The Song: The faint horns, driving bass line, and melodious refrain echoing the words nothing anyone can say welcome the listener to the track “Nuthin.” An inviting and familiar instrumental atmosphere reminiscent of an old blues shack or juke joint is immediately established as DJ JS-1 drops the beat. A powerful team of heavy hitters featuring CL Smooth, Brother Ali, and Sadat X lend their indisputably recognizable vocals to the…
What do you get when you combine thrilling power metal with a genuine progressive approach? Alkemyst knows the answer. Their amazing LP “Meeting in the Mist†holds all the key elements that add up for a truly memorable album. This exclusive re-edition of Alkemyst’s debut opus brings back one of the most exciting releases ever to emerge on the French metal scene! The band was originally formed in the eastern…
“Street punk with a greater melodic sense!!” – ALTERNATIVE PRESS Brooklyn’s SUICIDE CITY are poised to release their debut full-length, ‘Frenzy,’ on August 4th, 2009. In anticipation of the album’s release, the band, in conjunction with ShockHound.com, has offered up a taste of ‘Frenzy’ for the price of free. Fans can visit ShockHound.com at the following URL to download an MP3 of the song “The Best Way,” the fifth cut…
Lou Rogai is a man and Lewis & Clarke’s main-man; Caroline Weeks a woman, but not a weak woman. They met when L&C opened a tour for Bats for Lashes when Caroline was a member of Natasha Khan’s band. Musical sparks flew and they agreed to tour together one day, with Lewis & Clarke’s transcendental “I don’t cut my grass” peace-of-mind folk and Caroline Week’s Victorian “don’t tighten the corset”…
Off the back of his recent Defected Compilation comes the summer sizzler ‘Desire’ from upcoming French producer Michael Canitrot. After a week of scorching sun here in the capital, Kish Communications has something very refreshing for you all. Michael Canitrot’s new single ‘Desire’ in its original form is a huge funky house anthem that is laced with catchy sing-a-long lyrics. ‘Desire’ has been garnering massive support from the likes of…
Insane Clown Posse, the Detroit duo of Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, are readying their tenth full-length release Bang! Pow! Boom! Already multiple times platinum with albums The Great Milenko and The Amazing Jeckel Brothers now the underground duo is back and poised to strike again. The group’s dark visions and Barnum minds have spawned a carnival of music and mayhem often scorned by mainstream media, but embraced by…
Now is the time to stake your claim on a copy of Josephine, the first longplayer from Magnolia Electric Co. in three years. Pre-orders of the album will come with a free, digital download of the 2009 limited-pressing 7-inch, It’s Made Me Cry. The 7-inch is very much a primer for the songcraft and narrative arch displayed on Josephine (Released July 21 in the US and July 20 in the…
This Summer, Varese Sarabande releases JOHN PHILLIPS’ ANDY WARHOL PRESENTS “MAN ON THE MOON” which collects of Phillips’ compositions and performances, studio recordings as well as a cassette recording by Andy Warhol of a performance and more. The off-Broadway musical Man On The Moon was conceived by John Phillips and his third wife, the South African actress, Genevieve Waite, as a potential film or stage production originally entitled Space. John…
XSEED Games and Marvelous Entertainment USA are excited to announce that Little King’s Story has officially gone gold and will ship to retail outlets nationwide starting on July 21, 2009. The Wii-exclusive title features life-simulation, real-time strategy, and adventure elements all packaged into a charming storybook adventure title. Watch the latest gameplay elements in the following videos: Carpenter.mov – Various job classes work together to build a bridge. As Regular…
Playbrains, an independent game development studio specializing in the digital download arena, announced today a new and very personal way to play with your friends over Xbox LIVE®. For the first time in any Xbox LIVE Arcade game, gamers will be able to take full control of their custom Avatar as a playable, in-game character through “Avatar Attack” mode in Madballs in…Babo:Invasion (MiBI) for Xbox LIVE Arcade on Xbox 360.…
An elusive new project from composer Alan Palomo. Neon Indian delivers equal parts synthetic nostalgia, Dreampop lullabies, and grinding guitar noise to create something eerier than the sum of its parts. Forged after a hazy winter gathering in Texas, this initial batch of tracks were the result of field recordings, record samples, a collection of bizarre synth sounds. Soliciting the visual acrobatics of Video artist Alicia Scardetta, this project is…
“Let Them Know: The Story of Youth Brigade” will be shown alongside other quality independent features on this year’s Southern Circuit Film Festival. This unique tour will take a group of young filmmakers on the road, taking up-and-coming directors along for each of the showings. “Let Them Know” director, Jeff Alulis, will be joining the tour and will be appearing on behalf of his film and BYO “Let Them Know:…
GOATWHORE Hits Billboard Top 200 Chart with New Album ‘Carving Out the Eyes of God’! Los Angeles, CA – July 2, 2009 – New Orleans, LA’s sons of American no-frills black metal meets death and roll, GOATWHORE, have just broke the Billboard Top 200 chart with their latest release Carving Out the Eyes of God, coming in at #190! In addition to hitting the Top 200 Chart, Carving Out the…
07.06 – Iota Art Gallery (Washington, DC) 07.07 – Zebulon (Brooklyn, NY) 07.08 – North Star Bar (Philadelphia, PA) 07.11 – The Cake Shop (New York, NY) 07.12 – House Party (Pittsburgh, PA) 07.13 – House Party (Columbus, OH) 07.15 – Uncle Fester’s (Bloomington, IN) 07.16 – Al’s Bar (Lexington, KY) 07.17 – J’s Bohemia (Chattanooga, TN) 07.18 – Little Kings Shuffle Club (Athens, GA) *All Dates w/ Madeline and…
Although their name would invoke yuletide tidings and blissful chanting, U.S. CHRISTMAS creates music which is anything but. Spanning the dark, decrepit and painful side of disharmonic psychedelia, this North Carolina outfit has successfully distilled the essence of cacophony through countless layers of sound and crushing waves of volume that are an orchestrated assault on the senses. None other than Neurosis’ Scott Kelly took notice of U.S. CHRISTMAS through his…
The fourth full length by Woods, Songs of Shame, rips deeper with both 90-second and 10-minute forays into skeletal psychedelia. This is not to say the idiosyncratic songwriting style and vocalizing of Jeremy Earl is not present in spades but expanded, colored, and twisted into a tie-dye of soundscapes. Having toured incessantly over the last 12 months as a four piece (Jarvis Taveniere, G. Lucas Crane and Kevin Morby round…
XSEED Games today announced that they have secured the North American publishing rights to The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces, an intense flight simulation game on Wiiâ„¢. Originally released in Japan by NAMCO BANDAI Games, this latest title from Project Aces, will be available Holiday 2009 exclusively for Wii. After decades of constant war and fighting, the world has finally come to a lasting peace. But with war being an integral…
Yukon roots music songwriter Gordie Tentrees has released his 3rd album, Mercy or Sin, produced by Juno Award-winning producer Bob Hamilton. Joining Gordie (dobro, guitar, harmonica) are long-time bandmates Ken Hermanson (banjo, lapsteel, guitar) and Matt King (upright bass). This is the much-anticipated follow up to critically-acclaimed Bottleneck to Wire (2007) and 29 Loads of Freight (2004). This album finally captures the bands dynamic live show and unique growth of…
How often do you meet a band that ties together brilliant songwriting, flawless technique, mad intensity and a thought-provoking lyrical content to boost? When it comes to extreme metal, it’s really difficult to find the complete package. Maybe that’s why “Retaliate†by Misery Index is such an important album. It shows that the impossible is sometimes just a head bang away…. Misery Index isn’t your average death metal or grindcore…
So this week, we present week 3 of the “Summer of Golden Bloom†(thank you again Magnet for the aptly titled slogan) which is given to you by Ireland’s own, Tuneraker. “Fan the Flames†is the track for this week which is available at http://www.tuneraker.com/index.php/music-features/world-exclusive-preview-of-fan-the-flames-by-golden-bloom/