Duncan Sheik had a few hits on the Billboard chart. After doing time with His Boy Elroy (does anyone else remember them?), Sheik rocketed up the chart with “Barely Breathing”. After cutting a few more tracks, Sheik was tapped to contribute the music for the American stage version of “Spring Awakening”, a re-tooling of a seminal Frank Wedekind work. “Mamma Who Bore Me” is a fairly Spartan composition, with little…
In the third installment of their campaign to reissue classic albums, Rebel Records is releasing Curly Ray Cline’s Chicken Reel and Dave Evans’ Bluegrass Memories for digital download on Tuesday, December 21st. The albums will be available for purchase through major retailers including iTunes music store and Amazon MP3. During his nearly thirty years as Ralph Stanley’s faithful sideman Curly Ray Cline recorded a handful of fiddle albums to sell…
“Scoop” is the newest in the increasingly long line of Woody Allen movies. I have really no idea what the movie is about, but the soundtrack has some hard hitting classical movements on it. Up first is the Swan Lake Ballet Suite, No expense was spared in including this Tchaikovsky symphony on this soundtrack; none less than The Berlin Philharmonic are present here. The one strong thing going for this…
2010 HIGHLIGHTS: · Two Grammy Awards: Jason Mraz, “Make It Mine,” Best Pop Vocal Performance; Jason Mraz/Colbie Caillat, “Lucky,” Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals · Producer for Train’s “Hey Soul Sister,” the #1 best seller on iTunes in 2010 · Producer for Jason Mraz “I’m Yours,” the #7 best seller on iTunes in 2010 · Production and songwriting with KT Tunstall (songs on Tiger Suit); Joshua Radin, The Rock And…
As if their 2011 touring schedule wasn’t impressive enough, Comeback Kid has announced a spring European headlining tour with The Ghost Inside, Kvelertak, Grave Maker and Social Suicide. Dates below. Previously announced this month, Comeback Kid also will be hitting theUS with H2O and Attack, followed by a run with Madball and Cruel Hand before heading over to South America with Sick of It All. As noted by Review Rinse…
The Get Up Kids have announced details of the second leg of their 2011 North American tour, covering cities on the east coast and midwest, in support of their forthcoming album There Are Rules. The second set of dates begins in Orlando, FL on February 22 and runs through March 13 and includes two shows in New York City March 2 and 3. A limited number of tickets for each…
Saw III is a horror movie. Most horror movies are tied to hard rock, whether it be eighties horror movies with Alice Cooper or Saw III with an act like All That Remains. One note about All That Remains; I was not impressed with their prior releases, but their track off of this soundtrack is a maelstrom of fury, something hard for individuals to immediately sink their teeth into. It…
For the original band members Harry Conklin (vocals), Mark Briody (guitar) and John Tetley (bass), JAG PANZER has always been something they held close to their hearts. “We’ve known each other from our earliest childhood and have never lost sight of the idea that this band is based on,” Tetley explains. “I don’t exactly want to use the term ‘spiritual’, but the three of us are connected with this band…
It is rare that a movie has to compare itself with one of the classics of the sixties, but 2005’s remake of Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” tries to do just that. There are a few things that this re-make has going for it out of the gates; first off, the music and lyrics are still all those produced and written by Mel Brooks. If anything, the set of songs from…
You can’t build an Empire overnight and for the guys of Eye Empire, it has been three years in the making. It all started in 2007 when Corey Lowery (Stuck Mojo/Stereomud/Dark New Day) and B.C. Kochmit (Switched/Dark New Day) started to construct what would eventually become the foundation of this Empire. After two years of writing and searching for the right voice of their Empire, they found Donald Carpenter (Submersed)…
Very few directors actually have the talent or desire to score their own movies. However, Tom Tykwer is one of those directors that does just that, and the soundtrack for “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” seems to have a closer connection to the events in the movie than would a non-director-created score would have. Like many different soundtracks, there are a number of shorter segments designed to be present…
Los Angeles-based Grouplove are set to do a 4-date residency the Bootleg Theatre in January 2011. The first three shows (Jan 3, 10 and 17th) are free and open to all and the final show on January 24 is a paid show with a special guest headliner TBA. BOOTLEG RESIDENCY – EVERY MONDAY! FREE! Jan 3rd – Grouplove w/ Guards, + guest TBA FREE Jan 10th- Grouplove w/ White Arrows…
Los Angeles-based Grouplove are set to do a 4-date residency the Bootleg Theatre in January 2011. The first three shows (Jan 3, 10 and 17th) are free and open to all and the final show on January 24 is a paid show with a special guest headliner TBA. BOOTLEG RESIDENCY – EVERY MONDAY! FREE! Jan 3rd – Grouplove w/ Guards, + guest TBA FREE Jan 10th- Grouplove w/ White Arrows…
In the cold dark Winter of 2008, Braintheft began performing at house party’s and underground Dubstep nights in Berlin. It didn’t take long for word to spread about this unique new “Psychedelic Dub Sound” and before long Braintheft were playing in some of Berlin’s most respected music venues and festivals. By Summer 2009 the band began to collaborate with various vj’s to set up a live Audio/Visual show using a…
Alexandre Desplat is responsible for the soundtrack to “The Painted Veil”. To get an idea of what the compositions are framed by, The Painted Veil’s action takes place in the 1920s. The story behind The Painted Veil is that a doctor and a younger woman marry, move to China, break up and then have to get back together through turmoil. To help Desplat during this score, Lang Lang lies down…
CALM HATCHERY, death metal quintet from northern Poland, featuring past and present members of Dead Infection or Tehace is about to release their new, second album, entitled „Sacrilege Of Humanity”. The band signed worldwide deal with Selfmadegod, and the album will hit the stores on 20th December 2010. Cover artwork was designed by Mentalporn (Deathstars, Behemoth). On band’s Myspace page (www.myspace.com/calmhatchery) you can already listen to three songs from this…
Harry Gregson-Williams may be best known at this point for the scores to Veronica Guerin and Phone Booth, while director Joel Schumacher has had a few hits of eir own (The Lost Boys, St. Elmo’s Fire, and Batman Forever). What results when these two get together to work with a movie in which Jim Carrey portrays a wildly-different character than anyone is used to? Essentially, there is a blend of…
Italian purveyors of all things heavy Supernatural Cat Records are proud to announce the signing of experimental duo OvO to their eclectic and crushing label roster. In a brief statement from the label this week, Supernatural Cat stated: “We’re proud to announce that OvO joined Supernatural Cat. OvO is not noise, not metal, not doom, not punk, not rock and roll, even if there’s a little bit of influence from…
I had heard a lot of hubbub about the original John Williams theme being used for the introduction of “Superman Returns”. I had also heard that Ottman was going to retool the general sound of the theme, but to be honestly, I’m not hearing much in the way of difference from the original theme. Regardless of the form it found itself as on the disc, this theme is a good…
Fearless Records is excited to announce that Every Avenue, Go Radio and The Word Alive will be part of Vans Warped Tour 2011! All three bands will be playing a full summer on the legendary punk rock festival tour, that kicks off in Dallas, TX on June 24th. “We are very excited to be doing the whole Warped Tour for the first time,” notes Every Avenue singer Dave Strauchman. “This…