Greater Palm Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) today launched a Facebook contest to win the ultimate Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival experience. If skiing is more your thing, then you should find luxury ski holidays online with Supertravel.co.uk. The package, valued at $6500, provides accommodations in the private onsite Safari Tent Compound during…
E.G. Holmes and David Vanden Enden, Wonderful You
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About the Artists: This is Holmes’ latest release. Researching his bio these 2 have managed to Incorporate elements of Traditional Pop, Jazz, Blues, and Classical Rock in a thoughtful new Adult Contemporary album, E.G. Holmes – Wonderful You is a sexy and edgy compilation with alternating light heart-ed and intense subject matters coupled with…
17TH ANNUAL ELECTRIC DAISY CARNIVAL
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Insomniac will bring more than 100 world-class DJs from across the globe to North America’s largest electronic music festival, the 17th Annual Electric Daisy Carnival, held June 21-23, 2013. Insomniac will transform the Las Vegas Motor Speedway into a completely interactive carnival experience with 500 theatrical performers, including fire twirlers, aerialists, dancers, and stilt walkers;…
WIRE: INTERVIEW MAGAZINE PREMIERES KACEY JOHANSING’S “ENEMY”
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Described by The Bay Bridged as “gorgeous acoustic pop”, San Francisco based musician Kacey Johansing creates songs with wandering melodies, lush harmonies and moody aural landscapes. Her songs are continuing to make their way into the ears and hearts of more people too, as Interview Magazine premiered “Enemy,” one of the album’s more personal centerpieces.…
BIG SCARY POST NEW SINGLE “PHIL COLLINS”
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Acclaimed Australian alt-pop duo, Big Scary (Tom Iansek & Joanna Syme) reveal Phil Collins – the first track from their forthcoming sophomore album Not Art.The track is currently available for streaming via the band’s soundcloud page. https://soundcloud.com/bigscary/phil-collins Nine-months in the making, Tom and Jo wrote and recorded Not Art while in support of their debut…
WIRE: PLAYER’S NEW VIDEO “I WILL”
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Player fans worldwide can click here to check out the exclusive worldwide premiere of the video for the romantic track “I Will”. The song is taken from Player’s forthcoming set, TOO MANY REASONS; the album is due out on February 26th in North America via Frontiers Records. …
MUSIC MASTER MATTHEW SCHULTZ RETURNS WITH BANGING SOUND
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Musician extraordinaire Matt Schultz has come back to the music scene with guns blazing. As a young man Matthew was always drawn to the sights and sounds of music. It helped that most of his family were musicians and valued the art of it. His uncles for starters, used to perform at family functions and…
The Cat Lady, Rise Up
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The Cat Lady has a mystifying sound with her new release, “Rise Up”. She has a subtle, soothing vibration that slithers around in one’s head like a snake. It tickles your senses with enticing intrigue. It opens with a burst of horns and a smooth bass line. Then lays the ground work for an…
DECKER. NEW VIDEO “KILLING ME” FROM ‘SLIDER’
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Rising from the dust of a near-fatal August 2012 van rollover while on tour in California, the band still managed to record the 10-song follow-up to their third release, 2011’s, Broken Belts, Broken Bones, in three inspired months over the summer to produce their most robust, captivating and compelling record to date.
AVICII’S WORLD’S LARGEST MUSIC COLLABORATION
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Superstar DJ and producer Avicii, aka Tim Berling, today launches the ‘X You’ track, created out of the world’s largest music collaboration. The collaborative project ran for nearly seven weeks and invited fans worldwide to contribute to his next single. During this time Avicii curated around 13,000 submissions from more than 4,000 people in…
INTERVIEW: HEAVEN AND EARTH
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Guitarist Stuart Smith worked with a lot of premier musicians while putting together a solo project called Heaven and Earth. He released a few albums using fellow guest musicians before putting together a touring band and a band album Dig. Stuart added longtime road vets Joe Retta on vocals, Chuck Wright on bass,…
JAMES MCCARTNEY MASSIVE 47 DATE TOUR OF THE USA
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Following a year that introduced him to international success in 2012, James McCartney now heads towards an exciting and unprecedented 2013–a year that will see him release his first full-length album and embark on a forty-seven date, twenty-seven state tour of the USA, to be followed by a number of additional shows and appearances across…
WIRE: MTV BUZZWORTHY POST NEW SONG BY NIGHT RIOTS
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The high-energy indie-pop quintet, formerly known as PK, have announced their new moniker, Night Riots, and embraced a spookier, synthesizer-based sound on their new song, “Spiders”.Watch the ominous vignette for the new track on MTV Buzzworthy here: http://on.mtv.com/13i0tRe. You can download “Spiders” for free on Night Riots’ official website here: http://www.nightriots.com/ On the band’s name…
QUIET COMPANY SET TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM APRIL 9
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Out of print and unavailable for nearly three years, Austin indie rockers Quiet Company have gone back to their beginnings to re-release their 2006 debut album, “Shine Honesty.” But instead of merely shipping decade-old recordings to a pressing plant, lead singer/guitarist Taylor Muse and his bandmates have completely rerecorded and updated the album to reflect…
WIRE: NEW VIDEO BY MY GOLD MASK VIA NYLON
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What began as a collaboration between longtime musical partners Gretta Rochelle and Jack Armondo (guitar), became less a means to an end, than the end itself. A deep wellspring of personal and musical experiences shaped their direction, and Chicago’s My Gold Mask is a culmination, a fulfillment, of a long artistic road, that has lead…
TREVOR JACKSON NEW VIDEO “LIKE WE GROWN”
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Trevor Jackson brings some fresh flavor and fire to R&B. The video for “Like We Grown,” Trevor Jackson’s new track for Atlantic Records, features Zendaya as the leading lady. “My favorite part about making this video was that I was able to work with a lot of my friends, so it didn’t seem like…
WIRE: VALLEYS SIGN TO KANINE RECORDS
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Montreal electronic duo Valleys signed to Brooklyn, New York based label, Kanine Records (Grizzly Bear/Braids) to release their debut full-length record, Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? on April 30. You can stream the first single off the album, an edit of “Undream A Year” on Spinner.com – respost via…
MPULSE NEW SINGLE “HAD A DOLLAR”
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One of Chicago’s young-spitta’s, MPulse, will be releasing his new project, Sofa Gun: The Sequel, which is hosted by Don Cannon will be dropping in March. Here is the latest leak, “Had A Dollar,” (produced by Keef Boyd) from that upcoming project. Download link to MPulse “Had A Dollar”: https://soundcloud.com/rrmpulse/had-a-dollar http://iampulse.com
CY HARP NEW VIDEO “NEED GOD”
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Cy Harp has released the visual to “Need God” off of the Die for Truth Album. Need God is a very soulful feeling song with a strong message indicating it’s never too late to change your life for the best. One song at a time Cy Harp plans to change the thought process of the…
DAN SARTAIN NEW SINGLE ‘LOVE IS SUICIDE’ FEAT. RICHIE RAMONE
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Master of his domain and one man Brill Building, Dan Sartain follows last year’s ‘Too Tough To Live’ (short) long-player with a new single, ‘Love Is Suicide’. With its driving New-Wave ZX Spectrum synth-pop and throbbing sequenced bass, ‘Love Is Suicide’ carries strong overtones of Alan Vega and The Cars in their early ‘80s pomp.…
ANDREW RIPP TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM
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Singer-songwriter Andrew Ripp is set to release his brand new album Won’t Let Go on Be Music & Entertainment April 16th. Working with GRAMMY Award-winning producer Charlie Peacock (Civil Wars, Colbie Caillat, Switchfoot), Ripp had a hand in co-writing all 11 tracks and the end result is a deeply personal album that will take listeners…
‘LIVE FROM DARYL’S HOUSE’ EXPANDS REACH THRU RFD-TV
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Live from Daryl’s House, the hit web-series created by Daryl Hall, will debut on Rural Media Group’s networks, RFD-TV and FamilyNet, on Sunday, March 3rd at 9:30pm EST. The series has been added to RFD-TV and FamilyNet’s Sunday night primetime slot of family-orientated music and entertainment programming. The series joins the network’s other…
KVELERTAK SET NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR
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Kvelertak has unveiled details of a major North American headline tour deemed, “MEIR TOUR — NORTH AMERICA 2013.” The spring trek celebrates the Norwegian rock band’s hugely anticipated Roadrunner Records debut, MEIR and kicks off April 21st at Chicago’s Bottom Lounge. MEIR arrives everywhere on March 26th. The upcoming tour — first announced exclusively on…
JOHN OO FLEMING NEW SINGLE “WKO”
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Label boss John 00 Fleming returns with ‘WKO,’ the supporting single from his anticipated artist album, One Hundred Ten WKO. John is well known for his more serious take on the trance world and ‘WKO’ showcases his dark pounding beats complimented with rich pads and driving leads. JOOF Recording’s main man, Cosmithex, steps up for…
LOW OFFERS NEW SONG “SO BLUE” + VIDEO CONTEST
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Sub Pop Records is excited to offer another fantastic song from the upcoming Low record, The Invisible Way set for release on March 19. The subtle yet grand “So Blue” is available for download and streaming HERE.
K. FLAY RELEASES WEST GHOST MIXTAPE
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K.Flay states: “West Ghost is basically a conversation I’m having with myself, one that began when I left San Francisco last year. After I moved to Brooklyn, I started to feel this crazy sense of freedom, but it was a freedom based in rootlessness and so it kind of punched me in the stomach.…
Gilbert Neal, Dirty Red Pagan
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As a “very poor and directionless” youth, Gilbert Neal drifted whichever way the wind blew. As it happened, Fate took him to the musical vocation. Bass guitar was his specialty, and he plied his craft at various venues in his native Buffalo. Now a resident of North Carolina, he has branched out to the six-string,…
TODD RUNGREN ON TOUR IN MAY
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Prolific musical experimenter, premier league pop craftsman, tireless producer, runt, wizard and true star Todd Rundgren will release his new studio album ‘STATE’ on the Esoteric Antenna label via Cherry Red on Tuesday, April 9th. ‘STATE’ is Rundgren’s 24th solo studio album (and that’s not including the 2 albums he recorded with his first band…
WIRE: JOSH XANTUS NEW SONG “BREATHE”
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Valentine’s Day comes early courtesy of singer-songwriter-pianist Josh Xantus. The Juilliard School alum pours his heart into “Breathe”, an acoustic R&B gem laced with a strong emotional delivery. Josh dedicates the romantic track to his true love, “I always imagined what real love was like and then one day I found it. She inspired me…
!!! POST “SLYD”
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THR!!!ER, the latest full-length album from !!! is coming out on April 30th and earlier today the band shared with fans a sneak peek into the record via the song “Slyd.” One of the only tracks on the album not recorded with Spoon’s Jim Eno, “Slyd” stands out for another reason, as a tribute to…
WIRE: SPIN PREMIERES NEW MP3 FROM THE THERMALS
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On Monday, February 11, SPIN premiered an MP3 of The Thermals new song “Born To Kill” along with a lyric video for the track. The song is from the band’s new album Desperate Ground out April 16 on Saddle Creek. “Born To Kill” is the perfect introduction to The Thermals’ brilliantly sick and twisted new…
ENTER THE INTRICATE WORLD OF H.C. TURK
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H.C. Turk is a personification of the word multidimensional because Mr. Turk eats & breathes diversity. H.C. lives his life not just as a musician but also as a successful writer, painter, visual artist and photographer. With three albums complete and a whopping 36 novels written this man of many faces has the…
Sterling Witt, Sterling Loves You
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Review: “Sterling Loves You” is his third release and the result though far from a self-indulgent ego trip, rather a moving and elegiac artistic statement from start to finish. This is not your overly predictable Ramon Noodle “Sing-Songy” Nikelback-esque Rock artist. Instead Witt who hails from the midwest could even be classed as a…
WIRE: THE BRONX GET SEXY IN NEW VIDEO FOR PLAYGIRL.COM
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Los Angeles’ punk-rock party band The Bronx has teamed up with the iconic erotic website PlayGirl.com to premiere a hilariously raunchy new video for their single, “Youth Wasted,” from the band’s recently released album The Bronx (IV). Watch The Bronx’s new video for “Youth Wasted”: http://playgirl.com/social/?p=244 http://www.thebronxxx.com
NEW VIDEO THOMAS AZIER “ANGELENE”
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Brand new mind-bending video from the Berlin-based electro-pop wizard Thomas Azier. “Angelene” is off Azier’s sophomore EP Hylas 002 and the video is a contemporary noir exploring his solitude as he yearns for the fascinating yet mysterious Angelene.
3 DOORS DOWN ANNOUNCE ONE-TIME ONLY EXCLUSIVE ACOUSTIC ENGAGEMENT
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3 Doors Down has announced a one-time only exclusive engagement staged to present all the hits as acoustic performances. The five band members now call Nashville home, and have chosen the War Memorial as the venue for this special evening on May 4 at 8PM. Tickets will go on sale Friday, March 1.…
DARK TIME SUNSHINE “TAKE MY HAND” VIDEO
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The video, directed by X144 and premiered today by HipHopDX, takes the song on a modest yet very entertaining path, offering viewers a look at the lighter side of the tour lives that Dark Time Sunshine has been living over the past months; namely, just chilling back stage on the greenroom couch. In fact, the…
JACK CARTY IN LA MARCH 6 – 10
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Aussie songwriter Jack Carty will stop over in Los Angeles the first week of March to play a handful of shows across the metropolitan area. Jack’s en route to Austin, TX to perform a week’s worth of back-to-back shows at SXSW; one the world’s largest music festivals, that takes place each year there. Jack Carty…
WIRE: LIVING PROOF RHYMES OVER DRAKE NEW SINGLE
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After linking up with Maffew Ragazino & Chi-Ali on “Better Known As NYC,’ Livin Proof returns and goes in over Drake’s latest smash “Started From The Bottom.” Livin Proof’s forthcoming LP, Die For A Deal 5.0; is slated for release in early April. Livin Proof’s “Started From The Bottom” (Freestyle): SKOPE IT HERE!
WIRE: AUSTIN MAHONE SELECTED FOR COVETED VEVO LIFT
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Austin Mahone has landed himself a coveted spot on VEVO’s emerging artists platform, LIFT. His eight week series will premiere on Monday, February 25th where fans (called “Mahomies”) will get an exclusive, all access pass into Austin’s life with insider interviews, behind-the-scenes looks and video premieres. “I am so honored to have been chosen…
