Trioscapes will be performing two more shows in 2012 in support of their latest album, Separate Realities. The shows, scheduled for December 15th and 16th, will wrap up 2012 for the band, which was highlighted by a tour in September with Scale The Summit, and a top 10 debut on the Billboard Traditional Jazz charts. A live performance of “Curse of the Ninth” from Separate Realities can be seen on…
RayLynn Record’s flagship artist Kyle Sherman, celebrates the holidays with acoustic guitar-wielding duo, Shane & Shane, and Contemporary Christian vocalist and songwriter, Phil Wickham, as he joins them on their 2012 Christmas Tour, which is currently en route. Sherman is opening the intimate 10-city tour performing an energetic 20-minute set infused with holiday favorites and new songs from his debut album Hear Me. The tour kicked off last week…
Sweden’s IN FLAMES is one of the most respected and well recognized heavy metal acts around the world. The band is currently out on the road as direct support for Lamb Of God, and come February, will be embarking on a headlining tour with Demon Hunter, All Shall Perish and Battlecross. Dates for the first leg of the headlining run are below, along with all other previously announced dates. …
As Camper Van Beethoven plans to celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2013, with the Jan. release of its tenth album, La Costa Perdida, many of the band’s peers and members of R.E.M., Pavement, Built To Spill, Drive-By Truckers, Meat Puppets, Widespread Panic, Minus 5, The Nerves, and Elf Power spoke about CVB’s influence, its pioneering role in creating the genre of indie rock, and their love for the band. In…
Progressive instrumentalists SCALE THE SUMMIT have teamed up with ERNIE BALL to give away a year’s supply (24 packs) of Ernie Ball Cobalt 7-string packs! Anyone can enter simply by heading to www.scalethesummit.fanbridge.com and entering your e-mail address. The contest will end on Thursday, December 20th so get your entry in before it’s too late. SCALE THE SUMMIT — whose lineup currently consists of Chris Letchford (guitars), Travis Levrier (guitars), Mark Michell…
Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained Film will be in theaters Christmas Day. Check out the new John Legend track featured on the Soundtrack “Who Did That To You?” which is currently premiering at L.A. Times’ music blog Pop & Hiss. CLICK HERE TO STREAM JOHN LEGEND’S “WHO DID THAT TO YOU?” (VIA L.A. TIMES) “Quentin Tarantino’s movies have such a specific sound to them where the music plays such an important role. When I first learned…
Flying Dutchmen will hit be publicly available on CD, LP and digital download this week by Germany’s Ván Records, also virtually responsible for discovering and releasing albums from The Devil’s Blood, The Ruins Of Beverast, Year of the Goat and others into the cult spotlight over the last decade, in addition to having released VANDERBUYST’s self-titled debut LP and sophomore album, In Dutch. With the release of Flying Dutchmen,…
Come celebrate the Late, Great Randy Rhoads birthday with his family this week at Kathy Rhoads D’Argenzio and her husband Richard D’Argenzio’s wine tasting room in Burbank. The Randy Rhoads Birthday Tribute weekend starts Thursday, December 6th and ends Saturday, December 8th – open from 3pm to 9pm daily. This will be a weekend to remember for all fans and friends alike. You will get to meet the whole…
Driving power pop/rock band Wise Girl will soon release their self-titled three-song EP on iTunes. The New York fivesome is equipped with straight forward talent and no need for gimmicks. The Wise Girl EP showcases the perfect combination of poppy melodies, rockin’ guitars and quirky songwriting technique all wrapped together in a no-nonsense attitude. After two years in the making Wise Girl is the brainchild of songwriter Abby Weitz (vocals,…
When’s the last time you heard a song that you instantly replayed for the rest of the day? That was our reaction to this Roane Namuh remix of The Love Loungers cover of the Esther Williams bboy classic ‘Last Night Changed It All’ which sounds like something Dam-Funk would make if he played with Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings. This is the sound of the future of nu-disco or space…
Indie-alt-folk band von Grey will kick off a tour with Company of Thieves on January 23, 2013 at The Bishop in Bloomington, IN. The run will include shows at World Café in Philadelphia (1/29), New York City’s Highline Ballroom (1/31) and Jammin Java in Vienna, VA (2/4). The band, which recently wrapped up a West Coast tour with Lindsey Stirling, is currently on tour in the South and will…
GLAMOUR OF THE KILL has issued a studio update surrounding their new record due out next year. Click HERE or the image above to view! GLAMOUR OF THE KILL is currently tucked away in Rochester, Michigan with producer Joey Sturgis (Asking Alexandria, Attack Attack) working on their follow up to “The Summing” which came out last year. “The Summoning” release in the US was followed by a successful run on the…
Do we really have to worry? Is our civilization standing right on the edge of the abyss? Is the Maya calendar actually right, predicting the end of the world on December 21, 2012? New age circles are convinced that the apocalyptic prophecy can be derived from the Mesoamerican civilization’s calendar. “Complete bullshit”, reckons Andi Deris, singer of German melodic metal band Helloween. “We will all survive the year 2012 and…
Challenger began out of desperation. Desperate to feel better, desperate to escape, desperate for something more. Challenger is that cry. Alone, or together, the cry that sounds like a plea but builds momentum and becomes a force of change, of light, of positivity, of love; a change you can dance to. Additionally – the members are all from Florida (the best state, they agree). John Ross sings, plays guitar, and…
Legendary German power metallers GAMMA RAY will unleash Skeletons & Majesties Live as a two-CD set next month via Eagle Rock imprint Armoury Records. Set for North American release on December 4, 2012, Skeletons & Majesties Live is a near two-hour magnum opus spanning the band’s history and includes classics as well as tracks which were under-represented to date. A DVD version will be released stateside in January. Skeletons & Majesties Live was recorded and filmed during the band’s 2011 European tour at…
Las Vegas, NV punk rock band Last Call are streaming their long-awaited new LP Dog Yearson Punktastic.com. To listen to the album, which will be released on November 27 via their own imprint Broken Arrow Collective, head over to: http://punktastic.com/radar/stream-stream-of-dog-years-last-call. Dog Years was produced, engineered, mixed & mastered by Paul Miner (New Found Glory, Fireworks, Thrice, Death By Stereo) at Buzzbomb Sound Labs in Orange, CA between March and November 2012. Last Call has spent the last year…
The Northwinds Rend Flesh EP from Minot, ND’s FROSTHELM is a self-released slab of thrash with tinges of black metal mayhem that is brought to you from the middle of fucking nowhere. And it is available for purchase as a digital download now at: www.cdbaby.com/cd/frosthelm2. The CD version will be available in the coming weeks. The Northwinds Rend Flesh EP comes highly recommended for fans of Dissection, Goatwhore, Old Metallica (1981-1986), Skeletonwitch,…
Flyleaf recently celebrated the release of their latest album, New Horizons, with a secret performance during a Signal Rising show at Grand Stafford Theatre in Bryan, TX for close friends & family. This was the band’s first performance with newest member and lead vocalist, Kristen May (formerly of Vedera). Fans can now watch the explosive live performance of “Fire, Fire,” the first track from New Horizons. Kristen also has released a statement to the fans of…
Fates‘ second full-length, “Serious German Polka” is out now. The 15 minute title track is only available if you downoad the entire album (and it’s well worth it!). Available at iTunes, Amazon, the 100m Record Store and most other retail outlets. Fates are American composer Django Voris and British-born artist PJ Norman. They met in New York City in early 2009. Their shared passion for electronic experimentation led to a set of improvisation sessions with Swiss electronic artist Moritz Wettstein. The sessions were…
Releases video to the first single off The First Agreement EP Funk Volume’s Dizzy Wright just released the video to Fly High, produced by SupaHotBeats. It is his first single off his upcoming EP, The First Agreement. VIDEO LINK: http://youtu.be/nz0P3gnSafo The First Agreement is Dizzy’s third Funk Volume project. Its release concludes a breakout year for the Las Vegas emcee: SmokeOut Conversations album reached #2 on the iTunes hip hop chart Free SmokeOut Conversations mixtape has…