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 Spaceâ„¢. 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. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur…
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…
This is my buddy George’s zine. I could theoretically give his zine a good rating because he is my friend, but what is the use in that? I’ve had this zine for months, actually since the time I received all of the Breaking World Records CDs for review. Will you swim with me? is a collection of different random aphoristic sayings and the equivalent people who said them, according to…
With each issue of Wonkavision I get, I like the zine more and more. Wonkavision has grown in size and quality of layout, and with the cover piece (Homestar Runner), I am truly in love with the zine. From the other issues I’ve seen, there is only one major thing that I could find fault with. The zine reviews which I was so cleanly picked earlier in Wonkavision’s run has…
Doomtree’s political leanings are no secret and in their debut collective release they are put on neon display, particularly in the track “Gameshow Host.” The beat, produced by Lazerbeak with cuts by Turbo Nemesis, opens with a flourish and then allows the message to take center stage. A latin-tinged guitar line drifts over a static-infused background, mirroring the convoluted, confusing times the nation is facing. The verses rapped by Mictlan,…
MP3: BOOM Flagbearers for no particular scene or agenda, ANAVAN are as unique a Los Angeles institution as Ron Jeremy, The Smell, and taco trucks. Recently, they’ve shared the stage with NO MEANS NO, CRYSTAL CASTLES and MONOTONIX, toured with HEALTH and CLIP’D BEAKS. Birthed from the pregnant stew of downtown’s now legendary all-ages venue, The Smell, ANAVAN cracked their shell alongside groups like NO AGE, ABE VIGODA, FOOT VILLAGE,…
Little Rock, AR quintet SCHOOL BOY HUMOR will be releasing their debut Vagrant EP, Camera Shy But Still A Star on November 4, 2008. The four-track EP will be available at all digital retailers and features three songs from their upcoming full-length as well as a cover of Colbie Caillat’s “Realize.” SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has covered…
For all their achievements, including a half-dozen acclaimed albums (with global cumulative sales of more than 5 million), a handful of prestigeous awards and more than twice that many signature chart singles and album tracks – Switchfoot has yet to release a ‘greatest hits’ anthology. For the first time, THE BEST YET pulls together Switchfoot’s history representing all six albums they recorded on the two principal labels of their career:…
Wonka Vision #19 – This zine is produced by one guy out of his room. He mentions that in his opening letter to his audience. However, that is painfully obvious with all of the minor mistakes present in this zine. The layouts are visually stunning, the interviews are not too long, and the zine goes by relatively quickly. Justin makes sure to intersperse well-known bands with those that are lesser…
“I’ve been trying to write this album for 10 years,” reveals Magnetic Morning’s Sam Fogarino, of the band’s debut LP, A.M., which came out October 21 (Friend or Faux Records). It was ultimately Fogarino’s serendipitous meeting with Adam Franklin of Swervedriver that sealed his fate in this duo. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has covered independent music, PC…
The Montreal foursome Priestess is recording tracks this fall in Los Angeles with producer Dave Schiffman (Anti-Flag, Avenged Sevenfold, System of a Down) for the band’s follow-up to its acclaimed 2006 debut, Hello Master. After leaving the studio, Priestess will tour Canada and the Northeastern U.S. this winter, performing new material from the upcoming album set for an early 2009. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder…