Singer/songwriter Andre Mieux has a holiday treat for his fans. His single “Off In The Club” is now available for $0.99 on CDBaby.com. Fans will receive the album version along with the other versions including an Electronica Mix, a House Mix, Slow Jam Mix, Instrumental and TV Track. That’s seven versions for one special price. The first ten people to purchase the single will receive a ticket to Andre’s show…
1/24 Kansas City MO Uptown Theater 1/25 Minneapolis MN State Theater 1/26 Milwaukee WI Pabst Theater 1/28 Rosemont IL Rosemont Theatre 1/29 Indianapolis IN Murat Theatre 1/30 Cleveland OH Playhouse Square Center – State Theatre 2/1 Detroit MI The Fillmore Detroit 2/2 Munhall PA Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead 2/4 Wallingford CT Oakdale Theatre 2/5 New York NY Beacon Theatre 2/6 Glenside PA Keswick Theatre 2/9 Bethesda MD Music Center…
The sedate sounds of Lisa Papineau remind listeners of The Postal Service. The mixture of ghostly vocals with a slightly more upbeat electronic instrumentation provides an interesting style that is still vibrant and fresh. This bit of sedate sound disappears completely by the time that Lisa comes up with “Shucking. Jiving.” In a sense, I would have to tie Papineau’s work to that done by acts like the Propellerheads and…
Paperface occupies that wonderful position besides popular-emo and the brand of indie-rock popularized by acts like Weezer. Tracks like “Company Soul” do not have the emotional intensity present in current emo, but have a brooding nature to it that belies the feel-good arrangements within. There are hints of acts like Counting Crows in tracks like “Loser’s Game”, where Paperface come forth with a richly-arranged sound that tends to be a…
Rooney announce a February headlining tour in continued support of their most recent release, Eureka. The tour, which will feature Eisley as main support and The Chapin Sisters and The Old Ceremony as openers, kicks off February 2 in Albuquerque, NM and wraps up in Salt Lake City on February 26. Fans can buy tickets at www.rooneytix.com and a special exclusive digital-only Christmas EP of three cover songs: “Merry Christmas…
Hey its country emo! For all those trailer-trash dwelling preteen girls that want to cry without having the parents having them listen to Travis Tritt and Brooks & Dunn. John’s vocals have all the twang of a John Nolan (formerly Taking Back Sunday) and Claudio Sanchez (Coheed and Cambria) and the twinkling piano lines are reminiscent of a Brand New. However, and why a musically acceptable label like Kill Rock…
Prepare yourselves for the Sun Airway rug to be yanked out from under you and to land face first in greatness! Yours Truly and Sun Airway teamed up to make a country-tinged live version of their Pitchfork-playlisted song “Oh, Naoko” from their Dead Oceans debut, Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier, that is going to make music fans lose control of their tear ducts. “They came prepared to re-construct “Oh, Naoko”…
Lonnie Walker just returned from taking their country-punk roots rock on a month long tour with Future Islands, to promote a split 7” the two bands released on November 4, 2010. Titled The Ink Well/Love Turn, the release is limited to 1000 pieces of peach vinyl via Baltimore’s Friends Records. Originally a one-man band, Lonnie Walker evolved from the solo spirit of Brian Corum into a collection of friends bound…
The American music underground is having what you might call a Kings Go Forth moment. Need proof? Over the past year, their seven inch singles set the soul blogs swooning and became instant collectors items. Legendary producer Tom Moulton called them to remix one of their songs. DJ Shadow’s playing them too. “Imaginary soul superstar” Mingering Mike is doing their album cover – the first time he has ever created…
The Paper Champions – Weekend of Compromise / 2004 Reason Y Records / 13 Tracks / http://www.thepaperchampions.com / info@thepaperchampions.com / Reviewed 28 September 2004 In a school of bass playing that comes directly from Geddy Lee, Jason’s bass lines to open up “Weekend of Compromise” are intricate, setting the tone of the track as well as providing an emotive force behind the track that just wouldn’t be the same without…
A Day To Remember’s 2010 spring tour sold out every date, making it one of the hottest tickets earlier this year. Now fans are getting another crack to see them. A Day To Remember are pleased to announce the The Game Changers Tour in support of their smash album What Separates Me From You. “This tour is about bringing back what’s been missing from the game,” commented lead singer Jeremy…
The noise that starts off the title track puts The Paper Champions into a very Green Day-esque sound right off the bat that drastically changes as soon as the “Station” is turned on the first segment of the track. There are still some comparisons that can be made to Green Day, as the vocals in both bands seem to converge on one point. Billie Joe Armstrong is only one influence…
Belgian band Goose got a bit more than they bargained for in the Megafore-directed video for their new single ‘Can’t Stop Me Now.’ “They made us climb, sweat, fall & fight and we liked it! For this video they have asked a lot from us. I remember they asked us over the phone: “do you mind being part of the video and do ‘some’ acting?” We, full of confidence, replied:…
The harmony that 31 Knots create purely through the vocals of Joe on the disc’s first track “City of Dust” are perhaps one of the most inspired openings to a disc I’ve ever heard, a fact that is further verified when the second set of vocals joins in. This particularly impressive brand of harmony does not peter out when “City of Dust” ends; rather it increases to a fever pitch…
Bloomington, IN’s six-piece Defiance, Ohio is hitting up the west coast before blowing all of their money paying for pictures with koalas! Pull out your fresh 2011 calendars again, check out the new dates below, and remember to stay tuned for updates on those “TBAs”! This past July, Defiance, Ohio released their fourth full-length, Midwestern Minutes on No Idea Records on CD/LP! Or, if you’re into cassette tapes, you can…
Kirk Cameron, star of the runaway hit movie “Fireproof,” will be the featured speaker for Feed Your Faith’s “Love Worth Fighting For” tour, which kicks off in Feb. 2011. Well-know signer/songwriter Warren Barfield (“Love Is Not A Fight” from the movie “Fireproof”) will also be a featured guest on the tour. The “Love Worth Fighting For” conference focuses on all areas of relationships including our relationship with God. The conference…
New York City’s Merkin Concert Hall, in association with New Amsterdam Records, presents the 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, a showcase of collaborative evenings between more than 150 genre-pushing composers, songwriters and performers who represent a new generation of artists combining diverse influences and techniques to explore the crossover of classical and pop music. All concerts will include premieres. The festival opens with a free seven-hour marathon on January 17th, 2011,…
The title track starts off this album, and comes out with the emotional content of a band like The Anniversary with the sincerity of a Story of the Year for an immediate hit. This mixture of a 2000 sound with something that is as fresh as a meadow will undoubtedly bring in masses of fans, and this mass will only get larger when one considers the talent in which The…
Straight from the cities of Dublin and London are two young producers/DJs who over the past two years have taken the underground by storm: Arveene & MiSK. As remixers, their credits read like a who’s who in electronic dance music, including the likes of Mr. Oizo, The Prodigy, Calvin Harris, Felix da Housecat, Zombie Nation, Kitsune, Ed Banger, Bang Gang, and Turbo. The same could be said about their supporters,…
The first shock that I had when first listening to the disc is that the style of this disc had nothing to do with Pan Pipes, but with steel pan drums. Nevermind the drum is featured prominently on the front cover, I just usually stick the disc in and let it go; one thing that individuals first hear about the band is that it sounds almost like a midi version…