Trustkill band IT DIES TODAY are ready to make their presence felt with the release of their long awaited album LIVIDITY due out September 15. Look for the band to tour well into 2010 in support. Singer Jason Wood checked in to say, “We’re really pumped about this new record and finally releasing it for our fans! This week Mike Hatalak (producer/guitarist) is in final mix sessions for the album…
For most of us the phrase Gold Country evokes memories of the 49ers who flocked to California by boat and covered wagon in order to seek fortune for themselves and their families. Chuck Ragan’s latest disc may be coming out a few lifetimes after the gold rush of the mid-nineteenth century, however there’s a timeless quality to the album that embodies the hope and hard work that helped define that…
A presence since early 2006, The Delfields have been altering the musical landscape in New Jersey for almost four years. In their hometown of New Brunswick, the term “indie†is used loosely to describe anything which doesn’t smack of the town’s long love affair with metal, punk, and more recently emo. This makes The Delfields’ self-proclaimed categorization of indie pop virtually non-existent. Joseph Fekete, lead singer and principal songwriter met…
The Dodos Discuss Time To Die With Pitchfork : http://pitchfork.com/news/35286-the-dodos-talk-new-album-roast-chicken-and-huey-lewis/ With a title like Time To Die, you might think the Dodos’ third disc is their ‘mature album,’ a deadly serious undertaking punctuated with string sections and synths. Nice try kid, but you’ve got it all wrong. While indie rock’s go-to guy, Phil Ek (Built to Spill, Fleet Foxes, The Shins), hopped behind the boards this time, the Dodos’ wildly-percussive…
With a West coast tour behind him, singer and songwriter Tyler Hilton has announced an addition to the series of new U.S. tour dates that began July 9th. Hilton will be out on the road with Better Than Ezra. The Palm Springs, CA, native is touring behind his new digital EP, Better on Beachwood, which was released on May 26th. Co-produced by Hilton and Rick Parker (Josh Kelly, Dandy Warhols),…
Central Florida has always been a hotbed for music and its latest progeny, VICTIMS OF CIRCUMSTANCE (VOC) are ready to lead the ska charge out of the Southeast. With an adrenaline-fueled second album ROLL THE DICE ready for release on August 25, 2009 via Financial Records and a high-profile gig hosting the “Super Size Summer Ska Spectacular†in Clearwater, FL, they are primed and ready to pump some horns and…
Volcano Choir is the assembly of Wisconsinites Jon Mueller, Chris Rosenau, Jim Schoenecker, Daniel Spack, Justin Vernon, and Thomas Wincek. One might find these old friends also frequenting records and stages under the monikers Collections of Colonies of Bees and Bon Iver. The Volcano Choir collaboration predates the meteoric rise of Justin Vernon’s Bon Iver project, with original songwriting dating back to the summer of 2005 – right around the…
In June 2004, aspiring country singer Jessica Harp packed everything into her car and left her Kansas City, MO, hometown for Tennessee to finalize a recording contract with Nashville indie-label Dualtone Music Group. Fate intervened when her best friend Michelle Branch called somewhere along the way and asked her to form a country/pop duo, which the girls dubbed The Wreckers. A No. 1 country single, a gold album, a Grammy-Award…
On September 22nd, Afternoon Records will release Sissy Wish’s Beauties Never Die in North America. In the meantime, fans can check out the video for the track “Float,” which gives a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the album. www.myspace.com/sissywish Beauties Never Die is the third full-length album from Bergen, Norway native Siri WÃ¥lberg (a.k.a. Sissy Wish). Produced by Norwegian super-producer Jorgen Traen (Sondre Lerche, Kayzers Orchestra, Jazzkammer, The Golden…
“I and Love and You,” is the title track and first single form the Avett Brothers forthcoming album due out on Columbia on Sept. 29th, 2009. Click here to download “I and Love and You” http://www.spinner.com/2009/06/24/the-avett-brothers-i-and-love-and-you-song-premiere/ For more information on the Avett Brothers contact dani.lovett@sonymusic.com http://www.theavettbrothers.com/ Home Catch the Avett Brothers on tour now… THE AVETT BROTHERS HOUSE OF BLUES 7/30/2009 BUFFALO, NY THURSDAY AT THE SQUARE 7/31/2009 SYRACUSE, NY…
John Lennon once said he didn’t believe that musicians created emotions in their listeners. Rather, he believed that an artist’s role is to bring feelings to the surface that already live deep within us. Thus, while all human beings are connected to one another in some way, there is a special bond we feel with the artists that help us shine a light within our own core. A few days…
Phase 4 Films is pleased to announce the DVD and Blu-ray release of THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH in the United States and Canada on August 4, 2009. Starring Nick Nolte, Sienna Miller and Peters Sarsgaard, the film made its world premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was theatrically released by Peace Arch Entertainment in April 2009. Based on Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon’s debut novel, THE MYSTERIES…
Check out the second single off of Mew’s upcoming debut, No More Stories Are Told Today I’m Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories the World Is Grey I’m Tired Let’s Wash Away, due out on Columbia on August 25th. To download the mp3 link here: http://www.spinner.com/2009/06/25/mew-repeaterbeater-free-mp3-download/ ‘No More Stories’ EP Tracklist 1. Introducing Palace Players 2. Repeaterbeater 3. Owl 4. Start 5. Swimmer’s Chant http://www.myspace.com/mew Home
NPR’s All Songs Considered : “One of the most beautiful and moving works I’ve heard in a long, long time. Just astonishing.” Time Out New York – “truly heart-wrenching” Tiny Mix Tapes – “Hospice is a work of rare beauty and a watershed moment in The Antlers’ career.” Sometimes you have to put yourself first, no matter how difficult that notion seems; no matter how much time and effort you’ve…
In these hard times, we can all stand a ray of hope. Hope in hip-hop now comes from the legendary Q-Tip, he of A Tribe Called Quest fame. His long-delayed album Kamaal the Abstract, slated originally for release in 2001, is finally dropping September 15th on Battery Records. A musical hybrid, Kamaal was commendably avant-garde at the time of its creation. Amazingly, itÂ’s even more apropos in 2009; given the…
DJ JS-1’s latest release, a 21-track, 40-plus guest-featured onslaught of hip-hop, turns to a violent page for the track “Murder.” Chino XL, Sean Price, and Killah Priest each lay down a verse over a beat that blends old school West Coast bumpin’ with a new school dark consciousness. Even the rappers, in the midst of their own braggadocio rhymes, give it up for the ferocity with which JS creates this…
Critical Praise for Pseudo Slang: “Pseudo Slang make the thinking fan’s kind of hip-hop.” – Chicago Sun Times “When I first heard Pseudo Slang ‘Yes Doubt’ I was floored, and it became my #1 Song of 2008. I’ve been doing radio for 18 years but few songs ever gave me chills, ‘Yes Doubt’ was one of them. I can’t wait for the album.” – DJ 3rd Rail, Chicago DJ and…
A Conversation with Jesse Matheson about his debut album, Pleasure Pounds, a record so full of fun, food, sexual innuendo, and sexual food innuendo you’re sure to be back for a second helping… Jesse Matheson, what do you mean when you say Pleasure Pounds? Pleasure pounds are something like a love handle,” says the aÂffable singer-songwriter. “They’re those parts of a woman’s body that are, well, womanly.” So is it…
Tending a hothouse full of luminous, melody-infused indie rock songs with sweet vocals, Boston’s Static of the Gods announceS the release of The Knowledge Machine on November 10, 2009. The Knowledge Machine, resulted from a discussion with friends on how words get lost in translation—most specifically the Finnish word for computer, which literally translates to “knowledge machine.†Johnson explains, “Over the next few days, that phrase seemed to keep coming…
KIDS LIKE US are set to release their new full length album “The Game” on August 18th through Eulogy Recordings. They posted a new song called “Snitchblade” from their upcoming album on their Myspace page. Bio: Kids Like Us started in the winter of 2002, after massive touring and 4 records later it’s 2009 and they are still ever present in the North Florida hardcore scene. Known for their energetic…