The Downtown Fiction has partnered with Pandora Premieres to stream their new album Losers & Kings, ahead of its June 17th release. The album is available for pre-order on Merchnow and iTunes, where fans will receive an instant download of both “Kiss My Friends” and “Cool Kids” with each pre-order.
GODSMACK are revving up their highly anticipated sixth full-length album, 1000hp [Republic Records], for release on August 5. It’s the follow-up to 2010’s The Oracle, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200. The title track and first single is available on iTunes (purchase here) and other digital retailers today after its worldwide debut at radio yesterday.
Guitarist Christian Bland invites listeners to accompany him on a sonic journey: “After roaming through the Indigo Meadow, the time has come to journey to the Clear Lake Forest, where 7 tales of diamonds, executioners, and other strange occurrences await underneath the crystal waves lapping in the lake.”
Karikatura will release its debut full-length album, Eyes Wide, recorded to analog tape at Mighty Toad Studios and mixed at Strangeweather Studios by creative luminary Daniel Schlett (Bob Dylan,Yeasayer, Rita Indiana). The music on the album is as diverse as the backgrounds and life-experiences of the band-members; each member contributed songs to the album, expressing his personal vision, and the band shaped the music collectively.
Empires are thrilled to announce they’ll make their TV debut on The Late Show with David Letterman on June 17th! That same day, Chop Shop / Island Records will release the band’s new EP How Good Does It Feel – a collection of songs that will appear on their major label debut Orphan out later this year.
The opening ceremony of the 15th edition of the best European festival, will be held by the Pet Shop Boys who are coming to EXIT’s Main Stage with an exquisite blend of unique stage set, lasers, extraordinary costume changes, original dance choreography and a plethora of hits.
The record is produced by electronic music maverick Anders Trentemoller. It incorporates personal stories and musings on the interconnectivity of relationships between people and their relationship to the world. “Our intention with the new songs was to cut them to their bones by trusting the melodies, lyrics and sounds enough to let the songs stand naked and uncontrolled’. They likened Lemon Moon’s creative process with building a screenplay, as new…
LECTAMYNOL have returned with a new 4 track promo entitled “Steady Repulsion Build-Up.” As a continued manipulation of their blackened, grimy, thrashing deathcrust sound, this new offering gives the underground a freakish slab of twisted sound harvested through the dark winter months of 2013/2014. “Steady Repulsion Build-Up” is the result; 4 songs of ear-bleeding dementia now available for free streaming and free download.
Dany Holdstein is able to provide his students with the greatest of care and is able to reach individuals in a direct fashion when he conducts his adult dance and fitness classes. Holdstein tweaks his program to better capture the differences between the older and younger generations. This side of his business – the children and teens side – is taken just as seriously as the adult classes.
Papertwin has been playing music together since 2009, formed by Max Decker after narrowly escaping a lucrative career as a landscape painter. After two homespun EPs, the band is set to release their first studio collaboration, Vox Humana, on June 17.
Bay Area post-punks Street Eaters have shared the driving and urgent title track from their new album, “Blood::Muscles::Bones“. The band is back with a fierce sophomore album on the heels of several years of relentless global touring. touring. Blood::Muscles::Bones, available for pre-order HERE, is set to be released June 17th on Nervous Intent Records. The band is about to take their raucous and feral live show on the road on an impressive 47 city,…
Youthire attempts to link local youth to their neighborhood, and is a community-based website that allows individuals to join, post a job, or to register as a job provider. The website encapsulates neighborhoods into units that can further foster care amongst their users. The user base allows for a variety of cities to be hot-beds of activity.
Mighty Fox will release their EP ‘Oceans’ on June 24. See cover art and track listing below.
The latest music video from PUJOL is for the song “Circles“. The video, directed by Stewart Copeland, is composed of 16,000 still pictures that were assembled into clips inside Photoshop. Daniel Pujol is singing and moving in half-time to a slowed down track, while the lizards move in real time. This gives the video a very unique and cool feel. Stewart Copeland and Daniel Pujol both talked to HitFix about…
GUNS N’ ROSES‘ new concert film, APPETITE FOR DEMOCRACY 3D: LIVE AT THE HARD ROCK CASINO – LAS VEGAS is coming to U.S. cinemas Saturday, June 14. ROCK FUEL MEDIA has selected DRK Productions to distribute the digital cinema 3D theatrical premiere of the rock concert film.
Hummingbird in a Box, the latest work from legendary musician Peter Frampton, will be released June 23 via RED Distribution. The new music was inspired by the Cincinnati Ballet, featuring seven original guitar pieces in Frampton’s virtuosic stylings. Frampton composed all songs on the mini-album along with Gordon Kennedy, who also co-produced the recording. The two previously teamed up for Fingerprints, which garnered them both a Grammy Award for Best…
Porter Robinson has revealed ‘Lionhearted’ the propulsive next single from his highly anticipated debut album ‘Worlds’. Out June 17th, the driving alt-electronic anthem is an infectious, radio-ready track that showcases Porter’s pop prowess and superior song craft. Featuring surging vocals from Swedish indie outfit Urban Cone, ‘Lionhearted’ pushes-and-pulls between ambient sighs and power chords resulting in one of the summer’s most undeniable jams.
Mark Barrott has shared a new video from his new album, Sketches From An Island. ‘Island Life’ is one of the more trippy, spacier numbers from the LP, and has been paired with Super 8 footage depicting religious life, tribal life, island life, and dancing.
Pennywise will release their eleventh studio album, Yesterdays, on July 15 via Epitaph Records. Jim Lindberg is back as the front man, and Yesterdays includes songs written by deceased bassist, Jason Thirsk. Pennywise will play two album release shows; July 16 at The Observatory in Santa Ana, CA and July 18 at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, CA. Additionally, Pennywise will be on the Summer Nationals tour with…
The track is titled “We Move Like The Ocean” and highlights the band’s ability to craft a pop anthem.