What brought you into creating music? My music creates itself. It is as natural for me as breathing. I’ve done it since I was a small child and it is how I deal with the world. Hardest thing for me is to NOT write or create and do the more mundane things in life. Whom would you say are your biggest influences, both in terms of your life and your…
Catch Jessie and The Toy Boys on the Identity Festival tour through mid-September with Kaskade, Steve Aoki, Chad Hugo, and others. Check out the updated tour dates below with a just added show in Hollywood. 08/28 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion 08/30 Albiquerque, NM Hard Rock Casino Presents: The Pavilion 09/02 Chula Vista, CA Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre 09/03 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre 09/04 Hollywood, CA Hollywood Palladium 09/05 Las…
The critically acclaimed web comic, The Gutters, by Blind Ferret Entertainment, which parodies the latest news in the comic book industry, will be available in print form via Dynamite and Diamond Comic Distributors! Volume One is an over-sized and glossy hardcover book containing the first sixty-six installments of the much-lauded strip. The Absolute Ultimate Gutters Omnibus Volume One is the first printed collection of the wildly popular Gutters comic, which…
Puddle of Mudd is preparing to get back on the front lines of Rock N Roll, joining the Rock Allegiance Tour in support of their upcoming new album, Re:(Disc)overed coming out on August 30th. To celebrate the tour and the album, the band is teaming up with neufutur.com to give 2 grand prize winners an acoustic Gibson Epiphone guitar signed by the entire band. The band is also giving away…
The 2011 ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL wrapped up its bludgeoning streak through the country last week, but before the fest was finished, several of this year’s festival artists took to the mainstage in Dallas, TX to perform a special tribute to Dimebag Darrell by performing Pantera’s ‘Walk’. A video of the performance can be viewed at the official ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL YouTube page now! Numerous artists on…
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…