DRAG CITY INCORPORATED is pleased to announce the launch of the Language Of Stone label, helmed by Greg and Jessica Weeks (Espers, Woodwose, et al). The label is based in Philadelphia with manufacturing and distribution handled by DragCity.
At the Mountain View, Calif. stop of the Ozzfest tour last month, National Public Radio affiliate KQED-FM interviewed the Taiwanese band ChthoniC, the first-ever Asian extreme metal act to take part in hard rock’s longest-running annual tour. The interview, which first aired on KQED’s nationally syndicated weekly “Pacific Time” program on Aug. 2, can be streamed on the station’s website.
Did you ever want to get some swords, self defense tools, or other fun little toys but did not have a Waterbeds & Stuff store around? I stumbled upon King of Swords a few nights ago, and found literally hundreds of dollars of stuff that I actually wanted. Essentially, what King of Swords is is one of those stores at the county fair, albeit expanded a hundredfold. If you want…
FROM THE NOT SO DISTANT PAST TO THE VERY NEAR FUTURE, KLAXONS PREPARE FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF SCI-FI FUTURE LOVE ACROSS THE USA WITH MAGICK, MYSTERY JETS
The FADER.com “The band Drug Rug out of Cambridge, Massachusetts with a self-titled album coming in September on Black and Greene kind of sound like a dirty, shredded baja sweater, so we congratulate them on their self-awareness and funky jams and we present you with this song called “Day I Die.”http://www.thefader.com/blog/articles/2007/07/10/audio-drug-rug-day-i-die
Los Angeles, CA: Sunset Strip rock darlings Poets & Pornstars today announced that they will open for Tesla on the remainder of their U.S. Tour. More than four decades after its countercultural beginnings, Los Angeles’ famed stretch of live-music venues continues to draw bands cranking out what band member Hal Ozsan calls “down-and-dirty three-chord rock.” “Poets & Pornstars” is a particularly spectacular example of the form, demonstrated by their eponymous…
The Leftovers – On The Move / 2007 Rally / 13 Tracks / http://www.myspace.com/theleftovers / http://www.rallyrecords.com / The Leftovers have played with bands like The Queers and the Hard-Ons, and one can definitely hear the influence of the former during “On The Moveâ€. The first track on the disc is “Run Real Fastâ€, and while it does have hints of Sum 41 and newer “punk†band, the same general Queers/Lillingtons/Darlington…
Invitro have set September 11th, 2007 as the official release date for their debut album, “When I Was a Planetâ€, through Gridiron Records. The album is currently available for purchase for a limited time before it hits stores through www.gridironrecords.com. $1.00 from the purchase of each album sold will be donated to Homes for Our Troops, a non-profit organization that aids Troops that have returned home with serious disabilities and…
Hello all. Thanks for reading NeuFutur.com . I’m JMcQ, the editor here. Starting yesterday, we began the process to make available on this website more of the earlier pieces written. This will be a long process; we have over 4,000 reviews and other pieces of writing to transfer over. However, we are starting to move the interviews over and will keep moving stuff over until the WordPress site has every…
After successful tours with The Kooks and The Hold Steady, rocking the hell out of McCarren Pool and heading out to Chicago tomorrow for Lollapalooza, Illinois gets to kick back, relax and spend a half hour on their own couches back in Bucks County.  Actually, they’ll get exactly a half hour to watch as their song ‘Nosebleed’ is prominently featured on the 3rd episode of this season of Weeds.  You…
LONG ISLAND, NY – Victory recording artists Bayside have not slowed down one bit since the Spring 2007 release of their latest album The Walking Wounded. Currently crisscrossing the U.S. on the 2007 Vans Warped Tour, Anthony, Nick, Jack and Chris have been shredding the throng of fans that have been making their set one of the most well-attended performances on this year’s festival.
           WASHINGTON (Aug. 2, 2007)—National Geographic Ventures (NGV) President and CEO Tim Kelly today announced the creation of National Geographic Music and Radio (NGMR) to reach people and inspire them to care about the planet through music and the power of radio. Kelly also announced the appointment of industry luminary David Beal as president to oversee the music labels, publishing and radio operations. Mark Bauman, currently a vice president of…
‘A glorious example of what Rock ‘n Roll should be’ – NME ‘A ten-year overnight sensation’ –WORD The oh-so-lovely Miss Holly Golightly returns Stateside this fall, bringing her quick-witted soulful twang back to the U.S. for the ninth time in her prolific career.
On October 9th, 2007—Stockholm’s JOHNOSSI will release their self-titled debut album in the US on The Control Group (El Perro Del Mar, Figurines). Last Summer, I was working feverishly out of +1’s Westside compound at the Grafton Hotel in Los Angeles — with complete tunnel vision only to my summoning laptop and my constantly vibrating cell-phone. I noticed two very European-looking men in fluorecent polo-style shirts and short-shorts eyeing me…
HORSE the Band recently filmed a video for the powerhouse new song “New York City†with director Roboshobo (Mastodon, The Blood Brothers, Poison The Well). The vocalist for HORSE the Band, Nathan, had this to say about the song and the video:“If ‘A Natural Death’ is about the vast scope of nature from the horror of birth to the beauty of death then ‘New York City’ is a song about…
We are Northern State. We are pleased to announce that our new album “Can I Keep This Pen?” will be released on Ipecac Recordings this August ’07. We’ve been friends for a very long time. Our names are Spero, Hesta Prynn and Sprout. We grew up together in deep suburban Long Island and found ourselves living in NYC after college. We have always shared a love of music, and we…
“Four Beatles-headed psych-nerds with a taste for razor-sharp snake rock. ‘I’m 20 years old and… I may not live to see 21’, screams maniac John on ‘Tomahawk’, the deadly soundtrack to a fit of square-scalping.” – NME
Summer Music Festivals! Gotta love them! Especially when windy city avant-pop combo Chin Up Chin Up are performing. That is right, Chin Up Chin Up will be performing at this years Lollapalooza on Friday Aug 3, 2007 @ 1PM CT on the Citistage. The tracks off the bands 2006 critically acclaimed release “This Harness CanÂ’t Ride Anything” are a joyful mix of shifting dynamics, stuttering riffs, and buoyant arrangements all…
Mondo Generator has announced the dates for the upcoming “What Is Rock†tour with Turbonegro. The tour will kick off in September and go through the middle of October.
Renton, WA. – July 31, 2007 – Wizards of the Coast, Inc. (NYSE: HAS) today announced a partnership with Nexon America Inc. to launch the MapleStory iTrading Card Game (iTCG) in the US and Canada in November. The iTCG is a real-world Trading Card Game with codes redeemable for exclusive virtual-world game content – an interactive extension to MapleStory, Nexon’s massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), which is enormously popular…