SOUND CITY, the feature length directorial debut from Dave Grohl that Peter Travers of ROLLING STONE hailed as an “exhilarating documentary about what makes life worth living… an intimate epic about music” and THE NEW YORK TIMES called “candy to several generations’ worth of rock fans” has now been certified as a Gold Longform Video…
Month: July 2013
TOTO TO LAUNCH NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN JULY
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Toto has announced this morning what will be the band’s first full North American tour in almost a decade. Few ensembles in the history of recorded music have individually or collectively had a larger imprint on pop culture than the members of Toto. As individuals, the band members’ imprint can be heard on…
WIRE: INCAN ABRAHAM ON SPIN
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White Iris Records is set to release rising Los Angeles world-infused psych-pop group Incan Abraham’s Tuolumne/Whidbey August 6. The lead track “Tuolumne” is streaming now at SPIN: http://go.spin.com/16qGLzI. In anticipation of the release, the band is playing throughout Southern California beginning July 11 at The Echo in Los Angeles. The release is accompanied by a…
BLACK WATER RISING SET TO RELEASE NEW RECORD IN AUGUST
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Black Water Rising returns with another collection of no frills, angst ridden, riff heavy, rebellion rock. Lead singer/ songwriter, Rob Traynor weaves stories of social awareness alongside crushing grooves, roaring guitars, and infectious melodies. Their second release, Pissed and Driven is the highly anticipated follow up to their self-titled debut album which featured the hit…
NEW VIDEO BY HIATUS KAIYOTE “NAKAMARRA”
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Melbourne’s internationally acclaimed “future soul” band HIATUS KAIYOTE announces their US tour kicking off in Las Vegas on July 25th including stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Miami and others. In addition to headlining club dates they will open up for Erykah Badu and D’Angelo in Columbia, MD and Detroit, MI and for…
DARKC3LL POST “EXORCIST” SINGLE
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Praised as a truly ‘world class act’, industrial rock powerhouse, DARKC3LL, proves that they are no ordinary band with the 7/5/2013 release of their single ‘Exorcist’ through RTD Records/Rocket Distribution. Showcasing their dynamic and constantly evolving approach, ‘Exorcist’ deals with anti-control and a twist of anti-religion with their trademark hook-driven, stadium rock sound. https://soundcloud.com/rtdrecords/darkc3ll-exorcist Now,…
ITCH NEW VIDEO “HOPELESS ROMANTIC”
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UK artist ITCH has been building buzz for his newest US single “Homeless Romantic” featuring Adam Lazzara of Taking Back Sunday since he premiered the audio with MTV Buzzworthy last week. Today, we get the music video featuring Lazzara’s soaring chorus, which complements ITCH’s high-velocity rhymes. Check out the music video, which was shot by…
WIRE: LOWLAND HUM ON NPR FIRST WATCH
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Lowland Hum, the multisensory artistic collaboration of husband and wife duo Daniel Levi Goans and Lauren Plank Goans will self-release Native Air, their first full-length album on August 6. The self produced Native Air was recorded at Daniel’s parents’ home and mixed by Rick Parker, who’s recent work with Lord Huron they admired. The album…
WIRE: WHITE DOVE NEW SINGLE ON BLACKBOOK
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On their forthcoming album, “The Hoss, The Candle,” White Dove have crafted a lush collection of songs that are both enigmatic and powerful. With touches of soft-rock, psychedelia, and classic California rock, White Dove confidently layer ethereal background harmonies with cosmic slide guitar. However, the band never stay in the sun for long. Night has…
Dirty Hurricane, Rude, Crude & Unattractive
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So what is Avant-Garde? Avant-garde quite simply represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or status quo primarily in popular culture. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism. I like to think of it as uncharted water. So…
JAY-Z, SAMSUNG DEAL, RIAA CERTIFICATION: GOOD OR BAD? I SAY BAD
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Collectively Jay-Z, Samsung, RIAA, & possibly Billboard have made a move for the worse as a whole for the music industry. It was GREAT deal and move for Jay-Z but all bad for everyone else. Samsung just bought 1 Million Albums and possibly the #1 spot on theBillboard album chart for Jay-Z. So whoever could…
BALLYHOO! LIVE @ BRIGHTON MUSIC HALL
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Photographs from Ballyhoo!’s show at the Brighton Music Hall with Authority Zero and Versus the World as part of the Summer Sickness Tour! 2013.All images © 2013 Alexandre da Veiga. Skope photographer, Alexandre da Veiga(www.daveigaphoto.us), had a chance to have a quick chat with Howi Sprangler, Ballyhoo!’s front man. Skope Magazine: What can fans expect…
REGINA SPEKTOR COMPOSES THEME SONG FOR NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
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Musician and songwriter Regina Spektor has composed the original theme song for the Netflix Original Series, “Orange is the New Black,” it was announced today. The song, “You’ve Got Time,” plays in an edited version over the series’ eye-catching opening title sequence, which features arresting images of the faces of female former prisoners. The hour-long…
WIRE: NSFW VIDEO FOR GOLD LAKE’S “WE ALREADY EXIST”
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Gold Lake founding members, Carlos del Amo and Lua Rios, have been busy the last few years putting the finishing touches on what ultimately would become Gold Lake. In the Fall of 2012, already a trio at this point, they wrote and recorded what will be their debut album Years in Madrid, mixing it in…
GAMECHANGER TO ENGAGE MUSIC FANS IN THE FUTURE
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GameChanger, a new innovative, artist-powered mobile gaming platform company will release its first wave of games through its GameChanger World app in August from Forever the Sickest Kids, Mayday Parade, Senses Fail, Bayside, T. Mills, Hopsin, Allstar Weekend, Mod Sun, and Miss May I. GameChanger was founded by John D’Esposito and is based in Colts…
NEW VIDEO BY MS MR
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Today, MS MR reveal a new music video for their UK single “Think of You” which is directed by BRTHR. New York City based duo MS MR will embark on their first North American headline tour this fall in support of their critically-acclaimed, debut album Secondhand Rapture. The tour will start September 16 in…
WIRE: NEW FUTURE BIBLE HEROES VIDEO
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Stereogum premiered the new video for “Living, Loving, Partygoing” from the new Future Bible Heroes album, Partygoing. Directed by Naomi Yang (of Damon and Naomi), the video features Claudia, Stephin, and Chris frolicking at an unconventional garden party. While the video showcases the summery feel of the song, its atmosphere also includes a hint of…
FREE TIX TO KAHBANG FOR US MILITARY
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The KahBang Festival is honored to announce the return of the KahBang Hearts The Troops program. Sponsored by UNO Chicago Grill, all active U.S. Military personnel will receive one free pass to the KahBang Festival, August 8-11, 2013 on the Bangor Waterfront. In addition to the free pass, sponsor UNO Chicago Grill is offering 10%…
ALEJANDRO SANZ WILL TRAVEL WITH GREENPEACE
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The musician and Greenpeace ambassador, Alejandro Sanz, will join the Arctic expedition that Greenpeace is conducting in the month of July to highlight the need to protect this unique ecosystem. The objectives of the journey include checking on the dwindling of the glaciers and the arctic ice cap due to climate change, underscoring the danger…
HOT CHELLE RAE TO SERVE AS SUPPORT ACT FOR JUSTIN BIEBER
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It has just been announced today that Hot Chelle Rae will be joining Justin Bieber’s upcoming tour dates as direct support beginning June 22nd in San Diego. Find scheduled tour dates below or visit www.hotchellerae.com for more information. Hot Chelle Rae recently released their brand new single “HUNG UP” available now at all digital…
WIRE: NEW QASI SINGLE ON PITCHFORK
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Mole City is not in the tradition or deviating from the tradition — it is the tradition. After 2 decades of launching drums, guitars and pianos through the shifting interzones between harmony and chaos (moonlighting along the way with the likes of Sleater-Kinney, Wild Flag, Elliott Smith, Built to Spill and a long list of…
NEW CRUSHED OUT VIDEO IS NSFW
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Nomadic husband and wife duo CRUSHED OUT have released their first official video from their full-length debut, Want to Give, a primal blend of Bo Diddley beats, tube amp guitar howl, surfy wet reverb and unbridled vocals. The video is for their track “Push Down and Twist,” an anti-drug song that refers to the cap…
CHAOTIK STYLZ NEW VIDEO “SHOW IMPROVEMENT”
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Chaotik Stylz spent the majority of his formative years shuttling back and forth between Buffalo, NY and Los Angeles, CA and did so by navigating between two different worlds; the suburbs of Buffalo and the inner-city of LA. “My upbringing was odd to say the least. I was primarily raised by my mother, who…
AMY LAVERE VIDEO FOR THE SINGLE “THIS BRIDGE”
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Amy LaVere had a little window of time before she hit the road this summer, so she did what any of us would do: shot a music video and released two new songs. The digital single is out now via Archer Records. A-Side “This Bridge” is a song that came out of the writing sessions…
MAGIC! POSTS “RUDE” LYRIC VIDEO
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Composed of band members Nasri Atweh (lead vocals), Mark Pelli (guitar), Alex Tanas (drums) and Ben Spivak (bass), MAGIC! is a reggae-pop quartet from Toronto, Canada who is winning without hesitation the hearts of listeners. The band itself is not new to the music business for it is made up of members who are well…
WHEELAND BROTHERS VIDEO “LOVIN’ ON TIME”
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Orange County’s Wheeland Brothers are at it again with their sophomore EP, “Muchos Mahalos”, out worldwide on July 23rd. Their new single & music video “Lovin’ On Time” features tasty burritos, tarp surfing with friends, PCH crusin’, as well as secret spot cliff jumping escapades. The songs pulls influences from Bob Marley, Sublime, Jack Johnson…
MACHINE HEAD ANNOUNCES NEW BASSIST
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It is with great pride and excitement that Machine Head announce Jared MacEachern as their new bass player. Jared has already begun rehearsals for the upcoming Rockstar Mayhem U.S. summer festival tour and will soon relocate from North Carolina to Northern California to begin pre-production for Machine Head’s upcoming 8th studio release. http://www.machinehead1.com
WIRE: ALELA DIANE VIDEO ON SPIN
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So croons the elegant folkstress Alela Diane on the title number from her forthcoming record, About Farewell. Over the last year, Alela has finished recording and mixing this new album, to be self-released in the summer via her own label, Rusted Blue Records. It serves as an eloquent goodbye to lovers from years past, coupled…
STOLI INVITES READERS TO COME GET LOST IN THE MUSIC OF ANNIKA VITOLO
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Wow it’s Wednesday already, I must have missed a day. Anyways we are back at it and excited to be here. Before we get into it I just want to speak on Jay-Z and Samsung releasing his new album to a million people who didn’t even know they had bought the album, that’s because Samsung…
THE PIXIES TO PLAY LONDON’S iTUNES FESTIVAL
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The Pixies have been confirmed for the iTunes Festival, to be held in London at The Roundhouse on Wednesday, September 25. The iTunes festival is free to the public, and can be streamed via the official app available on the iTunes Store and with Apple TV. The festival, running from September 1-30, will also…
A GREAT BIG WORLD VIDEO “EVERYONE IS GAY”
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Note from the band: We are so proud and excited to release the new music video for our song “Everyone Is Gay.” A while ago, our friends Kristin and Dannielle (who run a website called EveryoneIsGay.com that offers advice to LGBTQ youth) challenged us to write the “gayest song ever” for a compilation. And this…
WIRE: NEW SOFT METALS ALBUM ON FACTMAG
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Next Tuesday, July 16th, LA synth-pop duo Soft Metals will release their sophomore album Lenses. Thanks to Fact Magazine, you can get an early listen and stream the album in it’s entirety now! SKOPE IT HERE! Following album release, the duo will take to the road for a two-month tour across North America…
CLINT BLACK AND CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE® ANNOUNCE EXCLUSIVE ALBUM
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Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ® and Clint Black announce the release of When I Said I Do, Black’s newest CD, which will be available on August 5 at all Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ® locations and online at http://crackerbarrel.com and select digital retailers. The release will feature 11 of Black’s heartfelt favorites as…
WIRE: OLD MONK RELEASES SECOND SINGLE OF 2013
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Of the song, songwriter Josh Carrafa had to say, “I have no idea what consciousness is. I mean what it actually is. I know what the effect of it is, but what is it made of? As far as I can tell it’s just chemicals and particles bouncing around and interacting with each…
WIRE: NEW PAPA SONG ON STEREOGUM
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“Young Rut,” the new track from PAPA is streaming now on Stereogum. The song, in addition to their latest double A-side 7” single “Put Me to Work/If You’re My Girl Than I’m Your Man” (Loma Vista), serve as an introduction to the critically acclaimed band’s forthcoming debut album. “Young Rut,” the new track from…
TRANSITSHOP TO RELEASE ALBUM IN AUGUST
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Philadelphia, PA-based trio Transitshop is set to release its debut album, Velocity, on August 13, 2013 via Rock Ridge Music. The lushly epic alternative/indie-pop is an infectiously catchy hybrid of classic 1980s new wave transcendence and potent modern pop-punk dynamics. Through online networking, the band met Detroit-based producer Matt Dalton (Chiodos, I See Stars,…
THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS ANNOUNCE FALL NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
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THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS announce today their fall North American tour that will kick off this September in Atlanta (September 27th). This will be the first US tour in support of the new album LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAMS. The tour will run through October where it will end in Los Angeles with a headlining…
DEATH GRIPS CREATES OWN LABEL IMPRINT
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Death Grips announce the establishment of Thirdworlds, the band’s own label imprint created via a very unique relationship with Harvest/Capitol Records, to be distributed by Caroline. The band will retain ownership of their most recent album, no love deep web. Death Grips are currently working on new music, with the hopes of releasing a new…
KID TSUNAMI FEAT KRS-ONE ON NEW SINGLE
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Debut LP from producer Kid Tsunami, The Chase, featuring an all-star cast including Sean Price, O.C., KRS-One, Kool G Rap, Masta Ace, Pharoahe Monch, Kool Keith and many more! The Chase is in-stores now, distributed by The Orchard, Fat Beats New York and Obese Records Australia courtesy of Headbop Music. Link to Kid Tsunami f/…
BIG BLACK DELTA’S NEW VIDEO FOR “X22” IS NSFW
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Big Black Delta revealed a new video for “X22”, off their latest self-titled album. The video was directed by Eli Berg, you can check it out HERE. Big Black Delta recently added some additional dates to their summer tour. http://youtu.be/C7ApGJXFVyk The band’s acclaimed self-titled new album received a physical release on June 4th, via Masters…
