In 2007, Josh Hodges (mastermind behind Starfucker), was asked by his friend to quit his job so he could record an album of cover songs. “It was actually my friend’s idea,” Hodges says. “He wanted to hear what some of these songs would sound like if I performed them. I thought it sounded like a fun idea.” What grew out of that proposition is Sexton Blake Plays The Hits. With covers…
Far East Movement premieres a new music video for their UK single “Turn Up The Love.” The Matt Alonzo directed colorful clip is set within a Cherrytree Records Swap Meet with special guest performers Cover Drive. The international pop friendly song is on FM’s Dirty Bass album released this month through Cherrytree/Interscope Records. WATCH “TURN UP THE LOVE” ON VEVO Far East Movement is currently lighting up stages on…
Finnish metal superstars CHILDREN OF BODOM (also COB) have inked a worldwide recording deal with Nuclear Blast Records. The celebrated metal label — who worked with the band over the early stages of its career — is proud to announce the renewed partnership with the world famous band. COB, who kicked off a year long celebration of its 15th anniversary with a successful North American tour alongside label mates ELUVEITIE, have a…
KILL DEVIL HILL the new project featuring acclaimed drummer Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell, Dio) and bassist Rex Brown, (Pantera, Down) guitar slinger Mark Zavon and lead vocalist Dewey Bragg have confirmed a new string of tour dates for late this summer beginning August 1st. More dates are expected to be announced shortly. A list of confirmed dates can be found below. KILL DEVIL HILL’s self-titled debut…
Northern California native Chelsea Wolfe’s sound is best described with broad strokes: elemental, intense, radiant, ancient yet modern, intimate yet expansive, dark and sparkling. Hues of black metal and deep blues inform her ever-evolving electric folk–a warm force that wraps itself around the listener, encouraging uplift, seeking triumph. Her voice similarly haunts and soothes, with words that illuminate life’s darker corners in order to reveal the unlikely truth and beauty…
Summer is here and U.S. music fans are getting an early taste of Vacation, the debut album from Australia’s Big Scary via the debut single Falling Away. In addition to offering the album version and Jacques Renault remix of the track as a free downloads, Big Scary are also releasing a new video for Falling Away by acclaimed director Daniel Cummings of Picture Machine Productions (behind the videos for Bon…
Heartless Bastards have confirmed a run of September tour dates, in addition to their previously announced summer tour. The 8-date tour, in support of the band’s recently released record Arrow, (Partisan Records), begins at Thirsty Hippo in Hattiesburg, MS on September 5th and culminates on September 15th at Santa Fe, NM’s Railyard Plaza. The tour includes stops in major Southeast and Midwest cities, including Kansas City, Louisville, and St. Louis.…
ODDLAND has teamed up with Heavy Blog is Heavy.com to premiere the music video for “In The Eyes Of The Mourning.” The video clip was shot earlier in May by visual artist Santeri Ojanen, who is also the brother of ODDLAND’s singer/guitarist Sakari. This intriguing, eerie video is for the lead track from ODDLAND’s debut album The Treachery Of Senses, released on May 8th. The band has checked in…
On Buffalo Killers‘ fourth full-length effort Dig. Sow. Love. Grow. the Ohio-based trio have created an album that stampedes with the ferocity of their first two albums (the Dan Auerbach-produced Let It Ride from 2008 and their self-titled debut from two years prior), yet it also incorporates much of the loose, organic nature from last year’s highly-praised album 3. Dig. Sow. Love. Grow. is a heady synthesis of not only…
Teams, the musical project of 22-year-old multi-instrumentalist Sean Bowie, draws inspiration from blissful tunes of days past. Inspired by the 70’s and 80’s the LA-based producer weaves chillwave and R&B to create addictive electronic dance music. Today, White Iris Records releases Teams 7″ Love Distance / Glow Fam. The A-side “Love Distance”, penned in a mansion in Venice Beach, is a breezy electro number. Conversely, the B-side “Glow Fam”, which…
Sir Andrew Davis, music director and principal conductor of the world-renowned Lyric Opera of Chicago, will add the post of chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to his considerable credits, beginning in January 2013. The appointment was formally announced on Monday in Australia, and his initial contract in Melbourne is for four years. Davis’s contract with Lyric Opera of Chicago was recently extended through the 2020-21 season. He…
Maya Solovey’s new EP, Forte hit stores TODAY and is currently streaming in its entirety at AOL Spinner until Sunday. Recorded, produced, and mixed by two-time Grammy Award Winner, Bassy Bob Brockman (Notorious BIG, Christina Aguilera, Bob Dylan), Forte brims with an exuberant American sound: colossal drums, cinematic strings, grand percussive pianos, rollicking guitars, tasteful electronics, and most notably Maya’s full-bodied beatific voice, which sounds as if were made from…
Tommy Steele is traveling throughout his home state of Michigan to promote his thought-provoking new single, “My Side of the Street,” with visits to powerhouse radio stations and Harley-Davidson® dealerships events. The single, on Triple Creek Records, was delivered to programmers via CDX and Play MPE; Tommy’s radio promotion team goes for adds this week. Tommy Steele HOT ROD H-D Pictured at Hot Rod Harley-Davidson in Muskegon, Michigan are Kyle…
Legendary Indianapolis’ Crusty Crossover Thrashers of the Extreme RADIATION SICKNESS, will be releasing their first studio album in 20 years on Abyss Records on Friday, June 22nd as part of the label’s Summer of Sickness Campaign 2012. Entitled Reflections of a Psychotic Past, the new album from RADIATION SICKNESS features seven brand new tracks and will also include a re-mastered copy of the 1990 release The Other Me, A Journey…
Future Of What premiered a full, downloadable stream of their debut EP Moonstruck today on TheFader.com: http://www.thefader.com/2012/06/18/download-future-of-whats-moonstruck-ep/. The Brooklyn band’s EP can be heard and downloaded in its entirety for free on the site all week long in advance of its June 26th release. On Friday, RCRD LBL premiered a free MP3 download of “Back To The City”, the second track released from Moonstruck, and the song can also now…
To celebrate his recent triple album release on Astralwerks, Eric Prydz Presents Pryda, Eric Prydz is excited to announce more live dates (see listing below) across the U.S. in addition to his headlining the IDENTITY festival in 15 cities in July and August. These are his first live dates in the U.S. since 2007. The IDENTITY festival is North America’s first travelling electronic music festival and features the most cutting-edge…
Seattle-based Beat Connection has teamed up with Spotify and Filter to offer a full album preview of their new The Palace Garden LP. Stream it now at Spotify. The quartet performed at SXSW ’12 and launched its first headlining North American tour with White Arrows last week, revisiting the markets they played to with STRFKR on a sold-out tour this past fall. Beat Connection began when members Jordan Koplowitz and…
Hearing Bon Iver live is, quite simply, all consuming. It is a vivid and powerful display, with of an audio range oscillating from a whisper to an absolute wall of carefully constructed sound. In conjunction with an emotional range from bitter hope to vibrant joy, its can be hard to know how to take it. It bears repeating. While on tour, shortly after the release of Bon Iver, Bon Iver,…
lfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window comes to mind when looking at Gail Albert Halaban’s book of photographs of city dwellers peering into their neighbors’ windows, Out My Window. The photographs capture the vast city landscape, and within the landscape, floating high above the ground, are portraits of strangers caught in private moments. These beautiful color pictures of voyeuristic architectural landscapes capture both the intimacy and remoteness of life lived in the…
L.A. rockers Beware of Darkness are on the verge of breaking out following a surge of buzz around their highly-acclaimed Howl EP (Bright Antenna/ILG). The 4-song EP features the infectious single “Howl,” which has been featured on KROQ shows including “Jonesy’s Jukebox,” “Locals Only” and “Out of Order.” Likewise, SPIN declares it “a Zeppelin-riffing, bluesy face-stomper…think a more suped-up Black Keys.” The trio is coming to The Viper Room tomorrow…