Category: Artist News

Posted on: August 6, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

This Friday: Girls & Boys Presents VIKING w/ DATA + SINDEN at Webster Hall

With a handful of releases under his belt, and a national tour well underway, Parisian DJ DATA stops by Webster Hall this Friday to share some of his earth shattering masterpieces sure to ignite the dance floor in a frenzy. Having completed remix collaborations with artists such as Terry Poison, Danger, Felix Da Housecat, Chromeo, M83, Kitsune and Ed Banger Records already, DATA is known for his heavy, hard-hitting sound…

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Cale Parks – To Swift Mars Released This Week. Tour With Lemonade.

To Swift Mars, the latest release from Cale Parks (drummer from Aloha & White Williams) is out now! Parks will be hitting the U.S. this month with Lemonade in support of To Swift Mars starting August 18, in New York @ Santos Party House. To Swift Mars has been garnering great reviews in various outlets like Filter, Impose, The Tripwire, You Aint No Picasso and more. The single, “One at…

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Pseudo Slang – “Yes Doubt”

“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 Radio Legend, 89.3FM WNUR, DJ3RDRAIL.COM…

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THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER’s forthcoming album ‘Deflorate’ available for pre-order; exclusive video clip from bonus DVD now available!

Michigan’s unstoppable sons of molten melodic death metal THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER are set to release Deflorate, the follow up to 2007’s Nocturnal, on September 15th 2009. In preparation of this behemoth release, Metal Blade Records is offering a pre-order to fans which includes a signed copy of Deflorate at a low price*. Still riding high on waves of acclaim for their rabidly-received DVD spectacle Majesty, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER…

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HULL playing Planet Caravan Festival; September tour with Salome and Batillus

Hull’s three guitar attack achieves maximum sludgery, bashing your skull into the wall with a sledgehammer and smearing your brains across the floor” – MetalSucks.net Brooklyn quintet HULL is taking their debut full-length album, ‘Sole Lord,’ on the road in September with a stop at the Planet Caravan Festival which features some of heavy music’s leading lights including Clutch, Pentagram, Kylesa and YOB. During this stint on the road they…

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Metal Blade Records signs Lightning Swords Of Death!

Metal Blade Records is proud to announce inking a deal with LA underground black metal act, Lightning Swords Of Death. The band is seven years of the making and has been praised by the likes of Decibel, SOD Magazine, PIT Magazine and Metal Maniacs for their unrelenting and irrefutably vicious sound. Those who were privy to the band’s 2007 release, The Golden Plague, are already aware of the band’s prowess.…

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ZZ TOP ANNOUNCE TWO UK SHOWS WITH SUPPORT FROM STEEL PANTHER

That little ol� band from Texas � the legendary ZZ Top have announced that they will be returning to the UK to play two very special shows with support from the one and only Steel Panther. After an unforgettable main stage performance at this year�s Download, Rock�s sharp dressed men will return to the UK this October to play two very special headline shows at Wembley Arena and Wolverhampton Civic…

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Akron/Family Announce Tour Dates

Tue. Aug. 11 Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel w/ Wooden Wand Wed. Aug. 12 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle w/ Wooden Wand Thu. Aug. 13 Atlanta, GA @ E.A.R.L. w/ Wooden Wand Fri. Aug. 14 Birmingham, AL @ BottleTree w/ Wooden Wand Sat. Aug. 15 Asheville, NC @ Harvest Festival at Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall Fri. Aug. 28 San Francisco @ Outside Lands Festival Sat. Aug.…

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iCON the Mic King – “Drifting With The Tide” feat. Awar

After cooling down from his marathon campaign, iCON The Mic King returns with “Drifting With The Tide,” the first song in his new Headphone Classic Series. With this new series, iCON has decided, rather than release a mixtape, to feature individual songs, pairing them with a visuals and videos to give fans a complete look at each song. “Drifting With The Tide” is the first song in the series, and…

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Exclusive and Rare Interview Footage of Country Icon, George Strait, Discussing Upcoming Release, ‘Twang’

New and exclusive DownCast video content is now available for download of Country music icon George Strait discussing his latest album, Twang, to be released next Tuesday, Aug. 11. The unique footage, edited by Travis Television and distributed via AristoMedia’s DownCast service, features a rare interview with Strait as he discusses his highly anticipated new release, which was bumped up for an Aug. 11 street date. The first single from…

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Posted on: August 5, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

THA GHOSTMAN PRESENTS THE SINGLE: ‘MIND YA BUSINESS’

Tha Ghostman was born in November of 1986. Raised in Hagerstown, MD, he started writing his own rap music at 13 years old and has been doing it ever since. He now not only writes his own music, he records and produces it himself. His style would be hard to describe because he’s always trying something new with different songs. Definitely look for more music in the future, Tha Ghostman…

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Sleepy Sun Announce North American Tour

Thu 8/27 – The Cellar Door – Visalia, CA Fri 8/28 – Bunkhouse Saloon – Las Vegas, NV Sat 8/29 – Monte Vista Lounge – Flagstaff, AZ Mon 8/31 – Pastime Tavern – Dallas, TX Tue 9/1 – Mohawk Inside Room – Austin, TX Wed 9/2 – Orange Show Center for Visionary Arts – Houston, TX Thu 9/3 – One Eyed Jacks – New Orleans, LA Fri 9/4 – BottleTree…

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APOPTYGMA BERZERK Announce Fall U.S. Tour with Fan Appreciation Packages In Support of Sixth Studio Album Rocket Science

Norway’s seminal synthpop band, APOPTYGMA BERZERK, have announced a U.S. tour in support of their recent release Rocket Science. And to show their appreciation for their fans who have been with the band for over a decade, the band will be offering special “Fan Appreciation Packages” for each U.S. tour date (details listed below). With their unique and formidable ability to combine very melodic, danceable synthpop with haunting and powerful…

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MULTI-PLATINUM SINGER-SONGWRITER JEWEL RETURNS TO HOMER, ALASKA TO RAISE FUNDS FOR ARTS PROGRAM

Recording artist, author and philanthropist Jewel is returning to her hometown of Homer, Alaska to help raise funds for the Bunnel Street Arts Center “Artists in Schools” program. She will headline a solo-acoustic concert on Aug. 19th at Homer’s Mariner Theater. Atz Lee Kilcher, Jewel’s brother, will also be on the bill. The program serves over 1,000 students annually by exposing youth of diverse socio-economic backgrounds to varied art forms…

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ESSER TOURING THE US IN SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER!

Ben Esser, the 23 year old pop genius better known to most simply as Esser, is getting ready for his first American tour in September and October, supporting Datarock. His debut album, Braveface (out this fall on Chocolate Industries), is a ten track lesson in pop mastery, peppered with dashes of electronica, early 90’s club bliss, and rhythmic ska and dubhop with massive hooks. Esser has spent much of the…

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THE DRONES ANNOUNCE US TOUR DATES PLAYING ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES NEW YORK

Melbourne’s The Drones will be embarking on a brief US tour this September, with stops in New York, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. They will also be playing the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in upstate New York. Their latest album, Havilah, was released earlier this year on ATP Recordings. Havilah, like everything The Drones have done, is an album of contradictions, where bombast meets beauty, melancholy wrestles with…

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Hear Mount Eerie’s new album Wind’s Poem now via NPR First Listen, plus Fall tour dates announced

What if the sound of wind through trees could be translated into human words? What is it saying? For WIND’S POEM by Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum spent almost two years out behind the house, at the edge of the woods, listening into the night and finding these words. Songs of impermanence, dark change, destruction, temporary blossoming, mortality, and an immense river of air tearing through the world make up the…

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Landmarq – Turbulence CD to be released soon!

Metal Mind Productions presents the third live album by Landmarq – one of the leading bands on the British neo-progressive scene! The album entitled “Turbulence – Live in Poland” features a recording of the band’s superb performance at the Wyspianski Theatre in Katowice, Poland in November 2005 taken from the Landmarq DVD of the same title. Majestic guitars and keyboards, sophisticated compositions and Tracy Hitchings’ beautiful voice – it’s all…

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ABANDON INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT BRINGS FISHING TO FREAKY CREATURES UNIVERSE

Abandon Interactive Entertainment today introduced Freaky Fishing as a new addition to the massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), Freaky Creatures. Players can now bring their Creatures to lakes all over the Freaky Creatures universe to catch fish, parts, powers, lair objects and other unknown treasures. With the recently announced free to play option, players can now experience the Freaky Creatures universe and try out Freaky Fishing for free by signing…

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DeeExpus – preview of the DVD available on YouTube!

“Far From Home”, the first DVD from British prog rock band DeeExpus, is finally set for release this coming Monday, 6th July. For an early sneak preview of the DVD, we have uploaded the track “Greed” – on Metal Mind Productions’ channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MetalMindPoland. Andy Ditchfield: “Greed was written specifically as the opening track for Half Way Home and it seemed fitting that we should play it to open…

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