Author: Sargeant

Posted on: December 9, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

International superstar Nelly Furtado serves up her music live, performing a collection of her most popular songs to date on LOOSE THE CONCERT, a DVD and a CD, both confirmed for release Dec. 4 on Geffen Records.

Recorded and filmed on her 2007 Get Loose World Tour, the DVD features 17 songs from her set list (including a cover of Gnarls Barcley’s “Crazy— previously not released in the U.S.), plus 30 minutes of documentary footage. The CD version offers live recordings of 11 songs. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has covered independent music, PC hardware,…

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Posted on: December 8, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Barenaked Ladies – Talk To The Hand: Live In Michigan

Barenaked Ladies – Talk To The Hand: Live In Michigan / 2007 Shout! Factory / http://www.bnlmusic.com / I have been a fan of the Barenaked Ladies for well over a decade, ever since I first heard “The Old Apartment” on Muchmusic (back before it became a lame MTV knockoff here in the states). Their artist focus show (which had a half hour dedicated to videos by the band) turned me…

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Posted on: December 8, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Myspace: A place for videos… and Streetlight Manifesto!

With the increasing popularity of its video features, MySpace is no longer simply “a place for friends,” now it’s also a place to watch never-before-seen music videos! SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has covered independent music, PC hardware, consumer tech, and gaming culture since 1998. With over 25 years of continuous digital publishing experience, he has written thousands…

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Posted on: December 8, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Alco-beat #6

Alco-beat #6 A5/28 Pages, published irregularly from Bowling Green, Ohio. This magazine makes me feel giddy. The writing is so much better in Alco-Beat then pretty much any magazine that I have reviewed for NeuFutur. Articles in this magazine go all across the board in subject matter, but are for the most part tied together by the intelligent style of writing and the humour on each page. How can you…

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Posted on: December 8, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

First To Leave Party In Japan; Announce In-Store At The Mighty Rasputin’s.

San Francisco Bay Area’s First To Leave are continuing to generate a buzz since the October 9th release of “Forging a Future.” The record has received rave reveiws from Punknews.org, Wonka Vision, Redefine Magazine, and Neufutur to name a few. The record will also be featured in the January 2008 issue of Alternative Press. To follow this success, the band will be traveling to Japan to perform with Lifetime. Just…

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Posted on: December 8, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Kelly King – Live The Dream

Kelly King – Live The Dream / 2007 TresKneeHows / 15 Tracks / http://www.kellykingsings.com / Kelly King provides a brand of pop music during “Tame Me” that does not really put anything forth that has not been done before in the genre. What is interesting about the track is the chorus, which will put individuals onto the dance floor in masses. The track rapidly slides back into its original state…

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Posted on: December 8, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Island Records Celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the Bob Marley Album with the Release of Exclusive new EXODUS Music and Memorabilia Including a Special Edition CD, ‘Live At The Rainbow Concert’ DVD, new Hardback Book

Described by Time Magazine as “the album of the 20th century,” Bob Marley’s masterpiece EXODUS celebrates its 30th anniversary and will be commemorated across all media platforms with the release of an special edition CD and DVD/CD combo, available now, as well as the release of a new hardback book and a theatrical tour of cinema screenings of LIVE AT THE RAINBOW in key college markets and major cities across…

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Posted on: December 8, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Alarm #13

Alarm #13 – Full Size/108 Pages[Burnt Zine] $5 / No Trade / Full-Size / 108 Pages / info@alarmpress.com / http://www.alarmpress.com / Alarm Press, PO Box 200069 / Boston, MA 02120 For a magazine that is so glossy (with a color insert in the middle of the zine), there is absolutely nothing in the content department. Seriously, there are three opinion pieces, about 10 interviews with bands and individuals, 1 short…

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Posted on: December 8, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

‘Bat Out of Hell’ Trilogy in Concert and on DVD for the First Time With 3 BATS LIVE

2007 Performance By Meat Loaf Spans All Three Albums, Including The Hits ‘I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That),’ ‘Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad’ And ‘Paradise By The Dashboard Light’ For the first time, 30 years after the debut of BAT OUT OF HELL — one of the most popular albums in history — all three of the albums in the series come to life with…

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Posted on: December 7, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 1

Amy Grant – Greatest Hits

Amy Grant – Greatest Hits / 2007 Sparrow / 19 Tracks / http://www.amygrant.com / http://www.sparrowrecords.com / I know that for a while back during my senior year of high school and the summer before the first year of my undergraduate college career, I liked a lot of Christian music. I still never went (and really never have been) to church, but I liked the sound of sounds in that style…

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Posted on: December 7, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Long Distance Calling Breaks It Big in 2007 and Even Bigger in ’08

Nothing that makes this world a better place lasts for only three minutes. Nothing of relevance embraces you and abruptly leaves afterwards. Music does not need to be divided into five minute long chapters, verse-chorus-verse. Music needs room not rules, it needs freedom not boundaries – Long Distance Calling make sure to do exactly that. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine,…

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Posted on: December 7, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 1

Agitprop Vol. 2

Agitprop Vol. 2 / :20 / 28M / agitpropzine@hotmail.com / This zine is a very informative look at resisting the system, and it covers much of the “Health and Safety at Militant Actions” booklet, often down to the “T”. I’m not sure which came first, but the “copyleft” present in the zine really makes the question a moot one. Some of the stories are funny, like “Brussel Sprouts and the…

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Posted on: December 7, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Canadian Psych-Pop Outfit The Whitsundays Prep For Debut Release

Out on Friendly Fire Recordings January 22nd, 2008. Sharing two members with the ever-popular Shout Out Out Out Out and hailing from Edmonton, Alberta this heavily 60’s influenced psych-pop band will be releasing their debut January 22nd, 2008 through Friendly Fire in the US and Pop Echo Records in Canada. The Whitsundays certainly have a knack for writing yellowed, reverb-wrapped pop music, borrowing from the grand tradition of English psychedelia,…

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Posted on: December 7, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Matt White – Best Days

Matt White – Best Days / 2007 Geffen / 11 Tracks / http://www.mattwhitemusic.com / http://www.geffen.com / Matt White is one of the few artists that we have reviewed that does not have anything in the way of a Wikipedia. This is odd, considering that the vast majority of individuals that have achieved prominence in music have one. This is not to say that White isn’t famous; a quick perusal of…

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Posted on: December 7, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Kindercore Rises From The Ashes; Releases King of Prussia’s EP

Kindercore Records is pleased to announce its first official music release after rising from the dead earlier this year. King of Prussia’s debut mini-LP, Save the Scene, will be released on January 29, 2008. It’s the kind of erudite, sparkling pop music that would do the label’s sterling back catalog (Of Montreal, I Am The World Trade Center) proud. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and…

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Posted on: December 7, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Afunctional #1

Afunctional #1 / June / Half-Sized / 20 Pages / afunctionul@hotmail.com / http://afunctional.tripod.com / 2 East Franklin Ave. #11 , Minneapolis MN, 5504 / This zine is a real-life representation of all those “independent” publication that magazines like Artnews fondly recall, although no one has ever heard of them. I hadn’t heard of Afunctional until AMC 2003, where Gerald Prokop was tabling. This issue is very carefully done, with a…

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Posted on: December 7, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Kudos for Vashti Bunyan’s new release “Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind” – archival recordings pre JADD

Though she is now known as the long-lost British folkie who was championed by and ultimately recorded with Devendra Banhart and his psych-folk cohorts, Vashti Bunyan was once set on a course for a far different life. Set up with the Mick Jagger/Keith Richards – penned “Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind” as a debut single, she was given a healthy push toward pop stardom, but failed to generate…

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Posted on: December 6, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

All My Loving

All My Loving / 2007 MVD / 52 Minutes / http://www.mvdb2b.com / The title for All My Loving corresponds to a Beatles song of the same name. That fact is obvious for those individuals that grew up with The Beatles, but for someone that never was a huge fan of them such as myself, the fact was new to me. This movie is not new in any sense of the…

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Posted on: December 6, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Food For Animals To Release Long-Awaited First Full-Length Hip-hop’s most forward-looking outfit to release Belly Dec 6th on Hoss Records.

Given the current climate of the hip-hop world — where the most ear-bendingly innovative production often serves as aural sweetener for the by-rote thug lyricism of so much mainstream rap — the notion of “indie” hip-hop (at least as a signifier of boundary-pushing music) probably seems quaint at best and woefully outdated at worst. The Baltimore, MD (via D.C.)-based Food For Animals are all-too-aware of this conundrum, but rather than…

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Posted on: December 6, 2007 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Above Suspicion #1

First off, this zine is fabulous. I don’t know exactly how old Ashley is, but I have pinned her down into being older than 15.  This is another of the zines that I really like because it is written from a totally different perspective than about 90% of the zines being written out there today. This is not a zine that focuses on all what is politically correct, or whatever…

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