Category: NEWS

Norwegian Artist/Producer Savant, best known for his prodigious musical output, which now includes 80+ commercial releases and over 40 free downloads, and phenomenal musical range from EDM, Metal and Glitch all the way to classical piano, has released “Alchemist”, his fifth original album in 13 months, on 12/12/12. http://records.sectionz.com/album/alchemist

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Wrapping up their year with solid radio adds on their first single, “Howl,” Los Angeles-based trio Beware of Darkness is ready to take a couple weeks off before a special FM 94/9 Muse after-party in San Diego on January 21, 2013. http://youtu.be/ESt3W__GNJw The band just wrapped up their studio sessions with rock producer Dave Sardy…

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The video, directed by Dan Gotti and premiered today by AllHipHop, plays off the somber theme of the song and places Copy and Tage in front of purple sky as the two emcees trade bars back and forth, each opening up about their personal failures and successes. “I expect to win,” raps Tage. “To not…

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In celebration of the just-announced jaunt, THE SHRINE will issue a limited edition tour-only vinyl 7″ release which will include the new songs “Napalm” and “Hellride”.   Today, ESPN premieres the ripping “Napalm” AND a brand new Scion A/V-produced video interview with the band and original Black Flag bass player (and utter legend) Chuck Dukowski,…

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Jets Overhead has revealed the band’s latest video for “What You Really Want” on Rolling Stone today.   The single can be found on the band’s latest release, Boredom and Joy, which is available now. In the development of the video, the band wanted to put fans first.   The thought process behind the video…

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On Wednesday, Dec. 19, country star Kellie Pickler returned to the states from what was her sixth USO tour overseas to perform for U.S. troops as part of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey’s annual USO holiday tour.   Other celebrities that joined her on the seven-day, four-country tour throughout the…

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Fresh off a tour run with Cypress Hill, Sugar Tongue Slim connects with WWE rising stars, Prime Time Players, for an entertaining interview on Monday Night Raw. Slim recently wrote the duo’s new theme music “Making Moves”, available now on iTunes. Prime Time Player x STS Interview on YouTube: http://bit.ly/V9s0Q3

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Asia’s #1 girl group, Girls’ Generation, is set to make their official comeback on January 1st 2013! On December 20th, Girls’ Generation 2013 logo was revealed with the caption “2012. 12. 21 10 A.M.” through SMTOWN’s global Twitter, Facebook, and Weibo pages as well as NHN LINE app, which quickly garnered a lot of attention…

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Today they are back in their classic line-up plus Mandy Meyer and are stronger than ever on their new album, DIRTY DYNAMITE. The band spent a whole two years working on the new album under the watchful eye of Chris Von Rohr. ‘We didn’t spend all that time on golf courses or tennis courts. No,…

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“Hero Jr.’s album is a polished survey of modern rock that isn’t too quirky or too brutish to turn off mainstream listeners. Lead singer, Evan Haughey, sounds like Kings of Leon front man Caleb Followill when he’s worked up and going for broke. Hero Jr. has everything in its right place. Haughey’s guitar licks, which…

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The diminutive singing sensation from Down Under’s story is told in a new comic book “Female Force: Kylie Minogue”. Kylie’s colorful experiences are brought to life as we follow the star’s ups and downs. From capturing Australia’s hearts in “Neighbours” to the life & loves of a national treasure, and her brave struggle with cancer.…

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Sci-Fi Bass-Duo Captain Panic!’ just released their first full length album, The Invasion on the dawn of the Mayan Apocalypse, 12:01 am, 12/21/12. The guys have taken a fresh approach and made the album available as a FREE Download through their Facebook or Soundcloud profiles and is also available in Beatport & iTunes for purchase…

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Mikael Weermets doesn’t care about genres or BPMs–he just wants to continue his reign of big room beats and uplifting vocal anthems into the new year. Coming from the country that has produced some of the biggest names in electronic dance music, the 25-year-old Swede will kick off 2013 with his latest original, ‘Make Some…

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DJ Touré, the venerated DJ/producer for the Hieroglyphics crew, has had a very busy 2012; between running his Bay Area-based production company, 101% Music and producing songs for the likes of E-40, Dolla Will, and Erk Tha Jerk, it’s amazing that he had time to perfect his long-awaited new album, Touré’s Theory: Session One. Nevertheless,…

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It’s been nearly a year since the ever-grinning spectacle of FEED ME WITH TEETH graced North America, and this January, the striking, live audio/visual performance will chomp its way through cities across the United States once again, with added lights, lasers, and new music from the UK producer, FEED ME.   Jon Gooch personifies his…

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This week Stereogum highlighted Greys as a “Band to Watch” and premiered the track “Pill” from Drift, saying of the band’s sound, “It’s a masculine sound, a mean sound; it’s propulsive, pummeling, and often pretty exhilarating. It’s also a sound Greys have evolved to near-perfection over a relatively short lifespan.” Calling “Pill” an “addicting piece…

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Album track “All Of These Igloos” is a melancholic song with a sweet melody led by simple piano plucks. We shared the song as a FREE download with Refinery 29 recently and today you can check out the artsy video for the track which was directed by Matthew Robinson (JOGGER). The video, which features a…

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Paris modern metal outfit AS THEY BURN have announced that they will join JOB FOR A COWBOY, WAR FROM A HARLOTS MOUTH, BENEATH THE MASSACRE on the upcoming BONECRUSHER FEST that is taking over twenty-seven cities across Europe/ UK beginning March 1st, 2013.   See the full list of tour dates here. http://www.victoryrecords.com/tours/artist/astheyburn Vocalist Kevin…

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Samuel Cooper and Brady Keehn are Sunglasses, musicians whose art school backgrounds and mashup pop sensibilities combine to create something altogether unique.The duo met while in school at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Cooper was working on his senior thesis, a musical film noir, when a friend recommended that Keehn, a sound production…

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Digits aka Alt Altman has released a brand new video for his first single ‘Love is Only Affection’ off his Only Affection EP, set for a February 26th release. The video centers around an injured alien who crashes her spaceship on earth. “What seems to be killing her, though, is not the injury, but rather…

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When soon-to-be-renowned Boston hip-hop duo 7L & Esoteric collaborated with the Wu-Tang Clan’s Inspectah Deck on the title track to 7LES’s debut EP Speaking Real Words in 1999, the timing was perfect. The upstart duo was building a serious buzz on the East Coast and beyond, while Deck was still winning praise for his gold-selling…

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Two-time Academy Award ® winning composer, A.R. Rahman, will release a new music video and single called “Infinite Love” on December 18th.   The inspiring song and short film delivers a powerful message about how individuals can effect positive change in the world by tuning to one strong pure will.   Rahman brings this theme…

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LA-based trio Hello Echo has released a new stop-motion video for its song “Why Are We Waiting?” The claymation video was cleverly created by member Sean Aylward in the band’s practice space with his own tools and props. This fall, Hello Echo released their Coffee Cups EP, a quick mix of alternative, punk, surf, blues…

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Teen pop and R&B sensation, Mindless Behavior, proudly announce their first feature film, Mindless Behavior: All Around The World. The trailer is premiering today via the YouTube channel AwesomenessTV, and the full-length documentary & concert movie will be in theaters nationwide on March 15, 2013 exclusively through AMC Independent. Produced by leading YouTube channel AwesomenessTV,…

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Just in time for the holidays, Erin has shared a special track from last year’s anti-holiday album, F*ck That. The album is available via iTunes and other digital retailers, and from now until New Year’s, Erin will donate 20% of every purchase of F*ck That (CD, digital, hymnal, packaged, etc.) to Occupy Sandy as they…

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Rising R&B icon Josh Xantus shines bright like a diamond on “Bling Bling”, his newest track inspired by the Cash Money classic. Josh describes the inspiration behind the song: “This song ‘Bling Bling’ is an original Cash Money record. After hanging out with Birdman, Wayne, Slim and Cee Lo in the clubs in Miami, I…

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Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, Hawk and Dove is an indie rock band whose calm-before-the-storm sound has been described as the “loudest quiet band you have ever heard” and “the psychedelic country David Bowie never wrote.” On their forthcoming debut album, This Yesterday Will Never End, the band mixes hauntingly beautiful ballads with thunderous stoner grooves…

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Canadian hard rock lovers will soon get to experience the theatrical hard rock that is Incura when they tour their homeland in advance of the release of their debut self-titled album.   Incura has been confirmed for a headlining Canadian trek beginning in mid-January, 2013, which will also feature fellow countrymen Six Side Die and…

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Croatian cellists Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser, known as 2CELLOS are back with a new music video and a brand new album. The galactic themed music video for their second single is a flirtatious and “come-hither” version of Muse’s hit “Supermassive Black Hole” featuring Glee’s Naya Rivera on vocals as you’ve never seen nor heard…

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Excited to finally be able to share the January issue of Dazed & Confused with RiFF RAFF gracing the cover!   Check the link below for the gift that keeps on giving – the “12 Dazed of RiFF-mas”- and watch for his debut album coming on Mad Decent in 2013. SKOPE IT HERE!

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Singer, poet, songwriter, activist and composer Serj Tankian announced via his website that he has written the full musical score for the upcoming video game Morning Star. Industrial Toys, the studio producing the game, is set to release Morning Star in Spring of 2013, initially for iOS devices. “I’m really enjoying working on Morning Star…

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On Friday, December 28th, DJ BL3ND will be performing live from the Encore Event Center in New Jersey as part of his current U.S. tour, and thanks to http://Mixify.com, music fans from anywhere in the world will be able to tune in to experience his live set.   Mixify is a digital events platform, where…

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Yep Roc Records is excited to announce the March 5, 2013 release of the new Robyn Hitchcock album, Love From London. The record was produced and engineered by Paul Noble, and features Noble on bass, guitar, keyboards and vocals; Jenny Adejayan on cello and vocals; Lizzie Anstey on vocals and keyboards and Jenny Macro, Lucy…

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The Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Initiative hosts the only high school vocal academy and competition in the U.S. dedicated solely to the music from Broadway, Hollywood musicals and the Tin Pan Alley era of the early to mid-twentieth century. The Great American Songbook Vocal Academy and Competition has proven to be one of the…

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Atlanta’s flower punk forefathers Black Lips recently returned from a tour to the Middle East on a mission to prove their hypothesis that people everywhere can dance to the same backbeat. Eager to share their experiences and demonstrate that the chasm between our cultures is, indeed, bridgeable the band are presenting a number of multimedia…

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Today, Sneakas is excited to release his brand new FREE mixtape “There’s A Rapp For That,” featuring guest spots from Bishop Lamont, Boldy James, K-Salaam, Cole, Anise and more. Check out some links below including mixtape stream and download from Dat Piff and the “Animal Pharm” video, please share the news with your readers. Listen…

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Chicago/Minneapolis trio ON AN ON are excited to announce 2013 tour dates in support of their debut album Give In, out January 29th on Roll Call Records. They join San Francisco’s Geographer for the month of January, and finish with two headline gigs in NYC in early February. The band will then tour the UK…

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The official video for “Nabataea”, the first single from “Straight Out Of Hell”, the new album from German power metallers HELLOWEEN, can be seen below. The seven minute-plus composition about the legendary kingdom, located in today’s Middle East, where the first real democracy existed over 3000 years ago, develops on several levels, including 3-D animation…

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Mark Morrison, K.O. MCcoy and Young Buck deliver a brand new cover of the 80’s hit single “I Want To Be Your Man” by late funk artist Roger Troutman of Zapp. “Wanna Be Your Man 2.0” sees Morrison team with Allure Entertainment recording artist K.O MCcoy aka The Queen of Nashville, and former G-Unit emcee…

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