Check out Solange Knowles on tour with Raheem DeVaughn and Chrisette Michele now! Please let me know if you’d like to review one of the concert dates below. Geffen Records presents the sophomore release from Solange Knowles, SoL-AngeL and The Hadley Street Dreams due for release on August 26th. In anticipation for Solange’s CD release on August 26th I have audio streams of the first single, “I Decidedâ€, and other…
Where do you get your wisdom? In a cup of tea. San Francisco, California-based writer Todd Walton didn’t imagine he’d ever be considered for his wisdom and inspiration. Yet the astounding and simple stories he tells in this new book might make you think that there is in fact an amazing guru walking the streets of our world. Buddha in a Teacup: Tales of Enlightenment contains forty-two astounding short and…
Metal Mind Productions presents the first official release of “Self-Proclaimed Existence†by Sammath Naur. The album was originally released in December 2005 in conjunction with Polish magazine – Thrash’em All. The music is faster and far more aggressive then on the band’s first two demos. The style of creating music by merging various musical genres, first attempted on “The Forever War†demo, was explored more deeply on this album. The assimilation…
2008 is shaping up to be a very successful year for Pop Evil which has steadily built a grassroots following since forming in November of 2001. Leigh Kakaty (lead vocals), Dave Grahs (Guitar), and Dylan Allison formed the early stages of the band in Grand Rapids, Michigan that has recently signed to upstart record Label Pazzo Music run by 25 year music veterans George Cappellini and Charlie Brusco. After continually…
Grateful Dead drummer and percussionist Mickey Hart will launch a 20 city tour this summer including appearances at many of the nationÂ’s premiere music festivals. The outing comes on the heels of the Shout! Factory releases of The Mickey Hart Collection and the Rhythm Devils Concert Experience DVDs due this summer. The Mickey Hart Band will feature Steve Kimock on guitar, George Porter Jr on bass, Jen Durkin on vocals,…
Spencer Seim, the man/creature who serves as the feral axe shredder of Hella and the skins man of The Advantage, will be dropping his new album on August 19th under the nom de guerre of sBACH entitled sBACH on Suicide Squeeze. After being backed up into a corner, Mr. Seim concurred to leaking three tracks from this soon to be renowned opus on his MySpace page, www.myspace.com/sbachband
Much like the mystical illustration found on their self-titled debut album, Silver Summit is a collision of heaven and earth, fire and water; both bewitching and beautiful. The Brooklyn-based group is a song-writing partnership between longtime friends and multi-instrumentalists, Sondra Sun-Odeon and David Shawn Bosler. Their captivating entrance appears late this Summer on Language of Stone, a new imprint of heralded indie label Drag City. Working with noted engineer-producer and…
NEW STUDIO ALBUM, ‘THAT LUCKY OLD SUN,’ TO BE RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2 ON CD, DELUXE CD/DVD, LIMITED EDITION VINYL & DIGITALLY ‘You don’t have to climb the Capitol tower, or play the Hollywood Bowl, if there’s a roll in your heart, and a rock in your soul…’ (lyrics from That Lucky Old Sun’s ‘California Role’) He is one of popular music’s most deeply revered figures, a legendary writer, producer, arranger…
Aimee Mann has many exciting things going on surrounding the release of her 7th solo release, @#%&! Smilers. She has teamed up with visual artist Gary Taxali for the artwork on the album, which will be released on June 3, 2008 on her own SuperEgo Records. More information about this in addition to Mann’s newly confirmed US tour dates listed below!
Resurgent indie-pop label Slumberland Records (Velocity Girl, The Swirlies, Hood, and many, many more) is pleased to bring Leeds pop dynamos The Lodger‘s highly anticipated second album, Life Is Sweet, to American fans of ringing, catchy English pop. Drawing on influences like the Go-Betweens and Orange Juice, Life Is Sweet (driven by amazing first single “The Good Old Days”) saw release this May!
“Go ahead and add noisy, frenetic, underground-rock bands to the list of things that define Los Angeles…With its self-titled full-length, Meho Plaza seems set to take its place next to No Age and HEALTH in a lineage that stretches back to older touchstones like the Minutemen and Fear.” – Prefix Magazine
Having racked up a UK top 15 hit with first single After Hours and having sent the album that birthed it, Brain Thrust Mastery, to #11 on the album charts (a position the band like to refer to as “the pole position” owing to “the shape of the numbers”), We Are Scientists were ready to hang up their hats, telling anyone in earshot that they were now “officially bigger than…
Country music legends Tammy Wynette and Marty Robbins are the subjects of the next DVDs to be released via Shout! Factory and the Country Music Hall Of Fame® And Museum Archive Series. The performances featured on Tammy Wynette: Legendary Performances
The Tripwire: “The Jealous Girlfriends are a Brooklyn quartet that sounds like Mazzy Star seducing the New Pornographers. It’s a mix of longing shoegaze and perfect pop, creating a lush and wonderful pallet of wonderful complimentary sounds…Summertime in the sun belongs to the Beach Boys, but when the sun goes down evenings in the summer now belong to The Jealous Girlfriends.â€Â http://www.thetripwire.com/reviews/2008/3/4/the-jealous-girlfriends
Decca and Surco Records are proud to announce the July 15, 2008 release of “Mar Dulce†(Sweet Sea) from Bajofondo, the Argentine-Uruguayan collective led by the two-time Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning composer of Brokeback Mountain and Babel, Gustavo Santaolalla. Bajofondo’s previous self-titled release sold over 300,00 copies and was awarded the Latin Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental in 2003.
Go back to the future with Delicious Vinyl RMXXOLOGY, an all-new, 15-track album featuring classic tracks by Young MC, The Pharcyde, Masta Ace, The Brand New Heavies, and Fatlip re-imagined by artists including Peaches, Hot Chip, and Eminem. The first two singles from the album are already embedded in the hearts and minds of DJs and party people worldwide: pioneering electro goddess Peaches’ sizzling update of Tone Loc’s immortal “Wild…
On April 19th we announced to our readers that Crosby Loggins was selected to participate on MTV’s “Rock the Cradle†and not only did he rock it – he ruled. Last week Crosby took home the grand prize, a record deal with Jive Records. The feedback we had from our readers was varied, some thought that Jesse Blaze Snider should have taken home the crown with his back flips and…
Never Enough, featuring Eighteen Visions’ guitarist Keith Barney (ex- Throwdown) and Drummer Trevor Friedrich and Lylah frontman Norman Matthew, have posted live footage from their performance at Deep Rock Drive
Industry Icon Will Wright, the Chief Designer from Maxis, an EA studio. Wright’s games are some of the most popular and acclaimed titles of all time, including SimCity and the mega-hit The Sims, which recently celebrated 100 million units sold. Wright will provide a public demo of his latest project, the hotly anticipated game Spore. One of the most ambitious games ever made, Spore gives players their own personal universe…
Members of Annuals & Friends Launch Terpsikhore Collective w/New Releases From Sunfold and What Laura Says Stream Sunfold’s “Sara the American Winter” mp3 here: http://www.terpsikhore.com/sunfoldtoytugboats/ What Laura Says: http://www.myspace.com/whatlaurasaysthinksandfeels Members of Raleigh, NC six-piece Annuals and friends are excited to announce the national launch of their Terpsikhore label. As an organized collective-style entity, Terpsikhore has revealed its first set of releases for 2008 from Sunfold and What Laura Says.