The premiere of the new album by the progressive rock band Believe is just around the corner. The band’s third full-length album entitled “This Bread Is Mine†will be released by Metal Mind Productions on 31st August in Europe and 6th October in USA (via MVD). Just to give you a foretaste of the new material, the band posted on their official Myspace site a full version of the title…
This fall, Curb Records will release Southern Voice, Tim McGraw’s first studio album in two and a half years. Recorded in Nashville with his longtime producer, Byron Gallimore (Faith Hill, Sugarland, Phil Vassar), Southern Voice is the follow-up to Let It Go, which debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 in April of 2007. McGraw will support his new album with an extensive tour in 2010. Lead single “It’s…
Prosthetic Records’ has signed Seattle’s Trap Them. The band’s sound combines elements of old school Swedish death metal, punk, and d-beat and takes influence from bands such as Entombed, Black Flag, Nasum and Tragedy. Trap Them has spent time on the road with Napalm Death, Disfear, Skeletonwitch, Victims, Rotten Sound, Toxic Holocaust, and Coliseum, amongst others and has appeared at Maryland Death Fest & New England Metal and Hardcore Fest.…
When it comes to musical phenomena, Abrogation is surely one of the most unique bands ever to emerge on the European melodic death metal scene. Their uncanny combination of crushing music and German lyrics caught the attention of Nuclear Blast who agreed to release one of the group’s finest albums to date – “Das Blut der Totenâ€. This exclusive re-release brings this forgotten metal gem back to glory… The band’s…
With the same sort of detached-from-punk style of Fugazi, Crain looks wistfully back at the wall of sound bands to make a track that feels fit for the Nation of Ulysses-era as much as the later-Fugazi era. The vocals on tracks like “Monkey Wrench†even incorporate a little bit of Danzig to what is already a hard-edge sound. The great thing about “Speed†is that even (almost) 15 years after…
New Starz Original Action Series ‘Spartacus: Blood and Sand,’ Coming to Premier Fan Event with Panel Discussion, Ultimate Fan Pack Giveaways, Sneak Peek and More First Look at Upcoming Official “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” iPhone/iPod Touch Game, Motion Comic San Diego, Calif. – July 23, 2009 – Fans will be able to enter the arena of the eagerly anticipated Starz original series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” at the 2009 San…
Tiny Mix Tapes “Like The Pixies, Yourself and the Air are experts at building songs around distinct guitar movements that shift seamlessly into one another on a smooth rotation. Best of all, they do it without sounding like a shallow imitation…” Punknews.org “Yourself and the Air play a surprisingly mature and thoughtful brand of indie bearing more than enough melody and wistfulness to get by.” chicago INNERVIEW “The delicious music…
The highly anticipated debut album from fun., Aim And Ignite, approaches its August 25th release date with two very exciting North American tours. Beginning August 14th in El Paso, Texas, Nate Ruess (The Format), Andrew Dost (Anathallo) and Jack Antonoff (Steel Train), who are collectively known as fun., will embark on a two-week tour with admirers, Hellogoodbye. Soon after, the carnival-pop outfit will head out on their first headlining tour…
Sandpeople, a 10-artist collective, recently hit the streets of the city they call home, Portland, Oregon, for the video shoot of their latest track “Hate Aside.” This video, a behind the scenes look at the shoot and at Sandpeople themselves, is both a serious and hilarious take on who the hip-hop group really are. From the opening cut of a dubbed Muppets movie to the group’s closing remarks, placed at…
With a band name like Crackjaw, what first hits individuals during “Giants From The Stereo†is confusing, to say the least. What the band starts the disc with is “Cameoâ€, and the song shows Crackjaw as a band that mixes emo with a hardcore brand of screaming. Crackjaw may be a “Giant From The Stereoâ€, but the band has the ability to create interesting music in a musical genre that…
L.A.-based vocal group Sonos reinvigorate a capella with their “innovative vocal arrangements, inspired repertoire” on SonoSings, the “stunning debut” (-Chris Douridas, KCRW) due September 15 on Verve. The disc introduces the all-vocal powerhouse with eleven unaccompanied reinventions of songs from a diverse pool of artists: critics’ darlings Bjork, Rufus Wainwright, indie staples Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, as well as musical icons from Radiohead to The Jackson 5. It also features…
D.Black, a Seattle, Washington-based emcee, is proud to announce the release of Ali’Yah. The album, D.Black’s sophomore effort, which features production from Jake One and Vitamin D, will be available September 15 via Sportn’ Life Records/MYX Music Label. There are defining moments in every career. Moments of ascension; moments when taking the step from one level to the next is not only inevitable, but necessary. For D.Black, an emcee many…
Awarded Best Male Vocalist and Best Song at the 2008 International Reggae and World Music Awards, Tarrus Riley is the most promising of the second generation of Jamaica roots reggae singers. With an August 4, 2009 release of his much-anticipated third set CONTAGIOUS on Cannon Productions, distributed by VP Records, Tarrus Riley reaffirms that he is one of finest singer/songwriters of his generation, irrespective of musical genre. The son of…
Off the top of my head, there have been three good “punky†Japanese (or Japanese-American) bands that I’ve been introduced to before Coquettish: The Polysics, Peelander-Z and Laughing Cunts. Coquettish makes four, as their style of music is influenced by the hardcore punk of the mid-nineties, specifically Rancid. Rancid seems to be a big important to Asia and Japan, as China’s biggest punk export, Brain Failure also takes heavily from…
KOMPAKT’s most anticipated release returns. And we are 10!!! And its coloured gold this year! So it’s time for 10…what a run it’s been folks and we’re set to celebrate with our jubilee rollout for 2009 – still standing and stronger that ever KOMPAKT returns with our annual tradition – the Cologne event this year set for the 14th of August and the collection. Spanning the course of 2 CD’s…
Konami announced today that a video game based on the hit Adult Swim series Metalocalypse is currently in development for Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation®Network. Created by series co-creator Brendon Small and based on the top-rated Adult Swim animated series, the upcoming Metalocalypse: Dethgame will immerse players into the world of Dethklok, the world’s most brutal Norwegian heavy metal…
So what has La Crescenta rapper Kenan Bell been up to since hearing that he would be touring with De La Soul? “Been practicing my shout-outs,†he cracked, adding more seriously, “I’ve been hoop-ing, trying to get my wind back. Gotta be ready.†It’s safe to assume he meant basketball, and not hula. Bell has drawn De La Soul comparisons for the alternative approach both take to their respective brands…
The ninth release on Hessle Audio sees Pearson Sound, aka David Kennedy, make his debut release on the label. Soul Jazz Records have recently released a Pearson Sound 12″ (Gambetta / So Far Ago), and his tune ‘Indelible’ appeared on the ‘All Night Long’ CD and 12″ released on Aus Music. In addition, he has a double pack forthcoming on the forward thinking Darkestral label. Hessle Audio was formed in…
The Cooper Temple Clause has no idea that brevity is a good thing, with their average song being over five and a half minutes. As such, Loose doesn’t have songs as much as it has pieces with individual movements, demarcated when The CTC decide to go on a different tack. The Spartanness of the beginning of “Talking to a Brick Wall” moves into a Placebo/Oasis style of vocals, supplied by…
Whatcha Say,†the debut single from up-and-coming pop singer and songwriter Jason Derulo, has been added to playlists at 21 pop and rhythmic radio stations from coast to coast, including Los Angeles’ influential KIIS FM, WKST in Pittsburgh, and WNKS in Charlotte, NC. Derulo has set out on a nationwide radio promo tour during which he will visit on-air with various program hosts and perform at events throughout July and…