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).…
Funimation has done a tremendous amount of working trying to get all of the One Piece episodes captured onto DVD in the last few years. This April, 2011 release sees episodes 196-205 captured, with the “marathon play” option perhaps being the most interesting inclusion of them all. This “marathon play” feature allows viewers that may have a few hours to watch the show the ability to cut straight to the…
Wed 01 Jun – Liverpool – Kazimier Thu 02 Jun – London – The Garage Fri 03 Jun – Birmingham – HMV Institute Sat 04 Jun – Glasgow – Classic Grand (small room) Sun 05 Jun – Middlesbrough – Music Live / Cosmos Stage Mon 06 Jun – Manchester – Deaf Institute
I find that there are two distinct types of fans of Fox’s Glee. There is a decided side of the fans that like the show for the narrative quality it contains, and there are those people that are much larger fans of the musical numbers that the cast does. Glee: Encore is a DVD (and Blu-Ray) release that captures just these musical numbers, excising any of the plot or other…
The second “Dave Matthews Band Caravan” of the summer will take place at Chicago’s Lakeside, located on the south shore of Lake Michigan, just a short distance from downtown Chicago. Details of the three-day festival, scheduled for July 8, 9 and 10, were announced today at a press conference held at the site. The event will feature a diverse lineup of musical talent performing on three stages during the day…
“Please Come Home Tonight”, the new single from Aqua Blue Records recording artist Greg Susoreny, is steadily climbing the National charts. This single has already gained tremendous support surpassing such artists as Rihanna, Robbie Robertson, and Lady Gaga. Susoreny’s success is due to the quality of his craft. As Jeff Shane, Former Vice President of Capitol Records, describes him: “Greg has an unbelievable gift to write and record music that…
If you’re imagining how the world could be so very fine this summer, then you’ll no doubt be elated to hear that The Happy Together Tour — featuring five major artists from the sixties — will be returning again this year. Beginning in early July, The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie, The Association, The Grass Roots, The Buckinghams and Mark Lindsay, former lead singer of Paul Revere & The Raiders,…
Fri 06/03/11 Los Angeles, CA Bardot Sat 06/04/11 San Louis Obispo, CA SLO Brewing Sun 06/05/11 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Shop Tue 06/07/11 Lake Tahoe, CA Hard Rock Thu 06/09/11 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court Fri 06/10/11 Boise, ID Knitting Factory Sat 06/11/11 Seattle, WA Chop Suey Mon 06/13/11 Portland, OR Berbati’s Pan Tue 06/14/11 Redding, CA TBD Wed 06/15/11 Sacramento, CA Harlow’s Thu 06/16/11 Santa Barbara, CA Velvet…
So, a brief story about this release. We had a reviewer at NeuFutur that requested this title. They flaked out. I took over and finally found a copy of the album, and have been spinning it nonstop since then. Piano Red is nothing less than Atlanta blues royalty, and The Lost Atlanta Tapes represents recordings that were previously deemed lost.
For the first time in history, Chicago will host the US AIR GUITAR NATIONAL FINALS. On July 23rd at METRO, US Air Guitar’s nationwide search for the country’s finest professional air guitarists will culminate in what will doubtlessly become Chicago’s premiere summer event. The 2011 US Air Guitar National Finals will pit nearly two dozen handpicked winners from 18 cities across the country against one another in a battle for…
There is little information present online about the HD Cinema Classics label. In fact, after giving Dementia 13 a spin, the only thing that I know about the company is that they are looking to become a major force in giving forgotten-about films the light of day. Dementia 13 is one of the examples of this; Francis Ford Coppola’s first film is cleaned up and given its proper chance to…
Safely guarded behind four pairs of glasses and an arsenal of awkward tendencies, the members of By Surprise have spent an equal amount of time combing through the forgotten dust-filled grooves of 7-inch records released during the 90s indie label boom, as they have with the off-beat and inspirational works of Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, and Douglas Adams. Mountain Smashers, the band’s first full-length album, and their first with…
You may remember Baiyu from MTVu’s “The Freshmen”, but she’s graduated and ready to share her soulful sounds with the world. Baiyu has released her new single Together via iTunes, Bandcamp, and GlobalGrind.com. Baiyu’s new EP, Fan Fair, will debut April 15th on her official website www.baiyuonline.com, and will be a free download – this being a gift to her many fans that have supported her career and continue to…
Over the last ten years, bouncing back and forth from Chicago to NYC, Zachary Mastoon composed a diverse and critically-acclaimed catalog under the alias Caural. Pressing wax for such labels as Chocolate Industries, Mush, Plug Research, Sound in Color and many others, his song-oriented compositions and flair for unique sonic juxtaposition continue to set him apart from his contemporaries in the beat scene. Yet it was only by default –…
Coming off a successful SXSW, and recent nomination for Best New Artist at The Austin Music Awards, Candi and The Strangers drop their video for album single, “Glide”, this week. Directed and filmed completely by the band’s own John and Samantha Constant, for their House of Constant imprint, the video combines video projection, stop-motion animation and live footage to follow a non-sentient android through a post-apocolyptic waste land of pop…
5/02/2011 Magasin 4 – Brussels, Belgium 5/03/2011 W2 – Den Bosch, Holland 5/04/2011 Molotow – Hamburg, Germany 5/05/2011 Mantra – Moscow, Russian Federation 5/06/2011 Arctica – St. Petersburg, Russian Federation 5/07/2011 AZ Conni – Dresden, Germany 5/08/2011 Kontich – Lintfabriek, Belgium 5/09/2011 Le Grand Wazoo – Amiens, France 5/10/2011 L’Usine – Geneva, Switzerland 5/12/2011 Magnolia – Milano, Italy 5/13/2011 PMK – Innsbruck, Austria 5/15/2011 007 – Prague, Czech Republic 5/17/2011…
Amherst, Massachusetts’ AMPERE have leaked a new track entitled,” Escapism Pt. II.” from their highly anticipated new album entitled Like Shadows. Please visit the band’s website to absorb the 57 second new song and view the cover art for the album. Like Shadows will be released on June 7th on LP/ CD via No Idea Records. The band have a few shows lined up including an album release in Western…
Never assume that the quality of jeans is limited to those types that are available in normal department stores. I nearly did that with Wrangler, and I am glad to admit that I gave their Wrangler Premium Performance jeans a spin. I’ve been lucky enough to lose a substantial amount of weight over the last eight months, so the jeans that I had were ill-fitting. The three pairs of jeans…