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INDIA Multi Grammy winning singer/songwriter India.Arie has announced dates for her highly anticipated Soulbird Presents A SongVersation with India.Arie 2013 North American tour set to kick off Saturday, September 21st in Seattle, WA.   The multi-city trek will include stops in major North American cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and New York.…

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Taking cues from the psychedelic noise of the 1960’s, the art-damaged post-punk of the late 1970’s, and the aggression and immediacy of early 1980’s US Hardcore, Ex-Cult has curated a sound that audiences nationwide find accessible, yet not quite like anything else they’ve heard. Conceived at the legendary Memphis dive, the Lamplighter, by longtime friends…

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Oakland, California rap collective Hieroglyphics premiered the second visual off of their soon-to-be-released album The Kitchen today on Rolling Stone.   The video for”It’s Partly Me”, a comical clip about doomed relationships, shows the group as characters from the 1970s.   Hiero member Pep Love explains that the latest visual “is like a throwback concept…

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One of the greatest challenges independent musicians face in their craft today is the piece of the puzzle known as touring.   Playing outside hometowns can mean very small audiences for performers. Like most great ideas, the concept was simple — take six bands from Fort Collins with a good-sized local audience draw and partner…

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A year out from the release of their critically-acclaimed   sophomore album Gossamer, Passion Pit have announced a massive fall headlining tour across North America, including festival appearances at the First City Festival, Boston Calling, Austin City Limits and North Coast Music Festival.   The tour also includes two shows at New York City’s Pier…

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Avenged Sevenfold today revealed “Hail To The King”, the blistering first single and title track from the band’s forthcoming sixth studio album due out on August 27th via Warner Bros. Records. Produced by Mike Elizondo, Hail To The King was recently proclaimed “the band’s crowning achievement” by Revolver Magazine. To listen to “Hail To The…

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Trigg Da Kidd is back again with his latest club banger, “Shake Dat Azz”. After last year’s release off of his Trigganometry 101 mixtape, hosted by DJ Scream. The Travis Porter collaborator who recently hopped on 2 Chainz’ Based On A True Story Tour II is back with a new club banger. Check out the…

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Brooklyn’s AFROPUNK FEST is thrilled to announce it’s back for the 9th year! Chuck D & DJ Lord (performing Fear Of A Black Planet), Questlove (?love), DEATH, The Heavy, Trash Talk, Danny Brown, Saul Williams, Theophilus London, Vintage Trouble, The London Souls, The Coup, Mykki Blanco, K-OS, Big Freedia, Rye Rye, LE1F, Jean Grae, CX…

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Ellie Herring returns with her second release for the Racecar imprint entitled Kite Day.This much anticipated album is released on CD with remixes by Albert Swarms, Sines + Katastrophic, and VHVL. Kite Day is dark yet playful, as if the children of the corn went dancing. Sounds that appear to come out of nowhere leave…

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Morgan’s Brother is the creative force behind the video for “Parallel.” She said, “My brother has blown my mind, truly taking this song to the next level with this inspired video he made. Totally unprompted by any of my thoughts on the song or otherwise, this is what it meant to him. And it means…

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Today marks the Stereogum premiere of Kirin J Callinan’s self-directed new video for the song “Victoria M.” Callinan himself performs every role in the soap opera inspired video with frightening precision. SKOPE IT HERE! ‘Victoria M.’ is taken from Callinan’s debut solo LP EMBRACISM, released on CD and MP3 July 2 via Terrible Records in…

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A frenzied thrust of guitar, piano and raw vocal croons have emerged from J. Roddy Walston & The Business by way of “Heavy Bells”, the first track to be released from their upcoming album Essential Tremors, out September 10th via ATO Records. You can listen and download it courtesy of Rolling Stone HERE.   SKOPE…

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Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has announced the release of his first ever comic book, entitledThe Sun Is Sick. The adult-themed comic is a 40-page 6 ½” x 8 ½” full-color psychedelic fantasy in classic comic book form. It will go on sale at Comic-Com 2013 (at the San Diego Convention Center) beginning July 18th…

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Platinum selling Atlanta-based rap duo Ying-Yang Twins release their new mixtape Ass in Session, exclusively through Livemixtapes.com today. The first offering from the project, “Make It Jump,” has received acclaim from the group’s fanbase, while the second single “Miley Cyrus” – premiered exclusively with TMZ – has been picked up by Huffington Post, Perez Hilton,…

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Originally released in small, hand-assembled run and available once again on Wharf Cat Records, Dads’ Invisible Blouse is a statement of positive and willful self-annulment. Recorded live (in mom’s garage, to no audience,) “Invisible Blouse” rises above nothing. Instead, the song is a self-assured mess, finding no disparity between its grime, its bleated vocals, and…

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Goldfrapp release their stunningly beautiful new album Tales Of Us through Mute on September 10th, 2013. Their sixth album, Tales Of Usis written and produced by band members Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory and was recorded at their studio in the English countryside. The first opportunity to hear music from Tales Of Us comes today.…

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A brand new, full track by THE ARISTOCRATS is now available to stream via NoTreble.com. The title track, ‘Culture Clash’, is the first full track that has been made available to the world since the band’s announcement of their new album Culture Clash this past spring. Take a listen to the track here, and make…

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The track is the most successful single from the group’s critically acclaimed debut album, Want. With close to 25,000 plays on Soundcloud alone, The Music Ninja called the song a “pop monster which combines the melodies and bounce of electro with the grit of rock to create something very special.” Watch the video premiere on…

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Los Angeles hard rock band Gemini Syndrome have announced that they will release their debut album, LUX, on Sep 10th on Warner Bros. Records. The new video for “Basement” is out now. Noisecreep has stated, “A listen to ‘Basement’ shows two sides to the group, one in which frontman Aaron Nordstrom can have you mesmerized…

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The Mother Hips’ eighth studio album, Behind Beyond, is out this week on the band’s own Mother Hips Records imprint. The album marks 20 years since the Hips’ first release for Rick Rubin’s American Recordings. The Hips are giving away a free album track, “Song for JB,” written for the late Jay Bennett of Wilco,…

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After months of development, ReTake Artist and Music Listing and Promotion Service just unveiled its new website−a dedicated listing service for bands, singers, songwriters and musicians. Kenneth Schwartz, president of ReTake, announced the company’s commitment to signing former television talent show contestants who competed in shows such as American Idol, The Voice, and America’s Got…

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Whatever you want to call it — impressionist pop, post-pop, neo-classical — Art Decade’s music is at once innovative and immediate. “No One’s Waiting” is a pure pop song with enormous orchestral flourishes. The song’s indelible melodies and cinematic string arrangements will remind listeners of the mature sensibilities of artists like Electric Light Orchestra, Jon…

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In the course of their evolution from loose assemblage to world-class rock ’n’ roll outfit, the Band of Heathens has built a potent body of recorded work that’s won the Austin, Texas ensemble a reputation as one of its hometown’s most vital musical resources. They’ve won a fiercely loyal fan base and a reputation as…

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Long Way Down,the full-length debut from Tom Odell, winner of the 2013 BRITs Critics’ Choice Award, will be released in the U.S. on September 17 by RCA Records / In The Name Of. It entered atop the album charts in the U.K., Netherlands and Vietnam earlier this month and within the Top 10 across most…

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Polvo will release Siberia, their sixth full-length album, on CD, LP and digital on October 1 in the US and October 14 in Europe. During their initial run from 1990—1998, Polvo crafted a sound so fantastically obstinate and so perfectly cockeyed that its DNA is essentially resistant to mediocrity or repetition. On Siberia, that sound…

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Always one for sharing, Jeff Rosenstock is offering up a free download of the B-side of his latest 7″. The track “Go On Get,” which premiered via Aux.tv, is from Rosenstock’s Summer 7″ out on Really Records and Ernest Jenning Record Co. and is available for download. Although the extremely limited physical copies have all…

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JAMES BAY will join ZZ Ward on her upcoming fall jaunt, “The Down and Dirty Shine Tour”. The tour commences on September 2 at Aladdin in Portland, OR and wraps up October 15 at the House of Blues in Chicago. The 22-year-old UK troubadour is supporting The Dark of the Morning, his debut EP for…

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Two-time Grammy ®-nominated rock band Skillet premiered the official music video for “American Noise” on Yahoo! Music. You can also go behind the scenes with the band on the set of their new video here and watch the “American Noise” lyric video here. “American Noise” Video: http://music.yahoo.com/video/american-noise-001806441.html

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Roadrunner Records has announced details of the eagerly anticipated debut album from Scar The Martyr, the new project of Slipknot member Joey Jordison. “SCAR THE MARTYR” — the band’s self-titled debut collection, which was recorded at Sound Farm Studios in Des Moines, IA and produced by Rhys Fulber (Fear Factory, Rob Zombie, Mindless Self Indulgence)…

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The Global Poverty Project, in proud partnership with the Cotton On Foundation, today announced the 2013 Global Citizen Festival — a free ticketed concert on the Great Lawn of New York’s iconic Central Park — will take place on September 28, 2013 with Stevie Wonder, Kings of Leon, Alicia Keys, and John Mayer. Starting today,…

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“Location was everything,” he muses when he looks back at the video. “This video was inspired, physically, by the landscape of my neighborhood, and how aesthetically and habitably the Southside of Chicago relates to an African jungle.” This parallel extends beyond the physical street corner, into the psyches of the young men and women seen…

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Austin indie-folk musician Jack Wilson is known for his ability to transport a listener to a point in time. With outlets including Relix and American Songwriter latching on to the work on his latest album, Spare Key, there’s no doubt this strategy works. His latest single off the album, “Rainbow/Tiger,” contains the same gentle strings…

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Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter Dave Hause is proud to announce the release of his new album titled Devour. Recorded and mixed at Grandmaster Recorders LTD. in Hollywood, CA, Devour will be released through Rise Records on Tuesday, October 8. As the follow-up to Hause’s well-received debut solo album, Resolutions, Devour presents itself as a thematic journey through…

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Shining Stone Records announces the signing of Brazilian blues/roots guitarist Nuno Mindelis and will release his label debut CD, Angels & Clowns, on August 20. The new CD was produced by Duke Robillard and features backing by the Duke Robillard Band, with a special guest vocal performance by label-mate Sunny Crownover. The rest of the…

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The Claddagh Fund, the charitable foundation of the Dropkick Murphys, created by band founder, Ken Casey, has donated over $300,000 to over 60 victims affected by the tragic events surrounding the Boston Marathon. The three-year old foundation created a specific fund following the bombings, with 100% of the proceeds disbursed directly to the victims and…

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Balcony TV is the wildly popular online music network which features bands performing unplugged on balconies across the world. Created 7 years ago by Dubliner Stephen O’Regan,   Balcony TV’s regional teams scour the globe for the most exciting underground artists and tape them performing a single song live. The site posts fifty performances a…

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Raleigh, NC-based singer-songwriter Christa Wells is set to release her next album, Feed Your Soul, on August 13, 2013.   Feed Your Soul was recorded at Zodlounge Music in Nashville.   The album represents a departure from her past records:   from the title track’s horn lines to the driving kick drum and rhythmic hits…

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On July 30th, 2013 Pete Rock & Camp Lo will be releasing 80 Blocks From Tiffany’s Pt. II: a collaborative mixtape that mark’s Pete Rock’s inaugural foray into the mixtape game for the first time during his illustrious 20+year career. 80 Blocks From Tiffany’s Pt. II includes guest appearances from Ab-Soul, Talib Kweli, M.O.P., Uncle…

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Gypsy Jazz guitarist Robin Nolan’s new album Gypsy Blue will be released on July 30 via H.O.T. Records Ltd, the record label run by long-time Nolan musical admirer and friend, Dhani Harrison. Following a chance encounter with George Harrison’s former gardener, who introduced Nolan’s music to the Beatles legend, Nolan was invited to play at…

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On July 22, emerging UK-based artist Luke Bond will release his latest production ‘Holding On’ featuring the stunning vocals of Stephey on Garuda Music. ‘Holding On’ acts as a follow up to his last single on the label, ‘1Up,’ which was one of the 13 exclusive tracks on The Sound of Garuda: Chapter 3 mixed…

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