Can you see the stars where you are? We can’t see ’em in New York. Let me tell you this is a damn good rock band at the height of their Byzantine powers. Jack Dolgen’s bass rumbles and bounces like it should. Sean Bones’ guitar can’t miss a note, except, of course when that note is supposed to be missed. And you can hear those pounding drums. And on top…
Sub Pop has released a brand new Band of Horses video that is now available for the song “No One’s Gonna Love You†from the band’s album, Cease to Begin.
Kansas’s “Two For The Show†was originally released in 1978, and Sony Legacy has decided to re-release the CD right, adding an entire disc of new tracks – 9 in number – that were originally recorded for the album but were ultimately dropped due to time constraints. Of course, the classic live sound of Kansas comes through on the original tracks, whether the band is going through their hits (“Carry…
Individuals will likely know that Mega Man Starforce 2: Zerker X Saurian follows forth from the Battle Network line of games, but few will know that this game marks the eighth installment in that series. The game starts out with the player taking the role of Geo Stelar, a child that is in the 20XX world. Stelar links up with Omega-Xis, an alien, ultimately turning eirself into one of the…
Tennis is a sport that has been around for quite a while in the video game industry, if one considers the Atari 2600 game Tennis to be the beginning (and there could be a good case that Pong would fit the bill as a tennis game, considering it had a “tennis†option. Of course, we are over twenty-five years out from these first attempts at a tennis game, but it…
Bret Michaels is, if nothing else, a true survivor. He has survived a life long battle as an insulin dependent diabetic, a well publicized near fatal car crash in 1994 and the countless musical trends and fads of the last two decades. “As soon as I ever start to just go through the motions I’ll quit,†confessed the 44 year old singer, songwriter, producer, director and actor in a recent…
Khia, aka Thug Misses, is set to drop her latest album Nasti Muzik. Known for her infamous 2002 smash club hit single, “My Neck, My Back,” and her recent appearance on VH1’s Miss Rap Supreme, Khia has returned to bring her sexually-driven lyrical prowess and southern charisma to her latest album. Nasti Muzik will be released August 19, 2008 on Fat Cat Records and Tommy Boy Distribution.
Rocks and Blows #2 / $1 / :20 / 36M / rocks_and_blows@yahoo.com /Â Some of my best friends are drug addicts, but they never have gotten as deep into their lives and their addictions as David does in this issue of Rocks and Blows. Before getting into a rehab program using Methadone, David was a heroin addict. This issue shows the feelings of withdrawal and exactly how far an individual…
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.