Multi-platinum, Grammy winning artist Alanis Morissette has announced her first North American tour dates in support of her highly anticipated new studio album, HAVOC AND BRIGHT LIGHTS, out August 28th (Collective Sounds/Sony RED). Produced by Joe Chiccarelli and Guy Sigsworth, HAVOC AND BRIGHT LIGHTS showcases Morissette at the top of her game lyrically and…
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MATTHEW KOMA ON TOUR WITH OWL CITY THIS FALL
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New York-bred singer and songwriter Matthew Koma hits the road on select dates supporting Owl City on tour this fall. Kicking off September 22, in San Diego at the House of Blues the twelve date run wraps up October 7th at Detroit’s Crofoot. Having already made a splash co-writing the hook…
THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE NEW ALBUM OCTOBER 9
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“We wanted Hide And Seek to have a certain depth and atmosphere, so we took time to create a lot of new sound textures that would complement the themes running throughout it,” explains Rainbow (guitars/programming/vocals) of Canadian synthrock band THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE about their new album (Metropolis Records; release date October 9, 2012). “In turn,…
WIRE: OUR LAST NIGHT STREAM NEW ALBUM
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In anticipation of their August 21st release, Our Last Night is streaming their defining album, Age of Ignorance in its entirety starting today. Produced by David Bendeth (Breaking Benjamin, Paramore, Set Your Goals), Our Last Night puts a focus on songwriting as a craft and the resulting achievement is 36 minutes of pure expression.…
TREY ANASTASIO’S UPCOMING SOLO ALBUM
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Traveler, Trey Anastasio’s forthcoming solo album, will be released on October 16 via Rubber Jungle Records / ATO Records. Anastasio co-produced the album with Peter Katis (The National, Interpol, Jónsi) last fall in Katis’ Tarquin Studios in Bridgeport, CT. “My goal was to create an album that used the studio as an instrument,” says Anastasio,…
WIRE: NOISEY PREMIERES VIDEO FOR VYBZ KARTEL’S “MY CREW”
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Today Vybz Kartel dropped the video for “My Crew”, a sun-soaked standout from his critically acclaimed album Kingston Story: Deluxe Edition being released on VICE Records/Mixpak, also out today. Watch the video here (it’s tropical, but by no means a vacation): SKOPE IT HERE!
BEAST PATROL POST “PLASTER”
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Brooklyn-based Beast Patrol are excited to release the first MP3, “Plaster,” off their forthcoming debut EP Fierce & Grateful. The band is releasing the EP September 25 via their label Space Camp Radio Records. You can hear “Plaster” here.: http://soundcloud.com/beastpatrol/plaster For Beast Patrol – Vanessa Bley, Robert Granata and Anthony Marchesi – …
ALEX CLARE “TOO CLOSE” GOES PLATINUM
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Alex Clare rose to prominence as the soundtrack for Microsoft’s blockbuster Internet Explorer 9 Ad, “A More Beautiful Web,” directed by Keith Rivers. The Internet Explorer team has focused on celebrating the artists that bring the web to life, that bring — beauty to the web. The power of Alex Clare’s “Too Close”…
PEACHES LAUNCHES CHANGE.ORG PETITION IN SUPPORT OF PUSSY RIOT
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Peaches has launched a petition in support of the Russian conceptual art punk activist band Pussy Riot on the social action website Change.org. The petition has acquired over 85,000 signatures in just five days and is available for signature at www.change.org/freepussyriot. In March 2012, Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, three members of Pussy…
WIRE: JESUS CHILD MAG TO BE STOCKED BY WHSMITHS
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Jesus Child magazine (formerly known as ‘I Love Christian Music’ has become the first Christian magazine for all sexes and denominations to be stocked by WH Smiths. It is also the first ever Christian music/lifestyle magazine with international coverage, being available to buy at selected newsagents and WH Smiths across the UK and also at…
KOOL KEITH NEW VIDEO “WHO’S THE MAN”
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Nearly two months ago, hip-hop’s favorite quirky uncle, Kool Keith, hinted that he would be stepping away from the rap arena, that he was hanging up the MC gloves, or as he so poignantly put it, going home to the bat cave to take his cape off. This announcement accompanied the release of Love &…
HUNDRED WATERS ANNOUNCE SIGNING WITH OWSLA
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The Avant-Pop quintet, Hundred Waters, announce their signing with three-time Grammy winner Skrillex’s OWSLA label. Hundred Waters is an artistic collective comprised of two women, three men, and one house, in which most of their creation happens. Being nothing like the label has signed before, OWSLA continues to show its ever morphing and…
DOCTOR P TO RELEASE “GALAXIES & STARS” EP SEPTEMBER 9TH
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Doctor P, co-founder of Circus Records (with close friend and compatriot Flux Pavilion), proudly announces the release of “Galaxies & Stars feat. Ce’Cile”, a banger featuring familiar reworked elements from classics by Blondie and Ini Kamoze, on September 9th on Big Beat in the UK and America. His second release in just 6 months, “Galaxies…
ROBERT GLASPER ANNOUNCES OCT. 9 RELEASE
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Robert Glasper’s breakout year heads into a busy autumn with the keyboardist announcing the October 9 release of Black Radio Recovered: The Remix EP. The 6-track EP, which was produced by Glasper, features remixed and previously unreleased tracks from his acclaimed album Black Radio. The remixers include Glasper himself, as well as ?uestlove, 9th Wonder,…
CALLERS TO TOUR WITH WYE OAK
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This September, Callers are hitting the road with Wye Oak for a string of North American tour dates in what is the first series of live performances to celebrate the release of their new album, Reviver. Out October 9th on Partisan, the record bursts with charisma, highlighted by its bold instrumentation and the unmistakable electricity…
MY MORNING JACKET NEW VIDEO “OUTTA MY SYSTEM”
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After falling through a hole into a psychedelic, animated, one-eyed dimension in space, My Morning Jacket share their new video for “Outta My System” featuring Zach Galifanakis as the wizard. Click HERE to check out the video, directed by James Frost (Radiohead, Coldplay), which just premiered on VEVO and Pitchfork. [youtube oPYQHQ4-kKo] My Morning Jacket…
BIG BLACK DELTA TO RELEASE NEW TOUR EP
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Big Black Delta today announced the upcoming release of a new four track TOUR EP. The digital only EP, due out on August 21st, celebrates Big Black Delta’s new tour with Jane’s Addiction. TOUR EP will be Big Black Delta’s second release of the summer after last month’s “Ifuckingloveyou” (Remixes) EP and available at iTunes…
ENGLAND’S THE MOONS “DOUBLE VISION LOVE”
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London-based quintet by way of Northampton in the Midlands — whip up their own incandescent style of 60’s psychedelic pop sounds, underpinned with a timeless British tunesmith sensibility. Fronted by singer, songwriter and guitarist Andy Crofts, the band — James Bagshaw (guitar), Ben Gordelier (drums), Thomas Van Heel (keyboards) and Thomas Warmsley (bass guitar)…
WE ARE THE WOODS WELCOME AUTUMN WITH A NEW ALBUM
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New York City musicians We Are The Woods are readying the release of Whales & Roses produced by Jeremy Sklarsky (producer of Freelance Whales debut album Weathervanes.) [vimeo 43535541] Combining Simon and Garfunkle-like harmonies with the wild horse spirit (and mane) of Robert Plant, invoking the evocative lyrical precision of Emily Dickinson. The celestial voices…
WIRE: THE COUP TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM
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Revolutionary musical collective The Coup will release their new album Sorry To Bother You this October 30th via Anti- Records. The Coup consists of vocalist-writer and activist Boots Riley accompanied by a versatile cadre of musicians. To listen to the albums opening track care of Huffington Post, please go to: SKOPE IT HERE! Sorry…
ISLAND RECORDS/ISLAND DEF JAM NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH PHOTO FINISH
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As the Island Def Jam Music Group continues to expand opportunities for artists to develop and thrive, the company has entered into a worldwide joint-venture partnership with Matt Galle’s Photo Finish Records. The announcement was made today by Barry Weiss, Chairman & CEO of Island Def Jam Motown and Universal Republic, and Mr. Galle. …
THE FBI VS ICP & THE JUGGALOS
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Speaking to their fans and media on the site of their 13th annual “Gathering of the Juggalos” music festival, the Insane Clown Posse expressed concern for the well-being of their fan base, which was labeled a “gang” by The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Gang Intelligence Center’s 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment. To that end,…
VICTOR WOOTEN TO RELEASE TWO NEW CDS
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Five-time Grammy-winning musician Victor Wooten, best known for his work on bass guitar with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Stanley Clarke, Dave Matthews and more, will release two new CDs on his own VIX Records on September 25, 2012. Continuing in his unique fashion of delivering musical innovation and thought-provoking compositions, Wooten will deliver Words…
IS THERE STILL MONEY IN THE MUSIC BIZ?
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Yes, there’s still money. History has shown us, whether through a recession or unemployment, people still want to find a way to escape through music and entertainment. People will still pay money to go to live shows, get their favorite single, EP or album, and if you have an artist with a great following, and…
CORY CHISEL AND THE WANDERING SONS JOIN NORAH JONES ON TOUR
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Cory Chisel And The Wandering Sons join Norah Jones on tour beginning tonight at the Santa Barbara Bowl. They continue on throughout the Western United States including stops at the legendary Hollywood Bowl and Red Rocks Amphitheater and a stop at San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival. The Wisconsin native joins the GRAMMY winning Jones in…
GOODNIGHT, TEXAS SONG PREMIER ON AMERICAN SONGWRITER
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The ghost town of Goodnight, Texas sits halfway between the homes of San Francisco’s Avi Vinocur and Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s Patrick Dyer Wolf, whose transcontinental collaboration has taken on the name of its geographic midpoint. After meeting in San Francisco and learning each other’s melodies, the pair of songwriters found their stylistic midpoint amidst…
PATRICK WOLF CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF MAKING MUSIC
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Patrick Wolf is celebrating 10 years of making music with the release of the double-album, Sundark & Riverlight, featuring re-recordings of songs from Wolf’s entire catalogue, out September 25 on Bloody Chamber Music/Essential Music. In conjunction with the release, Wolf will be embarking on a world tour, kicking off in London at The Old Vic…
TALL ANIMALS GO FOR VIRAL GOLD WITH OLYMPIC INSPIRED VIDEO
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Chicago’s emerging electronic group Tall Animals are generating monumental buzz with their new Olympic inspired video for their song, “KINGS.” The video, which has been shared by over 60 Olympic athletes over the past week, is on it’s way to viral gold as word spreads around the world. [youtube kMuViSF_-cU] The video for “KINGS”…
WIRE: LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY OFFERS “SOUL MAN” ON ROLLING STONE
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Master Piece is the new full-length album from renowned dub-reggae pioneer, Lee “Scratch” Perry, with some songs first introduced in 2010 on a ground-breaking EP in their “unfinished” state. Produced by Born Free and The Next Room, the album features ten tracks employing some of the techniques of the Mad Professor but with a distinctly…
BLAAK HEAT SHUJAA SIGNS TO TEE PEE
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Buzzworthy French-American psych rockers BLAAK HEAT SHUJAA have signed with NYC’s Tee Pee Records. Formed in 2008 in Paris, France, BLAAK HEAT SHUJAA promptly established themsleves as the ‘young Turks’ of European heavy psychedelia and boast a cinematic sound that has been called “Heavy Spaghedelia” and “Kyussian”, featuring “psychedelic, meditative, trance-inducing” and “spacey atmospheres”. Now…
PIVOTSHARE TO ESTABLISH SELF-SERVICE DIGIAL MEDIA
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Pivotshare, a digital media startup, announced today that the company has closed one million dollars in Series A funding. This round of funding allows Pivotshare to further establish a self-service solution that gives anyone the ability to monetize and stream their video and audio content across leading devices. Pivotshare’s product fills a gap in the…
WIRE: REDD KROSS NEW VIDEO ON SPIN
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Today at Spin.com, Redd Kross premiered the new video for “Stay Away from Downtown” from their first new album in 15 years Researching the Blues which will be in stores tomorrow. Directed by Jeff McDonald and Dave Markey, the video for “Stay Away from Downtown” features a look that Jeff describes as “beat club meets…
THE PRESETS PREMIERE THEIR NEW SINGLE
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The Presets revealed their new single “Ghosts”, from their forthcoming album Pacifica (out digitally on September 10 and in stores the 11th via Casablanca). The single will be available on iTunes August 21. Stream the track and watch the sunrise here! [youtube LDbV1y5iaE8] After the “face-melting techno” of the street track “Youth in Trouble”,…
JAYTECH PROMO VIDEO FOR NEW ALBUM
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Jaytech’s second full-length Multiverse, available August 13 on the renowned Anjunabeats imprint, is a lush journey through multiple styles of electronic music, progressive vibes mixed with classy, peak-time anthems. Following up on 2008’s classic Everything Is OK (“a crossover gem” – DJ Mag), Multiverse takes his sound into the main room, while still retaining all…
JOHN HAMPSON OF NINE DAYS OFFERS UP A POP COMMENTARY ON THE RECESSION
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The Create Jobs for USA program provides capital grants to select Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs). The CDFIs will provide loans to underserved community businesses, which include small businesses, microenterprises, nonprofit organizations, commercial real estate, and affordable housing. The goal of Create Jobs for USA is to bring people and communities together to create and…
OFFICIAL VIDEO MONO “LEGEND”
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MONO have released a video for the previously unheard album opener “Legend” from their forthcoming album For My Parents. The 12 minute epic is paired with unimaginably gorgeous time-lapse photography of Icelandic landscapes by celebrated nature photographer/filmmaker Henry Juh Wah Sun. [youtube usHC-O1BPCM]
WIRE: 12 STONES/REVOLVERMAG.COM STREAM THE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACK
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Louisiana hard rock quartet, 12 Stones, has teamed up with RevolverMag.com to stream a previously unreleased track, “Picture Perfect.” The song originally surfaced as part of the 12 Stones “Take Down Hunger” charity campaign through Groupees.com. In conjunction with Feed Them With Music, 12 Stones offered a name-your-price digital bundle of dozens of songs, including…
STARS PREMIERE “HOLD ON WHEN YOU GET LOVE AND LET GO WHEN YOU GIVE IT”
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Stars have premiered the track “Hold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give it” from their highly anticipated album The North, out September 4 via ATO Records. Listen to the soaring anthem on Pitchfork or the band’s SoundCloud page. “Hold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give…
GRATEFUL DEAD TAKES OVER THE WARNER SOUND SPOTIFY APP
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In honor of what would have been Jerry Garcia’s 70th birthday, the Grateful Dead took over The Warner Sound app on Spotify on August 1. The Grateful Dead takeover will run through the end of “The Days Between,” which is the annual celebration of Garcia’s life that runs from his birthday (August 1) to the…
JOHN BUTLER RELEASES LIVE SOLO TWO DISC SET
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On August 7, to celebrate 12 years of touring and playing the song “Ocean,” John Butler will issue an official video of the fan favorite and give away a revelatory re-recording of the cherished track, tying into his latest live double-disc release, Tin Shed Tales (Jarrah Records). The stunning performance-style video of “Ocean” will be…
