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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Rainbow frontwoman Tiffany Preston dons a ridiculous beard and wreaks havoc on a local supermarket with the help of her mustachioed demon spawn. As awesome as it sounds!” Pitchfork.tv
Brooklyn three-piece School of Seven Bells (Benjamin Curtis from the Secret Machines and the twin Deheza sisters from On! Air! Library!) are pleased to announce their upcoming co-headlining US tour with experimental psych-band, Black Moth Super Rainbow. The Bells have spent the first half of the year on a world tour, and just performed a set of five highly-celebrated performances at SXSW. Entertainment Weekly called it, “…a sound that could…
Brooklyn three-piece School of Seven Bells (Benjamin Curtis from the Secret Machines and the twin Deheza sisters from On! Air! Library!) are pleased to announce their upcoming co-headlining US tour with experimental psych-band, Black Moth Super Rainbow. The Bells have spent the first half of the year on a world tour, and just performed a set of five highly-celebrated performances at SXSW. Entertainment Weekly called it, “…a sound that could…
Nate Nelson’s music is where music meets artistry. It gets noticed, enchants audiences, raises a few eyebrows of record executives & even turns heads. As a dynamic solo artist he captivates the generation as well as the old generation by crossing genre boundaries & reaching the souls of individuals. There’s no question this artist will emerge as a talent to be recognized.
05/04/09 Lubbock, TX – Bash Riprock’s In The Dept 05/06/09 Phoenix, AZ – Modified Arts 05/07/09 Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre w/ The Avett Brothers 05/09/09 Los Angeles, CA – Music Box at Fonda w/ The Avett Brothers 05/10/09 Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up Tavern w/ The Avett Brothers 05/12/09 Hanford, CA – Hanford Fox Theatre w/ The Avett Brothers 05/14/09 Santa Cruz, CA – Rio Theatre w/ The…
Metal Mind Productions presents re-release of Bulldozer’s live album “Alive… In Poland†recorded in Zabrze, Poland in 1989 in front of 6,000 devoted fans. The enthusiastic reaction of the fans, well heard on the album, proved the undying cult of Bulldozer and their major status among thrash metal bands worldwide. The Italian heroes earned a proper farewell by their audience. As Alberto Contini states, the group was terminated at the…
Vancouver, B.C., Canada’s Living With Lions recently joined the roster of the venerable Adeline Records, who will re-release the band’s 2007 debut EP, as well as it’s 2008 full-length. Make Your Mark will be reissued on 12″ vinyl, CD and digitally later this summer (July 21st). Both albums were originally released in Canada by Black Box Recordings.
Florida death metalers CANNIBAL CORPSE have just confirmed their first Japanese tour in support of Evisceration Plague. Extreme metal magazine BURRN! brings you Extreme the Dojo Vol.22 featuring CANNIBAL CORPSE, The Faceless, and Misery Index hitting Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya starting June 8th 2009.
Translation Loss Records are extremely pleased to announce the addition of Provo, Utah’s GODS REVOLVER to their roster! Translation Loss will release the band’s new untitled full length in early 2010, which the band is currently writing. The band will be handling the recording duties themselves while mastering will be completed by Super 8 Studios (Fight Amp, High On Fire, Intronaut). GODS REVOLVER features singer Reid Rouse, drummer Adam Loucks,…
UNEARTH is teaming up with Artificial Army to shoot a video for their song “Grave of Opportunity” from their latest album The March on Thursday March 19th. The video is set for release during their North American tour with Testament and Lazarus A.D. which kicks off in Seattle on May 2nd.
Cincinnati duo Bad Veins have been turning heads since the self-release of their 4-track demo in 2007 caused them to learn how to run before they even knew how to walk. The marathon landed the band at Dangerbird Records. “Trying to get a label deal secured was kind of like running laps without any clue as to how many laps we were supposed to be running,” reveals Benjamin Davis (vocals/guitars/keyboards/synths),…
This spring, fans will have the chance to witness several of Metal Blade’s youngest and brightest bands share the stage at venues across the US. The tour will include headliners, Psyopus, who are joined by DIY touring vets, Rose Funeral, critically acclaimed shred heavy newcomers, Woe of Tyrants, and Las Vegas’ latest and brutal offering to the world of extreme metal, Molotov Solution. Metal Blade founder and CEO, Brian Slagel…
The Dears are gearing up to launch a full-scale onslaught on North America. Fellow countrymen Jets Overhead and Black Diamond Bay will take over for the Canadian leg.