Tokio Hotel Contest – Fly to Italy, See TH in Rome!
You and a friend on a trip to Rome, Italy to catch Tokio Hotel at TH’s Open Air Show PLUS a chance to meet the band! It’s the ultimate vacation for a Tokio Hotel Fan!
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The Dodos On NPR Bryant Park Project and Featured On NPR Second Stage
Spin [4 Stars] : “…balancing craftmanship and raw emotion.” Rolling Stone : ” heads up, animal collective fans: this san francisco act whips up tribal-style grooves that are surprisingly cheery and layered for a band that consists of only two dudes playing acoustic instruments.” NY Times at SXSW (Jon Pareles) : “But some of my favorite bands at the festival were those that made their impact on the spot. ;…
Claudine The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack To Be Reissued By Shout! Factory
On June 17, Shout! Factory will reissue the soundtracks to the original motion pictures Claudine and Pipe Dreams on one disc, celebrating both the films and the work of Gladys Knight & The Pips and Curtis Mayfield.
Jillian Michaels – 30 Day Shred
Jillian Michaels – 30 Day Shred / 2008 Lionsgate / 60 Minutes / http://www.jillianmichaels.com / Continuing with the week of firsts, this is the first fitness DVD that we at NeuFutur have had the chance to review. The story line behind this is funny – I had originally thought that Jillian Michaels was Jillian Hall, performer for the WWE. While it would not be outside the realm of the possibility,…
Jagjaguwar Recording Artists LADYHAWK To Embark On U.S. Tour In Support Of Acclaimed “Shots”; Free MP3 Of “S.T.H.D”
LADYHAWK have just released an album called “Shots” that Carrie Brownstein of NPR (and of Sleater-Kinney fame) listens to every day (see March 6 entry at http://www.npr.org/blogs/monitormix/). MOJO magazine gives the same album 4 stars and says that Ladyhawk recalls “Dinosaur Jr.’s drive as adroitly as some of Neil Young’s darker notions.” And their live show is renowned. The Vancouver band is coming off a sold-out romp through Canada with…
Young Knives’ new album Superabundance will be released stateside Today on Rykodisc.
Oxford, UK’s Young Knives’ Hailed by Q Magazine as “a celebratoty affair – a hugely likeable and intelligent pop album that sings with human warmth, and ultimately, quiet defiance”, Superabundance is the follow up to 2006’s Voices of Animals and Men.
Dorothea #2
Dorothea #2 / $1.50 / 40M / gomek@comcast.net / Mike Baker has a tremendous amount of talent when it comes to telling stories. If individuals are into gruesome, slinky stories that keep individuals in the dark for long period of time, a ‘zine like Dorothea is perfect. Stories here largely, instead of dealing with sexual experiences like in “Lazy Boyâ€, deal with death and murder. This is not a zine…
My Fat Irish Ass! -#5
My Fat Irish Ass! -#5 / :10 / 36L / $2 / PO Box 65391, Washington, D.C. 20035 / Omellain@Starpower.net / By far, the first thing that strikes me about My Fat Irish Ass! is the very basic, early nineties layout that they have throughout the zine. Simple text boxes and Comic Sans MS font dominate the majority of the zine, and for MFIA, it actually works well in transferring…
White Denim – “Goldie Locks” on RCRD LBL Now, New Freaky Tour Video, UK tour on NOW, NME,
NME’s #5 Best Band at SXSW “the real winner of SXSW this year was the might wah-wah pedal, thanks mainly to White Denim’s growling psycho garage rock…..the spewing riot of “Paint Silver Gold” and the massive “Let’s Talk About It” are spelling out the future of dirt-rock in blood”
Emmure Set To Release “False Love in Real Life”, Featured on TNA Wrestling
Connecticut’s EMMURE have added the first track from their highly-anticipated new album The Respect Issue to their MySpace page. False Love In Real Life is available now on their re-designed page www.myspace.com/emmure, taken from the new album to be released on May 13, 2008.
Diplo & Don Rimini Announce “Bust A Move” RMXXS Out April 29th Delicious Vinyl RMXXOLOGY
As the years scroll by, some rhymes stay forever fly. Back in ’89, Young MC’s “Bust A Move” was a ubiquitous presence on the pop music landscape, the sort of inescapable rap hit that remains imprinted in the minds of a generation. Now, two decades later, “Bust A Move” has been refueled and retooled by two of today’s party-rocking superheroes — DIPLO and DON RIMINI — as part of Delicious…
Slug #232
Slug #232 / Free / 84M / http://www.slugmag.com / After missing out on an issue for review (Stupid Spring Break and other commitments), we here at NeuFutur have another shot at reviewing this publication. As is usual, there is a Salt Lake City-heavy approach to the zine. The advertisement are large in number, but they contribute to the overall feeling of the issue, being for local events, record labels, bars,…
Rose Hill Drive sophomore release “Moon Is the New Earth” from Megaforce on 6.24
The 12-song stunner was written, recorded, produced and mixed by Rose Hill Drive—the boys got their hands all over this one! Pre-release dates announced below.
Hear Brittney Elizabeth’s song “LA with Open Arms” on MTV Shows This Spring
Brittney Elizabeth Breathes Emotional Truth Into The Soundtracks To Some Of Your Favorite Television Shows Hollywood, CA – Fresh, young singer/songwriter Brittney Elizabeth has become the go-to-gal for setting the musical backdrop to some of television’s most talked about programs, with a pair of songs from her debut album, Breathe In finding their way onto nearly a dozen television series. Music Supervisors have gone positively Elizabethan, lusting over the songs,…
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Go To The Movies –Funny We Shrunk The Adults
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Go To The Movies –Funny We Shrunk The Adults / 2008 Paramount / 66 minutes / http://www.paramount.com / The second of our two Alvin and the Chipmunks reviews, this iteration of “Go To The Movies†has a total of three episodes present. For individuals that have a partial collection and want to know what episodes are present, this collection has “Back To Alvin’s Futureâ€, “Biggerâ€, and…
Mreowkoblast #17
This comic comes from the combined efforts of Dan Moynihan, tying together both Microblast, his old comic, and Mreow, which is a blanket epithet for all of his new work. Starting at the beginning of the comic, we have some interesting pieces, including a “Caption:Caption” game, which is where one person only sees the one step that came before as they draw their contribution?. This game is intended to be…
Little Vic Releases “Each Dawn I Die”
Little Vic is set to release his album, Each Dawn I Die.. Hailing from Long Island, Little Vic is ready to redirect rap’s focus back on New York. His EP, Each Dawn I Die, features 2 singles that saw great success on the college radio charts: “The Exorcist” featuring DJ Premier and “Caked Up” featuring Kool G Rap. Armed with the release of his long-anticipated follow-up to those singles, Little…
The Gaslight Anthem Announce the release of The ’59 Sound
 The Gaslight Anthem are currently in the studio with producer Ted Hutt (Flogging Molly, Bouncing Souls, Street Dogs) crafting their first full length album, The ’59 Sound, which is set for release on August 19, on SideOneDummy Records. The band was recently featured in Alternative Press magazine’s “100 Bands To Watch” issue and performed at SXSW in Austin, TX.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Chipmunk Adventure
Alvin and the Chipmunks:  The Chipmunk Adventure / 2008 Paramount / 76 Minutes / http://www.paramount.com / After the success that the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie had in the movie theaters last year, it is not a surprise that Paramount would release “The Chipmunk Adventure†on DVD now. The film is celebrating its 21st birthday this year, originally being released in 1987. This means that this feature is animated, and…
Ghost Of The Russian Empire Debut Album Coming Soon On Thirsty Ghosts Records
“In late 2004, we decided to put a band together because people seemed to think musicians are smarter and more attractive than regular people. Not disagreeing with that line of thinking, the band was born. We played some shows and decided we should have something recorded. We told producer Erik Wofford [The Black Angels, Voxtrot] we get him face to face meeting with David Bowie and he agreed to work…