Category: News

Posted on: June 14, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Page France track to appear on Weeds Season 3 Soundtrack!

The time for Soccer MomÂ’s gone Drug DealerÂ’s has returned to TV! With season 4 of Weeds gearing to premiere in a few weeks, the kind folks at Showtime & Lionsgate Records have decided include the Page France track, Chariot on the soundtrack for Season 3, which comes out on June 3 via Lionsgate Records. Now you can revisit your favorite tunes from last season all in the comforts of…

Posted on: June 14, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

JVC Mobile Announces “El Kameleon” Campaign

JVC Mobile Entertainment (www.mobile.jvc.com), a leading developer and manufacturer of sophisticated mobile, audio, and video products, announces their 2008 “TURN ME ON” campaign to promote the El Kameleon-KD-AVX44 DVD/CD in-dash receiver. The campaign will feature an online viral video, billboard in Times Square, print ads, online banner ads, and a summer tour partnership with Crüe Fest.

Posted on: June 14, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Added press raves for new Fern Knight CD – now out!

Fern Knight is the eponymous third full-length release from this fixture on North Philadelphia’s internationally renowned musical community. As the primary cover for Margaret Wienk’s singing and songwriting, this record fully unleashes her style of melding acoustic and electronic sounds, her careful orchestration alongside the improvisational strengths of the quartet, well-placed strings and crystalline vocals. Displaying her classical roots and psychedelic leanings,Fern Knight is now released into the world by…

Posted on: June 13, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Closer To Truth: Cosmos Consciousness To Be Aired

This summer public television stations nationwide will launch the definitive series on the perennial human longing: “What Does It All Mean?” Robert Lawrence Kuhn, executive producer and series creator, has put together a spellbinding 39-episode foray into the meaning of the universe and human awareness. The visually stunning HD experience focuses 13 compelling episodes on each of three vast and interconnected fields: “Cosmos,” “Consciousness,” and “God.” Each episode guides viewers…

Posted on: June 13, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

DURAN DURAN launch video podcasts exclusively on Zune Marketplace

Features behind-the-scenes footage from the making of Red Carpet Massacre + Justin Timberlake and Timbaland in the studio Duran Duran has created an exclusive video podcast series that gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the band’s latest album Red Carpet Massacre, as well as a glimpse of the creative process surrounding the video “Falling Down.” In-studio footage with Justin Timberlake and Timbaland launches this week and will…

Posted on: June 13, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Michael Franti / Spearhead Release “All Rebel Rockers” 9/9

One of the most moving and politically charged writers, Michael Franti and his band Spearhead, return with their eagerly-awaited album, All Rebel Rockers, on September 9, via Anti-Records. Recorded in Kingston, Jamaica, with reggae’s most prolific production teams, Sly & Robbie (No Doubt, Alicia Keys, Sean Paul, Bob Dylan), this new release deviates from Franti’s previous sound and comprises a hybrid dub-infused soul flavor with some hard-hitting dub rock production.…

Posted on: June 12, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Alejandro Escovedo to Tour With Dave Matthews Band in Support of New Record ‘Real Animal’ Due June 24

With the impending release of his 9th solo album REAL ANIMAL, Alejandro Escovedo will hit the road as the opening act for the Dave Matthews Band beginning June 9th (see dates below). Alejandro will perform with his full band which consists of:  David Pulkingham (guitar), Josh Gravelin (bass), Hector Munoz (drums), Susan Voelz (violin) and Brian Standefer (cello).

Posted on: June 12, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

3 Doors Down Tours in Support of Their Self-Titled CD

3 Doors Down announced today their plans for a full headline summer tour in celebration of the upcoming self-titled Universal Republic Records release, 3 Doors Down, to be made available everywhere on May 20th. 3 Doors Down promises the shows will be one of the summer concert season’s more rocking bills, tearing it up live across the US with two of the most invincible road warrior bands, Boston-based Staind and…

Posted on: June 12, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Mower Offers Studio Update & New Video Interview With Metal Sanaz Posted Online

San Diego, CA’s Mower have entered a Los Angeles, CA recording studio with producer Eddie Wohl (Anthrax, Ill Nino, 36 Crazyfists, Dry Kill Logic). The album will be a split effort with six brand new Mower songs and six songs from the group’s jazz alter ego Slower. Slower is comprised of the Mower band members performing jazz and lounge versions of Mower songs.

Posted on: June 12, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

The Hard Lessons Announce “B&G Sides”

The Hard Lessons announce the release of ‘B&G Sides’, which will be a sweetly packed box set of Volumes 1-4 due out July 22 on the Quack Media label. Hailing from the Motor City where they were named Artist Of The Year by Real Detroit, Augie, Koko Louise and The Anvil shined at this year’s SXSW fest where they played Spin’s party at Stubbs alongside some much-written-about acts, prompting the…

Posted on: June 11, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Pure Pacha Announces Tour De Force

The time has come for the most opulent party in Ibiza to open its doors for the summer… Pure Pacha’s legendary 18 week stint starts with their opening on the 30th May 2008. Having built a reputation for bringing together musical quality, great parties and like minded people – Pure Pacha promises to deliver a night you will not forget.

Posted on: June 11, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Nat Hentoff on Kath Bloom and co. – new album coming

error is the follow-up to seminal avant-folk cult figure Kath Bloom’s 2006 return to active musical duty, Finally.  The new album was recorded at Barking Spider Studios in Warren, Connecticut with Kath and her husband Stan Bronski producing.  Terror is being released by Chapter Music Summer 2008.   The daughter of oboist Robert Bloom, Kath grew up in New Haven, CT, where she studied the cello as a child and…

Posted on: June 11, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

MMP Shows Preview of First Decapitated DVD

Decapitated – this Polish death metal band was formed in 1996 when the average age of the band members was just 14. Many people focused on Decapitated’s age as a reason to doubt them – the fact was that the band were already becoming an established live act throughout Poland, and in working so hard on the road had earned themselves a cult reputation as genuine contenders rather than simple…

Posted on: June 11, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant Comments: 0

Testament to Film Video for “More Than Meets The Eye”

Thrash metal giants Testament have chosen acclaimed video director Thomas Mignone (Avenged Sevenfold, Superjoint Ritual, Slipknot) to shoot the video for the first single from The Formation of Damnation, “More Than Meets The Eye.” The video will be shot in LA.

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

Delicious Vinyl taps B’more Club Kings for “Gutter MIx” of Classic Young MC Track

Aaron LaCrate & Debonair Samir, top purveyors of the explosive Baltimore club sound, have stepped to the plate to overhaul this classic track. Young MC’s fast-rap rhymes on “Know How Theme” are ideally suited to LaCrate & Samir’s hyperactive beats. As Lacrate says: “When I was a kid growing up in Baltimore I loved Young MC. I would make mixtapes where one side would be up-tempo club jams and the…

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

Gnaw Their Tongues To Release “An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood”

Gnaw Their Tongues, an enigmatic project from the Netherlands that has wowed fans of messed-up heaviosity with the phenomenal Reeked, Pained and Shuddering CD that was released on Paradigms along with a host of super-limited CDR and cassette releases, is joining the Crucial Blast roster for the CD release of the new full length An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood, which was released as a limited edition vinyl release at the…

Posted on: June 10, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant 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…

Posted on: June 10, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant 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…

Posted on: June 9, 2008 Posted by: Sargeant 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…