Los Angeles-based quartet Leftover Cuties is smiling big after their song was chosen to be a part of the Summer Olympic Games. The band’s cheerful tune “Smile Big” debuted in a Samsung Galaxy S III commercial during the Opening Ceremony on July 27th, and will continue airing throughout the games. “We are thrilled that our song was chosen for this unique ad and honored that it is airing during such…
– After stealing the national spotlight on the first season of NBC’s The Voice as a Top Four Finalist, Frenchie Davis will soon release her new single “Love’s Got a Hold On Me” produced by rising star Marco Borrero on Sept. 4, 2012. Today, Davis unveils two components shaping her anticipated debut “Just Frenchie” LP. First, her single cover artwork and secondly an inspiring vlog that guides viewers through her…
Songwriter Micah Sheveloff has released a collection of piano-based songs called Exhibitionist that will become available on August 27, 2012. Exhibitionist is an honest record. The writing is uninhibited; the players played, the singers stepped up to the mic and sung the songs. Recorded to 2-inch tape at New Haven’s Firehouse 12 using a 9-foot concert Steinway and a vintage Hammond B3, Exhibitionist is meant to be an intimate experience. “I really passionately wanted to…
Everyone’s favorite romantic comedy is celebrating 10 years of marital bliss by coming to Blu-ray with HBO Select for the first time ever! Hitting retail just in time for the holidays on November 13, 2012, My Big Fat Greek Wedding: 10th Anniversary Special Edition features a new retrospective with co-stars, Nia Vardalos and John Corbett along with never-before-seen deleted scenes. Final product is not yet available for this release. We will email…
Dave Matthews Band will celebrate the release of its forthcoming album, Away From The World, with a performance at the legendary Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, CA on Wednesday, September 12.Every ticket purchased online for the Hollywood Bowl show will receive a digital download of Away From The World (standard album) on the September 11, 2012 release date.The new albumwas recorded with Steve Lillywhite, who produced Dave Matthews Band’s first three studio records. An online presale for the Hollywood…
Memphis rockers Surrender The Fall are hitting the road supporting My Darkest Days this fall, kicking things off in Grand Rapids, Michigan for a WGRD Low Dough Show. The band will be showcasing tunes from their forthcoming full length debut, entitled Burn In The Spotlight to be released via Rum Bum Records on September 18th. Containing 12 tracks of straight up in your face anthemic rock, frontmanJared Cole’s take on the band and album is: “We weren’t playing around with…
The world of deadmau5—the world-renowned electronic artist—is always fast and furious. He recently overhauled his studio in hisTorontohometown and following his full-scaleEuropean tour this past spring, he locked himself in and went on a creative spree to finish > album title goes here <, his new album due out September 25 (Ultra Music). Following his performance with the Foo Fighters at the Grammy Awards earlier this year showcasing his stellar remix of the group’s “Rope,” deadmau5 continues his collaborations…
Buzzworthy French-American psych rockers BLAAK HEAT SHUJAA have signed with NYC’s Tee Pee Records. Formed in 2008 in Paris, France, BLAAK HEAT SHUJAA promptly established themsleves as the ‘young Turks’ of European heavy psychedelia and boast a cinematic sound that has been called “Heavy Spaghedelia” and “Kyussian”, featuring “psychedelic, meditative, trance-inducing” and “spacey atmospheres”. Now based in Los Angeles, the trio’s highly anticipated second album — a clamorous combination of neo-psychedelia, heavy rock and spaghetti rock — will…
“This was something I came up with as a concept to say just be yourself. I wanted to confront stereotypes and really make people feel uncomfortable in a way – as many feel about me doing me. It’s a statement on individuality and being comfortable with who you are as a person, enough to show yourself to the world regardless of what people think about you.” – 5ive Star VIDEO: 5ive Star…
Johnnie Bassett, the celebrated Detroit blues guitarist and vocalist, died from complications of liver cancer on Saturday, August 4 at Saint John Hospital in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He was 76 years old. Gretchen Valade, owner of Mack Avenue Records, reflects, “Johnnie Bassett was a wonderful musician and a good friend. Whenever I walked into a room where he was playing, he would start singing ‘Georgia,’ my all time favorite. He was…
‘First Sparkle’, a wonky, uptown express built on disco drums and a hungry bassline, with remixes by Axel Boman and Fred Cherry, and accompanied by b-side ‘Your Eyes’, is available in digital and vinyl formats at all good music retailers. You can stream the entire release right now via SPIN. First Sparkle is a collaboration between two Italians, Carlo Dall’Amico (Cécile) and Matteo Lavagna (Refleksie), Milan natives who’ve previously collaborated as…
Canadian melodic hardcore group, COUNTERPARTS will be headlining their first ever European tour. EMPIRES FADE and CLIMATES will join COUNTERPARTS on their nineteen city run beginning October 22 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Vocalist Brendan Murphy comments, “We’re very excited to begin our European tour and have wanted to tour in Europe for months now. We are always getting bombarded with messages on our Facebook saying, “Come to Germany!”, “Come to Italy!” etc., and…
Strike Anywhere’s new release, In Defiance of Empty Times, will be available on August 28th. Two sets were recorded in 2011; in Rochester in July and Richmond in September, and merged together for this very special release. Side Rochester features six songs captured from Strike Anywhere’s acoustic performance alongside labelmates Polar Bear Club, while Side Richmond was recorded during a benefit show for the IWW on the eve of the…
Just off successful tours with Saliva and Sevendust, Black Oxygen has been non-stop since the release of their debut album The American Dream. In the past few months the band has shared the stage with Saliva, Sevendust, Emphatic, Eye Empire, Hurt, Taproot, Halestorm, Cavo, Theory of a Deadman, Volbeat & Art of Dying to name a few. They recently had their new video for the song ‘Escape the Pain’ premiere…
As promised, Denver-based indie rock band Dressy Bessy is back with the second installment of its “Summer Singles” collection. Comprised of the songs “Something To Love” b/w “Wind Me Up”, volume two is available now via the band’s Bandcamp site at: http://dressybessy.bandcamp.com/album/summer-singles-volume-2. While Dressy Bessy is offering the single as a free download, donations are encouraged, as the band will forward all proceeds to Colorado wildfire relief organizations. Dressy Bessy lead singer and guitarist, Tammy Ealom, along with lead guitarist John Hill (also of The…
SKELETONWITCH have announced that additional dates have been added to the upcoming fall headline “U.S. Abomination” tour, as well as some venue changes and additional special guests added to select shows. Complete dates are listed below. The band just completed a headlining North American tour with support from Barnburner this past weekend which NOW Toronto reviewed as “completely pummelling” and are excited to hit the road once again! SKELETONWITCH are out…
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…