Free Blood is a marriage of opposing ends of a spectrum. The group came to fruition when former !!! member John Pugh and fashion designer Madeline Davy found common ground and much inspiration in a goal of uniting the divergent settings that host New York’s dance and indie music: the Manhattan club scene (or an idealized version of what once was a scene) and the energized, anything-goes Brooklyn warehouse parties…
There have been a number of documentaries and similar types of material to choose from over the last few decades revolving around Joe Strummer, whether it be as a part of The Clash, of the punk genre generally, or of the last few years of eir life. However, no film really goes into the detail that “The Future Is Unwritten†goes. This is due to the fact that there are…
Keith Sweat’s new CD Just Me debuts this week at #10 on Billboard’s top 200 album chart and #2 on R&B chart. Rolling Out Magazine will be throwing Keith a release party on June 4 at 7PM at the Geisha House in Atlanta, let me know if you would be interested in attending. In support of Just Me Keith Sweat will be touring throughout the US this summer, tour dates…
Ascension of The Watchers was conceived as a creative journey for guitarist/vocalist Burton C. Bell (Fear Factory, G//Z/R) and keyboardist/programmer John Bechdel (False Icons, Fear Factory, Killing Joke, Prong, Ministry, and Murder Inc.); it is a vision born of life, love and spirituality. The band’s debut CD, Numinosum, was created by these friends with guitarist Edu Mussi (Still Life Decay) for Al Jourgensen’s 13th Planet Records. Bell’s writing and performance demonstrates…
Saving Grace is one of the best performing shows that TNT currently has. The show itself is about Grace Hanadarko’s (Holly Hunter, whom individuals may know from eir role in The Piano) life, who has bottomed out pretty hard by the time that individuals first see eir on their screens, hitting and killing a pedestrian after a drunken journey through town Enter in Earl, an angel sent from Heaven in…
Jean Rah Fya Records announces the signing of Bobby Tinsley, who will be releasing his highly anticipated album, “What About Bob?” Bobby explodes onto the scene with the video of his compelling lead single, which is also entitled, “What About Bob?” The video is scheduled to debut on BET J’s popular shows “Morning Cup” and “Soul Sessions.”
Rock Candy #3 / $2 / :10 / 20M / subgroovy@hotmail.com / Just looking at the cover of this ‘zine, I was expecting an incredibly boring section based on some of the most overrated bands of the current era (Beck and The Flaming Lips). Instead, this issue of Rock Candy is a comic that follows on the Scooby Doo style of mystery solving. Aside from the format, the style of…
One year after self-releasing the acclaimed “Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink,” Bodies of Water have created another full-length offering. “A Certain Feeling,” their first record for Secretly Canadian, was written, arranged and recorded in David & Meredith Metcalf’s house in the Northeast L.A. neighborhood of Highland Park.
For individuals like myself, who were born a good fifteen years after The Streets of San Francisco ended, the decision to begin to place the show’s episodes in boxed sets is a great one. First off, it shows viewers a different era of police drama, compared to serious (or silly) shows like NYPD Blue and Monk. Secondly, for those viewers that had the chance to view it when it was…
Many shows end their seasons at about twenty-two episodes. However, the sheer awesomeness that was Walker, Texas Ranger – and its co-star, the incomparable Chuck Norris, made sure that the fifth season fought, kicked, and brought closure to twenty-five. The season starts off with “The Fighting McLainsâ€, an episode that pits Walker against renegade brothers of a D.E.A. agent that is killed by a drug cartel. The action continues hot…
San Francisco’s masters of subtley experimentalist pastoral pop VETIVER have just released their third album, “Thing of The Past” comprising their own inimitable take on other folks’ songs — most of this impossibly obscure and impossibly delightful.
Also participating in Zune Pass advertising campaign and Ignition artist program In anticipation of N.E.R.D.’s first album in four years, they are currently offering the song “Spaz” exclusively for sale on Zune Marketplace. The band will offer additional exclusive content as part of the Zune Ignition program throughout the summer.
Self-titled CD arrives in independent music stores July 8; available now through Ten Club at pearljam.com
Seattle, WA – On the eve of a full week which Sub Pop Records has devoted to celebrating 20 years of Sub Pop Records, the Seattle label is herewith announcing further details on its related events, releases and commemorative intoxicants. We have added Obits and the Constantines to the SP20 Festival lineup (full revelry schedule below – DAY ONE SOLD OUT!), created a beer in our own honor, chosen the…
Award-Winning Producer of Spanish for Beginners DVD Series Releases Collection of Original and Traditional Spanish Songs for Children Glen Echo, Maryland-based Whistlefritz, producer of the Spanish for Beginners series of Spanish immersion DVDs for children, today announced the release of a new CD of Spanish songs called A Bailar! Let’s Dance! A Bailar! Let’s Dance! is a collection of original and traditional Spanish music that makes learning Spanish simple and…
Robot Vomit Comics / $? / :30 / 28M / http://www.ocpnetwork.com / http://www.myspace.com/duckycluckbuckeson / I was able to pick up a copy of this over at the ECC in Kent, Ohio, and after the review is done, I’ll make sure that someone else (or hopefully, a number of someone elses) will be able to read it. This issue tells the story about a fairy, and while the panels are compressed…
Alaskan metalcore quartet 36 Crazyfists are giving fans a taste new album, The Tide and Its Takers, a FULL WEEK before it hits streets on May 27. The album is streaming in its entirety on the band’s official MySpace page. Fans can check out the hard-hitting new album at www.myspace.com/36crazyfists. Produced by guitarist Steve Holt, The Tide and Its Takers is the band’s Ferret Music debut.
This 1995 film from Hungary has finally made it to American shores. Directed by Janos Szasz, whom individuals may remember from 1990’s Don’t Disturb (English title), the film deals with the adventures of two adolescent (12 and 14 year old) children and their travails after their father dies. Set in the early years of the twentieth century, The Witman Boys show the drastic differences and the numerous similarities that this…
New York, NY: FADER Label, the recording branch of The FADER, is pleased to announce From The Mountain To The Sea – the second full-length release by San Francisco indie rockers Birdmonster. FADER Label will unveil the much-anticipated follow up to 2006 ‘s No Midnight on August 5, 2008 through Sony/RED Distribution.
Killer Mike and his Atlanta based label, Grind Time Official, have joined forces with Bay Area based record label, SMC Recordings. The first release from this dynamic partnership will be the continuation of Killer Mike’s critically acclaimed Pledge series and will be titled, I Pledge Allegiance To The Grind II, in stores July 8th. Killer Mike got his formal introduction when he first appeared on the Outkast single “The Whole…