Secret Weapons of Kung Fu (for Burnt Zine) Living in a suburb really limits your chances in catching a punk video on the local tv stations, but fret not : Kung Fu Records has made a video compilation that collects videos from some of the biggest punk stars and some up and coming acts. While the list of great acts is not fully represented on this disc, some great tracks…
Click Here to Listen to their SXSW Daytrotter Performance: http://www.daytrotter.com/daytrotterSessions/759/free-songs-dragons-of-zynth Dragons of Zynth kick off their fall tour dates in hometown New York City tomorrow at the Annex Club NME party. DOZ will bringing their afro-glam-crunk showcase to venues across the East Coast, including a stop in Washington D.C. for the DAM festival with Cloud Cult http://www.damfestival.org, then proceeding to the midwest and up into Canada for their debut Pop…
Florida Indie-alternative band, The Cruxshadows, just blew out the candles on their best “Birthday†ever, celebrating their second consecutive Billboard #1 single today. Almost one year ago to the day, the band’s single “Sophia” debuted at #1 on the Billboard Dance Singles Sales Chart. This feat was made all the more incredible because it knocked hitmaker Beyonce’s new single down to the #2 slot. The band repeated the feat on…
Sean Lennon – Friendly Fire / 2006 Capitol / 1 Track / http://www.capitolrecords.com/seanlennon / http://www.capitolrecords.com / Man, as the years go by, it becomes more and more easy to tell that Sean Lennon is the son of John Lennon. Anyways, this DVD is a movie trailer for Friendly Fire, an “ego trip†for Sean Lennon in the sense that the music that ey made is linked to video footage to…
Satellite, one of the best progressive rock bands in Poland, announced their return! Wojtek Szadkowski has once again invited other musicians from neo-prog Collage to create a masterpiece of space, melody and beautiful sounds. The new album entitled “Into The Night” is the final chapter of the trilogy started in 2003 by “A Street Between Sunrise And Sunset” and followed by “Evening Games” in 2005. As the band claims, it’s…
World renowned punk band D.O.A. is back with the brand new DVD “Smash the State.†It will be released September 25th, 2007 on Joe Shithead’s Sudden Death Records. This long awaited compilation is loaded with a ton of raw footage shot at four shows in the San Francisco/Bay Area and the infamous Canada Day Anarchist Picnic in Vancouver.
The Rolling Stones – Under Review 1962-1966 / 2006 MVD / 82 Minutes / http://www.rollingstones.com / http://www.mvdb2b.com / This Under Review features The Rolling Stones in the first four years of their existence as a band. One can expect MVD in the next three or four years to come out with other Under Review DVDs that will bring individuals up to the current period in The Rolling Stones’ life. This…
AVENGED SEVENFOLD ANNOUNCES THEIR FIRST OFFICAL FAN CLUB! This fan club gives you a ton of awesome features including an early admission pass to all headlining general admission shows, the new CD/MVI which includes the new album and over 2 hours of exclusive footage, the opportunity to take advantage of Avenged Sevenfold ticket pre-sales, plus much, much more!
Another Animal contains an interconnected group of musicians from Godsmack and Ugly Kid Joe that have merged their musical formula with aggressive and classic songwriting to create their debut self-titled record Another Animal. The band will launch a U.S. tour on October 2nd in Tallahassee, FL with Alter Bridge. You can preview Another Animal’s first single “Broken Again” on the band’s Myspace page – http://www.myspace.com/anotheranimalxxx.
Queen – Under Review: 1980-1991 / 2006 MVD / 90 Minutes / http://www.mvdb2b.com / Queen is a great act, but I thought they really fell off during the 1980s. I guess I was wrong; just because none of the radio stations play anything that Queen created after 1980 does not mean that they became weaker in any way. Being only a casual fan of Queen, I had no clue that…
Sept. 28 – Los Angeles, CA Dimmak Party Sept. 29 – Los Angeles, CA Neighborhood Festival Sept. 30 – Los Angeles, CA LAX DJ Set Oct. 2 – Calgary, AB Hi Fi Club Oct. 4 – Vancouver, BC The Plaza Club Oct. 5 – San Francisco Rickshaw Stop Oct. 6 – Chicago, IL Vic Theater w.KLAXONS Oct. 8 – Washington, DC 9:30 Club w.KLAXONS Oct. 9 – Philadelphia, PA The…
Johnny Cash – The Great Lost Performance / 2007 Island / 18 Tracks / http://www.johnnycash.com / http://www.islandrecords.com / This CD makes a Johnny Cash that was a good fifteen years before the one that was captured during the last “American†CD. This means that the voice seems stronger, and that there is more of an energy with each of these eighteen cuts that blends well the younger and older Cash.…
Equal Vision recording artists CHIODOS rightfully take their seat in industry bible Billboard Magazine’s Top 200 Chart at the astonishing Number Five spot! Selling close to 40,000 albums in their first week in sales, their second album Bone Palace Ballet has been getting major bouts of applause, including the cover of this month’s Alternative Press, who calls the album “a frighteningly mighty album of exhilarating musicianship and inspired lyrical introspection.”…
Poison – Seven Days Live / 2006 MVD / 82 Minutes / http://www.poisonweb.com / http://www.mvdb2b.com / One really has to debate whether, as posed on their press sheet, that Poison was “at the height of their international success†in 1993, when this show was filmed. The one thing that individuals cannot debate is that Poison brings it, and brings it hard with this. Coming out after “Flesh & Bloodâ€, this…
Son Volt – The Search / 2007 Transmit Sound / 14 Tracks / http://www.sonvolt.net / I came to the music scene a little too late to hear Uncle Tupelo, but Son Volt is an act that continues some of the same styles and musical approaches that Uncle Tupelo once created. This is probably due to the fact that Jay Ferrar, the guitar / harmonica / vocalist of Son Volt, was…
Drowning Pool have been working hard to not only release their new album Full Circle, but also to have been working to draw attention to obtain medical treatment for the troops returning from battle. Recently the guys took time out of their busy schedule on the road to talk with their guitar sponsor, Gibson. Check out the full interview and download the first single off Full Circle, “Soldiers.â€
The Trolleyvox’s new release on the Philadelphia-based Transit of Venus label is a two album set that is comprised of Your Secret Safe , a full-band electric album produced by Brian McTear (Danielson, Espers, Mazarin, A-Sides, Lilly’s, Apollo Sunshine) featuring nine new originals and a ripping version of The Who’s “Our Love Was”; and Luzerne, a gorgeous acoustic album featuring songwriter-guitar player Andrew Chalfen and lead singer Beth Filla. The…
Philly ZineFest Documentary 2004 / 2005 Outhouse publishing / http://www.njghost.com / This is really a documentary, replete with interviews with a number of the attendants at the title event (The 2004 edition of the Philly ZineFest. However, some of the pieces are definitely weaker than the others. Starting off with BenT (Unshaven Chi), one really might wonder why such a stilted and silence-filled interview was allowed to have the opening…
Great Northern’s sun-soaked dreamscapes will help everyone forget summer is coming to a close. The Angelenos are going back on tour this fall, joining New York-based quartet Robbers on High Street, sharing the headline slot.Great Northern meticulously brings their luscious textures to life at each show, their distinctive boy-girl harmonies permeating every melody, introduced on their debut LP, “Trading Twilight for Daylight” (Eenie Meenie Records).
Slug #225 / Free / 66M / http://www.slugmag.com / It’s been a few reviews since I told anyone what Slug is about.. Essentially, Slug Magazine is focused on the Salt Lake City, Utah area. It is not just a regional magazine, but has a number of pieces that will keep individuals interested. The only thing that I ever can find to be a major problem in Slug is the heavy…