Aaron Embry’s debut album Tiny Prayers arrived in stores today via Community Music. Recorded at home last year, the album is a spare, captivating 10-song collection that introduces Embry – who honed his songwriting by recording and touring with artists including Elliott Smith, Willie Nelson, Daniel Lanois, and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, among many others – as a singular artist. Tiny Prayers can be streamed in full all…
AIMEE MANN quote: “I’ve been such a fan of Tom Scharpling and his videos and I’ve come to really trust his opinion and ideas about many, many things. When Tom and I were first talking about doing a video together, I quickly realized that I wanted to do two and not just one, and that maybe it would be slightly more cost effective to do two at once, and that…
Due to an overwhelming demand from metal fans worldwide, Grammy-nominated and Juno award-winning Banger Films is setting out to raise funds to make what has become known as “The Lost Episode” a reality. Metal Evolution: Extreme Metal “The Lost Episode” covers co-director Sam Dunn’s favorite genres: Death Metal, Black Metal and Grindcore, and he is reaching out to metal fans to help make it happen: https://vimeo.com/49472617 “Hundreds of fans have…
LA-based indie rock band Wires in the Walls is proud to announce the release of the music video for Tremolo, the first song off their debut full-length album New Symmetry. Directed by De la Vega (www.delavega.me) and produced by Cathartic Films, the video uses innovative camera placement to capture breathtaking visuals of a hoop dancer’s journey through some of the most beautiful spots in Southern California. Tremolo can be streamed…
Minneapolis-based musician Mark Mallman’s historic event, “Marathon 4: Road Rogue,” is a transcontinental, bio-generated, one-man, non-stop, seven-day, 150-plus hour music performance starting in New York on September 15th and concluding in Los Angeles on September 22nd. While traveling cross-country from New York to Los Angeles, the “Marathon 4” van will stop in the following cities to meet, greet and welcome guest musicians on board to jam with Mark Mallman: 09/15…
Melbourne, Australia’s Husky has scheduled a four-week, North American tour this October in support of their debut, Forever So, available now on Sub Pop. The tour begins October 26 in Portland, OR at the Doug Fir Lounge and will end on November 17 in Philadelphia, PA at Johnny Brenda’s. Please find a full list of tour dates below. Husky’s Forever So has seen coverage from the likes of Entertainment Weekly,RollingStone.com, Pitchfork, NPR, Paste, Pop Matters,…
Aguilera has been in the studio for the past year working on her highly anticipated 5th studio album. Working with writers and producers such as Alex Da Kid, and Sia, the album also features collaboration with CeeLo Green, Aguilera’s co-star on The Voice. ‘This album is about self-expression and freedom, “Aguilera says. “There is a lot I have gone through personally over the past few years and this record represents…
o set to paring down his post-apocalyptic soundscapes. What was began as barely controlled exorcism became an exercise in control, and after six months of intently shaping Zeros on his own, Vasquez met with producer/engineer Monte Vallier at his San Francisco studio where he could get loud, beat on things, scream. The result is complete immersion. Zeros opens with “It Ends,” a rumbling eerie epic that explodes and then fades. The slowing breath and…
2. Trojans (Crown City Studios) – Atlas Genius 3. White Wind (FOR ONE ONE Live Session) – School Of Seven Bells 4. Stay Useless (Live at the Grog Shop) – Cloud Nothings Support 9/12 through 9/21: School Of Seven Bells and Atlas Genius Support 10/8 through 10/25: Cloud Nothings and Atlas Genius CLICK HERE to view all tour dates.
Levek shares a new, minimal song titled “Girl In The Fog”. The Florida native, David Levesque, hits the road with his full band, making a stop in New York City during CMJ. His debut album, Look A Little Closer, will be released on Sept 25th with Lefse Records. LEVEK 09/21 Orlando, FL – Will’s Pub 09/22 Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Green Room (What the Cuss, Wes Anderson event) 09/24 Gainesville,…
September 13, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA – After months of anticipation, Tallahassee alternative rock band Go Radio has unveiled their critically acclaimed new album, Close the Distance, today on Billboard.com. The album, which is scheduled for release on September 18 via Fearless Records, can be streamed in its entirety at http://bit.ly/O1KIby. Fans have waited eagerly for Go Radio’s sophomore follow-up to their debut album, Lucky Street, and finally the day has come.…
Daryl Hall continues to unearth promising new and emerging talent on his critically acclaimed, award-winning web series Live from Daryl’s House, now available on over-the-air syndication and Viacom’s high-definition music channel Palladia, and this month is no different. For the 58th edition of the show, Daryl welcomes breakout soul/R&B newcomer Nick Waterhouse, a native Southern Californian, who has received raves for his independently released vinyl 45, “Some Place,” on his own Pres…
Out now on Strut Records, Richard Sen’s This Ain’t Chicago collection casts an eye on mid-80s England, when the sounds of house, techno and electronic dance music making their way over from the States gave way to a wave of original UK productions. We sat down for interviews with some of the major players, including Lesley Lawrence of Bang The Party, P-Mac (producer for May), Kiss FM DJ Colin Faver, and of course Richard Sen, to speak about…
Following a stage stealing performance at this year’s Lollapalooza and a string of dates with Kaiser Chiefs and The Temper Trap, empires have been capturing the attention of a wide range of concert goers with an explosive live show and a sound that Consequence Of Sound praises as “Springsteen-esque classic rock” and “The Gaslight Anthem and The Killers in their best moments.” Continuing to support their acclaimed album Garage Hymns, a powerful rock…
Austin, TX metal band EAGLE CLAW will release its sophomore album Timing of the Void on October 30 via ECH Records. The follow up to the group’s 2010 debut Poacher,Timing of the Void was recorded at Folkvang Studios and produced by Bryan Richie of fellow ATX metalheads The Sword. Featuring eight monolithic tracks of the quartet’s fist-raising “InstruMetal“, the record’s title and overarching theme is based on The Book of Five Rings, a text on kenjutsu and the martial…
The anticipated new album from Norwegian black Metallers RAGNAROK will be released on October 30th in Europe/UK and November 6th in North America through AGONIA RECORDS. Cover artwork, tracklist, and album overview are available below. Malediction is the title of RAGNAROK‘s brand-new album. When it comes to Norwegian black metal, RAGNAROK is one of the outstanding examples of what integrity and perseverance can bring to the genre. Since their inception…
Death metal legends SIX FEET UNDER will be embarking on a headlining tour this Fall. The Chris-Barnes-named Autumn Apocalypse Tour will include label mates CATTLE DECAPITATION as well as death metal newcomers, Wretched. The journey will commence on October 30 and run through the first half of November, with the full routing available below. Led by the inimitable Chris Barnes, possessor of one of the most dominant and instantly recognizable…
Attika 7 vocalist Evan Seinfeld has issued an update in anticipation of the band’s upcoming run on the Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival, beginning September 19th in Salt Lake City, UT. The group will perform on seven dates of the high-profile tour with headliners Godsmack, Shinedown, Staind and more. “We think that playing on the UPROAR tour here in 2012 is a perfect fit for Attika 7, and getting out…
Allen Stone will be embarking on a North American headline tour this fall, which will feature special guests Tingsek, Sister Sparrow, Yuna, and Selah Sue on select dates, kicks off on September 24 at Philadelphia’s World Cafe Live. Allen, whose mother, Sandy Stone, is a breast cancer survivor, has forged a partnership with The Keep A Breast Foundation™ (http://keep-a-breast.org), wherein fifty cents from every ticket sold on the tour (including…
DFA Recording artists YACHT will launch a week long West Coast tour opening for Hot Chip tonight in Oakland. In October they will head back out with The Presets, including a show on October 19 at New York’s Terminal 5 during CMJ. Earlier this year, YACHT released the Le Goudron EP – you can stream the lead single from that EP here and watch the video here. YACHT ON TOUR…