Seattle rock band Fall From Grace are the official winners of the first-ever Bodog Music Battle of the Bands. Their win aired live September on the series finale at the House of Blues in Los Angeles on the fuse network. Fans made the ultimate decision by voting via SMS text messaging, and the Seattle-based foursome Fall From Grace was awarded the $1 million dollar Bodog Music record contract. Battle finalists…
“You can tell by the way Earl Greyhound pistol-whip the middle of “Monkey†in chopped-up meter, “Black Dog†style, that they are here to get the Led out.†– Rolling Stone “Whether or not Earl Greyhound are the next big thing is irrelevant—watching them will convince you that they are.†– New Yorker
* Touring with Death is Not Glamorous and The Riot Before ——————————————————- Rainier, Oregon’s pop-punk juggernauts BROADWAY CALLS kick off a two month tour of the U.S. beginning today. The band’s self-titled debut full-length was released on July 10th on State of Mind Recordings in the U.S. and Smallman Records in Canada.
Musicians often head to New York – it’s a familiar story. But something magical happened when Matthew Houck picked up stakes halfway through making his new Phosphorescent record, “Pride”, and moved to Brooklyn from Athens, Georgia. “Pride” is something different. While it’s not without the moments of sheer abandon that have made Phosphorescent’s work unmistakable-“At Death, A Proclamation” thunders into familiar territory-mostly gone are the messy marching bands and evangelical…
Hey everyone, JMcQ from NeuFutur again. I just wanted to let everyone know that 9/15 is my birthday (the post date of this update is my birthdate; I have no clue exactly what time during the day/night I was born, but whatever). I’m going to give every reader to NeuFutur a gift – 10 updates a day for the 15th, 16th, and 17th – and also start the transference of…
LB – who recently lent his microphone prowess to that outfit’s critically heralded disc From The Corner To The Block – is putting the finishing touches on his forthcoming studio set, Everywhere At Once, which is expected in February 2008.
SEA WOLF will celebrate the arrival of his long-anticipated debut LP, ‘Leaves in the River’ (Dangerbird Records), with a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Tuesday, September 25, day of release.
The Bay Area’s First to Leave have moved from Lobster Records to Wednesday Records. First to Leave’s new album “Forging a Future” will be nationally released by Wednesday on October 9, 2007. The album was produced by J. Robbins (The Promise Ring, Paint It Black, Against Me!) at Magpie Cage studios in Baltimore. The record will be available for pre-sale in the Wednesday Records’ on-line store beginning September 6th. All…
The lineup for the Pygmalion Music Festival, taking place this year from Sept 19th-22nd in Champaign-Urbana, IL, has been announced. This year will feature over 70 national and regional independent artists from the US and Canada. The festival will be headlined by the eclectic violinist virtuoso Andrew Bird, as well as by critical darlings Okkervil River. The festival will be curated yet again by the Nicodemus Agency with the help…
 Launching their latest campaign in the war against false metal, HEAVY ARTILLERY is proud to announce the addition of Swedish speed metal powerhouse ENFORCER to their growing arsenal of bands. Regarded highly within the thriving international metal community, ENFORCER have carved their niche with a unique combination of sounds from New Wave of British Heavy Metal and the manic riffing of early American speed metal. The three ENFORCER tracks…
Abingdon/ Marion/ Pulaski, VA — Brandon Welch, Jordan Powers, Mark Karsten, Joseph Powers, Elizabeth Pina, and Todd Turner – an innocent enough series of six random names; but when combined with each other, they represent the powerhouse rock and roll sextet from Virginia that is called Far-Less – true evidence that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The band’s sophomore album, “A Toast To Bad Taste,”…
Music Video for Group’s Debut Single Features Canada’s Largest Indoor Playground, 90’s Fly Dancers, and Time Travel Canadian progressive-metal newcomers, What’s He Building In There? (WHBIT?), have revealed their premiere music video for the song “Avian Taxi.†“Avian Taxi†is the first single taken from What’s He Building In There’s self-titled debut album, which was released earlier this year by Year of The Sun Records. The video can be viewed…
That’s right, head over to http://www.altpress.com/media to stream “The Best In Me (Electro Mix)”, a brand new Sherwood track that’s not available anywhere else!
Jason Aldean, Big Kenny Alphin, Shooter Jennings, Little Big Town And More To Join BentleyNashville, Tenn. – Sept. 5, 2007 – Award winning singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley will once again host his “Miles & Music for Kids” celebrity motorcycle ride and concert to benefit Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital on Sunday, September 30 in Nashville, Tenn. This year’s event includes a new ride route down the scenic Natchez Trace Parkway ending at the…
San Francisco, CA – Spreading lush electronic arrangements and rhodes electric piano under the ever-lonesome beacon of the county (pedal steel), Birds & Batteries discover the urban pastoral in a simple song. Comparable to Neil Young and M83, or Randy Newman meets Gary Newman.
Jamie Reynolds, James Righton & Simon Taylor collectively and best known as Klaxons beat fellow newcomers Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys & Jamie T with their apocalyptic pop debut Myths of the Near Future out now of Geffen.
“Earthtones & Concrete” to hit stores Oct 2nd, 2007 on Inner Current TAKE (aka Thomas Wilson) is a Los Angeles-based composer who expands the range of instrumental hip-hop into vivid new realms. With multiple successful EPs under his belt, TAKE is set to unleash “Earthtones & Concrete,” his debut full-length player upon the masses.
What I Want From You Is Sweet is the debut release from Orion Rigel Dommisse on Language of Stone, the Philadephia-based label run by Greg and Jessica Weeks (members of Espers and Woodwose respectively). The album was recorded and mixed to entirely analog formats at Greg’s Hexham Head studio with Orion and Greg co-producing. What I Want From You Is Sweet is released September 25 on Language of Stone, distributed…
The apex of Our Little Hymnal comes in the form of “Marylawn Hair.†Multiple loops and moody harmonies fire off in the background keeping the song moving forward, while allowing the band to channel some of shoegaze’s heyday and intertwine with some of prog rocks finest moments as well.
In a far off glamosphere of glitter-soul, funk’n’roll, somewherebetween Al Stewart, David Bowie and Funkadelic, skates the dandy-disco-roller-rocker. He has the looks of Zappa, the suave ofGainsbourg, the feet of James Brown and dress, words and a way, allhis own. This is Conquistador: not your run of the mill dumpster diving retroist regurgitation. On this, the week of August 25, 2007, Conquistador offers a gift of their bounty ofroller-boogie-funk-rockology.