Minutes Too Far’s “Let it Roll” captures I think the essential of what scenesters crave these days. Each song has radio quality, poppy with vocals that don’t really travel from the standard and onto new and adventurous. The vocalist never really sounds like the same guy from track to track, but his many personas are all safe. I feel as though at times that the beat carried through from song…
More Songs, the critically-acclaimed debut full-length from Grown Ups (Chicago, IL / Furnessville, IN) will see an official North American re-release on November 9th from Topshelf Records ( My Heart To Joy, Pianos Become The Teeth, Defeater ). Originally released worldwide on May 17, 2010 by British imprint Big Scary Monsters, More Songs saw limited distribution Stateside via the label’s web store, as well as from the band at shows.…
Oct. 7 – New York, NY – Joe’s Pub Nov. 2 – San Diego, CA – Park Gallery Nov. 3 – Los Angeles, CA – Hotel Cafe Nov. 4 – Santa Barbara, CA – Muddy Waters Cafe Nov. 7 – Sacramento, CA – Luigi’s Fungarden Nov. 9 – Bend, OR – Silver Moon Brewery Nov. 10 – Portland, OR – Alberta Rose Theater Nov. 12 – Seattle, WA – Columbia…
Mixing together the guitars of Rage Against the Machine and Sparta to make a laid-back form of punk music, Austin’s Minutes To Burn burst out onto the scene early this year. Starting off this disc with “Poison Everything”, Minutes To Burn brood every while building an energy with the powerful drum strikes by Jeremy. Continuing their deeply emotional sound with “Static”, the band further establishes themselves as a professional, solid…
R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, and bassist Mike Mills have just finished recording their 15th studio album, which will be released in Spring 2011 by Warner Bros. Records. The band has re-teamed with Grammy Award-winning producer Jacknife Lee, who produced R.E.M.’s acclaimed previous album Accelerate. He is also noted for his work on albums by U2, Snow Patrol, The Hives, and indie stalwarts Kasabian, The Editors, Aqualung, and…
The amount of individuals that contributed in some meaningful music way to “The Pestilence is Coming” is enough in number to make a small town. Forty individuals throw in with “additional performances”, and their work can easily be heard during the entirety of “The Pestilence is Coming”. The Minor Leagues play an interesting brand of indie rock that does not really have any temporal link. There are hints during the…
Metal Mind Productions presents the exclusive re-release of self-titled album by Angelzoom. This album is a truly magical journey into the most beautiful corners of the mind… Angelzoom is a project of vocalist Claudia Uhle, who was known from the German pop ensemble called X-Perience, where she sang from 1995. The group had two major hits – “A Neverending Dream” and “Magic Fields”. In 2004 she used her time off…
On October 20, Vassily Primakov will perform the world premiere of “Piano Concerto No. 2” by the Danish composer Poul Ruders. The performance will take place in Oslo, Norway, with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra conducted by the orchestra’s Music Director, Thomas Søndergård. The 24 minute concerto, in three movements, was commissioned by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and American pianist, Jerome Lowenthal. The premiere performance will be broadcast in Norway, and…
The low key sound of Minmae during their “Pay More” will challenge listeners, as the eight and a half minutes that the track runs is nothing to scoff at. What simply sounds like a down tempo rock sound goes into noisy cacophony at points, keeping individuals attracted to the track. The random placement of clips from what sounds to be forties and fifties recordings give this another layer of depth,…
Sept 30 Denver CO @ The Further Shop w/ Velnias Oct 2 Milwaukee @ Borg Ward Oct 3 Chicago IL @ Enemy w/ Locrian Oct 4 Columbus OH @ Carabar w/ Bringers of Disease Oct 5 Brooklyn NY @ Archeron w/ Archon and Bezoar Oct 7 Boston MA @ Starlab w/ Ehnahre Oct 8 Greenfield MA @ John Doe Jr. w/ Ehnahre Oct 9 Ithaca NY @ Warehouse w/ Ehnahre…
The North American premiere will be at the New York Film Festival on September 30th Starring Chloë Sevigny, ALL FLOWERS IN TIME is a dark and quirky short film that plunges the audience into a mysterious universe. A malevolent signal emitted by a Dutch television program bewitches viewers and possesses young girls and boys making them believe that they can morph into other people and monsters. About the director Born…
Milton and the Devils Party play a brand of alternative rock that is reminiscent of Elvis Costello and all the perfect car-driving tunes of the earliest days of the nineties. The recording on “What Is All This Sweet Work Worth?” is not the lush-ness expected from bands in this current day and age, but rather the quiet and septic mix of bands like Harvey Danger and The Pixies. The fury…
Umphrey’s McGee and Martin Sexton perform a double-header concert webcast on Sunday Oct. 3, live from the soundstage of Ex’pression College for Digital Art in Emeryville, CA. The concert is hosted by CreativeAllies.com, an online design community that lets anyone submit art in official design contests for high-profile artists including M.I.A., OK Go, Amanda Palmer, Jack Johnson and Thievery Corporation. Sexton takes the stage first at 7 p.m. PT/ 10…
I hear that Jeff Mills is a DJ. “Blue Potential” shows that this may just nt be the only tag he is worth of. This album features the Montpellier Philharmonic Orchestra (what, was the New York Philharmonic out for the day), and showcases Mills’ skills as an arranger. This means that songs like the opening have a decidedly film score-like sound for individuals, something that never quite leaves during the…
Chicago’s Smith Westerns, who recently signed with Fat Possum, have announced a handful of upcoming dates including a Northeast run of shows with Florence & The Machine and a Chicago date opening for Belle & Sebastian. The band’s debut self-titled LP was just given a wide release via Fat Possum and the band is currently wrapping up its as-of-yet untitled sophomore LP, which is due in early 2011. Photographer Ryan…
ou have probably heard of a few of these artists: Chris Tomlin, David Crowder*Band, Charlie Hall, Christy Nockels, Matt Redman and Passion, but you may not be as familiar with the newest member of the sixstepsrecords family-uprising artist Kristian Stanfill. Having released his critically acclaimed debut album Attention last year, Kristian Stanfill is excited to present to you brand new music that has never been heard before on his new…
Just because you can make a track sound like it is old does not mean it has to sound like crap. Sure, I like the style of music that Blake Miller is trying to do during the opening to “Together With Cats”, but there is absolutely NO reason to have the vocals present on the track bury the needles. This creates a form of dissonance that will irritate and annoy…
IMPIETY FINISH RECORDING OF THEIR NEW ALBUM! The title for the 7th IMPIETY’s full length album is Worshippers of the Seventh Tyranny currently being recorded in utter depravation and satanic violence at Music City Studios in Treviso, Italy. The album will have seven blasphemies with a running time close to 40mins. The Barbarian Black Horde IMPIETY now comprises of Shyaithan (Bass.Vomit) in command with Guh Lu (Guitars), Eskathon (Guitars) and…
For all intents and purposes, this is a single. There is an edited and an LP version of the same song coupled with a B-side. Thus, individuals do not have that much time to get to know who Midnight Movies are and what they intend to do in the music scene. The trance like vocals that start out ‘Patient Eye” hearken back to an earlier gothic style (mix Siouxsie and…
The tour is set to kick off on October 3 at the Post Pavillion in Columbia, MD and ends November 4 in Los Angeles, CA at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live. Tour dates below. Oct 3 Columbia, MD Merriweather – Post Pavillion Oct 5 New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom Oct 6 Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Center Oct 8 Lowell, MA – Tsongas Oct 9 Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena…