Naxos Music Library, the world’s largest collection of streaming classical, jazz, wind band, choral, and world music — owned by the world’s leading classical label — welcomes Canada’s top independent record label, Nettwerk Music Group , to its roster of more than 75 premiere performing arts labels, thereby expanding its offerings to include more independent popular music.
The 2nd pressing of the All Aboard: A Tribute To Johnny Cash vinyl is now available at VinylCollective.com (http://stores.channeladvisor.com/vinylhome/Store/Search.aspx?&Page=1&Sort=1&sku=alr008). This new pressing is on brown vinyl and only 1,000 copies are available. Anchorless Records is donating all the profits of All Aboard: A Tribute To Johnny Cash to the Syrentha Savio Endowment (SSE), a non-profit organization that provides financial assistance to underprivileged women who cannot afford the expense of fighting…
December US Live Dates KRISTEENYOUNG have just finished work on their forthcoming album “Music for Strippers, Hookers, and the Odd On-looker†which features a duet with Fall Out Boy front man Patrick Vaughn Stump on the song “That’s What It Takes, Dearâ€. The legendary Tony Visconti (Bowie, T. Rex) produced the album. The group will also embark on their first full US tour since touring with Morrissey and Ted Leo…
It’s official—Robert Weingartz, Founder & CEO of AirPlay Direct (www.AirPlayDirect.com), the new, revolutionary, efficient and cost effective way to securely deliver “broadcast-quality†music and electronic press kits to music industry professionals around the world, has been chosen one of Music Connection Magazine’s 50 “Innovators, Iconoclasts, Groundbreakers & Guiding Lights of 2008.â€
Meet Fallbrooke: Eric McNeely (guitar/vocals), Kevin Schwarz (drums/vocals) and Augusto Vega (bass). The South Florida alt rock band joined forces in the summer of 2005, fine tuning their sound and stage show in the Southeast and East Coast. In ‘07, Fallbrooke was discovered and snatched up by RMR Music Group founder Paul Palmer (Trauma Records: Bush, No Doubt) who flew the band out immediately to Los Angeles after hearing a…
Mindless Self Indulgence are set to return to the UK and Ireland as the headline act of next year’s Kerrang! Relentless Energy Drink Tour which kicks off on January 13. The New York-based industrial-techno-punks will return to the UK for the 15-date Kerrang! Tour alongside Brit heavyweights Bring Me The Horizon, Kerrang! Award winners Black Tide and fast-rising Northern Irish trio In Case Of Fire.
Coming to DVD on January 13th! Lionsgate is proud to present Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys, Tyler Perry’s The Marriage Counselor: The Play and Tyler Perry’s House of Payne: Volume 3.
Poised to become this generation’s ambassador of R&B and soul, Melinda Doolittle will release her hotly-anticipated debut solo album, Coming Back to You, on Hi Fi Recordings in January 2009. Featuring production by Grammy-nominated producer Mike Mangini (Joss Stone, Run DMC, The Jonas Brothers), Melinda’s debut solo album is an R&B tour de force that combines the fiery electricity of Tina Turner’s early years with the slick production and lush…
Framing Hanley will hit the road with Theory Of A Deadman for the next month, see confirmed dates below. The band will also be playing a hometown “Re-Release Party” show in Nashville, TN next Tuesday as well as a handful of radio shows. A new version of Framing Hanley’s debut album The Moment was physically in stores Tuesday, November 18th and available on iTunes . The new version of The…
Authentik Artists has signed an exclusive agreement with Detroit, MI-based That Was Something and will be releasing their new EP Down, But Not Out on December 9th. TWS has made a name for themselves as one of the hardest working power pop bands in the business, growing a massive online presence and fan base. Down, But Not Out was produced by and features guest vocals from Rob Freeman (Sound The…
As we approach the New Year, the folks at iTunes have recently reminisced on who their favorites of 2008 were. Under the “Best New Artists†category, Pop Evil has been holding steady alongside some of the biggest acts in the world. The band’s debut album Lipstick On The Mirror has also gained notoriety on Active Rock radio by reaching into the #2 most added record in the country according to…
Asthmatic Kitty Records is pleased to announce the signing of the Los Angeles band Fol Chen. The label will release the band’s debut album, Part 1: John Shade, Your Fortune’s Made on Feb. 03, 2009. The band will be touring in 2009, including a stop at SXSW. In the meantime they have a show scheduled on Nov. 18 in LA at The Echo. The band is also taking part in…
“Three things worth knowing about Derek Trucks: He is young, he is a veteran, and he is the most awe-inspiring electric slide guitar player performing today.” -Ashley Kahn, Wall Street Journal “One of the best guitar players out there.” -Willie Nelson
Just months after unleashing a spaced-out, doom ritual of a collaboration with BONGRIPPER (entitled Meat Ditch), Chicago-based noise machines WINTERS IN OSAKA have completed work on their next full-length. The record, entitled Molded to Crawl, was recorded over a six-month span – an absolute eternity for the insanely prolific trio, who also managed to complete several tours (including a Canadian run with THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE and a Southwestern jaunt with…
Cut Copy are pleased to announce their final run through North America in support for In Ghost Colours. This 17 date trek will be the last shows they do before they retire to the studio to complete the ideas swimming in their heads and on their laptops for the next record. They are pleased to be playing a number of cities for the first time, as well as visiting some…
Blood I Bleed from Holland have entered the studio to record their debut full-length, tentatively entitled Gods Out Of Monsters.
Boy Eats Drum Machine is the solo work of native Portlander, Jon Ragel. He is a songwriter, producer, singer, turntablist, and also plays saxophone, guitar, synthesizer, organ, and several percussive nick nacks. As a one-man musical act, Boy Eats Drum Machine merges the worlds of turntablism and live rock performance as Ragel spins breaks and surgically inserts sounds while juggling vocals, percussion, and saxophone.
“Brazilian trio mash ’60s flower power with traditional tropicialia and samba, upping the chill factor ten fold.†Continuing the trilogy of The Plus 2’s, Moreno/Domenico/Kassin+2, Futurismo nimbly threads the lyricism and playfulness of its predecessors Music Typewriter (2001) and Sincerely Hot (2004). The +2’s arrive on the scene again, this time alongside other bands from Brazil, like Bonde de Role and CSS, all of whom demonstrate that music from other…
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 10:00pm The Zipper Theater 336 W. 37th St., New York, NY $18.00 Kitchen from 5pm – 10 pm Bar stays open til people stop drinking
While Asobi Seksu’s creative core explored music at an early age (lead vocalist/keyboardist Yuki Chikudate got standing ovations at child prodigy recitals when she was just 8; guitarist/vocalist James Hanna bounced between sludgy hardcore and Mogwai-schooled post-rock in his teens), their potential ‘career’ wasn’t put into perspective until a stint at the Manhattan School of Music. And by put into perspective, we mean finding out what they didn’t want to…