New Release & Upcoming Shows for the CROWD!!! The TKO re-release of the CROWD’s “Letter Bomb” album is available NOW through our web store, and will be hitting record shops worldwide on January 11. A limited, deluxe LP version will follow shortly. The CROWD will be supporting SOCIAL DISTORTION later this month in Orange County and Los Angeles on make-up gigs for last month’s cancelled SD shows. Stay tuned…
Dusty One-Shot / Free / Fourth-Sized / 8 Pages / mandypoet@hotmail.com / One of the zines that just focuses on the lyrics for one song, just like my rendering of “Texas On My Mind†by Pat Green, albeit with a lot less in the way of backgrounds. This zine is fairly Spartan, with clip art adorning the pages along with a line or two from Dusty Springfield’s “Wishin’ and Hopin’â€,…
***Music Video for Group’s Debut Single Features Canada’s Largest Indoor Playground, 90’s Fly Dancers, and Time Travel*** Canadian progressive-metal newcomers, What’s He Building In There (WHBIT?), have announced more dates in support of their self-titled debut album, which was released earlier this year on Year of The Sun Records. The band will hit the road in late January with Metal Blade Recording Artist Epicurean for a string of tour dates.…
The End of a Perfect Day #8 / $1 / 1:00 / 48M / http://www.microcosmpublishing.com / Joyce Leslie tells the story about eir trip down to Puerto Rico. This is pretty interesting, but there are a number of times during this issue where one can just tell that ey is looking for the right word or phrase and completely wiffs out on it. Phrases that are meant to be poetic…
It’s with lots of joy that we finally get to announce that A Whisper In The Noise‘s third album, Dry Land, will finally be released in the USA. Southern Records will be releasing it on February 25th. Some of you may already be familiar with this amazing band, but to most they are still rather anonymous. Here’s the bio: If you have ever wanted to make music before in your…
With each passing year, there seems to be different methods that individuals that own web sites can use to either earn from every visitor or to earn as an affiliate. One of the latest methods that individuals could conceivably use is Audio Ad Hosting, which is a business that puts audio advertisements from some major companies onto your web site. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder…
 GROUP’S DEBUT FULL-LENGTH EFFORT TO BE RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 26th, 2008 HERO: “A legendary figure endowed with great strength or ability; who commits an act of remarkable bravery or who has shown an admirable quality such as great courage or strength of character; the central figures of a movement.” The “movement†in this case is to push the boundaries of the music we know and love. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing…
Dunk and Piss #9 / 64 Pages / Forth-Sized / 11 Alger Dr, Rochester, NY 14624. Well, I was supposed to get this zine from Alex himself, and even sent him money, but I was a moron and forgot a letter in his street name. So, I bought this zine from Microcosm during AMC, and I am still glad. The excellent writing, the events that don’t really matter in the…
HOLLYWOOD , CA – Collin Herring returns to music after sifting through the wreckage of years of personal turmoil, with a penetrating document in the form of his new album, Past Life Crashing. Scheduled for release in March 2008, the 11 tracks convey certain urgency in its description of life – songs about disintegrating relationships, booze fueled laments and the search for emotional sobriety. Drenched in Herring’s marked reverb-laden guitar…
Sunday Drivers – Archetypes EP / 2007 Permanent / 4 Tracks / http://www.sundaydriversmusic.com / The cold, New Romantic style of Sunday Drivers during “The Sweetest Disguise†is meshed well with a little bit of dance punk and hints of emo music. This means that the style of music that the band crafts during the opening track is new and fresh, and allows for the act to create their own sound…
Release Date: April 1, Track listing Revealed “Naked and Red” mp3 Available For Download Oxford, MS gloominaries Colour Revolt are extremely excited for the release of their long-awaited full-length debut, Plunder, Beg, and Curse on new label home, Fat Possum. For this album, the band has collaborated once more with producer and friend Clay Jones (Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello) at Sweet Tea Recording studio in Oxford. Plunder is the followup…
Movie Star Kiss – Sunset Junction / 2007 Self / 6 Tracks / http://www.moviestarkiss.com / The tidiness with which Movie Star Kiss create their introductory track on “Sunset Junctionâ€, “Just Can’t Have It All†virtually ensure some large fan base for the band. The band does not immediately link themselves to a specific set of bands and influences, but plays rock music with hints of emo music strewn throughout. “Just…
In the current period, individuals have to be concerned that their identities will be stolen, their credit cards used for nefarious purposes, or some other horrible thing. However, there are a fewfirms that are trying to ensure that individuals will not have to worry about that problem. One of these places is LifeLock, and they ensure that individuals will not have the slightest amount of money or goods stolen from…
Exclusive Elliot Smith Photos By Acclaimed Photographer Autumn De Wilde Debut Films: WHAT WE DO IS SECRET, Starring Shane West and Bijou Phillips & Jamie Kennedy’s Comic Documentary HECKLER New Bands: The Walkmen, The Dodos, Helio Sequence, MSTRKRFT & Stellastarr* February 26 – March 2, 2008 San Francisco, CA The Noise Pop Festival takes over San Francisco February 26 to March 2. Over six nights, Noise Pop 16 will come…
Bring Me The Horizon Present – This Is What The Edge of Your Seat Was Made For / 2007 Earache / 4 Tracks / http://www.earache.com / Bring Me The Horizon Present creates some of the noise-infused hardcore music that has been put forth by a number of acts in the current period. The first track on the disc is “Re: They Have No Reflections†does not give too much new…
Following the January 22nd release of “The Evening Descends,” Norman, OK’s Evangelicals are headed out on a seven week cross country trek with Headlights. Playing towns big and small, Evangelicals are bringing their unforgettable psychedelic joyride to a club near you very soon. Taking the prodigious musical skill and clever pop sensibility of their recorded work and pushing it into overdrive, Evangelicals live is not just something to listen to,…
Drank Too Much In Milwaukee #2 (Dug, iliketodrawpictures@hotmail.com , 414-372-4260– no other addy) The title of this zine (at least the first part) is probably the most truthful title of a zine that I have seen in my days of reviewing. Pretty much every little snippet of Dug’s journal entries deals with a serious amount of drinking, whether it be “I’m Thankful for Beerâ€, “Songs About Drinkingâ€, or “Drinkin’ With…
   Say Anything, led by creative mastermind and lyrical genius Max Bemis, will headline a nationwide club tour kicking off on March 13th in Hollywood, CA. The 28 city tour comes full circle when it concludes a little over a month later in Los Angeles, CA. The band will be joined on the road by Manchester Orchestra, Biffy Clyro and Weatherbox. Say Anything is touring in support of…
Switches – We Are Switches / 2007 Interscope / 4 Tracks / http://www.myspace.com/weareswitches / “Lay Down The Law†is the first track on this EP, and it shows The Switches as a band that can create an angular rock sound that does not sound like the style crafted by many of the other bands in that style. This is done by incorporating a softer, more dreamy type of style –…
Following the release of their fifth studio masterpiece, “The Black And White Album,†and a brief successive tour taunting the masses, singer Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist, drummer Chris Dangerous, bassist Dr. Matt Destruction, guitarists Nicholaus Arson and Vigilante Carlstroem are launching a stateside tour in honor of their last stupendously spectacular sold-out spree. Unrivaled perfection awaits those lucky enough to attend— February 19th in Los Angeles through March 8th in Washington,…