They’re infectious, loved by Led Zeppelin, unabatedly Rock n Roll and hitting our shores with their throngs of British fans literally flying over to witness the buzz for their debut US Tour. These boys are going to be big. Coming straight off their storming UK tour releasing their stellar self-titled album and selling out 1200 capacity venues, as well as all copies of the album on the release date at…
Toronto duo Bishop Morocco has remixed “Stay Lit,” the lead track off Holy Fuck’s Latin, released earlier this year. Fader premiered the remix, noting that Bishop Morocco has “scaled back some of the gradual epicness of the original and given it the Sonny Crockett-on-his-way-to-a-drug-bust treatment.” Bishop Morocco is Jake Fairley (aka Fairmont) and Jim Sayce (Tangiers, the Deadly Snakes). As Bishop Morocco, they fuse their different musical paths to create…
Despite having been together for under a year, Pittsburgh duo Nic Snyder and Josh Sickels have already made waves in the UK this year, and now have just signed to Frenchkiss Records. They received rave reviews for a string of live UK shows in May, including The Great Escape festival & Club NME, which were closely followed by the release of their critically acclaimed Chess Club debut 7” ‘Going Away…
The group will be ‘geekin out’ at shows in November with ‘Bulletproof’ and ‘In For The Kill’ hit makers La Roux. Far East Movement combine electro and hip-hop music for a high-energy downtown Los Angeles loft party sound and lifestyle called ‘Free Wired.’ “We want fans at our shows to feel free to let loose and ‘geek out’ however they feel comfortable. Our music and lifestyle is about bringing the…
The wildly popular Italian duo of Bot and Phra, known more commonly to the world as Crookers, have announced their first North American tour! The We Love Animals tour starts October 21st in Denver and travels through the US and Canada, wrapping up the trip in early November in Toronto. Amongst the most in-demand acts in the dance music and remix scene, Crookers will leave audiences stunned by their ability…
As previously announced Metal Mind Productions will release a brand new studio album of the legendary Tank entitled “War Machine” on October, 25th. The US release date is December, 7th (via MVD) and the Japanese release date is December, 22nd on King Records. TANK 2010 – photo by Tony Mottram 658Creative Tank – featuring Mick Tucker and Cliff Evans on guitar alongside ex-Rainbow/Yngwie Malmsteen frontman Doogie White, ex-Bruce Dickinson bassist…
10/21 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar 10/22 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Mixtape Cafe 10/23 – Indianapolis, IN @ Emerson Theatre 10/24 – West Dundee, IL @ Clearwater Theater 10/26 – Iowa City, IA @ Blue Moose 10/27 – St. Paul, MN @ Station 4 10/28 – Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground 10/29 – Wichita, KS @ The Oz Cafe 10/30 – Wichita Falls, TX @ The Hangar…
Nov 11 Los Angeles, CA The Echo % Nov 12 Claremont, CA Pomona College Nov 13 Visalia, CA Cellar Door Nov 14 San Francisco, CA Hotel Utah Nov 16 Portland, OR Holocene Nov 17 Seattle, WA Crocodile Nov 24 Denver, CO Bluebird & Dec 02 New York, NY Terminal 5 * Dec 03 Washington DC 9:30 Club * * = w/ The Walkmen # = w/ Japandroids % = w/…
On the heels of his success this summer at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where, almost “steal[ing] the show” (Independent), he proved himself a “thrilling Adorno” (Financial Times) opposite Plácido Domingo in Simon Boccanegra, Joseph Calleja begins the 2010-11 season with his Houston Grand Opera debut in a new, opening-night production of Madama Butterfly. Calleja sings B.F. Pinkerton opposite soprano Ana Maria Martinez, who makes her role debut as…
“Mini Mansions is the side project of Queens of the Stone Age bassist Michael Shuman, and as far as offshoots go, it ranks up there with Jack White’s The Dead Weather.” – Seattle Weekly “Are they a psych-cabaret act? Nightmare-fueled big top rockers? Sixties popsters run through a meat grinder? Their self-titled debut album, sways through it all as rubbery and fuzzy basslines bounce along with piano pounding, driving drums…
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It’s called the Peace, Love and Inspiration tour. And with Chris Assaad manning the musical wheel, there’s no doubt that fans will receive all three in spades. Bringing his feel-good brand of folk, roots and rock to the forefront, Assaad is ready to hit up a variety of venues to show his fans just how far a little musical love can travel. Discovery and moving forward has always been the…
We hope that you are doing well today. The band has been straight up busy in the studio this summer with a fairly large collection of songs. We are pleased to share a handful of them with you right now. This record is something we made as a little summer retreat from our ongoing work on the third full length. Many of these tunes have been bouncing around since the…
Moe Green’s new video for the song “Iced Out Lifestyle,” produced by Indecent The Slapmaster, is all about contradictions. The clip includes scenes of a man who appears homeless and yet carries an iPhone. He drinks a 40oz of Steel Reserve in front of an empty building, yet is later shown to be driving Cadillac. The emcee, himself, is frequently shown in front of a sign welcoming you to Vallejo,…
1 – Cacadeur – “Walker (Early Remix)” French. Gentle. Atmospheric. Dream-like and almost sad. Five years in the making. The CQFD prize of (French weekly) Les Inrockuptibles. A good start to the power of ten. 2 – Guards – “Don’t Wake The Dead” Americans playing garage-rock. Typical NYC brutal energy. MGMT, Chairlift & Cults are friends and contribute to their recordings. Richie, the guy behind it all, posts free tracks…
12/01 -Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club (On sale 10/09) 12/03 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge (On sale 10/06) 12/04 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge (On sale 10/06) 12/05 – Alexandria, VA – The Birchmere (On sale 10/06) 12/07 – Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church (On sale 10/08) 12/08 – Toronto, ONT – The Great Hall (On sale 10/08) 12/10 – Chicago, IL…
Lauren Pritchard was 15 when she knew that she wanted to make music and she left her home in Jackson, TN to make it in Los Angeles. After finishing school and gigging at various events around town for years, the struggling artist found herself broke and homeless. Thanks to persistent friends, Lauren stayed in LA, and things began to look up when (the) Lisa Marie Presley offered her a place…
Joining the immensely successful Passion Talk Series (PTS) is the lines’ first Christmas talk with Passion Movement founder Louie Giglio, “The Twelve Words of Christmas,” available now on DVD from sixstepsrecords. Recorded live during Chris Tomlin’s “Glory in the Highest” 2009 Christmas tour “The Twelve Words of Christmas” shares a special message of Christmas, that God is with us, full of grace and truth, and that no one on earth…
Woodsman Woodsman is an experimental ambient post-psychedelic band based in Denver, CO. The quartet contains two totemic percussionists and two sonic animators who employ electric guitars, feedback loops, and recorded samples to build the dreamy astral soundscapes that define Woodsman’s sound. Influenced by hazy mountain passes, the cinema of Stan Brakhage, and early 1970’s improvisational recordings by Miles Davis Woodsman has crafted aural offerings that are uniquely their own. WOODSMAN…
The launch of the Second Edition of American Hardcore by Steven Blush comes with events from Maine to New York, followed by the Midwest and Los Angeles. This weekend Blush will stage events scheduled in the series “American Hardcore Library Conversations with Steven Blush,” with stops in Portsmouth, NH, Worcester, MA and Portland, ME. The reception from the media has been significant, with Q&As published Worcester Magazine, The Wire (Portsmouth),…