   | NEW ALBUM IN STORES FEBRUARY 10th, 2009 FROM NEW WEST RECORDS 
Ben Lee dedicates his seventh studio recording to Venus, the Goddess of Love and Beauty. A bold move for a man, but Ben recognizes that the strongest feminine qualities "such as compassion, nurturing, creativity, spontaneity, intuition, playfulness, tenderness and warmth...are qualities that we all, men and women, need to cultivate." The Rebirth of Venus (February 10th, 2009) was produced by Brad Wood, who also produced Ben's breakout />... |
In an unprecedented power move for the multi-talented comedian/actor, Salient Media recently inked a deal with Warner Bros. Records to distribute the audio version to Katt Williams’ critically acclaimed fourth stand-up DVD It’s Pimpin’, Pimpin,’ which is scheduled to be released January 27, 2009.
The DVD version was released in November and features a collection of the comedian’s brash, no-holds-barred routines from his />... |
The All-American Rejects, hot off their December release of When The World Comes Down, have taken their time in the Yahoo! Music studio to bring a stripped down version of Britney Spears’ hit “Womanizer” to life. Packed with an accordion, clanking beer bottles, and a unison of “whooooos” the cover is described by frontman Tyson Ritter as “better than Britney” and can be seen at Yahoo! Music />... |
South-African bred, Los Angeles-based rockers SEETHER hit UK soil IN TWO WEEKS TIME to tour as Special Guests with STAIND!!
The band will be releasing single 'Breakdown', taken from their latest album 'Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces', on January 26. It was released in the States just before Christmas and the accompanying video went straight in at #3 in the MySpace Indie Charts and #10 in Yahoo's Rock Chart!!
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THE ROTTED will support Cannibal Corpse at their headline show at The Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth on February 18, 2009.
Also confirmed this week is a slot at UK Deathfest in Leeds in May 2009.
CANNIBAL CORPSE + THE ROTTED
February 2009
18th PORTSMOUTH – Wedgewood Rooms
THE ROTTED with Akercocke, Dam and more to be announced
May 2009
3rd LEEDS – DEATHFEST @ LEEDS – />... | LABEL: EYE INDUSTRIES / RELEASED 12TH JAN ‘09 
Mashed up, house music madness meets street tough, lyrical badness in a tune set to rewrite the dancefloor rulebook. On 12th January 2009 the ever reliable Eye Industries bring you the meeting of musical minds that is ‘Another Dimension’ by Timmy Vegas & Bad Lay-Dee. Fusing elements of Crystal Waters and the Beastie Boys with a funked up house groove and a sharp urban edge, ‘Another Dimension’ is all set to kick off 2009 with />... |
CXCR6 Records is proud to present a new release from Severn. Called "A Beginning", it is a highly original melding of various sounds including electronica, industrial, hard-IDM and experimental techniques. This combined with the soaring, almost operatic vocals result in a new sound and a unique sonic experience.
Released completely free of charge by CXCR6, you can download it directly from the site in MP3 and FLAC />... | Maynard James Keenan to present cabaret style show over Valentine’s Day weekend 
Maynard James Keenan, known as the eccentric and unpredictable singer of two of modern rock’s most successful bands, Tool and A Perfect Circle, will unveil the live incarnation of Puscifer on Friday, Feb. 13 and Saturday, Feb. 14 at The Pearl inside the Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas at 8:00 p.m.
In 2007, Keenan created Puscifer, a multifaceted, multimedia, multi-artist, and multi-personality project self-described as “a />...  | "Word has it their live show is even more explosive than their albums." 
Foxy Shazam frontman Eric Nally leads the group like a crazed ringmaster...His voice is grating, convincing and melodic. He’s a star in the making. - Absolute Punk
Word has it their live show is even more explosive than their albums. If that’s true, earplugs are definitely in order, because “Introducing” is certainly some incendiary fun. - Metromix
Lead singer Eric Nally (aka Foxyman) is the band’s secret />... | Out on Feb 10th!! 
Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks: Live At The Hollywood Bowl" Chronicles the First-Ever Live Performance of Legendary Soul Singer's Revered 1968 Album
Multi-award winning soul singer and musical legend Van Morrison is set to release "Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl," an in-concert reworking of his historic 1968 gold-certified solo album. Recorded live over two nights at the Hollywood Bowl this past Nov. 7 and 8, the />... | New album soon on the Dark Star Records Label.... 
Chicago based metalheads, Bloodstream Parade, recently concluded recording the first mix of their upcoming debut album on Dark Star Records, The Apocalypse in Retrospect. The band is very excited with how things are coming along working once again with Chris Djuricic from Belle Sound Studios in Racine, Wisconsin. With songs like: Blood For Blood, Source Fire, No God, and For Future Eyes Only (there may even be a surprise on />... | New live Tour dates....... 
After debuting their new video for Red Line Season to the world before the end of 2008, and after landing on a TON of year-end best of lists, Seattle's sonic post-punk pioneers, These Arms Are Snakes, have just announced full details on their upcoming US tour.
The trek will take them around the country, and, for the first time since the release of their latest full-length Tail Swallower & Dove(Suicide Squeeze), the />... |
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| | | Unsigned ![Stereo By The Shore - the Soundtrack To My Life [EP]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/3/5/6/9/untitled.jpg "Stereo By The Shore - the Soundtrack To My Life [EP]")
In normal circumstances, I find pop-punk to generally be the most overused and unimaginative genres of modern popular music. Unfortunately for Porthcawl’s ‘Stereo By The Shore’, these are very normal circumstances. It’s difficult to know what to say about this record without it sounding like a review for one of the million other Blink-182 rip off bands from the last 10 years.
It’s not that ‘The Soundtrack To My Life’ is a bad record; far from it in fact – it ticks all of the right boxes, e.g., catchy choruses, upbeat, carefree vibes, simple structures, simple rhythms, token American forced accents... but this is all part of the problem. The world just doesn’t need another band that closely imitates the hard work of countless other previous acts and passes it off as their own. The band />... ![Stereo By The Shore - the Soundtrack To My Life [EP] Author rating: 64%](images/rating/gars_6.gif "Stereo By The Shore - the Soundtrack To My Life [EP] Author rating: 64%") | 22nd December 2008 ![Kings of Leon @ Wembley Arena [LIVE]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/2/kollive.jpg "Kings of Leon @ Wembley Arena [LIVE]")
‘Say, fellow Kings of Leon gig-goer, have you heard of a smash hit single from the Followill fam’ called... what was it now?... Sexy Fire? Sex for Fire? Sex on Fire - that's it. I am sure that you have, and it’s pretty much the only reason I bought a ticket for this last night of the band’s “Only By The Night” tour. Despite the fact that the Kings powered through 23 super-charged tunes, the majority of which were back catalogue, I only paid proper attention when this number one started up, and proceeded to crush everyone else’s feet and drown the rest of the crowd in my abandoned beer just so I could get myself right down the front to watch a singer scream the word “sex” in the actual chorus of a song. For the next half of the set I wrapped my arms around my miserable-looking />... ![Kings of Leon @ Wembley Arena [LIVE] Author rating: 90%](images/rating/gars_9.gif "Kings of Leon @ Wembley Arena [LIVE] Author rating: 90%") | Armellodie Records - Out 12th January 
I've been trying to think of the things that I can do in 1 minute 42 seconds and to be honest I can't think of anything meaningful that I can do in that time (no dirty jokes please!). Cuddly Shark; on the other hand, can unleash something as immediate and unrelenting as 'Woody Woodpecker' even throwing the first 30 seconds away as an intro, very ballsy indeed. Colin Reid's vocal ripping into someone who clearly has grated his nut-sack once to often "Fuck sake, not much more can I take" about sums up his frustration as 'Woody Woodpecker' barks the tale of that annoying person who has been placed in the world with the sole purpose of grinding your gears. This doesn't out stay it's welcome and I don't think it ever could, undoubtedly going to be received gloriously live with it's rousing />...  | Warner Bros 
If you weren’t aware, Linkin Park has a fan club called the LP Underground. This release is, as far as I’m aware, for club members only and features various unreleased tracks. "Songs From The Underground" starts off with a nice intro track that builds and leaves you wanting more, ending with Chester screaming in the background, sounding more like a Swedish hardcore singer than a new metal warbler. Sadly, the next track doesn’t really compare, blaring out in true mediocre fashion, with a garishly horrible new metal riff and a chorus that wants to be something it will never be, like Jodie Marsh thinking that she could ever be attractive.
This sets the tone for the rest of the tracks, varying between average new metal toss and moments of brilliance. I can see why this is a gift to club />...  | Warner Bros ![Linkin Park - Road To Revolution [CD/DVD]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/3/5/5/7/linkin_park_road.jpg "Linkin Park - Road To Revolution [CD/DVD]")
'Road to Revolution' is yet another addition to the Linkin Park catalogue. It’s amazing how many releases Linkin Park have actually had, compared to the amount of material they have written. If there were an award for the most successful exploitation of material, then Linkin Park would get it. 'Minutes to Midnight' was the 3rd original album from the sextet but in that time they have released 'Re-animated', which is a remix of their first album, 'Hybrid Theory', 'Live in Texas' and 'Collision Course', which is a collaboration with rapper Jay Z. So now with the addition of 'Road to Revolution', Linkin Park have successfully released 7 albums off of the back of 3 albums worth of material. This may be slightly lazy of Linkin Park, but it’s worked and they have become very successful off the />... | RMR Music Group ![Fallbrooke - Fallbrooke [Album]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/3/9/9/7/2fallbrooke.jpg "Fallbrooke - Fallbrooke [Album]")
Fallbrooke hail from Miami and maybe it's just me and my limited memory but I can't thing of any decent bands from Miami. I'm sure it's just me?!?! Anyway Miami it is and all I know about Miami is what Will Smith told us in his song about the City; Mickey Mouse has a home there, and apparently they allow you to go topless on the beach which is good for me because I hate wearing t-shirts when it's roasting out. So I guess what I'm getting at is that I have no idea if Fallbrooke are archetypal of the Miami music scene or if they are gleaning their sound from someone else somewhere else... no idea folks.
However, they've done enough to be signed by RMR, whose founder member brought us No Doubt and Bush and they've both done alright for themselves you could say. And Fallbrooke's self-titled />... | Self-Released ![Honey Pine Dresser - Island Gardens [EP]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/2/island.jpg "Honey Pine Dresser - Island Gardens [EP]")
There has recently been an influx of electro dance music hitting the UK. Whether it is old bands making a decision to curve-ball and change direction by investing in a shiny new Moog, or new bands boarding the 'serious new-rave' wagon, there’s something irritating about the scene. Not only is it annoying, but suddenly there’s a fashion for long-retired bands to decide they wish to return to work and tour stadiums a la Take That and Boyzone. So, when a new CD arrives to review there’s always a touch of cynicism. Is this CD going to sound like the mountain of promos I already have in the corner of my room, or is it going to be one of those rare and nice surprises? In this case it is the latter.
The currently unsigned Honey Pine Dresser, fronted by Quebecian Marie-Pascale Hardy, formed />... ![Honey Pine Dresser - Island Gardens [EP] Author rating: 79%](images/rating/gars_8.gif "Honey Pine Dresser - Island Gardens [EP] Author rating: 79%") | Co-operative Music ![The Dandy Warhols - Mis Amigos [Single]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/4/0/3/0/dandies.jpg "The Dandy Warhols - Mis Amigos [Single]")
The Dandy Warhols have produced some very good musical moments over the course of their rather colourful career, many of which came together to produce very good albums. Sadly, such collective greatness has long since disappeared. Their last two albums have been bloated affairs, rather self-indulgent and turgid overall, but there were still glimpses of what they were capable of; ‘Mis Amigos’ is almost one of them.
‘Mis Amigos’ is their latest single from self-released sixth album, ‘Earth To The Dandy Warhols’, and it sees The Dandy Warhols make a welcome return to their pop past, if slightly less doleful than previous efforts. Indeed ,‘Mis Amigos’ has never seen The Dandy Warhols so bouncy and chipper. It has mariachi trumpets, steel drums, Courtney Taylor-Taylor’s most interested />... |
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Studio Monitors are the heart of any studio. Be it a project studio or the top end studios found across the world, the single most important item in that studio is the studio monitor possbily second [maybe] to the microphone cabinet. As such, it is highly important that the right choice is made with regards to what to purchase for your studio. M-Audio have just released the BX8a Studiophile... | Overdrive/Distortion Pedal in One Box 
The Marshall Jackhammer JH-1 is built in a tough roadworthy light gray enclosure which is shared across the whole Marshall line of stomp-boxes. It has 1/4 inch input and output sockets, on/off switch with LED indicating "On" position. There are controls for "Mode", "Gain", "Volume", "Treble", "Bass", "Contour" and "Contour Frequency". The Marshall Jackhammer JH-1 can be powered via a 9 volt... | The latest version of the industry-standard DI box with speaker simulation. 
Features
The unit is a red box the size of a regular guitar pedal or a DI. It has a 1/4 inch "Line In" input and a 4x12 or "Combo" selector on one side. The other side is the "From Speaker Output" and "To Speaker Cabinet" 1/4 inch jacks. At the top there is a XLR Output which can power the unit via phantom power. If there is no phantom power the unit can also take power from any adapter from 6 to... |
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Rage Against the Machine defined their own genre. No band before them or since have ever managed to successfully implement heavy riff rock with angry, political statements rapped with such definition. It's hard not to like Rage Against the Machine. I will go as far as to say that to a point, Rage Against the Machine were the pioneers of riff based rock, showcasing that a guitar can be a lot more than just strumming chords and doing solos. The riffs could become hooks in their own right. />... |
When I first started in the music industry, I couldn't tell anyone what I did for a living without having a conversation about their favorite bands and what music they are currently in love with. As annoying as that should have been, it was never unwelcome. The whole reason I got into this industry was an addiction to the high of music discovery, and sharing that high with others led me to some of the best shows I've ever seen and the best bands I've ever had the pleasure of working with. Over />... | "We go to liquor stores almost every day, we want to keep doing that." 
Hollywood Undead is a new band coming out of, you guessed it, Hollywood. Donning masks and producing a rap/rock hybrid style, there is debate about whether or not this band should be taken seriously. Although topping the MySpace charts, there have been just as many critics questioning the artistic integrity of these young rockstar hopefuls. Even among their many fans, there seems to be disagreement regarding what this band is even about. Some think it's a big elaborate joke about the music />... | " We don’t have a special formula. We write our music how it comes." 
In the summer of 2005 Benni (drums) and André (guitar) decided to start a metal band with their friend Tino Hoffmann on vocals. They were soon joined by Steven on guitar, who had seen an ad posted by the band. The band was originally going to be called Metmachines, but this monicker was soon discarded. Soon after, Justin joined the band on bass, thus completing the line-up for the time being.
Since then Anima have picked up quite a fanbase within the metal community and continue to />... | More mystical preditions for a musical future 
Ok so you read Part 1 with great interest right? (if not then click on the link further down). Well now two more Altsounds editors offer up their 'Tips For 2009', which means 7 more great acts to help you wash away those post Christmas/New Year blues. Who knows what the coming year holds for this lot.....well Mark and Lina think they do actually - success in some form or another. Now it's important to remember that none of us are saying that any of these acts will top the charts, but we do />... | The Altsounds Concentrate | Sunday 21st December 2008 
Happy Holidays
My apartment is completely decked out in non-holiday-specific decor, Christmas Vacation is on the television, the gifts have been purchased and wrapped in non-holiday-specific paper and yet none of these things have warmed my heart quite like the Altsounds Best of 2008 list. I didn't vote or contribute to the list, so I'm as objective as I can be here - it's the best list you're gonna find.
It's the most honest.
It's the only list based />... | Take a peak into the future - where everything's fine in 2009 
Musically, compared to recent years, it could be argued that 2008 was a slightly disappointing year overall. Here at Altsounds, voting for the best albums of the year proved tricky for some for rather different reasons than usual, with many finding it hard to recall many truly memorable full lengths, rather than the usual problem of whittling down a lengthy list.
So let’s hope 2009 proves to be more fruitful, especially for debut acts, as we’re all about new music here at Altounds. />... | PART 1 - 50 to 21 
And so the wait is over all the votes have been counted and the results are in for Altsounds Top 50 Albums of 2008. It was meant to be just a Top 20 but seeing as we got a lot of mixed results and some intriguing little gems of albums popped-up, we decided to extend the Top 20 to a Top 50! Now you certainly won't all agree with the results I'm sure but we can't always keep everyone happy. Anyway here goes the Top 50 Albums of 2008 as voted for by the reviewing staff of Altsounds, enjoy.
... | "What is This, the hills?" 
"Seldom do band members rebound gracefully after their main musical effort falls apart, but Keith Goodwin (vocals/guitar) and Tim Arnold (drums/vocals), members of the once up-and-coming progressive rock band Days Away have managed to do just that, pulling a 180 with their sound to a great degree of success in their new acoustic folk project Good Old War. Rounding out the trio is Dan Schwartz (guitar/vocals) from the Americana tinged 6 piece band, Unlikely Cowboy.
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