It’s a good thing that the semi-reclusive Carly Jamison took the urging of producer Tres Sasser, and brought her internet-only songs to disc form. The first thing that grabs you is the vocal delivery. Jamison’s deep, sultry vocals are the likes of Melissa Etheridge meets Patti Smith. The next thing that grabs you is the…
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THE ROCKIN VIBES OF DOUG RATNER
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The “essence” of the band is to play honest, hard-driven, intense rock n’ roll. We have no reason to be cryptic with lyrics, obtuse with our fashion, or different in our methodology. Rock n’ roll is a powerful force that seems to be lying dormant somewhere in both mainstream and indie-type audiences. We know it’s…
RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE, MAY 2011
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Mark Wonder, True Stories of Mark Wonder (Groove Attack Records) This to-date retrospective of the Jamaica-born reggae guy begins with the not-really-representatively-poppy “So Long” as guested by Luciano, whose turn is more unplugged-Big Mountain-like than anything else on here, which, in the main, sticks to the roots, ganja-puff skank to rasta-babbling hard stuff to tourist-trap…
MTV RADIO’S MORNING FACTS FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 28th, 2011
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KATY PERRY “SUPERSTAR OF THE WEEK” ON ABDC Katy Perry is the latest artist to be honored on MTV’s Randy Jackson Presents America’s Best Dance Crew, as the “Superstar of the Week.” Only seven crews remain as they perform their original choreography to one of Katy’s hottest hits. See which crews make the…
NEW ALBUM BY JOHN PAUL KEITH IN JUNE 2011
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John Paul Keith is a blistering guitarist and singer, and the kind of songwriter who makes great melodies and incredible lyrics sound effortless. His new album The Man That Time Forgot will be released on June 21st on Big Legal Mess via Fat Possum Records. Produced by Fat Possum’s Bruce Watson, it captures the spirit…
STOLI PREMIERES ANDREW JACKSON NEW VIDEO “ENOUGH BLOOD TO KEEP EM COMING”
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Does this Friday get any better. The weather is perfect, the Red Sox opening day is here, and Andrew Jackson has asked Stoli to premiere his video for “Enough Blood To Keep Em Coming.” If you are into zombies like I am then you are in for a treat. This track is off Andrew’s album,…
MEHRAN SHOWS STOLI THE POWER OF THE FLAMENCO GUITAR
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I know I need to stick to music but I am freaking out that Japan is dumping radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. I know they have no other options but jeez! Sometimes I just want to lock myself in my basement with cans of food, water, and the soothing & relaxing CD by Mehran.…
WHISKEY MYERS NEW ALBUM APRIL 26
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Outlaw Country and Southern Rock outfit Whiskey Myers is releasing their raw but righteous sophomore album, titled Firewater, on April 26. Led by vocalist Cody Cannon and the twin guitars of John Jeffers and Cody Tate, Whiskey Myers has emerged as one of the Lone Star State’s hottest musical exports with their 2011 effort. …
DAVE ALVIN TO RELEASE NEW STUDIO ALBUM
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Yep Roc Records has announced the upcoming release of Dave Alvin’s new studio album titled Eleven Eleven on June 21st. Eleven Eleven, described as the “King of California’s” most driving, electric blues and rock oriented album since 2004’s critically acclaimed Ashgrove, includes 11-tracks, for the first time in his career, written and recorded on the…
D. CHARLES SPEER & THE HELIX DEBUTS 2 MP3’S FROM NEW ALBUM
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D. Charles Speer, also known as Dave Shuford of the No Neck Blues Band, is a dynamic player fluent in many styles, a fact willfully demonstrated in two dramatically different records hitting the shelves. Arghiledes, his latest solo effort, is an attempt at working within the Greek tradition of hasiklidika, hashish songs which spilled from…
Red Weather, Every Alleyway
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Over the years we’ve seen punk, hard rock & even alternative rock bands slowly erode into over-commercialized, corporate puppet shows. Talking to many music fans out there, the response is overwhelming. Give me something new, something fresh & fun. Something that doesn’t sound like — well Nikelback. Give me band that dishes out good old…
Dan and Faith, Dreaming of Another Path
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Dan and Faith Senie are a husband & wife duo who have come full circle to create this debut album. 20 years in the making, ‘Dreaming of Another Path’ represents all the hard work that Dan & Faith contributed to this project. One amazing aspect is that although Faith has played piano in…
GREGG ALLMAN ANNOUNCES SOLO TOUR DATES
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Rounder Records is excited to announce the first leg of Gregg Allman tour dates since the triumphant release of the universally acclaimed Low Country Blues, which Rolling Stone called an “eerie pleasure” in its lead review, and the Los Angeles Times called “haunting” and “harrowing.” Low Country Blues is the first solo record in 14…
Bright Lights, Bright Eyes, Illumination at The Tabernacle
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Conor Oberst has come a long way from the early cassette recordings of a sensitive boy with a wavering voice and a knack for poetic storytelling. He has grown up both emotionally and musically and has also become quite the confident stage performer.
MARCH 2011 SONICBIDS “ARTISTS 2 WATCHâ€
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Welcome to another amazing month of music from the incredible musicians that make up the Sonicbids.com community. We have chose a select group of amazing musicians that will be speaking directly to the Skope readers. As always we encourage readers to dig deeper and check out their EPK’s.
G. LOVE DEBUTS AT #1 ON ITUNES ROCK CHARTS
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G. Love’s new country blues album, Fixin’ To Die, debuted at #1 on the iTunes Rock chart and has reached the #35 spot on this week’s Billboard Top 200 Chart with 11,834 units sold in the first week. Radio stations across the country are responding well to the first single, “Fixin’ To Die,”…
DEPUI: FROM COURT JESTER TO MODERN DAY MINSTREL
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Bent Ivar Depui Tversland can trace his lineage back to the royal courts of France where a presumed ancestor named Depui served as court jester. As the tale goes, eventually the king’s fool was banished from not only the court, but the entire country due to certain improprieties. And while Bent may be carrying on…
THE BEST OF CHICAGO’S MODERN MUSIC LEGACY COME TOGETHER AS CANDY GOLDE
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With more than 100 years of accumulated rock ‘n’ roll history as a foundation, Candy Golde is the Midwestern musical collaboration of Nicholas Tremulis, Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick) John Stirratt (Wilco) and Rick Rizzo (Eleventh Dream Day). The distinctive blend of blues groove, power pop, Americana and alternative shows itself in the self-titled…
BEN HARPER’S ‘GIVE TILL IT’S GONE’ SCHEDULED FOR MAY 17
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On May 17th, Virgin Records will release Give Till It’s Gone, Ben Harper’s 10th studio album. The two-time GRAMMY winner will headline a trio of festivals this spring: Bluesfest in Australia, GrassRoots, the New Zealand Blues & Roots All Music Festival, and the Wakarusa Festival in Ozark, AR. The pre-sale for his upcoming shows in…
SIDEWAYS REIGN HEAD ON TOUR MARCH 2 / MP3
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Sideways Reign, based in Union, Washington, is a band representative of the artistic sensibilities of the masses. They’re your local barkeep, the hard-hat wearing construction worker, or the ice cream maker on the corner; on and off stage they remain the approachable, everyday guys you grab a beer with after work. In the same sense…
The Wolfe Gang, Read The Fine Print
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Right away I’m intrigued by the title of this band and album; The Wolfe Gang, ‘Read The Fine Print’–hmm…wonder what this will be about? Definitely a good start just for the fact that I’m highly interested in this group and their new record before I’ve even heard anything. Wondering if there will be…
EVA AINE: SINGING ACROSS THE CONTINENTS
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Singer and songwriter Eva Aine was born in Seattle and raised both there and in Japan. Her musical gifts began developing in high school where she studied classical voice and then Southern Japanese tradtional music. With a five octave range and looking like a classic beauty, Eva is making her mark across the continents.
James Evans, ZepOcean
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If you like group-oriented instrumentals that focus on the almighty guitar then you should love this album. The artist’s name is James Evans and his new project is called ZepOcean. Hmmm…wonder if the title has anything to do with the legendary band Led Zeppelin and they’re song “The Ocean” off of ‘Houses of the Holy’???…
STEVE MILLER BAND TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM
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Following the success of last year’s number one blues album, BINGO!, which was recently nominated as ‘Blues Rock Album of the Year’ by the Blues Foundation, The Steve Miller Band return with yet another new offering, Let Your Hair Down, which lands in stores April 19 on Miller’s Space Cowboy Records in partnership with Roadrunner/Loud…
ICE BLACK BIRDS FREE MP3 OF SINGLE “22:22”
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Forthcoming third single ‘22:22’ is, in short, a tune. However, Ice Black Birds’ talents lie not just in catchy hooks and danceable beats (though they have both in spades) but in the dirty guttural guitar riffs and screamed bluesy vocals. It’s reminiscent of early Kings of Leon when the music was raw, fresh and dripping…
FEBRUARY 2011 SONICBIDS “ARTISTS 2 WATCHâ€
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Welcome to another amazing month of music from the incredible musicians that make up the Sonicbids.com community. We have chose a select group of amazing musicians that will be speaking directly to the Skope readers. As always we encourage readers to dig deeper and check out their EPK’s.
RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE, FEBRUARY 2011
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Scott Holt, Kudzu (Gracetone Entertainment) I can allow for vanity releases (the press blurb is that this is the record company’s first release), and I can deal with someone wanting to take some of John Cougar’s pie (if there is any — know anyone who bought the latest John Cougar, I mean Mellencamp, album?). …
Various Artists, Daddy Rockin’ Strong: A Tribute To Nolan Strong and the Diablos
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Lou Reed was definitely onto something when he proclaimed “If I could really sing, I’d be Nolan Strong.” While Daddy Rockin’ Strong doesn’t feature any of Strong’s original doo-wop and Detroit-based R&B, what it does contain is a slew of talented artists doing justice to Strong’s classics. Strong has always remained something of an enigma…
Laura Roppe, I’m Still Here
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Laura is an artist who is not holding back and letting it all hang out (not literally of course–lol) on her new release. What I mean is that Roppe is offering up an invigorating style & presence that will be hard to ignore. With infectious rhythms, wonderful harmony and an overall sound that…
‘THE VERY BEST OF THE RAT PACK’ LISTENING PARTY
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Iconic entertainers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr.–the Rat Pack, a sheer force of nature on stage and film that defined suave masculine brio in the early 1960s. To commemorate this legendary act, Reprise Records will release an essential collection: THE VERY BEST OF THE RAT PACK on January 25.
RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE, JANUARY 2011
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Goose, Symrise (K7 Records) Being that this Belgian electro-rock quartet’s 2006 debut album Bring It On had plenty-enough comparisons to Depeche Mode, it’s a mystery why they decided to force-feed themselves Speak & Spell every morning on the commute to the sessions for this album. But then again, like everything else from everyone else…
The North Lakes, Cobra
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As a cold wind rushes through the night’s darkest hour, Charlottetown’s The North Lakes inhabit my stereo, balancing apocalyptic blues-folk with an East Coast/garage rock hybrid. Though the wind howls without reprise, the forecast is calling for sun tomorrow morning. And therein lies the manner in which Cobra, the debut from The North Lakes tantalizes…
MTV RADIO’S MORNING FACTS FOR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16TH, 2010
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GEORGE CLINTON SUING BEP According to the Associated Press, George Clinton is suing the Black Eyed Peas for sampling his music without permission. Clinton dropped a lawsuit on the GRAMMY-winning group in Los Angeles last week, claiming they used elements of his 1979 song “(Not Just) Knee Deep” in remixes of their song “Shut…
Delta Spirit, Waits Room EP
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Whenever a band releases a live album, B-sides collection–hell, even an EP–the word “stopgap” is often thrown around. By “stopgap”, of course, I’m referring to the critical go-to insult used to describe a holdover release bridging together “proper” releases, often simply a cuter way of saying a band is suffering from writer’s block. On…
JONNY LANG: FROM PRODIGY TO ULTIMATE PRO
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Jonny started playing guitar at the ripe old age of 12, played sax in junior high, and recorded his first album Smokin’ at age 14. Talk about putting in the proverbial 110% into his work! His 2006 release Turn Around enabled him to earn his first Grammy for Best Gospel Album.
RYE RYE PERFORMS SELECT DECEMBER TOUR DATES
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After wow-ing crowds at Art Basel in Miami last weekend, dance-rap dynamo Rye Rye hits the road on a select seven date tour kicking off on Decemeber 8th in LA, wrapping up in her hometown of Baltimore on December 18th. Rye Rye is gearing up to release her eagerly awaited debut album Go! Pop! Bang!,…
Professor Pandemonium’s Cabinet of Wonders
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Very interesting! That pretty much sums up the listening experience of Professor Pandemonium’s Cabinet of Wonders. Douglas La Ferle is the man behind it all and boy does he have a surprise for you! The first thing I notice is a Medusa-like figure on the front cover of the CD with very detailed…
G. LOVE ANNOUNCES TOUR
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Love is pleased to announce the first leg of his U.S. tour in support of his new country blues and roots album, Fixin’ To Die, set for release on Brushfire Records on February 22, 2011. Recorded at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, NC, and produced by Scott and Seth Avett, the album is arguably G.…
Dane Drewis, Rock and Soul
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Rock and Soul is the first solo CD from Sacramento, CA-area singer/guitarist Dane Drewis. Fans of Drewis will recognize him from the band Cuesta Drive and in fact, a number of the tracks on this release also appeared on Cuesta Drive’s Distractions album. The new tracks feature Jason Weed on drums and Dane’s…
KOTTONMOUTH KINGS HELP LOCAL FOOD BANKS
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California based Kottonmouth Kings have announced they will assist local food banks this year with their annual “Jingle Bowls” Christmas tour dates. Kottonmouth Kings are encouraging fans to bring non-perishable foods items to donate to local food banks on their upcoming ‘Jingle Bowl’ shows in San Diego, Anaheim and Tempe, AZ in December. KOTTONMOUTH…
