Author: Sargeant

Posted on: August 1, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

JP, CHRISSIE & THE FAIRGROUND BOYS ANNOUNCE WEST COAST DATES

JP, Chrissie, & The Fairground Boys have just confirmed a handful live performances supporting Lucinda Williams to celebrate the launch of their new album, Fidelity!, set for release on August 24th through their own La Mina Records in partnership with Rocket Science Ventures. These performances will feature the band as an acoustic trio – JP Jones, Chrissie Hynde and Fairground Boys guitarist Patrick Murdoch – and will include an intimate…

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Posted on: August 1, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Livitz Livitz – Footlong (CD)

Livitz Livitz plays an interesting brand of rock that bounces around quite a few styles on “Footlong”. While there is some kernel of party, Sublime-ish type rock throughout, songs like “Dirty Kelly” push on the hardcore choruses lad forth by Minor Threat. It is only a matter of time before the band is into “Livitz Dub”, a reggae-influenced track that also throws in a country influence to things. If individuals…

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Posted on: August 1, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Saving Grace: The Final Season (DVD)

Saving Grace was a series that I felt was ended too abruptly. The show itself premiered in 2007, and only got 3 full seasons before it was taken away from viewers. This DVD set, released by Fox, captures the last 19 episodes of the series. During this season, Grace (Holly Hunter) starts off fighting against a terrorist plot (“We’re Already Here”), looks into the suspicious death of a court reporter…

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Posted on: July 31, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It (DVD)

There are a number of different films that have mashed together the corpus of a specific genre. The Wayans Brothers have literally made a career of it, and The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It looks to be a film that improves on the spoof films that preceded it. While obvious from the film’s title, this Craig Moss production is a sex-charged romp through…

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Posted on: July 31, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

GRAMMY AWARD WINNING ARTIST WOLFMOTHER ANNOUNCES U.S. TOUR DATES KICKING OFF AT LOLLAPALOOZA ON AUGUST 8th

Australian rock-n-roll export Wolfmother returns to the U.S. this summer with select performances kicking off at Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 8th. The tour makes its way through ten cities with stops including the annual Sturgis Rally in South Dakota, and the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco (full tour dates below). The Grammy award winning foursome is celebrating the success of their recent release, Cosmic Egg, hitting platinum status…

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Posted on: July 31, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

DARKER MY LOVE CONFIRMS WEST COAST RUN WITH BAND OF HORSES

Darker My Love, a band hailed for their “monster psych anthems that simultaneously howls for lysergic sunshine and – most importantly – the repeat button” by Alternative Press, are excited to announce a fall tour with Band Of Horses. Beginning August 17th in Los Angeles, CA, the west coast quintet will embark on a short headlining tour before extending their summer trek with Band of Horses, which began in the…

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Posted on: July 31, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Living Things – Ahead of the Lions (CD)

There is a classic sound to Living Things that will have parents of children who buy this album walk in and ask whether this is early Crue or Foreigner. During a song like “Bom Bom Bom”, Living Things come up with a style that is not as stark and intermediary as Buckcherry, but rather is a smooth blend of styles that work in 2006. The production is immaculate, and show…

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Posted on: July 31, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Hot Tub Time Machine (Blu-Ray)

It seems almost as if those individuals that made such great adult comedies back in the eighties were teleported to 2009 in much the same way as the characters in Hot Tub Time Machine were transported back in time. Where The Hangover was a solid film based on the established actors that made up the cast and crew, I feel that the more up and coming ensemble here really bring…

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Posted on: July 31, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Official Comic-Con Trailer for ‘Kung-Fu LIVE’ Puts Players into the Pages

Virtual Air Guitar Company Ltd, a Helsinki–based independent game developer and computer vision specialist, debuted its latest full-length trailer for the fighting adventure game, Kung-Fu LIVE, coming this Fall to PlayStation® Network. Kung-Fu LIVE fuses players into a world of pulp action-comics with accurate real-time motion and image scanning, letting fans step into the fight like never before. Using the PlayStation®Eye, Virtual Air Guitar Company’s patented Freemotion® technology has helped…

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Posted on: July 31, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Little Klimt and Chofferson – Split (CD)

This may be the first split single that I’ve ever received. That’s right, Little Klimt (a singer-songwriter out of New York) and Chofferson (an artist out of Los Angeles) each contribute one song to this split, so to say that individuals may have a problem trying to get a genuine read on their styles is understating it. For Little Kilmt’s track, one can hear the confines of a garage as…

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Posted on: July 31, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

TAB THE BAND – ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES WITH STONE TEMPLE PILOTS AND SLASH

After an exciting summer – from UK’s DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL to an in-studio at New York’s famed WRXP – TAB The Band gears up for an even bigger Fall. As POLLSTAR’S exclusive announcement stated (http://www.pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2010/07/19/732504.aspx), come this September, TAB will be sharing the stage with some industry greats – including Stone Temple Pilots and Slash – as the band continues to support their album ZOO NOISES. Full tour dates are listed…

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Posted on: July 31, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

DRAGONETTE ANNOUNCE NEW TOUR

08/06 Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza After Show at Metro w/ Cut Copy – SOLD OUT 08/07 Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza 08/08 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop w/ Dan Black 08/09 Buffalo, NY @ Big Orbit Soundlab w/ Dan Black 08/10 Toronto, ON @ Mod Club 08/12 Boston, MA @ Middle East Downstairs 08/13 New York City @ Bowery Ballroom 08/14 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s 08/15 Washington, DC @ Rock…

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Posted on: July 31, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Little Brazil – You and Me (CD)

Little Brazil comes from that brand of emo-rock that holds as a deity Rivers Cuomo, but unlike the sixties-influenced pop of Weezer, some genuine feelings are held on Little Brazil’s “You and Me”. Leading off the disc with “Now” and skillfully tying it in with the heart-beat/ethereal nature of “The Way You Listen”, “You and Me” is so much more than an album – it is a journal entry, a…

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Posted on: July 30, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

ZEN PINBALL ANNOUNCES MARS TABLE COMING SOON EXCLUSIVELY TO PLAYSTATION NETWORK

ZEN Studios, the definitive leader in pinball videogames, announced today that MARS, the latest expansion table for ZEN Pinball, is coming soon exclusively to PlayStation Network. Players will get to experience the space-age tactics of MARS with the fast-paced action, cutting-edge visuals and true-to-life ball physics that ZEN Pinball is famous for. ZEN’s MARS table will take you into space to experience and explore life on the red planet, and…

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Posted on: July 30, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Now there are eight installments in the soundtrack to your life…OUT NOW.

Vol 1: Music for Lubbock, 1980, brought to you by American sound pioneer 900X, is a record exclusive to the Asthmatic Kitty Records Library Music Catalog. That’s right! You won’t find this recording anywhere else. Northwestern Texas never sounded this good until now. Lubbock’s nickname is the “Hub City,” derived from being the economic, education and health care hub of a multi-county region commonly called the South Plains. The music,…

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Posted on: July 30, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Mark Lind – Death or Jail (CD)

Obviously Mark Lind is the lead singer of The Ducky Boys, so at some point the two acts will have some general sound in common. Little did I know how common the sounds would be between “Death and Jail” and The Ducky Boys’ last album “The War Back Home”. “No Future’ is the first big hit of the disc, which is built on the guitars that made Face to Face…

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Posted on: July 30, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

UFO TO RELEASE “BEST OF A DECADE” ON SPV/STEAMHAMMER SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

True rock legends such as UFO are characterized not only by the fact that they have added several classic anthems to the annals of rock history, but that their musical output, after many years, still remains at such a consistently high level and they always have something new and fresh coming up. With classic albums such as “Phenomenon”, “Force it” and “No Heavy Pettin” Phil Mogg, Vinnie Moore, Andy Parker…

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Posted on: July 30, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Limbeck – Let Me Come Home (CD)

Limbeck quickly moves between styles in just the first few tracks of “Let Me Come Home”. The first track, “People Don’t Change” really uses a lot of the momentum generated from an alt country style, while the follow up “Long Way To Go” seems to take a page from all the early Hippie acts. Coming back to the country type of style with “Everyone’s In The Parking Lot”, Limbeck really…

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Posted on: July 30, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

I Grade is back with roots reggae album

I Grade Records is pleased to introduce, Black Gold, the debut solo album by Toussaint. Most well known as the former lead singer of the Stax Records and Blue Note recording group Soulive, Toussaint is poised to bring forth his unforgettable blend of soul and roots to the world. Black Gold embodies a unique combination of the American soul of Toussaint’s upbringing and the African-Caribbean roots he has gravitated towards.…

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Posted on: July 30, 2010 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

MY JERUSALEM DEBUT ALBUM GONE FOR GOOD OUT SEPTEMBER 6TH

The debut single from My Jerusalem ‘Love You When You Leave’ is already receiving airplay on both BBC2 and BBC6 radio. ‘Love You When You Leave’ is a wonderfully knowing, bittersweet love song of sorts in which bassist Ashley Dzerigian plays Nancy Sinatra to Jeff’s Lee Hazelwood, the affair clocking in at a succinct 2.15. ‘It was one of the first songs we recorded as a band”, Jeff enthuses, “Everyone…

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