Field Guides’ debut album, Boo, Forever, is less a compendium of segregated tracks than it is a confluence, a narrative in sound. And like a book, Boo, Forever was written over the course of a decade. Initially a solo project helmed by Brooklyn writer and musician Benedict Kupstas, Field Guides grew to include a rotating lineup of a dozen or so musicians.
Buscabulla (Spanish slang for troublemaker) is the musical project of Brooklyn based Puerto Rican designer Raquel Berrios and multi-instrumentalist Luis Alfredo Del Valle. Heavily influenced by vintage Latin music like salsa gorda, Cuban psych and 80s Argentinian rock, the duo combines Caribbean sensibilities with baby making music.
The Empty Hearts, the band featuring members of The Cars, Blondie, The Romantics and The Chesterfield Kings, have announced tour dates in October on the east coast and in Japan (see dates below). The band features Elliot Easton on lead guitar, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Clem Burke on drums, Wally Palmar on vocals, harmonica and guitar, and Andy Babiuk on bass. Co-produced by the band and Ed…
New Amsterdam Records is proud to announce Surface Image, the new album-length composition for solo piano with 40-channel 1-bit electronics, composed by Tristan Perich and performed by pianist Vicky Chow. Surface Image will see a release on October 28, 2014. New Amsterdam has released a trailer that features a brief performance clip and gives some visual insight into the concept that isn’t as apparent on first listen. There will also…
Reunion Records announces the release of 1 GIRL NATION’S new digital single, “Try,” a Colbie Caillat cover, now available on iTunes. Nominated for a Dove Award for “New Artist of the Year,” 1 GIRL NATION will also perform on the upcoming 2014 telecast, which will be filmed in Nashville, Tenn. on October 7th, and nationally televised on October 12th on Trinity Broadcasting Network. The group released their self-titled debut album…
He Is Legend has announced that they will be on tour this winter with legendary punk/funk/rock band Snot. The US tour begins on 11/28 in Palm Desert, CA and wraps up in Pomona, CA on 12/23. SNOT will be reuniting to perform their album Get Some in its entirety.
Little Daylight reveal their strong, fun-filled rendition of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance.” Over the past year, Little Daylight has brought their infectious and high-energy live show on tour with the likes of Bastille, Charli XCX, The Neighbourhood and more, including debut festival performances at Governor’s Ball and Firefly Music Festival. The band continue to tour in support of their highly anticipated debut album Hello Memory.
Red Tide Rising have been invited by metal veterans Drowning Pool to open their ‘unLUCKy 13’ Autumn tour alongside Like A Storm and A Breach of Silence.
CORPSE GARDEN will release new single “Suspended Over the Abyss” for purchase digitally on September 23 on i-Tunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google Play and other digital retailers.
Concluding a summer filled with single and video releases, Moola Gang Ca$h Cow$ rapper Luke-O has released his mixtape, Lacoste Bo$$. The mixtape’s cover art features the rapper at just four weeks old in a Lacoste onesie, displaying his true love for the brand that he has repped his entire life.
The ‘One For Sorrow’ EP is the second release from The Anchoress – a new project from Welsh multi-instrumentalist Catherine Anne Davies, co-produced with Paul Draper (Mansun).
The Head and the Heart have announced new December tour dates where they will be bringing their celebrated live performance to the Northeast, Midwest and South. The band have been relentlessly touring in support of their sophomore release, Let’s Be Still, since its release last October, with sold out shows at Red Rocks, Hollywood Bowl and festival appearances at Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza and more. The Head and the Heart recently…
La Habra, CA-based power-punk outfit zebrahead launches a PledgeMusic campaign for the release of WAY MORE BEER, a live CD/DVD and they’re inviting their fans and friends to be their record label.
Eric Hutchinson and Tristan Prettyman will launch an extensive U.S. tour on October 27 at Boston’s Royale. As the name suggests, the “City & Sand Tour” will take Eric, a New York City resident, and Tristan, a Southern California native, to some of the country’s most vibrant cities and to some gorgeous beach towns. The run will include a night at New York City’s Highline Ballroom (November 2), a show…
ODESSA will hit the road this fall in support of her new Odessa EP [Chop Shop/Republic Records]-available digitally on September 16, 2014.
White Laces is an American rock band whose future-leaning sounds have been praised by Ad Hoc, Vice, Stereogum, NME, Grantland and other influential print and electronic publications. The Richmond, Virginia group recently completed its second LP in Philadelphia with Jeff Zeigler (whose lengthy rap sheet includes work with The War On Drugs, Nothing and Purling Hiss) and aims to release it on October 7, 2014 through Happenin Records.
The legendary DJ Shadow and Salva have taken Kimbra’s neon pop track “90’s music” and give it a makeover for the club adding a healthy dose of shaking bass. The official video for the remix flips the color switch of the original to make the already surreal clip a bit more psychedelic.
Dirtwire, the Bay Area-based electro-acoustic duo of David Satori (Beats Antique) and Evan Fraser (Hamsa Lila, Stellamara), have released their next single. “The Well” featuring Rising Appalachia, issues from their forthcoming EP, The Carrier, out next week
Apollonia, the French trio of Dan Ghenacia, Dyed Soundorom and Shonky, are set to release their debut artist album ‘Tour à Tour’ in October.
TMZ has reported that Hollywood long-stay Joan Rivers has passed on today, September 4th, 2014. She died at the age of 81, and her death has been confirmed by New York state authorities. Her daughter, Melissa, released this statement: “She passed peacefully at 1:17 PM surrounded by family and close friends. My son and I would like to thank the doctors, nurses and staff of Mount Sinai hospital for the…