Category: FEATURES

Down With Webster’s new album Time to Win, Vol. 1 is in stores now. This Canadian seven-member ensemble has been making music since meeting in grade school 10 years ago. They played on the 2009 Vans Warped Tour and are opening for Forever the Sickest Kids from Nov. 6 — 15. Their new single “Rich…

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After almost an entire year of silence, The Academy Is… showed they are ready to return in full force.

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  Puddle of Mudd, the Los Angeles-based quartet known for huge rock radio singles, is gearing up to release their fourth studio album entitled Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love & Hate.  

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My next guest is a musician by way of Dublin, Ireland. This musician goes by the name of Mahoney and he is ready to show the US music lovers that his music is as good as a pint of Guinness. Mahoney recently released his solo album, ‘Love Child.’ I gave it a listen and it…

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Please take a moment to watch Ryan Star’s raw and emotional new video for “Breathe.” “14 Million Americas are unable to find full-time jobs in this economy” Bureau of Labor Statistics!

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Of all the fans out there, Nine Inch Nails fans may be, if not most, at least one of the most devoted.

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Fueled By Ramen recording group The Swellers have announced plans to hit the road with ska-punk pioneers Less Than Jake this winter on the Warped Tour 15th Anniversary tour.

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Nashville based hard rockers Day Of Fire’s latest release, Losing All, is set to hit stores on January 26th 2010. The album features 13 ambitious, high energy rock songs, including the first single, “Lately.”  

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Motown Records is releasing Jackson 5 I Want You Back! Unreleased Masters which features 12 unreleased tracks including new songs as well as alternate versions of Jackson 5 classics.

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Check out the new music video from Canadian Songstress Serena Ryder for her single “All For Love.” From her US debut album Is It O.K. in stores November 3rd.

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So Icey/Asylum/Warner Bros. Records are pleased to announce the release of Gucci Mane’s first major release, The State Vs. Radric Davis.   The long-awaited album will make its way into stores December 8, 2009.

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Produced within the four walls of a former DDR radio station in East Berlin, The Rakes released their third album, ‘Klang’, digitally on October 20th in the US.

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Coming off her third No. 1 single, “Waking Up in Vegas,” multi-platinum Capitol singer-songwriter KATY PERRY is set to put her unique signature on yet another defining signpost of global pop culture, releasing her upcoming appearance on MTV: UNPLUGGED in CD + DVD set in one package on November 17, 2009.

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Recorded, written, produced, and performed nearly entirely by herself (with assistance from some of her Crown City Rockers bandmates), Natural Phenomena is a look into a world that few people are lucky enough to have, quite literally, at their fingertips.

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On November 3, Rhino Records celebrates Frank Sinatra with a five-disc boxed set of previously unreleased live performances. Sinatra: New York highlights performances recorded between 1955 and 1990 at iconic New York City Venues such as the Manhattan Center, Carnegie Hall, and Madison Square Garden.

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Nine years into their career, your favorite New York trio Yeah Yeah Yeahs did an iTunes Original featuring perfect-for-fans interviews, and stripped down versions of the band’s songs, new and old.

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We are 11 days away from Halloween but Snob Doodle is already annoyed by the holiday music. If he is feeling like this now we can only imagine what is in store for Christmas.

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Here is the first visual off Jared Evan’s “Radio In My Head” Mixtape titled “Frozen” which is also featured on Lebron James’ “More Than A Game” Soundtrack.

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Yura Yura Teikoku are a bonafide institution at home, arguably the only ‘underground’ psychedelic group in Japan to have achieved ‘overground’ success.

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Visionary New Jersey rock sextet Thursday has released a new music video for the song “Circuits of Fever” from their critically acclaimed album, Common Existence, on Spinner.com.  

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It’s tough to argue with Louisiana Ca$h’s assertion after watching the video for his smash debut single “Walk Wit A Dip.”

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Superstar actress Leighton Meester, best known for her starring role on the CW’s ‘Gossip Girl’, is taking on the music world and she’s doing it full-throttle!

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When I woke up this morning I knew that it was going to be a great week for ‘Skoped Out.’ This week I get to feature my next guest who I feel is one of the most exciting female singer/songwriters today. I fell for the music of Stacie Rose in 2006 when I found her…

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On November 24th, Lady Gaga will be re-releasing her debut album The Fame, as a brand new double-disc release titled The Fame Monster.

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As her sixth video from I Feel Cream, something tells me Peaches has a lot of time on her hands. Directed by Kinga Burza.

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Singer/songwriter/producer Georgia Anne Muldrow is releasing her third studio album, “Early” on November 10th through the label Animatedcartunes.

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For some college kids, with the arrival of fall come fraternity initiations. Eastside Long Beach rappers Cold Flamez invite you to witness their initiation to the Delta Psi Omega Fraternity, headed by Pledge Master DJ Skee. What begins as a sketchy introduction turns into a raucous house party with a 4:1 girl to guy ratio.

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“Black Hearts (On Fire),” the hard charging next single from the Aussie rockers JET, is featured throughout the massive advertising campaign launching Bud Light’s new Golden Wheat beer.  

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Platinum-selling Rock band Saving Abel will headline the inaugural “CLASS OF 2009” TOUR, with Grammy Nominated Red, Pop Evil and Taddy Porter along for the ride. The excursion will get underway on October 27th in San Antonio, TX and continue until the end of the year.

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Get Busy Committee features names you may have heard before: Ryu (Styles of Beyond), Apathy (Demigodz, Army of the Pharaohs) and super-producer Scoop Deville, known for his work recently with Snoop Dogg, Game, Clipse, Murs and many others.

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With 2 million paid song downloads through their site MuleTracks, seven critically acclaimed studio records already released, a handful of DVDs and live albums, plus an ever-expanding fanbase and sold-out coast-to-coast tours, Gov’t Mule could easily rest on its laurels.

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Curb Records’ artist Kaci Battaglia’s single “Crazy Possessive” is sweeping the nation as it can be heard   on radio stations across the country.   The track is averaging nearly 7,000 downloads per week.  

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Singer Mark Sandman coined the phrase “low rock” to describe the sonorous, languid groove he created with the acclaimed Boston band Morphine. Sadly, the band’s time together was cut short in 1999 when Sandman suffered a heart attack in Italy while onstage with Morphine and died on the way to the hospital.

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With Kanye off to rehab, Lady Gaga is still ready to go on tour with the announcement of “The Monster Ball Tour: Starring Lady Gaga”.

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Sliimy’s debut album Paint Your Face just dropped digitally on Sept. 15th, and he’s the first artist signed to Perezcious Music – Perez Hilton’s music label with Warner Bros. Records.

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“Dancin’ Around The Truth” blends clever lyrics about a relationship going wrong with pulsating synths and a hypnotic groove.

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Hellbillies rejoice, the Master of monster mayhem, Rob Zombie, is returning with exactly what you’ve been waiting for, HELLBILLY DELUXE 2! The follow up to the 1998 triple platinum smash HELLBILLY DELUXE will be the latest masterpiece from Zombie which is set to hit stores November 17th.

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DJ DAN has been on the cutting edge of forward thinking dance tracks for nearly two decades.   As he approaches his 20th year in the music industry, he joins Nettwerk to release his debut artist album FUTURE RETRO, a collection comprised of two vantage points: one looking back and paying homage to where electronic…

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Amazing footage of Nirvana performing “School” at the 1992 Reading Festival was recently made available for fans. The video comes from the CD+DVD Nirvana Live At Reading which hits stores November 17th, with the CD only version arriving on November 3rd.

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Nneka’s first US release, Concrete Jungle   in stores February 2, 2010, stands as an offering of love, hope and optimism dedicated to the people of Warri & the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Holding it all together is the emotional focus of her beautiful voice, located in a place somewhere between yearning and rage.

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