New York indie artist Ari Hest launched an ambitious new experimental music project titled “52,” a web-based subscription service designed to deliver a new song each week throughout 2008. In March, Hest will debut the new material in New York City before embarking on a West coast tour. In the first month, Hest has registered over hundreds of subscribers – mostly by word-of-mouth – and released four new original songs:…
Taking a page from the book of early 70’s super groups, One Tribe Nation is an eclectic mix of world-class musicians inspired by culture, diversity, and the concept of a single world community. Based in Los Angeles the group was brought together by the vision of guitarist Michael Sanders. His father, the late Will Sanders, was a pianist/singer who played and sang with The Inkspots,Cab Calloway, Mercer Ellington (The Embers),…
The wait for the release date is nearly over! Bon Iver’s “For Emma, Forever Ago” is now available for pre-order at the SC Distribution site. Not only will the recipient get the best record they’ve heard in a coon’s age, they’ll also receive a beautiful off-set color poster that features a pastel-colored bear.Â
On April 1, 2008, Portland, Oregon space-rockers pacificUV will release their second LP, longplay 2, on WARM Recordings. At first listen, it might be tempting to lump Pacific UV into the pile of the umpteen bands that worship at the alter of Spacemen 3. But if you listen further and dig deeper, you’ll notice that there’s much more that’s going on under that pretty surface. Founded in 1998, pacificUV was…
It has been more and more the case that individuals have a tremendous amount of deb. The latest figures put the debt burden for the average family in the United States at around 10 large, and this value is only going to get higher as the years pass. It is thus essential for individuals to take some sort of step forward. Thus, doing something like debt consolidation will ensure that…
Sourvein are serious, down-tuned sludge/doom with the Southern flavor of bands like Down and Eyehategod. Following their debut full-length on Southern Lord Rec’s, the band’s This Dark Reign debut EP Emerald Vulture was an ugly 17 minutes of slow, hateful, grinding darkness, full of thick guitars and malicious vocals. Ghetto Angel, the bands’ second EP in a series of three for TDR, charges forth with the bands’ signature style of…
Simon Webb is a new age composer: A 21st century musician producing post-classical music that reaches from the serene to the epic. Somewhere between Enya and Vangelis, his music is the soundscape for a movie in your head. Simon Webb, known to his friends as Si, writes music that is organic, romantic, atmospheric, and highly visual. He is one of a new breed of independent artists using the power of…
I have been doing NeuFutur, running it as a business, for about a decade. It is through Small Business Funding that I will be able to go and really expand my business. This could mean that I would have funds to pay staffers, to be able to go and cover live shows, or to do any one of hundreds of other things for the magazine.
4-part series breaks down the story behind all 12 songs from forthcoming album The Videos: In anticipation of the release of TIME:LINE, Kay has been busy making a four-part documentary-style video in which he breaks down the album song by song. Follow Kay from his Houston-based home studio to different landmarks in the Texas city.More… Part 1 includes the songs: “TIME:LINE”, “The Blizzard” and “The Lights.” Part 2 includes: “Through…
 Motive Clothing Company, in association with Mediaskare and Sumerian Records have put together the inaugural Firestorm Fest Tour featuring the reunion of EARTH CRISIS, one of the most influential hardcore bands of all time, alongside TERROR, SWORN ENEMY, SHAI HULUD, DOWN TO NOTHING, and RECON. Â
“Acoustic Soul Meets Green Eye Bluesâ€. That’s the best way to describe Logan Armatys’ debut album “Waiting Room.†From Houston, at just 20 years old, Logan has created a unique sound that reflects the rhythm, feel, and freedom found in earthy, soulful acoustic music. Traveling across Texas, he has opened for Christian artists Wayne Kerr, Jimmy Needham, and major record label holder, Inhabited.(just to name a few) Initially, Logan had…
Louisville, KY’s Christiansen spent ten years overcoming adversity to remain a band. Original drummer, Terry Campbell moved to New York City and left Your Highness Electric to play with the group, Young Love. Bassist, Brad Magers spent time earlier this year in NYC playing with The Exit and is currently splitting his time playing with The Bronx in Los Angeles and Your Highness Electric. But the bands core members Brandon…
Chicago’s YAKUZA has posted a video for the track “Black Market Liver,” which appears on the band’s latest effort, ‘Transmutations.’ Directed by Sara Jean, the four-minute clip features video imagery, apt to YAKUZA’s unique sound, and can be seen online here: watch?v=ptPLaObjGO8. Â
Embark on a journey through landscapes of emotions, woven together by the images of music brought forth in peaceful, healing melodies all magically contained within the quill of poeta. A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Al has appeared in many theatre productions as well as television commercials and shows such as CBS’ daytime drama ‘As The World Turns.’ Al began seriously working on music 17 years ago, but it was…
 Super-Producer, 9th Wonder, formerly of Little Brother, has once again teamed up with legendary MC, Buckshot, of Black Moon, and the lead MC, of the mighty Boot Camp Clik, for their follow up album The Formula. The due released their first project in 2005, entitled Chemistry, as part of Duck Down Record’s “Triple Threat†Campaign, which also showcased albums from Sean Price Monkey Barz and Smif N Wessun, Reloaded…
Every true fan of melodic death metal is familiar with the famous Gothenburg scene, which is the home for such prominent names as At The Gates, In Flames and Dark Tranquility. Gardenian is yet another spawn of the Swedish metal community, but unlike many other bands from that region, they managed to stand up the fathers of the genre and deliver a huge dose of solid melodic death metal, at…
CHRISTIAN F. NATTA was born on the 14th Of April of 1971, in Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He start studying music at primary school, and continued at Secondary. At the age of 15 he started his first job as trumpet player in a band, while studying at the Conservatory of Buenos Aires. Once he had finished School he became a professional trumpeter and arranger, also travelling to London and…
Here is a sneak peek of another new song from electro-rockers Ghostland Observatory. Its the title track from Robotique Majestique recorded Live at Austin City Limits which is available now on DVD.
Winter is perhaps one of the most underrated doom metal bands ever to emerge on the American metal scene. During their career they recorded only one full-length album and one EP, but that was enough to convince the fans that a new icon of deep, depressing music was born. The band did not last long on the scene, departing shortly after the release of their debut album. Their legacy, however,…
Laptronica/World/Pop – A synergy of eclectic sounds from a creative landscape of spiritual philosophy as wide as the Universe itself. Deep and inspired lyrics meld with magnetic beats and layer upon layer of vocal, piano and guitar harmonies. The Holographic Universe derives it’s name from the theory by the same title, introduced by Michael Talbot. “We are of a universe in which individual brains are actually indivisible portions of the…