Here is another sneak peek from UK chamber pop/twisted folk artist Windmill. His latest Puddle City Racing Lights comes out July 15th on Friendly Fire in the US. After much acclaim from the UK press, people stateside such as USA’s Pop Candy, RCRD LBL, Catbird Seat, XLR8R and many others are saying very nice things. As an added bonus, Windmill has recorded his take on Elliott Smith’s classic “Pitseleh”. Enjoy!
Wind-up Entertainment and the rock band Cartel have entered in to a number of agreements. The band’s future recordings will be released by Wind-up Records. Additionally, the sale of all Cartel merchandise at on-line, retail, and touring points of sale will be handled by Wind-up Entertainment’s Pronto Merch. Lastly, Cartel has entered in to an agreement with Wind-up Artist Development Corporation, Inc.
In celebration of a long, esteemed and wholly unique career that has seen The Guardian dub them “the best live band in Britain” A3 (known outside the U.S. as “Alabama 3” are to release a definitiveretrospective and tour the US this July, following recent performances at fundraisers and in Brixton Prison (!). Featuring material from throughout their years together, these shows culminated in Rock Against Racism’s HopeNot Hate concert at…
Hailing from Birmingham, Alabama, The Broken Letters exist as the primary medium for the songwriting and vocal lyricism of David Hickox. With a crooked craft of melody and a penchant for dark and Biblical delivery, the Broken Letters create songs of love and death, birth and pain, of the moon and of a great fire. Their full-length LP, Sing the Burning Alphabet, is out this summer.
“The time is right for Wire, right now. Welcome them again, they’ve come back to save you” Charles Inskip, Artrocker [on Read & Burn 03 – 2007]* In the five years since the release of their last album Send [in May 2003] Wire have expounded, reviewed, contracted, lain dormant, recovered, expanded and through all that have shed an old skin and grown a new one. Wire is not the same…
Check out Birdmonster’s great new track “Born To Be Your Man” from their upcoming record From the Mountain To the Sea, out 08/05 digitally and 09/02 physically on FADER Label.
Tennessee’s metal contingent The Showdown is proud to announce the release of their upcoming album, Back Breaker, due August 19 on Solid State Records. The crushing new record marks The Showdown’s Solid State debut.
The Stranger – 30th Anniversary Edition To Be Released As 2 CD Legacy Edition & Deluxe Limited Edition With ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ DVD + 48 Page Booklet
Electrocute is giving you another free song from their EP “On The Beat” titled ‘Saturn Rings’. Head over to their Myspace to download the track but while you are there enter to their video contest! You can win a huge gilttery package of special Electrocute merchandise including the rare 7″ vinyl single and new EP signed. All you have to do is lip synch, dance, or whatever to the song…
Hailing from Auburn, Alabama and whipping up a storm anywhere they take to a stage, Rev. Bubba D. Liverance & the Cornhole Prophets are here to preach the good word of real music. Don’t need your money. Don’t want your fame Hailing from Auburn, Alabama and whipping up a storm anywhere they take to a stage, Rev. Bubba D. Liverance & the Cornhole Prophets are here to preach the good…
NYC group Telling on Trixie devises a tailor-made crowd-sourcing plan heavy on audience participation at www.abandwithaplan.com. Following an exceptionally successful first year as an indie band, Telling on Trixie is calling themselves “A Band with a Plan,” as they have devised a twelve-month plan to raise $50,000 for the creation and promotion of their next album and music video. Telling on Trixie fans and music lovers will serve important parts…
Member of Erykah Badu’s funk Group, The Cannabinoids, releases solo album “Music Box” in stores July 22. Texas’s soulful hip hop producer/performer Symbolyc One, aka S1, releases the first 12″ single, Mash from his upcoming solo album Strange Fruit Project Presents: S1 Music Box, on Spilt Milk Da Label/Traffic Entertainment.
KAZ Records recording artist Leah DeVon has been selected to be a featured artist for Music For Troops. Leah has made available free music downloads from her current album Come Over. “To give the gift of music to our men and women in uniform is an honor.” — Leah DeVon
After turning the world on fire in early 2006 with Self-Help, their first new album in over five years, SPITFIRE return nearly two years to the day with Cult Fiction and with it redefine what heavy is all about. Recorded at Trax East Studios in New Jersey by noted producer Eric Rachel (The Dillinger Escape Plan, God Forbid, Burnt By The Sun) and mastered by Alan Douches (you name it,…
Can you see the stars where you are? We can’t see ’em in New York. Let me tell you this is a damn good rock band at the height of their Byzantine powers. Jack Dolgen’s bass rumbles and bounces like it should. Sean Bones’ guitar can’t miss a note, except, of course when that note is supposed to be missed. And you can hear those pounding drums. And on top…
Sub Pop has released a brand new Band of Horses video that is now available for the song “No One’s Gonna Love You†from the band’s album, Cease to Begin.
Bret Michaels is, if nothing else, a true survivor. He has survived a life long battle as an insulin dependent diabetic, a well publicized near fatal car crash in 1994 and the countless musical trends and fads of the last two decades. “As soon as I ever start to just go through the motions I’ll quit,†confessed the 44 year old singer, songwriter, producer, director and actor in a recent…
Khia, aka Thug Misses, is set to drop her latest album Nasti Muzik. Known for her infamous 2002 smash club hit single, “My Neck, My Back,” and her recent appearance on VH1’s Miss Rap Supreme, Khia has returned to bring her sexually-driven lyrical prowess and southern charisma to her latest album. Nasti Muzik will be released August 19, 2008 on Fat Cat Records and Tommy Boy Distribution.
Free Blood is a marriage of opposing ends of a spectrum. The group came to fruition when former !!! member John Pugh and fashion designer Madeline Davy found common ground and much inspiration in a goal of uniting the divergent settings that host New York’s dance and indie music: the Manhattan club scene (or an idealized version of what once was a scene) and the energized, anything-goes Brooklyn warehouse parties…
Keith Sweat’s new CD Just Me debuts this week at #10 on Billboard’s top 200 album chart and #2 on R&B chart. Rolling Out Magazine will be throwing Keith a release party on June 4 at 7PM at the Geisha House in Atlanta, let me know if you would be interested in attending. In support of Just Me Keith Sweat will be touring throughout the US this summer, tour dates…