US DATES: Jul 1 The Basement Columbus, OH Jul 2 Schuba’s Chicago, IL Jul 3 Summerfest Milwaukee, WS Jul 10 Sticky Fingerz Little Rock, AR Jul 11 Downtown Street Festival Huntsville, AL Jul 12 Forecastle Festival Louisville, KY Jul 25 D-Fest Tulsa, OK Jul 31 Backbooth Orlando, FL
“Who’s that girl?” people have been asking ever since a vintage video of 10-year-old Justin Timberlake performing the Paula Abdul hit “Opposites Attract” with an equally young girl at a Tennessee festival surfaced on www.perezhilton.com earlier this week. That girl is Ashley Arrison, who, like her friend Timberlake, has been hiding those MC Hammer pants in a deep hole in the backyard of her childhood home. Also like Timberlake, she…
Following in the footsteps of their conceptual album “Dear Diary” from FM Static, the band has teamed up with Youth Specialties to bring a free devotional guide to youth pastors. The “Dear Diary” Bible study guide is designed as a Vacation Bible School or outreach for teens. “This is something special that has never been done on one of our records before,” shares Trevor McNevan of FM Static. “It’s a…
The guitar work that starts up the “Indicia†EP is reminiscent of late-nineties Christian rock music, in the vein of a Delirious? or even a Switchfoot. The fact is that The C Elliott Project is ready to take the radio world by storm, and as soon as they wrap up a video, they can take the video world by storm. While individuals might have a problem with how full of…
El Michels Affair’s collection of instrumental covers of fifteen Clan classics, Enter The 37th Chamber, has been helping Wu-Tang fans realize their dreams. The soulful instrumentals providefans with the chance to spit their own verses to their favorite beats, in the privacy of our own homes of course. The latest candidate for a vocal makeover, “Duel Of The Iron Mics,” is from GZA’s 1995 solo release Liquid Swords and features…
The cry of love from our Creator is evidenced all around us from starfish to stars, snow peaks to mountain streams, songs of joy from tiny winged creatures. Do we hear the cry? Do we see the art and power of God’s design? Overwhelmed and pressed and into our daily lives, we often miss the glory, the treasure, right beside us. A hot cup of coffee, the legs that move,…
Cellador play a very clean and full-sounding brand of metal that has definitely decreased in popular since its heyday in the middle to late eighties. The style of music thatg Cellador plays during tracks like “Forever Unbound†is only paralleled by acts like Dragonforce in the current period. The guitar work is the first thing that individuals should hear in this track, with the splashy drums coming in soon after.…
Metal Mind Productions will re-release 3 more albums from the discography of the best and the most spectacular thrash metal band in Poland – Acid Drinkers. “The State of Mind Report†is their seventh studio album originally released in 1996. Titus: “It’s a report on the state of our own minds, on our changing personalities. Litza is certain about his religious beliefs, while my opinion about it is completely different. 
LOWER CLASS BRATS are hitting the road with UK Punks VICE SQUAD all along the West Coast and Southwest in June. Before that gets underway, they will be doing a date with UK Oi! legends COCK SPARRER in San Antonio! the BRATS are also taking the shenanigans back to Europe for another tour. COMBAT ROCK will be releasing their upcoming 7†ep “Thoughts About You†and the new title track…
311 SUMMER UNITY TOUR: 06/16 Cleveland, OH Time Warner Amphitheatre 06/17 Columbus, OH Lifestyles Communities Pavilion 06/19 Detroit, MI Freedom Hill 06/20 Cincinatti, OH Riverbend Amphitheatre 06/21 Indianapolis, IN The Lawns 06/23 Saratoga, NY SPAC 06/24 Boston, MA Comcast Center 06/25 New York, NY Central Park Summerstage 06/27 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Art Center 06/28 Washington DC Nissan Pavilion 06/30 Philadelphia, PA Penns Landing 07/01 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless…
Three-fourths of an hour of music await the listener of “Desperate Northâ€. This ample amount of time means that Celestial can set the stage for large things, devoting the entirety of tracks like “Into This Earth of Shallow Intent†purely to set the mood for everything that ultimately follows. One just hears the tension level rise as Celestial works in repetitious ways, in the style of a more metal Vangelis.…
German band RPWL revealed the tracklist of their first DVD release “The RPWL Live Experienceâ€. The DVD features an impressive performance, filmed in mid February at the WyspiaÅ„ski Theatre in Katowice, where RPWL played as the headliner on the second day of the festival ProgRock 2009. The band’s music definitely has its own style – modern, yet also drawing from the best traditions of the prog-rock genre. All in all…
The speed in which Celestia start off their “Apparitia†is without comparison. Also impressive is the harmony that the band can bring to the table with the chorus of this track. This extremely focused output puts Celestia immediately alongside the most impressive acts in their genre. The track could almost be on popular radio, it has so much in the way of harmony strung through it. This is not saying…
English punk turned folk singer-songwriter Frank Turner has signed to Epitaph Records with plans to release his third studio album, Poetry of the Deed, in September. The news comes on the heels of the recent announcement that the punk rock influenced bard will be performing his solo-acoustic act in front of his largest crowds ever when he tours North America in July in support of The Offspring. Turner’s musical odyssey…
North American Tour Dates June 26 || The Supermarket (TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival) || Toronto, ON June 28 || The Biltmore Cabaret (TD Canada Trust Vancouver Jazz Festival) || Vancouver, BC June 29 || Element (JazzFest International, w/ Blue King Brown) || Victoria, BC July 1 || Lydia’s Pub (Sasktel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival) || Saskatoon, SK July 2 || Lydia’s Pub (Sasktel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival) || Saskatoon, SK…
6/15 – Plush w/ Viva Voce – Tucson, AZ 6/16 – Rhythm Room w/ Viva Voce – Phoenix, AZ 6/17 – The Echo w/ Viva Voce – Los Angeles, CA 6/18 – Bottom Of The Hill w/ Viva Voce – San Francisco, CA 6/20 – Wonder Ballroom w/ Viva Voce – Portland, OR 6/21 – The Vera Project – Seattle, WA 6/22 – Media Club – Vancouver, BC 6/24 –…
Tone Tank, member of rap duo Iller Than Theirs and rap collective Nuclear Family, is back with another free solo project entitled The King of Surf Guitar Rap EP. Following the release of his last free EP, The Black Six Sessions, Tone was due for a much needed vacay from NYC. Embarking west for salvation, Tone ended up in a nearly dilapidated hotel in the middle of the desert in…
One note before this review: if you have seen this band live, you must expect something almost totally different from what you experienced at the show. This album, from last year, really demarcates another stage in the continuous development of Cause for Diversion. What is now a very melodic post-hardcore band is recorded on this disc to be much more sedate musically. There are seconds, like in “Sucker Punchedâ€, when…
Leading Eastern and Central European publisher 1C Company and Lesta Studio today announced the development of Empire: Time of Troubles. Empire is a turn-based, historical strategy game which covers the events of 1350-1650 taking place in Russia, Poland and the Great Lithuanian Princedom. Players will find themselves in a large-scale campaign commanding one of 26 warring factions. By controlling a hero character, and improving their skills in battle, the player…
I Scream Records is very excited & proud to welcome Wisdom In Chains to the ISR family. Founded in early 2003, as a musical collaboration between musicians from both America and Europe, Wisdom In Chains have put their mark on the American and European hardcore, punk and Oi! scene. Richie & Mad Joe, who at the time both were in Krutch (“Whatever It Takes” released on I Scream Records in…