Tickle Me Pink will release their debut album, Madeline, this summer on Wind-Up Records. You can preview four songs from the album on Purevolume – purevolume.com/ticklemepink. The Fort Collins, CO based band has been consistently selling out shows all over Colorado and the first single “Typical” is the #1 most played song on Denver radio station KTCL. Catch Tickle Me Pink on the road. More dates to be announced soon.
 Canadian experimental/noise duo NADJA‘s latest album Skin Turns to Glass   is in stores today via THE END RECORDS.Â
Debut video in connection with band’s acclaimed newest album, What Happened to Television?, is directed by Josh Hassin and Matt Goldman The Greyboy Allstars are in the midst of a resurgence and being greeted with a very warm welcome.
THE ORIGINAL ASIA will be playing the House of Blues, 308 Euclid Avenue, in Cleveland on April 19. The venue phone is 216-523-BLUE. Tickets are $35 and $47.50.
J5 Zine #5.5 / :10 / 24S / j5@drop.to / http://www.dumedia.tk / Reviewed 19 September 2004 A mini-zine that includes whatever presumably that the editors could dig up, whether it be some beautiful pictures (which are slightly hard to see being shrunk to such a small size and poorly printed), or some often-humorous poetry. The poetry is by and large just some pseudo-prose, never fitting into a rhyme scheme but…
This four piece original act has identified their own sound with a bleeding mixture of rock and roll bluegrass, americana, soul, and vocal styling just not available on the music scene today.
DeVotchKa’s fifth album, A Mad And Faithful Telling, came out last week, and if press and radio are any indication, this is turning out to be their best received release ever. The Denver quartet holds the coveted #1 spot on both the CMJ Top 200 chart and the CMJ AAA chart, and is receiving rave reviews from across the globe.
Of The First Born Son has announced upcoming tour dates with Fredericton, NB based We The Undersigned. Of The First Born Son recently parted ways with guitarist Mike Rideout and bassist Curt Long. The group is currently auditioning replacements and will make an announcement shortly.
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THE SWORD: ENTIRE NEW ALBUM, “GODS OF THE EARTH”, AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING      THE SWORD has made its brand new album, Gods of the Earth, available for streaming in its entirety on the band’s MySpace page. Check it out now at this location. THE SWORD’s Gods of the Earth will drop on April 1, via Kemado Records. The follow up to the band’s critically acclaimed debut Age of Winters, Gods…
Jersey Beat #74 / Full-Sized / 152 Pages / Jim Testa, 418 Gregory Avenue, Weehauken, NJ 07086 / Reviewed 27 November 2003 While this may be Jim’s largest issue to date, #74 was the issue I literally flew through, as it contains a slew of excellent reviews, interviews, and other materials to provide for a decent amount of reading material. By far, the most shining example of the killer writing…
Canadian songwriter/musician/singer Veda Hille releases her 13th album This Riot Life, this Spring. The album is being released worldwide on Ape House, the label owned by XTC leader Andy Partridge. The release will be followed by touring in Canada, the UK, and Europe.     This Riot Life is full of lush sounds, funny and warm quirky words and great storytelling. It’s intense, densely orchestrated and at times ferocious exploration of…
Into The Wild / 2008 Paramount Vantage / 148 Minutes / http://www.intothewild.com / http://www.paramountvantage.com / Into The Wild is a film adaptation of the Jon Krakauer book that in turn details the story of Christopher McCandless, an individual struck with wanderlust that ultimately drove eir to set up shop in Alaska. Ultimately dying there, this story (and film) looks to probe McCandless’ soul to see what made eir tick. The…
The June 10 release of Green Rocky Road fills in the lacunae in the rightly romanticized mythos of the late folk music legend Karen Dalton and goes a long way in clarifying her crucial role in the evolution of modern acoustic music from “folk” source materials. The only formal studio recordings made during her lifetime — released in 1969 and 1971 respectively — were thoroughly dissected upon their recent re-release.…
Singstar has been one of my favorite games of the last few years, even if I can sing at all. I also grew up listening to the radio in the 1990s, so the combination of Singstar with songs from the 1990s is something that was right up my alley. Individuals that have played Singstar before will be familiar with how to play Singstar ‘90s; essentially you pick a sing, pick…
Things We Lost In The Fire / 2008 Dreamworks / 118 Minutes / http://www.thingswelostinthefire.com / http://www.dreamworks.com / This Image-award nominated film showcases the talents of Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro in this film that showcases that out of grief, some form of happiness can be created. The film itself is about Berry’s character and eir family taking in a friend of Berry’s deceased husband, as both groups look to…
Payday AdvanceS are those things that pretty much anyone has to use at one point during their lives. They are those places that provide individuals with enough money to make it to their pay day, regardless of how long that pay day is from when the individual asks for money. Some of those payday advance places are not located in the United States, and as such, have a tendency to…
For Country Music’s biggest voice, Martina McBride, the sky’s the limit this summer as she takes her “Waking Up Laughing Tour” outdoors to over twenty-five amphitheaters. After a successful arena run, in both the US and Canada, this extension will offer fans the opportunity to take in hit after hit in a completely different environment.
$3 / No Trade / Full Size / 124 Pages / jim@jerseybeat.com / http://www.jerseybeat.com Jersey Beat, 418 Gregory Avenue, Weehawken NJ 07086 . (201) 864-9054 Jersey Beat was one of the first magazines I was lucky enough to get my hands on back in the halcyon days of 1999, and I was lucky enough to receive this copy. For some reason, the magic that I felt that I was holding…
ASCEND is a new collaborative musical project between Gentry Densley Iceburn, Eagle Twin) and Greg Anderson (sunn 0))),Goatsnake, Engine Kid). Both have been making music that has crossed paths several times in the last 19 years, the most notable being during the 90s when Anderson’s band Engine Kid toured with and shared a split album with Densely’s band Iceburn. During that time both were heavily experimenting with the fusion of…