Category: NEWS

Late night powerhouse Jimmy Kimmel Live! And the recently launched Myspace kicked off its yearlong collaboration   to livestream concerts to fans’ bedrooms, kicking it all off with Empire Of The Sun’s mini-concert directly following the band’s on-air performance yesterday. https://myspace.com/jimmykimmellive/live/empire-of-the-sun-concert-live/3 The recently relaunched Myspace and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live are teaming up for a…

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In this week’s episode of The Paradise Series, experience an all-day all-access pass and go behind the scenes with Cody Simpson at his LA show of The Paradise Tour. Check out surprise appearances from JUSTIN BIEBER and ASHER ROTH. Stay tuned for new episodes of “The Paradise Series” following Cody through his everyday life while…

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Caught somewhere between the dream world, a lover’s embrace, a dazzling cosmic galaxy, a spooky subconscious and sex-rumpled satin sheets exists this mesmerizing video for PANTyRAiD’s “That’s The Spot” and “Jokes From The Backseat”, a mashup of two songs off their new LP PillowTalk (May 28, Glass Air Records). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv2PsLjETpM

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California native Robby Armstrong’s debut single, “Rodeo,” is currently at Country radio.   Written by Armstrong and Darrell Brown, the toe-tapping track is Robby’s first single from his forthcoming 2013 full-length album, which is additionally produced by Brown (LeAnn Rimes, Ty Herndon, Radney Foster).   Robby has three songs, including “Rodeo” in the upcoming feature…

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U.K. singer/songwriter Jamie N Commons will head back to the U.S. this summer for a string of west coast tour dates. First stop will be a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on August 5th (ABC, 11:35pm/10:35c) followed by a show in Denver, CO at Soiled Dove on August 6th. Jamie N Commons west coast dates…

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On Monday, REVERB, a non-profit focused on making music tours more environmentally sustainable, launched 2013’s “Last Summer on Earth” tour at the Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie, Texas. The tour features Barenaked Ladies, Guster, and Ben Folds Five. Each of the concert venues will include an interactive and educational “Eco-Village” with tents where music fans…

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Traditional music and dance drawn from communities across the United States will be showcased on the historic Coolidge Auditorium stage at the Library of Congress throughout the summer. The popular “Homegrown: The Music of America” concert series is presented by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in cooperation with the Kennedy Center…

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“There are many fast guitar players in the world but here is a list of the fastest of them all. The Great Kat is the sixth fastest guitar player in the world and her real name is Katherine Thomas. She plays Guitar and Violin.” – Graphs.net http://www.graphs.net/201306/fastest-guitar-players-in-the-world-infographic.html http://www.greatkat.com

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The Dynamic Duo is back. Rasco & Planet Asia New video from their forthcoming album “King Kong Godzilla”. First official single “Never Left” Produced by Agallah. Video Directed, Filmed and edited by Rasco for Swannworks Films 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JUE2omcMRg

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With the remixes to ‘Skylarking’ still sitting at the top of the charts (Ilan Bluestone’s has remained at #1 on Beatport’s trance top 100 for almost a week), respected DJ and producer BT has set the bar high for his ninth artist album A Song Across Wires. Releasing on Armada Music on August 16, A…

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North Carolina duo, Eros and the Eschaton have announced their debut album, Home Address For Civil War will arrive in stores August 13 on Bar/None Records. The band has premiered the first single off the record, “Heaven Inside”, via ConsequenceofSound.net. In addition, Eros and the Eschaton have announced a slew of upcoming tour dates, including…

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X, one of the leaders of the L.A. punk-rock movement, announce plans to join their east coast comrades, BLONDIE, as a Special Guest on their fall U.S. “No Principals Tour”.     Set to kick off September 5th, the bands will hit U.S cities including Atlantic City, Washington, DC, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, Houston, Dallas,…

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Culture Reject began as the pop experiment of Toronto’s multi-instrumentalist Michael O’Connell. The self-titled debut on Whitewhale Records introduced his fresh collection of prose-induced, 60’s soul inspired, lo-fi pop songs soon to be characterized as “epitomizing the boldness of the new Canadian sound.” Much of the attention came from the underground hit “Inside the Cinema”…

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Seattle quartet La Luz immediately brings to mind the girl groups of the ‘50s and ‘60s. The immaculate four-part harmonies, the luscious layers of reverb, the occasional choreographed dance move, even the band’s penchant for oldies-style artwork–it all conjures images of beehived ladies singing sweetly on grainy black-and-white television. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15566-la-luz-brainwash/

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Farm Aid announced today that its annual benefit concert will return to the Northeast on Saturday,Sept. 21, taking place at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. “In New York and across the Northeast, family farmer sare pioneering change in our farm and food system. This region has strong agricultural roots and…

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When standing alone, who do you hold in the back of your mind? Oakland hip-hop duo Main Attrakionz keeps its kinfolk close in their newest video. “My life is crazy but my family is usual,” raps Squadda B, explaining how he stays bonded to his extended circle through the insanity. Tynethys, a Sacramento producer who…

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Rebellious, antagonistic, authentic, counter-culture; Sounds like electronic music before EDM came along. But for some spectrums of dance culture these are still the abiding principles. This Fall, America will welcome back the misfits and beat junkies as Q-dance, the world’s premier hard dance brand, returns.   Last year Q-dance was the biggest story at EDC…

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The video for the new Pet Shop Boys single ‘Vocal’ is now available on VEVO here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNR8gQAoYCs. This short film has been produced and directed by the filmmaker and photographer, Joost Vandeburg. He has created it using authentic amateur film footage shot at various raves in the late 80s, along with some footage from the…

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El Sportivo & the Blooz’s “The Night’s So Cold” video, directed by Theo Anthony, is premiering at SPIN: http://go.spin.com/1alIHyo. The track, from the band’s new album Nights & Weekends, also appears on the official soundtrack of Marc Maron’s new hit IFC show “Maron” (out June 18 on White Iris Records) and was recently featured in…

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From A Fountain aka Douglas Kirby has announced the release of his sophomore album, Milky Mile, out August 20 – the first of two albums due in 2013. In conjunction first single, “Halo”, premiered today on The Wild Honey Pie. http://www.thewildhoneypie.com/from-a-fountains-savory-new-track-halo-premiere/ From A Fountain originally started in Philadelphia where Kirby played in the band National…

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Formed in the summer of 2012 through a merging of various musical projects (essentially solo artist Pete Hickman recruiting a series of band members around him), you may know them as Pete Hickman and the Divers. Now just ‘The Divers’, the boys have been cutting their teeth, the old-fashioned way, playing notable shows with bands…

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Brooklyn-based Cold Blood Club is a gang of musicians, 7-members-strong, who have been conquering the New York Indie dance scene one packed venue at a time since they debuted their edgy blend of soul, rock, and pop in the summer of 2011. Now, Cold Blood Club, who has been hailed as “almost too catchy for…

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BEACH’s new full-length album, In Us We Trust is an indie-electro rock project fronted by Karen Mould — the artist also known as Bitch — and her electric violin. We recently released album cut, “Ibuprofen,” which is an immediately anthemic break-up song featuring a biting rap chorus and distorted vocal layers. Today, we reveal the…

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Multi-platinum recording artist Gavin DeGraw has released his new single “Best I Ever Had” today via iTunes, Amazon.com and all digital providers. Co-written by Gavin DeGraw and Martin Johnson, and produced by Johnson, “Best I Ever Had” is the first single from DeGraw’s forthcoming highly-anticipated fourth studio album to be released later this year.  …

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JASON CHARLES MILLER is an accomplished and multi-faceted performer, with more than two decades of professional experience as a musician, songwriter, actor and voice over personality. Featured in magazines such as Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Guitar World, and on television stations like MTV, MTV2, Fuse and VH1, JASON CHARLES MILLER is touted by many critics…

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Boston’s hidden gem, Plumerai, have released their new album ‘Mondegreen’ on independent labels Darushka-4 / Silber Records.   The album consists of ten songs and features the introduction of new vocalist Eliza Brown.   The genre-bending band never settled on just being post-punk revivalists and with the addition of a jazz influenced vocalists, Plumerai have…

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Grammy Award winners Jars of Clay are readying their eleventh studio album Inland, produced by Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, Beth Orton, The Decemberists) and mixed by Beau Sorenson and Jacquire King. The album is due August 27th on their own Gray Matters label with distribution through Tone Tree. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inland-by-jars-of-clay-free-mp3-20130617

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Balthazar Getty has recently released the video for the Solardrive bonus track “Be Alright.” The video made it’s internet debut accompanied by an interview with Getty about his new project, Solardrive, courtesty of the Huffington Post. Getty describes the song as “Being who you are and being where your from. Its a feeling song.”  …

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Entertainment Weekly called maverick R&B auteur Swamp Dogg “a one of a kind musical genius.” England’s The Guardian dubbed him “the soul genius that time forgot.” Allmusicguide.com described him as “one of the great cult figures of 20th century American music.” Mojo magazine noted, “He’s made some of the maddest, funny, baddest, odd, angry, funkiest…

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The fact that Quentin Stoltzfus hasn’t released a record since Mazarin’s We’re Already There (2005) borders on absurd, but know this: over the last seven years somewhere between producing albums for friends, pulling hours as a professional mover, and building a world class recording studio Quentin wrote, re-wrote, recorded and re-recorded an album we couldn’t…

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“My main inspiration for this video was trying to create a visual novel or book,” Jahzel explains, “We wanted to really give a look of someone who was locked in a room, and has gone mad writing pages upon pages of stories.” The song’s introspective and deeply personal lyrics lent to a visual style that…

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ZUUS Media, the network operating ZUUS – the new groundbreaking multi-channel music video network with reach across TV, Web, connected TV and Mobile devices, announces the acquisition of The Country Network (TCN) and its rebrand to ZUUS Country. The new ZUUS Country network will continue to be programed and operate from the former TCN’s Nashville,…

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Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician John Mayer released “Paper Doll” today, the first single from his forthcoming Paradise Valley. Mayer first shared news of a new album through his tumblr blog on May 2.   John is currently in the studio finishing the album, which he and longtime collaborator Don Was are producing. Was…

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Kings of Leon, The Flaming Lips, Jackson Browne, Built to Spill and special guests will perform at the Chesapeake Energy Arena on Tuesday, July 23, 2013. Tickets for this very special musical event will go on sale this Friday, June 14th at 10 am online via ticketmaster.com or by phone at 1.800.745.3000. Losses from these…

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Matt Nathanson has announced his North American tour with special guest Joshua Radin beginning this fall. The string of dates, kicking off on September 20th in Portland, OR at the Crystal Ballroom includes stops in Los Angeles, CA at the Wiltern Theater October 3rd; Oakland, CA at the Fox Theater October 4th and New York’s…

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Groundbreaking musician and filmmaker Rob Zombie will unleash his Great American Nightmare on Los Angeles this Halloween season. This bone-chilling experience will combine the most advanced haunted house attractions with a not-to-be-missed music festival from top artists in hard rock, alternative, EDM, and more, every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from October 10 through November…

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On 6-18-2013 Tona will be releasing his debut project, Silverspring Crescent, which is produced in its entirety by Rich Kidd. “Silverspring Crescent is actually the name of a street in the borough (Scarborough) where I am from (Toronto) so I named the LP that to show the world exactly who I am and where I…

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In anticipation of their brand new full length album, Florida-based psychedelic space rock trio Sons Of Hippies will premiere a new single and video “Rose” on the music & culture website MXDWN.com this Monday, June 17th. “Rose” is the second single from the Hippies’ new album, Griffons At The Gates Of Heaven, mixed by Jack…

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Breakout Australian band Atlas Genius are pleased to announce a Fall 2013 Headlining “Ones to Watch” North American Tour. Special guests will include Family Of The Year and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. and The Colourist, who will open on select dates as noted on the itinerary below. Ticket pre-sales begin tomorrow, June 18, at 10am…

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Hot 107.9/Atlanta’s Mz. Shyneka caught up with Drake backstage at Birthday Bash 18 after he smashed the stage with 2 Chainz! Drake’s surprise appearance had the Philips Arena going so crazy, that some fans were even crying! Watch Drake backstage and see what he had to say about Birthday Bash, 2 Chainz, acting and his…

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