Ocala, FL’s We Are Defiance are putting final touches on their new single which Tragic Hero Records will release in early January 2012. Song title and release date will be revealed soon. To hear the new song before it’s released, be sure to catch the band on the road as they headline the Bring Your Scarf and Jacket Tour with support from My Ticket Home and Wolves Among Men. The…
Columbia Records/Nickelodeon announced today that Big Time Rush will be hitting the road beginning late February 2012 for the “Better With U Tour.” Fans will be able to see the music and TV sensations, on hiatus from their hit series, as they embark on their first-ever headlining multi-city concert tour performing new songs in support of their album, Elevate, out Nov. 21. Big Time Rush will begin their electrifying tour…
Modular Recordings is proud to announce the newest addition to the family: YOUNG DREAMS. The Norwegian collective, headed up by composer/multi-instrumentalist/producer Matias Tellez, gained notice in November 2010, after three songs they uploaded to their Facebook page were picked up on by international music press. Festival appearances followed (By:Larm, Hove Festival, Camden Crawl), and a beautifully shot, faintly unsettling video by Scandinavian director Kristoffer Borgli, which helped cement the band…
Sleepy Sun are pleased to announce their recent signging to The End Records (Art Brut, Danzig, Juliette Lewis, The Charlatans) for North America. The band will remain with ATP Records in the UK & Europe. This December they are heading into the studio at Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree, CA to record their third studio album. They will be working with Dave Catching ( Eagles of Death Metal…
Bad Weather California’s new LP Sunkissed, is their 2nd full length album and debut for Akron/Family’s Family Tree Records label. The album was recorded in Detroit at the home studio of engineer Chris Koltay, produced by A/F guitarist/singer Seth Olinsky. Sunkissed is being released by Family Tree February 21, 2012. Sunkissed is like a 65 Impala convertible driving down the road where the Minutemen, Meat Puppets and early Flaming Lips…
LARRY AND HIS FLASK are back and ready to hit the road with a vengeance this February and March as they cut loose through Middle America with The Reverend Horton Heat and The Goddamn Gallows on the “Stewed, Screwed, & Tattooed” tour. The renowned pack of rowdy bluegrass punks have received rave reviews for their live show everywhere, from the New York Times to Time Out Chicago to Alternative Press…
Having just added Musical America’s Instrumentalist of the Year award to his numerous honors, master violinist Gil Shaham drew warm praise for his season-opening performances of Brahms’s Violin Concerto with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. The New York Times reported that “he played with his customary depth and charisma, particularly impressive in the first-movement cadenza,” while Lehigh Valley Music noted, “Shaham’s wild flights of virtuoso fancy, especially in the spellbinding first…
“Baby Jaymes is a hip-hop generation throwback to the days when you just weren‘t hip if you didn‘t have a stack of soul 45s under your arm at all times.” – XLR8R Magazine The Song: In anticipation of his forthcoming EP, Whatever Happened To Baby Jaymes, and following the release of his single “Heart & Soul,” Oakland bred singer/songwriter Baby Jaymes is excited to release his latest single, “Bump My…
Hawthorne Heights’s latest EP, HATE is now available on vinyl as a joint release between American Dream Records and the band’s own label, Cardboard Empire. The vinyl version comes in five different colors and can be purchased at: http://www.hawthorneheightsstore.com and http://americandreamrecords.limitedpressing.com The HATE vinyl will also be available at all of the band’s upcoming US shows: Nov 10 – Uniontown, PA @ Penn State Fayette FREE SHOW Nov 11 –…
Founded in 2000 in North Carolina, WIDOW has released three albums: “Midnight Strikes” (2003), “On Fire” (2005) and “Nightlife” (2007). Their new work “Life’s Blood” is the first WIDOW album, which will be released through Pure Steel Records. Bravewords is hosting an exclusive stream of the song “I Scream For Ice Queen” on their “Knuckle Tracks” Player. Get your first listen HERE. Gun Shy Assassin is streaming the song “Embrace…
11/17 Nashville, TN The Muse 11/18 Little Rock, AR The Village 11/19 Oklahoma City, OK Big Papa’s Poor House 11/20 Fort Worth, TX Tomcats 11/22 St. Louis, MO Fubar 11/23 Topeka, KS Booby Trap 11/24 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue and 7th Street Entry 11/25 Des Moines, IA House Of Bricks 11/26 Chicago, IL Reggies Rock Club 11/27 La Crosse, WI The Warehouse 11/28 Joliet, IL Mojoes 11/29 Louisville, KY Keswick…
Danish electronic artist Anders Trentemøller has debuted a brand new video with Stereogum for the opening track “Sycamore Feeling (Marie Fisker Version)” on his recently released double CD, Reworked / Remixed. The video features the Danish singer stoically sifting in and out of people’s apartment’s and thoughts. After an incredible spring tour including performances at this year’s SXSW, Ultra Music Festival, and Coachella, resulting in Yahoo! Music saying he was…
Radical Dads is a band that sounds like standing next to a body of water and noticing that something is moving just underneath the surface and then realizing that actually nothing is moving, it’s just that your glasses are broken and you have no idea how it happened. Also your elbow is scraped up and you think something just caught on fire in the distance — you can see the…
On November 29th, THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT will be releasing “Contain Us”, a special tribute box-set for their epic quadrology (Ki, Addicted, Deconstruction, and Ghost) that was designed and created by Man Alive’s Tom Bejgrowicz (who also conceived the classic and must-have Misfits Coffin box-set). Pre-orders are now exclusively available at CM Distro, so be sure to reserve your copy of the ultimate Hevy Devy collection here! See below for…
Cited as the formative mind behind the global phenomenon that is Dubstep, the UK’s Skream has announced that his next single will be released this coming Sunday, November 13th on Rinse/OWSLA, the label started by Skrillex earlier this year. “Anticipate”, the 6th release from OWSLA, is one of it’s most approachable to date, with an earworm vocal line from Sam Frank and sparse, faintly familiar synth melodies. Two remixes accompany…
Norwegian pioneers in Blackened Death metal, Fester have revealed the cover art and tracklisting for their forthcoming new album, A Celebration Of Death. The band’s first offering of new material in 17 years, A Celebration Of Death will be out in early 2012 through Abyss Records. In an exclusive premier, Bravewords.com is now streaming the track “Rites of Ceres.” The cover for A Celebration Of Death was painted by artist…
Sugar & The Hi Lows, the duo of Nashville singer-songwriters Trent Dabbs and Amy Stroup, tap into the heart of the 50’s and soul of the 60’s on their sweet indie-pop self-titled debut. A throw back to a bygone era, its also a throw back to Trent’s Mississippi childhood. Raised to the soundtrack of Motown, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye and The Temptations, the memories the music from that era, “just…
Nov. 16 Detroit, MI The Fillmore Nov. 17 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room Nov. 18 Pittsburgh, PA Rex Theater** Nov. 19 New York, NY Terminal 5 Nov. 20 Philadelphia, PA The Trocadero Nov. 21 Boston, MA House of Blues Nov. 22 Portland, ME Asylum** Nov. 23 Montreal, QC Metropolis Nov. 25 Toronto, ON Kool Haus Nov. 26 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom Nov. 27 Washington, DC 9:30 Club Nov. 28 Norfolk, VA…
Some listen to music to reinforce a mood, an idea of a time/place, to embody a mind-state, a lightness, to sharpen or dull an edge. I make music to jump off of that edge and explore. I’ve been exploring since birth, whether wandering through the woods as a child, through the streets of NY as a teenager, backpacking through South and Central America, India, Africa, touring and performing in over…
11/14: Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern 12/02: Miami, FL @ Fillmore 12/03: Orlando, FL @ Social 12/04: Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits 12/05: Atlanta, GA @ Loft 12/07: Baltimore, MD @ Sonar 12/08: New York, NY @ Webster Hall 12/09: Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall 12/10: Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has covered…