THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH RELEASES ‘EXHALE’ JUNE 17
Nearly two years after Thousand Foot Krutch landed their second consecutive Hard Rock No. 1 and Billboard Top 10 album with OXYGEN: INHALE, the adrenaline-doused rockers are back to the aggressive side of the dial with EXHALE, which is set to release independently worldwide June 17 on TFK Music and with marketing, sales and distribution through Fuel Music. The upcoming album is filled with arena-shaking anthems and some of the boldest lyrics in the group’s history, and will be available to preorder tomorrow (April 29) from iTunes along with special pre-order options from Amazon.com, Best Buy and other digital and physical retailers internationally.
http://www.thousandfootkrutch.com/
SWERVE NEW SINGLE
Swerve just released their latest single “Are You Coming Home With Me” and we hope you have an opportunity to check it out HERE.
The band is also hosting a Tuesday night residency called Mixtape at Resident in DTLA starting May 3rd. Each show will focus on Swerve’s different influences: Britpop, Black Sabbath, The Beatles, David Bowie. The residency’s finale “Best of Mixtape” will feature the Baby Blue Video Release Party! All shows are 21+.
MUSKET HAWK NEW SINGLE
Issuing of the track, “The exuberantly chipper adage of ‘misery loves company’ seems especially relevant to the world of extreme music. With this in mind, Baltimore’s MUSKET HAWK make for the ideal friend on a slow, hazy, miserable afternoon. The bludgeoning stomp of the sludge/grind trio seems the perfect soundtrack for a concrete wasteland littered with broken bottles, presumably frequented by would-be assailants who would go as far as to steal your organs to sell (just to make sure they didn’t miss anything.)”
http://decibelmagazine.com/blog/musket-hawk-premiere
RECKONING HOUR UNVEIL NEW MUSIC VIDEO
Brazil’s Melodic Death Metal/Metalcore five piece, Reckoning Hour, have just released a brand new music video through Lambgoat, for their track, “Misguided”. The song comes from their recently released LP, Between Death And Courage.
http://lambgoat.com/features/314/Reckoning-Hour-Misguided-video-premiere
FIRST YEAR ON EARTH NEW SINGLE
The Austin based indie / folk band First Year On Earth have been in the studio working on their first full length release which is due out later this year. “Worn Road” will be the first single taken from the album of the same name with a coinciding release show scheduled for Friday May 13th at The Blackheart in Austin.
https://soundcloud.com/ennyoafer/first-year-on-earth-worn-road/s-pRmsO
“STRANGE LIKE TREES” VIDEO
Coming out of the hot Hamilton music scene in Canada, Jonny Debt delivers his trademarked charismatic performances and catchy alternative folk-rock songs. The prolific singer songwriter lands on UK shores for a selection of exclusive dates ahead of the release of his captivating debut single “Strange Like Trees”, released Monday 9th May 2016.
AETHERIAN: “THE RAIN” MUSIC VIDEO RELEASED
Greek melodic death band Aetherian just released a music video for their new single “The Rain” and they are currently working on new songs for their upcoming debut album.
JUJU NEW SINGLE
JuJu’s forthcoming self-titled debut doesn’t just suggest but screams spiritual moorings; the album itself is a ritual and is ignited by Afro groove rhythms, Kraut repetition, drone-fuzz coated psych riffs, Manchester scene shoegaze synth, prog-infused astral folk vocals and organs and almost tribal rock atmospherics. All the while with this is underlined with an ever apparent mythical, Mediterranean neo-paganism. Citing influence from African Earth magic, soil secrets and the inevitable ceremonial superstition associated with the band name, Valenti is channelling his personal apprehension and traumatic fervour of the current crisis through the warped sound of JuJu.
HONEY RYDER “THE SUN”
Honey Ryder have had a more than impressive 2016 thus far. Kickstarting the year with What If We’ve Only Got Tonight, the lead single from their third album Born In A Bottle, being playlisted on Radio 2 and A-listed on the Bauer Network. Heightening their enjoyment of the first quarter, Born In A Bottle was rewarded with several five star reviews and every date they have played this year has seen audiences arrive in their droves, with their show at the Little Rabbit Barn becoming the venue’s fastest ever sold out appearance!
MHAIRI NEW VIDEO
Today sees 20-year old Mhairi unveil some harrowing visuals for her debut track ‘Crystalline’.
The video, directed by Damian Weilers – was filmed in Indonesia, and focuses on something called ‘Pasung’ – an ancient way of shackling or confining people with psychosocial/mental disabilities.
Unfortunately, despite Pasung being banned in 1977, it is still very much happening in places such as Indonesia, and is still very much a problem.
According to a recent report by Human Rights Watch, nearly 19,000 people in Indonesia diagnosed with mental disabilities are currently living shackled in chains or otherwise confined to claustrophobically small spaces – as shown in the video.
“GREEN SUGAR”
“[“Green Sugar”] was inspired by a morning walk. Its three parts express first a blizzard, then a gentle stroll in the woods finding birds, foxes and squirrels, and finally a descent into a bottomless cave where you fall into a black river and you are washed away. The writing process was collaborative. Together we wrote the various parts, then during recording we added percussion and keyboard.” – Go Kurosawa
Tokyo psych folk band Kikagaku Moyo shares new track “Green Sugar” — listen
THE REV “TESTIFY”
The ” Rev” is an innovative recording artist signed to Noel Music Group LLC, formerly known as ChristLine Entertainment Inc, which started in 2005. The Rev (Jean G Noel) was born in Haiti and immigrated to the US when he was 10 years old. His love for all genres of music influenced him in junior high school to be part of a local rap group called The Mixed Tribe. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York, but moved to Philadelphia, PA, during his senior year in high school. As an artist, The Rev believes that true music is both spiritual and inspirational. In essence, the sound and lyrics come together to form a symphony that can either carry a positive or negative connotation. Thus, the Rev uses his creativity and philosophy of music to continue create songs that are both relational and spiritual.
JODIE ABACUS REVEALS VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘SHE’S IN LOVE WITH THE WEEKEND’
South-London future-funk musician Jodie Abacus has released the video for his new single, ‘She’s in Love with the Weekend’, out June 3rd via Household Records.
The song, co-written with producer FRED (Brian Eno, Ellie Goulding), is a disco-infused song which showcases Jodie Abacus’ soulful vocals. ‘She’s in Love with the Weekend’ follows Jodie’s previous single, ‘Hot Kitchen’, which saw support at BBC 6Music, Radio 1 and 1xtra, with Metro hailing it as an ‘instantly addictive warped funk-pop tune’. Previous track ‘I’ll Be That Friend’ hit number 1 on Hype Machine with over 250,000 plays on Soundcloud to date and was a top 10 in Spotify’s UK Viral chart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJUt2wHOXkM
SAM AND THE WOMP RETURN WITH “FIREFLIES”
Chart toppers Sam And The Womp are back with a huge new funky, brassy, bassyhouse dance sound on their new single Fireflies. The song features the star shining vocals of Bloom fused with Sam’s funky brass hooks and the sparkly production of new recruit Daniel Griffiths creating a fun, upbeat dance-floor banger.
“PSYCHEDELIC BABY”
Space Jazzers The Night Sea have premiered their upcoming album 07.01.14 on the independent music magazine It’s Psychedelic Baby. Their album is being released via Dangerbird Records on vinyl and digital release, April 30th.
http://psychedelicbaby.blogspot.com/2016/04/its-psychedelic-baby-presents-night-sea.html
NURII “JUMP”
Rising star Nurii has been rapidly climbing up the EDM ladder since exploding onto the scene, thanks to his impressive catalogue of top quality productions. The Kenya based DJ and producer is responsible for hits such as: ‘Big Bounce EP’, ‘Simba’, ‘You & I’, ‘Echo’, ‘Devotion’ and ‘Alpha’, with the latter featuring in Cedric Gervais set at this year’s Ultra Music Festival in Miami. The highly skilled studio wizard has also had the honour of remixing House legend Robbie Rivera’s track ‘Move Your Ass’, which was subsequently released on Robbie’s own Juicy Music imprint – a remarkable achievement for any artist.
HOUSTON’S ANTI-FOLK SONGWRITER ADAM BRICKS SHARES NEW SINGLE “WHEN YOU SMILE”
Houston, TX’s unabashed, head-held-high folksinger songwriter, Adam Bricks, is pleased to share “When You Smile,” the latest single on his upcoming sophomore full-length, Relations, available May 6, 2016. The 11-song LP features the anti-folk songwriter at his most personal: love, hate, sex, sadness and longing. To celebrate the release, Bricks is also embarking on a national tour kicking off on May 14th at Austin, TX’s Cheer Up Charlie’s.
SABANA GHOST NEW SINGLE
In the Spanish language, Sábana means sheet. To the world, a Ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person that appears in a visible form to the living.
Sábana Ghost will be known as the debut 10-song LP from Miami Psych-Rock troupe HEAVY DRAG, released on JULY 22, 2016 on Limited Fanfare Records. It was recorded and mixed in Gainesville, FL by Ryan Haft (Torche, WRONG) and the band (Andreas Wong Chong – Guitar/Vocals, Michael Ruiz-Unger – Bass/Vocals, Jacob Israel – Guitar and Andres Bedoya – Drums, Percussion) in a matter of days, but the resulting output will be eternal.
JERRY CASTLE “RIDE”
Nashville singer-songwriter Jerry Castle is set to release his new album Not So Soft Landing June 24th. The 10-song set was recorded in East Nashville and Topanga, CA and was produced by the Grammy Award-winning producer Chad Brown (Ryan Adams, Hayes Carll) and mixed by 3-time Grammy-winning engineer and producer Warren Riker (Wyclef Jean, Down, Common). Magnet Magazine has premiered the Stacie Huckeba directed video for the first single “Ride,” which can be seen below.
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2016/04/20/film-at-11-jerry-castle/
NOT BLOOD PAINT HEAR GROOVY LEAD TRACK “TAKE ANOTHER CHANCE”
To call Brooklyn art-rock outfit Not Blood Paint unique would be an understatement. Conventionally, the band is theatrically vivid and sonically intense. Musically, it’s a group impossible to pigeonhole, far removed from traditional verse-chorus-verse structures. Not Blood Paint’s new album, Believing Is Believing is out June 17.
The songs on Believing Is Believing manifest as detailed stories that worm into the minds of always-shifting narrators. At different times, you’ll think Zappa, Ween, Primus, Gang of Four, Devo, early Genesis, Tool, Dirty Projectors. (The band itself would proffer Of Montreal. “That group inspired us in the beginning. We’d go dress up and dance our asses off when we saw them live.”)
Listen to “Take Another Chance”:
WOLFIE “100”
Hot on the heels of supporting The Internet’s sold-out UK tour and a storm of attention around ‘Outta Earth’, Wolfie today announces the release of her hugely anticipated debut EP ‘8 Ball’ alongside the release of new single ‘100’. The eight-track EP will be available for fans as a free download via Wolfie’s SoundCloud page on 6th May.
‘100’, a hot-shot warning anthem to all prospective time-wasters, sees the South Londoner at her very best. Snares clap over bursts of spaced-out synths as Wolfie cooly cautions “ain’t no muthafucka out here gonna play me”. About the track Wolfie says, “I feel like there aren’t enough songs that reflect a person wanting to just actually know where they stand regardless of the outcome, whether it be living happily ever after or going your own separate ways; either way just be real with me. ‘100’ is literally about being 100 with someone whatever the weather.”
BACKSTAGE WITH CITI: ANDRA DAY
Citi is an official sponsor of Yahoo Live, a pioneering music experience on Yahoo, including the Live Nation Channel. Backstage with Citi is an extension of Citi’s long-standing relationship with Live Nation and gives Citi card members and music fans a glimpse behind the scenes with in-depth, compelling, interviews with some of the biggest names in music.
https://backstage.yahoo.com/post/143404278016/get-to-know-andra-day-with-margaret-cho
CHECK OUT THE REMIX FOR ROME’S “PAID BACK LOANS” BY THE RANGE
With his new album Potential, producer The Range is making waves with what Pitchfork praises as “moving, emotionally resonant electronic music.” Rome Fortune is doing the same for hip-hop, putting his soul on the line throughout the acclaimed Jerome Raheem Fortune LP. These two musical upstarts hit the road for a co-headlining tour starting May 4th in LA, and celebrate the occasion with this new remix, where The Range lends his heady vibes to Rome’s “Paid Back Loans.”
NEW DAWN RICHARD SINGLE
D∆WN, aka Dawn Richard, is one of the more prolific artists in the contemporary pop landscape and today she continues on her hot streak with new single “Honest”. The Kingdom produced collaboration is part of a bigger body of work between the two, coming soon on Fade To Mind. Stream / purchase it here:
http://soundcloud.com/fadetomind/dawn-richard-honest
FAT POSSUM RECORDS SIGNS ADAM TORRES
Fat Possum Records today announced the signing of Austin, TX-based singer-songwriter Adam Torres, whose new album will be released via the label this coming fall.
DARK FOR DARK NEW VIDEO
Dark For Dark releases “Moon Full Moon,” the first offering from their forthcoming full-length record, All Dressed. The video for the track premieres today via Exclaim!.
http://exclaim.ca/music/article/dark_for_dark-moon_full_moon_video
CIRCLE OF REASON UNVEIL ‘COLOURS’ VIDEO SINGLE
Following the very recent arrival of their ‘Questions’, Southampton’s (UK) Circle Of Reason are now back with their latest video single titled ‘Colours’. Showcasing another metallic and emotive rock track, ‘Colours’ is an epic anthem taken from the bands forthcoming album ‘Faith Or Theory’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NDRvZ9xHDw
B.o.B READY TO “ROLL UP” WITH NEW TRACK AND stfu. TOUR
Rebel Rock/Grand Hustle/Atlantic recording artist B.o.B has announced the release of a much-anticipated new track. “Roll Up” ft. Marko Penn premieres on Billboard today before hitting digital retailers and streaming services on Friday, April 29th.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7348395/bob-roll-up-marko-penn-premiere
AJR PERFORM FOR PEREZ HILTON
About the new track, eldest brother Adam Met explains, “We wanted to write a quirky pop song with some ironic social commentary about the upsides of not being famous.” He continues, “We wrote and produced ‘I’m Not Famous’ in our living room in New York City.”
TEEN METALLERS UNLOCKING THE TRUTH FIRST-EVER VIDEO “TAKE CONTROL”
Music fans around the globe can click here to check out the exclusive worldwide premiere of teen metallers Unlocking The Truth’s first-ever video; “Take Control” is available now on Loudwire. Taken from their forthcoming debut full-length album, CHAOS, the thrash anthem “Take Control” is a rally cry against bullying. Inspired by personal experience, drummer Jarad Dawkins commented, “I remember when I used to be bullied in school for the music that I love to play, the jeans that I love to wear. I always told myself that everything is going to be alright. You are going to take control of the world one day.”
http://loudwire.com/unlocking-the-truth-take-control-exclusive-video-premiere/
