The record was released on CD and digital formats by Pure Noise Records on March 8th, 2011. You can grab a copy here or from the band at shows, while the digital version can be downloaded via Bandcamp, iTunes and other digital retailers. Joining The American Scene for varying stints on tour will be Troubled Coast, Blood And Water, Stickup Kid and Mascot. All five bands are featured on a…
People are often curious about how songwriters come up with their lyrics. Golden Bloom’s Shawn Fogel is here to tell you; all it takes is a ride on the train. Perhaps that’s oversimplifying things just a bit, but his latest mp3, “You Go On (& On)” from the forthcoming EP March to the Drums was written while riding on the train in New Jersey, like many of his songs. “Maybe…
May 3-8 New York, NY Blue Note Jazz Club with Lionel Loueke www.bluenote.net May 12 Boston, MA Scullers Jazz Club www.scullersjazz.com May 14 Los Angeles, CA The Getty Center with John Santos www.getty.edu May 16 Santa Cruz, CA Kuumbwa Jazz Center www.kuumbwajazz.org May 18 San Francisco, CA Yoshi’s San Francisco with John Santos www.yoshis.com Summer Tour Highlights 2011 Peter Apfelbaum Photo of Omar Sosa courtesy of Era Jazzu Archive May…
May 4, 2011 – Toronto, Ontario The Shop – W/ Ages and Ages May 5, 2011 – YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio Cedars Lounge – W/ Ages and Ages May 6, 2011 – Bloomington, Indiana The Bishop – W/ Ages and Ages May 7, 2011 – Grand Rapids, Michigan Founders Brewing Company – W/ Ages and Ages May 8, 2011 – Chicago, Illinois Schubas – W/ Ages and Ages May 9, 2011 –…
In 2011 Gates Of Dawn once more shows up with a brand new long player “Lucid Dreaming”. Founded in 2005, the band from Germany perfoms a mixture of guitar wave and and electronic soundscapes by creating seductive songs full of sweeping beats, romantic melodies and uncanny atmospheres. Following the successful 2008 record “Parasite”, the bands third CD output marks another step in achieving an unique sound experience. Expanding guitar parts…
*May 10 -Brighton Music Hall- Allston, MA May 11 – Mercury Lounge – New York, NY May 12 – The Rock Shop – Brooklyn, NY May 13 – The Red Palace – Washington, DC May 14 – Kung Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA May 17 – IOTA Club & Cafe – Arlington, VA May 18 – The Camel – Richmond, VA May 19 – Local 506 – Chapel Hill, NC…
The New York Dolls are at least as much of an institution as the Rolling Stones, but are actually still able to create an album that hangs with current bands. Listeners will be assured of that the second that “Fool For You Baby” starts. Capturing the same magic that made their early albums so classic, there seems to be an intensity in each of the album’s tracks that showcases a…
5/5 Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s Night Club ^ 5/6 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore ^ 5/7 Anaheim, CA – House of Blues ^ 5/8 Scottsdale, AZ – Martini Ranch ^ 5/11 Colorado Springs, CO – The Black Sheep ^ 5/12 Fort Collins, CO – Aggie Theatre ^ 5/13 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theatre ^ 5/14 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theatre ^ 5/17 Kansas City, MO – The Record Bar…
We receive a number of different beers for review at NeuFutur. However, a great many of these brews seem to be paint by numbers. Independent breweries have a sort of hivemind when it comes to the styles and tastes that are popular, and rarely deviate from that perception. Saying that, it truly is exciting when we receive a beer that breaks the mold. This beer is Trumer Pilsner, and it…
Progressive instrumental act ANIMALS AS LEADERS’ acclaimed self-titled debut album, which was originally released in 2009, will be available for the first time on vinyl in June. The 180-gram double-LP set, which includes the song “Wave of Babies” (previously an iTunes exclusive) as a bonus track, will feature a high-quality Stoughton gatefold jacket with enhanced album artwork that includes 3D imagery and custom AAL 3D glasses! The set is available…
Take some straight up old school soul, some of New York’s most talented musicians and an Australian photographer with an eye-to-die-for. Put them in the world’s most stunning and contrasted country and you have an astounding partnership and some awe-inspiring photographic evidence. This evidence has been captured in a new photo book titled Charles Bradley and the Menahan Street Band – in Australia, by Australian born photographer Kisha Bari. The…
7/05 @ Jakes in Lubbock, TX 7/06 @ Club 101 in El Paso, TX 7/08 @ Hard Rock Café in Las Vegas, NV Co-Headline dates with Suicide Silence: 7/11 @ Hawthorne Theater in Portland, OR w/ All Shall Perish – On Sale 4/06 7/18 @ Granada Theater in Lawrence, Kansas w/ Red Fang & All Shall Perish – On Sale 4/09 7/25 @ The Lost Horizon in Syracuse, NY w/…
If you don’t know the name Prince Aries yet, you should, and likely will very soon. Aside from co-founding the Bay Area’s first hip-hop television show, Distortion 2 Static, over 10 years ago, Aries also has a whole other side that includes being a sought after party promoter, DJ, and graphic designer. And up next in his series of video shorts leading up to the release of his Clean Ass…
Blow Out is a 1981 film that stars John Travolta as an unwitting witness to an assassination; set in Philadelphia, this film is full of intrigue and will have listeners on the edges of their seats throughout. The use of color and darkness in Blow Out is perhaps the strongest side of the title, and is something that simply looks fantastic in this Criterion release. This is because the company…
Since the 2010 release of Fantasia’s Back To Me album, which garnered multi-genre songwriter Claude “Studio Beast” Kelly a Best R&B Song GRAMMY nomination for penning the lead single “Bittersweet,” Claude Kelly has been dominating the pop charts and airwaves with his megahits for Bruno Mars (“Grenade”), Ke$ha (“Take It Off”), Britney Spears (“Gasoline”), and Jessie J (“Price Tag” featuring B.o.B.). In keeping with the Studio Beast’s style and desire…
In this time of rapidly-increasing gas prices, it is important to view a film like Gashole and see exactly why they are what they are. This is not a documentary that merely focuses on the present, but looks into the history of the United States and its fascination with oil and gasoline. To properly flesh out this story, the creators of Gashole place this question in the larger context of…
Towards the end of the recording sessions for Dye It Blonde, Smith Westerns invited director Ray Concepcion to join them in the studio to document the final stages of the recording process. Die With Your Chin Up is the resulting short film, a snapshot of a band on the brink something big. Bio: Smith Westerns consists of Cullen Omori (vocals), Max Kakacek (Guitar), and Cameron Omori (Bass). All members range…
For ASKA, the, Ashiya, Japan-born, Los Angeles-based composer and songwriter, her self-titled, debut EP is the culmination of years of experience but also the beginning of something new and exciting. When ASKA first wrote one of the EP’s tracks, “There Are Many Of Us,” she recorded it and shared the song with some friends, including filmmaker Spike Jonze. “He had a vision of his film I’m Here already, but he…
Out now on Asthmatic Kitty, Leb Laze’s “Music For Troubled Machinery” is part of the latest in the ever-expanding, ever-experimental Library Catalog Series and perhaps conceptually the most interesting electronic in recent memory documenting the slow unruly death of the producers core production tool, the MPC 2000 (R.I.P.). Make sure to grab the free download of album standout “Static Radiates” remixed by Brooklyn-based house/dubstep producer Totem Test. What started out…
MAJESTIC DOWNFALL are set to release their upcoming new album via Chaos Records in the Americas !!! Mexican Doom/Dark Metal project MAJESTIC DOWNFALL will release its second album, The Blood Dance, this July. The CD was recorded in Revolution Studios and Inzonic Music Lab with help Jesús Bravo and José “Pastas” Padilla. The Blood Dance features collaborations with Alfonso Sánchez (drums) and guitar solos by Roberto Granados (DENIAL, THE SUFFERING).…