MAGFest, the Music And Gaming Festival has strived since 2002 to create the very best lineup of musicians, combining the incomparable enthusiasm of the video game music community and game industry greats on hand to perform live in front of thousands of fans. Over a decade, over 50 different bands and artists have taken the stage at our festival. MAGFest 11 will celebrate the 10th anniversary with our best music lineup yet! On January…
The Global Elite, the debut album from Minneapolis industrial metal war machine SKROG, is now available on CD format. The album can be purchased at www.skrogband.com and is also available as a digital download at skrog.bandcamp.com. Check out this interview with SKROG mastermind Jay Reiter on Tragedy Axe. SKROG is the work of vocalist/multi-instrumentalist/composer Jay Reiter and The Global Elite is an explosive, damning account of the current state of…
Birds In Row have announced a string of dates in the UK this winter. Check out the dates below! Birds In Row are a melodic yet abrasive band from Laval, France. Blurring the lines between hardcore, punk, and related sub-genres, Birds In Row truly offer something of substantial emotional weight to their listeners. Collectively carrying somber hearts and poignant souls, they navigate through melancholic seas to shape beautifully hook-laden songs…
Who We Are, the sophomore effort from Rockford, Illinois’ Beyond Threshold is out now via the combined efforts of Goomba Music and Turkey Vulture Records. Expect nothing less than the finest in modern metal/hardcore. Who We Are can be found in stores and online retailers everywhere. Selections from the album have been posted at this location. BEYOND THRESHOLD Live: 11/17 – St. Louis, MO 11/23 – Urbana,…
Chart-topping recording artist Jason Gray released his first Christmas project earlier this year and is now scheduled to headline his first holiday tour. The Christmas Stories Tour will launch November 28th in Illinois and run through December 9th in Ohio. The ten-city tour will feature Gray performing with a full band spotlighting songs from Christmas Stories: Repeat The Sounding Joy, presenting a deeper story celebrating the birth of Christ, while…
Due to concerns about the impact of Hurricane Sandy, the Toro Y Moi album listening event in NY will be pushed back one week to the weekend of Nov. 9-11. It was announced last week that Toro Y Moi and Red Bull Music Academy will be teaming up this November to give fans the opportunity to hear his upcoming third album, Anything In Return, more than two months in advance of release…
VH1 Classic is remixing Halloween and making it what it really should be: “Wholloween,” a day of celebrating all things THE WHO related, including the U.S. television premiere of the 2012 The Who doc “Quadrophenia: Can You See the Real Me?” at 8 PM ET/PT. Kicking off The Who-fest at 12:30 PM ET/PT is the 1975 British film “Tommy” based on the 1969 rock opera of the same name. 3:00…
This week’s episode of Room 205 filmed during MFNW in Portland, OR, features an exclusive first performance of “More Alone”, the new track from Los Angeles-based Tropic of Cancer. Tomorrow, an alternate live version of the track will release as a split 7″ with HTRK on Ghostly International’s Part-Time Punks Radio Sessions series Tropic Of Cancer is the solo project of Camella Lobo. Though her music has been labeled gothic,…
Renegade English soul-rockers The Heavy are pleased to announce the release of the new music video for their track, “Can’t Play Dead.” Featured on the band’s acclaimed new full-length album, The Glorious Dead (Counter Records) and out just in time for Halloween, the horror-film atmospherics of “Can’t Play Dead” follow the band’s previous single, “What Makes A Good Man?” – a blaring soul stomper that was recently performed on numerous…
Goldroom is back with a remix of Atlas Genius’ “Back Seat.” Among worldwide live dates he has laid his trademark synth sound to this track, which you can stream/download below. Be sure to check out Goldroom live on tour in Australia in November if you are an Aussie fan. Atlas Genius – Back Seat (Goldroom Remix) http://soundcloud.com/goldroom/atlas-genius-back-seat-1 Catch Goldroom on tour in the South Pacific: November 2 – Melbourne –…
In hip-hop, as in life, there are few things more important than family. And no one embodies the bonds of brotherhood better than The Lytics, the five-man Winnipeg crew whose bid for genre supremacy has long been a family affair. Quite literally, in fact: Brothers Andrew and Anthony Sannie have been trading rhymes together since childhood — as has cousin Mungala Londe, who moved in with the family as a…
Rock band Ill Nino has released a brand new music video for their single “La Epidemia.” The song is featured on the band’s just released sixth album Epidemia. The video was filmed in Milwaukee, WI at The Rave, and features a guest appearance from Emmure vocalist Frankie Palmeri. Video | “La Epidemia” La Epidemia” showcases Ill Nino’s power, energy and determination to spread their madness throughout the world. …
Multi-instrumentalist Gregory Rogove (drums for Devendra Banhart and Unknown Mortal Orchestra) gave us the beautiful instrumental piano album, Piana, earlier this year and just released this short film for “Anima”. It’s exceptionally pretty and dabbles between consciousness and the surreal. Directed by Andrew Wilding and George Augusto: More info here: http://www.gregoryrogove.com/yobananaboy/piana.html http://www.knittingfactoryrecords.com/artists/gregory-rogove/
Australian alternative rock group Monks of Mellonwah have announced that they will be travelling to the U.S.A for a 2nd time to perform at the 2012 Los Angeles Music Awards, (where the band has received 3 award nominations including ‘Best International Artist’), tour the California and New York regions, and record some new tracks that will feature in their up and coming debut album. The Monks have had a whirlwind…
Germany’s ALPHA TIGER is proud to present their first single and video, “From Outer Space,” taken from their upcoming album, Beneath The Surface. The video was shot at the legendary SO 36 club in Berlin by director Silvio Rosenthal who combined the band’s amazing stage presence with a classic Science Fiction B-movie vibe. To watch the video “From Outer Space,” click here: http://youtu.be/6Q9f-gZV58s The worldwide release dates…
“It’s a video about how things aren’t what they appear. It’s a metaphor for our mistakes of the past,” says Mark Mallman of the video for “Dirty Dishes” which has debuted this week courtesy of Under The Radar. The track is the latest single from Mallman’s newly released album Double Silhouette, which the man whose fans call him “Mr. Serious” describes as “A noir battlefield of car crashes and lightning…
Hope you are having a great Friday! I wanted to follow-up with you regarding gmc TV’s first documentary reality special “I Forgive You,” brought to viewers by Emmy and Academy Award winning executive producer Arnold Shapiro. “I Forgive You” dives into painful pasts and addresses hard-to-face issues with honest and raw confessions that will leave you inspired. See details below and let us know if we can lock in an…
California based singer/songwriter Valente brings his haunting vocals and eloquent lyrics to you live on the select dates below. Velente’s gorgeous newly released EP Alexandria is a collection of 5 songs, serving as an appetizer to an upcoming full album on the horizon. Alexandria was recorded for a large part at Aaron Embry’s studio (Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes, Daniel Lanois & Elliot Smith.) Born Valente Bertelli in…
The VOODOO MUSIC + ARTS EXPERIENCE has teamed with Sony X Headphones to present a Saturday, October 27 and Sunday, October 28 webstream from New Orleans’ City Park. Performances will be available at Rollingstone.com/Voodoo on Saturday (12 Noon-11:00 PM, CT)and Sunday (12 Noon-9:00 PM, CT), while Fuse TV will feature highlights throughout VOODOO weekend via on air picture-in-picture technology. Highlighted by performances from the **Saturday night (October 27) headliners Metallica,…
On the heels of her recent US tour supporting the highly anticipated Ben Folds Five reunion, chart-topping Australian singer/songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke will be releasing “Sarah”, the second single from Nightflight. mp3 to post | “Sarah” video to post | “Sarah” Already developing a buzz at radio, the bewitching song, which prominently displays Kate’s remarkable vocal range (she will be performing in 2014 at The Met when they debut their production…