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“Sound The Alarm†Video Now Online Des Moines, Iowa’s On A Pale Horse, featuring guitarist Josh Brainard (ex-Slipknot) and vocalist Aaron Peltz (ex-Downthesun), have posted the track “Release The Smoke” from their upcoming new album, A Generation of Vipers, online at http://www.myspace.com/onapalehorse
  Debut Single ” Stay That Way ” Now Available / To Play Frenchkiss SXSW Showcase Wednesday March 12th
Sensational Praise and Worship choir Shekinah Glory Ministry (SGM) is riding high on the Billboard Hot Gospel Songs Chart at # 3 with their hit song Jesus, from the live double CD of the same name while their Kingdom Records label-mate Phil Tarver joins them on the Billboard Charts with his single Mighty God from his new disc Draw Nearer (Kingdom Records/Universal). Kingdom Records continues to raise the bar for…
Singer/Songwriter John Vesely is Secondhand Serenad
Available from Luaka Bop May 13th 2008                                Continuing the trilogy of The Plus 2’s, Moreno/Domenico/Kassin+2, Futurismo nimbly threads the lyricism and playfulness of its predecessors Music Typewriter (2001) and Sincerely Hot (2004). The +2’s arrive on the scene again, this time alongside other bands from Brazil, like Bonde de Role and CSS, all of whom demonstrate that music from other places is no longer considered outside…
For Boston hard rock/ electronic duo Anarchy Club, making music is all about creating heavy, hard-hitting songs they would want to listen to themselves. Fueled by their addiction to Kung Fu and Asian underground cinema, video games, and classic muscle cars, as well as a wide variety of musical influences, from Rob Zombie and Dr. Dre to Chinese classical, Adam von Buhler and Keith Smith create the cinematic rock juggernaut…
     Glendale, AZ extreme metal powerhouse JOB FOR A COWBOY has announced both North American and United Kingdom tours alongside thrash metal legends Megadeth in support of its celebrated debut album, Genesis. JFAC has been handpicked by Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine to support his band as part of both the UK and North American “GIGANTOUR 2008” tours. JOB FOR A COWBOY took the heavy music landscape by storm in 2007, releasing…
Chop Dezol, straight out the Souf Cak with a hot new single called “Pump it (Collipark Mix)” , featuring Sean Paul of The YoungBloodz. “Pump It” was recently released by this MCS Entertainment Recording Artist and has gotten immediate response from radio in NY, NC, TX, IA, IL, CT, NJ, CA, MA, SC, GA, and more, and continues to pick up momentum. Already a surefire hit, Collipark’s mix gives “Pump…
Singer-songwriter-guitarist-poet-painter-dancer Mia Doi Todd will be celebrating the release of her seventh album GEA touring as the opening act with Jose Gonzalez. The tour starts February 29 in Miami and ends March 30 in Vancouver.  This will be a “green” tour with the entire touring party’s carbon emissions being calculated and offset by the company “Reverb.” GEA was recorded in Los Angeles, CA, self-produced in collaboration with Carlos Nino &…
Dallas-based quartet Deaf Pedestrians were chugging along, playing shows with bands like Staind, Papa Roach, Saliva and Shinedown and making a name for themselves on local radio. Then in June 2007, frontman Charlton Parker wrote the hooky, tongue-in-cheek song “Hail to the Geek†about his nerdy hobbies and awkwardness with girls.
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     Finnish metal giants CHILDREN OF BODOM have completed work on its highly anticipated new album. Entitled Blooddrunk, the record will see an April 15, 2008 release date via Spinefarm / Fontana International. The follow up to the band’s acclaimed 2005 release, Are You Dead Yet?, Blooddrunk is already being called the band’s “strongest and most advanced recording to date” and features a “heavier, darker” take on CHILDREN OF BODOM‘s…
Minus the Bear is currently supporting its latest release, Planet of Ice on Suicide Squeeze Records. The Seattle based outfit is gearing up to tour Australia and Japan this February, in addition to select dates in Hawaii and Florida. The tour will begin in Brisbane, AU on February 8 and will include appearances at the Langerado Music Festival on March 9 and Coachella Music Festival on April 25. Tour dates…
New EP available now, Faunts recording new LP for fall 2008 release Friendly Fire Recordings is extremely proud to announce that the magnificent new Faunts EP (really closer to a full-length album, considering it’s 40+ minutes long), entitled “M4,” is now available digitally. Faunts was formed in the fall of 2000 by brothers Tim and Steven Batke and soon after, Paul Arnusch. At this point the band emerged, squinting, into…
 Much buzzed-about breaking band BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE has commissioned celebrated indie comic book writer and illustrator Tom Manning to create a mini-comic book for every one of the 11 songs on the band’s new album, “Scream Aim Fire,†which will be released on January 29 (20/20/Jive/Zomba).
Santa Monica, CA – Lyricist/singer/multi-instrumentalist/producer Greg Laswell reveals another chapter in his musical and emotional journey with How The Day Sounds, a six song EP that is openly transitional from its spotlight on Laswell’s elegantly expressive piano playing to the sense of healing and moving on that resonates throughout its course. How The Day Sounds will be released March 11th on Vanguard.
While a quick assessment of King of Prussia’s debut might bring to mind the Smiths, Belle and Sebastian, or a more straight-ahead Flaming Lips, the band’s deftly-designed, often misanthropic, lyrics–which speak of home as place, home as state, consumerism, summertime, etc.–place the band closer to the Steely Dans and Magnetic Fields of the world. The point here is that it’s hard to categorize KoP, even if their erudite power pop…
Bullet For My Valentine are streaming their entire new album, Scream Aim Fire, in its entirety on Myspace. Scream Aim Fire will be in stores on January 29th. The band has also released an exclusive audio commentary on their new album at MP3.com. The commentary gives an inside look at the making of the new album. Bullet For My Valentine are currently on tour in Europe and will kick off…
…an album of startling beauty and depth. – FILTER A gloriously, glamourously giddy treat – NME Air Traffic‘s Fractured Life is a debut album of brilliant, occasionally brutal, mood music. From the sexual euphoria of “Charlotte” to the bleak introspection of “Empty Space“, its mindscape is one we have all experienced, or soon will. By turns anguished and exuberant, cocksure and crestfallen, it is rock lived at a pitch of…