ony Online Entertainment LLC is scheduled to release Magic: The Gathering – Tactics™, a free-to-play game, on the PC this January 18th. Players worldwide will experience a new dimension of Magic: The Gathering® as Wizards of the Coast’s legendary trading card game and its iconic creatures, characters and spells come to life for the first time in a fully realized 3D environment. Free to download and play, registered players will…
For those individuals that were fans of nineties rock, Glen Phillips was at one point the lead singer of Toad The Wet Sprocket. Things change, it is a few years in the future and Phillips comes to “Mr. Lemons” with an opening track in “Everything But You” that washes over individuals. This track mixes the vocals of a Bryan Adams with a Stevie Nicks-like backing set of vocals and an…
The band will head out on the road in two weeks supporting Thursday and Underoath. They’ve previously toured with Between the Buried and Me, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Circa Survive. They will also be appearing at this year’s Bamboozle Fest in New Jersey the weekend of April 29th-May 1st. Their upcoming dates are: 1/20 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live * 1/21 Austin, TX – Emo’s * 1/22 Dallas, TX –…
We’re pleased to announce a special LA performance by Lord Huron on Jan. 20 at 7pm at the Autry Museum in Griffith Park. The band will be joined by LA’s Calder Quartet and a surprise guest vocalist – also on the show are Abe Vigoda and Gamble House – the show is a part of Brand X’s LA Unheard series. More event info here and tickets available on Ticketweb. The…
The Decemberists have partnered with The Impossible Project and photographer Autumn de Wilde to create a DELUXE BOX EDITION of The King Is Dead, which is available for preorder exclusively at Decemberists.com. Each of the 2,500 limited edition box sets will be unique, with every one containing a one-of-a-kind original Polaroid photo by de Wilde taken during the album’s recording sessions at Pendarvis Farm outside of Portland, Oregon, and in…
Persephone’s Bees are from San Francisco, a city that has a storied musical history. On their “Notes From The Underworld”, Persephone’s Bees try to coalesce all the styles that have been present in San Francisco’s musical history. This means that a very psychedelic sound can mix with disco and nineties music in tracks like “City of Love”. The tracks on this album are all done with a greater fame in…
The Metropolitan Opera will present its first-ever performances of John Adams’ Nixon in China beginning February 2, with the composer conducting his own score. The Met’s new production, staged by internationally acclaimed director Peter Sellars, will star James Maddalena as Richard Nixon, a role he created at the opera’s world premiere in 1987 and has performed at leading opera houses around the world. Nixon in China will also feature Janis…
Even though Panic at the Disco’s Matt Squire was the individual behind the production of this disc, the style of emo music that Permanent Me plays is not the electro-punk-emo mix of Panic. Rather, it blends the 1998 pop-punk Blink 182 style with the guitar fuzz of acts like Appleseed Cast and Lewis. What results is something that is ready for all the radio station, whether they be college-based or…
Keegan DeWitt has released a free remix EP of the two songs on his recent limited edition 7-inch single, Two Hearts/Reluctance. The EP is now available as a free download here and features remixes of “Two Hearts” by Tallest Trees and Myrryrs, as well a remix of “Reluctance” (featuring Isaaca Byrd of The Bridges) by Wild Cub (the moniker under which DeWitt DJs and regularly releases a free mixtape). The…
Ola’s vocals on “Let There Be Morning’s” first track “Weekends” are simply fantastic. Spacey but not the mindless chatter created by acts like Coldplay, Ola’s vocals will draw listeners in from the first work spon until the last gasp of breath finishes off the disc. The twinkling guitar of a track like “Sway” really models itself on the vocals created for the track; this full sound (made even more so…
1/22 – Harlows – Sacramento, CA* 1/23 – Gundlach Bundschu Winery – Sonoma, CA* 1/25 – WOW Hall – Eugene, OR* 1/26 – Hawthorne – Portland, OR* 1/27 – Neumos – Seattle, WA* 3/23 – Low Brow – El Paso, TX** 3/24 – The Rhythm Room – Phoenix, AZ** 3/25 – The Casbah – San Diego, CA** 3/27 – Rickshaw Stop – San Francisco, CA** 3/29 – Holocene – Portland,…
More than 4 decades into his career, Richard Thompson had an amazing 2010, capped off by the year-end news that he was named to the 2011 Honour’s List as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). “The OBE will further restore Richard Thompson’s status at the top table of British musical heroes as a folk revolutionary, one of the world’s greatest guitarists, a must-see performer and one…
Internationally established thrash metal act INDESTRUCTIBLE NOISE COMMAND is pleased to announce the release of their new Bleed the Line EP, available now in digital format. Fans can download the record at iTunes or Amazon.com now. The Bleed the Line EP was written, recorded and produced by the band between the spring and summer of 2010, aside from the single ‘God Loves Violence’, which was cut by seasoned producer Fredrik…
Pepper is a band that I reviewed a few years back. When I reviewed “In With The Old”, I found an album that was solid but one that did not push any new types of styles or approaches during its runtime. The disc’s first track (“No Shame’s” “Bring Me Along”) is a track that is insistent in its laid-back styling. The musical styles used during this track include the brand…
PUJOL was raised in Tullahoma, Tennessee, where he lived in a haunted house which sat one block away from the wrong side of the tracks. He spent his formative years scribbling on walls, shredding behind closed doors, and riding around in cars with older kids. He took his first communion at 13 and secretly drank his first beer shortly thereafter in St. Cecilia’s bathroom, emerging an identity-inclusive Peter Panentheist. When…
Fitting in with the laid-back California sound of 311 and Sublime, with Synchronicity-era Police and Bob Marley sound, Pepper puts this, their latest album, to the forefront. However, Pepper is one of those bands that are perfectly content following the wakes of a number of innovative bands, instead of trying to experiment and incorporate new sounds to their sounds. “Use Me” is the first single-worth track on “In With the…
Wed 01/19/11 New Haven, CT – BAR Thu 01/20/11 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s % Fri 01/21/11 Columbus, OH – Wexner Center at Ohio State % Sat 01/22/11 Nashville, TN – The 5 Spot % Sun 01/23/11 Asheville, NC – Broadways % Sun 02/13/11 London, England @ Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen Tues 02/15/11 Belgium, Brussels – Forest National w/The National Thu 02/17/11 Utrecht @ Netherlands Cross-Linx Fest Fri 02/18/11…
Not content to rest on her laurels, Los Angeles based singer, songwriter, and composer Anna Waronker is delivering an EP to coincide with her new album, California Fade, on Five-Foot-Two Records. The personal tone and stripped down instrumentation of the four-track EP are the perfect compliments to California Fade’s lush arrangements and detailed production. “I wanted to show an even more different side of myself on the EP,” says Waronker,…
People in Planes starts out “As Far As The Eye Can See” in a retro type of vein that luckily disappears after the opening section of the first track on the disc “Barracuda”. What is left, then, is a band that is reminiscent of both Interpol and Queens of the Stone Age. There is a southern-rock sound that permeates “Barracuda” that really distinguishes them from the rest of the retro…
ALCOHOLIC FAITH MISSION Releases New Music Video – ‘My Eyes To See’! “I am fully in love with their song My Eyes To See, and along with their song comes an equally as beautiful, captivating, artistic video that i think could be one of my favorite song/video tandems of the decade!” – ThisBonusTrack.com At last! While it may be a while after the initial release of their album, Let It…