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Broadside is an energetic 5 piece band hailing from Richmond, Virginia known for their exciting, fun, live performance. Formed in 2010, Broadside immediately began touring the day after their first show. They have shared the stage with bands such as: The Ataris, Title Fight, A Loss for Words, Such Gold, and Polar Bear Club to…

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BlankTV’s has recently premiered   a scrabble based lyric video from punk/alt rock artist The Story Changes and their new album Static And Trembling. The intuitive video displays a new light to lyric videos and the content that surrounds them with ‘We Were Numb’. Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xn1IsaCy-s

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To say things have changed in the way artists can reach their fans since Julian Lennon released his debut album Valotte in 1984, would be a massive understatement. No internet, iTunes, YouTube or social media, back then it was ‘get it on the radio’ and ‘get me on TV,’ which Julian did, resulting in two…

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The Supersuckers ninth studio album is a blistering return to their punk rock roots. Featuring 12 new soon-to-be Supersuckers classics, Get The Hell is a tightly-focused sonic assault of big riffs, catchy hooks and raw, balls-to-the-wall rock n’ roll, dripping in attitude, head-bobbing chord progressions and their trademark, tongue-in-cheek lyrics. http://www.seeofsound.com/p.php?s=ATE7048 Recorded at Willie Nelson’s…

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Things are looking up once again for Nick Harte. After a six year hiatus with Shocking Pinks, three earthquakes, a destroyed studio, a family intervention, and a “somewhat voluntary” relocation from Christchurch to Wellington, the former DFA and Flying Nun artist seems to be back on track. Earlier this year, Harte whittled down hundreds of…

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The Gaslight Anthem’s renowned bass player Alex Levine today announces the launch of a new barbershop culture-inspired lifestyle and clothing brand, TIGER CUTS. This multinational effort is conceived by Levine, along with friend Phil Carr in the UK and Scott Anna in the US. Stemming from the passion and love of music and barbershop culture,…

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Ninja Tune are proud to announce the worldwide signing of Kelis, and her new album, ‘Food’ to be released April 28th, 2014. Entirely produced by Dave Sitek (founder of TV On The Radio and producer for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars and Foals amongst others), the album is a homecoming for Kelis: a soul record…

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Indie rock artist Allison Weiss will be performing a live Holiday StageIt show on December 17th at 9:00PM EST.   Weiss and band will be performing songs from her latest album, Say What You Mean, some old favorites and a few surprises.   Watch the show live on December 17th at : http://www.stageit.com/allison_weiss/holiday_show/31696

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Wake Owl will release their debut album The Private World of Paradise, produced by Richard Swift (Tennis, Foxygen), on March 4th, 2014 via Vagrant Records. An early taste of the upcoming LP debuted online today in the form of first single “Candy,” which premiered on The Music Ninja and can be streamed here: http://www.themusicninja.com/wake-owl-candy-tmn-premiere/. “Candy”…

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ATO Records will release Mike Gordon’s new solo album, Overstep, on February 25, 2014. Gordon shared songwriting duties with guitarist and longtime collaborator Scott Murawski and handed over the producing reins for the first time in his solo career, enlisting Paul Q. Kolderie (Radiohead, Uncle Tupelo, Pixies). He also invited a few new players into…

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Atlantic recording artist Ty Dolla $ign has announced the release of his highly-anticipated debut EP. “BEACH HOUSE EP” arrives at all digital retailers on January 21st 2014, with pre-orders available exclusively on the iTunes Store beginning January 7th. “BEACH HOUSE EP” is preceded by the hit single, “Paranoid (Feat. B.o.B),” which has just begun its…

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Tiger Waves know the tyranny of distance, and they seemed to have tamed it for their purposes. In the spring of 2011, the foundation was laid online between two songwriters–James Marshall in Austin, Reid Comstock in Chicago. Tiger Waves is a band born of dropboxes, email attachments and CD-Rs and while the two principal songwriters…

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Stories of “Love And Hip Hop” best describe RRome’s new video “My Girl”. BK’s next on deck explicitly details his imaginary relationships with some of the dime R&B songstresses in the game (Kelly Rowland & Rihanna just to name a few). “My Girl” is taken from RRome’s upcoming, “Take This Serious,” mixtape which is hosted…

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together PANGEA is excited to debut the video for “Cat Man,” off their upcoming album Badillac, out January 21, 2014 on Harvest Records. The clip premiered via Stereogum, who called the track “a raunchy, ear-searing anthem that will elicit delight from fans of Black Lips, FIDLAR, and Nirvana…gear up for one of 2014’s wildest records.”…

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Hailing from Arizona, Jared & The Mill are pleased to announce the premiere of their latest video, “Western Expansion,” via Baeble Music late last week. The video, gorgeously done in black and white, brings to life the band’s energetic and heartfelt live show. With backstage footage intertwined between, it makes for a perfect first glimpse…

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Check out the latest music video “Please” from New York City artist Dubwork.   “Please” directed by Fred Focus was filmed on location in the Dominican Republic. “Please” can be found on Dubwork’s new mixtape Still Dreaming. MUSIC VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvNjz2uYWz4 Dubworks own love affair with music began back in his childhood, surrounded by music lovers.…

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Alchemist & Evidence have always shared a strong bond.   If you trace back the lineage of there respective careers to the very beginning you will find that they have always regularly contributed to each others projects. As the pair’s collaborations continued to mount, they began labeling themselves as “Step Brothers” when they would record;…

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Bella Union, the label that Raymonde has curated and run since his former band Cocteau Twins went their individual ways in 1997, moon comprises 11 songs composed between two continents; Raymonde was in London while Dosen was in North Carolina after being based in the capital following her 2007 debut A Lily For The Spectre.…

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Check out this live/acoustic version of Mapei’s don’t wait, a track that blew up the internet early last month holding the #1 spot on Hype Machine for quite a while and now almost to 800,000 streams. This version, accompanied by only a piano, is beautiful in its simplicity with an undeniable and passionate vocal performance…

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From August 11-15, 2014, musicians of all ages and levels will converge in California’s scenic Central Coast for the G4 Experience with guitar virtuosos Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert, Andy Timmons, and Mike Keneally. This unique music camp that combines entertainment, education and a vacation experience will be held at the picturesque Cambria Pines Lodge in…

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Did you catch the brand new promo for RuPaul’s Drag Race on Logo last night? Itching to know what that amazingly catchy track was?   Well, it comes as no surprise that the track, entitled, “Amazing!,” came from none other than the delightful art-pop duo, HI FASHION who continue their meteoric ascent to stardom. Watch…

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2013 continues to be a momentous year for independent hip-hop label Funk Volume, and a good deal of that success this year came courtesy of Dizzy Wright, who’s having a bit of a breakout year himself. The Las Vegas rapper, who signed with Funk Volume in 2012, was named to XXL’s 2013 Freshmen class, winning…

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New York trio, +/- {Plus/Minus}, have announced their return with a new full-length album, Jumping The Tracks, out February 4 on Teen-Beat (pre-oder here), and have offered up the lead-track off the record, “Young Once” via Stereogum. Fueled by a continued passion to create, James Baluyut, Chris Deaner and Patrick Ramos, recorded Jumping The Tracks…

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Superhuman Happiness has just unveiled its latest video “Second Heart” through a premiere via PopMatters. The track is off the Brooklyn-based band’s critically acclaimed debut album, Hands, released earlier this year by The Royal Potato Family. Directed by Tatiana McCabe, the video was created using a mix of stop-motion animation, 2D collage-style motion graphics and…

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As we journey on life’s road, we come to a point where the fighter in us must come out because if it doesn’t, we are either not going to get what we want, or we are going to be bullied.   Cham and Jr. Gong make sure that these circumstances don’t reach their fans by…

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Roanoke, Virginia’s Eternal Summers are excited to announce The Drop Beneath, brand new full-length studio album due out on March 4th, 2014 via their longtime label Kanine Records. The record was funded by an extremely successful PledgeMusic campaign, which quickly reached its goal shortly after launching.   In addition to facilitating the making of the…

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On her own – without the muscle of a promotional or publicity campaign – Nigerian-American singer-songwriter-poet Offiong Bassey let her captivating self-titled debut album trickle out earlier this year, which surprised by debuting on the CMJ New World Music chart at #2 and vaulted up to #4 on the SoulTracks album chart. Last month, the…

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What do you get when you address the following in one sitting: Illuminati, War on Terror, Black Diamonds, Holocaust, US Slavery, Apartheid and more? A great visual from Buffalo Black that communicates beautifully alongside his single “No Blood Frets Man”. The visual un-apologetically addresses current/past World events and how they relate to humans insatiable desire…

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Sheet music was open source code before open source code existed–not for developers, but for barroom pianists and amateur belters. When we saw that Beck had released his newest album in sheet-music form, we got excited. A collection of 20 compositions available only as sheet music (and never before recorded), Song Reader is exactly the…

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With the release of their new single “It Can’t Be Simple” via Stereogum, Secret Colours announce two releases due out next year in the form of Positive Distractions Part I and Positive Distractions Part II. “It Can’t Be Simple” could easily be looked at as the song that manifests the maturation process of a band…

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Emblem3 have announced their first national headline tour set for winter 2014. The #BandLife Tour will kick off in February and run through mid-March with MKTO set to open on all dates. The tour, in support of Emblem3’s debut album Nothing To Lose, brings the trio’s hard hitting live show for an up close and…

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Acclaimed Iowa rockers Stone Sour have unveiled details for their first headlining U.S. tour of 2014.   The cross-country trek will kick off on January 14th at the House of Blues in Lake Buena Vista, FL and continue into mid-February. Tickets for all dates are currently on sale, with Pop Evil as support. For more…

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Long Beach hip-hop duo and Ncredible recording artists the Wonder Broz deliver their latest club-banging record, “Drop It” featuring Sage The Gemini. “Drop It” is being serviced to mixshow radio today, and the superstar group is set to perform the song on two national TV shows this month including BET’s 106 & Park on December…

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Pittsburgh hip-hop artist @ShayBriggs3 new video and single, “Heavily Medicated”. The music is produced by Loyola University of New Orleans collaborator @Ant_Stew and is the first single from her debut album “Interphase”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21ddfvzgr2Y The song’s concept takes you on a journey with a girl who experiments with drugs and the not so glamorous consequences she…

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Sarge reaches out to Reks to help drive home the concept on “Better Than A Rapper”. Produced by The Cratez, this track is about championing the blue and even the white collar workers that punch the clock day in and day out to keep this world spinning. “Better Than A Rapper” is the lead-single from…

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Hip-Hop emcee Chris Gatsby is the latest young talent to emerge from the Bay Area’s rich hip-hop talent pool. Today, he’s dropping the visuals for the track “Keep It Moving,” produced by Boston beat maker Statik Selektah, the lead single is off of his debut album, Middleground: Morals & Money to be released on January…

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Speedy Ortiz is very pleased to unveil the new video for fan-favorite and summer hit “No Below” in anticipation of months of touring behind their debut album Major Arcana which came out July 9th on Carpark Records. The video was directed by Boast Choan and features members of friends’ bands Ovlov, Palehound, and Very Fresh.…

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Mac Miller will release a new live album, LIVE FROM SPACE, featuring recordings off his previously released studio album WATCHING MOVIES WITH THE SOUND OFF and his mixtape BEST DAY EVER as performed during his worldwide Space Migration Tour, as well as five previously unreleased new studio tracks. LIVE FROM SPACE will be available exclusively…

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Brooklyn indie rockers X Ambassadors released their official debut EP Love Songs Drug Songs on KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records in May.     After support dates with Imagine Dragons, Jimmy Eat World and the Mowgli’s the band is now prepping to join Panic! At The Disco on their Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die! Tour…

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My Darling Fury is pleased to announce the premiere of their second single off of Licking Wounds, titled “Spilled Milk.” The gorgeous track is laced with bright tones, adoring strings, and singer Danny Reye’s addictive smooth vocals. A whirlwind of guitars join in, that bring a whole new life to the song. Catch the Premiere…

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