Check out Duran Duran’s exclusive behind-the-scenes interview from Zune’s Green Room series. The Green Room series consists of video podcasts that take music fans behind-the-scenes with their favorite artists. The series gives fans access to exclusive, backstage interviews with artists such as Oasis, The Presets, and Janelle Monae. There are three total videos for Duran Duran’s Green Room interview, and they can all be downloaded for free through the Zune…
With Christmas just around the corner, Pam and Mel Tillis are happy to announce their holiday tour, “A Tillis Family Christmas.†Pam, Mel, Mel Jr, and Carrie April will spread Tillis holiday cheer with stops all across the nation as well as one performance in Canada. The tour dates are listed below.
INO Records’ Band Completes Nationwide Radio Station Visits, Fan Meet and Greet Events, Hard Rock Cafe’s Pinktoberâ„¢ event and More
Montreal’s BENEATH THE MASSACRE has debuted at number 22 on the Billboard New Artists Chart, scanning nearly 1,600 units in the first week of release for the band’s second full-length, ‘Dystopia.’ With an Oct. 28 release through Prosthetic Records, ‘Dystopia’ is the follow-up to 2007’s ‘Mechanics of Dysfunction,’ and the band recently completed several weeks of touring as part of the Cleansing The Nation Tour alongside Suicide Silence, Emmure, After…
Royce 5’9 and his M.I.C. imprint are teaming up with One Records for the release of Royce’s highly-anticipated forthcoming solo-LP Street Hop, due out in the first quarter of 2009. The album is executive produced by DJ Premier and has generated a major buzz through overwhelming critical praise.
According to ApexFollowers, Interscope Records’ very own Scooter Smiff has a brand new music video featuring Chris Brown, check out “Head Of My Class†below! Also be sure to go to Scooter’s official site to grab his embeddable widget with news updates, video content, and more. From performing at the Grammy Awards to his role on TV’s Lost and his first dramatic feature with John Malkovich, “this Scooter Smiff is…
The praise surrounding the Explorers Club’s album Freedom Wind typically references the band’s reverence for the classic summery pop sounds of the 60s and 70s and their love of timeless pop songwriting is undeniable. There are songs that would not sound out of place on oldies radio – and the band captures both the sound and spirit of an era where the radio could be relied on for great music.…
Atlus U.S.A., Inc. today announced to eager fans awaiting the release of the upcoming RPG epic Persona 4 that there will in fact be no enhanced or expanded version of the game released, as was the case with the game’s predecessor, Persona 3.
This is the latest video from Val Emmich for “Get on With It†shows off Val’s supreme sense of humor and ability to laugh at himself as he battles and obstacle course of Ninja’s, a slip n’ slide, being mauled by dodge balls, running through tires as he tries to “Get on With It.â€It’s definitely a day brightener it’ll just make you smile….and most likely laugh! Val has also recorded…
Academy Award winner actor and Grammy nominated songster Jamie Foxx will release his J Records sophomore album Intuition on December 16. The first single, “Just Like Me” featuring T.I., impacted multiple radio formats on November 10 and will be available via all digital music providers on November 11. “Just Like Me” was co-written and co-produced by The Dream and Christopher Tricky Stewart, the same duo responsible for such hit songs…
Animal Collective will be celebrating the January release of their newest album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, with a trio of US shows. The first on January 20th – the day of the album’s release – in New York City, followed by shows in Chicago and Los Angeles. All tour dates listed below.
The Parts That Showed is the sophomore album release by the Viking Moses an outfit that was initiated by Southern Missourian Brendon Massei in 2003. Their latest album was recorded on the Oldham family farm in central Kentucky by Paul Oldham (Will’s younger brother and bassist), featuring the talent of Spencer Kingman (of Spenking), John McCauley III (of Deer Tick), Cody Brant and Jacob Soto (of Flaspar) and Evelyn Weston.…
We Landed on the Moon!: John, Melissa, Josh, Jon, and Spence, recorded their self-titled debut album in 2006. The band formed after Jay Chandreskhar (Super Troopers, Beefest), asked them for a song for the soundtrack for Dukes of Hazzard. Their latest record, These Little Wars; is an album filled with beautifully intimate female vocals, whirling synthesizers stacked on interlocking guitars, danceable rhythms and wonderfully layered songwriting. In the vein of…
Boston/New York band Hooray For Earth embark an East Coast Tour this December to support their latest record Hooray For Earth, releasing January 13th on Dopamine Records. Members include singer/guitarist Noel Heroux, bassist Chris Principe, drummer Seth Kasper (also a member of Wild Light), and keyboardist/guitarist Gary Benacquista.
In November 2009, QUEENSRYCHE — Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton, Scott Rockenfield, Eddie Jackson and Mike Stone — will board the MSC Poesia to headline “ShipRocked,” an unparalleled five-day rock and roll music cruise. Departing from Fort Lauderdale, Florida on November 15th, ShipRocked will sail to Ocho Rios, Jamaica and Grand Cayman, before returning on November 20th.
Brand new Bay Area based urban/hip-hop label, MYX Music Label, is proud to announce a retail and digital distribution deal with the Rob Nonies Label Group (R.N.L.G.). KOCH Entertainment distributes R.N.L.G. throughout North America. The deal encompasses all music and DVD releases from the MYX Music Label catalog and the entertainment content of the MYX television network.
Over two years since the critically acclaimed debut Waltzing Alone hit U.S. shores, Dublin-based pop/folk duo The Guggenheim Grotto is set to release its sophomore recording, Happy The Man, January 27, 2009 on new model indie label United For Opportunity. Released digitally as an iTunes exclusive in October 2008, the album has reached No. 1 on the iTunes Folk Chart. The Guggenheim Grotto will make its way stateside to support…
Sam Moore, lead singer of legendary R&B duo Sam & Dave, was inducted last night into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in Youngstown, Ohio along with Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Journey, The Righteous Bros., Bread, The Pointer Sisters, Sly and The Family Stone and other legendary musical groups.
It’s that time of year again…. the corporate sales pitch at bargain prices, the long lines that result from it and the painfully cheerful music that becomes the soundtrack to your hell. “If only a comedy/metal band would put on a show to distract me”.
BLACK METAL CRUST PUNK: WOE Posts Brand-New DYSTOPIA Cover on Myspace Hot on the heels of misanthropic black metallers WOE’s overwhelmingly well-received debut album A Spell for the Death of Man (Stronghold Records), mainman C. Grigg has posted a viciously feral cover of crust legends DYSTOPIA’s “Anger Brought by Disease” on the band’s Myspace page. What happens when you take a song already brimming with raw power and hatred, and…