k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang will celebrate the release of Sing it Loud by playing the complete album live at two intimate shows the week the album is released. They will perform at the Troubadour in Los Angeles on Monday, April 11 and at (le) poisson rouge in New York City on Thursday,…
Month: March 2011
ESTATE OF SKY SAXON SUES FOR ROYALTIES
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SKY SAXON, the singer and songwriter behind the 1960s garage-rock band The Seeds, died in June 2009. However, for most of his career and to the end of his life, he received no royalties at all from his record company or his music publishing company. The reason? According to those companies, Saxon…
Steve Warner & the Rolling Coyotes, Train of Life
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Over the years we’ve seen American & Country Music slowly erode itself into over popish nothingness. Artist after artist presenting themselves as superstars in the making with nothing more than a pretty face, pushed in front of a microphone with an acoustic guitar by the corporate giants in the hopes of making a quick superficial…
Young Livers, Of Misery And Toil
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This is one that will most certainly kick your ass ten times until Sunday. Of Misery And Toil, the second full-length from Young Livers, a fervent and dedicated four-piece that only adds to the already strong reputation that No Idea Records has built for itself. If you get a chance to come up for air…
NEW VIDEO FROM NYC BAND MAKE OUT
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Trading on Mortensen’s manic take on pop music and the musical sensibility Hennessey developed from her own frenzied upbringing (and influence of her stepfather, The New York Dolls’ David Johansen), the band hooked up with producer Nicolas Vernhes (Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, The Fiery Furnaces) at his Rare Book Room studios in Brooklyn. Crafting a…
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD TO HEADLINE REVOLT TOUR 2011
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After a massively successful tour with Avenged Sevenfold, A&M/Octone recording group Hollywood Undead will return to the road to headline the Revolt Tour. Kicking off in Boston on April 6th the tour will feature special guests 10 Years, Drive A and New Medicine. On April 5th, the band returns with their second album: American Tragedy.…
SICK PUPPIES GO POLAR OPPOSITE WITH NEW RELEASE
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Australian rock trio Sick Puppies are set to release Polar Opposite, on March 1, available exclusively at WalMart and all digital retailers. The eight-song release, produced by Rock Mafia, features re-imagined tracks from their smash sophomore release Tri-Polar as well as their first hit “All the Same” from their debut album. This is Sick…
STACIE ROSE LAUNCHES MUSIC WEB SERIES: ‘SUITE SONGS’
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NJ/NYC based songstress Stacie Rose has just launched an exciting and original, new independent music series SUITE SONGS! SUITE SONGS is an intimate series about the personal & collaborative process of song making.
VANESSA CARLTON SIGNS WITH RAZOR & TIE / VIDEO
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Razor & Tie is excited to announce the signing of singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton. Her fourth studio album and first for Razor & Tie is set for release on June 21st, 2011. The album, titled Rabbits on the Run, was produced by Steve Osborne (U2, B-52’s, KT Tunstall) and was recorded in the UK…
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD RELEASE VIDEO FOR “HEAR ME NOW”
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Hollywood Undead have just premiered a video for the song “Hear Me Now” and fans can check it out here. Leading up to the video premiere the band posted 15 teasers for the video on their YouTube and Facebook pages. [youtube pdoIs1jZbCY nolink] www.hollywoodundead.com/revolt
RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE, MARCH 2011
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Ben Kono, Crossing (Nineteen Eight Records) Nu-jazz, purportedly Asian influenced owing to multi-instrumentalist Kono’s (Japanese, I believe) heritage, however my immediate overall impression was of a fairly straightforward Western blend. “Castles and Daffodils” opens the record to rambling effect; originally a paean to a downcast Stanley Kunitz poem, the originally effect was scrapped and…
IT’S SAFE TO SAY ELIZ CAMACHO GOT IT GOING ON
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It looks like Stoli and Windows Media Guide both agree that Eliz Camacho is an artist on the rise. While they beat me to it by a week or so I am real excited to have Eliz here on Skoped Out. Eliz knows what looks good, sounds good, and she knows how to juggle multiple…
MTV RADIO’S MORNING FACTS FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 1st, 2011
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WILLOW SMITH DROPS “21st CENTURY GIRL” Willow Smith has released “21st Century Girl,” her highly anticipated follow-up to “Whip My Hair.” The dance track is on sale at iTunes now. The daughter of Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith made a splash last fall with her debut single, “Whip My Hair,” which became an Internet…
