RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS RELEASE NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR “DARK NECESSITIES”
Today, Grammy® Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Red Hot Chili Peppers release the music video for their current single “Dark Necessities” from their upcoming new album The Getaway, which will be released by Warner Bros. Records tomorrow, June 17th. The video was directed by Olivia Wilde and will be available to watch today exclusively on the band’s Facebook page beginning at 10:00 AM PST following a Facebook Live Q&A with frontman Anthony Kiedis at 9:30 AM PST.
https://www.facebook.com/ChiliPeppers
BAD SOUNDS ‘AVALANCHE’
Hot off their massive announcement of their Glastonbury Festival appearance, UK’s Bad Sounds have now been cherry picked as Annie Mac’s Tune Of The Week on BBC Radio 1 with their new single ‘Avalanche’ (Killing Moon).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcm_yJVEgdc
NEIL YOUNG TO MAKE SPECIAL APPEARANCES ON MARC MARON’S “WTF” PODCAST
Neil Young will be featured on an episode of Marc Maron’s universally applauded WTF w/ Marc Maron Podcast on June 20th, discussing EARTH and then some from Maron’s Los Angeles garage. The following day on June 21st, Young will drop by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallonfor a very special appearance. Tune into NBC stations at 11:35p.m. EST / PST, and 10:35pm CT. Both are not to be missed.
SEE LIVE ON LONG ISLAND
Following the release of the first single from her highly anticipated debut EP “Ties” this past May, twenty-year old singer/songwriter and multi instrumentalist SEE is getting ready to take her unique blend of pop, alternative rock, and singer songwriter genres to a new level as she gets ready to perform on Wednesday, June 22nd at Looney Tunes in West Babylon, NY, 6:00PM and a THURSDAY RESIDENCY at NYC’s Legendary Arlene’s Grocery in July! “Ties” will be released on June 24th on Blue Élan Records, and was produced Brad Wood (Smashing Pumpkins, Liz Phair, Sunny Day Real Estate).
NEW VIDEO FROM MASSPIKE MILES
Masspike Miles is back on his grind with a new this new video “Murdah Was The Case” off his project Skky Miles 3 #BlocksNBedrooms. While on tour in Europe Masspike hit up Tolouse in the south of France for this gritty and some what sadistic video.
BROOKLYN HIP HOP FEST X WING STOP
The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival is proud to announce its partnership with Wingstop, who will be sponsoring both the Juice Hip-Hop Exhibition on Friday, July 15th and The Finale Concert on Saturday, July 16th. On Friday the good folks at Wingstop will be providing FREE wings the entire night – as if a night of music, art and culture weren’t enough. On Saturday July 16th, Wingstop will be taking over the Finale Concert’s backstage with the Wingstop Green Room. The team will sit and get personal with artists and influencers giving Festival goers an up close and personal peek into what it’s like just before they hit that big stage.
SOUL ASYLUM EXTENDS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
Soul Asylum, the mythic garage rockers who helped shape the newly emerging contours of college radio alt-rock in the ’80s before becoming Grammy-winning multi-platinum superstars in the ’90s, have added an additional three weeks to their North American tour in support of their new album Change Of Fortune recently released on Entertainment One Music (eOne Music.)
In addition to headlining dates, Soul Asylum will join The English Beat for a 5-week tour kicking off in Minnesota on June 18th.
MONSTER TRUCK JOIN FORCES WITH LIFESTYLE APPAREL BRAND PUCK HCKY
Hard rockers and hockey lovers Monster Truck are proud to announce their collaboration with Michigan-based lifestyle hockey apparel brand Puck Hcky. Inspired by their raucous track, “The Enforcer” (which is in turn inspired by the “tough guy” position in hockey) from their recently-released album SITTIN’ HEAVY, the Monster Truck Puck Hcky line features sweatshirts, t-shirts and more designed by Monster Truck themselves and the creative team at Puck Hcky.
http://puckhcky.com/collections/monster-truck
DARKSTAR NEW EP & VIDEO
Darkstar are announcing their latest release Made To Measure due out on July 15th. The four track collection features two vocal collaborations. The opening track “Reformer” is a collaboration with Empress Of, the NYC based singer/producer who also features in the video . This is followed with Brixton-based experimental artist and current WIRE cover star Gaika on “Black Ghost”.
Since the release of last year’s Foam Island, Darkstar have been delving deeper into collaborations. They’ve been working with Jessie Ware and Gwylim Gold on production and remix duties and also remixed Giorgio Moroder for the recent Tron soundtrack. Later this summer, they’re due to step into the studio with Jamie Woon and The Square. The duo have also been honing their scoring skills writing the soundtrack for the Dreamlands short film, which was an official selection at Cannes Film Festival last month.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urh8RRMJcC0
CERISE “TO GO AWAY”
LA by way of Chicago songstress Cerise is set to release her debut album ‘Smoke Screen Dreams,’ on June 24. This week she shares album standout track “To Go Away.” Stream it over at The 405 and on SoundCloud.
Although music has been integral to Cerise’s life since as far back as she can remember, it was her teenage days spent listening to such dark and romantic luminaries as The Cure, Bauhaus and Siouxsie And The Banshees that had the most dramatic effect. “That was the first time music really spoke to me,” she remembers. “The darkness and beauty of those bands seduced me into this other world and having a big interest in music. But it always seemed like it was the hardest thing in the world to actually do. To me, being a musician in a band seemed like being a ballerina- like you had to be trained for it from the age of six to become this amazing artist.”
LUKE BELL ALBUM STREAM
This Friday, June 17, the ranch hand turned troubadour Luke Bell will release a self-titled album via Thirty Tigers. Today, the album is premiering in its entirety with Southern Living, who said “Luke Bell has grabbed ahold of the throwback country dial and turned it all the way to 11 with his big, well-deep baritone and traditional arrangements that sound like they’ve been out all night at a honky tonk and haven’t bothered to clean up.”
Southern Living Exclusive: Luke Bell Premiers New Self-Titled Album
AMANDA SHIRES NEW ALBUM
Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter/violinist Amanda Shires will release her third album My Piece Of Land on September 16th. My Piece Of Land represents an artistic milestone for Shires, inspired by a series of milestones and realizations in her personal life. Shires contemplates love, fear, stability, self-esteem, and even anxiety, which she beautifully articulates through her thoughtful lyrics and emotive vocals.
My Piece Of Land is the follow-up to Down Fell The Doves (2013) which garnered accolades from outlets including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Texas Monthly, Huffington Post and The Los Angeles Times who called it, “Emotionally dynamic…the beauty of her voice belying the menace of her message”.
KOSHA DILLZ NEW VIDEO
While on tour in France and Netherlands, Kosha Dillz and director Ed Jansen constructed a video that represents the life of many lonely people who search for love on the road. Obsessive relationships that don’t exist once reality sets can be a hard thing to deal with, and the story shows the artist (kosha dillz) falling for a girl who doesn’t seem to be on the same page as the man who created it. The soundscape for Half A World Away, created by Ski Beatz (Jay-Z, Camp Lo) is the 2nd single off his upcoming July 15 release, What I Do All Day and Pickle. Kosha Dillz’ Half a World Away Tour starts June 17th in Krakow Poland for a TedX talk and a slew of solo dates + guest appearances at Festivals with good friend and collaborator Matisyahu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ6A6k5tEnA
BOILER ROOM “AQUARIUS”
Stream the music video to Gaika’s unreleased track, ‘Aquarius’ — shot by Sonny Jake from Boiler Room’s film team.
COMET CONTROL @ WSJ
Toronto space rock band COMET CONTROL will release its stargazed sophomore album, Center Of The Maze on June 24 via Tee Pee Records. The band features vocalist / guitarist Chad Ross and guitarist Andrew Moszynski, each formerly of heavy psych champions QUEST FOR FIRE and garage rockers THE DEADLY SNAKES. In advance of the record’s release, The Wall Street Journal premieres the new COMET CONTROL song, “Dig Out Your Head”, calling it, “a gently propulsive tune with a soaring, psych-pop bounce”.
TINA KNOWLES-LAWSON TO RECEIVE ‘INSPIRING LEADERSHIP AWARD’
Fashion Designer, Author and Philanthropist Tina Knowles-Lawson will receive the first ever ‘Inspiring Leadership Award’ during the 2016 ESSENCE Festival on Sunday, July 3rd. The presentation will take place on the ESSENCE Empowerment Experience stage during the annual all-star Gospel Tribute at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
http://www.essence.com/festival
FAKE SHARK PREMIERE VIDEO FOR “SOMETHING SPECIAL”
Fake Shark released their new single, “Something Special”, last month via Light Organ Records, hitting the road for a cross-Canada tour. The Vancouver trio have now premiered a video for the track today via Exclaim.http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2016/06/15/comet-control-cleans-up-their-act-with-dig-out-your-head-exclusive.
http://exclaim.ca/music/article/fake_shark-something_special_video
HERVE “BANG THE DRUM”
Producer, Remixer & DJ, Hervé is now ready to reveal the music video to accompany his latest single, ‘Bang The Drum’, the next track off of his highly anticipated album, Hallucinated Surf.
Sticking to his bass house roots, ‘Bang The Drum’ is an infectious, dance floor ready track. The cleverly edited video combines the track’s energetic vocals and intriguing yet entertaining, tongue in cheek storyline.
“SHOW ME THE WAY”
New York’s eclectic indie quintet Radiant Reveries have unveiled their first single Show Me the Way which will be featured on the group’s forthcoming release Rise. The group teamed up with music taste-making blog Surviving the Golden Age to bring forth the latest track.
INTEGRITY & POWER TRIP STREAM
“You know a split between Cleveland’s legendary dark hardcore bruisers INTEGRITY (who, as it happens, hail from the most metal city in the nation) and Dallas’ POWER TRIP is bound to be lit. Lucky for you, Magic Bullet made it happen, and will release the pair’s new EP this coming Friday,” Noisey offers. “Both groups, despite the huge gaps in age, have produced some of the best hardcore-metal fusions to date, so this release was truly meant to be. It’s only sort of a new release for both bands, as it’s mostly comprised of previously released material, but old shit from INTEGRITY and POWER TRIP is still better than most bands’ newer stuff.”
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/integrity-power-trip-split
URN “EPIPHANY”
Dark Symphonic, Gothic-Folk Metal Band URN® has released the Official Video for the title track off of their 2015 LP Epiphany, which they premiered on Metal Underground prior to playing the main stage of Laconiafest 2016 on Saturday June 11, 2016.
http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=124074
BASSNECTAR NEW VIDEO
Bassnectar has shared a stunning new video for his song “Reaching Out,” from his forthcoming Unlimited LP dropping this Friday, June 17th on Amorphous Music. In Lorin’s words, the song is about human connection, personal journeys and how they intersect in different beautiful ways.
http://www.npr.org/event/music/482045428/first-watch-bassnectar-reaching-out
SCOUR “TEAR GAS”
In advance of the official detonation of their self-titled debut, SCOUR – the extreme metal collaboration uniting the talents of Philip H. Anselmo (Pantera, Down, Superjoint etc.), John Jarvis (Pig Destroyer), Derek Engemann (Cattle Decapitation), Chase Fraser (Continuum, former Animosity, Decrepit Birth), and Jesse Schobel (Strong Intention) – is pleased to unveil closing track “Tear Gas” for mass devourment.
WATCH “GYPSIES R US” NOW AT REVOLVER MAGAZINE
Maryland quintet Louder Than Quiet has released a new music video for their single “Gypsies R Us” today at Revolver Magazine. The band marries elements of post hardcore and death metal in the new video which depicts an issue many are familiar with; racial injustice. The lyrics for the track were inspired by a time where vocalist Ali Rezghi’s mother was judged for her economic status (peers referred to her as a “gypsy” when the family lost their home).
KVELERTAK RELEASE “NATTESFERD” OFFICIAL VIDEO
Roadrunner Records group Kvelertak have released the official music video for “Nattesferd,” the title track from their acclaimed new LP which arrived this past May. The otherworldly clip – produced by Norwegian production company Bacon and directed by Jakob Marky – is streaming now at www.Kvelertak.com and on the band’s official YouTube channel.
NEW SINGLE BY RENDERS
“The song is my ‘take back the night’ anthem, inspired by Slutwalk, dedicated to empowering those of us who feel vulnerable walking at night, and to protest victim-blaming.” – Renders
BASIA BULAT ON LONG LIST FOR POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE
Basia Bulat’s album, Good Advice, is named to the long list of Canada’s prestigious Polaris Music Prize.
Good Advice is out now and continues to receive widespread critical acclaim—the Los Angeles Times calls it “infectious pop…her songwriting is an irresistible blend of lush pop and effervescent R&B” while Brooklyn Vegan says, “like all of her albums, it’s Basia’s powerhouse voice that really drives it home…it’s meant to be belted from the tops of mountains.” Good Advice has been streamed more than four million times globally since its release.
ROUGE THE MYSFYT “ON ME”
Rouge Tha Mysfyt is the true definition of a musical artist. Everything from gritty street rap to R&B Rouge Tha Mysfyt does it all. Rouge Tha Mysfyt is currently an artist for Mindflip Music an up an coming musical machine out of Sacramento that consists of other multi-talented artists such as himself. Follow the musical journey and get a glimpse into the soul of a artistic individual.
PREMIERE OF DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS’ NEW SINGLE “SMILE” VIA BULLETT
Bayou-born soul sensation, Durand Jones, is bringing his raw energy to Colemine Records with his debut self-titled LP. Jones brings you fiery original soul music, pairing soaring vocal work with dusty drums, slinking guitars and screaming organs.
http://bullettmedia.com/article/durand-jones-the-indications-are-soulful-perfection-on-smile/
CONTROLLED BLEEDING NEW SINGLE
The longstanding and prolific experimentalist project, Controlled Bleeding, will return with its first proper studio album since 2002, entitled Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps, this summer on Artoffact Records. An eclectic mix of industrial, progressive rock, jazz and heavy metal influences, Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps will be released as a 2CD digipak and digital download on August 26, with a 2LP edition, housed in a beautiful gatefold, to be released on September 23.
“MICHAEL” VIDEO
The video for “Michael” was made by filmmaker Brian Melton (brianmelton.com), with whom we’ve had a longstanding collaborative relationship. Melton has produced several music videos for Grubby Little Hands and he often curates visual projections at our live performances.
“Michael” is a song about frontman Donnie Felton’s now-estranged high school best friend, and how in recalling a person we’ve lost touch with, we end up filling in the missing pieces based on our past experiences with them, our imaginations, and the mythology that develops through the filter of time and distance.
http://www.imposemagazine.com/tv/grubby-little-hands-premiere-new-video-for-michael
ZOLA BLOOD “HEARTBEAT”
Zola Blood return with the first single from their self-produced debut album, ‘Infinite Games.’ slated for release later this year.
‘Heartbeat’ was written and recorded in the band’s Hackney studio and takes cues from the likes of techno heroes Matthew Dear and Trentemoller, blending layers of sumptuous percussion, analogue synths and atmospheric guitars.
BERKLEE MUSIC CAREERS SALARY 2016
Berklee has released the 2016 edition of Music Careers in Dollars and Cents, its comprehensive directory of salary ranges for U.S. music positions in performance, writing, business, audio technology, education, and music therapy. Last updated in 2012, the report has been revised to reflect the evolving industry for which Berklee is preparing its students.
DENGUE DENGUE DENGUE “AMAZONIA”
An album four years in the making, Dengue Dengue Dengue’s sophomore effort, Siete Raíces, is almost ready to make it’s highly-anticipated debut. The critically acclaimed Peruvian duo have confirmed the long-awaited release has been well worth the wait with two lead singles, “The Enemy” and “Murdah,” as well as single and music video “Guarida” feat. Sara Van.
