Demon Hunter is set to unveil their brand new 3-disc release, “45 Days.” Due in stores November 25 and comprised of two DVDs and 1 CD, “45 Days” documents the band’s tour in support of last year’s “Storm the Gates of Hell” as well as the band’s intense connection with their fans, with many stories directly from the “hunters” themselves.
Eagles of Death Metal uploaded new videos to their YouTube channel. They include a series of “making of” videos for their 10.28.08 album ‘Heart On’.
Volcano Suns’ first two records on CD for the first time on January 27, 2009. Volcano Suns were founded in Boston in 1983 by former Mission of Burma drummer Peter Prescott. In 1985, the band, with Jon Williams on guitar and Jeff Weigand on bass, released their debut album, The Bright Orange Years, and followed it up a year later with another classic, All Night Lotus Party. Both albums were…
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Wonkavision gets more and more fancy with each issue. This is easily on par with Seventeen or any of the top-shelf music magazines out on the market (Spin, Rolling Stone). Glossy and easy to read, the topics employed by the staff of writers is diverse to say the least (covering topics as wide as movies, politics, music, and even school). The strength of Wonkavision is its price compared to the…
The Song & Video: Brand new remixed tune and video from Opio, with a little help from friends Del the Funky Homosapien, Guilty Simpson, producer The Architect, and the cast of the 1972 blaxploitation film Superfly. Enjoy!
Insound will carry a limited edition order package with CD insert packaging before any other store even has it. Fiasco announce new tour dates and lots of new CMJ performances too.
Interscope’s multi-talented recording artists, Clique Girlz, named “Best New Girl Group” by TWIST Magazine will kick off the “The Cheetah Girls One World Tour” on Wednesday, October 8th at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas.
McFarlane Toys announces plans to produce a “SLASH” action figure based on his in-game character from Activision’s hit videogame, Guitar Hero(R) III: Legends of Rock. The action figure is expected to hit mass retailers in February 2009. Slash, one of the most iconic guitarists of all time, lead guitarist for the acclaimed hard rock act Velvet Revolver and a former member of Guns ‘N’ Roses, will be the newest Guitar…
This go around has Wonka Vision with a much larger selection of full-color pages, as well as a higher number of advertisements to go along with them. This time, the issue has a cover article about Florida’s Against Me, which doesn’t go as far into the band as it could possibly be, reading more like a promo sheet than anything. High-water marks in this issue include the interview conducted with…
Genius Products, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: GNPI) announced that Genius Products, LLC and Genco Interactive, the gaming subsidiary of Genco Media, entered into a new partnership with 7 Studios and QD3 to develop and release a new hip-hop video game: Scratch: The Ultimate DJ. Developed by 7 Studios with creative input from music legend Quincy Jones III, CEO and chief creative officer of QD3 Entertainment and music producer for top artists…
Videogame publisher XS Games unveiled today the first look at the innovative AirG(TM) peripheral for its upcoming game, PopStar Guitar. The AirG(TM), which will be available exclusively for the Wii(TM) console, brings an exciting new game play dimension to music rhythm games. The AirG(TM) will serve as an air guitar, allowing players to unleash their inner pop star by simply attaching the peripheral to the Wii Remote. PopStar Guitar comes…
He’s “Takin’ It to the Streets” on “American Idol” — now Season 5 winner Taylor Hicks will be takin’ it more directly to the people. Celebrating his birthday today, Hicks has tapped the independent artist services company Artist To Market (A2M) to release his much-buzzed-about new album, due in stores on February 10, 2009. The platinum-selling singer-songwriter will be releasing the new title with complete control of direction and ownership…
California-based band Jaymes Reunion, recently signed to BEC Recordings and Universal Music Group Publishing, performed Sunday (October 5th) in Madison, New Jersey for the 14th Annual T.J. Martell Foundation Walk-A-Thon. The quickly rising band was thrilled to support the foundation that raises essential funds for innovative leukemia, cancer, and AIDS research in loving memory of T.J. Martell, the son of legendary music executive Tony Martell of Madison. Jaymes Reunion performed…
Capitol Records will release Coldplay’s Viva La Vida – Prospekt’s March edition on November 25th. The two-disc deluxe package includes Viva La Vida, the band’s fourth full-length album, plus a brand new EP entitled The EP, which will also be for sale separately in CD and 12″ vinyl configurations, includes six recently-completed songs that the band had begun recording during the Viva La Vida sessions and brand new versions of…
While the previous two issues showed an upward trend in quality and interesting articles, this issue of Wonkavision just feels like a miss to me. We notice some color pages (8 to be exact) in this issue, but a total of seven do not have any content on them, either being ads for Wonkavision itself or for a number of larger punk labels. The issue was apparently delayed by the…
Black ambient forestdwellers VINDENSANG have finally completed their highly-anticipated debut full-length, collecting seventy minutes’ worth of atmospheric, introspective forest hymns and paeans to the beauty of nature and intensities of human emotions. Juxtaposing the dark ambiance of black metal with the gentle strains of neo-folk and muted tones of cold, dark rock, VINDENSANG have created something quite special and even more impossible to describe. Is it black metal? Ambient? Folk?…
Minus the Bear MySpace Page www.myspace.com/minusthebear For all things Suicide Squeeze www.suicidesqueeze.net MINUS THE BEAR Tour Like Wild Fire Just a reminder that Minus the Bear is about to begin another nation-wide tour supporting their latest Suicide Squeeze release, Planet of Ice: a trek that finds the band headlining dates in some of this countries’ most beautiful theaters and performance spaces. The shows kick off on October 28th, with main…
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced the intensely atmospheric orchestral score for EA’s new sci-fi survival horror game Dead Space™. Developed with award-winning composer Jason Graves, in association with Rod Abernethy and under the direction of EA Redwood Shores studio; Jason’s chilling score for Dead Space enhances the horror and tension of the game through extreme aleatoric and extended 20th Century orchestral music techniques.
Chris Henderson (of 3 Doors Down) and Bobby Capps (of .38 Special) have officially opened the doors to their recording studio in Hendersonville, TN. Rivergate Studios (which takes its name from Henderson’s previous studio in Mississippi) was formerly known as Hipp Studios and is a full service complex with state-of-the-art Protools HD3 and plenty of Class A preamps. The studio boasts four isolated booths and a drum room, as well…