Category: Artist News

Posted on: March 28, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

ARCH ENEMY reveals artwork, track-listing for ‘War Eternal’

Extreme metal icons ARCH ENEMY will unleash their 9th studio album, War Eternal, worldwide via Century Media Records (Trooper Entertainment in Japan) on June 9th in Europe and June 10th in North America. The artwork for the album was created by Costin Chioreanu (http://twilight13media.com/), who previously worked with Michael Amott on SPIRITUAL BEGGARS’ re-issue of their self-titled debut. Chief song-writer, guitarist and band leader Michael Amott comments: “I was looking for a…

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Posted on: March 27, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Be Calm Honcho is Hitting the Road

Be Calm Honcho is a quartet of sugared, salty hams, living in San Francisco with a lumpy lunch sack of strange strengths. Born on the eve of 2013, Shannon, Alex, Mikey & Jacob have been tenderly prying open the soft spots of rock ‘n’ roll and inserting a dreamy and toothsome rawness. They’ve pooled their geographic wizardry from the idle bayous of Lafayette, LA [Jacob], citrus groves and strip malls…

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Posted on: March 27, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

JUNIUS ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES WITH SOLSTAFIR

Post-rock quartet JUNIUS, who recently completed a brief headlining tour prior to a performance at South By Southwest, will continue to tour throughout the U.S. later this spring alongside the Icelandic group Solstafir. Featuring what Pitchfork describes as “the strongest and most sensuous work they’ve done,” the band’s new EP “Days Of The Fallen Sun” — described as a prequel to their 2009 release “The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist,” which explored the…

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Posted on: March 27, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Metal Blade signs Visigoth from Salt Lake City, UT

Metal Blade Records is proud to announce the signing of Salt Lake City natives Visigoth! The traditional metal act has been blazing a path through the metal underground since their inception in 2010. The release of their “Vengeance” demo in 2010, and the “Final Spell” EP in 2012 earned the band praise from throughout the underground scene in North America and Europe. The band has entered Boar’s Nest Studios to…

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Posted on: March 27, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Woodkid Remixes Pharrell’s “Happy”

You might have heard it by now. Within six hours of premiering on Stereogum, Woodkid’s “sad” version of Pharrell’s “Happy” had clocked over 100,000 listens, a heartbreakingly beautiful string-laden rendition that tugs at your heart. Woodkid, aka Yoann Lemoine, the world-renowned French musician, director and producer behind acclaimed videos for Lana Del Rey’s Blue Jeans and Born To Die, Drake & Rihanna’s Take Care and Katy Perry‘s Teenage Dream doesn’t…

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Posted on: March 25, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Small Black Releases “Real People”

Small Black has released a video for “Real People”, the title track off of their forthcoming 12″ EP. Helmed by Nick Bentgen, this video perpetuates the off-beat beauty from Bentgen and Small Black’s previous joint venture for “Breathless”. Bentgen described the concept behind the video and working with Small Black: I love talking about movies with Josh.  He’s a huge cinephile, and we recently got to talking about sci-fi films…

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Posted on: March 25, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

SYLVAN ESSO DROP VIDEO FOR “COFFEE”

WATCH: Brush up on your dance moves to the official video for “Coffee” via  YouTube LISTEN: “Coffee,” which hit #1 on HypeMachine its first week online, via Soundcloud “[Sylvan Esso] could sound like deliberately primitive 1970s electro in one song and glitchy, abstract techno in another behind Amelia Meath’s teasing voice” – The New York Times  “Sleek, experimental and infectious” –NPR (one of their favorite discoveries of SXSW)       “Dance music’s take on a folk…

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Posted on: March 25, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Intent Recordings Presents Drastic Measures EP

Gene Siewing – the St Louis DJ and producer now making serious waves in Berlin – keeps the momentum going for the 2nd release on his new imprint. Intent Recordings looks set to be a buy-on-sight operation, prizing quality over quantity, and on a mission to provide music aimed firmly at the dance-floor, whatever the genre.  As such, it’s the perfect outlet for Gene’s own productions – a conduit for the grooving, funk ‘…

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Posted on: March 25, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

The First Two Records digital album out 4/29/14

Bikini Kill Records is excited to announce our first digital reissue, The First Two Records. The album will be released on April 29, 2014.  As the name implies this release will compile both of Bikini Kill’s iconic first releases: the Bikini Kill EP as well as the newly expanded, about to be released Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah LP. The album was mastered by TJ Lipple. Pre-order your copy now via iTunes or BandCamp. Track listing:  Double Dare Ya Liar Carnival Suck My Left…

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Posted on: March 25, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Kinky Love Premieres “Affair”

Click Here To Listen To “Affair” (Free Download)  Hot and heavy are two of the first words that come to mind when describing Kinky Love’s debut EP Promise—and that’s exactly how this Chicago synth pop duo likes it. While a rare Nancy Sinatra song first inspired the band’s name, it soon became synonymous with more than the quick gratification their music provides. “It represents our overt and unnatural writing style,”…

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Posted on: March 25, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

PARADE OF LIGHTS “GOLDEN” EP OUT TODAY

STREAM/SHARE NEW TRACK “THE ISLAND” VIA SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/paradeoflights/parade-of-lights-the-island-1   STREAM THE EP IN FULL VIA SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/paradeoflights/sets/parade-of-lights-golden-ep   UPCOMING TOUR WITH X AMBASSADORS  “A SXSW act you need to hear” – Buzzfeed   “If you need a pump-up [listen to] ‘Golden’ by Parade of Lights” – NYLON   “Danceable indie rock that draws influences from ’90s shoegaze bands, making alternative electro-anthems that might garner comparisons to Imagine Dragons, early MGMT, and M83.” – Interview   “Anthemic,…

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Posted on: March 24, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

AMENRA Collaborates With Willy Vanderperre For Humbling Video

Nicolas Karakatsanis, the visual masterminds behind the reins of a video which features the band stripped of all but their own selves. Vanderperre has worked with a startling array of individuals, from Kate Moss to Kanye West, but his encounter with AMENRA sees both parties break formation to form a hesitant, powerful and revealing union. The video, set to “À Mon Âme,” from their most recent LP,Mass V, may not be what you have come…

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Posted on: March 24, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

SABATON Release Second Album Trailer for New Album Heroes – Out May 27, 2014

Avid war historians and Swedish heavy metallers SABATON have released the second album trailer to their upcoming seventh studio release, Heroes, due out in North America on May 27th. Produced and edited by David Havlena of Spark Magazine, the video can be viewed on the Nuclear Blast YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J08IPJdmtZ8   Watch the first album trailer here: http://youtu.be/q-OKZsaZUNQ   Heroes was recorded at Abyss Studios with Peter Tägtgren (CHILDREN OF BODOM, AMORPHIS, IMMORTAL); album art was created byPéter Sallai.      Heroes pre-order bundles –…

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Posted on: March 24, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

PILGRIM: II: Void Worship Streaming

With its imminent unveiling now just one week away, today mainstream music gateway, Pitchfork, offers up PILGRIM‘s II: Void Worship in its entirety! Recorded at Moonlight Mile Recording by sound sage Mike Moebius and centered on tales of swords and sorcery, death, doom and widespread obliteration, PILGRM‘s II: Void Worship is a frighteningly crushing exercise in pure, sonic doom. Each of its eight tracks ebb and flow into frenzied climaxes…

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Posted on: March 21, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Beneath Release Chalice from The Barren Throne

Celebrate your Friday with the scalding sounds of “Chalice,” the latest canticle of cruelty from Iceland-based death metal miscreants, BENEATH. The tune, now playing in lyric video form courtesy of No Clean Singing, comes off the band’s alarming sophomore full-length, The Barren Throne, set to drop via Unique Leader Records next month.   Comments vocalist Benedikt Natanael Bjarnason of the tune: “‘Chalice” revolves lyrically around this quintessential object, something so…

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Posted on: March 21, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

KILL THE ZO: Mat Zo & Kill The Noise North American Tour

KILL THE ZO TOUR WWW.KILLTHEZO.COM   TICKETS ON SALE NOW    KILL THE ZO TOUR DATES: 5/08 – San Francisco, CA – Regency Ballroom 5/09 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom 5/10 – Edmonton, AB – Union Hall 5/16 – Detroit, MI – Elektricity 5/17 – Los Angeles, CA – Palladium 5/22 – Houston, TX – Stereo Live 5/23 – Miami, FL – Grand Central 5/24 – Toronto, ON –…

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Posted on: March 21, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

KOAN SOUND ANNOUNCE SPRING NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

LISTEN TO “LOST IN THOUGHT”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATqEpJ6x1C4    Crossing the pond from Bristol, UK production duo KOAN Sound are gearing up to convey spirituality via electronic music en masse to live audiences across North America this April and May. The pair, consisting of Will Weeks and Jim Bastow, will be riding high on the momentum from their coming Dynasty EP, which will see an OWSLA release on April 1st. The EP’s…

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Posted on: March 21, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

UNDER THE SUN RETURNS FOR SUMMER 2014

Under The Sun, the annual festival tour celebrating the golden age of alternative pop rock ‘n’ roll, will return for another summer run, this time starring a spectacular line-up that includes Blues Traveler, Sugar Ray, Uncle Kracker, and Smash Mouth. In addition, other chart-topping stars from the era – including such iconic combos as Gin Blossoms and Sister Hazel – will join the caravan for selected dates. Under The Sun…

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Posted on: March 21, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

SomethingALaMode Announce New Album “Endless Stairs”

SomethingALaMode “Endless Stairs” LP Tracklist: 1. Toy Spark Gun (feat. Dan Black) 2. After The Rain 3. On My Mind (feat. DWNTWN) 4. Kairos 5. Somebody’s Gonna Love Me (feat. Lola) 6. Prophet 21 7. Tunnel Of Love 8. Losing Game (feat. Adam Joseph) 9. Architecture 10. Endless Stairs 11. Julius 12. Versailles No Bara (feat. Rinko Kikuchi) Following the winter release of their Remix EP of third album single “Toy…

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Posted on: March 21, 2014 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Christopher Bissonnette reveals “Entanglements” from his third album, Essays In Idleness

he third album from Canadian composer Christopher Bissonnette sees him expanding his palette by narrowing his sound sources to a self built analog synthesiser. Eschewing the whiplash and/or everything including the kitchen sink style of assembly so common among current analog aficionados, Bissonnette instead applies his signature compositional style of using long held tones and sweeping drones that alternate between, and fuse, pure tonal transcendence and patient, sparkling melodies that…

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