NYLON Records announces their second annual Summer Music Tour with NYLON Records’ artists Patrick Wolf and Plastiscines along with Living Things and Jaguar Love on the bill. The tour will bring some of 2009’s most cutting edge artists together. The NYLON Summer Music Tour is taking over a stage near you, cities and dates are listed below with more to come! NYLON Records launched recently with Paris’ Plastiscines as their…
Written in the haunted basement of a converted church and inspired by a ghostly apparition of Elvis, ‘INVINCIBLE CRIMINAL’ is the newest full length from musical genius MARK MALLMAN. Available early this August on BADMAN RECORDING CO (My Morning Jacket, Starf*cker), it will feature longtime friend and HOLD STEADY singer CRAIG FINN contributing vocals on “You’re Never Alone in New Yorkâ€, and CLOUD CULT violinist SHANNON FRID duets on “In…
Nashville indie record label Me and The Machine Records is launching the debut album from their newest signing, Franklin, TN based act Stillhouse Hollow, set for worldwide release June 30th. When asked about the origins of the band and the songs chosen for their debut, Nathan Griffin, singer and guitarist for Stillhouse Hollow puts it quite simply: “The well was deeper than we first thought….†So too was the band’s…
Catalyst starts this split out with “Kiss You Goodbyeâ€, a typical over-blown, theatrics-laden hardcore track rife with screaming. What saves “Kiss You Goodbye†is the ever-present and impressive drumming laid down by Kevin. Fairly normal guitar riffs wreck any pretense of innovation and spontaneity on Catalyst’s side of the split, as “Your Deathâ€â€™s average fare is just a poorly-mixed example of how to scream in monotone. Guitar lines are heavily…
To coincidence with the release of Shadowland’s first ever DVD – “Edge of Night”, Metal Mind Productions will release “Cautionary Talesâ€, a box featuring the DVD, as well as the re-mastered re-releases of their three studio albums (unavailable for a very long time). Packed with bonus tracks and features, this special limited edition box set provides the complete Shadowland experience! Disk 1: DVD of the show at WyspiaÅ„ski Theatre in…
Dean Phelps’s love of folk, gospel, and Americana music dates back to his childhood in Maysville, Ky. He started playing guitar at age 9. His father was a skilled carpenter and an engineer but also a self-taught musician. “If it had frets, he could play it,” Phelps says. From that time when he first picked up a guitar and learned the shape of a G-chord, Dean Phelps has made music…
The Casualties and I have had a long history. When I first heard that individuals were into them, I decried them as mall punks. One of my buddies told me a story about how ey was at an earlier Warped Tour and saw one punk person that was passed out with a beer in eir hand. Trying to be helpful, my friend told the “passed out†person that the cops…
This week, the band’s latest release, Lost Channels, stormed back on to the Billboard Heatseekers Chart to land at #9, more than a month after its release on March 31st. The sales success comes on the back of an extremely impressive showing on Amazon, reaching the #1 MP3 sales position for over 3 days straight. In Canada, the band has held steady in the Top 200 since release day 5…
Eager to hit the road again, Eye Alaska will be heating up the summer, hitting cities on the “What Happens in Vegas” tour alongside The Cab, The Secret Handshake, A Rocket To The Moon, The Summer Set, Anarbor, and My Favorite Highway. The tour will kick off in Tucson, AZ and wrap in Las Vegas, NV. With a lineup like this, it’s safe to say that what happens in vegas,…
Having conquered the ghosts of a hard-luck past on her GRAMMY-nominated CD The Scene of the Crime, BETTYE LAVETTE shines a new light on that past with her latest, A CHANGE IS GONNA COME SESSIONS. The digital-only EP for Anti- Records, available exclusively through iTunes starting June 16, revisits BETTYE’s forgotten post-Atlantic Records years as a nightclub singer, Broadway performer, and touring cast member opposite Cab Calloway in “Bubbling Brown…
Castles in Spain play a style of rock that often goes toward the goth side of things. This means that songs like “My Nerves†will remind listeners of acts like Siouxsie and the Banshees as well as early Sarah McLachlan and Natalie Merchant. anfnewsacctwww.neufutur.com
The most historic event in UFC just got bigger with the announcement that rap-metal pioneers Limp Bizkit are bringing the only performance in the US of their “Unicorns N’ Rainbows” tour to Mandalay Bay Beach on Friday, July 10th to perform in their first North American concert in eight years as a part of the UFC 100 weekend. The multi-platinum-selling group has picked the perfect time to return to North…
In 2008 Karl´s Defusion Bassdrumrocker Album reached the top5 entries of the German club charts. Now he returns with 3 tech-house techno tracks, with some deep, minimal and spicy reduced afro elements and dubby mesmerising and pulsing chords. Hands in the air moments are also included. This EP is also the relaunch of Karl Moestl´s Label â€Defusionâ€, with the high aim, to release monthly extraordinary clubtracks, with this EP already…
14 Tracks , 54 min:21 sec Total Mowing Time Recorded and Produced by Secret Aging Men Independently Released April 23, 2007 Night Mowing is the 3rd, and newest, CD from Secret Aging Men and continues the group’s musical evolution from where their popular 2nd CD, Fully Functional, released in January, 2006, left off. Every track on Night Mowing clearly indicates that this quartet’s passion for writing, rehearsing, and performing dynamic…
Interscope Records signed 15 year-old singer -songwriter Taylor Momsen, star of The CW’s popular television series, Gossip Girl. The Momsen fronted rock band, The Pretty Reckless are scheduled to release their full length debut cd this fall. Momsen, who has been recording in Los Angeles, Nashville and New York, shares album writer credits with Toby Gad (Fergie, Beyonce, The Veronicas), James Michael (Alanis Morissette, Motley Crue) and Kato Khandwala (Paramore,…
I don’t know, for some reason I thought that Casket Architects were going to play a style of music that was not related to the hard rock meets punk blend that first assaults listeners during their opening track to “Dance on the Death Nerveâ€, “Turbine Vaccineâ€. Throwing in a shrill guitar line and a blend of elements from Bad Religion to Avenged Sevenfold to the Refused, Casket Architects are a…
Between them, B-Real (Cypress Hill) and Bizzy Bone (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) have sold over 40 million records as the leaders of their respective and storied groups. This spring both will join forces and “Unite The Mic†over the course of their historic 14-date tour. As a founding member of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Bizzy Bone has been awarded numerous awards (ASCAP, Soul Train, American Music Award, NAACP, etc) and a Grammy Award in…
The successes of J Dilla have served as inspiration and driving motivation for all Detroit artists. For Finale, who himself received a personal Dilla co-sign early in his career, it’s only fitting that the emcee has a song on his album, A Pipe Dream And A Promise, produced by the late legend. That song is appropriately titled “Heat.” Speaking about creating the song and being able to work with Dilla,…
I must admit, by the time that I heard Johnny Cash, ey was doing the American (cover) series of albums. Much, if not all of the music on this disc is foreign to me. It doesn’t help the case that songs like “Ring of Fire†were covered better by Social Distortion than they were originally recorded by Cash, and that eir cover of “Hurt†could not hold a candle to…
King Sunny Ade 2009 North American Tour Nigerian juju icon King Sunny Ade will give North American audiences a chance to witness contagious 40-minute grooves that have been steeped in a modern-day tradition where playing for and reacting to the audience is paramount. The truth is that King Sunny Ade is so well-loved back home, among dignitaries and business leaders, that it is quite a feat to carve out the…