Best-selling Australian singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd is set to release his seventh album, Dark Shades of Blue, on August 19th. Confirmed appearances at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass and Bumbershoot festivals in August and the Austin City Limits festival in September will bookend a headlining tour that will find Xav bringing his world-renowned live performance to cities across the U.S.
 “For 25 years The New York Pops has showcased young artists before they’ve become stars, and now I want you to meet a singer who’s about to set the world on fire, who begins a North Americans tour this summer, and you’re going to be able to tell your friends you saw him, heard him in his Carnegie Hall debut. Ladies and gentlemen, Nicola Congiu. â€
Equal parts The Black Crowes, Led Zeppelin and The Allman Brothers, this five piece act can easily be categorized; they are the epitome of a real rock & roll band!
Paging Grace, who will have songs featured on MTV’s “The Hills” this season, announced today that they have teamed up with CHii Clothing for a sponsorship agreement. The company’s claim to fame is having association with Jes, the winner of VH1’s inaugeral season of “Rock of Love”. They will be supplying shirts and other schwag for Paging Grace’s upcoming summer tour and beyond.
Popular rock band Sweet led by bassist /vocalist Steve Priest has launched their My Space Page (www.myspace.com/thesweetband) and will perform on two of Los Angeles’ top radio shows, it was announced today. On Thursday, May 29th Steve will be the special guest on Sex Pistol Steve Jones’ Jonesy’s Jukebox from noon until 2 p.m. on Indie 103.1. (repeats from 6 – 8 p.m.) The entire Sweet band will be performing…
New Confirmed Album Information! The Verve have not only leaked the first single from their forthcoming album this week, “Love Is Noise”, but they’ve also now given the record the title of ‘Forth’ and revealed the tracklisting. It will be released on August 18th in the UK, while North America gets the record a day later (Aug 19th) via their own imprint On Our Own distributed via Megaforce/MRI, and label…
Although most of the details are sketchy, the one thing that’s certain is that the once highly influential underground hip-hop DJ/Producer and Perceptionist member, Fakts One, one day, simply disappeared. Some blame problems with his record label that folded right before the scheduled release of his debut solo album. Others say the stresses of the unstable music industry led Fakts to turn his back on hip-hop as a profession. Whatever…
Check out Hot Chip’s great video for “One Pure Thought.” Feel free to post it up! Youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eAev1ZjE3dI
Releasee Debut US Tour Single “Where We Could Go Tonite?†The Fader (Style Q & A ) : “I love Francoise Hardy for her basic French sensibility of softness, romance and passion. It’s pillowy in the coolest way.â€
SENSES FAIL announces an October 7 release for Life Is Not A Waiting Room (Vagrant), their third full-length and follow up to 2006’s Still Searching. Brian McTernan (Hot Water Music, Thrice) produced the twelve-track set at his Salad Days studio in Baltimore, MD.
SIGH, who will embark on their first-ever North American headlining tour this September, have posted an update on their tour dates and what fans can expect from their live performance.
Well-traveled road warriors Rev Theory – Rich Luzzi, Julien Jorgensen, Dave Agoglia, Matt McCloskey and Rikky Lixx – will embark on an expansive two-month summer trek following the June 10 release of their album Light It Up.  Other notable summer appearances include a TV performance on CBS that is taped on July 12th at the first ever Maloof Money Cup (a skateboard festival in Orange County), as well as an…
Dionyza (Dee-on-cha) is the daughter of Motown singer/songwriters Michael and Brenda Sutton. She sang on the best-selling soundtracks of the Disney TV movie High School Musical 1 and High School Musical 2. She also provides the singing voice of the characters “Sasha” and “Jade” on the Saturday morning cartoon The Bratz. Recently, Dionyza was in the studio wrapping up vocals on The Cheetah Girls Movie.
Concord Records released the soundtrack to the latest installment of the Indiana Jones adventures, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The soundtrack features an original score composed by Academy Award winner John Williams
Stoked to bring you a new, free MP3 from one of Philly’s finest: Pink Skull updates of the four-on-the-floor sound with quirky tech house, varietal acid, and Faustian instrumentation, melding dance-floor readiness with krautrock psychedelia. This is a remix of Plastic Little’s “Crambodia” which also appears on their latest LP Zeppelin 3.
Guelph, Ontario based grind/hardcore act DRUDGERY has signed with Year of the Sun Records for the release of their upcoming debut EP, “RUST”. DRUDGERY is the new project spearheaded by drummer Matt Connell (EX-FUCK THE FACTS, EXHUMED) and also features Steve Ferraro, formerly of DEAR BLACK DIARY.
WANDERlust is the provocative title for the intriguing first solo album by Gavin Rossdale – an inspired song cycle by the former leader of Bush that turns out to be a trip in its own right. “The wanderlust I’m talking about isn’t that desire to travel and see the world, Rossdale explains with a grin. “It’s my overwhelming desire to get out and play music for people. I feel like…
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…