Our Version of Events — the debut album from Capitol Records’ artist Emeli Sandé — debuted on the UK Album Chart at No. 1 this week. Due for release in the U.S. on June 5th, Our Version of Events is a powerful platform for Sandé’s rich, soulful voice and sophisticated songwriting. As Q magazine put it: “She’s made an album that deserves to linger in the limelight — passionate, powerful,…
Pond’s US tour kicks off in two weeks, with the band playing their very first US show on their album release day in DC. Pond will also be at SXSW, stay tuned for showcase and party announcements in the coming weeks. Mixed by Kevin Parker (Tame Impala) and Rob Grant at Poon’s Head Studio in Perth, Beard, Wives, Denim is an audio diary of ten friends’ strange, terrible and blissful…
Just weeks before the Passion World Tour hits Vancouver, and alongside the March 13 release of the Passion: White Flag live album, Passion founder and recent GRAMMY ® nominee Louie Giglio will debut the latest in the 900,ooo+ selling Passion Talk Series, SYMPHONY, I LIFT MY HANDS. As seen by over 200,000 people on the 50-city Chris Tomlin “And If Our God Is For Us… Tour,” SYMPHONY, I LIFT MY…
The Explorers Club, a band hailing from Charleston, SC, has hit #27 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart following the first week of sales of their new album, “Grand Hotel.” (The album was released on February 14, 2012 through Rock Ridge Music, with distribution via ADA.) This is the band’s biggest sales week ever by far. Mark Linett, who mixed The Beach Boys’ “SMiLE” for Capitol Records, was responsible for the…
In 2011, Swedish House Mafia sold out Madison Square Garden in 10 minutes. David Guetta headlined the Ultra Music Festival in Miami in front of 100,000 ravenous party people. This was the year when Electronic Dance Music (EDM) returned with a vengeance to make its rightful claim as a cultural force and a lifestyle. While dance clubs around the US have never been empty, the past 12 months saw the…
FIREHORSE is the captivating new project from singer/songwriter/instrumentalist Leah Siegel. In Sept 2011 the Brooklyn outfit released the eclectic debut, And so they ran faster… and the album has received praise from the LA Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Paste, Teen Vogue, MOKB & The L Mag, to name a few. Firehorse was recently named NPR’s “Next Big Band from NYC,” a Paste Magazine “Best of What’s Next” and one…
Denver sludge/grind trio CLINGING TO THE TREES OF A FOREST FIRE have just confirmed a Spring tour for the second half of March. The 7 Years Of Disillusion Tour will storm through fifteen American cities between March 13th and April 1st, including an assault on the Northeast with shows throughout three of NYC’s boroughs alongside Connecticut’s Sea Of Bones. CTTTOAFF 7 Years Of Disillusion Tour: 3/13/2012 La Casa Sam –…
The inimitable artist Tim Fite is currently premiering a brand new song from his upcoming album Ain’t Ain’t Ain’t out March 6th via ANTI- Records. The track is entitled “Joyriding” and vividly evokes the budding freedom and romantic adventure of youth. While Fite’s previous works addressed distinctly adult issues with a youthful exuberance, Ain’t Ain’t Ain’t is, in many ways, their thematic opposite. The central focus of the new record…
Ever the pragmatists, Parenthetical Girls are in the midst of releasing Privilege–the band’s new full length–as a box set of five extremely limited 12″ EPs on their own Slender Means Society label. These EPs will be sold separately in sequence every quarter over the next 15 months, each as they are completed. They will not be distributed to stores. As the cycle concludes, the fifth and final 12″ will come…
Wallpaper. is ready to ignite the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” stage on February 29, as leader Ricky Reed and band will make their late night television debut. The rambunctious triple-drumming, genre-bending, sweat-inducing Wallpaper. will perform his newest single, “F***ING BEST SONG EVERRR,” just as that track is beginning to infiltrate Rhythmic and Top 40 Radio nationwide. Z-Trip w Booth Just this past week, Wallpaper. has been added to the annual Coachella…
The nominees for the 2012 JUNO Awards were announced by The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in Toronto recently. Rock band Downhere was once again honored with a nomination for Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year for their current CD, On The Altar Of Love. The group has won three of their five career nominations, including for their last studio project in 2009, Ending Is Beginning. The Juno…
With the current success at the cinema of The Artist & Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (not itself a silent film but its main storyline centres on the work of the early cinematic pioneer Georges Méliès) everyone is talking about a silent film revival. Eureka’s Masters of Cinema catalogue invites the viewer to sample a vast body of work that makes use of the silent aesthetic, featuring films from Murnau (Sunrise,…
After announcing the launch party lineup earlier this week, the British Music Embassy is excited to announce its full SXSW ’12 lineup, with events commencing on Monday, March 12th and lasting until Saturday, March 17th. The UK is the only nation represented at SXSW by its own dedicated venue, Latitude 30, located at 512 San Jacinto Blvd in downtown Austin. Sixty plus bands perform across the week from all four…
The Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival, one of the most celebrated and longest-running jazz events in the world, will celebrate its landmark 35th Anniversary at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, June 30 and July 1, with a dynamic lineup of more than 20 acclaimed artists and ensembles on two stages. Festival headliners include Diana Krall, Chris Botti, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Esperanza Spalding “Radio Music Society,” Hiromi Trio Project, Yellowjackets, and…
Tiny Engines (Tigers Jaw, CSTVT, Look Mexico, Restorations) welcomed Santa Rosa, CA’s State Faults (formerly Brother Bear) into its fold late last year. The band has completed their debut full-length, Desolate Peaks, and the record will be released on 12″ vinyl in April 2012 with pre-orders coming soon. You can hear a brand new song, “Sleeptalker”, on Alternative Press right now! You can also stream another new song, “Arrowhead”, from…
The story of Sara Radle’s music career is one that began in San Antonio, Texas in the late 90’s but she is probably most known for being the reason The Rentals reunited in 2005. In 1996, at the age of seventeen, she began carving out a name for herself in the Texas music scene with punk-pop trio Lucy Loves Schroeder and her own solo project. Eight years later, ex-Weezer bassist…
A Day To Remember’s highly anticipated music video for “2nd Sucks” is coming SOON… be the first to know when the video is live by “Liking” Victory Records on Facebook. Watch the teaser for “2nd Sucks” now! The group is set to headline Soundwave Festival in Australia this month, followed by shows in Indonesia and Japan before heading back to the U.S. for the second leg of the Rise Against…
Dirty Three’s first new album in seven years (and first release on Drag City), Toward the Low Sun, is out next Tuesday, February 28th. For the next week, leading up to this release, NPR Music’s First Listen series will be streaming the album in its entirety. Listen with the link below. NPR MUSIC FIRST LISTEN OF THE DIRTY THREE’S TOWARD THE LOW SUN – http://www.npr.org/2012/02/19/146535905/first-listen-dirty-three-toward-the-low-sun?ps=mh_fl Returning to the…
DOWNSPIRIT, the German/Swiss bluesy/hard-rocking-metal-oriented band formed by ex-SYMPHORCE/ex-FREEDOM CALL guitarist Cedric “Cede” Dupont, will enter the studios in mid-march to record their second album. A release is expected for late summer via Metalville Records, followed by a tour in fall/winter. DOWNSPIRIT‘s debut album, “Point Of Origin”, was received well with much positive feedback all over the world, and brought the band’s touring schedule to include more than 60 shows around…
Unknown Mortal Orchestra premieres the “Strangers Are Strange” video today, directed by Sam Kristofski. The band has a few headlining shows starting this week in California, then they will hit the road in support of Girls for the majority of the month of March. They’ll also appear at this year’s SXSW. Full video credits: Director: Sam Kristofski Director of Photography: Sam Irwin Editor: Sam Kristofski Effects: Brendan Jenkins…