mewithoutYou will be hitting the road on the nationwide Our Cashew Princess of the Swirling Marble Tour this summer with Rubik and David Bazan and Rocky Votolato on select dates. There are currently 23 scheduled stops starting June 2nd in St. Louis, MO and culminating June 29th in Kalamazoo, MI. The tour comes after mewithoutYou’s latest release, IT’S ALL CRAZY! IT’S ALL FALSE! IT’S ALL A DREAM! IT’S ALRIGHT which…
Brooklyn-based quintet Extra Life recently debuted a brand new Tyondai Braxton (Battles) remix of their single “Head Shrinker,” with Stereogum, available for mp3 download here via LOAF. Stereogum premiered the band’s memorable “Head Shrinker” video a few months back, and calls the Braxton remix an “insectoid scratch-implosion, giving [Extra Life] their first pair of slippery dancing shoes.” Taken from Extra Life’s lauded sophomore album Made Flesh, out now on LOAF,…
For those who haven’t heard TRUTHLiVE’s new album, Patience, or his EP, The UnLearning, yet, there is now a new way to experience TRUTHLiVE. Kudos to DJ Vinroc who had a mixtape made in true and classic mixtape fashion that doesn’t skip from one track to the next. Running 20-minutes long, DJ Vinroc took the recent and best songs from both albums to put into the mixtape starting with title…
As Lone Star state rock quintet Green River Ordinance wrapped up their spring headlining tour on May 6 in Los Angeles, they were joined at the Troubadour by friends David Cook, Angel Taylor, and Matt Hires. The group wastes no time as it prepares to return to the road in support of their current single “On Your Own,” the follow up to “Come On” which reached Top 15 on the…
We can almost hear the universal sigh of relief… summer is here. Finally! So time to pack our bags and jet off to Ibiza for the opening season of Warung Brazil on Wednesday 30th June, at Ibiza’s legendary Privilege. Recognized as the electronic music temple in South Brazil, Warung (meaning ‘home’ in Balinese) sits on the sands of Praia Brava, with gorgeous views of the Atlantic Ocean. Having long been…
5/22/2010 – Pryor, OK – Bikelahoma 5/26/2010 – Santa Rosa, CA – Last Day Saloon 5/29/2010 – St. Louis, MO – Rib America Festival / Soldier’s Memorial Park 5/29/2010 – Monteagle, TN – Thunder On The Rocks Bike Rally June 6/3/2010 – Wichita, KS – The Cotillion 6/10/2010 – Allentown, PA – Crocodile Rock Cafe 6/18/2010 – Sioux City, IA – Awesome Biker Nights 6/19/2010 – Lincoln, NE – The…
He’s Baa-aa-aack! The beloved, award-winning Shaun the Sheep™ returns for a brand new collection of barnyard adventures – and he’s not alone. The six-episode collection, Shaun the Sheep: One Giant Leap for Lambkind, beams onto DVD June 8, 2010 from Lionsgate and HIT Entertainment. Shaun and his pals will have close encounters of a different kind with old nemeses the Naughty Pigs as well new friends from a galaxy far,…
Fri June 4th – DC9 – Washington, DC Sat June 5th – Central Park Summer Stage W/ Living Color – New York NY Sun June 6th – Southpaw – Brooklyn NY Ebony Bones is a star. It’s as simple as that, or it can be more complex if you’d prefer. If you want to look closer, you’ll see that this south Londoner is very much a artist of our times;…
American Hi-Fi’s new album, “Fight The Frequency,” will now be released August 17 on their own label, Hi-Fi Killers/The Ascot Club (through Megaforce/RED/Sony). Originally due out June 22, it’s the highly anticipated follow-up to 2005’s “Hearts On Parade” (Maverick) and was produced by singer/guitarist Stacy Jones and recorded at his studio in Los Angeles, The Deathstar. “Lost” is the first single from the original line-up–Stacy Jones (singer/guitarist), Drew Parsons (bass),…
Opening its doors in 1980 in Brooklyn’s inner-city, METRO MINISTRIES is celebrating its 30th Anniversary of serving children throughout the five boroughs of New York City and in various urban centers around the world. Its founder, PASTOR BILL WILSON, travels weekly to speak across America and around the world as a pioneer in children’s ministry. With over 120 full-time members on staff and over 42,000 children helped worldwide each week…
The Philadelphia-based award-winning underground hip-hop act known as Philadelphia Slick has been teasing us with hints towards a new EP release for a while now – and now that day has finally come! Philadelphia Slick has lined up a string of tour dates across the Northeast in support of the band’s new EP titled “Everything’s Game”. Packed full of lyrical genious and rythmic and melodic beauty, this EP is no…
Jihae and Wallace Meek are a couple with a keen ear for POP who’ve travelled the world together in search of the perfect tune. Having met in Glasgow while Ms. Meek was the singer for pop phenoms The Royal We and Mr. Meek helmed the excellent Bricolage, they eventually relocated to LA to soak in the sunny vibes and pop history. Surrounded by stacks of dusty 45s, crack musicians and…
Direct from Seville, Spain, the Queen of Gypsy Flamenco Dance Manuela Carrasco and her 10-member company headline the 2010 Bay Area Festival of Flamenco Arts & Traditions on June 15 at Berkeley’s Zellerbach Theater with Suspiro Flamenco. The festival is presented by the Bay Area Flamenco Partnership. True to Gypsy tradition, which places singing and dancing at the heart of family gatherings, Carrasco will appear with her husband Joaquin Amador…
The Cat Empire do what they do best on new release Cinema, blurring the lines between ska, jazz, funk, and rock, and colouring the festivities with a Latin flair that defies their Down Under roots. The band’s fifth studio release – their first since the acclaimed So Many Nights in 2007 – will be issued July 6 in the United States, two weeks after it is unveiled in The Cat…
Here We Go Magic is a five-piece band made up of members Luke Temple, Kristina Lieberson, Michael Bloch, Jennifer Turner, and Peter Hale. They originally came together in New York in early 2009 through a series of chance encounters, overheard conversations and supernatural occurrences. From disparate musical backgrounds, the five found immediate common inspiration in a collection of unique 4-track recordings created by lead singer Luke Temple. These recordings were…
GOATWHORE confirmed for OZZFEST 2010! New Orleans, Louisiana’s sons of American no-frills black metal meets death and roll, GOATWHORE, are confirmed to play the second stage on the infamous OZZFest summer tour alongside Black Label Society, Drowning Pool, Kingdom of Sorrow, Skeletonwitch, Saviours, and Kataklysm. OZZFest 2010 will kick off August 14 in San Bernardino, CA (the birthplace of the first OZZFest in 1996) and then make stops in Chicago,…
Aside from playing everyone’s favorite musically-inclined bartender on The CW’s One Tree Hill, Mike Grubbs is also the frontman of Brooklyn chamber pop outfit Wakey!Wakey! in real life. The band released their extraordinary sophomore LP Almost Everything I Wish I’d Said The Last Time I Saw You, earlier this month via Family Records/Timber St., and to celebrate Grubbs took to Facebook to do live performances for his fans every other…
Coming this summer, HELLS HEADBANGERS will unleash the first DENOUNCEMENT PYRE full-length album, “World Cremation.” Featuring eight tracks of primitive black/death metal, the album charges forth with a darker & more focused approach than ever before. “This is a definite statement in the heretic evolution,” says founding vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Decaylust. The album will be released on CD & gatefold LP, plus a limited-edition digipack CD version and a coloured vinyl version…
G5 Entertainment, known for its best-selling PSP games like Stand O’Food and Mahjongg Artifacts: Chapter 2, today announced that the PC and iPhone hit game, Supermarket Mania, will be available in North America for PlayStation® Portable and the PlayStation 3 on May 18, 2010 for only $4.99 and on May 26th in Europe for 4.99 EUR. Supermarket Mania – PSP In Supermarket Mania you must assist Nikki in managing a…
Night Work, the third album from New York City’s Scissor Sisters, will be released in the U.S. on June 29th by Downtown Records, which is distributed by Fontana, Universal Music Group’s independent distribution division. The band, which has sold over seven million albums worldwide, recorded the album in London, the Bahamas and New York City, working for the first time with an outside producer, Stuart Price (The Killers, Madonna). Spin.com…