YELLOWCARD officially announced their first tour, heading to the UK with friends All Time Low. “Huge news everyone! We are so stoked to make our very first tour announcement. We will be heading to the United Kingdom with All TIme Low in March of 2011!” says frontman/guitarist Ryan Key. “We haven’t been able to get across the pond since 2006 so this is really exciting for us. In addition to…
Oct. 10th – Cameo Gallery – Brooklyn, NY Oct. 12th – Glasslands -Brooklyn, NY Oct. 16th – Cameo Gallery – Brooklyn, NY Paul Duncan is currently recording and performing under the moniker Warm Ghost. It finds him taking a step beyond traditional instrumentation and one toward that of electronics, synthesizers, drum machines and processed field recordings. Warm Ghost has now evolved into a band in collaboration with Oliver Chapoy, where…
Southern doomsters KING GIANT have just recently completed and released the first video from their debut full-length Southern Darkness. Filmed on a mountaintop in West Virginia this past Spring, the video was shot and produced by Kevin Barkerand Doublekick Productions [http://www.doublekickproductions.com] and was built around the storyline to their song “13 To 1”, essentially about a lynching after a card game gone awry. The band self-released Southern Darkness a year…
The bluegrass world is set to gather on September 30 for the 2010 International Bluegrass Music Awards, recognizing the year’s most outstanding accomplishments in 17 categories and honoring two pioneers for their groundbreaking influence. The star-studded evening will feature a stellar cast of performers and exciting collaborations to delight audiences and celebrate bluegrass worldwide. Fans can look forward to a dozen performances including reigning Entertainers of the Year Dailey &…
Chicago’s Maps & Atlases are excited to debut “Solid Ground” today, the first video from their debut full-length Perch Patchwork and announce tour dates this November across the midwest and east coast. Directed by Taryn Gould and Emily Kowalczyk, “Solid Ground” depicts the quartet attempting to lure lead singer Dave Davison back ashore while he drifts between states of consciousness. Filmed over a weekend in the beautiful Berkshires in western…
The Pygmalion Music Festival has, now in its sixth year, firmly established itself as a major and innovative presence in the universe of North American music festivals. The festival’s schedule is now complete and viewable on the fest’s site (http://schedule.pygmalionmusicfestival.com ). This year’s lineup: of Montreal * Janelle Monae * Built to Spill * Roky Erickson w/Okkervil River * Caribou * Ted Leo & The Pharmacists * Cut Chemist *…
David “Rock” Feinstein – the former member of Ronnie Dio & The Prophets, The Electric Elves, Elf, and the leader of the legendary NYC band, The Rods – is readying a new solo effort via the Niji Entertainment Group, ‘Bitten By The Beast.’ Released on November 23, 2010, the nine-track disc will be available as a deluxe digipack, and will certainly be of interest to metal fans worldwide, due to…
Sacred 13 is an act that skillfully blends rock with a much harder and grittier sound, immediately inviting listeners in with “Secrets”. Perhaps most interesting has to be the grind the band gets into during the track and how exactly it interacts with the vocals laid down here. “Lifeless” keeps things interesting, with a little bit of electronic noise inserted into the track. What was a more instrumentally-lead band during…
We here at NeuFutur have been lucky enough to snag the earliest tracks that Circledown has released as part of their “Mobius” LP. The album, which is slated to come out in February, 2011, showcases an absolutely intense band. “Re-constitute”, for example, is a track that ties together musical references as diverse as Static-X, Linkin Park, Fear Factory, and even Machine Head in one furious and intricate metal track. The…
“Unnamed” is the first salvo that Downslave shoots at their listeners, and it is pretty immediately that one can hear Papa Roach, old school Megadeth, and even Hellyeah in this straight-forward, intense bit of metal. With a production hat virtually ensures that the band will break it big, “Cost of Freedom” has it all. “Cost of Freedom” varies things up, giving the drums a highlight that properly shows the talent…
There are typically a number of reasons why sequels do not live up to the strong efforts put forth by their progenitors. However, Camp Rock 2 is a film that builds off of the original while providing viewers with more than enough in the way of added material and different plot twists and turns. For those individuals that liked the work of Demi Lovato (Mitchie) and Joe Jonas (Shane), they…
Despite constantly being under the shadow of the cancellation axe, Chuck has somehow managed to survive a finicky audience and skittish TV execs thanks to smart writing that has attracted a small, but die hard following of fans and critics. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has covered independent music, PC hardware, consumer tech, and gaming culture since 1998.…
The Dirty Heads continue to sell out shows across the U.S. in support of their debut album, Any Port In A Storm, featuring the hit single “Lay Me Down.” Now the So-Cal locals are giving one lucky winner the chance to win an autographed Ernie Ball guitar plus a year supply of strings. 9/15 9PM Denver, CO The Summit Music Hall 9/16 9PM Colorado Springs, CO The Black Sheep 9/18…
Remember the good old days, when jazz-fusion wasn’t all about showing off your chops, and was more about creating sweeping moods, and the importance of songwriting? Well, the Bombastic Meatbats certainly remember those days. Having obviously studied the classic early-to-mid ’70s recordings of such fusion greats as Return to Forever and Jeff Beck, the group (which includes such members as Grammy winning Red Hot Chili Peppers/Chickenfoot drummer Chad Smith, guitarist…
Metal Mind Productions presents a re-release of “Sore”, the second album by one of the most unique and overlooked bands of the US underground – Buzzoven. Buzzoven (also known as Buzzov•en) was a sludge metal band from North Carolina, formed in 1989 by the remaining members of Sewer Puppet. The band was known for being one of the founders of the sludge genre (right after Eyehategod), and also for their…
This is one of the songs that broke Celine Dion huge in the adult contemporary market here in the United States. It is thus tied to eir, as pretty much anyone that was cognizant and listening to the radio heard eir rendition way too many times. Now, apparently this song was originally written for Meatloaf. I can understand that; “I’ll Do Anything For Love” has the same general type of…
All Tiny Creatures, a Madison-based experimental pop quartet recording for the Hometapes label, will embark on a string of U.S. tour dates this September, including shows in Brooklyn, Washington DC, and at Raleigh’s Hopscotch Festival . To whet appetities, Hometapes is releasing the MP3 single “An Iris.” Featuring vocal contributions from Justin Vernon, this track is a sneak peek of what’s to come from All Tiny Creatures, a band led…
It has been over a decade since Meat Loaf came out with eir last CD. However, it was right around the same amount of time since the first “Bat Out of Hell” CD was released to the world, so I suppose that Meat Loaf has created a trend in eir own right. The first track is “The Monster is Loose”, and it has a harder sound than any of Meat…
Armored Saint will be playing at The Avalon in Santa Clara, CA on Saturday, October 16th! The guys had planned on only playing one show this year but wanted to bring the Saint up to the bay area before the year was through. Joey Vera adds; “We know we said that our Los Angeles show in May was going to be our only show this year, but some things changed…
Upcoming singer/songwriter Benny Marchant has just released his debut music video for “Conversations Missed.” The track will appear on Benny Marchant’s debut album, Cold Weather, which is expected to be released late summer 2010. Marchant is currently in the studio along side Grammy winner Joe Chicarelli who has worked with the likes of Radiohead, White Stripes, and Counting Crows. Watch “Conversations Missed” at YouTube.com and visit www.OfficialBennyMarchant.com for all the…