Pearl Jammer Cameron Releases Harrybu McCage CD
Self-titled CD arrives in independent music stores July 8; available now through Ten Club at pearljam.com
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Sub Pop 20 / Singles Club
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…
Whistlefritz Releases CD of Spanish Songs for Kids
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
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…
36 Crazyfists Stream New Album, Tour
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.
The Witman Boys (DVD)
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…
Birdmonster To Release “From The Mountain To The Sea” 8/5
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.
SMC PLEDGES ALLEGIANCE TO KILLER MIKE & GRIND TIME OFFICIAL
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…
BENEATH THE MASSACRE posts in-studio video, offers album update
Montreal’s BENEATH THE MASSACRE has posted the first in a series of in-studio videos featuring footage from Northern Studio in Quebec while the band was tracking material for its forthcoming album, ‘Dystopia,’ which is scheduled for an October release through Prosthetic Records. The clip can be seen here (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=37469005 and http://youtube.com/watch?v=ANNFAbeICtQ) and more clips should be expected shortly. Recorded again with Yannick St-Amand (Despised Icon, Ion Dissonance, Neuraxis) and featuring…
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of The Rift (DS)
Individuals that have finished up Final Fantasty Tactics Advance, along with those that have played other games in the Ivalice Alliance series (Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, and Final Fantasy XII), will be pleased to know that Grimoire of the Rift both adds to the story and works in the universe that was created with these prior games. As for the game itself, it really is an open-ended game experience.…
Eddie Vedder Embarks on Second Leg of Solo Tour
Eddie Vedder will embark on a month-long solo tour beginning August 1st in Boston and ending August 22nd in Chicago with select dates in Canada (full list of tour dates below).
All Time Low On Headlining Tour July 11-July 21
One of the year’s biggest success stories, Maryland’s All Time Low (www.myspace.com/alltimelow) has a busy summer ahead as the band embarks on a summer headline tour with special guests Hit The Lights, Valencia and There For Tomorrow, before heading out for the second half of the Vans Warped Tour on July 23. This will be followed by a stint on mtvU’s Video Music Awards Tour with Katy Perry and Boys…
Head Like A Kite Support “There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere”
Breaking down beats seems as natural to Head Like a Kite’s Dave Einmo as breaking down genre barriers. HLAK’s second full-length album, There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere, takes listeners on an aural road trip, mixing propelling hip hop drum beats with electronic Krautrock and indie pop peppered with field recordings captured while HLAK toured the United States. The result is a lush, party soundtrack with guests from Smoosh, The Long…
Black Ghosts Release S/T Debut on Iamsound 7/8
The past year has seen The Black Ghosts’ ethereal Electronic Soul building them a formidable reputation with the quiet confidence that befits the duo’s enigmatic style. With the cold, steely riffs and floor-smashing beats of the much admired Theo Keating AKA Touché, ably augmented by erstwhile Simian vocalist Simon Lord, The Black Ghosts’ have begun to reveal their unique, electro-noir spirit through a brace of limited addition white-labels and their…
City of Men (DVD)
City of Men is the sequel to City of God, the 2003 film that gave the best director award to Fernando Meirelles. In much the same way, Meirelles goes back to Brazil, to the inner city (favelas), showing hopw different this part of Brazil is from the typical American city. In this area, gangs and violence are the way of life, rather than an aberration. Regardless of what happens in…
Overlord: Raising Hell (PS3)
Overlord was one of the most talked-about games of 2007, and players of the Playstation 3 finally have the ability to play the game (it was previously limited to the PC and Xbox 360 formats). Saying that, Overlord: Raising Hell for the PS3 has a number of new modes, maps, and other fun things present. Individuals are placed in the role of a warrior that possesses the power of the…
My Blueberry Nights (DVD)
My Blueberry Nights is a film that is simply great. The basic storyline is as such. An individual that is fighting a broken heart – Elizabeth (played here by Norah Jones, who surprised me considering I thought that ey was purely a singer) – stops by a diner that represents where it all went wrong, where the boyfriend had brought another woman. The owner of the diner – Jeremy (Jude…
ATotal destruction by Raise Hell; Metal Mind Set to Re-release Raise Hell’s Discography
Sweden is often considered a cradle of European metal, housing hundreds of talented formations. Raise Hell could just as well be another Swedish metal band, if it wasn’t for one particular ability these guys have… it’s the ability to develop their own musical style into something entirely different than expected. For over ten years the group released four albums, each showcasing a brand new quality in metal music. Metal Mind…
Road Trip: Wheel in the Sky
Road Trip: Wheel in the Sky / Half-Sized / 12 Pages / http://www.archetypalimages.com /Â This is one of the many comic zines that I have picked up in my journeys that are just little gateways that have been given out for new readers to be hooked into buying subsequent issues of the zine. However, I have yet to see a comic snippet that has made me purchase a comic zine…
Cavedoll’s No Vertigo, the latest of 10 releases due out in 2008 by this absurdly prolific group from Salt Lake City, Utah. NPR’s Second Stage featured the group’s song Decoder this month recognizing the bands ability to “serve up a hip-shaking burst of feel-good energy, inspired by ’80s synth pop, electronica and punk.” Hopefully this inspires you to dig Cavedoll’s No Vertigo out of the pile for a spin.