Oxford, UK-based quartet Jonquil has released Rush Midnight (of Twin Shadow), 100% Silk’s Fort Romeau, and Jonquil’s own Hugo Manuel (aka Chad Valley) remixes of “Mexico,” available as a free download here. The original single is taken from the band’s Point Of Go album, out now via Dovecote Records (The Futureheads, Hooray For Earth) and…
“HE’S A BAD BARACK OBAMA” VIDEO
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The group Brother & Sisters is originally from Miami, FL. They have been performing and singing since the ages 2-5, and they love being in front of crowds. At ages 12-17, they took a great interest in rapping, which is how their group got started — for this would become a new chapter in their…
UK PUNKS TRC VIDEO TO “HEARTLESS”
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UK’s “cocky” hardcore-punks TRC will release their EP, The Story So Far, on October 23 via No Sleep Records. The band has released a music video for their ruckus new track “Heartless” today. Fans are invited to pre-order the new EP now at nosleepstore.com/artist/trc. [youtube VHJ1yXdVmjo] Rapidly gaining ground in their home…
YAEL MEYER RELEASES NEW MUSIC VIDEO
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Chilean born – Los Angeles based recording artist, YAEL MEYER will release a NEW MUSIC VIDEO for the song “Used To Be” this coming Thursday September 6th, followed up by a much awaited performance at “It’s A School Night” presented by KCRW DJ Chris Douridas, in Hollywood on September 10th.
ENTRAXX RECORDS LAUNCHES
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The world class producer and DJ Ron van den Beuken starts together with Evolution Entertainmen the label “Entraxx Records”. It will be a cool label for young and talented producers that fresh sounds, credible and innovative sounds in the House and Trance music. Entraxx Records will release global in cooperation with big independent and major…
WIRE: SEAN ROWE PREMIERES VIDEO AT AOL SPINNER
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AOL Spinner is premiering a new video by the extraordinary singer and songwriter Sean Rowe . The clip is for his song “Downwind” from the new album The Salesman and the Shark available in stores today. The track is an engaging burst of re imagined pop featuring Rowe’s powerful baritone layered over a reverb drenched…
COME GET SOME GOOD OL’ COUNTRY WITH THE BILLY K BAND
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Back at it after a very relaxing Labor Day weekend. Lots of cold beer, BBQ, and music! One artist that I was playing this weekend was just perfect. I must admit that I have fallen for the sounds of the Billy K Band. Billy has created a country/acoustic sound that sounds great & speaks to…
RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE, SEPTEMBER 2012
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Rebecca Loebe, Circus Heart (self-released) Much like Linda Ronstadt, this Austin-by-way-of-Georgia girl can belt country-tinged pseudo-balladry and switch over quickly to torchy, half-there crooning. Loebe’s on her third LP at this point, having made no small amount of hay out of a successful showing on American TV’s The Voice, impressing Christina Aguilara and Adam…
GLOWMOBILE RECORDING COMPANY SET FOR FIRST FULL LENGTH RECORD RELEASE
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Glowmobile Recording Company (Orlando, Florida) is set to release their first full length record on the label with the vinyl release of Yip-Yip’s seventh album “Bone Up” on October 9th, 2012. The vinyl release is set for 200 copies. The vinyl release comes after the Digital, CD and Cassette Tape release of Bone Up in…
CHIPPY NONSTOP TO TOUR WITH KREAYSHAWN
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Chippy Nonstop, the Oakland-based electro-trap firecracker, has been added to Kreayshawn’s national Group Hug Tour. Along with openers Rye Rye and Honey Cocaine, Chippy will embark on the 28-date tour across the country, beginning November 1st in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and ending December 16th in San Diego, California. After a co-headlining performance at Atlanta Indie…
JÄGERMEISTER PRESENTS HALESTORM TOUR
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Atlantic recording group Halestorm has announced plans to headline this year’s much anticipated Jägermeister Presents Halestorm Tour. The hard rock festival trek gets underway November 8th at Mobile, Alabama’s Soul Kitchen and then continues through mid-December (see attached itinerary). Tickets for the 2012 Jägermeister Presents Halestorm —which also features special guests In This…
WIRE: TRAEDONYA! FEATURED ON TOP MIXTAPE THRU DATPIFF
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Prohibition Entertainment is excited to announce that TRAEDONYA! is featured on one of the highest rated, most listened to and most favorited mixtape on www.datpiff.com as we speak. The week of Aug 18-25TH the mixtape was in the top 10 in the 3 categories mentioned. TRAEDONYA! is featured on the cover with 2 Chainz…
WIRE: CONVERGE ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AND VIDEO
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Heavy music’s most established and innovative band, Converge will release their highly anticipated new studio album, All We Love We Leave Behind on October 9th, along with a deluxe package that includes a 48 page full-color hardcover, clothbound book with original art created by front-man Jacob Bannon via Epitaph (vinyl on Deathwish). Accompanying…
WIRE: ARMY NAVY PREMIERE MUSIC VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE
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Los Angeles-based indie-pop band Army Navy are excited to announce the release of the music video for their new single, “World’s End.” Directed by Mark Schoenecker and starring Martin Starr (Freaks and Geeks, Party Down) and Camille Cregan (The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks), the video for “World’s End” takes place in the television studio…
ADAM HILL SET TO RELEASE NEW FULL LENGTH ALBUM
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Adam Hill (Nashville, Tennessee) is set to release his highly anticipated new full length record ‘Banjo Moon’ on October 9th, 2012. After releasing the wildly popular Discounts Spirits EP in 2011, Adam Hill is back with Banjo Moon, a collection of 12 new songs that are gritty rock n roll and showcase his Dylan style…
CHRIS RICHARDSON RELEASES FIRST SINGLE “JOY & PAIN”
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After signing with Cash Money Records, CHRIS RICHARDSON, is poised for a stardom with the release of his debut solo single, “Joy & Pain” [Featuring Tyga]. This year, RICHARDSON helped drive Tyga’s hit single “Far Away” to sales exceeding 300,000, and he stands primed to repeat that success with his new single which was…
ABSOLOOT: BREAKING THE MOLD
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Coming from a generation that watched Rap rise to unparalleled heights as a genre, it saddens me to see what it has become. The bulk of contemporary Hip Hop is an amalgam of clubby tunes with near zero depth, even less originality and Auto-Tune. Lots and lots of Auto-Tune. Gone is the socially charged lyrical…
“SLANT”-ASTIC FOUR
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It’s an early Saturday afternoon and the day after yet another show. With more music in them than ever, Slant’s dance card seems to fill up easily these days with shows booked in multiple venues from the Viper Room and the Whisky in Los Angeles to several venues across New Mexico, Texas and Arizona. The…
J.J. CROWNE: THE MUSICAL CHAMELEON
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Just as certain chameleons have the ability to change colors at the drop of a hat, so too can J.J. Crowne aka “The Eclectic One.” J.J.’s array of colors comes in the form of musical notes, and this artist has a deep and interesting history. Originally from Jersey and later moving to South…
Third International, Chemical Eyes + Bonus
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I had the pleasure of reviewing Third International’s ‘Entre Las Americas’ back in May for Skope (http://skopemag.com/index.php?s=Third+International) and I knew then that this group has got something special. The mastermind behind it all, Andrew Pearson, is back with a single that includes two songs: “Chemical Eyes” and “Good Friday at Little Rock”. This…
WIRE: CHAD VALLEY POSTS “FALL 4 U”
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Chad Valley, aka Hugo Manuel of Oxford, UK’s Jonquil and the Blessing Force collective, has announced his debut full-length, Young Hunger, featuring collaborations with Twin Shadow, Glasser, Active Child, El Perro Del Mar, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and more. Released on October 30 via Cascine (US) and November 19 on Loose Lips (UK), the LP…
HEATA BEST “NOT TRYNA BE FRESH” F. B-SIMP VIDEO
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New Orleans rapper Heata Best presents the music video for “Not Tryna Be Fresh”, the new single from his new album B.R.E.A.D. (Been Receiving Equity & Dollars). “Fresh” features DMV rapper B-Simp, and is produced by Jay-B, the man behind beats for Big K.R.I.T., Vado, Young Hustle and more. The clip was directed by New…
J. PEGUERO HOOKS UP WITH TRINA ON NEW SINGLE
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J. Peguero has released his latest smash hit entitled, “Turnt Up!” featuring the one and only, Trina. The song is available now at digital retailers such as iTunes http://bit.ly/PzCaYx, and is currently impacting radio, clubs and DJ’s everywhere! With notoriety, for songs like “GO”, which was recently featured on the MTV Networks and MTVU…
GYPTIAN SERVES UP A SWEET AND SEXY REGGAE BLEND EP
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While Gyptian is prepping for his 2013 full-length studio album Sex, Love & Reggae, the 2010 Soul Train and MOBO award-winning singer returns with the aptly abbreviated SLR EP available October 16 on VP Records. This six-song, digital-only selection follows Gyptian’s critically acclaimed Billboard Top 200 album Hold You and its title-track smash produced by…
KENDRICK LAMAR’S MAJOR LABEL DEBUT ALBUM
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The official release date for the highly anticipated debut major label album from rising rapper Kendrick Lamar–crowned the “new King of the West Coast” by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg at an L.A. concert last year–was announced today. good kid, m.A.A.d city (Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath Entertainment/Interscope Records) will be released October 22, 2012. …
DEFTONES ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF SEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM
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Grammy-winning alternative rock band Deftones have announced the November 13th release of their seventh studio album, entitled KOI NO YOKAN. To support the release they will hit the road on a nationwide headlining tour, with special guest Scars On Broadway, which kicks off October 9th in Ventura, CA and will conclude on the West Coast…
BREAKING: HE IS WE ANNOUNCES NEW LINEUP AND VOCALIST
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Like every band, one of the indiepop world’s recent breakout stars, HE IS WE, has gone through its share of ups and downs. From its early beginnings writing songs to post on YouTube to signing their record deal with Universal to releasing their debut My Forever, He Is We has had a lionshare of great…
MARILLION SET TO RELEASE 17TH STUDIO ALBUM / EPK
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Legendary progressive rockers Marillion are set to release their 17th studio collection, Sounds That Can’t Be Made, on September 24, 2012. With a dynamic catalog, spanning over three decades, and more than 15 million albums sold worldwide, Marillion’s latest collection represents a quantum leap in casting an ever-widening net over their expanding musical landscape.…
LADY GAGA PRODUCER RELEASES NEW VIDEO/SINGLE
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Pop alternative producer and songwriter Cherry Cherry Boom Boom (Martin Kierszenbaum) has recently released the official video for his first solo track and single, “Come Back to San Francisco,” The song is a cover off Magnetic Fields’ acclaimed 1999 album, 69 Love Songs, and is one of Martin’s favorites. “I just felt an urge to…
WIRE: STEVEN A CLARK OFFERS MP3
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There is always that one that got away, and Steven A. Clark’s soul filled track “Seashore” off his upcoming album Fornication Under the Consent of the King (September 11th, on L&E Media Co. & BloodyGround USA) represents just that. Clark tells Rolling Stone, who just premiered “Seashore,” that the track is a metaphor for losing…
WIRE: CANADIAN HEAVY GROOVE METALLERS HARM’S NEW VIDEO “ARGUE & GRIN”
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Metal loversworldwide can click here to witness the exclusive worldwide premiere of the new video for Harm’s “Argue & Grin”. The song is the first single from Harm’s forthcoming album THE NINE, due out on September 11th in North America via FrostByte Media. The video was directed by noted Canadian music photographer Darko…
Class Reunion, Music-Nation
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The group Class Reunion is made up of just two musicians: lead songwriter, co-founder and co-president of Class Records Mark L. Sanchez aka Shaggy Docious & lyricist, co-founder and co-president of Class Records Jonathan A. Demas aka JAD. Shaggy D and JAD share duties of vocals, guitars, bass, and drums/percussion while Jonathan also plays…
HEART OF HEARTS POST NEW SINGLE
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Heart Of Hearts is the solo work of Greg Hatem. The Baltimore-based project began recording in 2010 in a residential warehouse space onto a dusty old 8-track tape machine. Two years later, Hatem has traded in his worn tape heads for shiny new digits to produce his newest work. “Candling” is the first single off…
WIRE: AUTUMN OWLS PREMIERE NEW SINGLE
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On October 23, Epitonic.com will release it’s first album as a record label, Between Buildings, Toward The Sea by Dublin indie rockers Autumn Owls. The band’s debut full-length, recorded in Chicago with Brian Deck (Califone, Modest Mouse) showcases elements of The National, Unforgettable Fire-era U2, and the best of Chicago post-rock. FILTER Magazine is premiering…
AUDIKA RECORDS RELEASE ‘KEEP THE LIGHTS ON’ SDTRK
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Audika Records will release the soundtrack for the film KEEP THE LIGHTS ON, featuring the music of Arthur Russell digitally on September 4th. KEEP THE LIGHTS ON, directed by Ira Sachs and distributed by Music Box Films, opens in New York and Los Angeles on September 7th, followed by a national rollout. Featuring nine songs…
TOAD THE WET SPROCKET ROAD TEST NEW SONGS ON SUMMER TOUR
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In 2010, Dean Dinning, Randy Guss, Todd Nichols and Glen Phillips — collectively known as Toad The Wet Sprocket — officially reformed and began writing songs for their first studio album of new material since 1997’s Coil. On tour beginning May 24th, the band will preview two new songs in their live set. Also…
NEW ALBUM BY CHIWAWA IN OCTOBER
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COLLECTORS OF SOULS is the seventh full-length album by Montreal based duo Chiwawa (Laurie Gordon and Krassy Halatchev). Yes, they have raised the stakes yet again. Just as the opening track High Noon, and Trade (Track 8) call for it: “Staring the fiend straight in the eye I can now tell he won’t back down…
GREGORY PEPPER AND HIS PROBLEMS 2 NEW VIDEOS
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A native of Guelph, Ontario, Pepper was acclaimed for his 2009 release With Trumpets Flaring, which was hailed as “conceptually minded and very, very clever” (The Torontoist). Some even pointed out that, “Pepper taps into the demented genius/ ambition of Brian Wilson for his orchestral pop songs, which are head- scratchingly great” (Exclaim!) and that…
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND PREMIERES VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE “MERCY”
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When Dave Matthews Band invited fans to take part in the creation of a video for its latest single, “Mercy,” 14,334 responded, submitting original photos and videos. Those who contributed to the process – echoing and enhancing the song’s call for unity and action – were rewarded with an early look at the resulting clip,…
WIRE: ROC MARCIANO VIDEO FOR “EMERALDS”
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On November 13th 2012, Long Island rapper/producer/ex-Flipmode Squad member Roc Marciano is dropping his sophomore full-length on Decon. The long-awaited 15-track album is an ice-cold slice of New York rap grittiness from a dead-eyed master of the craft. Reloaded is largely self-produced and thematically airtight (that theme being simply “don’t fuck with me”). The album…
