Author: Sargeant

Posted on: September 8, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Decemberists Launch Tour in November in Support of “Of Always the Bridesmaid”

The Decemberists will embark on the “Bridesmaid Revisited – Tour 2008” shortly after an election eve performance on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” A limited number of pre-sale tickets go on sale TODAY to the public on a first-come, first-served basis at http://www.decemberists.tickets.musictoday.com. General ticket on-sales begin on Saturday, September 6th, for East Coast dates and on Saturday, September 13th, for West Coast dates. Portland-based band Loch Lomond will open…

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Posted on: September 8, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

D3Publisher Sets Up Website for Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

As the Puzzle Quest franchise expands into outer space with new game Puzzle Quest: Galactrix, D3Publisher’s official Puzzle Quest website, www.Puzzle-Quest.com, has relaunched in cyberspace. Fans will have access to a showroom of all current and future games in the franchise including Puzzle: Quest: Challenge of the Warlords and its exclusive expansion pack Puzzle: Quest: Challenge of the Warlords – Revenge of the Plague Lord from Xbox LIVE® Arcade for…

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Cool and Phat 6/25/99 (JMcQ)

Abacus– This band is pop hardcore in the vein of what the Blitz and WAZU play. Metal with definite influences of Metallica, Pantera, Godsmack, and Sepultura. Most fake hardcore bands like this suck, but Abacus actually has more of a metal edge and is easier to listen to. The guitarist also has some really kickass solos, and the drummer is a speed demon. Fist of Gold- Creed+ New metallica sounding…

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Pennwysie Selling Shit-tons of Digital Single from Reason To Believe

Hermosa Beach punk rock icons Pennywise, celebrating its 20th anniversary, raised its collective middle finger in the air to the music industry this spring and did the most punk rock/DIY thing imaginable; they gave away their latest record Reason To Believe for free. In fact, 400,000 downloads of Reason To Believe were recorded during a groundbreaking, two week promotion that gave Pennywise’s MySpace friends the opportunity to download the whole…

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Suburban Voice #46

Suburban Voice is another of the slew of magazines that I’ve just recently learned about as being hallmarks of a specific scene. #46 is the anniversary issue, and just by going through the zine, reasons for why exactly people still look up to this zine are presented over and over again. Primarily focusing on the hardcore scene (though they are open to some other forms of music), Suburban Voice has…

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Mexican Electro-Rock Band Kinky Set To Release Barracude 2/09

“[Kinky] blends traditional Mexican bass and accordion elements into an otherworldly hybrid of electronica, funk, rock and post-punk, tinkering with genres as uninhibitedly as My Morning Jacket.” — PASTE.COM Mexican rockers KINKY are set to release their fourth studio album BARRACUDA (Kin-Kon/Nettwerk) in February of 2009, with an early digital release on September 30, 2008. Produced by Kinky with some co-production from Money Mark (Beastie Boys) and Chico Sonido, Barracudacaptures…

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Posted on: September 7, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Leeroy Stagger – Depression River (CD)

There is a heavy amount of alt-country present during Leeroy Stagger’s “Where I Live”. The vocals seem to blend John Mellencamp and Tom Petty. This means that while the songs are eminently radio-friendly, they have a little bit of grit present that establishes eir as someone completely different from what is pushed at the moment. The material is a little sparse for a nearly-five minute track, but Stagger ends the…

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NeuFutur Sponsors Team Clermont’s Band of the Week, Ruby Isle

Welcome to the future, sucker. You, sweltering in a Park Slope loft. You, comatose by conversation in a Silverlake bungalow. You, conceived in 3 seconds of ecstasy, then spit out into a suburban nightmare of laptop pornography and wal-mart homogeneity, absurdity around every bend. Is this how the 21st century begins? George Orwell is turning in his grave, “I told you so, suckers!”. Walt Disney is thawing like an ice…

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“Nikopol” – New Trailer Released

Got Game Entertainment has released a new trailer for “Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals”. The trailer features in-game footage from this upcoming, thrilling suspense-adventure game (PC) based on the art and stories of famed graphic novelist and filmmaker Enki Bilal, and from the studio created by adventure game legend Benoit Sokal.

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Cool and Phat 6/4/99 (JMcQ)

Ryan Greenley– This has four people playing (Bongos/Bass/Drums/Guitar). Jesse is on Bass. All songs of this set are instrumental. This has a decent jazz-indie feel, with a Guitarist with mucho talent. The set has very amazing guitar playing, but every other member of the band is barely noticeable. The guitar playing is so good that it sounds like one big long solo. This style of music is one of the…

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Emily Wells Added to the KCWR Nic Harcourt Show

Emily Wells plays songs from her ambitious new album “The Symphonies: Dreams Memories and Parties” on this falls’ (all girl) Hotel Café tour with Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, Thao Ngyuen, Kate Havnevik and Lenka. But first, she’ll kick off with a series of solo gigs in Southern California. See tour dates below!

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Stupid Comic Fliers

Essentially, all this issue is is a collection of fliers that Josh Redd Sanchez has created for concerts during the last few years. However, the evolution of the fliers is shown through a chronological arrangement and as such, we can start to notice the construction of a set of characters and story. The style is a very sketchy style and J.R.’s comedy properly shows the problems that plague many of…

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Dean Ween announces “freshwater sh** fishing derby”

it is with great shame that today we announce to you the most unprestigious of all fishing derbies, the inaugural brownie troop “freshwater shit fishing derby”. This event will take place nationwide and the entry process and rules are as follows: each entrant must mail 10 dollars of u.s. cash to: brownie troop fishing show p.o. box 324 new hope, pa 18938

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Posted on: September 6, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Benea Reach – Monument Bineothan (CD)

Benea Reach starts off their “Monument Bineothan” in a pretty normal, middle of the road way. There might be a tremendous amount of “heaviness” present, but the first track “Ground Slayer” does little to really compel listeners to focus in. The band is able to make their compositions fit together nicely, and make a play for the Headbanger’s Ball group, but the only thing interesting during the disc’s first track…

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Hollywood Undead Continue To Garner Support for Release of New Album

It’s been three long years since Hollywood Undead first broke onto the scene after releasing a handful of songs on their MySpace page that attracted a massive following. Today, the band that topped the MySpace charts years ago looks to conquer the musical realm with classics like, “No. 5″, “Undead”, “Sell Your Soul”, “Bottle and a Gun” and “Black Dahlia” as well as new tracks, “Everywhere I Go”, “California”, “No…

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Lila Downs Tours in Support of New Album

Exploring and expressing Mexico’s rich culture has been a lifelong passion for Lila Downs. On Shake Away, Downs takes listeners on a journey that’s both intensely personal and vividly universal. Recorded in New York and Mexico City, the songs range from the pointed “Minimum Wage” to the mystical “Silent Thunder” to a cover of Lucinda Williams’ “I Envy The Wind” in English and Spanish (“Yo Envidio El Viento”) versions.

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Cool and Phat 5/24/99 and 5/31/99 (JMcQ)

I had lost these reviews until tonight [5/31/99], so here are two cool and phat shows that i was there to review. The names of the 1st two bands have been lost to time, but the 3rd and 4th bands I know of. 1st band-This is decent sounding rock ,with definite influence from Ted Nugent. The bass sounds muddy, which is also the same problem with the vocals.This is a…

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Shugo Tokumaru’s ‘Exit’ hits shelves

After thrilling audiences around the world with his intoxicating blend of pop, folk and new music inventions, acclaimed Japanese multi-instrumentalist Shugo Tokumaru brings Exit (Almost Gold) to shelves across the nation as his first proper release in the US.

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Stuff You #1

This is a zine that I traded for off the zinesters livejournal, and I am just pretty impressed with the orderliness of this zine. Everything, including text and pictures, is based on the straight-line, decreasing the chaos of the magazine and providing one with an even easier read. While this zine is short, I still feel like that I am able to gain from it the briefest glimpses of who…

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Totally Michael’s One-Man Dance Party Out 14 October

Totally Michael’s self-titled debut album will be coming out on IHEARTCOMIX (Matt & Kim, Acid Girls) on October 14. Totally Michael is a one-man dance party from Bloomington, Indiana who performs his electro-injected songs with just a microphone, iPod and an electric guitar. His music straddles the line between hyperkinetic punk and bouncy pop and he has been compared to Dan Deacon, Andrew W.K., Blink 182 and Atom and His…

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