DRAGONFORCE have announced that they will be releasing “Maximum Overload” in the US on August 19! The band has just launched a brand new video for “The Game,” which was directed by XX. The video can be seen now at metalblade.com/dragonforce, where fans can also pre-order “Maximum Overload” on CD, digitally, and limited edition vinyl!
Kix releases ROCK YOUR FACE OFF on August 5 on Loud & Proud Records. It’s everything fans know and love them for: a raucous, roaring and real display of rock ‘n’ roll. The first single, “Love Me With Your Top Down,” will be released to radio and online retail outlets later this month.
The Massachusetts-based band, Kahoots, is releasing Take To The Fields (July 29th, 2014), a sweet stumble through rock and rolll— twelve nuggets filled with jangly guitars, pop melodies, and lyrics that reflect “the cold dreary winters of Martha’s Vineyard.” Both the LP and CD are packaged in a handsome gatefold jacket graced with a space-y roadtrip painting by Jill Walsh.
I do not have much information about this collection of music, but I’m guessing that these tracks were released around 2003 to 2005. Bands here include Drunken Massacre, audio rendition of graphic verbal discontent, Encephalon, Gate21, Messalina, Tristan Wolfe, 6ixuse, and Five Years Past. There are a few missing tracks due to slight scratching on the compact disc.
Gotthard are thrilled to unleash their latest studio album BANG! in North America via The End Records.
Our favorite tough guys from Lionsgate’s upcoming film, THE EXPENDABLES 3, are rolling into theaters for the most FUN event of the summer…and we have an explosive new trailer and banner to share!
OK Go is back with its first official video in two years – “The Writing’s On The Wall.” “The Writing’s On The Wall” is the first single from the band’s new album, Hungry Ghosts, which will be released on October 14 by Paracadute via BMG.
Porter Robinson makes his acting debut in the new video for “Lionhearted“; the third single off his forthcoming debut album “Worlds”. Setting forth on a fantastical and vandalous rampage, Porter leads a disruptive gang of Harajuku girls through the night, and in the wake of their destruction beautiful chaos ensues.
Souls of Mischief announce that they’re releasing a conceptual collaboration with renowned producer and multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge entitled There Is Only Now on Adrian’s newly launched record label, Linear Labs on August 26th, 2014. Inspired by a near-fatal incident involving group members A-Plus, Opio, Tajai, and Phesto early in their careers, the unique and cinematic crime tale creatively and expertly weaves stories of love, loss, and revenge throughout the entire album. Set in 1994, There is Only Now serves as a bookend…
After six successful European tours and six releases, occult rock royalty JEX THOTH is currently embroiled in a series of rare North American performances. Now that they’ve successfully enthralled onlookers at Pomona, CA’s Scion Rock Fest and captivated audiences on a short trek along the West Coast with dark death rockers Atriarch, JEX THOTH will head East to join Portland dark metal masters Agalloch for a full week of East Coast and Canadian shows.
Less than 24-hours before release day, The Mercy Beat are sharing their eponymous debut EP.
Ministry, the legendary, six-time Grammy-nominated, explosive and highly unpredictable band that brought industrial dance-metal music to the mainstream, will release “Last Tangle in Paris,” a CD/DVD package that documents the band’s 2012 “DeFiBriLaTour,” featuring live performances, in-studio, rehearsal and backstage footage, and one-on-one interviews.
SANCTUARY have wrapped-up the recording of their new album, The Year The Sun Died! Due to be released on Sept. 29th in Europe and on Sept. 30th in North America, The Year The Sun Died was recorded in Seattle at Soundhouse Studios with Zeuss (WHITECHAPEL, HATEBREED) and features 11 tracks, plus a bonus cover of THE DOORS’ classic, “Waiting For The Sun”.
Yep Roc Records is excited to announce the release of Los Straitjackets’ latest effort, Los Straitjackets: Deke Dickerson Sings The Instrumental Hits, on October 7. The world’s number one instrumental combo team has teamed up with roots-music legend Deke Dickerson to record an album of famous instrumental songs with lost or rewritten lyrics.
Following their performance at Field Day last weekend, MONEY have just released a short film for ‘Goodnight London’, a fictional piece of art-house cinema, directed by Jem Goulding. Inspired by the confused identity talked about in singer Jamie Lee’s lyrics, the film is a metaphor on the masks we are often forced to wear, embodied in an abstract love story.
Dan Deacon is set to support Arcade Fire on their upcoming arena tour for their latest release, Reflektor.
Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate are starting their first ever North American tour in less then a month! This phenomenal collaboration between an electro-kora superstar and a beat-box virtuoso will appear in many major cities including New York, Montreal, Boston, Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles, and more. To see what to expect check out their live video and learn more at www.joeandsekou.com.
Allah-Las met while working at Amoeba Music, a key destination for music lovers in Los Angeles. While this experience helped shape their sensibility, their sound was forged in an underground basement where they came together as a band. They began gigging in Los Angeles in 2008, refining their live performance, and finally released their first 7” single ‘Catamaran / Long Journey’ in 2011.
If you’re unfamiliar with Vivian’s work, she has been a featured vocalist for several artists, including Chris Botti (jazz trumpeter), Harold Mabern (legendary jazz pianist), Eric Benet, Will Downing, Towa Tei (Dee-Lite), Ryuichi Sakamoto (Japanese composer), David Morales (DJ), Junior Vazquez (DJ), Mads Baerentzen (jazz pianist), and Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20), and has toured worldwide as the featured vocalist for the afore-mentioned artists.
California-based Hip-Hop/EDM hybrid Vokab Kompany have teamed up with Canadian “Future Booty Bass” producer Knight Riderz and Brooklyn MC Siya to release their latest single, “Show Up,” via Do Androids Dance. This marks the second time Vokab Kompany and Knight Riderz have worked together, the first collaboration being “Just Above the Clouds.”