Category: Artist News

Posted on: June 17, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

My Favorite Highway on Tour

With Ace Enders: June 19th Vineland, NJ Hangar 84 June 20th Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Small’s Theatre June 21st Cleveland, OH Grog Shop June 23rd Pontiac, MI Pike Room June 24th Grand Rapids, MI The Mixtape June 26th Madison, WI The Loft June 27th Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen June 28th Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock Social Club With The Cab: July 5th Columbus, OH The Basement July 11th Buffalo, NY Mohawk Place…

Posted on: June 17, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Sandpeople – “Hate Aside”

Crews aren’t all the rage in hip-hop like they used to be, especially crews hailing from the Pacific Northwest. Sandpeople, a 10-member collective from Portland, Oregon is here to change all that with “Hate Aside,” the first official single from their nine-song EP, Long Story, Short… due out May 26 via Sandpeople Music. “Hate Aside” finds crew-members Sapient, ILLmaculate, Iame, and Ethic spitting over an infectious piano loop accompanied by…

Posted on: June 17, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

GWAR signs back to Metal Blade Records, announces upcoming album, track listing, and plans to take over the world!

Let the world tremble! Metal Blade Records and Slave Pit Inc. have joined forces again to announce the re-signing of the mighty GWAR…here we see Metal Blade Owner & CEO Brian Slagel and GWAR lead singer Oderus Urungus holding the carefully crafted document that spells DOOM for the human race. Untold legions of slaves are already laboring without pause to prepare the world for the first release in what shall…

Posted on: June 16, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

NeverShoutNever On This Summer’s mtvU Sunblock Music Festival with Boys Like Girls, Gym Class Heroes, The Academy Is and The Veronicas!

mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, is heating up the stage this summer with the first-ever “mtvU Sunblock Music Festival,” a four-city Festival featuring the hottest and most buzzed about performers. Co-headliners Boys Like Girls and Gym Class Heroes, with special guests The Academy Is, The Veronicas, and NeverShoutNever! are partnering with mtvU and MTV to bring this killer musical event to MTV’s summer-themed Sunblock programming on mtvU, MTV, MTV2, MTV…

Posted on: June 16, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Gringo Star Tour US in July

US DATES: Jul 1 The Basement Columbus, OH Jul 2 Schuba’s Chicago, IL Jul 3 Summerfest Milwaukee, WS Jul 10 Sticky Fingerz Little Rock, AR Jul 11 Downtown Street Festival Huntsville, AL Jul 12 Forecastle Festival Louisville, KY Jul 25 D-Fest Tulsa, OK Jul 31 Backbooth Orlando, FL

Posted on: June 16, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

ASHLEY ARRISON – WHO’S THAT GIRL?

“Who’s that girl?” people have been asking ever since a vintage video of 10-year-old Justin Timberlake performing the Paula Abdul hit “Opposites Attract” with an equally young girl at a Tennessee festival surfaced on www.perezhilton.com earlier this week. That girl is Ashley Arrison, who, like her friend Timberlake, has been hiding those MC Hammer pants in a deep hole in the backyard of her childhood home. Also like Timberlake, she…

Posted on: June 16, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

FM STATIC TEAMS UP WITH YOUTH SPECIALTIES FOR DEVOTIONAL GUIDE

Following in the footsteps of their conceptual album “Dear Diary” from FM Static, the band has teamed up with Youth Specialties to bring a free devotional guide to youth pastors. The “Dear Diary” Bible study guide is designed as a Vacation Bible School or outreach for teens. “This is something special that has never been done on one of our records before,” shares Trevor McNevan of FM Static. “It’s a…

Posted on: June 16, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

El Michels Affair – “Duel Of The Iron Mics” (Wu-Tang Cover)

El Michels Affair’s collection of instrumental covers of fifteen Clan classics, Enter The 37th Chamber, has been helping Wu-Tang fans realize their dreams. The soulful instrumentals providefans with the chance to spit their own verses to their favorite beats, in the privacy of our own homes of course. The latest candidate for a vocal makeover, “Duel Of The Iron Mics,” is from GZA’s 1995 solo release Liquid Swords and features…

Posted on: June 15, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

NeuFutur.com Introduces Colleen O’Grady

The cry of love from our Creator is evidenced all around us from starfish to stars, snow peaks to mountain streams, songs of joy from tiny winged creatures. Do we hear the cry? Do we see the art and power of God’s design? Overwhelmed and pressed and into our daily lives, we often miss the glory, the treasure, right beside us. A hot cup of coffee, the legs that move,…

Posted on: June 15, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Acid Drinkers – new re-issues out in June

Metal Mind Productions will re-release 3 more albums from the discography of the best and the most spectacular thrash metal band in Poland – Acid Drinkers. “The State of Mind Report” is their seventh studio album originally released in 1996. Titus: “It’s a report on the state of our own minds, on our changing personalities. Litza is certain about his religious beliefs, while my opinion about it is completely different.”…

Posted on: June 15, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

LOWER CLASS BRATS, KRUM BUMS with the GERMS & VICE SQUAD!

LOWER CLASS BRATS are hitting the road with UK Punks VICE SQUAD all along the West Coast and Southwest in June. Before that gets underway, they will be doing a date with UK Oi! legends COCK SPARRER in San Antonio! the BRATS are also taking the shenanigans back to Europe for another tour. COMBAT ROCK will be releasing their upcoming 7” ep “Thoughts About You” and the new title track…

Posted on: June 15, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

311 SUMMER UNITY TOUR SET TO Go

311 SUMMER UNITY TOUR: 06/16 Cleveland, OH Time Warner Amphitheatre 06/17 Columbus, OH Lifestyles Communities Pavilion 06/19 Detroit, MI Freedom Hill 06/20 Cincinatti, OH Riverbend Amphitheatre 06/21 Indianapolis, IN The Lawns 06/23 Saratoga, NY SPAC 06/24 Boston, MA Comcast Center 06/25 New York, NY Central Park Summerstage 06/27 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Art Center 06/28 Washington DC Nissan Pavilion 06/30 Philadelphia, PA Penns Landing 07/01 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless…

Posted on: June 14, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

RPWL DVD – tracklist revealed!!

German band RPWL revealed the tracklist of their first DVD release “The RPWL Live Experience”. The DVD features an impressive performance, filmed in mid February at the WyspiaÅ„ski Theatre in Katowice, where RPWL played as the headliner on the second day of the festival ProgRock 2009. The band’s music definitely has its own style – modern, yet also drawing from the best traditions of the prog-rock genre. All in all…

Posted on: June 14, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

EPITAPH SIGNS SINGER-SONGWRITER FRANK TURNER

English punk turned folk singer-songwriter Frank Turner has signed to Epitaph Records with plans to release his third studio album, Poetry of the Deed, in September. The news comes on the heels of the recent announcement that the punk rock influenced bard will be performing his solo-acoustic act in front of his largest crowds ever when he tours North America in July in support of The Offspring. Turner’s musical odyssey…

Posted on: June 14, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

The Heavy North American Tour Set for Summer ‘09

North American Tour Dates June 26 || The Supermarket (TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival) || Toronto, ON June 28 || The Biltmore Cabaret (TD Canada Trust Vancouver Jazz Festival) || Vancouver, BC June 29 || Element (JazzFest International, w/ Blue King Brown) || Victoria, BC July 1 || Lydia’s Pub (Sasktel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival) || Saskatoon, SK July 2 || Lydia’s Pub (Sasktel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival) || Saskatoon, SK…

Posted on: June 14, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

CUT OFF YOUR HANDS Tour With Viva Voce

6/15 – Plush w/ Viva Voce – Tucson, AZ 6/16 – Rhythm Room w/ Viva Voce – Phoenix, AZ 6/17 – The Echo w/ Viva Voce – Los Angeles, CA 6/18 – Bottom Of The Hill w/ Viva Voce – San Francisco, CA 6/20 – Wonder Ballroom w/ Viva Voce – Portland, OR 6/21 – The Vera Project – Seattle, WA 6/22 – Media Club – Vancouver, BC 6/24 –…

Posted on: June 14, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Tone Tank – “King Of Surf Guitar Rap”

Tone Tank, member of rap duo Iller Than Theirs and rap collective Nuclear Family, is back with another free solo project entitled The King of Surf Guitar Rap EP. Following the release of his last free EP, The Black Six Sessions, Tone was due for a much needed vacay from NYC. Embarking west for salvation, Tone ended up in a nearly dilapidated hotel in the middle of the desert in…

Posted on: June 14, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

EMPIRE: TIME OF TROUBLES IN DEVELOPEMENT

Leading Eastern and Central European publisher 1C Company and Lesta Studio today announced the development of Empire: Time of Troubles. Empire is a turn-based, historical strategy game which covers the events of 1350-1650 taking place in Russia, Poland and the Great Lithuanian Princedom. Players will find themselves in a large-scale campaign commanding one of 26 warring factions. By controlling a hero character, and improving their skills in battle, the player…

Posted on: June 13, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

Wisdom In Chains signs worldwide deal with I Scream Records!!

I Scream Records is very excited & proud to welcome Wisdom In Chains to the ISR family. Founded in early 2003, as a musical collaboration between musicians from both America and Europe, Wisdom In Chains have put their mark on the American and European hardcore, punk and Oi! scene. Richie & Mad Joe, who at the time both were in Krutch (“Whatever It Takes” released on I Scream Records in…

Posted on: June 13, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

CELTIC WOMAN IN TRIBUTE TO PURSUING THE AMERICAN DREAM TO RELEASE BRAND-NEW SONG “OH AMERICA” ON JUNE 23

Celtic Woman knows what it means to pursue a dream. With voices like angels, the 5 Irish female ensemble have been uplifting audiences of all ages with their PBS TV specials, popular concert tours and with their latest album “The Greatest Journey.” Most recently they were seen by 23 million viewers on Dancing With The Stars (ABC TV) when they performed the Brendan Graham original “You Raise Me Up.” Also…