Category: Artist News

Miniature Tigers stay on the road, Coast to Coast tour with Kevin Devine, Tell It To The Volcano Out NOW!

ALTERNATIVE PRESS: FOUR AND 1/2 STARS “Staking their claim on the quirkier side of indie pop…..the sounds suggests a loopier Ben Kweller sitting in with the Flaming Lips” Death and Taxes “The wonderful Miniature Tigers can’t stay off the road.” They just wrapped up their winter tours with Ben Folds, Bishop Allen and Dear & The Headlights, Miniature Tigers head out on a 6 week, Coast to Coast tour with…

Scuba ‘Klinik | Hundreds and Thousands’ is new on Hot Flush

The first full 12” from Scuba since the release of his debut album A Mutual Antipathy touches down on Hotflush with two killer tracks illustrating the development of the Scuba sound. The dubstep/techno amalgamation has continued to gather pace in recent months and the A side of HF022, Klinik, encapsulates this collision of genres perfectly. Rolling beats, syncopated variations, crushing sub and cavernous synths collide in what has been a…

‘Blow’ is the brand new album from Dirt Crew on Mood Music

Dirt Crew aka Peter Gijselaers and Felix Eder have been Moodmusic favorites since their early days in 2004 when “Rock The House” emerged on the MBF label out of Cologne. Their electro influenced house productions soon found their way to Moodmusic creating numerous hits like “808 Lazerbeam” and “Domino”, and the all-time classic remix of “Soul Sounds” from label head Sasse. Dwelling a few years in more dubbed out minimal…

‘Adaptations – Mixtape #1’ is the new album from Ada on Kompakt

It’s always entertaining to drive around Cologne with ADA. The conversation starts off with a saga about her trip to the city car impound thanks to her illegally parking her chariot, while tunes crackle through her relic of a car stereo cassette player. Looking back, our trips always seem to end with chorusing some Madonna single, one guarantee ADA always has some track or song that I’ve never heard on…

Acid Drinkers – another batch of re-issues out soon

“Vile Vicious Vision” – Acid Drinkers’ fourth full-length album from 1993. It features a Kiss cover “And Then She Kissed Me”. The digipak edition includes bonus tracks: 1 live and 2 video tracks. “Fishdick” – Acid Drinkers’ fifth full-length album from 1994. The album includes almost exclusively covers of Kiss, AC/DC, Motorhead, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, NoMeansNo, Slade, Deep Purple and Flapjack. The new edition includes 1 bonus track. “Infernal…

Mad Sin North American Tour & New Release!

This month MAD SIN are embarking on a tour of NORTH AMERICA in support of their latest release “20 Years In Sin Sin” on HEP CAT RECORDS: Mad Sin were born in 1987 out the hard rockin’, street fighting, hard drinking, seedy gutter of the Psychobilly/Rockabilly/Punk underworld that festered in a Berlin still entombed by the Eastern Bloc. Not even the Iron Curtain could stop the spread of the sickness…

BRAVE CITIZENS – NEW WEST COAST DATES ANNOUNCED ON THE ‘STAY AWAKE’ TOUR ALONGSIDE LYDIA, PLAYRADIOPLAY AND EYE ALASKA

After 10 weeks of bringing their thunderously captivating live experience to cities across the nation, California’s BRAVE CITIZENS wrapped their US REVOLUTIONS TOUR last night—Sunday, April 5—at Bamboozle Left in Irvine, California along with festival headliners 50 Cent, Deftones, Taking Back Sunday and others. With no slowing in sight, the band has announced a west coast run of dates with Lydia, PlayRadioPlay and Eye Alaska on the STAY AWAKE TOUR…

New Kids On The Block Tour Announcement And Video Update

New Kids On The Block are hitting the road again in support of their album The Block! Donnie, Jordan, Joey, Danny and Jon will kick off the “Full Service Tour” on May 28th in Atlanta, playing shows through July 18th in Houston. Jabbawockeez, the champs from season one of MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew,” will join NKOTB on the road for what promises to be the hottest party of the…

PHISH LAUNCHES SUMMER TOUR ON MAY 31st WITH NEWLY ADDED DATE AT BOSTON’S FENWAY PARK

Phish will kick off its first summer tour in five years with a concert at Boston’s historic Fenway Park on May 31st. The band has also added a third date (June 2nd) at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY. An online ticket request period is currently underway for the two newly announced shows at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com/ and will end April 12th at 11:59 p.m. ET. Tickets will go…

PSYCHOSTICK ANNOUNCES THE SANDWICH CD RELEASE PARTY TOUR

Heavy metal jesters PSYCHOSTICK have announced their first string of upcoming tour dates to support the release of their latest album, Sandwich, which streetedMay 5 on Rock Ridge Music. The tour kicks off with support dates on the Jagermeister Music Tour (also featuring Pennywise, Pepper, and Authority Zero), with headlining dates. Guitarist Jake McReynolds commented on the upcoming tour: “The Sandwich CD Release Party Tour is going to be an…

Trouble Andrew Joins Santigold Tour

With a brand new album for Virgin Records on the way, Trouble Andrew will launch a blitz of tour dates this spring in support of his re-released, self-titled independent debut “Trouble Andrew” followed by a nationwide summer tour. Trouble began his takeover at Irvine’s Bamboozle Left April 5—on a bill featuring headliners 50 Cent, Deftones and Taking Back Sunday. He immediately joins Santigold in San Francisco for a coast-to-coast romp.…

AC/DC’S BLACK ICE WORLD TOUR RETURNS TO THE U.S. THIS SUMMER

AC/DC’s highly successful Black Ice World Tour returns to the U.S. on July 28 in Foxborough, MA at Gillette Stadium (see below for full itinerary). AC/DC kicked off their Black Ice World Tour in late October 2008, crisscrossing North America and Europe garnering raves from critics along the way. The Black Ice World Tour was given the ‘Major Tour of the Year’ award at the 20th Annual Pollstar Concert Industry…

ILL BILL – “My Uncle” Live

Ill Bill is still working hard in 2009 after completing his sophomore album The Hour of Reprisal and a forty-date tour last year. Representing his group La Coka Nostra, which is comprised of Slain and former House of Pain members Everlast, Danny Boy, and DJ Lethal, Ill Bill performs his most personal song, “My Uncle,” live on Fearless Music TV. Check out the video for the performance with DJ Eclipse…

BATTLEFIELDS Stream Entire New Album Thresholds Of Imbalance Online!

You can now stream BATTLEFIELDS’ entire new record Thresholds Of Imbalance online for free! Click the link below to stream their new album: http://www.tinyurl.com/thresholdsofimbalance

Bixler and Stolte Look To Break It Big

On Remind Me Where The Light Is, Solon Bixler and Rachel Stolte are not afraid to delve into darkness. “We took a lot more risks by entering uncomfortable territory that wasn’t touched on the last record,” Bixler says. “We dug deeper into the unpleasant, which helped us to find the beauty.” Wishing to expand their sound, Bixler and Stolte began working with producer Michael Patterson (Beck, BRMC, Beck) and Nic…

Sensory Records to release sophomore DELAIN album

The much anticipated second album from Delain is finally here. It is fascinating to witness how the band has evolved! Originally conceived by Within Temptation keyboard player Martijn Westerholt as a studio project, the success of the debut album Lucidity tipped his hand and Delain has since evolved into a full blown active band. With Charlotte Wessels on vocals, Ronald Landa on guitar and grunt vocals, Sun Caged bassist Rob…

Surging Retro-Soul Movement Stings The Killer Bees

If you’re still trying to beat Interdependent Media’s game Super Finale, then here’s extra incentive for you to exercise those thumbs and try harder. For his new album, A Pipe Dream and A Promise (April 7th), Finale teamed up with Hieroglyphics emcee, Casual for “One Man Show” (A Rival 8 Bit Remix), available as a free download when you beat the Super Finale game (and from this email if you’re…

Surging Retro-Soul Movement Stings The Killer Bees

El Michels Affair Career Highlights: • Horn line written and performed by Leon Michels (for Menahan Street Band) lifted by Jay-Z for “Roc Boys,” the lead single from his Grammy-award winning, platinum album, American Gangster.

Bob Log III QUOTES AND TESTIMONIALS: TOM WAITS “And then there’s this guy named Bob Log, you ever heard of him? He’s this little kid — nobody even knows how old he is — wears a motorcycle helmet and he has a microphone inside of it and he puts the glass over the front so you can’t see his face, and plays slide guitar. It’s just the loudest strangest stuff…

White Rabbits Announce US Tour / Pitchfork Premieres “Percussion Gun” Debut Single / Sophomore LP On tbd Records Out May 19th

After spending the better part of two years on the road (including festival stops at Lollapallooza, Glastonbury (UK), Sasquatch, Monolith and tours with The Walkmen, Spoon, Richard Swift, The Cribs, White Denim and Tokyo Police Club) White Rabbits hunkered down in their Brooklyn practice space to set about re-envisioning the dark pop of their debut Fort Nightly, while adding new sounds and influences to achieve an original work. The result…