Author: Sargeant

Posted on: August 21, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

SHEARWATER’S JONATHAN MEIBURG & XIU XIU’S JAMIE STEWART FORM BLUE WATER WHITE DEATH. SELF-TITLED, DEBUT ALBUM OUT OCTOBER 12TH ON GRAVEFACE RECORDS.

Blue Water White Death is the brainchild of two of today’s most unique songwriters – Jamie Stewart of the eclectic, risk-taking pop group Xiu Xiu, and Jonathan Meiburg, golden-throated front man of Austin art-rock quintet, Shearwater. For their first collaboration Stewart and Meiburg, longtime fans of each other’s music, adopted the name of a 1971 documentary that follows a team of increasingly reckless explorers on a shark-finding quest to Australia’s…

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Posted on: August 21, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

The Mall – Emergency At The Everyday (CD)

I wanted to say that what The Mall did on their “Emergency At The Everyday” was create yet another dance-punk act for all the scene kids to drool over. While there is still a lotr of dance-punk present in The Mall’s act, there are hints of both Men’s Recovery Project and even a little bit of Agoraphobic Nosebleed. The synthesizers that play such a major role during the band’s “Acrid”…

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Posted on: August 21, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

MATT COSTA – MOBILE CHATEAU September 21, 2010

Matt Costa is proud to announce the release of his third album, Mobile Chateau, on September 21st via Brushfire Records. The new record was recorded at Pheasant Studios in Santa Ana, CA with Costa taking the production reins for the first time. A fall tour has been confirmed with dates throughout the US and Canada, dates are shown below or visit the website for additional information. Mobile Chateau’s sound is…

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Posted on: August 21, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

OCEANSIZE launch tour through September and November

The band will tour Europe in support of Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up between mid September to mid November 2010, so please make sure to check the band’s or Superball Records’ websites for frequent updates. Visit OCEANSIZE online: http://www.myspace.com/oceansizeuk Home http://www.facebook.com/oceansizeuk Also visit: http://www.superballmusic.com http://www.youtube.com/superballmusictv http://www.myspace.com/superballmusiclabel http://www.facebook.com/superballmusic Tweets by superball_music

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Posted on: August 21, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Make Believe – Shock of Being (CD)

Make Believe elicit a different spirit for each of their tracks on “Shock of Being”. They start off their tribute by emulating Nirvana heavily on “Amscaredica”, while “His Short Quip When Eddie’s Bothered” looks to the weird gait of acts like Primus. There is really no connection beyond the masters of oddness during “His Short Quip”, as there are so many things happening at any one given second during the…

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Posted on: August 20, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

THE DEARS TO PLAY NEW ALBUM IN ENTIRETY AT RESIDENCIES IN TORONTO, MONTREAL AND BROOKLYN

To introduce audiences to their new collection of songs, acclaimed art rock band The Dears will play a series of residencies during which they will perform their forthcoming record in full. The eight residency shows – three consecutive nights in Toronto and Montreal and two in Brooklyn (tour dates below) – will recapture the essence of the band’s immensely successful string of shows in Mexico City this past May. The…

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Posted on: August 20, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

BLEEDING FIST video “Invocation Into Devil’s Flesh” online now!!!

Alas, the wait is over: Slovenian chaos-black metallers BLEEDING FIST have posted online the new video for “Invocation Into Devil’s Flesh”! Coming off the recent MORIBUND release Macabrum Bestia Ex Abyssus and directed by Oton Bačar and Martin DeBernardi, BLEEDING FIST’s “Invocation Into Devil’s Flesh” literally unleashes hellfire and brimstone, and to date is the perfect visual embodiment of the band’s self-described “chaos black metal.” Witness that hellfire ‘n’ brimstone…

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Posted on: August 20, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

The Majestic Twelve – Schizophrenology (CD)

The Majestic Twelve had one of the more memorable albums of the last few years with their “Searching For The Elvis Knob”. This follow-up album works along most of the same lines as “Searching”, with tracks like “Condoleezza Check My Posse” mixing together Jello Biafra and the B-52s in some of the more eclectic music that individuals have heard. The production of tracks on this album are at a level…

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Posted on: August 20, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

City Of Fire To Release S/T Effort August 24th

It was early 2008 when the Cobalt Hotel in Vancouver hosted the reunion of Caustic Thought, a popular local band that had not played together for twelve years. Little did bassist Byron Stroud (Fear Factory, Strapping Young Lad, Zimmer’s Hole), drummer Bob Wagner (Econoline Crush), and guitarist Ian White know at the start that this special evening would light a spark that would take this reunion further than they initially…

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Posted on: August 20, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

The Lot Six – Major Fables (CD)

Since the revival of rock music that was lorded over by Swedish bands like the Hellacopters and Gluecifer, and more famously in the States with The Strokes and The White Stripes, all sorts of bands have worked their way out of their lo-fi sound and tried to grab for the brass ring. The Lot Six is a band that tries to go for this down and dirty rock sound, and…

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Posted on: August 20, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Majestic Twelve – Searching For The Elvis Knob (CD)

The Majestic Twelve are another band that are pretty acoustic-heavy, but are able to infuse their music with a style, talent, and humor that is all theirs. Spinning electronic threats into their first track, “Soylent Green”, which mesh well with the vocal timbre present on the track. Taking a one-eighty with their second track, “I Don’t Have A Job”, speeding through the lyrics in a way similar to Michael Stipe’s…

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Posted on: August 20, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

MARNIE STERN SET TO RELEASE ‘MARNIE STERN’ ON OCTOBER 5, 2010

Marnie Stern the album mirrors Marnie Stern, the woman. Birthed during a challenging period in her life, the self-titled Marnie Stern is a compendium of life stories both bitter and sweet. From ballads to her signature pop guitar-tapping style, Stern and long-time co-conspirator Zach Hill have churned out (for lack of a better word) an enormous album that will further cement Stern as a rising star in today’s progressive music…

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Posted on: August 20, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

A.A. Bondy: New Summer/Fall tour dates

In bed and on drugs that’s where i’d been for a week. the result of a memorial day motorcycle wreck. On my feet now. playing now. eyes open. where did i go? speeding down back roads. here. there. slat ribbed curs in the shoulder weeds. Dreams of some actress. A hole in her chin. New skin now. mostly whole again but with new marks there in silvery pink or purple…

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Posted on: August 20, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Mahi Mahi – (Re) Move Your Body (CD)

Mahi Mahi play a bizarre, fun band of herky-jerky dance music that has as much to do with The Locust as it does with Gigi D’Agostino. In fact, during tracks like “I Can’t Hear You”, the unnecessarily clunky drumbeats of the track even begin to recall the demo-led recordings of Wesley Willis and a Ritalin-fed Atom and His Package. The aforementioned “I Can’t Hear You” has a synth/drum dichotomy that…

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Posted on: August 19, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Trek Life & Oddisee – West Coast Beats

Trek Life and Oddisee continue to tease fans with another mixtape preceding the release of Trek Life’s sophomore album, Everything Changed Nothing. The mixtape, West Coast Beats, includes a concoction of snippets of instrumentals from the upcoming album, exclusive Oddisee beats, the first single, “So Supreme”, and an exclusive Oddisee-produced Trek Life track called “Get In Touch”, found only on this mixtape. While Oddisee’s beats have a laid back California…

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Posted on: August 19, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

DEADLANDS 2: TRAPPED Extended & Unrated (DVD)

Street Date: October 19, 2010 When the U.S. government unleashes a highly toxic bio-weapon on the residents of a small Maryland city, all Hell breaks loose as six strangers find themselves seeking refuge inside a local movie theatre from the bloodthirsty, infected citizens roaming the streets. Writer-director Gary Ugarek follows up his 2007 indie sleeper hit DEADLANDS: THE RISING with this non-stop action thrill ride starring Jim Krut (Dawn of…

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Posted on: August 19, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Magnet – The Tourniquet (CD)

Aside from their magazine, Filter has to be doing something right . Magnet is the next act that will undoubtedly hit it big, and it is not because they are primped and primed for the big time. Rather, Magnet is a diverse sounding band that will infuriate the hearts of listeners to the point that they cannot stand it; “The Tourniquet” is the equivalent of the melting pot that is…

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Posted on: August 19, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

FRAN HEALY OF TRAVIS TO RELEASE DEBUT SOLO ALBUM / WRECKORDER OUT OCTOBER 5TH ON RYKO RECORDS

Fran Healy, lead singer and main songwriter of acclaimed Scottish rock band Travis, is excited to announce the release of his debut solo album WRECKORDER. Set for an October 5th release on Ryko, Healy’s first release on the label, WRECKORDER is the work of a quintessential pop songwriter. Known for songs such as “Sing” and “Why Does It Always Rain On Me,” among other hugely successful tracks, Healy has been…

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Posted on: August 19, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Magicicada – Everyone is Everyone (CD)

Magicicada elicits a Native American type of feel to the first track on “Everyone Is Everyone”, “Coso Joru”. There is not much else to this track besides a humming that is present throughout the song’s six minute runtime. In what can only be described as a noise approximating that of a human heart, the atmosphere created by Magicicada from the get-go is very organic, even if (I would venture) most…

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Posted on: August 19, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

THORNAFIRE Invades Europe

After decimating the crowd at this year’s Obscene Extreme Festival in the Czech Republic, Chilean brutalists THORNAFIRE continue to spread their vicious brand of death metal across the European countryside in ongoing support of their 2009 Ibex Moon Records release, Vorex Deconstrucción. Guitarist Victor MacNamara had the following to say about the tour thus far… “Today is Wednesday, July 21st and we’re going to Krakow. We just finished two festivals…

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