If you don’t know the name Prince Aries yet, you should, and likely will very soon. Aside from co-founding the Bay Area’s first hip-hop television show, Distortion 2 Static, over 10 years ago, Aries also has a whole other side that includes being a sought after party promoter, DJ, and graphic designer. And up next in his series of video shorts leading up to the release of his Clean Ass…
Since the 2010 release of Fantasia’s Back To Me album, which garnered multi-genre songwriter Claude “Studio Beast” Kelly a Best R&B Song GRAMMY nomination for penning the lead single “Bittersweet,” Claude Kelly has been dominating the pop charts and airwaves with his megahits for Bruno Mars (“Grenade”), Ke$ha (“Take It Off”), Britney Spears (“Gasoline”), and Jessie J (“Price Tag” featuring B.o.B.). In keeping with the Studio Beast’s style and desire…
Towards the end of the recording sessions for Dye It Blonde, Smith Westerns invited director Ray Concepcion to join them in the studio to document the final stages of the recording process. Die With Your Chin Up is the resulting short film, a snapshot of a band on the brink something big. Bio: Smith Westerns consists of Cullen Omori (vocals), Max Kakacek (Guitar), and Cameron Omori (Bass). All members range…
For ASKA, the, Ashiya, Japan-born, Los Angeles-based composer and songwriter, her self-titled, debut EP is the culmination of years of experience but also the beginning of something new and exciting. When ASKA first wrote one of the EP’s tracks, “There Are Many Of Us,” she recorded it and shared the song with some friends, including filmmaker Spike Jonze. “He had a vision of his film I’m Here already, but he…
Out now on Asthmatic Kitty, Leb Laze’s “Music For Troubled Machinery” is part of the latest in the ever-expanding, ever-experimental Library Catalog Series and perhaps conceptually the most interesting electronic in recent memory documenting the slow unruly death of the producers core production tool, the MPC 2000 (R.I.P.). Make sure to grab the free download of album standout “Static Radiates” remixed by Brooklyn-based house/dubstep producer Totem Test. What started out…
MAJESTIC DOWNFALL are set to release their upcoming new album via Chaos Records in the Americas !!! Mexican Doom/Dark Metal project MAJESTIC DOWNFALL will release its second album, The Blood Dance, this July. The CD was recorded in Revolution Studios and Inzonic Music Lab with help Jesús Bravo and José “Pastas” Padilla. The Blood Dance features collaborations with Alfonso Sánchez (drums) and guitar solos by Roberto Granados (DENIAL, THE SUFFERING).…
Wed 01 Jun – Liverpool – Kazimier Thu 02 Jun – London – The Garage Fri 03 Jun – Birmingham – HMV Institute Sat 04 Jun – Glasgow – Classic Grand (small room) Sun 05 Jun – Middlesbrough – Music Live / Cosmos Stage Mon 06 Jun – Manchester – Deaf Institute SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has…
The second “Dave Matthews Band Caravan” of the summer will take place at Chicago’s Lakeside, located on the south shore of Lake Michigan, just a short distance from downtown Chicago. Details of the three-day festival, scheduled for July 8, 9 and 10, were announced today at a press conference held at the site. The event will feature a diverse lineup of musical talent performing on three stages during the day…
“Please Come Home Tonight”, the new single from Aqua Blue Records recording artist Greg Susoreny, is steadily climbing the National charts. This single has already gained tremendous support surpassing such artists as Rihanna, Robbie Robertson, and Lady Gaga. Susoreny’s success is due to the quality of his craft. As Jeff Shane, Former Vice President of Capitol Records, describes him: “Greg has an unbelievable gift to write and record music that…
If you’re imagining how the world could be so very fine this summer, then you’ll no doubt be elated to hear that The Happy Together Tour — featuring five major artists from the sixties — will be returning again this year. Beginning in early July, The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie, The Association, The Grass Roots, The Buckinghams and Mark Lindsay, former lead singer of Paul Revere & The Raiders,…
Fri 06/03/11 Los Angeles, CA Bardot Sat 06/04/11 San Louis Obispo, CA SLO Brewing Sun 06/05/11 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Shop Tue 06/07/11 Lake Tahoe, CA Hard Rock Thu 06/09/11 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court Fri 06/10/11 Boise, ID Knitting Factory Sat 06/11/11 Seattle, WA Chop Suey Mon 06/13/11 Portland, OR Berbati’s Pan Tue 06/14/11 Redding, CA TBD Wed 06/15/11 Sacramento, CA Harlow’s Thu 06/16/11 Santa Barbara, CA Velvet…
For the first time in history, Chicago will host the US AIR GUITAR NATIONAL FINALS. On July 23rd at METRO, US Air Guitar’s nationwide search for the country’s finest professional air guitarists will culminate in what will doubtlessly become Chicago’s premiere summer event. The 2011 US Air Guitar National Finals will pit nearly two dozen handpicked winners from 18 cities across the country against one another in a battle for…
Safely guarded behind four pairs of glasses and an arsenal of awkward tendencies, the members of By Surprise have spent an equal amount of time combing through the forgotten dust-filled grooves of 7-inch records released during the 90s indie label boom, as they have with the off-beat and inspirational works of Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, and Douglas Adams. Mountain Smashers, the band’s first full-length album, and their first with…
You may remember Baiyu from MTVu’s “The Freshmen”, but she’s graduated and ready to share her soulful sounds with the world. Baiyu has released her new single Together via iTunes, Bandcamp, and GlobalGrind.com. Baiyu’s new EP, Fan Fair, will debut April 15th on her official website www.baiyuonline.com, and will be a free download – this being a gift to her many fans that have supported her career and continue to…
Over the last ten years, bouncing back and forth from Chicago to NYC, Zachary Mastoon composed a diverse and critically-acclaimed catalog under the alias Caural. Pressing wax for such labels as Chocolate Industries, Mush, Plug Research, Sound in Color and many others, his song-oriented compositions and flair for unique sonic juxtaposition continue to set him apart from his contemporaries in the beat scene. Yet it was only by default –…
Coming off a successful SXSW, and recent nomination for Best New Artist at The Austin Music Awards, Candi and The Strangers drop their video for album single, “Glide”, this week. Directed and filmed completely by the band’s own John and Samantha Constant, for their House of Constant imprint, the video combines video projection, stop-motion animation and live footage to follow a non-sentient android through a post-apocolyptic waste land of pop…
5/02/2011 Magasin 4 – Brussels, Belgium 5/03/2011 W2 – Den Bosch, Holland 5/04/2011 Molotow – Hamburg, Germany 5/05/2011 Mantra – Moscow, Russian Federation 5/06/2011 Arctica – St. Petersburg, Russian Federation 5/07/2011 AZ Conni – Dresden, Germany 5/08/2011 Kontich – Lintfabriek, Belgium 5/09/2011 Le Grand Wazoo – Amiens, France 5/10/2011 L’Usine – Geneva, Switzerland 5/12/2011 Magnolia – Milano, Italy 5/13/2011 PMK – Innsbruck, Austria 5/15/2011 007 – Prague, Czech Republic 5/17/2011…
Amherst, Massachusetts’ AMPERE have leaked a new track entitled,” Escapism Pt. II.” from their highly anticipated new album entitled Like Shadows. Please visit the band’s website to absorb the 57 second new song and view the cover art for the album. Like Shadows will be released on June 7th on LP/ CD via No Idea Records. The band have a few shows lined up including an album release in Western…
Minnesota-based songwriter Jeremy’s Messersmith & his band have announced The Graveyard Tour, a new set of summer dates out to the East coast visiting and performing at graveyards in each city, as well as a scheduled NPR Tiny Desk Concert on June 20th. Infamous for his cross platform creativity, his papercraft animation Tatooine video (where he sums up the Star Wars Trilogy in two minutes), received outstanding praise and was…
Floridian heavy trio FLOOR are about to embark on their first proper tour in over eight years. Since disbanding, FLOOR’s overdue notoriety has slowly grown, due in part from laying the foundation for guitar player/vocalist Steve Brooks’ non-stop activity in TORCHE. Reuniting to celebrate the release of their massive “Below & Beyond” discography/box set, FLOOR returned for a few key shows over the past year to an overwhelmingly positive response.…