Body Talk PT 2, the second in a trilogy of albums that Robyn will release this year on Cherrytree Records, is due out on September 7th. “Hang With Me,” the album’s lead single, will be available at all digital retailers on August 17th. The collection will also feature a duet with Snoop Dogg, who delivers what Robyn describes as a “very gangsta” performance on “U Should Know Better.” Just last…
The name might as well be a movie title: Twin Shadow in … Forget. Only it’s not a movie; it’s a panoramic LP that introduces us to the twilight zone tale of George Lewis Jr. The troubled son of a hairdresser and a “teacher who lived many lives” (semi-pro football, massage therapy, film maker and other things we’ll tell you about when you’re older), George was born in the Dominican…
Play Ball. Hailed by Sports Illustrated as “a damn good baseball movie” and ranked the #1 sports movie of all time*, Bull Durham hits a new high when it debuts on Blu-ray August 3 from MGM Home Entertainment. Covering all bases with critics, men and women alike, the film about sports and sex from writer/director Ron Shelton (White Men Can’t Jump, Cobb) stars Oscar® winners Kevin Costner (Dances With Wolves,…
Just in time for Halloween, the highly-anticipated, heart-pounding sequel Mirrors 2 debuts exclusively on Blu-ray and DVD October 19 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. When Max, a recovering addict, takes a job as a nighttime security guard, he begins to see visions of a young mysterious woman in the store’s mirror. The terrifying results push audiences to the edge-of-their-seats in this white-knuckle horror film directed by Spanish filmmaker Victor…
AVAILABLE IN NORTH AMERICA OCTOBER 12th ON SPV/STEAMHAMMER They were the prime mover, they preached back seat education, and together with Alice Cooper they fed Frankenstein….now they are back….meaner, leaner and heavier than ever. ZODIAC MINDWARP & THE LOVE REACTION will enter a new decade of heavy dirty street rock n`roll as they declare “We Are Volsung”. Inspired by the Nordic mythology the album features ten brand-new unadulterated. The album…
What makes DaVinci so dynamic is that he consistently establishes expectations and consistently breaks them afterward. While The Day The Turf Stood Still’s first single, “What You Finna Do”, painted a picture of gentrification affecting his neighborhood, The Fillmore, DaVinci’s second single, “Ben”, took a look at society’s infatuation with money; all with DaVinci’s block-influenced point of view. With his latest single, “Concrete Jungle Juice” DaVinci again shows off his…
If Sylvester Martinez and Johnson Peterson, aka Yolanda Be Cool, were in the Carpenters, they would be singing “We’ve only just begun.” For though 2009 was a massive year for these two, what with exclusively signing their releases to Ajax’s Sweat It Out label, their bookings to his agency not to mention their original productions and remixes receiving huge support from some of the scene’s biggest players, they are far…
What do you get when you combine the spoken Word of God and Modern Day Psalms of Adoration and Praise? You get the brand new CD, My Worship Experience CD. Produced and written by Bryant Scott and Bishop Leonard Scott, My Worship Experience is a unique, Father-Son project setting new trends in Praise and Worship music. In August 2009, Bryant Scott’s vision was birthed of creating a worship service where…
Sat 8/21 – Vancouver, BC – Media Club Tue 8/24 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry Wed 8/25 – Chicago, IL – Schubas Tavern Thu 8/26 – Detroit, MI – Magic Stick *All Dates with Light Pollution For more info, please visit: http://www.polyvinylrecords.com http://www.myspace.com/casiokids
On the heels of the recently released third Gorillaz album Plastic Beach being voted #1 album of 2010 thus far in NPR’s listeners poll, and first single/video “Stylo” setting the record for the most successful YouTube Music Tuesday premiere ever, Gorillaz have followed up with an epic clip for “On Melancholy Hill.” The narrative reveals the whereabouts of Gorillaz guitar slinger Noodle, making her first appearance since her apparent demise…
Like that slice of lime which lifts a bottle of Corona in the after-work beer garden, magnetic London-based quintet The Munroes’ debut offering Rainbow Sun is the perfect accompaniment for hazy, lazy days spent whiling away the evening as dusk sets in. Christened after towering frontman Robert Munro Runciman, this initial cut is taken from The Munroes’ debut album Dying To Be Re-Born – set for release later this year.…
AUGUST SAT 21 Hasselt, BEL Pukkelpop SUN 22 Ludinghausen, GER Area 4 TUE 24 Orvieto, IT Umbria Folk Festival WED 25 Sarroch, IT Summer Groove FRI 27 Reading, UK Festival SUN 29 Leeds, UK Festival OCTOBER SAT 9 Austin, TX ACL Fest NOVEMBER SUN 21 Belfast, IRE Mandela Hall MON 22 Dublin, IRE Olympia WED 24 Lisboa, PT Bullring FRI 26 Liverpool, UK Academy SAT 27 Leeds, UK University Refectory…
Standout artist Riva Starr has been nominated for a prestigious DJ Award after an unparalleled year that has already seen him hailed as “dance music’s future star” by Q Magazine. Like all the great names in dance music the Riva Starr sound is very distinctive, uniting many different styles under one groove. Fans of Riva’s exciting music are as wide-ranging as Gilles Peterson, Tiesto, Carl Cox, Ricardo Villalobos and Annie…
Blue Water White Death is the brainchild of two of today’s most unique songwriters – Jamie Stewart of the eclectic, risk-taking pop group Xiu Xiu, and Jonathan Meiburg, golden-throated front man of Austin art-rock quintet, Shearwater. For their first collaboration Stewart and Meiburg, longtime fans of each other’s music, adopted the name of a 1971 documentary that follows a team of increasingly reckless explorers on a shark-finding quest to Australia’s…
Matt Costa is proud to announce the release of his third album, Mobile Chateau, on September 21st via Brushfire Records. The new record was recorded at Pheasant Studios in Santa Ana, CA with Costa taking the production reins for the first time. A fall tour has been confirmed with dates throughout the US and Canada, dates are shown below or visit the website for additional information. Mobile Chateau’s sound is…
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To introduce audiences to their new collection of songs, acclaimed art rock band The Dears will play a series of residencies during which they will perform their forthcoming record in full. The eight residency shows – three consecutive nights in Toronto and Montreal and two in Brooklyn (tour dates below) – will recapture the essence of the band’s immensely successful string of shows in Mexico City this past May. The…
Alas, the wait is over: Slovenian chaos-black metallers BLEEDING FIST have posted online the new video for “Invocation Into Devil’s Flesh”! Coming off the recent MORIBUND release Macabrum Bestia Ex Abyssus and directed by Oton Bačar and Martin DeBernardi, BLEEDING FIST’s “Invocation Into Devil’s Flesh” literally unleashes hellfire and brimstone, and to date is the perfect visual embodiment of the band’s self-described “chaos black metal.” Witness that hellfire ‘n’ brimstone…
It was early 2008 when the Cobalt Hotel in Vancouver hosted the reunion of Caustic Thought, a popular local band that had not played together for twelve years. Little did bassist Byron Stroud (Fear Factory, Strapping Young Lad, Zimmer’s Hole), drummer Bob Wagner (Econoline Crush), and guitarist Ian White know at the start that this special evening would light a spark that would take this reunion further than they initially…
Marnie Stern the album mirrors Marnie Stern, the woman. Birthed during a challenging period in her life, the self-titled Marnie Stern is a compendium of life stories both bitter and sweet. From ballads to her signature pop guitar-tapping style, Stern and long-time co-conspirator Zach Hill have churned out (for lack of a better word) an enormous album that will further cement Stern as a rising star in today’s progressive music…