Ben Esser, the 23 year old pop genius better known to most simply as Esser, is getting ready for his first American tour in September and October, supporting Datarock. His debut album, Braveface (out this fall on Chocolate Industries), is a ten track lesson in pop mastery, peppered with dashes of electronica, early 90’s club bliss, and rhythmic ska and dubhop with massive hooks. Esser has spent much of the…
Melbourne’s The Drones will be embarking on a brief US tour this September, with stops in New York, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. They will also be playing the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in upstate New York. Their latest album, Havilah, was released earlier this year on ATP Recordings. Havilah, like everything The Drones have done, is an album of contradictions, where bombast meets beauty, melancholy wrestles with…
What if the sound of wind through trees could be translated into human words? What is it saying? For WIND’S POEM by Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum spent almost two years out behind the house, at the edge of the woods, listening into the night and finding these words. Songs of impermanence, dark change, destruction, temporary blossoming, mortality, and an immense river of air tearing through the world make up the…
Metal Mind Productions presents the third live album by Landmarq – one of the leading bands on the British neo-progressive scene! The album entitled “Turbulence – Live in Poland†features a recording of the band’s superb performance at the Wyspianski Theatre in Katowice, Poland in November 2005 taken from the Landmarq DVD of the same title. Majestic guitars and keyboards, sophisticated compositions and Tracy Hitchings’ beautiful voice – it’s all…
Abandon Interactive Entertainment today introduced Freaky Fishing as a new addition to the massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), Freaky Creatures. Players can now bring their Creatures to lakes all over the Freaky Creatures universe to catch fish, parts, powers, lair objects and other unknown treasures. With the recently announced free to play option, players can now experience the Freaky Creatures universe and try out Freaky Fishing for free by signing…
“Far From Home”, the first DVD from British prog rock band DeeExpus, is finally set for release this coming Monday, 6th July. For an early sneak preview of the DVD, we have uploaded the track “Greed” – on Metal Mind Productions’ channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MetalMindPoland. Andy Ditchfield: “Greed was written specifically as the opening track for Half Way Home and it seemed fitting that we should play it to open…
Producer !llmind has assembled a new remix album featuring tracks by some of today’s best artists. Set to be released by MYX Music Label, The Official !llmind Remix Album, mixed by DJ Icewater of The Pharcyde, contains music by Jay-Z, Common, John Legend, Slum Village, Kanye West, Masta Ace, The Roots, Saigon, Inspectah Deck, and Alicia Keys. The reinvention of Common’s “I Want You” highlights !llmind’s versatility, as the track…
In anticipation to the band’s self-titled EP, out this fall on Paper + Plastick Records, A WILHELM SCREAM have announced a slew of new tour dates across the UK, Europe, Canada and the U.S. While overseas the band will play festival dates, such as the Reading and Leeds festivals, before hitting North America on a club tour that includes a date at Gainesville’s eighth installment of The Fest (more info…
“Spirit is the deathnail for the labored beast that is “post-rock,” revealing the much more alluring potential that always lurked around its sinister corners.” – SPIN “Robert Toher’s reverb-cloaked ethereal wail could nestle easily into a latter-day Radiohead or Sigur Ros track, but that grimly apocalyptic rhythm section suggests Drum’s Not Dead just as much as In Rainbows” – Pitchfork “Spirit is an unrelenting dark Pandora’s Box of Delights” –…
You may think you know what a These Arms Are Snakes live show looks and sounds like… But if you’ve never seen them, I can guarantee that you have no idea. Broken ribs, black eyes, self-induced concussions, and that is on a tame night! Whether this is the first or the fiftieth time you have seen the band play, it’s safe to say that your face WILL BE melted by…
After charity shows in Los Angeles and New York and an appearance at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, Steve Martin will be hitting the road in support of The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo, which currently sits at the top of the Billboard Bluegrass Album Chart. After a successful run with a limited release, multi-talented Grammy® and Emmy® winning actor/comedian/musician and bestselling author Steve Martin released the album on…
A Skylit Drive has announced that their will touring as main support to Senses Fail this Fall! Lodi, California’s A Skylit Drive is currently on the whole of Vans Warped Tour promoting their sophomore full-length Adelphia, released on Fearless Records in June this year. The release is an epic concept album, and debuted on the Billboard Top 200 at #64. Here are the dates confirmed so far: 09/30/09 Clifton Park,…
BioWareâ„¢, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Dark Horse Comics today announced a new comic book series based on Mass Effectâ„¢, the blockbuster sci-fi action videogame that IGN.com rated the #1 Xbox 360â„¢ game of all time. In Mass Effect: Redemption, the story takes readers through the treacherous events leading up to Mass Effect 2 which opens with galactic hero Commander Shepard having mysteriously gone missing and…
Norwegian extreme metallers PANTHEON I have unveiled the new video for “Serpent Christ,†a track taken from the band’s recently released full-length, Worlds I Create. “Serpent Christ,†which shows PANTHEON I performing amidst scenes of bondage and torture, was directed by Espen Krukhaug, who also worked on the band’s previous video “Where Angels Burn†and features Finland’s Peik Mattheiszen in the role of torturer. Reprising their role of victims in…
Arrington de Dionyso (Old Time Relijun) explores tones in terms of specific individual sounds, much like each minute shift of color across the spectrum. Interchanging bass clarinet and throat-singing with homemade instruments and vocal modifiers, de Dionyso creates a raga-influenced anthropological meditation; locating the tones between tones and the overtones within overtones. Arrington de Dionyso is charting a journey across the Midwestern and Eastern portions of the United States, solo…
Grammy ® Award winning artist, TobyMac is ready to release his first single off of his upcoming album slated to release in 2010. “City On Our Knees†will go for radio adds Aug. 14 and will gave fans a taste of what to expect off of his new record. · Check out this new news with TobyMac’s summer exclusive deal!! Now Portable Sounds will also be available at the discounted…
BRIAN “HEAD†WELCH is set to launch the second leg of his first-ever solo U.S. tour in support of his debut album, SAVE ME FROM MYSELF, which was released September 9 on his Driven Music Group label. With a new band at his side–Scott Von Heldt (guitars), Ralph Patlan (guitars), Michael Valentine (bass), Dan Johnson (drums), Brian Ruedy (keyboards/programming)—HEAD will embark on another round of dates starting August 14 in…
Brother Ali’s new record Us is out September 22nd on Rhymesayers Entertainment. Watch the well received teaser video for the title track here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsPaYZ26Cw0 Download the MP3 of “Us” here: http://www.rhymesayers.com/radio/audio/Us.mp3 A profound personal glimpse into a vulnerability seldom seen or heard in music, Us touches on the strengths and flaws of the human condition, exploring drug abuse, divorce, homophobia and many more topics that most people are scared to…
Casual games developer and publisher Legacy Interactive® today announced a licensing agreement with CBS Consumer Products that will expand their growing roster of TV-licensed games. Legacy will develop a video game based on the popular CBS drama series Ghost Whisperer. Available in early 2010, Ghost Whisperer: Shadowlands will debut on the PC and include characters and themes from the hit television series. Players will take on the role of Melinda…
In their latest single, Big Urban get back on the scene by poking fun at it. In a day and age (especially in Brooklyn) where the term “hipster” is thrown around without regard, Big Urban looks to spell out the meaning, in no uncertain terms, for those who have forgotten the origin of the label. Emcee Krayola Spectrum lays it out plainly when he states, “Your mother is a hipster…