Vermont’s BARISHI have just released a self-titled progressive metal tour de force that belies conventional thought for a debut album. Heaviness, eclecticism, and inventive melody are just a few of the descriptors one could use to begin dissecting this dynamic package of passion and creavity. The saxophone heard on “Sky Burial” and “Holy Mountain” is but one of the pleasant surprises in an album full of them. Barishi was recorded,…
It’s been a while since ELYSION’s debut album has been released. That’s why we’re happy to announce that ELYSION will release a new album in January 2014! “Someplace Better” was produced by Mark Adrian at ARTemis Studios in Athens, Greece, mixed by Dan Certa (We Are The Fallen, Ben Moody, Seether) and mastered by David Collins (Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Mötley Crüe). Gustavo Sazes, who already worked for bands like…
Jimmy Amadie, the celebrated Philadelphia pianist and educator known for his contributions in improvisational jazz theory, passed away on December 10, 2013 in Philadelphia, PA. He was 76. His death comes after being diagnosed with lung cancer in 2007. Amadie was known not only for his supreme musicality, but also for his unrelenting fighting spirit. As a rising jazz pianist in the late 1950s, Amadie toured with the Woody Herman…
Aaron Lewis, whose latest album The Road debuted in late 2012 at #7 on the Billboard Country chart and has sold over 150,000 copies, is relishing in a year of career achievements and highlights. 2013 marked Lewis’ debut on the Grand Ole Opry, a headlining Jägermeister Country Tour, cruising the high-seas with Lynyrd Skynyrd, hosting the 3rd annual Aaron Lewis & Friends concert to benefit the It Takes A Community…
Today, Queens rapper Bryant Dope is releasing a free EP entitled Raw Dope. To celebrate the release of his EP, he is also sharing video Dope is currently prepping his debut LP, due out in 2014 on Young One Records. Raw Dope was mostly produced by Queens producer and Dope’s DJ, Marc.R. Other producers on the EP include Elmont, NY’s A1 The Robot and France’s DELA. The tape was mastered…
Listen to “Magic (Live & Acoustic)” “A spry, jangly indie-pop tune that showcases her pretty voice.” (USA Today) RIYL: Brandi Carlile, Aimee Mann, Lisa Loeb “Raw, real, truthful… music that feels like an exposure of the secluded bedroom thoughts we all hold inside.” (Lamplighter Magazine) “At 25 years old, Charlotte has already built a resume that puts her ahead of many artists twice her age… She’s got enough angst for the rockers to…
Austin Webb has released a music video for his Top 40 single, “ Slip On By.” Shot and directed by Stephen Shepard in Nashville, Tenn., the music video can now be seen on CMT.com, VH1.com, Zuus Country, and other select music video outlets and streaming websites. “I’m really proud of this music video,” commented Webb. “Stephen Shepard is an amazing talent and really did an incredible job. The cast and…
MIDNIGHT RΞD releases their self-titled debut EP today on 2101 Records/Capitol Records. The EP can be purchased on iTunes here or streamed in full here . Always ones to put their fans, dubbed the ‘Redheads’, first the band rolled out their EP announcement by asking fans to go to their site to get the big news, when they arrived they were met with a “share to unlock” prompt. The fans…
French grind-benders NOLENTIA have started the second leg of their 2013 roadkill titled “Three to Grind Them All” in support of their second full-length, May the Hand that Holds the Match that Will Set this World on Fire Be Blessed above All, released earlier this year through Kaotoxin Records The first leg took place this summer with fellow French grinders WARFUCK and DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, and went from July 26 to…
Texas-based husband and wife worship duo Tyler & Bailey Dodds released their new EP, “Songs for the Church,” today. While they were hopeful that the songs would find an audience beyond their home church, they never expected a runaway hit. But that’s what they received earlier today, when the album shot straight to #1 at iTunes in the Christian & Gospel category, sharing the Top 10 with such heavyweights as…
Today, 7 Days of Funk (Dam-Funk and Snoopzilla) release their self-titled album and debut their second music video, “Hit Da Pavement.” The video follows the further adventures of Dam and Snoop after the house party featured in the video for “Faden Away.” This time, we ride along with the pair as they cruise the streets of Los Angeles in Snoop’s baby blue Lincoln Continental. After performing last night on…
Seminal jazz group Weather Report rises again with the Weather Report Legacy Project and crowdfunding initiative. The new project, launching December 9, 2013, will support the creation of a documentary, “Calm Before the Storm.” The film documents the group from its beginnings in 1970, through their 16 year and 17 album career, anchored by legendary founders and jazz legends Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. The Weather Report Legacy Project was…
Once again, by popular demand, the legendary Chicago Mass Choir is headed back to Spain for a phenomenal 14 city tour throughout the country and the Canary Islands. The choir’s international Christmas tour begins December 5th and will culminate on December 23rd. While in Spain, Chicago Mass Choir will be in concert in the following cities, La Laguna Tenerife, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, La Palma, Adeje, Tennerife, Barcelona, Gijón,…
Swedish indie rock’s finest – Örebro based The Tranq are full of contradictions and often controversial. They fight for your attention and demands that you reflect for yourself. The Tranq poses the question: What kind of change do YOU want to make in the world? All accompanied by their spot on mix of Swedish and British pop tradition The band’s debut album “Loss Is For The Masses” was released on September…
Brooklyn indie rockers X Ambassadors released their official debut EP Love Songs Drug Songs on KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records in May. After support dates with Imagine Dragons, Jimmy Eat World and the Mowgli’s the band is now prepping to join Panic! At The Disco on their Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die! Tour in 2014 as well as joining their pals Imagine Dragons for a few more dates. Before the…
With the release of their new single “It Can’t Be Simple” via Stereogum, Secret Colours announce two releases due out next year in the form of Positive Distractions Part I and Positive Distractions Part II. “It Can’t Be Simple” could easily be looked at as the song that manifests the maturation process of a band finally finding their voice. Having recorded both debut Secret Colours (2010) and sophomore release Peach (2013) as a…
German Death Metal brutes SLAUGHTERDAY have officially released their debut album, Nightmare Vortex, on FDA Rekotz.The full-length successor to the limited-edition cassette demo, Cosmic Horror, Nightmare Vortex showcases SLAUGHTERDAY’s insane brand of cosmic Death Metal that falls somewhere between AUTOPSY’s Mental Funeral and HYPOCRISY’s Penetralia. Featuring stunning guitar melodies, fat bass lines, hellish vocals and annihilating drums, the movements from speeding ferocity to crawling crush are the stuff of traumatic…
In the wake of numerous year end accolades for their landmark fourth studio album Random Access Memories, Daft Punk have issued an official video for the album track “Instant Crush“, featuring vocals from The Strokes front man Julian Casablancas directed by Daft Arts collaborator Warren Foo. The video can be seen here: http://youtu.be/a5uQMwRMHcs Random Access Memories has featured prominently in year end album and song round ups, including a #3 spot in Rolling Stone‘s Best Albums of 2013 list and…
Century Media Records has signed a worldwide deal to license the entire discography of Sweden’s DAWN! Formed in 1990, DAWN quickly evolved from the pure death metal found on their first demos into a more complex, melodic, epic and atmospheric style that culminated in the masterpiece, Slaughtersun – Crown Of The Triarchy (1998). Along with DISSECTION, UNANIMATED and EUCHARIST, DAWN is considered to be one of the most underrated acts…
At the age of 17, Dylan Iuliano recorded and produced his first solo record Disarmonia (meaning Disharmony in Italian) under the moniker The Delay in the Universal Loop. Dylan Iuliano lives in a small village on a hill in southern Italy (population 500), where time moves at a leisurely pace. The culmination of all his feelings and musical experiences, the album is entirely self-made, featuring Iuliano on synthesizers, guitars, bass, piano and…