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…
Bombastic NYC-based electro-rock duo Streetlab scored a bona fide slamdunk with the April 20th release of AUTO SPKR, their debut full-length album of glitchy floor-thumpers and seam-busting bangers. After making a name for themselves reworking classic rock standards into infectious club-bangers, the pair have been rolling out their own original material to unanimous praise from music journalists and fans alike. Deli Magazine featured the band in their Best of NYC…
Hard rockers BLACK WATER RISING are continuing to take the music world by storm. Fresh off a blistering show in Brooklyn, NY with Hellyeah, BWR is psyched to announce that they have several more shows lined up for May in support of their self-titled release which is available now on Giddy Up! Records. Giddy Up! Records is a brand new label with distribution through Sony/RED. The album artwork was designed…
In times of restless reorientation and a permanent hectic search for ever more spectacular innovations, AXEL RUDI PELL has proved to be a constant, solid as a rock, a reliable preserver of his undisputed assets. Confident and courageous at the same time, he has embarked on a consistently traditional course with his band, relying more than ever on traditional values with his new album, The Crest. “The Crest sounds absolutely…
On Tuesday, June 22nd, the Music City community will unite to assist victims of the floods that ravaged Nashville and Middle Tennessee NASHVILLE RISING: A see earlier this month. “Benefit Concert for Flood Recovery,” will take place at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. It will feature performances by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, who are spearheading the event, and numerous other artists. See below for a list of performers and special guests…
Topshelf Records (Defeater, My Heart To Joy, Pianos Become The Teeth) are excited to announce a new release from Aeroplane, 1929, as well as the addition of Castevet, Everyone Everywhere, Into It. Over It., and Lion Cub to their roster. Two years after The Holy Ghost, Aeroplane, 1929 return with their strongest release to date and long awaited full length, Attic & Cellar. Absolutepunk.net claimed The Holy Ghost to be…
A second Los Angeles area show has been scheduled in Anaheim on October 25th at the Honda Center along with 6 additional dates for the Live Nation produced tour including stops in Chicago, Oakland, San Diego, San Antonio, Dallas, and Uncasville. More dates to be announced soon. Tickets for the newly announced shows go on sale on May 14th at LiveNation.com. Shakira North American Tour Dates September 17 Uncasville, CT…
Celebrated UK trio KEANE will embark on a headlining US tour this summer in support of their new album Night Train, out tomorrow on Cherrytree/Interscope Records. The tour kicks off July 20th in Oakland, CA and sees the band traveling across the country, wrapping up August 11th in Minneapolis. Tickets go on sale May 14th. Tour dates below. Supporting the tour will be Travis frontman Fran Healy and Ingrid Michaelson.…
Opera News announces the launch of its new, redesigned web site at www.operanews.com, which boasts a dynamic, image-rich look, new and expanded content, and improved navigation and search tools, making online exclusives, favorite sections, and new material more accessible than ever before. Meanwhile the world’s premier opera magazine takes on a southern flavor this June, with a cover story profiling Louisiana’s bass-baritone Greer Grimsley, and numerous related articles, featuring Charleston’s…
On May 18 L.A.’s Chapin Sisters release “Oh, Hear The Wind Blow” digitally and on vinyl (being sold at their live shows). This EP was recorded live in the studio and features three songs from their “Lake Bottom LP” and two of the compositions that will appear their second full length release “Two.” “Two” was recorded in rural New Jersey in the Summer of 2008 with co-producers Jesse Lee (Gang…
V V Brown has already ignited TV screens with performances on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Ellen, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and Rachael Ray. Her smash single “Shark in the Water” from her debut Travelling Like the Light is being spun on over 90 pop and adult stations nationally, having just entered the Adult Top 40, and features in the trailer for the forthcoming big screen comedy “Just Wright,”…