Young Magic just finished up their first headlining tour with Quilt. Back in Brooklyn, they are happy to announce a last minute show with fellow Australians, Tame Impala, at Music Hall of Williamsburg tomorrow, August 7th. The band will also join Liars and Deerhoof at the Hopscotch Festival in North Carolina. Young Magic is featured in Purity Ring‘s new album, Shrines. You can check out their collaboration on “Grandloves”…
The Marshall Tucker Band family is mourning the loss of longtime band member and guitarist Stuart Swanlund. Swanlund passed away in his sleep at his Chicago home this past Saturday, August 4, 2012. Swanlund died of natural causes. Swanlund joined The Marshall Tucker Band in 1985 where his slide guitar work added a new dimension to the band – on newer material as well as standards like “Searchin’ For A Rainbow,”…
The 2012 installment of The Power Of The Riff West is now just one week away, as more than twenty acts will infiltrate Los Angeles’ Echo/Echoplex next Saturday, August 11th. In addition to recent festival additions including SUNN 0))), NAUSEA (CA), DESPISE YOU and more, this week LEWD ACTS have also been added, now finalizing the festival’s massive lineup: SUNN 0))), OFF!, DR. KNOW, REPULSION, NOOTHGRUSH, XIBALBA, DESPISE YOU,…
From Goes Cube: “The issue of gun violence has always been something that has resonated with us, particularly because the Goes Cube family has been directly impacted by it in the past. As with everyone else, the recent tragedy in Aurora horrified us, and broke our hearts. Reports of record gun sales immediately following the massacre saddened us further; as such an influx of guns into American homes…
Texas-based progressive and dynamic blackened death metal act VEX is currently on the road as part of the Summer of Losers East Coast Tour in support of their most recent recording, Memorious. While on the road, VEX will be selling hand-numbered, limited-edition copies of Memorious with artwork designed by bassist William Edgar. This tour pressing of the album will only be available at the shows listed below. Select songs from…
Musical Line Up Now Includes: Festival Headliners TV on the Radio, Alice Smith, Sinkane, Flatbush Zombies, Radkey, Joe Jordan Experiment (JJX), Purple Ferdinand, and DJS The Supasonics, Grits and Biscuits, DJ Pete Smoke Les, Stack-Aly, Roofeo and VENUS X GHE20GOTH1K Bites & Beats Food Truck Festival, Spinthrift Market, Custom Bike Show Also Added! Watch Nef Prez’s Acclaimed Short Film I Am Other, Exclusive to Afropunk! The Afropunk Festival is returning to…
– Never expect the normal standard from the talented Jason Gray, as his first Christmas project presents a deeper story celebrating the birth of Christ. Christmas Stories: Repeat The Sounding Joy offers a 14-song collection that includes 11 original songs that are interwoven with several carols, and tells the miraculous Christmas story through the eyes of the wisemen, the innkeeper, the shepherds and others in order to focus on the…
2012 Decibel Festival Full Lineup – 30+ new performers added! 30+ performers have been added to the 2012 9th Annual Decibel International Festival including the legendary DJ Shadow, MiMOSA, Tycho, Star Slinger, Tipper, Dam-Funk, Clark, Jimmy Edgar, Sepalcure, Public Lover, Machinedrum, George FitzGerald, Peter Van Hoesen, Objekt, Braille, Jeff Samuel, Groudislava, Eprom, AntiVJ, B.Bravo, Keyboard Kid and more. Previously announced headliners for this trend-setting festival, known as the SXSW of electronic music, include Orbital, The Cannabinoids featuring Erykah Badu, Kimbra, Carl Craig, Shpongle, Matthew Dear, Ariel Pink and Star Slinger. See lineup of over 130…
Electro rock/dance duo INFECTED MUSHROOM—comprised of Amit “Duvdev” Duvdevani and Erez Eisen—have announced they will be taking their critically acclaimed live electronic stage show “The Unveiling” to several cities in North America. Confirmed stops this month include Washington D.C., New York City, Montreal, the World Electronic Music Festival in Ontario, Canada and the Summerset Festival in Somerset, WI, with Salt Lake City to follow in September. INFECTED MUSHROOM spent close…
The Mighty Fine (San Luis Obispo, CA) has just unveiled a music video for “To Indiana.” The track is from In Revival, the band’s latest full-length on Solidarity Recordings. Directed by Jeremy Wirth, you can watch the exclusive premier of the video courtesy of our friends at Alternative Press. In Revival was originally issued in 2011 by Solidarity Recordings (imadethismistake, The Methadones, Run, Forever) on CD and digital formats. In…
As THE DIRTY HEADS’ co-headlining tour with Matisyahu continues to makes its way across America, the Southern California band has teamed up with their tour mate for “Dance All Night,” the second single from their Top 20 album CABIN BY THE SEA, which was globally released June 19 on Five Seven Music. The band’s second album debuted at #18 on Billboard’s “Top 200 Albums” chart (their highest chart position to…
As The Feather Tipped the Serpent’s Scale — the sophomore LP from Salt Lake City-based duo EAGLE TWIN — nears official release via Southern Lord at the end of this month, today Guitar World is hosting a stream of the second song from the highly anticipated album. Clocking in with over nine massive minutes of the band’s revered monstrous, mutating riff buildups and devastating percussion, “Ballad of Job Cain Part…
Whitton brings a flare of the 1940’s to her wishful, singer-songwriter sound. Take the sounds of an alluring Billie Holiday, mixed with the curious intensity of Norah Jones, and eclectic complexity of Regina Spektor, and you’ll get the best kept secret in Los Angeles – WHITTON. Whitton will be performing her NYC debut at The Living Room, on August 16th. For tickets and more information please visit, www.whittonmusic.com Her…
Metal Mind Productions presents the exclusive re-release of three albums by the US’ heavy metal band Steel Vengeance – „Call Off The Dogs” (1985), “Second Offence” (1986) and „Prisoners” (1988). Michael Wickstrom formed the band Steel Vengeance in 1984 and recorded the bands first self-titled EP on Kingdom Records. Their second demo “Never Lettin’ Go”, recorded in December of 1984, earned Steel Vengeance a deal with French label Black…
This is the just the thing for the Circle Jerks fan in your life. It contains the brand new Circle Jerks documentary DVD and a limited edition Keith Morris Throbblehead… You save $5 (plus shipping discount) by ordering these items together HERE. Circle Jerks “My Career As A Jerk” is a brand new documentary to be released on DVD on September 25. From the beginning, LA punk band the CIRCLE…
Shout Out Out Out Out’s Video for “Now That I’ve Given Up Hope, I Feel Much Better” Hits BlackBook Magazine URB Premieres Jokers of the Scene’s Remix of “Wayward Satellite” New LP Spanish Moss & Total Loss Out Now (click screen above or links below for video) VIDEO: “Now That I’ve Given Up Hope, I Feel Much Better” via Vimeo / via BlackBook Magazine AUDIO: “Wayward Satellite (Jokers of the…
Australian pop icon Kylie Minogue this week set a personal record, scoring her 6th consecutive #1 single on Billboard’s Hot Club Play Chart with the song “Timebomb”, bringing her career total to nine. This follows the recent release of a digital EP featuring a suite of stellar remixes of her dancefloor smash, including an Extended Version, a big room mix from veteran club figure Peter Rauhofer, an irresistible deep progressive tribal jam…
Bear In Heaven’s pulsating “Kiss Me Crazy” is the latest single to be shared from the critically acclaimed record, I Love You, It’s Cool, out now on Dead Oceans / Hometapes. The track, as well as two bonus versions of the song from rising artist Beacon and London producer BNJMN, can now be downloaded via Facebook. Brooklyn-based electronic duo Beacon’s futuristic R&B inspired remix/cover of “Kiss Me Crazy” can be heard over at Stereogum, smoothing…
The Premier One on One Basketball Tournament in the World September 15, 2012 12PM Mosswood Park 3612 Webster St. Oakland, CA Registration begins at 10 AM Sharp! Competition Begins at Noon. The Oakland winner receives $1k and the Chance to compete at the finals on Alcatraz the following Saturday for the $20K Grand Prize! www.redbullusa.com/kingoftherock Rock the Bells Returns to the Bay Area! August 25th and 26th! Shoreline Amphitheatre! August…
The Winter Sounds (pictured in hometown Nashville….no, wait! That’s San Francisco!) We couldn’t be happier to announce the addition of Nashville’s favorite indie/dance/folk/punk mega-monster touring machine The Winter Sounds to the New Granada family roster. Look for a November release of their upcoming full length Runner. More info soon, very soon! THE WINTER SOUNDS ONLINE: thewintersounds.com facebook.com/thewintersounds twitter.com/thewintersounds newgranada.com