Hallelujah! Hilarious Christian acoustic duo God’s Pottery will release their first CD digitally via COMEDY CENTRAL Records. “God’s Pottery: Live At Comix” was available for download to own from iTunes, eMusic and other major download sites on Tuesday, December 4.
A Very Special Christmas: The 20th Anniversary Music Video Collection / 2007 Special Olympics / 12 Tracks / http://www.specialolympics.org I admit, I was not really paying attention to when the first A Very Special Christmas came out in 1987 – I had just turned 4, and my attention was on a host of other things. Regardless, I can pay a little more attention to the tracks that are present on…
Rawkus, the brand synonymous with groundbreaking hip-hop returns to their roots in artist development. The Rawkus Network (http://www.rawkus.com), home to blog favorites and taste-makers such as RealtalkNY.net, SmokingSection.net, TheRapUp.net, and Fatlacemagazine.com, announces the Nov. 27th all digital launch of The Rawkus 50, a who’s who of the hottest underground artists in Hip Hop today.
Alter Bridge – Blackbird / 2007 Republic / 13 Tracks / http://www.altarbridge.com / http://www.universalrepublic.com / As most individuals may know, Alter Bridge consists of three-fourths of what was Creed. To those ranks, Myles Kennedy (formerly of The Mayfield Four) provides lead vocals and guitar. “Blackbird” is the band’s second album, and the disc’s first single is “Rise Today”. For those wrestling fans that happen to read NeuFutur, “Rise Today” was…
An Ode to No One / (7 by 6?) / 28 Pages / Trade / $1 / BasementFreak@antisocial.com / http://www.basementfreaksdistro.cjb.net / Ashley Lambert , PO Box 1417, Revelstoke, BC, VOE 2S0, Canada / This is probably about the first true fanzine that I’ve ever read, and I can’t think of many better bands to lavish attention on besides the Smashing Pumpkins. Ashley does this fanzine in an interesting paper size,…
“The Four Girls of Civet Have that Pretty-in-a-Dirty-Way Thing Going on Like They Own it†(Exclaim) Civet, a wicked Long Beach, CA foursome aptly self-described as “femme fatale punk rock,†has joined the Hellcat ranks, home to fellow agitators Tiger Army, HorrorPops and Rancid. “We are honored to join the Hellcat family and to be associated with the artists that continue to keep punk rock alive,†says the band.
The Staple Singers – The 25th Day of December / 2007 Concord / 12 Tracks / http://www.concordmusicgroup.com / I must admit that I was not that familiar with The Staple Singers before receiving this CD. For anyone that is too young to remember The Staple Singers, they were a gospel group that released albums for over twenty-five years. It took them about 12 years to actually break onto the charts;…
MAD Dragon Records, the student-run record label at Drexel’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts& Design, is pleased to announce the signing of the Philadelphia-based band, the Swimmers. Their self-produced album, Fighting Trees, is set for a March 4, 2008 release date with national distribution through Ryko/Warner.
I picked up this zine a long time ago at an infoshop in Lansing, Michigan (this would mean probably March of 2002). I finally read through it now, and the zine is okay, pretty much standard for a submission based magazine. Tons of poetry litter this publication, almost a 60/40 distribution, which makes this zine pretty hard to go through without getting tired with it. What really helps this magazine…
Frank Meyer, Editor, KNAC.COM, put it this way: “Lipstick, lace, leather, cheap booze, cheaper dames, low slung guitars, and hair…lots and lots of hair. This was the Sunset Strip music scene in the ‘80s. A poisonous cocktail of post-Mötley Crüe metal meets Van Halen influenced cock rock, served with a healthy dose of Hanoi Rocks pout and New York Dolls trash. The Hollywood, CA scene held a lot of weight,…
Pink Floyd – Piper At The Gates of Dawn / 2007 Capitol / 11 Tracks / http://www.capitolrecords.com / Any Pink Floyd fan knows that “Piper At The Gates of Dawn†was the first album created by Pink Floyd. Casual fans that just know Pink Floyd from “The Wall†and “Pulseâ€-era recordings will struggle to find commonality between those albums and “Piperâ€. 2007 marks the 40th anniversary of the original release…
From producer John Singleton (Hustle and Flow, Four Brothers) comes the intense action-thriller about one Latino family’s quest for honor and revenge. When the gangsters who killed his father come to settle a score, a young man and his mother turn the tables on the killers in this hard-hitting story fueled by deadly feuds and a lethally escalating game of cat and mouse.
An Australian Bike Dream Zine #1 / Free / Half-Sized / 44 Pages / confused_chickadee@hotmail.com / Whenever I go down to Boxcar Books, I seem to pick up more than my fair share of biking and bike-related ‘zines. Not a bad thing, but an interesting phenomenon nonetheless. As the title may indicate, An Australian Bike Dream Zine is about one individual’s trek to and through a great amount of Australia.…
Joe Keithley and his Band of Rebels are now #5 on the National Earshot Loud Radio Chart! Band of Rebels is Keithley’s solo album, released this past summer that features many of Vancouver’s best musicians. Many of them will be performing at the CD release party, which is also Sudden Death Record’s Christmas party, DVD live recording event and a benefit for Cannabis Canada. The event will also include guest…
Bones Season Two / 2007 Fox / http://www.fox.com/bones / http://www.fox.com For individuals that do not know what Bones is about, it features David Boreanaz (Buffy, Angel) as a FBI agent that is partnered with Emily Deschanel’s character (Cold Mountain and Glory Road). The “buddy comedy†and “gross out crime†genres are married her in this show, and this DVD set collects all 21 episodes in this season, among ample extras.…
„Gimme A Bassline!“, their funky and infectious first single with an incredible dancefloor action effect, scored a # 5 position in the German Club Charts (DCC) while hitting top DJ playlist around the globe. Ursula 1000 put this track on his “Ursuladelic†compilation, en vogue producers Fort Knox Five from Washington D.C. offered their remix services and PUMA featured the song on their MTV commercial. In no time their hit…
Anarchism and Violence: Selections From Anarchist Writings, 1896-1925 / :30 / Free / ICC, PO Box 712191, Los Angeles, CA 90071 / I really hate philosophy. However, I like the free reproduction of ideas, and especially from anarchist scholars that I’ve never previously even heard of (except from other zinesters copping Malatesta’s name. To be honest, the writing style of Malatesta is much more accessible than most philosophers, and there…
Back in 1993 Munich’s Into Somethin’ crew started a clubnight entitled ‘Maiden Voyage’. The idea behind it was simple: while the successful weekly Into Somethin’ sessions set up by Michael Reinboth, Florian Keller and Theo Thoennessen in 1989 kept on providing a take on the current state of dancemusic from a Jazz DJ’s point of view the guys wanted to establish another night dedicated strictly to the classics. Jazz, Soul,…
OST: Feel The Noise / 2007 Sony / 10 Tracks / http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/feelthenoise/index.html / Feel The Noise was the movie that featured Omarion and discusses the evolution of a young male that has to flee from gang violence to Puerto Rico, becoming taken up in the musical culture of Reggaeton. The character eventually strives to be a Reggaeton star, leading up to their performance at New York’s Puerto Rican Day Parade.…
10 great songs with sparse arrangements, touching genres like New Orleans Dixie and Jazz. For fans of Feist, Pascal Parisot, Benjamin Biolay, Camille Debut album of Fredda who already stirred waves with her contributions to the successful Le Pop Musik compilations “Le Pop En Duo†and “Le Pop 3â€. Produced by nouvelle chanson star Pascal Parisot. who happens to be her husband. 10 great songs with sparse arrangements, touching genres…