After weeks of successfully working around the United States stringent artist visa policies, Parisian rock band DAD was stopped at the US Consulate during their tour in Canada and subsequently denied entry to the USA. Sources close to the band cite the reason for the revoked visas being the similarity in the name of band member Adrien Daoud to that of Adel Daoud, a teenaged US Citizen whose plan for…
Maybe the most important lesson Ryan Thomas Becker learned from Captain Beefheart is that the best way to subvert a convention is to master it. The trick, when listening to Becker’s Denton, Texas duo, RTB2, is figuring out how many conventions he and drummer Grady Don Sandlin are mastering and subverting all at once. Displaying manic urgency borrowed from Detroit punk, rhythmic precision with Memphis roots, and sprawling art-rock aspirations…
ESP is a new Los Angeles-based trio whose primary interest is, as their name implies, Extra Sensory Perception. The group explores this phenomena through their own synesthetic, synth-laden dreamscapes which literally overflow with hypercolored visuals. This is ESP, the sights, sounds and sensory overload of the West Coast cosmos. Today the band premieres the official music video for “627” via the FADER blog. It was directed by Chris Coats and…
The 2nd single, “Appalachia”, off Chelsea Wolfe’s haunting 3rd album, Unknown Rooms is a tragic folk ballad, brimming with devastating repetitive guitars, bass & drums & also featuring a beautiful string section that brings despair, hope & love to the song when accompanied with Ms. Wolfe’s voice. Stream it below. On October 31st, Chelsea Wolfe will play her first shows in Japan and then head to Australia for her headline…
Zak Bagans, host of Travel Channel’s popular paranormal series “Ghost Adventures,” has joined forces with Lords of Acid’s Praga Khan for one of the most intriguing music releases ever produced, NecroFusion, due out October 23, just in time for Halloween. Each one of the eleven tracks on NecroFusion not only tells the story of a departed soul who, for whatever reason, has not crossed over, but includes an actual audio…
EW.com is premiering the track “His Phase” from Pinback’s highly anticipated Information Retrieved, due October 16, at http://bit.ly/OZBdoR. The track can also be streamed/shared at http://bit.ly/NEEahx. Available for pre-order with an exclusive bonus track via iTunes at http://bit.ly/QUjvbf, the record’s first single “Proceed To Memory” can be downloaded instantly upon purchase. Information Retrieved is the first album in five years from the critically acclaimed duo of vocalist/guitarist Rob Crow and…
Chrome Canyon has done a rework of Universal Robot Band’s classic 1982 disco-funk club anthem, “Barely Breaking Even.” You can stream the dance floor-ready track here. About Chrome Canyon: The future never came. The year 2000 arrived, a new millennium was born, and yet we were not greeted with hover-boards. Our computers did not sprout legs and profess to love us. Enter Chrome Canyon. If we can indeed recover yesterday’s…
BIGBANG initially kicked-off their global tour, “BIGBANG ALIVE GALAXY TOUR 2012,” in Korea in March, where they played for more than 30,000 fans, with three shows selling out instantly. They stormed Japan playing 13 sold out shows for more than 210,000 fans. They made history in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing with 3 shows and more than 32,000 tickets sold. BIGBANG Alive Galaxy World Tour 2012 has sold out in every…
Tickets to the October 27 date sold out within two hours of going on sale, while only limited tickets remain for October 26. It’s an incredible feat to fill an NBA arena two times over for a dance event, but all the more impressive when you consider that the lineup to Sensation “Innerspace” had not even been revealed…until now. New York City has a rich house and techno music history…
Volcom Clothing and the most re-freshest of all children’s shows YO GABBA GABBA!, have teamed up to create the most awesome apparel and accessories collection featuring the Yo Gabba Gabba! characters and their celebrity friends. Products designed to celebrate the Volcom and Yo Gabba Gabba ‘Happening’ showcases art by DEVO’s MARK MOTHERSBAUGH, THE FLAMING LIPS mastermind WAYNE COYNE, thee FOO FIGHTER DAVE GROHL and his daughter Violet, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE’S JON…
In support of their upcoming album Vital, Florida five-piece Anberlin has been tapped to support iconic rockers The Smashing Pumpkins for select dates in October. Beginning the jaunt on October 2 in Winnipeg, Canada, the tour will continue through October 20 in Minneapolis. Releasing their sixth album Vital on October 16th, the album is now available for pre-order with an exclusive track via iTunes. PRE ORDER: ‘VITAL’ LISTEN: ‘SELF STARTER’…
Watch the Miu Miu short film, Its Getting Late, featuring Zola Jesus performing Ixode as herself, Patricia Clarkson, Aubrey Plaza, Gemma Arterton, and Rinko Kikuchi. In the translucent LA dusk we discover four women living very different lives – a high-flying professional in her elegant glass office, a mother bathing her daughter, a chic blogger with her laptop and a film editor working with old movie clips in a screening…
Bad Books, a collaboration between Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra will release their sophomore album II on October 9th. Today Triple Crown and Favorite Gentleman Records launch a physical pre-order for the album in conjunction with the debut of the latest single off the album, “It Never Stops.” This October Bad Books will hit the road for tour dates across the United States. See below for complete list of dates. Stream/Share It…
Beginning today, Green Day’s forthcoming album Green Day ¡Uno! is available to stream in its entirety a week prior to it’s official release date via the band’s Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/greenday), powered by Nokia Music / AT&T. To hear the album, click on the tab that says “Hear ¡Uno! Now.” Green Day ¡Uno! is the first installment in the band’s upcoming trilogy of albums Green Day ¡Uno!,Green Day ¡Dos!, and Green Day ¡Tré! Green Day ¡Uno! will be…
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,…