The Summer Set have been named as the opening act on the AP Tour 2010. For additional clues for other bands that will be on the tour, make sure to follow the AP Tour on Twitter (www.twitter.com/theaptour). The Summer Set recently released their debut album Love Like This, and are currently finishing up a five week tour with Cartel and This Providence. The band recorded a video for the song…
Beginning their career as Xecutioner in 1984, OBITUARY remains one of the most influential and groundbreaking bands in the death metal genre they inadvertently helped forge. Hailing from the sunny state of Florida, the band’s decidedly un-sunny take on metal integrated devastatingly slow, lead-footed riffing with obliterating overtures and guttural screams; the adrenaline of a speedball with the slow, degrading measures of a sewer at dusk. It was a sound…
The mighty Goatwhore will be returning to the road in 2010 with veteran metal icons, DevilDriver and Suffocation! This will be their first tour back in North America following their upcoming European tour and is continuing the support for what is fast becoming their defining album, Carving Out The Eyes Of God. The Onion’s avclub.com declares Carving… as one of the top 30 metal albums of the decade and comments:…
California’s This Time Next Year will kick off 2010 alongside Four Year Strong, The Bled, Strike Anywhere, and Title Fight for a four week tour in January and February. The pop-punk outfit come armed with an incredible new album, Road Maps And Heart Attacks, and several US tours under their belt, having shared the stage with many of the scene’s current heavyweights including Cartel, Set Your Goals, and Hit The…
A hot minivan barreling down the highway, filled to the brim with siblings, sleeping bags, and travel checkers sets—this is the setting for a decades-old American tradition upheld by millions: arguing over the radio dial until consensus is happily found at that hallowed institution, the oldies station. Thus begins the story of Ortolan, four young women from Southern New Jersey with music-loving, art-teacher parents, devoted to each other in laughter,…
God-Des & She are like strict parents. Or coaches. They only hurt your feelings because they love you. On their new single “Radio Up” they take the radio down a peg, but only because they care about it so much. Over a grinding beat provided by Baltimore’s Reina Williams, emcee God-Des spits fire about the downfall of the radio and the record industry as we once knew it. “The music…
Metal Blade Records is pleased to announce the signing of extreme modern metal act SYSTEM DIVIDE, featuring Sven De Caluwe (Aborted) and Miri Milman (ex-Distorted) on vocals, Cole Martinez (ex-Years Of Fire, Antenora) and Joseph Spiller (ex-The Binary Code) on guitars, Andrew Lenthe (Antenora) on bass, and Mike Heller (Malignancy) on drums. SYSTEM DIVIDE has already completed a video for the song The Apex Doctrine off the bands current EP,…
The new video for the song “Vetrarmegin” (English translation: “Winter Force”) from Swedish Viking metallers MANEGARM is now posted for all the world to view! The song comes off the band’s latest full-length, Nattväsen (“Night Creatures”), released in November via Regain Records. The video was filmed by Standard Film Team (Dark Funeral, Plector, Zonaria etc.) near the band’s hometown of Norrtälje in a “Viking village” said to have an incredible…
Montreal based Derelict have announced they have parted ways with bassist Louis-Phillipe Roy and replaced him with bassist Joey Sciacchitano. The band released the following statement: “A significant change has been slowly occurring in our camp over the last few months. After weighing his priorities, Louis-Philippe has decided to move on from being in Derelict and focus on his studies and other potential career paths,” commented frontman Eric Burnet. “He…
Thursday, December 31, KRC Catering, Bloomington, 7.30pm Celebrate New Year’s Eve with the Monika Herzig Trio featuring Janiece Jaffe Package deals for multi course dinner, free champagne, rooms at Courtyard Inn Friday, January 29, Stables Studios, Spencer Live video taping for DVD Documentary “Come With Me”? Sunday, February 21, Monroe County Public Library Auditorium Janiece Jaffe and Monika Herzig for Arts Week April 12 through May 17, Mondays 6-10pm, Senior…
Having just returned home from headlining the Bridge Nine Records Tour (with label-mates Polar Bear Club, Crime In Stereo, and Ruiner), Strike Anywhere is proud to announce plans to share the road with Four Year Strong at the start of 2010. Praised as “a band that can turn a room full of strangers into a family” (Ink 19), Strike Anywhere will meet up with Four Year Strong, This Time Next…
Israel’s Seek Irony have signed with U.S. based Chopmark Records for the release of their upcoming new EP, “Tech N’ Rollâ€. The group is currently streaming tracks from their new EP online at www.MySpace.com/SeekIrony and is expected to embark on a nationwide U.S. tour in early 2010. Rising out of the burgeoning music scene in the Middle East, Israel’s Seek Irony are poised to become among the first Middle Easterners…
We are proud to share the news that we’ve just signed the incredible Danish band Oh No Ono. Their brilliant, otherworldy psychedelic pop captured our attention in quick fashion, and we are proud to announce that we have just released the first single from their upcoming US debut album “Eggs”, entitled “Swim”, in digital form. The Pitchfork-approved video for “Swim”, directed by Adam Hashemi, is a dark, beautifully-shot (and slightly…
Powerpopaholic (http://gator912.hostgator.com/~doctorao/powerpop/interviews/golden.html) interviewed Shawn Fogel of Golden Bloom to find out about the meaning behind the moniker, his influences and heroes, and his rock star moment. Here is a brief look at what Fogel would call a “rock star momentâ€: “My favorite moment (of a couple of hours) from touring this summer would have to be spending the afternoon at Pizza Putt in Burlington, VT. It’s an indoor mini-golf, arcade,…
Atlanta-based experimental rock band, iRival was just chosen as one of the Top 20 Unsigned Artists by Purevolume.com! Check it out here: http://www.purevolume.com/top_unsigned_2009. Fusing various aspects of rock and electronics, iRival is road-tested and experienced, having toured with the likes of Family Force 5, Breathe Carolina and Cash Cash and scored an opening stint on 2008’s Rockstar Taste of Chaos. With an average of 2000-5000 plays daily on MySpace and…
Multi-platinum rock band Green Day are in the studio this week recording a new version of their hit single “21 Guns†with the cast of American Idiot — the critically-acclaimed stage version of the band’s 2004 album that has been playing at Berkeley Rep since early September. The band’s singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong is producing the track, which will impact radio at the end of November and be…
” Comforts and kills the pain of the past with a perfect and promising dose of simplicity” – Glide Magazine ” A great new piece of work that is so infectious” – KCRW DJ Chris Douridas With three critically acclaimed records under his belt over the past three years and boasting an impressive line up of contributing artists -including Ani DiFranco, Glen Phillips, Dave Pirner and Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello),…
Legendary death metal giants MASTER will embark on a five-week South American tour, stretching 15 dates across numerous Brazilian territories. Dubbed Masters Of Hate 2010, the tour will commence on January 14, 2010 with a final destination at the OtacÃlio Rock Festival in Santa Catarina, Brazil on February 21, 2010. Joining MASTER as tour-support throughout will be UK modern metallers After Death and Brazilian death metallers Predator. 1.14.10 – Sao…
inger/songwriter Josh Kelley goes back to his Georgia roots and joins the Universal Music Group Nashville family. Kelley signed with the label in September and is currently in the studio recording his forthcoming album, slated for release in 2010. “Universal is a perfect home for me and my music,†said Kelley. “They have an awesome track record of allowing artists to be who they really are, and have already been…
Paramount Digital Entertainment and TransGaming Inc. (TSX-V: TNG) announced today that Mac users will soon be able to download the Star Trek®: D-A-C video game via TransGaming Inc.’s GameTreeOnline.com digital distribution platform in North America. Star Trek: D-A-C is a fast-paced, top-down space shooter where up to twelve players can compete in intergalactic battles between Starfleet and the Romulan Empire. Star Trek: D-A-C for Mac will be available for download…