8 songs, self released in 1999. They are great, fast pop; punk with catchy hooks and excellent audible bass playing. Although they are pop punk, they avoid the pitfalls that most pop punk bands fall into, like to glossy of a sound, or writing songs for MTV .The vocalist sounds like the singer of NOfx and the singer from the living end. They are a band that has some serious…
Matt Pond PA – Last Light / 2007 Altitude / 13 Tracks / http://www.mattpondpa.com / http://www.altituderecords.com / I can’t believe that Matt Pond PA has been around for practically ten years. Well, after listening to “Last Lightâ€, I can, but still. “The title (and opening track) shows exactly mature Matt Pond PA is. The atmospheric sound of the alt-rock that the band plays has comparisons ready-made to acts like Modest…
Hot Chip has released “I Became A Volunteer” to the internet-going masses. However, this song is exclusive, and it will only be available for download on their site for a short amount of time. To get this solid track, sign up at hot-chip/downloads/sep07/ for a free MP3 of “I became a volunteer”. Hot Chip says that the track was on “Myspace a while back but won’t be on the new…
This shit is plain bad. I don’t think i have heard this level of crap for a long time. This sampler was produced by once great Danzig and Slayer producer, Rick Rubin, but it seems like as Rick has grown older his taste in music has degraded. This 2 song tape sounds like a bunch of losers trying to emulate psuedo-industrial moron Trent Reznor`s band, Nine Inch Nails. My advise…
Fresh off of a crushing tour with Unearth which saw August Burns Red zig-zagging across the country the Lancaster, PA natives will get right back to it. On November 29th August Burns Red will embark on a three week tour with Between the Buried and Me and Behold…The Arctopus.
Putumayo Presents: Israel / 2007 Putumayo / 12 Tracks / http://www.putumayo.com / For those individuals that yet do not know what it is that Putumayo does, they attempt to showcase the music from practically every corner of the globe. They’ve released compilations of Celtic, Gypsy, New Orleans, Americana, and Latin Jazz music (and that’s only a drop in the bucket), and they have many countries and styles of music to…
Unsigned, with an album ready to go and a sound that screams airplay – now is your chance to catch them live.
This album was created by Jenrazor records, in 1996, and Rodney Riffle may be reached at Riffle.8@osu.edu, or they may be written to at 181 Nottingham Ct, Westerville OH, 43081. This is a cool Indy rock band with elements of quite a few genres, life Surf Rock, Punk, and Folk. This has odd lyrics intermeshed perfectly with the music that is created by this trio. This band eventually became Fifty-Fifty,…
Ended. Following their certified gold album One Day Remains (2004), Alter Bridge just released their sophomore album Blackbird. Blackbird has been receiving critical acclaim since it’s October release and their hit single “Rise Today” is continuing to climb the charts. After trials and tribulations, Alter Bridge comes back on top with an epic record sure to satisfy with their melodic rock and intimate lyrics. Alter Bridge is currently on tour…
When he began his performance Tuesday at the Roxy, Devendra Banhart sat, acoustic guitar in hand, plucking subdued singer-songwriter fare marked by a blissed-out delicacy. When he ended it nearly two hours later, he was stripped to the waist and practically spitting out his words as his band rolled and tumbled through the 12-bar blues pattern of “I Feel Just Like a Child.”
Phil Ramone – Making Records / 2007 Borders / 14 Tracks / http://www.bordersstores.com / http://www.philramone.com / Phil Ramone has been around the record industry for an amazingly long period of time, starting producing and recording music for other individuals all the way back in 1959. Among the greats that Ramone has worked with in the enarly fifty year period since ey started are Burt Bacharach, Ray Charles, Chicago, Frank Sinatra,…
HIM is premiering their new music video for “Bleed Well,†off their new album Venus Doom, for the HIM fan club on Heartagram.com today. Imeem will be featuring the world premiere of the video on Tuesday, November 27th. The band filmed the live footage for the new video at their Los Angeles shows on November 14th and 15th at the Orpheum Theatre. The live footage from the shows will also…
All treat and no trick for metal fans, The Confession, fresh from leveling cities with Megadeth, will join Avenged Sevenfold and Operator on tour this fall; the 28-city trek starts October 29 in Los Angeles at the famed Wiltern Theatre.
Now a huge band playing on Loud. Viciousphere was once a small band that kicked ass-11 songs in 1995. Really good metal with all sorts of influences, including Metallica, Slayer, Pantera and Alice Cooper. all of the great parts of a band are included here, with fast noticeable bass, fast clear, guitars and great vocals. this albums is depressing because the newest single by VS sounds like White Zombie. The…
“SATISFIED”, the highly anticipated album from recording artist TAYLOR DAYNE, is set for release on February 5th, 2008. Dayne’s fifth studio album and first effort in ten years, “SATISFIED” delivers a powerful selection of 13 songs from acclaimed writers and producers including Rick Nowels, Billy Steinberg, Mike Mangini, Peter Wade, and Richie Jones, among others. With “SATISFIED”, Dayne is poised to triumphantly return to the forefront of popular music.
As far as videos go, Musab’s “Hat & Shoes” is about as much of a departure from his previous video, “Baaang,” as you could imagine from the smooth-talking mack. While “Baaang” was set in his hometown of Minneapolis, “Hat & Shoes” takes place in his newer haunt, Las Vegas. Instead of firing off heavy rhymes straight into the camera, we now have Sab flowing into a microphone in a dark…
Satellite posted samples of the song taken from their new album “Into The Night”. They are available on their official MySpace profile: www.myspace.com/satellitepoland. “Into The Night” will be released by Metal Mind Productions on the 19th November 2007 in Europe and on the 22nd January 2008 in the USA (via MVD) in two versions: as a standard CD and as a digipack CD edtion including 2 bonus tracks.
Shalini – The Surface and The Shine / 2007 Electric Devil / 11 Tracks / http://www.interbridge.com/shalini / If the name Shalini sounds familiar at all, it may be because ey was a leading member of the somewhat-famous San Francisco band, Vinyl Devotion, which was founded all the way back in 1990. The style of rock that Shalini starts off their “The Surface and The Shine†with is very non-descript.
The trio’s self-released album has been spritzed up and retooled, but there’s no containing the primal, giddy energy that crackles through it. Careening back and forth between desperate/lovesick and drunk/predatory, the band turns raw, conflicted desire into instantly addictive pop gems and scorching, swaggering rock. The band’s hearts and influences are on full display, but the results are wonderfully contagious. For an ideal example, delve into the winningly bouncy, vaguely…
This was release in 99 on Tugboat Records, and it has 15 songs. It cost me nothing. Vic Godard has had a long history, from being in the Subway Sect, a British punk band, to now, as a Rock band as Vic Godard. The album is great, mixing reggae with rock with indy with soul. Vic is all over the musical map, drawing from an amazing amount of influences to…