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Posted on: June 10, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Trees and Crucial Blast Release “Light’s Bane”

The debut album from the Portland quartet Trees delivers two epic tracks of monolithic, blackened doom metal with a twisted, noise-damaged approach and a dank basement vibe. Trees craft glacial abstract riffs and rivers of ashen amplifier goo that fans of feedback-laden heaviosity will find highly satisfying, a kind of grinding, slow-motion black hole psychedelia that has a similar hypnotic death-ritual quality as artists like Bloody Panda and Khanate, but…

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Posted on: June 10, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Noism To Release ± 8/26

Crucial Blast will release the debut CD from Japan’s instrumental avant-death shred machine NOISM on August 26th. Noism was formed by guitarist Yoshiro Hamazaki and programmer Tomoyuki Akiyama in 1999 in Tokyo, Japan, and from the beginning the band has  focused on creating intensely complex and crushing death/grind using programmed drums, brain-melting riffs and dissonant shred, which is chopped up and processed into abstract death blasts that defy physics. Early…

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Posted on: June 9, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Nadja Tours, Re-Releases Desire In Uneasiness

Following a wave of recent reissues and re-recorded versions of older CD-R titles, Desire In Uneasiness is an album of all new material from the acclaimed Canadian dreamsludge weavers Nadja. Five colossal jams of eternally-fuzzy, ethereal dirge that are powered by the interlocking bass guitars of Leah Buckareff and Aidan Baker, who set loose a wave of monstrous grinding bass riffs amidst a fog of beautiful, swirling electronic effects. Desire…

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Posted on: June 9, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Bruce Kulick Set Up For New Album (Albeit, Old Recordings)

Before Bruce Kulick became a fixture on the speed dial of legendary rockers like KISS (who proudly called him their lead guitarist for 12 years), Meat Loaf (Kulick was a member of Meat’s Bat Out Of Hell touring troupe), or Grand Funk Railroad (with whom he has toured the country for most of the last decade)…Before he became one of the most sought after guest musicians in the world…Before he…

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Posted on: June 9, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Jay and the Americans Play a Number of Concerts at Sea

Jay and the Americans are:  Jay Reincke, Marty Sanders, Howie Kane and Sandy Yaguda.  The group has a lot of tourdates over the next several months, including a Concerts At Sea Oldies Cruise in the Caribbean from January 17 through the 24, 2009. 

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Posted on: June 9, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Jethro Tull Celebrates 40th Anniversary Alive

The 40th Anniversary of Jethro Tull is upon us this year–2008.  The group, which is made up of frontman/flutist/guitarist Ian Anderson, guitarist Martin Barre, drummer Doane Perry, keyboardist John O’Hara, and bassist David Goodier is in the midst of a variety of tourdates that include Europe, the UK, the Middle East and North America…..

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Posted on: June 8, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Jann Klose Sets Up Summer Tour

A lot of amazing things are happening with Jann Klose, whose new album REVERIE has been finding homes on stereos of music fans of all ages, and who are from lots of different countries.  He’ll be playing in the UK and Germany this July, has festivals and listening rooms throughout New York and border states this summer.  

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Posted on: June 8, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Joe Deninzon (Stratospheerius) Tours, Plays With Metro Strings

Joe Deninzon is rockin’, funkin’, and jazzin’ with Stratospheerius, and then he’s classicalin’, rockin’ and experimentin’ with the Metro Strings.  Metro Strings is a group made up of violinist Mazz Swift-Carnlet (Brazz Tree)and cellist David Cotay (Sweet Plantain String Quartet and Sound Liberation).  The repertoire includes covers of hit songs and combines vocals with rock, hip hop, jazz, funk, and electronic music.  There are some covers at http://www.myspace.com/metrostrings .  

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Posted on: June 8, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

The Strawbs will be touring, again, this June in the group’s classic 1974 lineup.

What originally endeared this progressive rock band to fans was their unique musical evolution out of 1960s English Folk music. The band has enjoyed commercial success over the years with a talented array of British musicians.   First starting in 1967 as the Strawberry Hill Boys, a bluegrass and folk trio, the Strawbs became stars of the British progressive rock and folk scene at the same time—gracefully using the traditions of…

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Posted on: June 7, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Slamm USA / Carmine Appice Tour

SLAMM USA is a band/theatrical experience that only Carmine Appice could have put together.  Why?  It features five drummers and one guitarist, and combines elements of the Blue Man Group, Home Depot, NASCAR, and melodic hard rock. The troupe will be performing its over-the-edge music at a variety of events—a fundraiser for the Paul Green’s School of Rock, and with a drum line at Washington State College this fall.

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Posted on: June 7, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

The Wedding Present Ride Success of El Ray

Legendary UK act The Wedding Present released its first new full length in over three years on May 20. Titled El Rey, the album was recorded in early 2008 in Chicago by Steve Albini, marking the bandÂ’s first record with the noted producer since 1991Â’s renowned Seamonsters. Manifesto Records will be the U.S. record label. Written while frontman David Gedge was living in Los Angeles, El Rey burns with West…

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Posted on: June 7, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Suicide Squeeze Records reissue’s (with bonus track) Minus the Bear’s “They Make Beer Commercials Like This,” EP

Suicide Squeeze Records is pleased to announce the reissue of the critically acclaimed Minus the Bear release, They Make Beer Commercials Like This. This EP has been newly re-mastered and expanded with the bonus track, Houston, We Have Uh-Oh. This also marks the first time the release will be available on vinyl and will include a digital download code as well you can jam the tunes on the go.

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Posted on: June 7, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Death to Anders releasing Fictitious Business on July 15th!

In a time when fabrications and inventions rule our everyday lives, Silverlake based Death to Anders has created Fictitious Business, a surreal and cryptic look at life in the 21st century. Like paranoid eyes through a camera lens, this album dissects human dominance through expansion of un-wasted space, self-improvement, self-destruction, lust and beauty. Noise filled jangly guitars draws the listener into this American landscape, as darkly sweet harmonies connect the…

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Posted on: June 6, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Hit The Lights Return With “Skip School, Start Fights” Out July 8th – Announce Spring/Summer Tour Plans!

Lima, Ohio pop punkers HIT THE LIGHTS will release their sophomore record Skip School, Start Fights July 8th on Triple Crown Records. Skip School, Start Fights is the follow up to 2006’s buzzworthy This Is A Stickup…Don’t Make It A Murder which put Hit The Lights on the map and saw them tour with New Found Glory, Paramore, Cute Is What We Aim For, Cartel and Boys Like Girls. The band…

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Posted on: June 6, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

MJ / MC Magic Releases Out This Week

MJ , Release: Mi Sentimiento/My Feeling , In Stores Now MJ’s US album release of “Mi Sentimiento/My Feeling” offers a fusion of reggaeton, bachata, dances hall, R& B and ballad sounds that combine to create a revolutionary sound unlike anything that Latin music has experienced before. This album was produced by the “Dream Team”: Eliel, Memo and Mambo Kingz. Wisin, half of reggaeton’s most important duo (Wisin y Yandel), collaborated…

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Posted on: June 6, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

N*E*R*D* Set to Release “Seeing Sounds” (Star Trak / Interscope)

SYNESTHESIA [sin-uhs-thee-zhuh] – noun A neurologically-based phenomenon in which a stimulus of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color.

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Posted on: June 6, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Jimmy Lloyd – S/T

Jimmy Lloyd – S/T / 2008 Self / 10 Tracks / http://www.myspace.com/jimmylloyd Jimmy Lloyd begins his debut album with “Maybe”. “Maybe” is a rock track that showcases the vocal strengths of Lloyd, whom links together the vocals of Bob Dylan, Bryan Adams, and Bruce Springsteen. During this introductory track, the arrangements take on a hint of Neil Young, making this first salvo into something that is firmly rooted in classic…

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Posted on: June 6, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Introducing David Guetta to American Audience

A household name in his native France, multi-million selling producer, recording artist and promoter DAVID GUETTA has found the rest of the world is rapidly catching up since the N. American release of his third album Pop Life (Ultra Records, Oct 9). “I played Coachella earlier last year,” he says, of LA’s revered rock festival. “It was huge! I saw an article in USA Today that said the highlights of…

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