There are few singer-songwriters that are able to create something that successfully marries the rich tradition brought the genre by luminaries like Dylan and Cohen in the sixties with a vitality and vibrancy that is germane to current audiences. However, I believe that Tom Shaner does just that on his new recording, Get Real or Get Gone. This disc begins with “Waltz 13”, a track that does more than merely…
The Way Back is a film that covers ground that has been trod fairly often; World War II. Furthermore, this is a title that focuses on the escape of prisoners from a Soviet prison camp. Saying that, what Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe, Legend of the Guardians), Colin Ferrell, and Ed Harris do in The Way Back is create a realistic and extremely fun title.
“Invest in Heaven” is the first track on “Front Row Seat To The End of the World”, and it will immediately bring listeners to the dance floor. What glamourKings does on this track is tie together dance, electronic, and industrial music into something fun that maintains a sharp edge. “Generation Greed” adds a little punk attitude to the mix, with the overall effort of glamourKings during the track touching upon…
Continuing on their dramatic trajectory up, HE IS WE keeps creating new content with their fans in mind. The previously released acoustic video versions of “Happily Ever After” and “Blame It On the Rain” already garnered close to 350,000 plays on their YouTube channel. This week, the band launches the acoustic video for “And Run” and already, the video has generated close to 5,000 plays. The video was directed by…
ince its unveiling last week, Peter Bjorn and John’s sixth album Gimme Some has found praise flowing in from all corners. Gimme Some has been tapped as “a top contender for best album of the year” by Elle and hailed for its’ “inspired, melodic, wildly infectious pop songs” by NPR. Filter appreciated the “heavy drums and catchy guitar riffs” while SPIN thought the Swedes might be in cahoots with Ikea.…
4/27 – St Louis, MO – The Firebird* 4/28 – Chicago, IL – Schubas* 4/29 – Indianapolis, IN – Earth House* 4/30 – Cleveland, OH – The Grog Shop 5/2 – Boston, MA – Middle East (Downstairs)* 5/3 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground (showcase lounge)* 5/4 – Brooklyn, NY – The Rock Shop* 5/5 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom* 5/6 – Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church*…
Last month, Northside confirmed that Beirut would be returning to their adopted hometown to headline McCarren Park on Friday, June 17. Tickets are on sale and can be purchased here. Bands like Twin Sister, Deervana, Allo Darlin’, Javelin, Ava Luna, Delicate Steve, The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! and Gabriel and the Hounds were also revealed as part of the festival’s lineup to give music fans a sneak peak of what…
Indie metal entity The Flenser, who recently announced the signing of Louisville, Kentucky’s avant-doom unit SEIDR to their potent label roster, today confirm more info on the band’s debut full-length, For Winter Fire. SEIDR’s recently completed For Winter Fire debut boasts gargantuan, organic doom metal riffing displayed in an epic yet harrowing display of force. A slight post-metal atmospheric edge envelops the otherwise crushing tectonic force of the album’s blackened-doom…
It has been a few years since we had the ability to hear Lift to Experience, but they were a bright light at the beginning of the last decade. In the last few years, Pearson has been honing eir craft. 2011’s Last of the Country Gentleman is eir first solo effort, but the keen edge created over the last decade immediately will strike listeners. The album begins with “Thou Art…
Jim Ward’s latest solo EP The End Begins is now available through his new Tembloroso Creative Lab website, www.Tembloroso.com, which is dedicated to providing a worldwide voice for his hometown of El Paso, TX’s artists and musicians. The final installment in his trilogy of solo EPs, The End Begins follows in the contemplative, intimate feel of its predecessors, 2007’s Quiet and 2009’s In The Valley, On The Shores. The easy…
The splendor of summer is almost here. The sounds of clinking wine glasses and the chatter over which chef is offering the best plate will soon spread over the grounds of The Culinary Vegetable Institute for the eagerly awaited Veggie U Food & Wine Celebration. This annual fundraiser to benefit the children’s education program is the crème de la crème of culinary festivals in Northern Ohio. Over 30 of the…
This is the definitive collection for anyone that is into the storyline or special experience that TRON brings them. Where many releases only require a single Blu-Ray (possibly 2 if there are a number of additional features), Disney has ensured that they provide viewers with a tremendous amount of information. This 5 disc Blu-Ray set has the best special feature ever – a remastered version of the original 1982 TRON.…
“Can you feel it? Can you hear it? Just a breeze, hard to hear – there’s a cold wind here…” It was in the early 60s, a valley was flooded and a storage lake appeared right where the small town of Marienbad once was. The inhabitants were relocated – but the twelve who didn’t wanted to go and prefered suicide than an uncertain future… MARIENBAD is the new project of…
Fri-Mar-25 Eagle Rock, CA Eagle Rock Center for the Arts Sat-Mar-26 Los Angeles, CA Satellite Lounge Mon-Mar-28 Santa Cruz, CA Crepe Place Wed-Mar-30 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Stop Fri-Apr-01 Portland, OR Holocene Sat-Apr-02 Vancouver, BC The Biltmore Sun-Apr-03 Seattle, WA The Funhouse Wed-Apr-06 Fargo, ND The Aquarium Thu-Apr-07 Minneapolis, MN 7th St. Entry Fri-Apr-08 Chicago, IL Subterranean Sat-Apr-09 Detroit, MI Bakery Loft Sun-Apr-10 Toronto, ON Opera House Mon-Apr-11 Buffalo, NY…
Wildbirds & Peacedrums is set to tour North America this Spring. These dates are in support of their release Rivers (The Control Group) and their first N.A. dates since supporting Lykke Li and St. Vincent respectively in 2009 & 2010. Rivers is a double release of two distinctly different, five-song EP’s: Retina and Iris and also features the 12-strong Schola Cantorum Reykjavík Chamber Choir (same choir used by Björk on…
Topshelf Records (Grown Ups, My Heart To Joy, Pianos Become The Teeth) is excited to announce the debut 12″ from By Surprise (Haddon Heights, NJ), Mountain Smashers, is now available. First pressing of the vinyl will be limited to 500 (400 Black and 100 Smoke). Friend Of Mine in Japan will be releasing a CD version in early Summer. To celebrate this week’s release, you can download two tracks from…
4/25/2011 Nile Theatre – Mesa, AZ 4/27/2011 White Rabbit – San Antonio, TX 4/29/2011 Culture Room – Fort Lauderdale, FL 4/30/2011 Beacham Theatre – Orlando, FL 5/01/2011 Masquerade – Atlanta, GA 5/02/2011 Jaxx – Springfield, VA 5/03/2011 Peabody’s – Cleveland, OH 5/05/2011 Best Buy Theater – New York, NY 5/06/2011 Theatre Of Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA 5/07/2011 Paradise Rock Club – Boston, MA 4/25/2011 Nile Theatre – Mesa, AZ…
There is no finer bluegrass band than the Del McCoury Band. Having recently celebrated 50 years in the business, Del McCoury’s soulful high, lonesome voice is one of the finest of all time. Del, along with his sons Ron on mandolin and Rob on banjo plus acclaimed fiddler Jason Carter and bassist Alan Bartram, continually tests the boundaries of modern bluegrass music, a feat that has earned them slots at…
Multi-platinum rock band STYX joins forces with the world’s most quintessential prog-rock band YES for a summer tour extravaganza. These two monster rock bands will embark on the 22-city “Progressive U.S. Tour” starting July 4th and concluding August 3rd in Mountain View, CA. Tickets will go on sale starting the weekend of April 8th. STYX–Tommy Shaw (vocals, guitars), James “JY” Young (vocals, guitars), Lawrence Gowan (vocals, keyboards), Todd Sucherman (drums)…
This is the opening coverage that we have written for our computing section, so I have to apologize in advance if there are any kinks in it.