Idlewild are pleased to announce plans for our forthcoming new studio album with an opportunity for our fans to be involved from an early stage. We will be in the studio for the first few months of 2009 and plan a conventional album release in the summer but, for a limited time, we would like to offer our fans a chance to be involved from the beginning by pre-ordering a…
The Social Registry is proud to bring you I.U.D. – the duo of Gang Gang Dance’s Lizzi Bougatsos and Sadie Laska (of Growing and Extreme Violence). Their debut LP, The Proper Sex, is set for a vinyl and digital only release March 24th. It is a downright brutal industrial clusterfuck that’s sure to fog the glasses of experimental music nerds and provide the catalyst for many a record store argument.…
When the Disco Biscuits formed in Philadelphia in 1995, they introduced a pioneering blend of electronic and jam band elements. Since then, they’ve steadily cultivated a rabid fan base and have spawned an entire movement. Today the Biscuits are able to sell over a quarter of a million tickets in a year and have founded uber-successful summer music festival, Camp Bisco. But rather than remaining within their comfort zone, the…
With a three man effort and enough on stage antics to blind God himself, Cactus’s self proclaimed style of tropical punk is taking Nashville and beyond by storm.
At first blush, I thought that Angra would be playing a brand of metal that is little different from that of a band like Helloween. However, from the opening track (“The Course of Natureâ€), Angra comes out with something that is miles away from anything that the aforementioned Helloween could play. There is an equal mix of classic and progressive metal, but during different segments of the disc, a funky,…
With “a boy-next-door voice…” and an “approachable and slightly vulnerable” style (- New Haven Advocate), Fairfield alt/pop singer-songwriter Brian Dolzani has earned comparisons to genre luminary They Might Be Giants as well as comparisons to Colin Meloy, vocalist for The Decemberists. Brian Dolzani, his fifth release is available February 2, 2010 on his own indie Plum Street Records online and at shows. Recorded at The Carriage House in Stamford, Brian…
SBB, a legend of Polish music scene, revealed the tracklist of the new studio album enitled “Iron Curtainâ€. The standard jewel case edition includes following 9 tracks:
A musician since age 13, Julia Nunes is revered for both her playful songwriting and massive YouTube fanbase. Julia’s YouTube video channel has received nearly 30 million views! The 20-year-old upstate New York native is pleased to announce the release of her 5-song EP, I Think You Know. The record was produced by Jack Conte of Pomplamoose and will be released February 2, 2009 on Rude Butler Records. Julia was…
As previously announced Strawberry Fields’ debut album entitled “Rivers Gone Dry†will be released by Metal Mind Productions on 26th January in Europe and 10th March in USA (via MVD). The band recently joined Myspace community. By the following link: www.myspace.com/strawberryfieldspoland you can see recent updates from Strawberry Fields, a wide selection of promo photos, listen to selected samples of their forthcoming album.
“Awake†begins of Akron/Family’s side of the disc, and it really does a perfect job of lulling listeners into a false sense of security, something that is shredded by the noise-influenced, oddly-arranged style of “Momentâ€. The multiple-harmonies present on “Momentâ€, hidden away betwixt the different epileptic outbursts of the band, bring listeners fully into the fold of the craziness that is Akron/Family. With the incorporation of this noise, something that…
For his solo debut, Melancholy Waltz, singer-songwriter Richie Lawrence partners with a childhood friend: the family’s 1917 Model AIII Steinway Grand Piano. The disc, due February 2 on Big Book Records, features 12 gorgeous piano and accordion instrumentals and songs, harmony vocals by I See Hawks In L.A. RIchie Lawrence and his Steinway Grand Piano featured in the Sacramento Bee: http://www.sacbee.com/music/story/2350802.html A unassuming, yet beautiful collection, the title Melancholy Waltz…
Like most bands of the indie-rock persuasion, the members of Western Civ tend to balk at efforts to define the band’s sound. “Can I just tell you what it isn’t?” asks guitarist/singer Rich Henderson. And it’s not that he hasn’t had time to mull it over– Henderson and his longtime pals belong squarely in the catagory of musical “lifers”. “I don’t think I could do anything else,” Henderson says, his…
Situated by the river Spree, known for it’s fi rst-rate lineups of international talent and of course it’s famous wall to wall LED dance floor installation, the Watergate Club in Berlin has quickly become one of the world’s leading dance music clubs. Only 5 years after it’s o fficial opening the club now goes a step further and releases a characteristic Mix CD series delivering only the finest DJ Mixes by some…
Human Highway (featuring Nick Thorburn of Islands and Jim Guthrie) will be traveling this March. It’s the Canadian pop-duo’s debut US tour, and they’ve asked Suicide Squeeze label-mates, Cotton Jones, to open select dates. Their smooth caravan of sound rolls from Chicago to Austin before turning north, and culminating in New York City.
nkwell’s “Kneesocks” the first release from the western Canadian Danksoul imprint is a genre defying lesson in the art of the groove. The title track is a housed out dance floor churner sharing elements from the past, present and future all perfectly melded together with a drum beat that speaks to the soul. Canadian west coast legend Hrdvsion provides an awe-inspiring remix of “Kneesocks” that brings a tear to your…
South Carolina’s THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD have launched the lead track from their new album “Skepsis,” titled “The Manifest,” on their newly redesigned Myspace page. The self-produced “Skepsis” hits the streets on February 2, 2010, and is the first TTEOTD release to feature new vocalist Danny Rodriguez, drummer Mike Ranne and guitarist Chris “Hank” Henckel. The album was recorded at Geller Cellar Studios in New York and mastered…
Pop-rock trio Building 429 has recently announced plans for the spring 2009 continuation of their “Truth, Hope & Love Tour.†Once again, GRAMMY ® nominee After Edmund will be accompanying the band alongside new EMI artist Above The Golden State and emerging female group, Kimber Rising.
Since bouncing to prominence seven years ago with the spirited, electro-tinged, indie-pop of their Mercury-nominated debut, Vehicles And Animals, Athlete have established themselves among the UK’s finest songsmiths. The southeast Londoners have sold more than a million copies of their three hit albums (the other two being 2005’s Tourist and 2007’s Beyond The Neighbourhood); packed out venues across the world; picked up an Ivor Novello award; and topped both the…
After a successful set of performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music-hosted Red Hot + Rio 2: The Next Generation of Samba Soul, São Paulo’s Curumin is back in the US for a full coast-to-coast tour. Starting in San Diego and continuing through to New York (with special guests Money Mark, Blackalicious, Lateef, and Tommy Guerrero at a few key shows), the drummer/singer/cavaquinho-player (take THAT, Phil Collins) will be treating…
Pop music is a “here today, gone tomorrow†world. A starburst of YouTube notoriety and then oblivion. Or at least it is for most. But when your journey has been as long and extraordinary as Nneka’s – when you’ve travelled 10,000 miles and are still only just starting out – then instant celebrity is the last thing on your mind. When your heart is as big as your Afro, when…