Open the Trap Doors June 4th at a record store near you. The Santa Ana band, known for its crafty blend of rock and roll, blues, and folk tunes, is releasing its new, more contemporary record from their own indie imprint, Vacant Bunny Records. Leading the way is the supercharged single, Our Group Won’t Be The Same, set to release May 13th, 2011. Things indeed have changed considerably for this…
June 01 Edmonton, AB Commonwealth Stadium The Fray June 04 Seattle, WA Qwest Field Lenny Kravitz June 07 Oakland, CA *Overstock.com Coliseum Lenny Kravitz / Moonalice (*formerly Oakland Alameda County Coliseum) June 17 Anaheim, CA Angel Stadium Lenny Kravitz June 18 Anaheim, CA Angel Stadium Lenny Kravitz June 22 Baltimore, MD M&T Bank Stadium Florence and The Machine *June 24 Glastonbury, UK The Glastonbury Festival Multi-Artist June 26 East Lansing,…
A robotic amalgamation of disco, funk, electro and punk influences, LA-based Short Circuit’s debut EP, Late Night Drive, will be released digitally worldwide this Monday, May 23 on Binary Entertainment (Keenhouse, Fabian, The Kids Are Radioactive). The brainchild and solo vehicle of LA electronic musician Andrew Verner, Short Circuit creates music that is equally made for night driving as it is for the dance floor. The son of a small…
New Orleans’ blackened blues-metallers Blackfire Revelation finally release their long-delayed, self-titled debut full length this July on their Southern Reconstruction label. Blackfire Revelation was founded by J.R. Fields in the summer of 2002. Fields was in film school at the University of New Orleans at the time and growing increasingly disinterested in both college and the film industry. Later that year, his grandfather, a farmer and Baptist deacon from Mississippi,…
Talia Coles debuts her new, sultry music video for “Never See You Again” after residing on Billboard’s Top 25 Dance/Club Play for 9 straight weeks! The video is an expression of Talia’s relatable lyrics which articulate the notion of facing temptation while being in a monogamous relationship, “everything was picture perfect ’til you moved the frame, and now because of you it’s barely hanging. Boy in a flash it’s like…
Drums & Ammo are back with another hard-hitting track, this time teaming up once more with Los Angeles emcee Bambu for “U Funnystyle.” The song, produced by 6Fingers, is the third single off the group’s debut instrumental album, Vol. 1, and was created to sound like “the music you would hear in a old cartoon, with the shadow of a big ass dude lurking around looking to stomp on suckas,”…
Jooklo Duo, the fiery Italian psychedelic tenor sax/drums combo of Virginia Genta and David Vanzan, partnered with guitar wizard, Bill Nace, will descend upon the East Coast and Midwest for 20+ dates from May 19th through June 17th. Touring in support of their 7″ release The Warrior on Northern-Spy Records, released last November, and Where Has the Jazz Gone on the duo’s own Italian imprint Troglosound, released in March, the…
6/2 – DC9 – Washington, DC 6/7 – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA* 6/9 – Music Hall Of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY* 6/10 – Rock N Roll Hotel – Washington, DC* 6/11 – Ottobar – Baltimore, MD* 6/12 – Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA* 6/13 – Iron Horse – Northampton, MA* 6/15 – Brillobox – Pittsburgh, PA* 6/16 – Ninth Ward – Buffalo, NY* 6/17 – NXNE @ Lee’s…
AWOLNATION recently released their eclectic debut album titled, Megalithic Symphony via Red Bull Records and are currently on a Spring US tour with dates scheduled through June 5th. The band has released their official video for the hip-hop beat driven single, “Sail,” directed by Cameron Duddy. The video features lead singer, Aaron Bruno, as he attempts to avoid being abducted from his home by some mysterious extraterrestrials. “I think very…
Iraqi metal band, Acrassicauda, announce their first tour in support of their debut EP, Only the Dead See the End of the War. The EP, originally released on March 9, 2010, is currently available on iTunes. Hailing from Baghdad, Acrassicauda is Faisal Talal (lead vocals, guitar), Tony Yaqoo (lead guitar), Firas Allateef (bass) and Marwan Hussein (drums). Only the Dead See the End of the War, was co-produced by Testament’s…
Rocks-Off one of the most infamous concert promoters in New York (famed for their live rock boat shows) has launched a series of walking tours in NYC. The two inaugural walking tours include The History Of Art, Crime, Drugs and Punk Rock on the Lower East Side (a guided tour given by John Joseph of the legendary Cro-Mags) and The Past, Present and Future of Rock & Roll in New…
First Aid Kit – the Swedish duo of sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg – are currently recording with acclaimed producer Mike Mogis at his ARC Studios in Omaha, NE. They’ll spend the next month working on the follow-up to their highly praised debut album, The Big Black & The Blue, released last year on Wichita Recordings. In addition to being known as a member of Bright Eyes and Monsters Of…
Engraved over the band’s logo are the words “East Coast Thrash,” and that’s a good and substantial starting point with this band of brash brothers, brothers who are pros and have picked their instruments of violence wisely. SPEED\KILL/HATE is the brainchild of OVERKILL’s Dave Linsk; having latched upon an infectious strain of time-straddled death thrash metal. But the core of the band’s follow up record, Out for Blood, begins with…
5/20 Reading, PA @ Reverb 5/21 Norfolk, VA @ The Norva 5/23 Charleston, SC @ Music Farm 5/24 St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre 5/25 Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room 5/26 Jacksonville, FL @ Free Bird Live 5/27 Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theatre 5/28 Greenville, SC @ The Handlebar 5/29 Huntington, WV @ V Club *Headlining Dates With Corrosion of Conformity* 7/20 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl 7/21 New…
Texas natives WARBEAST are currently trekking across the U.S. on their full U.S. tour with Destruction and Heathen. The band has been on the road for a couple weeks now, and will finish up the tour on May 29th at a soon to be announced location! See below for all remaining tour dates. WARBEAST began in the early 80’s Texas underground metal scene. Vocalist Bruce Corbitt was the voice of…
July 24th – Knitting Factory – Brooklyn, NY July 25th – Mercury Lounge – New York, NY July 27th – Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA With affirmation of their brilliance in from their homeland, being awarded the critically acclaimed Australian Music Award Cloud Control are set to unleash their stellar collection of quirky layered harmonic psyche-pop on the rest of the world. Cloud Control signed to bespoke independent label Infectious…
Proclaimed “amazing” by Performing Songwriter for creating what the Chicago Reader calls “perfectly molded power-pop,” Moonlight Towers are “Austin’s favorite three-minute heroes” according to the Austin American-Statesman and the music city’s “finest power pop export” (Pop Culture Press). Moonlight Towers has just released its third album Day Is The New Night and this week is launching a tour in support of it that will see the band doing what they…
By now, the musical exploits of Scott “Wino” Weinrich are the stuff of legend. The Obsessed. Saint Vitus. Spirit Caravan. The Hidden Hand. Shrinebuilder. After releasing his solo debut in 2009, Wino went acoustic in early 2011 with Adrift, a gut-wrenchingly personal album written by a man who has survived a lifetime of gut-wrenching scenarios and lived to tell the tales. Wino’s latest project sees him plugged back in—both to…
The celebrated Doom In June festival returns for the second year in a row to pay homage to some of the most respected names in Doom and Stoner Rock. Event takes place on Saturday, June 4th, 2011 at The Cheyenne Saloon (3103 N. Rancho Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89130, Tel. 702-645-4139). Doors are at noon and advance tickets are on sale now for $25.00 at brownpapertickets.com. Last year’s inaugural event…
Detroit, MI’s FIREWORKS are preparing for the May 24th release of Gospel on Triple Crown Records and have announced a new run of dates in June with support from Hostage Calm and Mixtapes. The dates will be preceded by an appearance at Krazyfest in Louisville, KY, where they’ll play alongside Anti-Flag, Cave In, Hot Water Music and others. FIREWORKS have also confirmed two dates with Hot Water Music later this…