Category: Artist News

Posted on: October 20, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Marco Polo feat. Organized Konfusion (Pharoahe Monch & Prince Po) – “3-O-Clock”

The lead-single from Marco Polo’s forthcoming LP, PA2: The Director’s Cut, accomplishes what no one else has been able to pull off in over a decade–reunite Organized Konfusion. Since the duo disbanded in 1997, there has been no new OK material and every few years or so the usual “reunion rumors” emerge and then disappear. Marco Polo’s forthcoming LP, “PA2: The Director’s Cut” will be released on 11-12-2013 via Soulspazm…

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Posted on: October 18, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

No Idea Records Unveils A New Track From Upcoming Crusades LP

No Idea Records has unveiled the track “The Torchbearer” from the upcoming LP from Crusades, entitled Perhaps You Deliver This Judgement With Greater Fear Thank I Receive It, to be released on November 5th (see Decibel debut). Listen/Post “The Torchbearer” Ottawa, Canada’s Crusades began in late 2009. Comprised of current and ex-members of Sedatives, The Creeps, Buried Inside, The Steve Adamyk Band, Last Communion, Zebrassieres, The Visitors, Pregnancy Scares, Black…

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Posted on: October 18, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

FEARLESS RECORDS PARTNERS WITH MUSICARES FOR PUNK GOES CHRISTMAS COMPILATION

Fearless Records has partnered with MusiCares this holiday season to take care of the needs of musicians and members of the music industry across the country. To assist their program initiatives, a percentage of the net proceeds from Punk Goes Christmas compilation will be donated to the non-profit organization. “Fearless is super happy to be working with MusiCares on our holiday compilation Punk Goes Christmas,” notes Chairman & Founder, Bob Becker.…

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Posted on: October 18, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Maya Vik Premieres “Dynamite”

Click Here To Listen To “Dynamite” (Prod. By Patrick Lukens) Bass player Maya Vik has presented her modern, eccentric brand of electronic funk pop at Pianos NYC every Monday in September. She has previously opened for Lenny Kravitz, toured Japan, Russia, Holland, Germany and her native Norway, won Norwegian Grammy with Montée, played in Savoy with a-Ha’s Paul Waaktaar, and released two solo albums. Maya recently collaborated with label-mate Proviant Audio on…

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Posted on: October 18, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Freya Release Free Digital EP

In anticipation of their new full length, Paragon of the Crucible, New York’s FREYA have teamed with Revolver Magazine to offer a free four-song digital EP. Entitled Ghost Echoes, the EP features two songs taken from the forthcoming album, as well as two covers (Nirvana and Alice In Chains) exclusive to this EP. The release also features unique artwork, created by visual mastermind and guitarist Brendon Flynn. FREYA will be releasing…

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Posted on: October 18, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

HUNX & HIS PUNX WEST COAST TOUR STARTS TONIGHT

onight in Seattle, Hunx & His Punx bring their raucous, reliably-great live show to Chop Suey, kicking off an all-ages West Coast tour in support of this summer’s beloved Street Punk LP. This morning, Impose shared the follow-up to the band’s earlier “video trilogy“–a clip for fan favorite “You Think You’re Tough” directed by Dan Shaw, brother of punkette Shannon Shaw (also of Shannon and the Clams). In it, the…

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Posted on: October 17, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

A NEW STUDIO VIDEO FROM SKELETONWITCH

With the Oct. 29 release of new album “Serpents Unleashed” just around the corner, blackened metal quintet SKELETONWITCH have unveiled the fourth in a series of behind-the-scenes videos about the recording process. In this edition, drummer Dustin Boltjes and guitarist Nate Garnette discuss some of their favorite songs from the album, including two tracks — “Beneath Dead Leaves” and “This Evil Embrace” — that, until now, have yet to be…

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Posted on: October 16, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

BOMBA ESTÉREO RELEASES THE VIDEO FOR THEIR NEW SINGLE “PURE LOVE”

n the night of October 15th, Bomba Estéreo released the video of “Pure Love”, third single from their third and globally acclaimed album Elegancia Tropical. It was directed by Santiago Posada and produced in London on August 2013. The video is now available on BombaEstéreo’s official YouTube channel at: http://goo.gl/5l4mNQ, and you can follow it with the hashtags: #PureLoveVideo  #PureLove The Colombian band is currently nominated to the Latin Grammy…

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Posted on: October 16, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

TRACY SHEDD debuts new single

Twenty years after taking her first steps recording vocals for Sella, a high school band from Jacksonville, FL, and twelve years succeeding the launch of a solo career with Teen-Beat Records, Tracy Shedd has delivered the most honest, forthright, and insightful album of her career. Arizona, Shedd’s debut with New Granada Records and fifth full-length recording, presents the slowcore songstress with guitarist, James Tritten, as an acoustic duet.  As Shedd reports in the opening lines, Arizona is a walk…

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Posted on: October 15, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Weekend Update New European Headline Dates

If Brooklyn has seemed a bit quiet lately, it’s probably because Brooklyn-via-San Fran post-punk progenitors Weekend have been on a national tour this autumn with Disappears. Following the summer release of their roaring, critically-acclaimed sophomore album Jinx (7/23, Slumberland Records), bandmates Shaun Durkan (vocals, bass), Kevin Johnson (guitar), Abe Pedroza (drums) and  Nick Ray (bass) are back in the ‘hood, turning up the volume in BK for three live shows at CMJ 2013. The band’s…

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Posted on: October 15, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

GYPTIAN REVEALS COLORFUL TITLE TRACK FROM UPCOMING STUDIO ALBUM SEX, LOVE AND REGGAE

Gyptian is revving up for his upcoming studio album Sex, Love and Reggae (October 29, VP Records) and reveals his “colorful” title track today via Pitchfork. The Major Lazer and Jerry Wonda produced single “Sex, Love and Reggae” features guest vocals from Angela Hunte (co-writer for Jay Z’s Grammy-winning “Empire State of Mind”) and Trinidadian soca king Bunji Garlin. In support of Sex, Love and Reggae, the reggae star is currently touring the United States.…

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Posted on: October 15, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

GRiZ Rebel Era LP Available For Free Download

The Rebel Era is upon us: acclaimed Detroit musician GRiZ (Grant Kwiecinski) has finally unleashed his new album as a gift to his fans. Following yesterday’s premiere of album single and accompanying music video for “Hard Times” via The Fader,  today the record is available to GRiZ enthusiasts for free download on his newly revamped website, MyNameIsGRiZ.com, which was also unveiled today. GRiZ’s Rebel Era  will be available for purchase everywhere…

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Posted on: October 15, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Aaron Cohen My Mother and My Music video released

Seattle/BK rapper Aaron Cohen is kind of a lone wolf, and for good reason. He touches on some of those personal motivators on “My Mother and My Music”, from the pending mixtape Potential Fans, dropping on Decon/Mass Appeal for free in  November. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rDe3nzsTXQ#t=58 http://noisey.vice.com/blog/premiere-aaron-cohen-my-mother-and-my-music

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Posted on: October 15, 2013 Posted by: Jay NeuFutur Comments: 0

Trailer Park Boys 3: Don’t Legalize It in theatres everywhere for 4/20 weekend

Entertainment One (eOne) today confirmed that in time for the infamous 4/20 weekend, Ricky, Julian and Bubbles will return to theatres across Canada on April 18(th) in Trailer Park Boys 3: Don’t Legalize It. Out of jail and broke, Julian concocts an outrageously greasy scheme to get rich and, to make it even greasier, he will have to deliver his product to his arch-enemy, Cyrus, who’s waiting in Montreal to close the dirty…

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Posted on: October 14, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Dom La Nena’s “Start A War” Video Unveiled

Video director Jeremiah, who has worked with Dom numerous times in the past, directed the stunning clip shot mostly in Super 8, explains of the new video “low lighting plunges Dom in a grainy darkness that pictures the entropy we face everyday in our civilized lives, and that the song indirectly evokes.” On working with Jeremiah, Dom says, “[He] was the only person who could capture the ordinary moments of…

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Posted on: October 14, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Iamsu! – “Hipster Girls”

In his ode to “Hipster Girls,” from his KILT 2 mixtape, Iamsu! addresses the girls that have the confidence and creativity to do their thang and look good doing it. “Everybody love a girl with a few goals.”   Filmed partially on Haight Street in San Francisco and in Berkeley, the video director Aris Jerome takes viewers on a journey through the sun-drenched California streets showing everyday people. Backed with the chillest, grooviest, most Earl Klugh-iest beats from Trackademics, the song represents Su…

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Posted on: October 14, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Animal Parts Share Second Single, “Grey Owl Call, the” New EP Six Arms To Hold You To Be Released October 22

Today, Toronto’s Animal Parts revealed a second track, “Grey Owl Call, the,” from their forthcoming Six Arms To Hold You EP. Of the latest single Beats Per Minute said, “it’s the interlocking melodies between all the musicians that makes “Grey Owl Call, the” something really remarkable.” Six Arms To Hold You is the second EP of a two-part series released by Animal Parts this year, much like the preceding Other Rooms (8/19), Six Arms To Hold You will be released in…

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Posted on: October 14, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Pop Evil crack the Active Rock #10

Michigan’s hardest working rock band, POP EVIL have achieved another milestone with yet another Top 10 Active Rock single with “Deal With The Devil.” Previous top ten singles have included “Boss’s Daughter,” “Monster You Made,” “Last Man Standing” and “Trenches,” which went all the way to #1 earlier this year. This is the band’s sixth time entering the top ten on the Active Rock charts. Front man Leigh Kakaty comments…

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Posted on: October 14, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

WARMASTER: “Barbarians” Now Streaming

Old-school death metal purists WARMASTER and AxisOfMetal.com have joined forces to debut a brand new track off the band’s upcoming sophomore release, The End of Humanity. Aptly titled “Barbarians,” the song delivers the sort of relentless pummel that any self-respecting battle-monger would want as the soundtrack to his next slaughter. Dead Beat Media and Slaughterhouse Records have set October 30 as the release date of The End of Humanity, the…

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Posted on: October 14, 2013 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

ASTRALWERKS AND DEADMAU5 ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP

Astralwerks Records and deadmau5–each credited with pioneering the genre’s evolution from esoteric subculture to its undeniable place in mainstream culture today, have joined forces. Kicking off the relationship, Astralwerks will release the brand new mau5trap compilation album “We Are Friends Vol. 2” on November 12, 2013 with its pre-sale launching on October 22, 2013.   In their exciting new partnership, Astralwerks will be the U.S. home to future deadmau5 artist…

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