You read that right. The up and coming Baltimore screamo/hardcore outfit Pianos Become The Teeth have announced their first European tour. Swedish band Suis La Lune will be joining Pianos Become The Teeth from April 7th through April 24th of next year. Pianos Become The Teeth’s latest release, Old Pride, is becoming a staple release in the new wave of screamo that is currently hitting the states. The band will…
November 5th, 2010 / BPitch Control meets Kompakt @ Watergate / BerMuDa (Berlin). With Ellen Allien, Sascha Funke, Aérea Negrot (live), Thomas Muller (live). November 6th, 2010 / BPitch Control Showcase @ Showcase (Paris). With Ellen Allien, Chaim, Kiki, We Love (live). December 5th, 2010 / BPitch Control Showcase @ Mint Club (Leeds). With Ellen Allien, Sascha Funke, Pfadfinderei (visuals). December 18th, 2010 / BPitch Control Showcase @ Uebel &…
Movie Star Kiss – Starting Over / 2006 Self / 10 Tracks / http://www.moviestarkiss.com/ http://www.myspace.com/moviestarkiss / Reviewed 07 November 2006 The opening of “Starting Over” is slow, deliberate, and snowballs to give the opening set of vocals even more fury than it would have normally had. There is a high amount of repetition present during this track, but the band is smart enough to end the track before the band…
The world’s premier orchestral rock/metal band and Jive recording artist, Apocalyptica, will return to the U.S. for 18 shows starting November 25h in Orlando, Florida at House Of Blues and concluding in Corpus Christi, Texas on December 18th at the House Of Rock. The Helsinki, Finland based band recently finished their international sold-out summer tour supporting the release of their most recent album, 7th Symphony. Apocalyptica wrapped up their co-headlining…
The Movies – In One Era Out the Other / 2002 Gern Blandsten Records / 10 Tracks / http://www.gernblandsten.com / http://www.skyscrapermedia.net / Reviewed 01 January 2004 Another lo-fi, ethereal sounding type of alternative music. Timothy’s lyric sound plucked out of an early eighties 4AD release. While the promo sheet would have you try to equate The Movies with “Pornography-era Cure”, I would have to point individuals in the way of…
We Came As Romans will kick off the new year as the headline act on the Motel 6 “Rock Yourself To Sleep Tour”. Joining the Michigan-based band on the full U.S. tour will be For Today, The Word Alive, Woe Is Me, and labelmates Texas In July. As part of the Motel 6 “Rock Yourself To Sleep Tour”, We Came As Romans and all supporting bands, will receive free accommodations…
Motion City Soundtrack – Commit This To Memory / 2005 Epitaph / 12 Tracks / http://www.motioncitysoundtrack.com / http://www.epitaph.com / Reviewed 06 April 2005 We have a winner for the most annoying method to ensure that one’s CD is not stolen. Epitaph has decided to split up the twelve tracks on “Commit This To Memory” into 99 different sections, and this means that I get into a groove with the great…
Atlantic recording artist Hope has announced details of her upcoming U.S. tour set to kick off on October 24th in Albuquerque, NM. Hope, a New York born singer/songwriter/producer will be touring in direct support of fellow label mate Ryan Star and pop rock group Days Difference on the nationwide trek, which culminates with a performance on November 10th at The Note in Westchester, PA. Later in the Spring, Hope will…
10/29 – Asheville, NC – Moog Fest 10/31 – Charlottesville, VA – Charlottesville Pavilion 11/4 – Chicago, IL – Smart Bar – (DJ Set) 11/4 – Chicago, IL – The Metro* 11/5 – Toronto, ON – Phoenix Theatre* 11/6 – Montreal, QC – Le National* 11/7 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club* 11/8 – New York, NY – Webster Hall* 11/9 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s** 11/10 –…
Founded by Richie Cavalera in Phoenix, AZ, in 2004, Incite has managed to build a solid worldwide fan-base in only 6 years. With extensive touring in North America as well as in Europe and a strong work ethic, they are well on their way to become part of a new generation of innovators in the metal scene. Their self released debut EP, “Divided We Fall”, sold out in only a…
James Morrison – Undiscovered / 2007 Interscope / 11 Tracks / http://www.jamesmorrisonmusic.com / http://www.interscope.com / Reviewed 11 March 2007 James Morrison plays a style of feel-good pop-rock that has ties to artists such as John Maher and Jack Johnson; the title track derivates from that formula only when ey adds a very psychedelic meets Counting Crows type of organ to the mix. The large role that the bass has in…
Abandon Kansas is already looking forward to 2011 as they have recently finished recording their full-length album on Gotee Records, Ad Astra Per Aspera (latin for “to the stars through difficulties”) with producer Mark Lee Townsend (Deas Vail, House of Heroes). To give fans an early taste of Ad Astra Per Aspera the first single from the release ‘The Golden State’ will be available on iTunes on November 2, the…
Mouth Sewn Shut – Pandemic = Solution / 2006 Rodent Popsicle / 12 Tracks / http://www.myspace.com/mouthsewnshut / http://www.rodentpopsicle.com / Reviewed 07 July 2006 Obviously, Toxic Narcotic is one of the best crust bands out in the genre today. For those that do not know, Bill and Will from Toxic Narcotic are in this band. Mouth Sewn Shut seems to be a little heavier, more metal-based type of crust act. However…
In the midst of a cluster of weekend shows in their homebase of California, Two-Tone ska legends THE ENGLISH BEAT are beginning to look forward and prepare for a swing of shows of the East Coast. But before they pack things up and shoot Eastward, they’ll be celebrating the Celtic celebration of end of Harvest Season on “Samhain,” better known these days as its more commercial offspring, “Halloween.” “I enjoy…
The opening of “Royal Street Inn” sounds as if a blend of Adam Duritz and Coldplay were present with Moroux’s “Cincinnati”. There is the typical singer-songwriter in a coffee shop style, with a very tender bit of instrumentation backing up Moroux’s vocals. What results is a track that could easily be played on all of the pop and Top 40 radio stations. This does not mean that the track is…
Norwegian black metallers GORGOROTH recently returned from Tomas Asklund’s Monolith Studio putting the finishing touches on a project that’s been a secret until now: A complete re-recording of the band’s third album Under The Sign Of Hell. It has long been guitarist Infernus’ wish to do such a re-recording, and now the work is close to complete. A final release date has not yet been set. In addition, the band…
With a soulful beat reminiscient of J. Dilla, this chorusless banger rides upon a catchy vintage sample that croons “Don’t give up the good life.” The Tanya Morgan emcee showcases his skillful delivery and lets his personality shine through on the whole track. Some of the lyrics come directly from the writings of the rapper’s high school journal and include sentiments that have taken on a different tone as time…
Scuba, aka Paul Rose, has been at the forefront of the dubstep scene since its birth. Having founded the innovative and influential Hotflush Recordings label in 2003, he has continually brought colour and depth to an advancing genre, expanding its sonic structure and increasing its influence on the wider electronic scene. Through Scuba and seminal work by central figures including Distance, Vex’d and more recently Mount Kimbie and Joy Orbison,…
It seems that the Dragon Ball Z series of fighters have had some problem really gaining traction in the United States. This never made sense to me, as the controls were more than serviceable and the game design enough to tax even the most-current wave of consoles. However, there may just be a DBZ title that will have players buying it in droves and keeping it in their PSPs for…
Moros Eros is an act that has a lot of flavor to the tracks that they release, but struggles hard to find a sound for the entirety of “I Saw The Devil”. It seems as if each track on this album shows Moros Eros trying to do something different, whether it be the dance punk of a song like “Short of the Shore” or the grunge meets seventies rock of…