Check out live videos http://www.youtube.com/wearecocobs LA Times Top 10 Buzz Bands of 2007 NME “… In thrall to the likes of The Replacements, The Lemonheads, The Byrds and even Dylan. Man, we love that shit. Why? Because there’s only a few months ’til summer. That means a lot time smoking spliffs in parks, and thanks to this, there’s more material for our “Now That’s What I Call Smoking Spliffs in…
Support offered by All Shall Perish, The Warriors, Eternal Lord, Since The Flood Massachusetts’ THE ACACIA STRAIN are proud to announce a summer 2008 headlining tour across the United States. Dubbed the Sun Your Bunz Tour, and featuring support from All Shall Perish, The Warriors, Eternal Lord and Since The Flood, the tour with cross America from late-May into late-June. A tour admat is also available online here (http://prostheticrecords.com/tassunyourbunz.html). The…
Individuals want to find things to do for the summer. For those individuals in the United Kingdom, FestivalPlanet is the web site that needs to be checked out. This is due to the fact that FestivalPlanet has the UK Festival Calendar 2008, which shows every event of any significance that will take place in the UK for this summer and beyond. So, if you want to know exactly what’s up…
On July 22, Matthew Sweet will release his 10th studio album, Sunshine Lies, in a new alliance with Shout! Factory. Fans who have eagerly awaited the album’s arrival (and have been tracking its progress under the working title Rock Bottom) will not be disappointed. Call it what you wish–Sweet terms it “power-pop-folk-rock-psychedelic-melodic-singer-songwriter-type stuff”–listeners will marvel at the depth and clarity of vision here.
Jive recording artist Lil Mama is set to release her eagerly-awaited debut album Voice Of The Young People. Her current hit single, “Shawty Get Loose” with Chris Brown and T-Pain, is #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart and #17 on both the Digital Tracks and Digital Singles Charts.
As previously announced Metal Mind Productions will released Believe’s second album on 19th May 2008 in Europe and 8th July 2008 in USA (via MVD). The band, created by guitarist Mirek Gil, should be known already by fans of Collage and Satellite. Not only was Mirek a founding member and main song writer of Collage, but he played with Satellite as well (on their debut album). For his new band…
Freshtrends.com is one of the oldest sites that provides individuals with all of the different belly button rings, nose rings, and tongue rings that they could conceivably want. While a number of local places, whether it be Hot Topic, the local head shop, or some Claire’s in the mall may have an OK selection, Freshtrends.com provides individuals with countless different options.
Mark Brown & Micky Slim may not spring to mind as your perfect dance music tag team but for the next installment of Cr2’s Live & Direct series they have joined forces to bring you something a little different than the norm. Micky’s sets are all about the party and the bass, ensuring the dancefloor and atmosphere are electric and everyone is having the time of their life! Mark’s mix…
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Fresh off a tour with Saliva and Drowning Pool Atlanta rock foursome City Sleeps are showing no signs of slowing down with a new video directed by Darren Doane (Buckcherry, AFI/Atreyu/Deftones) and single for ‘Not An Angel’ (from the CD of the same name) that will impact the airwaves and video channels in late April. Look for the band to continue to criss-cross the country in support of their Trustkill…
And to reward their devoted army of rabid fans, the band has announced that it will record the entire show for a live DVD that Warner Bros. Records will release later this year. The DVD will be directed by Core Entertainment’s Rafa Alcantra, who also worked on the band’s riotous 2007 road documentary All Excess. The DVD package will also include a CD of seven previously unreleased b-sides that were…
Philadelphia, PA–Philly’s own premier “hip-rock†band All Crazy is an appealing crossover mixture of rock and hip-hop that is gaining momentum and pulling in a large audience with their charismatic performances along the east coast.
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.†http://www.thetripwire.com/reviews/2008/3/4/the-jealous-girlfriends
Los Angeles’ THE FUNERAL PYRE has posted a track from the band’s forthcoming record, ‘Wounds,’ online at the band’s MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/thefuneralpyre), entitled “Black Earth.†Scheduled for a May 27 release through Prosthetic Records, ‘Wounds’ is the follow-up to 2006’s ‘The Nature of Betrayal,’ which saw an early 2007 re-release through a distribution deal with Creator Destructor Records.
There’s clearly no stopping Ari Gold as he gears up to release the maxi-single for “Where The Music Takes You.” The infectious, feel-good song, written and produced by Gold and the production team >HitPlay, is the Overall Grand Prize Winner of the 12th Annual USA Songwriting Competition (as well as First Prize Winner in the Pop category). With a featured vocal by Sasha Allen (Camp, VH-1’s Born To Diva and…
Spin [4 Stars] : “…balancing craftmanship and raw emotion.” Rolling Stone : ” heads up, animal collective fans: this san francisco act whips up tribal-style grooves that are surprisingly cheery and layered for a band that consists of only two dudes playing acoustic instruments.” NY Times at SXSW (Jon Pareles) : “But some of my favorite bands at the festival were those that made their impact on the spot. ;…
On June 17, Shout! Factory will reissue the soundtracks to the original motion pictures Claudine and Pipe Dreams on one disc, celebrating both the films and the work of Gladys Knight & The Pips and Curtis Mayfield.
LADYHAWK have just released an album called “Shots” that Carrie Brownstein of NPR (and of Sleater-Kinney fame) listens to every day (see March 6 entry at http://www.npr.org/blogs/monitormix/). MOJO magazine gives the same album 4 stars and says that Ladyhawk recalls “Dinosaur Jr.’s drive as adroitly as some of Neil Young’s darker notions.” And their live show is renowned. The Vancouver band is coming off a sold-out romp through Canada with…
Oxford, UK’s Young Knives’ Hailed by Q Magazine as “a celebratoty affair – a hugely likeable and intelligent pop album that sings with human warmth, and ultimately, quiet defiance”, Superabundance is the follow up to 2006’s Voices of Animals and Men.
NME’s #5 Best Band at SXSW “the real winner of SXSW this year was the might wah-wah pedal, thanks mainly to White Denim’s growling psycho garage rock…..the spewing riot of “Paint Silver Gold” and the massive “Let’s Talk About It” are spelling out the future of dirt-rock in blood”