Death Cab For Cutie frontman Benjamin Gibbard is set to release his debut solo album, Former Lives, on October 16th, 2012 (Barsuk/City Slang). Starting today, October 9th, and for the coming week, people can hear the album in its entirety on the Music homepage of YouTube (embeddable link below). Next Tuesday, October 16th, Gibbard will celebrate his record release with an intimate CMJ show at New York City’s HIFI Bar, featuring an…
Today (and all our tomorrows), it’s time to start living in sTYle! That’s right, people. October 9this here, which means the monster energies of Ty Segall’s Twins are officially erupting! For those sleeping through the last few months, Twins is Ty’s dominating new long-player and the follow-up to last year’s solo venture, Goodbye Bread. With Twins now coming at you from every which way, Ty is breaking out a few new moves. After blazing through a month-long tour of…
Anubis Gate commented on former guitarist Jesper leaving the band: Jespers decision to leave the band to pursue other musical interests has been some time in the making, actually Jesper announced his leaving to the band 3 months ago, leaving us with good time to the difficult task of finding the right replacement. We feel it’s important for everybody to know that Jespers exit has nothing to do with personal…
Indie-folk group Sea Wolf – the brainchild of Los Angeles native Alex Brown Church – just kicked off a nationwide tour last week in support of their new album Old World Romance. After two successful releases (2007’s Leaves In The River & 2009’s White Water, White Bloom), Sea Wolf landed a track on the soundtrack to the 2009 mega-hit film The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Since then, Alex and his…
This very limited edition item is now available for pre-order here. Pick up a copy of Issue #82 of The Fader, with Tame Impala on the cover, from any good magazine store. And catch the band on tour across the United States in November. TAME IMPALA US TOUR DATES November 7th || Music Hall of Williamsburg || Brooklyn, New York || SOLD OUT November 8th || Union Transfer || Philadelphia,…
Constructed for the album’s epic fourth track, “Dreaming of Breathing,” the video was directed by Ramon Boutviseth, who DAYLIGHT DIES have previously worked with. Stated drummer Jesse Haff on the course taken in bringing the video to fruition: “We worked with director Ramon Boutviseth back in 2006 when he filmed the ‘Lies the Bind’ video. We were blown away by what he delivered, and by his talents and ambition. We…
Brazilian death metallers KRISIUN will be returning to North America this week for the “Conquerors of the World” tour, featuring SEPTICFLESH, MELECHESH, EX DEO, and INQUISITION! In regards to this upcoming trek, Alex Camargo (vocals, bass) and KRISIUN comment: “Hey everyone! We in KRISIUN would like to invite you North American metal-heads to come out and support our upcoming tour. With killer bands such as SEPTICFLESH, MELECHESH, EX DEO and…
‘Habítame Siempre’ is the title of Thalia’s new album, which was previewed by 1,200 special guests on September 21st in a private concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. The event was recorded for the production of a television special, as well as being part of the platform for promoting the title of her new album and the artists first time performing some of her new material. …
Marking their full debut on Real Tone, The Martinez Brothers (Chris and Steve) have concocted a lethal two-track EP full of dancefloor appeal and encompassing both new and old school house music influences. The New York-born twosome have always had a close affinity with the French label, with boss Franck Roger‘s penchant for NYC sounds forming the foundation of a common bond between the artists. The working relationship had already…
After an extremely busy summer playing Download Festival, Brutal Assault, Hevy Festival and supporting heavyweights GOJIRA overseas, THE SAFETY FIRE is excited to be joining PERIPHERY and BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME for a month-long tour of Europe. In regards to the tour, guitarist Derya ‘Dez’ Nagle comments: “It has been a while since we last toured Europe and the UK and quite frankly, we can’t wait for it. BETWEEN…
Sacramento, California-based crossover punk thrashers PSYCHOSOMATIC have kicked off their Fall 2012 Tour. With the hangovers from their mid-August West Coast run with HAMMER FIGHT finally subsided, PSYCHOSOMATIC are back in action with a 20-date trek that kicked off Thursday night in Reno, Nevada. Dates are as follows: 10/05 RENO NV @ Hideout 10/07 CARBONDALE CO @ Lowlife Warehouse 10/08 DENVER CO @ Old Curtis St. 10/09 TOPEKA KS @…
After an extremely busy summer playing Download Festival, Brutal Assault, Hevy Festival and supporting heavyweights GOJIRA overseas, THE SAFETY FIRE is excited to be joining PERIPHERY and BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME for a month-long tour of Europe. In regards to the tour, guitarist Derya ‘Dez’ Nagle comments: “It has been a while since we last toured Europe and the UK and quite frankly, we can’t wait for it. BETWEEN…
Nearly a decade deep in the rap game, Mike has released five critically hailed records and won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group with Outkast for the song “The Whole World.” But, in no uncertain terms, Mike will tell you that R.A.P. Music is his finest accomplishment. He’ll even call it a “classic.” Of course, every rapper calls every one of their albums a classic. The only…
Celebrated New York rock band HOPEWELL have just released an EP of new material titled Another Music. The first single released from the new effort was a cover of Brian Eno‘s “Needle In The Camel’s Eye” featuring Mark Gardener of eternally cool, seminal shoegaze band RIDE on lead vocals. Now, HOPEWELL releases a second track from Another Music — the infectious new song “The King & the Canary” — which makes its premiere via…
SPIN has premiered the new music video for Diamond Rugs single “Blue Mountains,” which is off their self-titled debut that came out in April on Partisan Records. The video, directed by Colin Devin Moore, takes the group (featuring John McCauley & Robbie Crowell from Deer Tick, Ian St. Pé from The Black Lips, Steve Berlin from Los Lobos, Hardy Morris from Dead Confederate, and Bryan Dufresne from Six Finger Satellite)…
After nearly two years of nonstop live demolition, West Coast gore-torn death metal goliaths, EXHUMED, recently entered the studio to record to the follow-up to 2011’s All Guts, No Glory full-length. The band is currently tracking drums at Trench Studio in Corona, California with John Haddad (Hirax, Abysmal Dawn, Intronaut). Everything else will be tracked at Arcane Digital Recording in Chandler, Arizona with Ryan Butler (Misery Index, Landmine Marathon, Phobia).…
Fresh off last week’s new single “Ladies In The Back (feat. Teki Latex)”, Star Slinger is back this week with a pair of surprises for fans. First, he’s dropped his dancefloor-ready remix of Little Dragon’s recent single “Sunshine” for Absolut Blank. To celebrate the collaboration, Absolut Blank will present Little Dragon and Star Slinger performing together on Friday, October 19th in the UK. See below for details and grab tickets…
LAMB OF GOD is looking to honor the brave men and women of our United States military by incorporating soldier’s names and faces into a video presentation during their upcoming U.S. tour. If you are in the military, or have a husband, wife, brother, sister, friend or family member who has served or is actively serving, and wish to be included in this video tribute, please take a moment to…
Continuing on its journey through the Pacific Northwest the Spotify Bus next made its way to North Portland, during the week of MUSICFEST NW. Spotify met up with Radiation City for an intimate performance in the city’s Peninsula Park. Watch them perform “Hide From The Night” off their Cool Nightmare EP, out on Tender Loving Empire. After making their SXSW debut this March, the dream-pop quintet was deemed one of…
Death metal pioneers INCANTATION have recorded an exclusive track for Decibel Magazine’s Flexi Disc series, which is available only to subscribers. For their contribution to Decibel, INCANTATION founder John McEntee dug into his vault and pulled up the tune “Degeneration,” off the self-titled 1989 demo from his pre-INCAN tech-thrash band, REVENANT. INCANTATION gave the song a proper reworking and the deathed-up, newly-recorded version of the song will appear inside the…