Ken Stringfellow’s latest LP Danzig in the Moonlight recently saw the light of day via Seattle’s Spark & Shine Records. Having been a part of the indie landscape since The Posies formed in 1988, his presence has been heard in numerous projects that have influenced the rock landscape over the years. Stringfellow is returning stateside in January for a string of west coast winter tour dates, along with labelmates The…
Two of Topshelf Records finest, Baltimore, MD’s Diamond Youth and Chicago, IL’s Cut Teeth, have been announced as support (along with Into It. Over It.) for the recently reunited Braid’s midwest run of dates on the Frame & Canvas Tour. The bands will open for the seminal indie band in Milwaukee, Detroit and Chicago (see dates below). Heavily influenced by “90’s alternative music, skateboarding, and girls,” and such bands as…
On Monday, December 31, Coldplay will round off a memorable year by performing a very special co-headline show with JAY Z at Barclays Center, Brooklyn. The New Year’s Eve show will be preceded by two headline shows for the band, at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT on December 29 and at the Barclays Center, Brooklyn on December 30. Naturally 7 will be the supporting act for the December…
Reuben Bullock’s introduction to the international music scene is surreal enough to have been scripted. His decision to purchase a last minute plane ticket to Mexico was the first step in a series of serendipitous events. The chance that one of the Calgary-based artist’s songs was booming from the stereo of a beach front café at the very same moment Florence + the Machine’s manager Mairead Nash walked by seems…
Perhaps the most hypnotising of all the tracks on Matthew Dear’s acclaimed fifth studio album Beams, ‘Fighting Is Futile’ is a multi-layered and mesmerising blend of handclaps, Matthew’s now trademark vocals, keys and synths. A definite album highlight, the track is now available for free download, with a soon to be shared remix courtesy of Seth Troxler, out on Nov 13. Established as one of pop music’s most fascinating…
BEC Recordings’ and international rock artist Manafest was honored with his 9th GMA Covenant Award this week for “Recorded Song of the Year” with the song “Never Let You Go” off of his fifth studio album Fighter. Fans can view this award winning song’s music video here: “Never Let You Go”. Currently Manafest is climbing the radio charts at CHR with the current single “Human.” This week at CHR the…
Sophisticated Bay Area soulstress Goapele has announced a forthcoming Deluxe Edition of her 2011 Break of Dawn album dropping November 20, 2012. Building on the album’s widely acclaimed combination of undisputed musical beauty, confidence of purpose, and powerful songwriting, the 14-track Deluxe Edition deepens the coffer by adding three previously unheard original songs including the new single, “For Love.” The single is a moving testament of her commitment and dedication…
Issues, fronted by former Woe Is Me vocalists Tyler Carter and Michael Bohn, has announced a November 13 release date for the band’s debut Velocity/Rise Records effort, Black Diamonds. Black Diamonds is now streaming here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKcGEIO7V0rWjKBzp2wZMUKPNXuwg8xi4. In a message to fans, the band explains the meaning behind the EP’s title: To all our fans, you are all fucked up, you are all struggling with something, you aren’t perfect, and you…
Slip-N-Slide/Vested In Culture/Epic Records emerging pop star Sebastian Mikael is gearing up for his hotly anticipated debut studio album, due out in 2013. The classically trained 24-year-old singer-songwriter-musician is currently putting the finishing touches on the release, working with an A-list roster of songwriters and producers, including Jim Jonsin and Rico Love. The yet-to-be titled release will showcase the full scope of Sebastian’s adept musicianship and songwriting craftsmanship. To…
Malaco Music Group is proud to announce its latest signing of Kevin Vasser, the Director of Worship and Arts at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago (Pastor Charles Jenkins, Pastor) to an exclusive recording agreement. Expect a full project (Untitled) from Kevin Vasser in 2013. The lead single “Only You Can Deliver” featuring DeWayne Woods will be impacting radio soon. D.A. Johnson, Executive Director – Gospel Division, Malaco Music Group…
Nashville-based independent roots music label Compass Records is proud to announce the new signing of GRAMMY award-winning Cajun group BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet. The relationship grew organically—Doucet first collaborated with Compass Records on the eponymous GRAMMY-nominated Fiddlers 4 album with fellow fiddle powerhouses Darol Anger, Bruce Molsky and cellist Rushad Eggleston in 2002—and, in 2012, he reconnected with Compass co-owners Alison Brown and Garry West while performing at the 2011…
GunShyAssassin.com has posted an exclusive premier of “Chalice of Flesh and Bone” off of The Sanctum of Human Darkness, the forthcoming album from Finnish destructive death metal outfit DESOLATE SHRINE. The track is currently streaming at this location and is available for pre-order at www.darkdescentrecords.com with a release date set for December 15th. For more on DESOLATE SHRINE visit www.facebook.com/desolateshrine Over a year and a half after decimating ear…
Hot off the heels of the premiere of the video viewed by 2.5 million people (and counting!) for “On Ya (Feat. Sean Kingston)” Meital Dohan releases the official “On Ya” EP on iTunes. The EP includes remixes from several renowned DJs, including R3hab, Steven Redant, Guy Scheiman, DJ Reflex, DJ Skee, and So Called Scumbags. See below for full official track listing. The Brass Knuckles and Brian Cid produced single recently debuted on the Billboard Club Play chart and is currently impacting with club and mix-show…
Capitol Records has announced the December 11 release of the soundtrack album for Universal Pictures’ new comedy This Is 40 from writer/director Judd Apatow. Five years after Apatow introduced us to Pete and Debbie in Knocked Up, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann reprise their roles as a husband and wife both approaching a milestone meltdown in This Is 40, an unfiltered, comedic look inside the life of an American family.…
Instrumental Tourist, by Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never), is the first chapter of SSTUDIOS (Software Studio Series), a new venture in the Software Recording Co.’s expanding catalog. SSTUDIOS invites artists in the field of electronic music to create collaborative works of quality and vision. With a deliberate focus on source material of a synthetic and mimetic nature, Hecker and Lopatin designed a sound palette from the acoustic resonance of…
Riffmongering Westmont, New Jersey-based CLAMFIGHT has completed their second album, and are preparing it for deployment in early 2013, unless there is some truth to this Mayan calendar fiasco that is. As with their impressive 2010 debut Volume I, the new opus, I Versus The Glacier, was recorded by Steve Poponi at Gradwell House Recording in Haddon Heights, New Jersey. The thundering nine-track ruckus that is I Versus The…
London based rockers, Turbogeist, will release their Ancient Secrets EP on January 15th 2012 in the U.S. via Spinefarm Records. Co-produced by the band and Chris Sheldon (who has previously worked with Pixies, Radiohead & Foo Fighters, amongst others), ‘Ancient Secrets’ was recorded at Livingston Studios in North London, and will be available as a digital download plus a numbered, colored vinyl 10”. Inspired in part by Apocalyptic times, ‘Ancient Secrets’…
Combining many sub-genres of music mainly from rock and metal WARNOT is melodic, raw, symphonic, theatrical, doomy and progressive. His Blood is Yours the band’s debut album is an epic adventure ride that rings fresh among hard rock and metal fans. His Blood is Yours was released earlier this week via Nightmare Records and is available for purchase on the Nightmare Records Website, Amazon and iTunes. In celebration of the…
This week NPR premiered the incredible new video for Lushlife‘s “Magnolia.” You can check it out here: https://vimeo.com/52258194 Replicant is the new album by the Bronx-based duo Wires Under Tension. You can check out a few of the tracks below. “The Light Behind Your Light is Changing” via Consequence of Sound http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/10/new-music-wires-under-tension-the-light-behind-your-light-is-changing-cos-premiere/ “Like Waves We Will Keep Coming On” via Tiny Mix Tapes http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-wires-under-tension-like-waves-we-will-keep-coming-on “Landscape Architecture” via Alarm Magazine: http://alarm-magazine.com/2012/mp3-premiere-wires-under-tensions-landscape-architecture-2/ SargeantJohn…
“Animal” is the latest dynamic dance track from Bonhom, a dream pop band co-created by two musical masterminds: singer/songwriter James Coleman and DJ/producer Diwon. With the chorus “Sinful, Liberal, Animal, …How shall I tame thee,” the song brings sex and swagger in a way only Coleman and Jagger could. The video stars the stunning Susannah Hart Jones at the famed Hollywood Towers, bringing a mix of vintage Americana and animal craziness to…