Bay Area rapper and Atlantic Recording artist, Mistah F.A.B. wowed a packed crowd at New York City night club SOB’s when he championed a freestyle battle, Tuesday night (9/18). Steve “Raze” Julien, EVP of Multimedia & Digital Content at AllHipHop.com invited F.A.B. to participate after seeing him perform at the 2007 Ozone Awards, “I saw him close down the Atlantic suite with the illest freestyle I had heard in a…
MON 11/12 WASHINGTON, DC Black Cat TUE 11/13 BALTIMORE, MD Ottobar THU 11/15 PHILADELPHIA, PA First Unitarian Church FRI 11/16 NEW YORK, NY Blender Theater @ Gramercy SAT 11/17 ATLANTIC CITY, NJ House Of Blues Harlem Club
SF singer/songerwriter receives raves from Rolling Stone and pens song for Cam Archer-directed film Armed with little more than an acoustic guitar and her fragile alto, San Francisco folk singer/songwriter Emily Jane White offers complex tales of melancholy and isolation. While comparisons to contemporaries like Cat Power and Hope Sandoval are frequent, Emily’s music owes a clear debt to classic female jazz and blues singers such a Billie Holiday. The…
Kanekoa, the Hawaiian Rock Band from the North Shore, Maui, fronted by two ripping electric ukuleles will release their debut Major Hana Records album, “Under The Coconut Sky”, on November 6th, 2007. “Under The Coconut Sky” is distributed by Fontana/Universal and is available now, exclusively on iTunes.
First to Leave have announced several tour dates in support of their October 9th release, “Forging a Future.” The band will embark on a west coast tour with long-time friends Fireworks. Following these dates, the band will head to Japan for a series of performances with Lifetime. For those of you on the east coast, don’t sweat it, more tour plans are in the works. In the meantime, here are…
3 Mile Scream have announced their new headlining tour dates in support of their Corporate Punishment debut, A Prelude To Our Demise. The band will be touring throughout Canada in October and November. 3 Mile Scream is currently putting the finishing touches on their sophomore album, which is due for release in early 2008. The album was produced by Cryptopsy guitarist Christian Donaldson, who recently produced The Agonist’s Century Media…
After releasing two records mainly as a side project, the band got together in the months before Hurricane Katrina to start working on new material. The band reconnected in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina with a newfound purpose and focus on DOWN, and began work on their most ambitious record to date. Having already tapped Warren Riker, who produced their 2nd release, DOWN II-A Bustle in Your Hedgerow,…
Chicagoland’s “seminar on power pop,” ANITA, is preparing to hit the road in October to preface the release of their new EP, “Are We Not Human.” The newly slimmed-down trio is as diverse musically as they are geographically, with influences drawn from bands like the Kinks, Cheap Trick, The Mamas and the Papas and Oasis.
Seattle’s progressive youth group, The Fall of Troy will be traveling the country with their Equal Vision labelmates Coheed and Cambria on a North American tour this fall. Sandwiched between the two prog-punk bands on the tour is Maryland’s blue-collar rock band, Clutch.
Canada’s ambassador de troubadour, Bob Wiseman, is now on a European adventure opening shows for Feist. The name Bob Wiseman might strike a familiar chord as he’s a former member of both Blue Rodeo and the Hidden Cameras and has recently been touring in the US and Canada with bands like Final Fantasy and Jason Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
During a career that has spanned three decades, Michael Brook has collaborated with some of the most influential icons from the worlds of music, art, film and politics. He has forged a career as producer, sound innovator, inventor, guitarist, composer and solo artist: Brook is a modern day renaissance man. On his fourth solo release, he teams with producer/remixer James Hood (Pretenders, Moodswings) for BellCurve – a radical reinterpretation of…
In their 27th year, Einstürzende Neubauten again prove the potency of their philo-acoustic long-term therapy. After their successful 2007 tour of the U.K. the mature avant-garde All-Stars present their new album Alles wieder offen, showing their intimacy and fragility in a completely new light. Blixa Bargeld, Alexander Hacke, N.U. Unruh, Rudolf Moser and Jochen Arbeit have triumphed over the old Berliner Mauerkrankheit, the fever has sunk to a normal temperature…
It has been a busy year for Owen (aka Mike Kinsella). He has already toured the US, Japan and Europe and will now head out again stateside this fall. This time around he will play dates around the Midwest and East Coast with Kevin Devine.
Spinner.com – “Live Indietronica production outfit the Glass has been keeping electronic music interesting in NYC†http://www.spinner.com/2007/02/08/the-glass-dj-set-mp3/ The Tripwire – â€Club bangers that will undoubtedly have the kids’ asses shaking like they were on fire. If you’re into LCD Soundsystem, Justice, !!!, The Rapture, etc. etc. you’ll love these guys too†http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2007/2/2/download-the-glass-come-alive
HELLYEAH’s headline BALLS VOLUME STRENGTH tour will kick off Thursday, October 24 at the Sunrise Theater in Albuquerque before traveling on Saturday, October 27, 2007 to Tampa, Florida at that city’s annual “Guavaween†concert. The tour will forge on to Fayetville, NC on October 28, Detroit on “Hell Night,†(October 30), Indianapolis on Halloween night, Grand Rapids on November 2, Minneapolis on November 3 and House of Blues, Chicago, on…
Like a sweet breath of fresh air, Brittney Elizabeth arrives on the pop rock music scene with her debut release, Breathe In, slated for national release on Desert Sunrise Records November 27th, and distributed nationally by CBUJ. These tender tales of heartache and bittersweet reminiscence sung with a vocal maturity well beyond her 20 years make for an impressive debut from a promising young talent. Brittney’s melodious voice and graceful…
Tim Williams will usher in the arrival of his Americana-laced indie pop gem, WHEN WORK IS DONE (Dovecote Records), with a show day of release, October 2, at New York City’s Cake Shop. The Brooklynite’s folky tunes are currently striking a chord with audiences up and down the East Coast while an intimate tour with Geert Van Der Velde of The Black Atlantic [formerly of Shai Hulud] is in the…
Chin Up Chin Up is a touring machine! After spending the last month and a half rocking a little place we like to call Europe, the band will hit the road once again touring this crazy nation with fellow Chicagoans The Ponys. Upon return from their US dates the band will take a well-deserved siesta from travel to work on new material with plans to release a new record sometime…
St. Louis’ So They Say is anxiously awaiting the release of its sophomore effort, Life In Surveillance on October 9. The follow-up to the critically acclaimed Antidote For Irony (which was described as “flat out impressive†by AbsolutePunk.net) shows a definite maturity to the band’s sound.
OS MUTANTES LIVE – RECORDED AT THE BARBICAN, LONDON 2006 Double CD/DVD How did 60s Brazil produce the wildest, most psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll group of them all? And why, three decades on, has the rest of the world gone crazy over them? As the Daily Telegraph put it “people talk about cult bands, but there should be a separate category for Os Mutantes, who have had a fanatical following…