From the heart of Humboldt County, CA, where the redwoods meet thePacific, Jah Sun emerges as an artist dedicated to global and social healing. Fusingthe sounds of hip-hop, reggae and world music with conscious and uplifting lyrics, he works to awaken the human spirit and inspire others to live to their ultimate potential. Battle The Dragons features collaborations with some of the biggest names in reggae, including: MOBO award winner…
Virginia melodic death metal veteran, Arsis, has announced Shawn Priest as the full-time replacement for recently departed drummer, Mike VanDyne. Priest, who has toured with Arsis in the past, will be behind the kit for the band’s upcoming fifth studio album. Commented Priest, “After several major tours with Arsis since 2008, I am more than happy to take the position of full-time drummer. These guys have become some of my…
In support of the release, 3 INCHES OF BLOOD is currently on the “Metal Alliance Tour 2012” with DEVILDRIVER, THE FACELESS, DYING FETUS, JOB FOR A COWBOY, IMPENDING DOOM and WRETCHED. Following the “Metal Alliance Tour 2012”, the band will make their highly anticipated return to Europe in May, and then will hit the road again in June for a US tour with MUNICIPAL WASTE and BLACK TUSK. A full…
Hard rock supergroup HELLYEAH is back with the first single from their forthcoming their third album, entitled Band of Brothers out July 17th, 2012. The band has partnered with Machinima, the next generation video entertainment network for video gamers which has over 166 million unique gamers who viewed in excess of 1.4 billion videos in February 2012, to premiere a video of video game sniper footage for the first single “War In Me.” Watch the video: http://bit.ly/Htg7Nt Buy it from iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/war-in-me-single/id514677850…
Guitar wizard JEFF LOOMIS has teamed up with Guitar World to premiere a brand new track, “Chosen Time”. This song can be found on the spectacular new album, Plains of Oblivion, which will be out this Tuesday, April 10. The blazing new song “Chosen Time” can be heard here. A video teaser for Plains Of Oblivion , featuring snippets of every song, can be seen here. Pre-Orders for the new…
Highly respected Japanese doom metal band CHURCH OF MISERY has announced a U.S. headlining tour that will kick off on May 24 in Providence, RI. Presented by Brooklyn Vegan, the two week trek will showcase one of metal’s most bizarre and exotic bands and one that Rolling Stone called “a dynamic articulated hell, like the Tokyo-Blue-Cheer crush of Boris but grounded in the British white-blues nightmares of early Seventies Black…
The latest single, “Let’s Get Naughty,” from the provocative, talented and punk-rock-meets-electronic-glitter Jessie and the Toy Boys, is quickly climbing the Billboard Dance Club Play Chart moving up this week to #21 – she’s in good company with the likes of Chris Brown, The Wanted and others in her direct path as she continues to climb the chart. “Let’s Get Naughty was a fan favorite on the Femme Fatale…
Got lemons? Sure you could make boring ass lemonade, or if you are Matthew Meade and Julia Tepper you could make the most oragsmically delicious MDMA-laced lemon tart imaginable. In the summer of 2010, Matthew got hit by a bus and found himself facing 2 months of recovery without the use of one of his hands (a prickly pickle for a guitar player). But instead of catching up on the…
Hypnotic Records electrorock/dubsteb artist Blackburner is releasing the debut record FEEL THE BURN on April 10, 2012. FEEL THE BURN features guest appearances by electronic pioneer Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream as well as John Wesley of Porcupine Tree. Blackburner is a bold new force in electronic music, combining the heavily twisted and seriously aggressive beats of dubstep and glitch with the melodic hooks of rock, industrial, and electronica. It…
Release Date: Monday May 7th, 2012 Sonogama ‘Hypnotic Beat’ (exclusive track) Maya Jane Coles ‘Dubchild’ Gideon Bouwens ‘ Life Stories Part 2’ Toby Tobias ‘In Your Eyes’ (James Teej remix) Delusions Of Grandeur ‘Don’t Sleep’ Shall Ocin ‘Movin On’ Ethyl & Huxley ‘3 Feet High’ SCB ‘Mace’ Will Saul & Tam Cooper ‘Tech Noir’ (Phonique remix) Metrika & Bastard Love ‘Europa’ Okain ‘Scream’ (Nina Kraviz mix) Liberty City ‘If You…
The video for Keane’s first single “Silenced By The Night,” off their highly anticipated fourth studio album Strangeland, premieres on VEVO today. The video was shot by renowned rock music video director Christopher Sims in a lime salt mine in Austin, Texas. It follows the story of two friends on a road trip, whose feelings for each other genuinely develop from friendship to falling in love. Watch it here. Strangeland…
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME announce full European headline tour in October! New album in progress! Globally celebrated progressive rock / cutting-edge metal innovators BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME (aka BTBAM) will return to Europe in October 2012 in support of their new album, the details of which are forthcoming. Support comes from PERIPHERY and THE SAFETY FIRE. The Rave Live will be rebroadcasting the BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME…
Andy The Doorbum is the moniker of Andy Fenstermaker, who earned his handle as the 7-night-a-week bouncer at the famously seedy Milestone Club in Charlotte NC. And like the dirty, boarded-up, crack-addled population surrounding the Milestore Club, such is the imaginative landscape of Andy the Doorbum’s music. Tales of gravediggers, fratricide, and familial failings fill his new, 4th LP entitled “The Man Killed the Bird, and With the Bird the…
Mr. Little Jeans’ new music video for her first single “Runaway” was directed by Zach Shields (Dead Man’s Bones); watch it here. The single will be available on iTunes 4/10. It is the first single off her self-titled debut LP, which will be released on Sony in August 2012. In the meantime stay tuned next week for Wavves’ remix of “Runaway”. If you haven’t already heard of Mr. Little Jeans,…
The song is one of several tracks that the singer and songwriter has been recording with Rob Cavallo for his debut album, due from Warner Bros. Records later this year. Here’s what Toka has to say about the video: “Consumerism and the ugliness of capitalism ruined this country and brainwashed its people into believing that the American Dream is something we’re entitled to as opposed to something we have…
Bass Drum of Death is a two piece band from Mississippi composed of John Barrett on guitar and vocals and Colin Sneed on drums. Together they make blown-out, blazing songs. Their debut LP was released last spring on Fat Possum Records. John wrote and recorded the whole record himself using drums, a guitar, a USB microphone, and a computer before teaching Sneed to play drums for the live show and…
Los Angeles psychedelic prog-rock band ANCESTORS will release its new album In Dreams and Time on April 10 via Tee Pee Records. Recorded in east LA’s Infrasonic Sound (Queens of the Stone Age, Best Coast, Xasthur), the record showcases the band’s most accomplished music to date and a creative sound that morphs from thunderous cacophony to soul-searching peaks and valleys as towering riffs collide with bleak beauty and deep wells of light and…
Shouts of Joy continues exactly where its predecessor, the “Back Home” EP, has left off after staying at #1 of the German Alternative Charts for a full eight weeks. Being a big “Thank You” to the fans both lyrically and musically, Shouts Of Joy is sometimes quite reminiscent of ’80s Tears For Fears harmonies, yet modern, danceable and somehow brute at the same time. Be careful – it might infest…
Vancouver hard rock outfit, The Veer Union, has teamed up with Music Choice to premiere the music video for the single, “Bitter End,” taken from the band’s sophomore album, Divide The Blackened Sky. Check out the new video, directed by Aaron Veale and produced by Kevin Rigney of Assembly Productions, this week exclusively on Music Choice On Demand: http://www.musicchoice.com/WatchVideos.aspx?assetID=126814&assetImage=/mcbroadband/images/videothumbs/TheVeerUnion_BitterEnd_126814-86×57.jpg. “The video for Bitter End is awesome,” said Josh Gabriele, Manager of Videos on…
Phoenix-based grindcore act, LANDMINE MARATHON has been announced on select California dates to open for Nasum’s upcoming Farewell Tour. The band will be playing three shows starting on May 28th and concluding on May 30th. The band will be supporting their latest release, “Gallows”.which came out in September in North America and in January in Europe. “Gallows” was produced by guitarist Ryan Butler and features artwork by British artist Rob “Mid”…