Category: Artist News

THE ATLAS MOTH: Tour With Coalesce & Harvey Milk + SXSW Shows Confirmed

Cerebrally pulverizing Chicagoan quintet THE ATLAS MOTH will be blazing a good chunk of the East Coast and Midwest on the road this March with Coalesce and Harvey Milk. The low-end triple-guitar thunder the band are well-known for creating on stage is as massive as it is mesmerizing, as witnessed on their 2009 live with Dark Castle, Wetnurse, Black Cobra, Nachtmystium, Pentagram, Javelina and countless more. THE ATLAS MOTH w/…

Princeton Tours For “Cocoon of Love”

Los Angeles-based Princeton released its debut record, Cocoon of Love, September 29th on Kanine Records. Growing up on Princeton Street in Santa Monica, the group now lives in an aging green house on a hillside in the Eagle Rock district of LA where their album was recorded. Among the many detrimental effects that love has on the mind, one of the more subtle is the way it litters the memory…

SHERWOOD LAUNCHES U.S. HEADLINING TOUR FEBRUARY 17 IN LOS ANGELES

Sherwood, purveyors of feel good California rock, will be hitting the road launching a U.S. headlining tour in support of its most recent effort QU. The tour kicks off February 17 in Los Angeles at the famed Roxy Theater. A Beach Boys-inspired power pop band hailing from San Luis Obispo, California, Sherwood came together in 2002 while the band members were still students at the local university. Now signed to…

MONDO DRAG live dates:

February 6 Iowa City, IA White Lightning Wherehouse February 9 St. Louis, MO Off Broadway Nightclub February 10 Carbondale, IL The Swamp February 11 Lexington, KY Al’s Bar February 12 Nashville, TN Springwater Supper Club February 13 Murfreesboro, TN Wall Street February 14 Greenbrier, TN Loudhouse Coffee February 15 Cincinnati, OH Blue Rock Tavern February 16 Detroit, MI Corktown Tavern February 17 Chicago, IL The Mopery February 18 Dekalb, IL…

Introducing… Penguin Prison

Penguin Prison’s irresistibly quirky sound resides somewhere between the likes of Hot Chip, Hall and Oates, Ultravox, Wham and the Jackson 5. Born and raised in Manhattan, the mecca of musical endeavors, Chris Glover aka Penguin Prison has never been short of inspiration. Raised on a healthy diet of Michael Jackson, Prince, A Tribe Called Quest, Nat King Cole, Nirvana and Weezer, he soon began to channel such influences, and…

The title track of the new album melds raw energy with a visceral blend of sinuous melodies and shifting rhythmic patterns in the same catchy style of Victory Records label mates BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME. Hailed as a “virtual melting pot of several different metal styles” by Outburn Magazine, A HERO A FAKE prove they are not confined to traditional musical boundaries. Check out the equally gripping music video…

JETS OVERHEAD at Olympics/CMW/SXSW/Coachella

Having logged appearances in the past year at Bonnaroo, the CMJ Music Marathon and Neil Young’s Bridge School Concert, Victoria, BC quintet Jets Overhead continue to build momentum on the touring front with upcoming performances at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, South by Southwest, Canadian Music Week, and the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Jets Overhead will make their debut appearance at the 11th edition of Coachella on the…

Slumberland Records celebrates 20th anniversary with blowout shows in LA and SF

Last November, Slumberland Records celebrated twenty years of releasing amazing records with a pair of sold-out shows in DC and Brooklyn that combined the current Slumberland roster with selected bands from the label’s storied past. These nights were such a roaring success that the label immediately set to planning shows for the fans on the west coast. Now we’re very pleased to announce two shows for the last weekend of…

Daughtry Kicks Off Super Bowl at Super Tailgate This Sunday February 7, 2010

After finishing its successful European tour Monday, Daughtry announces it will perform this Sunday at the NFL’s Super Tailgate Party outside Sun Life Stadium before the kick off of Super Bowl XLIV. Singer Chris Daughtry, bassist Josh Paul, drummer Joey Barnes, and guitarists Brian Craddock and Josh Steely plan to perform a 45 minute set of music including the band’s current hit single “Life After You” and material from their…

Artillery – back on the road!

Danish band Artillery will hit the road again to promote their most recent album “When Death Comes”. So far they’ve confirmed the following dates: February 20th: Oostende Festival, Ostendfest – Belgium March 27th: Ramfest, Albertslund – Denmark April 9th: Slagelse Musikhus, Slagelse – Denmark April 10th: Kansas City, Odense – Denmark April 16th: Loppen, Copenhagen – Denmark May 22nd: Rock Hard Festival, Gelsenkirchen – Germany May 7th: Walpurgis Metal Days,…

SLAYER, MEGADETH, TESTAMENT ANNOUNCE NEW DATES FOR THE “AMERICAN CARNAGE” NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

Slayer and Megadeth are thrilled to announce the new, confirmed routing for the American Carnage North American Tour, which will commence with the rescheduled Canadian Carnage East dates in Quebec City on Friday, July 23. Slayer will then head to Europe for a run of festival dates, returning to kick off the American Carnage leg in Albany, NY on August 11. American Carnage will play 26 dates across the United…

Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! Announce US Tour

“It used to be that Moby was the artist people thought of when the words innovative and hip were applied to a musician who had sprung from the corridors of SUNY Purchase. But Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! — a revolving band of musical party-throwers signed to David Byrne’s Luaka Bop record label — are racking up a string of much-hyped shows around Manhattan and Brooklyn.” New York Mag: “It’s nearly…

TDB Records Welcome FURNACE, PHANTOM GLUE, CHOKE UP To the Family

TDB Records head honcho (and Ramming Speed sticksman) Jonah Livingston checked with an update on three exciting new additions to the label’s already stacked roster: “For the last few years the TDB roster has been branching out far from our Boston locale, welcoming California’s Litany For the Whale, Germany’s Perth Express, and the Texans in Die Young. As wonderful as it’s been spreading our wings to work with bands further…

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Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra Present “After the Thaw” – Music of Post-Stalin Soviet Union at Lincoln Center on Wednesday, February 24

With the death of Josef Stalin in 1953, the dictator’s chilling grip on Soviet life finally began to loosen, after three decades. What became known as “the Thaw” resulted in, among other things, a flowering of new musical compositions, full of ideas and innovations that before might have resulted in a sentence to Siberia. The American Symphony Orchestra’s 2008 program “Russian Futurists” told a story of composers who briefly thrived…

Band To Watch: Fenech-Soler

Kings Cliffe, England is a sleepy civil parish just hours North of London. However, from within the confines of the quiet town’s unruffled essence come synth-pop quartet Fenech-Soler, whose dreamy melodies and throbbing rhythms were conceived, hidden away within the depths of a bedroom studio – but not for long. Producing highly polished gems of fantasy pop, Fenech-Soler are unlikely purveyors of crowd trembling electro-funk. Already receiving accolades from the…

Imelda May – Coast to Coast March Tour w/Jamie Cullumn

Dublin-born May, who has previously shared stages with Jeff Beck as well as Van Morrison, made her major label debut in late 2009 with Love Tattoo (Verve), which shot to #1 on the Irish charts, ahead of Bruce Springsteen and Eminem. Throughout the U.K. and Ireland, she has won honors from Rising Star of 2009 and Jazz Artist of 2009 to Best Female Newcomer. Shaking up traditional jazz with a…

STREET DOGS RETURN TO STUDIO FOR “RABBLE ROUSING” NEW ALBUM

Punk rock proponents for social justice, Street Dogs, have announced plans to return to the studio in February to record their fifth studio album and follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2008 Hellcat debut State of Grace. The band will be recording with bassist Johnny Rioux as producer and Rick Barton (original Dropkick Murphys guitarist) co-producing at the infamous punk rock studio the Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado which was…

Dwayne Kerr (The Funky Fluteman) Returns to Long Island Winterfest!

The Funky Fluteman returns to the Long Island Winterfest/Jazz on the Vine concert series February 13, 2010. This is the third time Dwayne Kerr has appeared as part of the festivities and the second year in a row that Clovis Point Winery has requested the fluteman play. The 2009 show was filled to capacity, so be sure to arrive early for this very special and FREE concert. More information can…

LOS ANGELES PROG-ROCKERS ANCESTORS ANNOUNCE UK / EUROPEAN TOUR AND ROADBURN FEST APPEARANCE; HOMETOWN SHOW WITH SAINT VITUS

Los Angeles based progressive rock collective ANCESTORS have announced April, 2010 UK and European tour dates in support of its critically acclaimed new album Of Sound Mind. The trek will launch on April 9 in Essen, Germany and will include a high profile appearance as part of the 2010 Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands on April 15. Now in its eleventh year, the Roadburn Festival has become EuropeÂ’s leading underground…