Category: News

Posted on: June 30, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Colorado’s Own Rose Hill Drive Let Their Fans Pick The First Single

Boulder power trio Rose Hill Drive are back for a second time around with their new studio album Moon Is the New Earth! The 12-song stunner was written, recorded, produced and mixed by Rose Hill Drive—the boys got their hands all over this one! Rose Hill Drive will do a sting of co-headlining dates with The Whigs all across the South and Mid-West in July.

Posted on: June 30, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Tu Fawning to Release the Secession EP on Polyvinyl

Tu Fawning is the new project of Joe Haege and Corrina Repp. Both Haege and Repp have been playing in Portland and abroad for many years now. However, a mutual desire to achieve something outside the bounds of their other projects, 31knots (Haege) and Corrina Repp (Repp), lead both of them to begin collaboration on each other’s albums last year. One look at the liner notes finds Haege all over…

Posted on: June 29, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Information about the new album by Osada Vida – track available on MySpace

Progressive rock band Osada Vida returns with a follow-up to the highly acclaimed album „Three Seats Behind A Triangle”. New material entitled “The Body Parts Party” is a concept album which describes people’s feelings and emotions – the negative as well as the positive ones. It’s also about thoughts and reflections on a human’s ordinary day-to-day existence. All this is symbolized and described by means of different body parts and…

Posted on: June 29, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Janet Jackson Announces Rock Witchu Tour

Janet Jackson, who has undeniably influenced pop culture with over a 100 million album sold, countless hit singles, awards and accolades, announced the launch of her Rock Witchu tour on the Ellen DeGeneres Show Monday.  This is Jackson’s first tour in over seven years and is expected to feature the hit songs and innovative dance routines that have made her one of the most celebrated artists in history.

Posted on: June 29, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Second Pyorrhoea’ s album to be released 9/2 in U.S.

Metal Mind Productions presents the first official release of Pyorrhoea‘s second full-length album. Rhythmical intensity mixed with massive guitar riffing and powerful growling! “The Eleventh: Thou Shalt Be My Slave” surely will not disappoint any extreme death grind maniac. The band was founded in the middle of 2001 by two friends: Cyprian and Andy Blakk. After a couple of months, Daray and Analripper joined the band. In June 2002, Pyorrhoea…

Posted on: June 29, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Val Emmich’s Little Daggers Message of the Mind

When we think of the term Pop Music there are two distinct thoughts that come to our minds, it makes you want to dance (and is a guilty pleasure that lives in your iPod) or it has a powerful meaning that tends to live and radiate with us for the majority of our lives. Is it possible to saddle these two different trains of thought and marry the two into…

Posted on: June 29, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Adam Levy Presents “I Can Promise You That” At Sun Studios

Adam Levy is best known for his tenure as the featured guitarist in Norah Jones’ Handsome Band. He played on Norah’s Come Away with Me, Feels Like Home, and her latest disc Not Too Late. Adam also wrote “In the Morning” from Feels Like Home. Adam has accompanied onstage and/or in the studio various musical luminaries like Rosanne Cash, Amos Lee, M. Ward, and Tracy Chapman.

Posted on: June 28, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Darkest Hour’s Mike Schleibaum Launches AskTheDude.net

Mike states, “I always try to save and answer every email I get as a band member. Eventually I began to see that I could just post the answers in an advice blog or column, and well, ask the dude was born.” A little fun, and mostly serious, Mike draws on his thirteen years of touring, recording, (plus a little known degree in Social Work from George Mason University), to…

Posted on: June 28, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Oliver Wakeman Band DVD – preview available NOW!

As previously announced Metal Mind Productions will release the first live DVD by Oliver Wakeman Band entitled “Coming To Town – Live in Katowice”. Oliver, the oldest son of Rick Wakeman (Yes), is a great prog-rock musician known for his many artistic collaborations, including the one with Clive Nolan (Pendragon, Arena, Neo, Caamora) which resulted in the creation of two genuine masterpieces of the genre: “Jabberwocky” and “The Hound of the…

Posted on: June 28, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Nino Bless Rock World With “Untold Scriptures”

Following the strong response to the posse track “3rd Degree” and the new street leak “Da Livest”, Nino Bless released the long-anticipated street-LP, Untold Scriptures, on 5-20-08. “I have notable veterans of the game helping me push this project, including Big Mike, Mick Boogie, & J Love.” The street-LP runs 19 tracks deep with features from Styles P, Joe Budden, Kool G Rap, Saigon, Crooked I, Joell Ortiz & Grafh.…

Posted on: June 28, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Shaya’s “Fall Back” Looking to Take Radio By Storm

Shaya cuts to the chase in a serious way with “Fall Back,” bringing his signature flow to the table alongside a low-key yet highly memorable beat. The opening line, “Hit ’em with that critical hip-hop,” embodies Shaya’s philosophy when it comes to making hip-hop: no excess, no frills, just solid rhymes and beats and music that comes from the heart. Lines such as: “Your boy can rhyme, outta sight outta…

Posted on: June 28, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Werewolves, Releases limited edition ES double 7″ in the U.K.

This five-piece Brooklyn-based ensemble brings fierce passion and intense energy to the scene with layered textures of psychedelic vibrations that penetrate the soul. Werewolves are able to capture the vintage feel of the sixties while still creating a sound that is progressive and innovative. The band was founded on coincidences and chance, starting with long–time friends Mike Maio (Guitar) and Turner Halsey (Percussion/Keys/Synths). The duo had been playing together In…

Posted on: June 27, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Matt Zane’s Just-Released Radium Volume 2 Gaining Strong Accolades

In the latest volume of the Radium series, Pleasure Productions starlet Tera Wray travels the country to interview todayÂ’s hottest metal acts and bring you some serious head bashing music videos. Radium Volume 2 includes exclusive interviews with major label bands In This Moment and Ill Nino. Tera also joins Society 1 bassist, Dirt, for a bass lesson and travels to Houston to attend Matt Zane’s guitar solo suspension.

Posted on: June 27, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

‘SOUTHERN FRIED’ HIP-HOP HITS UNWRAPPED BY HIDDEN BEACH RECORDINGS

After nearly a three year hiatus, the Los Angeles-based Hidden Beach Recordings has refreshed its popular and critically acclaimed Unwrappedâ„¢ collection. “It’s been years since we offered an addition to the series and the feeling inside was we had to do something new with a unified theme. The idea came up that southern rap has exploded into pop culture, why not offer Unwrappedâ„¢ recordings of these monster hits. At the…

Posted on: June 27, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Boots Riley (Shill for The Coup) Counters Charges

A music performance at the Bayou Boogaloo & Cajun Food Festival by Boots Riley, the well-known front man for The Coup, ended abruptly with police charges of “abusive language.” Boots was charged with an obscure law even the police had difficulty finding; citing him with § 18.2-416. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+18.2-416. This law has never been applied to a performer. In this situation, Boots’ lyrics were only “provoking” a good time, as the…

Posted on: June 27, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

iCarly’s Soundtrack Continues to Make Waves on Billboard Charts

Columbia Records released iCarly - Music From and Inspired by the Hit TV Show on June 10, 2008.  iCarly - Music From and Inspired by the Hit TV Show will debut four original songs performed by iCarly star Miranda Cosgrove, including the iCarly theme song, “Leave It All to Me” (featuring Drake Bell), which recently charted on the Billboard Hot 100. The hit song currently averages a four-star rating with customers on iTunes, as well as…

Posted on: June 27, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Walkmen Set To Release New Album You & Me Out Sept 16th On Gigantic Music

“In the New Year”, the first available track from the New York band’s forthcoming fourth album, You and Me, is more giving and direct than most Walkmen songs, sending familiar themes– romance, the new year– billowing out to grander proportions through the force of the performance. The push-pull between drumless verses and loud, swaying, barstool singalong choruses helps make for one of the best Walkmen tracks since Bows and Arrows’…

Posted on: June 27, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Unkle Come Back With “End Titles…Stories For Film”

This summer sees the return of UNKLE as they release their spectacularly beautiful End Titles…Stories for Film, a collection of eclectic recordings from UNKLE and various collaborators that were inspired by the moving image in the last two years since their last effort War Stories was recorded. End Titles…Stories For Film will be released in North America digitally July 15 and at retail September 2 on Surrender All–the all-encompassing label/studio/music…

Posted on: June 27, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

V.A. Elaste Vol. 2: Space Disco Set To Release at End of July

In the beginning there was… the Munich Music Machine: when Giorgio Moroder entered the US billboard charts in 1977 with Donna Summers erotic epos titled, “I Feel Love”, a new music style was born. A combination of influences from Motown & Philly Soul to German Electronica & Kraut Rock Giorgio Moroder helped shape a new sound, a sound that still can be considered as one of the blueprints for today’s…

Posted on: June 27, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Sky Eats Airplane Sets 7/22 Release Date

Fort Worth, TX natives, SKY EATS AIRPLANE, and Equal Vision Records have set a July 22, 2008 release date for their self-titled full length album. The 11-track set was recorded at the beginning of the year with producer, Brian McTernan (Circa Survive, Hot Water Music) at his studio in Baltimore. “Brian helped us out with a lot of great vocal ideas and definitely opened up new pathways we can take,”…