Sat 8/21 – Vancouver, BC – Media Club Tue 8/24 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry Wed 8/25 – Chicago, IL – Schubas Tavern Thu 8/26 – Detroit, MI – Magic Stick *All Dates with Light Pollution For more info, please visit: http://www.polyvinylrecords.com http://www.myspace.com/casiokids 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,…
On the heels of the recently released third Gorillaz album Plastic Beach being voted #1 album of 2010 thus far in NPR’s listeners poll, and first single/video “Stylo” setting the record for the most successful YouTube Music Tuesday premiere ever, Gorillaz have followed up with an epic clip for “On Melancholy Hill.” The narrative reveals the whereabouts of Gorillaz guitar slinger Noodle, making her first appearance since her apparent demise…
To be honest, most individuals that are the driving force of the music scene – the all important 16-21 age grouping – will have no idea who Buffalo Tom, Dinosaur Jr, or the Lemonheads were. Hell, I’m 22 and I missed out on each of those bands by a good five years. However, the opening to this disc (which has Hilken Mancini from Fuzzy and Chris Colbourn from Buffalo Tom)…
In celebration of the August 17th DVD release of Big Money Rustlas, NeuFutur Magazine and Psychopathic Records is giving you the chance to win a Flat Screen TV, DVD player, and a copy of Big Money Rustlas on DVD. 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. With…
Like that slice of lime which lifts a bottle of Corona in the after-work beer garden, magnetic London-based quintet The Munroes’ debut offering Rainbow Sun is the perfect accompaniment for hazy, lazy days spent whiling away the evening as dusk sets in. Christened after towering frontman Robert Munro Runciman, this initial cut is taken from The Munroes’ debut album Dying To Be Re-Born – set for release later this year.…
AUGUST SAT 21 Hasselt, BEL Pukkelpop SUN 22 Ludinghausen, GER Area 4 TUE 24 Orvieto, IT Umbria Folk Festival WED 25 Sarroch, IT Summer Groove FRI 27 Reading, UK Festival SUN 29 Leeds, UK Festival OCTOBER SAT 9 Austin, TX ACL Fest NOVEMBER SUN 21 Belfast, IRE Mandela Hall MON 22 Dublin, IRE Olympia WED 24 Lisboa, PT Bullring FRI 26 Liverpool, UK Academy SAT 27 Leeds, UK University Refectory…
The slow, simplistic and deliberate arrangements that open up “Open Surgery” are maybe a little slower than the band should really put forth at this early juncture. The effect that “Give Me A Sign” really has on listeners is one of wonder; is this track slowed down enough to be noticeable? “Say What You Want” continues this sound and really starts to show what is so innovative about this band;…
Standout artist Riva Starr has been nominated for a prestigious DJ Award after an unparalleled year that has already seen him hailed as “dance music’s future star” by Q Magazine. Like all the great names in dance music the Riva Starr sound is very distinctive, uniting many different styles under one groove. Fans of Riva’s exciting music are as wide-ranging as Gilles Peterson, Tiesto, Carl Cox, Ricardo Villalobos and Annie…
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…
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”…
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…
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 SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…