronted band fans alike with their debut, “As The Truth Appears”. Both lyrically and musically, their primordial good and evil theme works extremely well with Jennifer’s powerfully resplendent and virtuous tone. One of Australia’s finest female fronted metal acts, DIVINE ASCENSION have proven to be an awe-inspiring live act. Lead by the powerful, emotive performance of Jennifer Borg;…
Kerrang! places letlive.’s frontman, Jason Aalon Butler at the top of list in their cover feature, “The 50 Greatest Rockstars In The World Today.” Hyper-charged, high-energy passion and hard work collide in letlive., making them one of the most respected and anticipated bands out there today. Appearing alongside Epitaph labelmate Oli Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon at #2 and Metallica’s Lars Ulrich at #3, letlive. proves that enduring hardships,…
Walter Trout continues his active worldwide touring schedule with a two-month run across the U.S. that will begin on August 6th in Mammoth Lakes, CA. The visionary roots singer, songwriter and guitarist has been out promoting his 20th album COMMON GROUND, with appearances throughout Europe and the U.S. over the past year. Trout’s compelling music resides in a territory that unites the worlds of blues, rock and pure sonic adventurism,…
First of all, we have another ace up our sleeve, which will make hip hop fans and indie nerds alike jump for joy: besides Beginner, Primal Scream, Suede, and Beirut performing at Tempelhof, we now have Public Enemy, the legendary East Coast rappers Chuck D, Flavor Flav, and Professor Griff, taking over Club Xberg with their massive hip hop tunes. Daniel Wang and Discodromo are also confirmed to DJ at…
Jane’s Addiction, living legends in alternative rock, have teamed up with Indaba Music to create a remix contest around their latest single, “Irresistible Force.” The swirling, moody and epic composition is taken from the band’s anticipated new album The Great Escape Artist, set for release on September 27, 2011. Indaba Music’s worldwide network of musicians will have the opportunity to remix “Irresistible Force” by downloading the track’s audio stems, and…
New Jersey progressive metallers The Binary Code have posted a brand new pre-production track called “Dark Meditations” on their Facebook page. Two other pre-production tracks, “Unexist” and “Trees 100 Feet Underwater,” were posted by the band earlier this summer. All three tracks come from an as-of-yet untitled album tentatively set to be recorded later this year and released in early 2012, and have been uploaded by the band to give…
JAY-Z and KANYE WEST confirm the new 2011 North American WATCH THE THRONE TOUR schedule amidst an overwhelming response to presale tickets. The North American tour will now begin on Saturday, October 29th in Atlanta, GA at the Philips Arena. All fans who purchase their tickets online will receive a digital copy of the album. Tickets for the Live Nation produced tour go on sale to the public on Monday,…
California trio, TOTIMOSHI, kicked off their tour. The band will spread its unique brand of heavy desert death rock across nearly 30 cities, before winding down on September 3, 2011 in Tucson, Arizona. The band will be touring in support of their soon-to-be-unleashed Avenger full-length, set to drop on August 16, 2011 via At A Loss Recordings. Avenger was produced by Toshi Kasai (Melvins, Shrinebuilder, Tool), mastered by John Golden…
“There’s a point, when you’re in a certain headspace, where you feel you can actually do anything we want to do, and not really have any preconception about it,” says Nick Hallam. And for him and his long-time Stereo MCs partner, Rob Birch, their journey into sound has been constantly defined by the battles they’ve had to fight for creative freedom – not with record companies or industry figures, but…
The new HATESPHERE album has been entitled “The Great Bludgeoning” and will be released on the following dates around the world via NAPALM RECORDS September 21: Finland, Sweden, Spain September 23: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux and Italy September 26: Rest of Europe September 27: USA and Canada The album will be released as download, vinyl and cd, and fans can pre-order it here: Nuclear Blast (http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/products/tontraeger/cd/cd/hatesphere-the-great-bludgeoning.html) EMP (http://www.emp-online.co.uk/bin/shop.php?prog=shop&mid=&article=205932&funktion=PRODUCTINFO&bildrub=&product=Hatesphere:%20The%20great%20bludgeoning&tc=PULLDOWN_00MUSICCZ) Targetshop (http://targetshop.dk/uk/207586/Hatesphere/The_Great_Bludgeoning)…
Denver thrash warriors, HAVOK, who recently pummeled the masses on tour with Bay Area legends, Forbidden, will embark on another punishing support trek this Fall alongside headliners Exhumed, Goatwhore and Cephalic Carnage. Set to commence on October 26 in New Mexico, the tour will lay waste to nearly two dozen cities and come to a close in Flagstaff, Arizona on November 20. Said vocalist/guitarist David Sanchez: “I’m fuckin’ psyched! This…
Indie-pop trio IVY have announced the details for their highly anticipated 5th studio album All Hours [Nettwerk]. The record, due out Sept. 20th, marks a self-proclaimed “rebirth” finding the band more focused on textures and rhythms than the traditional guitar-focused sound that has characterized their previous recording efforts. Singer Dominique Durand describes the writing process for All Hours as an attempt to “go back to some kind of innocence, and…
Part Funkadelic, part Forbidden Zone, this David South directed video blends the best of 70s campy sci-fi coolness and makes it new. Gardens & Villa play select dates in North America this month before meeting up with rising talent Youth Lagoon, for a string of dates in September and October including a performance at Pygmalion Festival in Urbana, IL. Youth Lagoon’s Trevor Powers caught Gardens & Villa at a show…
After another year of near-constant touring including a successful spring headlining tour of the states, a US tour with Bowling for soup, SXSW for a 6th year in a row and an east coast run with The Go-Go’s, The Dollyrots are heading out again. This time the Los Angeles trio is hitting the road in support of two new releases. An EP titled Arrested Youth produced by Neal H. Pogue…
09.01.11 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s + 09.02.11 – Cambridge, MA – T.T. the Bear’s + 09.03.11 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge + 09.04.11 – Baltimore, MD – Windup Space + 09.05.11 – Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506 ! 09.06.11 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl # $ 09.07.11 – Tampa, FL – Crowbar # 09.08.11 – Gainesville, FL – Boca Fiesta (The Backyard) # 09.09.11…
September 3 in Berlin, Germany @ Torstraße Festival September 8 in Berlin International Music Week @ Grüner Salon September 17 in Berlin, Germany @ Madame Claude September 25 in Cologne, Germany @ Blue Shell Drawing on influences that range from Sufjan Stevens, Bright Eyes, Architecture in Helsinki and Air, Daniela and Ben Spector have managed to create a unique electric-folk sound that is all their own. The first single “Cut…
IMPENDING DOOM will enter the studio this week to work on their upcoming yet to be titled new record. The band will begin work with producer Andreas Magnusson with the all mighty Machine for mixing. “After months of preparation the time has finally come to start production on our next full length! Without going into the cliche of trying to explain how this is our ‘heaviest’ or ‘most mature’ material,…