Mastodon Announce Fall North American and U.K. Headline Tour
Internationally celebrated heavy rock icons Mastodon have extended their U.S. headline tour starting on September 26 in Orlando, FL at Hard Rock Live with continued support from Eagles of Death Metal and Russian Circles. The tour also includes stops at several festivals, including the High Elevation Fest in Denver, CO and Louder Than Life Festival in Louisville, KY. Mastodon will also be playing a series of headline shows in the U.K. this December including Brixton Academy in London, England on December 10. Tickets go on sale this Friday, January 16 at 10:00 am local time.
Australian indie-pop group The Stevens share the second track their from upcoming album ‘Good’
Melbourne scratchy pop favourites the Stevens return with their second album Good.
Good picks up where their 2014 debut A History Of Hygiene left off – 18 short songs, alternately frenetic or laconic, packed with twists and hooks that merge lo-fi outsider songcraft with 70s prog wizardry and classic rock swagger.
The Stevens formed in 2011 around guitarists Alex Macfarlane (Twerps, Tyrannamen) and New Zealand-born Travis MacDonald, and were soon joined by bassist Gus Lord (Twerps, Boomgates, Tyrannamen) and drummer Matt Harkin.
Monster Energy Houston Open Air Music
A hard-hitting music lineup has been announced for Monster Energy Houston Open Air–Texas’s biggest rock experience–Saturday, October 14 and Sunday, October 15 at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman in The Woodlands, TX.
Five Finger Death Punch, Prophets of Rage, Stone Sour, Marilyn Manson, Mastodon, Halestorm, In This Moment, Gojira, Of Mice & Men and Suicidal Tendencies lead a lineup of 25 bands performing on two stages. Monster Energy Houston Open Air also features multiple onsite experiences and a Texas-sized food experience underscoring Houston’s emergence as a great American food city.
Monster Energy Houston Open Air 2017 is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents in association with Live Nation.
VICE PREMIERES RAC MIX OF “OBSESSION” FT. JON BELLION
Vice has premiered the RAC Mix of “Obsession” featuring Jon Bellion (via APG / Atlantic Records). With the original boasting more than 40 million streams on Spotify, GRAMMY-winner RAC breathes new life into the summer-ready anthem with a bright indie pop-infused rework.
Otzeki’s haunting new electronic pop single “True Love”
Otzeki is comprised of lead singer and guitarist Mike Sharp and his cousin Joel Roberts, who handles synth and percussion duty. “True Love” is the title track to the bands’ forthcoming EP that will be getting a vinyl-only release, featuring a collection of the bands’ previously released songs “Touch,” “Already Dead” and “All This Time” (all of which are streaming via Spotify).
Bright Light Bright Light’s “New York Pretty” Premieres
A brand new track from Bright Light Bright Light—the project of vocalist, songwriter and producer Rod Thomas—is out now. Listen to “New York Pretty,” which premieres via Billboard.
Sydney Lauren’s Song of Strength Against Hate, Written for Orlando, Premieres on Celebmix
op singer/songwriter Sydney Lauren’s new single, “Save Us,” makes its premiere on CelebMix one year after the tragic attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. She wrote the song as a plea for strength against hate immediately following the shootings last June.
Since its first inception, the song has evolved into an empowering call for unity, power and compassion, the accompanying video peppered with images of people joining together to support causes juxtaposed with news footage of our generation’s most devastating mass shootings to remind us that we still have much to do to help one another.
EXCLUSIVE: World Premiere of Sydney Lauren’s ‘Save Us’ Music Video
SARA DIAMOND Premieres “Back To You” On Noisey
Canadian singer/songwriter SARA DIAMOND has premiered a brand new video for her song “Back To You” via Noisey. “Back To You” is the first of a series of singles that Sara Diamond will be releasing in 2017 about the good and the ugly of love.
Introducing Jaiden Davis-Jones
While siting at a piano in his bedroom, Jaiden Davis-Jones is creating pop infused Electronic RnB that highlights the diversity of his influences. His music is an intimate product of self-expression, as he handles each step of the process: writing, performing, producing and mixing. His focus on atmosphere in compositions and the tone of his voice offers something unique to the genres, while he continues to explore and find resolve through music.
Kick Back And Relax: The 2018 ’70s Rock & Romance Cruise Announces Superstar Lineup
StarVista LIVE announces the 2018 voyage of the ‘70s Rock & Romance Cruise, bringing the passion of rock and the power of pop by the biggest stars of the era to the high seas on a luxury cruise ship that will wind its way through the Caribbean from March 3-March 8, 2018. Live concerts by the bands that made concert going a regular part of all of our lives will give a whole new meaning to “smooth sailing,” with Styx (special appearance 3/5/18), Michael McDonald, America, Air Supply, War, The Guess Who, B.J. Thomas, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Badfinger featuring Joey Molland, Poco, Abbey Road on the River presents Hal Bruce, and more aboard the award-winning Celebrity Summit.
“I am truly excited to bring Styx music to the 70s Rock & Romance fans,” says Styx founding guitarist James “JY” Young. “We are planning on having a heckuva good time and everyone coming should plan on the same.” “It’s very unique for us,” adds Dewey Bunnell of America, who performed on the 2017 Rock & Romance Cruise and will be returning in 2018. “We tour a lot, play lots of venues around the world but a cruise ship is a singularly unique experience. We get to be here with our fans, see you on the various decks, it’s great.” “It really doesn’t get any bigger than this,” said Russell Hitchcock of Air Supply. “The bands on this cruise have filled stadiums, topped the charts and launched thousands of love stories. It’s a spectacular, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the fans.”
Jason Loewenstein Streams New LP On Consequence Of Sound
Consequence Of Sound has streamed Jason Loewenstein’s new album ‘Spooky Action’ a week before its release date. When talking about the LP Jason says, “I need to make a solo record every 15 years or so, it helps keep me limber, if you like music, you’re gonna love this record.’ Prior to the stream, Jason released the singles entitled “Hey Hey”, “Machinery”, and “Superstitious”. “Machinery” also came with a video which debuted on Magnet. ‘Spooky Action’ is out 6/16 via Joyful Noise Recordings.
Sebadoh’s Jason Loewenstein shares new solo album, Spooky Action: Stream
BLEACHERS’ JACK ANTONOFF ANNOUNCES 3RD ANNUAL “SHADOW OF THE CITY” MUSIC FESTIVAL
oday, Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff announced the 3rd annual “Shadow Of The City” music festival, which will be held on Sunday, September 10th in Asbury Park, NJ at Stone Pony Summer Stage. Bleachers will headline the festival, which will also include an exciting and diverse group of performers including Brian Fallon, Khalid, Titus Andronicus, Brick + Mortar, Tove Styrke, and Nicole Atkins. This year, the festival will include a number of activities like The World Famous SOTC Charity Dunk Tank, food trucks, carnival games, Weird NJ, a Rachel Antonoff pop-up stand, and more of the best New Jersey has to offer.
The Weeknd Releases New Music Video For His Hit Song “Secrets”
The Weeknd just released a new music video for his hit song “Secrets,” off his critically acclaimed album Starboy that has recently been certified 2x-platinum in the US and has sold over 5 million album equivalents globally. The video was directed by Pedro Martin Calero? and can be viewed now HERE.
Boston’s People Like You announce new album ‘Verse’
People Like You will release their sophomore album entitled Verse on July 28 via Topshelf Records. Today they share lead single “Variations on an Aria” via Allston Pudding who calls it [QUOTE].
The five-piece Boston-based band, People Like You, formed in 2014 from the short-lived emo/math punk band, I Kill Giants, which included guitarist/vocalist Chris Lee-Rodriguez and drummer Sander Bryce. After the release of their first record, This is what you learned. on Broken World Media, People Like You expanded to include longtime collaborator and trumpet player Matt Hull, as well as vocalist/pianist Michi Tassey, and Animal Flag’s Sai Boddupalli on bass.
Mike Jones and Riff Raff Join Kennedy Jones on “Club Goin”
Two of Houston’s finest rappers, Mike Jones (who?) and Riff Raff, join LA’s Kennedy Jones on a mission to bring turn-up anthems back to the club with “Club Goin.” Shot in Las Vegas, the official music video features all three artists in a wild night at the club, as well as a cameo by Dim Mak boss Steve Aoki.
DRAGONETTE DOMINATES NYC PRIDE
Famed Electro Fashion Forward Act Dragonette will dominate over NYC PRIDE this year as the band will be playing the top events whilst their new single will be starting to fire up at the charts. Dragonette a critically acclaimed band hailing from Canada have tasted the success with their many call out fan favourites, HELLO, OUTLINES, RIGHT WOMAN, and others but have yet to penetrate the US charts.
With their new single, Body 2 Body, from their severely hailed album Royal Blues, will be re- release with bonus material of remixes and a special acoustic version and video of the song in Europe, on Do It Yourself Records, Canada on Universal Music, Japan on Manhattan Records, and in the USA and the rest of the World on Dragonette Inc through The Orchard on July 7th. “This is an exciting time for us in the band as we have really wanted to break our way into the States in the right way, and we feel with the support of so much of our LGBTQ supporters this will be a great way to do this!” says Dan Kurtz co front man of the band.
Kobi Onyame featuring M3nsa
The brand new single from Kobi Onyame serves as the title track to his forthcoming album of the same name. ‘Gold’ featuring fellow Ghanaian, UK based artist M3nsa of FOKN Bois/Red Red fame is an infectious blend of soulful and afro percussions, horns and bass grooves. The song as Kobi puts it, is “an ode to all the people who keep winning silver and bronze in life…” He raps, “one day i go chop Gold winner…one day you go chop gold winner.” meaning one day you will win the gold so keep moving forward.
Austin’s The Dan Ryan featuring members of RF Shannon
On The Dan Ryan’s second release with Cosmic Dreamer, Guidance presents a more directed approach to discovering frontman Nathan Dixey’s inner dimensions as a musician and his desire to allow the music to transcend the physical realities of mundane existence. Raised in the rushing winds of Chicago and settling in the sun soaked hills of Texas, the Austin based band have taken their river of hypnotic dreams and run it over the rounded pebbles of rippling waters, softening and refining their sound. By enlisting the gentle, steady and solid vibes of label mates RF Shannon to hold down the line as the backing band, this release shows Dixey and company capitalizing on the textural orchestration discovered on the debut to design an articulately crafted landscape from which one can journey into the artist’s more metaphysical musical inquiries.
JEREMY PINNELL TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM
When Jeremy Pinnell released OH/KY in the summer of 2015 to stunned acclaim, it felt like an entire career compressed into one knock-out album. This unassuming northern Kentucky singer-songwriter sauntered and ripped through ten instant country classics that tracked as so confident and comfortable that it could have been mistaken for a seasoned musician’s creative peak. The songs themselves, reverent of Americana’s most enduring traditions, presented the man’s scope – his misadventures, loves, failures, and contradictions. Hailed as a “mind-blowingly good” (Greg Vandy, KEXP) “tutorial on classic country music” (Popmatters), Pinnell’s debut immediately differentiated as authentic and unflinching.
The Regrettes Release Politically-Charged Video For “Seashore”
LA-based punk act The Regrettes have released a politically-charged new video for their song, “Seashore,” off their critically acclaimed debut album, Feel Your Feelings, Fool! Entertainment Weekly premieres the video today, describing the video as, “a big middle-finger to men who underestimate or belittle young women.” The video features singer Lydia Night depicting scenes of oppressed women throughout history. Director Claire Vogel explains, “I wanted to pair the defiance of the lyrics with a handful of historical vignettes that embrace women taking control of situations that have held them back. I wanted each scene to hint at how people might have freely spoken their inner thoughts in those moments should they have had the privilege.” Yesterday, the band kicked off a headlining tour across the U.S., which will be followed by a U.K. tour with SWMRS this fall.
GLASS ANIMALS ANNOUNCE FALL NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR
Today, Glass Animals announced their third North American headline tour of 2017. The run will kick off on September 14 with a Summerfield concert at Memorial Stadium in Boise and include a show at Los Angeles’ historic Shrine Auditorium (September 21) and the band’s first concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City (October 5). Additional East Coast dates include shows at Agganis Arena in Boston (October 7) and the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC (October 8). Glass Animals will cap off the tour with a performance during Weekend Two of Austin City Limits Festival (October 13-15). See below for itinerary.
Fujiya & Miyagi Share “Impossible Objects Of Desire” Video On BlackBook
BlackBook has shared the video for Fujiya & Miyagi’s track “Impossible Objects of Desire”. It is the 9th track off their recently released self-titled album. When talking about the video lead vocalist David Best said, “The song is a hymn to vinyl and the rush that music can provide,” offers vocalist David Best. “It loosely began as a homage to Bowie’s ‘Be My Wife’ Video, but then morphed into something else. The song is also about the physical and chemical reaction music has on the mind and body.”
Tiësto Announces Second Pop-Up in Las Vegas During EDC
As a keyholder to the City of Las Vegas and an honorary resident of The Strip, thanks in part to his residency at Hakkasan Nightclub and his ongoing partnership with MGM, tapping Las Vegas as the next location to house a Tiësto pop-up shop was a natural choice for the dance music legend. The city served as the backdrop for Tiësto’s first ever Club Life compilation, effectively tying the ethos of Tiësto’s music to a physical location: A Town Called Paradise. Las Vegas has become synonymous with dance music and the culture that surrounds it, attracting fans of the genre from around the world with its energy and proclivity for fun above all else. The installation itself will be located mere steps away from Hakkasan, affording patrons the opportunity to sample the very same Denon DJ equipment on the icon’s rider while perusing fresh merchandise and music.
Tiësto Las Vegas jumpstarts an exciting week for the DJ, which will culminate with the release of Tiësto and KSHMR’s highly-anticipated summer anthem ft. Talay Riley, “Harder,” out via Musical Freedom on June 16 and the DJ’s headlining set at EDC Las Vegas on June 17.
Beth Ditto’s debut solo album, Fake Sugar (Virgin Records), is now available for streaming in its entirety HERE exclusively on NPR Music as part of its “First Listen” series. NPR praised lead single “Fire” upon its release, putting the track on its list of “10 Songs Public Radio Can’t Stop Playing” and noting, “Beth Ditto is a force-of-nature performer best known for fronting the pop-punk group Gossip.”
MARE ISLAND PREMIERE NEW SINGLE “ALIGHT”
Mare Island will arrive June 23 and the Bay Area quartet will celebrate with a San Francisco performance at Amnesia, June 29. Mare Island features members of Bay Area mainstays The Velvet Teen and Loma Prieta, drawing strength from their predecessors’ decade-plus body of indie pop and post-hardcore works to create their own brand of lush, maximalist sound, with the record produced by Ian Pellicci (Deerhoof, The Dodos, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down).
AZ Recruits Raekwon & Prodigy For ‘Save Them’ Video
With Minister Louis Farrahkan’s voice leading the charge for the socially conscious video, New York’s hip hop veterans attack the track with sheer precision. Directed by Birhan Tonge, AZ sets the tone right over the gritty instrumental. “This is real rhyming, a monumental n—a iconic/ East coast fly s–t, pay homage,” raps the lyricist.
Raekwon follows suit and dishes out steely bars of his own. “Yo the wave game Nemo/ Foul styling, young Al Pacino,” he flexes. Prodigy then uses his verse to slam opportunists looking for a hand at stardom. “I don’t condone bulls–t bars/ What the f–k is you talking about/ You just wanna be around stars,” he raps.
Brooklyn art-rockers Caretaker release their debut single, “Swallow”
The song premiered on All Things Go who said it, “is a rapid buildup of post-punk instrumentation with clean, sharp vocals that pierce the sky.”
Caretaker’s Erin Pellnat (lead vox) also shared, “‘Swallow’ is a song about being trapped in a relationship (or any situation, really) where someone is successful in convincing you that you are constantly wrong. This gets to the point where you believe everything they say, gladly taking punishment and abuse from them and wrongfully accepting that you deserve it. You know that you would feel completely contented and sane if you just cut ties so that their influence can disappear and you can set yourself free.”
Vital Shares Electrifying New Track “Finito”
Vital is excited to share his supercharged new single “Finito,” released on Friday, June 9th. The electro-rock track sizzles with the California singer-songwriter’s soulful energy, creating a sound comparable to Blood Orange or Future Islands, yet unable to be pigeonholed.
Tattoo Money Shares “Black Girl Magic” via BlackBook
Brooklyn-based, alternative hip-hop artist and songwriter, Tattoo Money, announces his debut untitled EP. The lyric driven EP was inspired by his surrounding world, using only one guitar, one synth and a drum machine. Untitled is due out in August 2017. Today, Tattoo Money shares his new single, “Black Girl Magic” via BlackBook, who stated, “The startling track, both intimate and anthemic, could perhaps best be described as feminist-folk-rap.”
Raf Rundell Shares Video For “Shoppin’ For A Shaman”
Today Raf Rundell is pleased to reveal the video for his track “Shoppin’ for a Shaman”, in which our hero goes on the hunt for lasting solutions to life’s biggest problems in the world of deep, low-slung psychedelia; follow him on a fact finding trip all the way from the concrete estates of South London to the psilocybin-saturated mountainsides of North Wales on the hunt for a spiritual man with all the answers.
Today, Philadelphia four-piece Palm, by way of New York’s Hudson Valley, are premiering a stream of their new EP Shadow Expert, ahead of it’s official June 16th release. The EP marks their first release on Carpark Records and the band’s first project since their 2015 critically acclaimed debut Trading Basics. Check the full stream below and see them live on their upcoming summer headline tour kicking off later this month at New York’s Baby’s Alright (full dates below).
After unsuccessfully suing the Toronto Blue Jays, Blimp Rock received over 100 messages of hate mail. As you can imagine, this left the band feeling pretty down and dirty… they have since decided to release new music to wash off that dirt. Enter ‘Soap Opera’ the upcoming record!
Multi-platinum rock act Hinder have announced their new studio album The Reign, set for release August 11 via BMG/The End. Please see below for all album artwork and tracklist information.
For this album, the band dug deep to try to express the emotional struggle of the rock and roll life. They explain: “The constant emotional expenditure that an artist must do in order to always be creating and the ups and downs of a career in music tends to lead to substance abuse and suicides. Unfortunately, the world has lost way too many music legends this way. Overall, this album is definitely darker and heavier than most of the past Hinder albums. However, for our old school fans, it also has a few songs that have that signature ‘Hinder’ sound.”
NJ-rockers Modern Crowds share “I Don’t Mind”
The song premiered on New Noise Magazine where the band detailed, “We started writing ‘I Don’t Mind’ back in June of last year. It was the first song off of the new record that we came up with and demoed. It’s also the first song that we started with when we began tracking our self-titled LP with Paul Ritchie in September 2016. The song is significant in that while it’s a straight forward rock song, it’s also the first time we began incorporating new instruments such as synthesizers, sitar, and the Nashville style of guitar tuning.
Viceroy Invites Tom Aspaul to “Improvise” on New Single
Viceroy invites London’s Tom Aspaul to “Improvise” on this feel-good single, recently premiered on Billboard. Aspaul’s smooth vocals blend seamlessly with Viceroy’s use of classic house chords and funk guitar riffs, sending the nu-disco production on a sonic journey into the sunset.
TRICKY LOBSTERS: German Doom Rock Trio Issues “Tarred Albino” Video
“Tarred Albino” is the crushing new single from Rostock, Germany’s groove-heavy doom/blues rock trio, TRICKY LOBSTERS and their impending Worlds Collide LP. The track sees release through a video premiere at The Obelisk this week as the band’s cohorts at Exile On Mainstream prepare the album for official release.
“Optimistic Fool” By Sigurd Wallsten
From Paso, Texas, we find instrumental rock/prog based artists SIGURD WALLSTEN, who have a new twelve track CD out called ‘Volcano Burst’. Volcano Burst is a superb blend of many influences that merges rock and metal genres into a unique instrumental creation. The project is led by Gregory Wallsten who handles all the instrumentation throughout the album with help from his son Zachariah.
ADAM VIDA RELEASES VIDEO FOR “I’M JUICED”
Today, Bay Area rapper Adam Vida shares his video for “I’m Juiced,” an undeniable party anthem that’s amassed more than 3 million streams on Spotify. Originally released last October, the track is now set for re-release on Downtown/Interscope Records.
Directed by David Dutton (Bassnectar, Dev), “I’m Juiced” is the latest of Adam’s wildly original and viral-ready videos. The fantastically offbeat mini-movie opens in the back of a juice café, where a mysterious box filled with magical fruit becomes a portal to paradise.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart shares new single “When I Dance With You” via NPR
“From the band’s dreamiest shoegaze influences to its most lucid lyricism, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart has found strength in heart-on-your-sleeve songwriting. Now, as the band gets ready to release its fourth full-length LP, The Echo Of Pleasure, that vulnerability has shifted away from its roots in the complexity of youth. Instead, Pains’ idealism is grounded in real adult love, expressed in its most ordinary and fantastic way on the band’s latest single, “When I Dance With You.” – NPR
Sadistik Premieres New Video for “God Complex”
The video premiered alongside an interview on Beautiful Bizarre this morning and was accompanied by a joint interview with Sadistik and world-renowned oil-on-canvas painter, Michael Hussar, who created the artwork for Altars. “God Complex” perfectly illustrates the atmospheric and cynical spirit of Altars, and is one of a handful of eerie bangers of the album. In the video, a mischievous tattooed nun sees Sadistik buried alive after carrying his own coffin. It’s a wonderfully shot video in which Sadistik’s commitment to having meeting for every aspect of every bit of content from Altars conveys meaning and follows a particular aesthetic.
RAC’s “I Still Wanna Know” video featuring Rivers Cuomo
Grammy award winning artist RAC (pronounced Ar-Ay-Cee)—known as André Allen Anjos—premieres a new music video for his track “I Still Wanna Know” on Consequence Of Sound, who proclaims, “Though he fails at delivering a single letter correctly, he handles Cuomo’s solo with the utmost funky care, bringing a party to a disinterested suburban neighborhood.” Of the video Anjos says, “I’ve always felt like music videos are a great opportunity to produce a short film. It was an absolute pleasure to work with Claire Marie Vogel (director) and I think she really understood what I was going for creatively.” The song features vocals and a guitar solo from Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo as well as additional production by Classixx.
The mailman gets funky in RAC and Rivers Cuomo’s video for “I Still Wanna Know” — watch
Americana Veteran Chuck McDermott interviewed by Songwriter Magazine
In his interview with Songwriter Magazine, McDermott says, in regards to the song, that “if you hang around the loop enough, you can’t help but see patterns in the way we live our lives. The song is an exploration on all the ways we can inflict – or feel – emotional pain.”
Eliot Lipp shares hypnotic “I Told Ya”
Austin-based musician Eliot Lipp preps the release of Skywave; an album Lipp has been working on for the past several months. With influences from sci-fi soundtracks and 70s and 80s funk, he channels a collection of weird, high-definition, melodic beats. In these nine songs Lipp feels he “might have everything I want to say in one moment.” Recreating key musical moments in a current and relatable way was the goal in producing Skywave and giving himself permission to take some risks as well.
Dallas native Boy Epic returned yesterday with a haunting new self-directed video for “Trust” premiered with Playboy. The track is also now available on all digital retailers (Soundcloud // Spotify). Showing a directorial sense of tension and tone, a mastery of detail so refined, the video unfolds as its own mini-movie.
Wolf Alice share new single “Yuk Foo”
Today, London-based rock band, Wolf Alice releases their brand-new track “Yuk Foo”. The track, produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen and mixed by Tom Elmhirst, is the first song off of their upcoming sophomore album entitled Visions Of A Life, which is set for release September 29th, 2017 via Dirty Hit/RCA Records. The band has also released a lyric video to accompany the new track. “Yuk Foo” is available now at all digital retail providers.
