Category: Artist News

Posted on: September 4, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

TARJA: Act I To See North American Release Tomorrow!

Act I, the first ever live solo offering from legendary Finnish songstress/former Nightwish soprano, TARJA TURUNEN, will be unleashed to North American fans TOMORROW, September 4, 2012 via Eagle Rock imprint Armoury Records. Available in 2-CD, 2-DVD and Blu-Ray formats, Act I was recorded and filmed with 10 HD cameras at the breathtaking Teatro El Círculo in Rosario, Argentina earlier this Spring resulting in a visual production Terrorizer.com called “mind…

Posted on: September 3, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Monster Energy & Idol Rec Announce Line-Up For Fourth Monster Energy Outbreak Tour

Monster Energy and Idol Roc Entertainment have announced the line-up for the 2012 Monster Energy Outbreak Tour. Headliner Asking Alexandria will be joined by support acts As I Lay Dying, Suicide Silence, Memphis May Fire and Attila. The line-up secured prompted tour producer Steve Glazer (Idol Roc Entertainment) to share, “Without question this is the strongest lineup we’ve assembled for Outbreak to date. Each year we promise to grow our…

Posted on: September 3, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Hopscotch Festival begins next week

Today, the Hopscotch Festival premiered a video of Kurt Wagner of Lambchop performing “Buttons,” a track from the band’s latest album Mr. M, at Carrboro’s Friendly Barber Shop during XX Merge. Mr. M was released earlier this year to some of the best reviews of Lambchop’s career including the NY Times who said, “of all Lambchop’s records, Mr. M sounds like its least mannered, most mysterious and probably its best.”…

Posted on: September 3, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Jamey Johnson to Kick-off Album Release with Concert at the Ryman Auditorium October 16th

Award-wining singer/songwriter Jamey Johnson will kick-off the release of his new album Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran with a momentous concert. The night will feature Jamey with a very a special group of friends at Nashville’s Historic Ryman Auditorium and will coincide with the street date of the album. Tickets will go on sale Friday Sept. 7th at 10 am. To purchase ticket please visit www.ryman.com.…

Posted on: September 3, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

MELDRUM: Upcoming Album ”LIFER” Available Now

The latest single, ‘BLACKENED BLUE’ from the multinational hard rock/metal band MELDRUM is available now on iTunes. ‘BLACKENED BLUE’ is the second single from MELDRUM’s long awaited third album LIFER due out this fall via REVERSED RECORDS. The band recently gave fans their first taste of new music since 2007’s BLOWIN UP THE MACHINE with the release of the debut single from LIFER, ‘A TOAST TO ROMANCE’ out now on…

Posted on: September 3, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Debut single from CAJSA SIIK! Sweden’s next indie superstar?

Cajsa Siik, hauling from Umeå in the northern part of Sweden, is finally releasing her debut single “Was I Supposed To” on September 3! The track, produced by Andreas Dahlbäck, who’s previous work includes Anna Ternheim, finds us immediately thrown into a haunting sad story driven by stomping rhythms. Cajsa found new inspiration for the track on a trip to Andalucia, Spain, where the large part of her upcoming album…

Posted on: September 3, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Angels Are For Everyone

Angels are for everyone and so is Dyslexia; which is why Gazebo Books has decided to publish two versions of Robert Warrington’s charming new picture book, “The Little Dyslexic Angel”. For those of the Jewish, Muslim, Zoroastrianism, Buddhist, or Hindu faith, Gazebo Books presents “The Little Dyslexic Angel – All Faith” edition. For the traditional Christian market “The Little Dyslexic Angel – Christmas Edition” which includes 14 additional pages illustrating…

Posted on: September 3, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Finnish first-wave death detal pioneers CONVULSE return, sign to SVART RECORDS

One of the most memorable pioneers of Finnish first-wave death metal, CONVULSE were there in 1990 alongside bands such as Xysma, Disgrace, and Abhorrence to create a scene which was to become legendary. Formed in Nokia in early 1990, the band was quickly snapped up by Thrash Records from France, and the future cult classic World Without God appeared a year later. After an 18-year break, CONVULSE returned in 2012…

Posted on: August 30, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Detroit Jazz Festival “Imported from Detroit” Kicks Off Aug. 31

Music lovers will gather this weekend in downtown Detroit for the 33rd annual Detroit Jazz Festival, presented by the Chrysler brand. Festival attendees will see a lineup of world-renowned musicians playing throughout the weekend, including headliners Wayne Shorter, Pat Metheny, Wynton Marsalis, Chick Corea and Gary Burton. Performances kick off at 7 p.m. on Aug. 31 with Artist in Residence Terence Blanchard taking the stage, followed by the legendary Sonny…

Posted on: August 30, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Moroccan Gnawa Music Inspires A Cross-Cultural Collaboration

Performed primarily in Morocco and South-western Algeria, a traditional Gnawa ceremony re-creates the genesis of the universe, incorporating trance-inducing music, a clairvoyant, incense, and ecstatic dancing in a complicated liturgy. Gnawa music mixes classical Islamic Sufism with pre-Islamic African traditions, and in recent decades has begun to be performed outside of the traditional closed-door ceremonies, to the wider Moroccan public, and to global music audience at large. In 2011, the…

Posted on: August 30, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

DEVIL TO PAY Hit the Road, Including Stoner Hands of Doom

DEVIL TO PAY have announced that the band will be celebrating it’s 10 Year Anniversary by trekking across parts of America to rock out with friends and fans along the way! Having put the final touches on the writing and demoes for their next album (first with Ripple Music), DTP are anxious to hit the road and bring the sonic devastation with them. Audiences along the route will be treated…

Posted on: August 30, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

ARKHAMIN KIRJASTO premiere new track + video on “Decibel” magazine’s website!!!

ARKHAMIN KIRJASTO premiere the track “The Cult of No Return,” as well as its accompany video, at Decibel magazine’s website! A highly exclusive stream from North American’s premiere metal authority, “The Cult of No Return” comes from ARKHAMIN KIRJASTO’s highly anticipated debut album, Torches Ablaze, set for worldwide release on September 5th through EKTRO RECORDS. The track + video for “The Cult of No Return” can be heard/seen in its…

Posted on: August 30, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

BATTLECROSS: Sirius XM Liquid Metal to Premiere New Studio Cover of “Hostile”

Yesterday, Detroit, MI’s BATTLECROSS finished their run with the TRESPASS AMERICA festival, also featuring Five Finger Death Punch with support from Killswitch Engage, Trivium, Emmure, Pop Evil, and God Forbid. Helping to cap such a defining summer in the band’s already accelerating career, Sirius XM Liquid Metal will premiere the band’s studio cover of the track “Hostile” (originally performed by Pantera) on Friday, August 31st. Afterward, the track will be…

Posted on: August 29, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

SUPREME CUTS & HALEEK MAUL DROP CHROME LIPS MIXTAPE

The collaborative mixtape from Chicago production duo Supreme Cuts and 16 year old Barbados based rapper Haleek Maul, Chrome Lips is one of the most arresting, dangerously original rap releases of 2012. After working on some tracks together for Haleek’s debut EP Oxyconteen, these three artists quickly realized their partnership was anything but finished. With Sup Cuts churning out beat after vast, vertigo inducing beat and Maul spitting the intense, brooding rhymes that…

Posted on: August 29, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

King of Spain sees release of new LP

With Entropy, King of Spain was Matt Slate. A one-man band armed with a guitar and a laptop. After many years of building up to and releasing Entropy, an album filled with atmospheric and lyrical ups and downs of someone attempting to find a balance in life. Things have settled down for Slate, expanding to a duo in life and within the band (Slate married his lovely wife in 2011 and added…

Posted on: August 29, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

All Time Low Announce New Album “Don’t Panic”

The 4-piece pop-punk band, All Time Low, have announced their new album “Don’t Panic” out October 9th, 2012 on Hopeless Records available for pre-order here. Tickets for the upcoming headlining tour “The Rock Show At The End of the World” are available for purchase at www.AllTimeLow.com. Additionally, the band has revealed an album trailer with a sneak peak at a few of the songs off of Don’t Panic that you can watch here: smarturl.it/DPtrailer “With this record, a big part of…

Posted on: August 29, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Katatonia releases “Dead End Kings” in North America

Dead End Kings, the long-awaited ninth album from Sweden’s master of dark rock/metal, Katatonia, is now available in North America via Peaceville Records. The follow-up to 2009’s critically acclaimed, Night is the New Day, can be purchased online in a multitude of formats and bundle packages via Omerch at: http://omerch.theomegaorder.com/Artists_Omerch/Katatoniaor on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dead-end-kings/id552372052 (Standard Edition) andhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dead-end-kings-deluxe-edition/id552508307 (Deluxe Edition). Fans can get a free preview of Dead End Kings this week on Exclaim.ca, where the record is…

Posted on: August 29, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Dead In The Boot – The B-Sides

“The band have always loved B-side land and this is a collection of our favorites. None of our B-sides are album rejects. It’s a different space, usually just post finishing an album when all the members of Elbow are chiming and feeling very creative. This gives Dead in the Boot a real late night vibe. My sister came up with the title after we released Asleep in the Back. Some of these songs are…

Posted on: August 28, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 1

Aerosmith ‘Music From Another Dimension’ Due November 6 On Columbia Records

There has been a witch’s brew boiling for 10 years, and America’s greatest rock band is about to blow the cover off. On November 6, Steven Tyler (vocals), Joe Perry (guitar), Brad Whitford (guitar), Tom Hamilton (bass) and Joey Kramer (drums) will releaseMUSIC FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION on Columbia Records. It marks the band’s 15th studio album and their first studio album of all-new material in 11 years. The album was recorded in Los Angeles and at the band’s studio in Massachusetts; it was produced by Jack Douglas, Steven Tyler and Joe…

Posted on: August 28, 2012 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

ARMY NAVY PREMIERE MUSIC VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE, “WORLD’S END”

Los Angeles-based indie-pop band Army Navy are excited to announce the release of the music video for their new single, “World’s End.“ Directed by Mark Schoenecker and starring Martin Starr (Freaks and Geeks, Party Down) and Camille Cregan (The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks), the video for “World’s End” takes place in the television studio of a hilarious variety show set in the 1960s. The song is taken from the band’s brand new digital/7″ single that was released today, Tuesday,…