San Francisco’s melodic death metallers LIGHT THIS CITY have issued the second of four in-studio video updates while the band is recording its fourth record, tentatively scheduled for a fall 2008 release via Prosthetic Records.
Looming Pylon #4 / :25 / $1.00 / 20M / Looming Pylon, PO Box 13647, Rochester, NY 14613 / loomingpylon@yahoo.com /Â Dreams and Christ. Yup. Not quite as preachy as The J Man Times, Looming Pylon shows a few events in the life of a swearing yet devout Christian. Andy comes into this issue saying that each foray into the zine world takes eir a few years, and this divide…
Aware/Columbia recording artist Newton Faulkner has added to his busy summer touring schedule by joining Chicago’s Lollapalooza Festival, slated to perform on Sunday, August 3rd. Faulkner will also be appearing at the Sasquatch! Music Festival at The Gorge Ampitheater in George, WA on May 24, the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, TN on June 12th, and the Mile High Festival in Denver, CO on July 19th.
Juniper Lane – Wake From Yourself / 2008 Self / 10 Tracks / http://www.juniperlane.com / http://www.myspace.com/juniperlandband / Juniper Lane has been raising themselves up pretty well on their own. The act has sold over 8,000 copies of their albums, and they have come forth in a very strong way with “Wake From Yourselfâ€, which marks their seventh year as a band. “Impact†is this opening track, and showcases a unique…
The New Scheme #11 / Free / :45 / 56M / New Scheme Publishing Concern, PO Box 7542, Boulder, CO 80306-7542 / Its been a few months since I was able to read a new issue of The New Scheme, and one thing that hit me was that Stuart has gotten eir shit together in the last few issues. The average level of writing is much higher than in the…
More Dates: 4.30- Fox 25 Boston Morning Show – Live TV appearance- Boston 5.1- Great Scott (with the Toothaches) – Boston NY Metro- “Old school bar rock that on its own should win over more than a few jaded listeners” Popmatters- “Be sure to put this little gem on your TAB….This is crazy beautiful driving music. Play it in the car with all the windows down, and watch out for…
            Some 21 years after its release in August 1987, DIESEL AND DUST, the sixth studio album by the beloved Australian band Midnight Oil, continues to burn a trail across the rock wilderness that is as relevant and politically savvy today as the moment it was created. Source of an enduring manifesto of songs that cut across environmental collapse, native human rights, nuclear devastation, and big government, the album…
Whiskeytown – Strangers Almanac Deluxe Edition / 2008 Universal / 39 Tracks / http://www.universalchronicles.com / I must admit, I was too young to really get into Whiskeytown when they were first out. If I recall correctly, I was listening to Marilyn Manson, Deicide and Corrosion of Conformity. This would not have jived well with what Whiskeytown sounded like during this album, calling forth individuals like Uncle Tupelo, The Replacements, and…
Part madrigal, part chamber music, part post-rock, and wholly indescribable, All Together is an early contender for album of the year. Together with co-conspirator/engineer/sometime guitarist Scott Solter, the duo has created a work without analogue or peer, and it marks the beginning of Pattern is Movement as a musical touchstone.
Looks Yellow, Tastes Red #23 / $2 / http://www.livejournal.com/~unclevampire / 4.25 by 8.5 / 32 Pages / Colette, 184 N. Main St, Sunderland, MA 01375 / A very powerful perzine in which Colette talks about eir’s gender identity, as well as the public reaction to figuring out that ey likes boys as well as girls (and yet is appalled with the term bisexual). This different type of thinking about gender…
THE COAL MEN RETURN TO STUDIO TO WORK ON THIRD ALBUM Nashville Roots Rock Band Head Out On Tour Next Month in Advance of New Release Nashville, TN—Nashville based roots rock band The Coal Men are heading into the studio this month to work on their third album, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2007 release, Beauty Is a Moment. The band will then set off on tour throughout…
Twin Tigers – Curious Faces / Violet Future / 2008 Self / 6 Tracks / http://www.thetwintigers.com / The dreamy type of pop music that issues forth from the Twin Tigers CD hits on Radiohead, The Pixies, and even the Jesus and Mary Chain. However, instead of merely being a derivate type of band, the act does a tremendous amount of creation of their own sound on this EP. Where the…
Multi-platinum selling pop singer Clay Aiken will release his fourth album, On My Way Here, on RCA Records/19 Entertainment on May 6th, 2008. The collection is the 29-year-old Raleigh, NC, native’s first album of original songs since his 2003 chart-topping, double- platinum debut Measure of a Man.
The New Scheme #8 (Free, Stuart Anderson, PO Box 19873, Boulder, CO 80308) My my, how The New Scheme has grown up. I distribute the magazines around my college, and I usually don’t even get to read them. So, my last experience with The New Scheme was around a year ago, and I was sent #8 for review by Jim. Much smaller in page count than the prior issues, The…
Check out live videos http://www.youtube.com/wearecocobs LA Times Top 10 Buzz Bands of 2007 NME “… In thrall to the likes of The Replacements, The Lemonheads, The Byrds and even Dylan. Man, we love that shit. Why? Because there’s only a few months ’til summer. That means a lot time smoking spliffs in parks, and thanks to this, there’s more material for our “Now That’s What I Call Smoking Spliffs in…
Imperium Romanum (PC) / 2008 Haemimont / http://www.imperium-game.com / http://www.southpeakgames.com / Imperium Romanum is a game that is set up in a way similar to Civilization, in that individuals start out as a governor of a province, and are charged with making their province equal Rome in terms of stature and size. Individuals that played Glory of the Roman Empire should know that this is the true sequel to the…
Support offered by All Shall Perish, The Warriors, Eternal Lord, Since The Flood Massachusetts’ THE ACACIA STRAIN are proud to announce a summer 2008 headlining tour across the United States. Dubbed the Sun Your Bunz Tour, and featuring support from All Shall Perish, The Warriors, Eternal Lord and Since The Flood, the tour with cross America from late-May into late-June. A tour admat is also available online here (http://prostheticrecords.com/tassunyourbunz.html). The…
First, check out this great video of Jeremy Fisher performing “Sula.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Danw9udDADc Secondly, and this is only if you like it: NeuFutur Magazine and Cornerstone Promotions are offering three Jeremy Fisher prize packs. These prize packs include a brand spankin’ new copy of “Goodbye, Blue Monday”, eir 2007 album on Aquarius Records. Along with these CDs, there is also a t-shirt included.
Dead Boys – Return of the Living Dead Boys / 2008 MVD / 50 Minutes / http://www.mvdb2b.com / The Dead Boys were one of the few bands that had ever made anything of themselves from the Cleveland area. This band started in 1975 and broke up for the first time in 1979. While the act would have to stay together to record a live album for Sire Records (contract obligations),…
Individuals want to find things to do for the summer. For those individuals in the United Kingdom, FestivalPlanet is the web site that needs to be checked out. This is due to the fact that FestivalPlanet has the UK Festival Calendar 2008, which shows every event of any significance that will take place in the UK for this summer and beyond. So, if you want to know exactly what’s up…