Month: June 2010

KEATON SIMONS TO JOIN REO SPEEDWAGON & PAT BENATAR ON SUMMER TOUR

Keaton Simons (CBS Records) will join legendary rock artists REO Speedwagon and Pat Benatar on their “Love On The Run” co-headlining cross-country summer tour, kicking off June 24 at Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT. Download MP3: “Without Your Skin” SKOPE IT HERE! With a depth and richness similar to some of the best singer/songwriters…

Schleusolz, The Weinheim Experiment

Coming off their 2009 debut Running Out Of Time, Schleusolz are back with another spaced-out record titled The Weinheim Experiment.   Frankfurt, Germany natives Worsel Strauss and Schani Wolf are the magicians behind the special Schleusolz sound.   Watch as they attempt to pull a rainbow of sounds/beats/styles out of their hats once again.  …

LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE ECLIPSE SOUNDTRACK TODAY ONLY

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack is now streaming exclusively at www.eclipsesoundtrack.com for 24 hours only.   The soundtrack is available in stores and online next Tuesday, June 8th via Chop Shop/Atlantic. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse hits theatres Wednesday, June 30th.

WOULD YOUR BAND LIKE TO OPEN FOR KISS?

Continuing its ongoing support of aspiring artists, Guitar Center, the world’s largest musical instrument retailer, today announced that it has teamed up with rock and roll icons KISS, and leading digital media company for entertainment, Eventful, for a revolutionary music program: Guitar Center On-Stage, a competition that provides unsigned bands and artists the career-altering opportunity…

CROSSFADE NEW VIDEO “KILLING ME INSIDE”

Crossfade debuted the video for their brand new single “Killing Me Inside.” Last month the band posted a brief instrumental sample of the track as the first taste of new material from their album due out later this year.  

HEARTSOUNDS’ ‘UNTIL WE SURRENDER’ COMING JUNE 15

Bay Area punk rock group Heartsounds will release their latest album Until We Surrender on June 15 via Epitaph Records.   The band will kick off a tour in support of their album beginning in late June. Formed from the ashes of now defunct melodic death-metal band Light This City, Heartsounds consists of founding members…

MTV RADIO’S MORNING FACTS FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2ND, 2010

GAGA IS A BIG TIPPER Lady Gaga is apparently one heck of a tipper.   According to British paper The Sun, the “Bad Romance” singer went out to an English pub in Birmingham on days off in between shows on her Monsters Ball tour, and supposedly picked up the tab for the whole bar, signed…

Sandman Viper Command, Everybody See This

The fresh and unadultered sounds of Sandman Viper Command may be a little tough to immediately classify, but the immediate exposure that the band will enjoy from Everybody See This, their debut, isn’t a bad start. It’s a largely harmless listen, but odds are the four young dudes that make up the band aren’t out…

SKOPE EXCLUSIVES: Nicki Minaj feat FLo Rida “Your Love”

We at Skopemag.com get hundreds of exclusive tracks via various vendors on a daily basis. The goal for us is to share with our readers as many tracks that come in. Please note that some of these links expire so you got to get it while it’s hot! Nicki Minaj feat FLo Rida “Your Love”:…

BRUCE KAPHAN FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD OF “GLEAMING TOWERS”

San Francisco Bay Area musician, composer, engineer and producer Bruce Kaphan has been professionally involved in the Music Scene since the mid-’70s. His skills and talents have made their mark on hundreds of projects, and thousands of performances given around the world. On June 1st Bruce will be releasing his long-awaited sophomore full-length album, Hybrid,…

LUKE WESLEY OFFERS MP3 “I HOPE YOU LIKE THIS SONG”

Luke Wesley grew up in tiny Shelby, Ohio before moving to New York in his early 20s, and credits his family and small-town upbringing with shaping his musical stylings. “Between my parents and my 3 older brothers, I had a lot of differing musical tastes coming out of the home,” he says. “A big family…

The Bloodshot Gamblers, Pain & Other Simple Pleasures

Are you ready to take a journey and listen to some stories about Pain & Other Simple Pleasures?   If so, then prepare yourself and get ready to enter the world of The Bloodshot Gamblers.   You will be engulfed by a world full of despair, addiction, pain, depression and heartbreak.   Now wait a…

LYFE JENNINGS’ CONTROVERSIAL NEW SINGLE “STATISTICS”

Lyfe Jennings’controversial new single “Statistics” is #1 most added at Urban Radio this week. The song will be featured on his fourth and last studio album “I Still Believe,” to be released by his own label, Jesus Swings, through Asylum/Warner Bros Records on July 27.

THE REAL NASTY OFFER TWO SINGLES FROM ‘PAPER CITY’

San Francisco-based The Real Nasty has just released its debut full-length album “Paper City”.   Recorded completely live in the studio, “Paper City” captures The Real Nasty’s gritty, live performance in a studio setting, a feat often difficult to accomplish for live bands.  

MTV RADIO’S MORNING FACTS FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 1ST, 2010

MAROON 5 TALK NEW ALBUM Summer is just around the corner, but a lot of Maroon 5 fans can’t wait for it to come and go.   That’s because the band’s new album, Hands All Over, comes out on September 21st, and the day just can’t come soon enough.   The band recorded the album…

RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE, JUNE 2010

Wumpscut, Siamese (Metropolis Records) This is a review I’ve put off for a while, being that I’m big into Rudy Ratzinger’s one-man operation and this record is as nondescript as he’s ever threatened to get.   As usual, the pickings are all good enough to top the best efforts of most any goth-posturing crew, but…

TRAEDONYA! RELEASES REMIX EP WITH I-POD CONTEST

Prohibition Entertainment in association with Skope Magazine is sponsoring an exclusive contest for Skope Magazine readers worldwide. The contest will be in conjunction with the release of Prohibition’s vocalist TRAEDONYA! AKA “THE BRIDE OF THE NEW FUNK HIPOPERA” Remix EP of her latest single “I’LL GIVE IT 2 U” to digital stores. The EP will…