The best of hip-hop is coming to Atlanta as the 3-day A3C Hip Hop Festival announces the first round of artists for the 2011 event at The Masquerade. Random Axe (Sean Price, Black Milk and Guilty Simpson), Freeway, Aleon Craft, Laws, J-Live, Percee P, Ras Kass, Boog Brown, Ultra Beast (Senor Kaos and 4-Ize), Dillon and Paten Locke are just a few of the exemplary artists that will take the…
The June 24 season premiere of Young, Broke & Beautiful (IFC) features a live performance from Retox and an interview with Justin Pearson. Retox’s debut album, Ugly Animals, is available late August via Ipecac Recordings. The band members are Justin Pearson (The Locust, All Leather, Some Girls, Swing Kids), Gabe Serbian (The Locust, Cattle Decapitation, Holy Molar, Rats Eyes), Michael Crain (Festival of Dead Deer) and Thor Dickey. Retox tour…
Bluegrass ambassadors, The Steep Canyon Rangers (SCR), have just signed with Rounder Records. SCR’s lead singer Woody Platt says the Rangers “are honored to join Rounder Records and be a part of such a rich musical history. We plan to record our new project in October of this year and hope to have an early 2012 release.” They recently joined iconic comedian, Steve Martin, on his sophomore album entitled Rare…
Detroit Michigan’s BATTLECROSS has just released the artwork and tracklisting for the band’s full-length debut Pursuit of Honor, out August 2nd in North America. A band that incorporates many elements of extreme thrash, death and tech metal, creating a precise blend of fist pumping brutality, intensity, and drive, BATTLECROSS satisfies both the technical metal aficionado and the casual heavy metal listener alike. The band comments on album artwork that was…
The initial tour dates have been announced for the 2011 Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival featuring multi-platinum headliner Avenged Sevenfold, also featuring main stage artists Three Days Grace, Seether, Bullet For My Valentine and Escape The Fate. The touring music and lifestyle festival also includes Best Buy Music Gear Stage headliners Sevendust, as well as Black Tide, Art Of Dying and The Black Cloud Collective. The Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR…
“Dave Matthews Band Caravan” is a traveling festival featuring a diverse array of artists performing on three different stages. WHO: A total of 41 acts will perform over the course of three days, with headliners Dave Matthews Band – known for such hits as “What Would You Say,” “Crash Into Me,” “Too Much,” “Everyday,” “American Baby” and “Funny the Way it Is” – playing a full set each of the…
Polyvinyl is pleased to announce the release of Closer to Closed, Braid’s highly anticipated, long-awaited follow up 1998’s seminal Frame and Canvas. Closer to Closed is the first collection of new Braid material in over a decade and will be available August 16th on limited edition 180-gram white vinyl, CD, and digital formats. All pre-orders will include an instant MP3 download, making the new music available for fans to listen…
Scarlet Season is the stage name of Aileen Paron, a self-taught pianist whose desire for autonomy and passion for learning all things musical inspired her to take the DIY approach to recording, programming, and composing. Paron produced the Scarlet Season debut album The Taxidermist herself with co-production by Matt Frickelton of The Fading Collection. Critics are already praising the album’s swirling synths, pretty pianos, nasty bass, and moody electronic elements…
The new, as yet untitled album from The Devil Wears Prada, one of the brightest rising stars in the metalcore world, has been completed and is set for a September 13 release (Ferret). This will be the band’s first full-length album since 2009’s critically-acclaimed With Roots Above and Branches Below; TDWP’s most recent release, last summer’s 5-track conceptual Zombie EP (called the band’s “best release to date” by one media…
7/13 Belly Up – San Diego, CA 7/15 Grand Performances – Los Angeles, CA 7/16 Regency Ballroom – San Francisco, CA 7/17 Reggae On The River – Garberville, CA 7/20 Artown – Reno, NV 7/22 Celebrate Brooklyn – Brooklyn, NY 7/23 Grassroots Festival – Trumansburg, NY 7/24 Hillside Festival – Guelph, ON 7/29 Manuel Artime Theater – Miami, FL 7/30 Floydfest – Floyd, VA
June 11 Indianapolis, IN @ The Emerson Theater June 12 Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge June 16 Wilmore, KY @ Ichthus Farm June 17 Jacksonville, NC @ Hooligan’s Music Hall June 18 Fayetteville, NC @ The Rock Shop June 19 Nashville, TN @ Exit/In June 21 Birmingham, AL @ Zydeco June 22 Jackson, MS @ Fire Club June 24 Flint, MI @ The Machine Shop June 25 Ionia, MI @ Big…
Forest of the Soul’s – Restless in Flight Digipak CD is NOW AVAILABLE! $11 PPD in N. America! Featuring Aaron Carey and Andrew Della Cagna of Nechochwen, FotS is a hard band to pigeonhole, for they encompass the fluidity of classical acoustic instrumentation, rock, folk, and an undeniable Appalachian Country spirit that stirs with the eclectic soul of their homeland. Unclassifiable and amazingly beautiful, Restless in Flight is Forest of…
6/11 MEREDITH, NH LACONIA HARLEY 6/24 SANDWICH, IL MONGOS ON MAIN 6/25 DES MOINES, IA WATERWORKS PARK 6/30 MILWAUKEE, WI SUMMERFEST 7/01 HAZEL GREEN, WI SANDY HOOK TAVERN 7/03 EL PASO, TX SPEAKING ROCK ENTERTAINMENT CENTER 7/04 SAN ANTONIO, TX BACKSTAGE LIVE 7/08 MUSKEGON, MI MUSKEGON SUMMER CELEBRATION 7/09 FARMER CITY, IL FARMER CITY RACEWAY 7/12 SAUGET, IL POP’S 7/13 NASHVILLE, TX EXIT / IN 7/14 LEXINGTON, KY BUSTER’S BILLIARD’S…
Shady Nate & DJ Fresh collaborated a few years ago on Based on a True Story, which was loosely formatted in the style of Fresh’s long-running and classic Tonight Show series. The project earned both the rapper and DJ/producer high praise and strong sales, and now, the original CD album will be re-packaged and accompanied by Nate’s and Fresh’s latest collaborative effort, Still Based On A True Story, with the…
The art of Storytelling is as ancient and universal as humanity itself. Here begins 3:33’s own tale of Creation. Throughout history, our need to understand where we come from has been evidenced in hieroglyphics, mythology, fairy tales, folklore, and religion. With The First Thousand Days, 3:33 explores this mystery of existence and leads us down its enchanted yet haunting path. If EP-1 was an introduction to 3;33, this is the…
If you like your electronic music twisted and manipulated, full of layers just dying to be pulled apart, then Botanical Bullets’ We Bleed Fluorescent is for you. The EP, which is due out June 14, is full of carefully layered samples, effects-laden guitars, synth and soul-infused vocals. The first single, “Fantastic Romantic,” is the story of a broken-hearted android told with effects-saturated vocals and noise. The second single “We Bleed…
Anna Netrebko, whom the Associated Press calls “the reigning new diva of the early 21st century,” has signed a new, exclusive recording agreement with Deutsche Grammophon, extending a partnership that spans eights years and more than a dozen recordings. The news comes on the heels of the Russian soprano’s highly praised debut at the Vienna Staatsoper in the title role of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena. According to the New York Times,…
June 17 – Ottawa, ON – Dragon Boat Race @ Mooney’s Bay Park June 18 – Llloydminster, AB – Saskatchewan Building – Border Bike Rally June 22 – Syracuse, NY – Wescott Theatre June 23 – Rochester, NY – Water Street Music Hall June 24 – Watertown, NY – Watertown Fairgrounds w/ The Tragically Hip June 25 – Bobcaygeon, ON – Bobcaygeon w/The Tragically Hip and Sam Roberts June 28…
June 10 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum* June 11 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Bank Atlantic Center* June 14 Raleigh, NC RBC Center* June 15 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion* June 17 Uniondale, NY Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum* June 18 Boston, MA TD Garden* June 19 Newark, NJ Prudential Center* June 22 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena+ June 23 Pittsburgh, PA Petersen Events Center+ June 24 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center+…
J Boog is dropping the “J Boog EP” on June 14th 2011 via Wash House Hawaii/EMPIRE Distribution. The EP features five brand new songs, along with his three previously released songs, including his smash hits “Let’s Do It Again” and “So Far Gone”. This release should help hold his fans over until the release of the highly anticipated album “Back Yard Boogie” in the fall of 2011. J Boog is…