  | Debut full length released February 10th, 2009. 
Mint Records' newest signing, Hot Panda, are set to release their debut full length album Volcano... Bloody Volcano on February 10th, 2009. Hailing from Edmonton Alberta, Hot Panda formed during the particularly chilly winter of 2006 and have already become an experienced touring act, playing well over a hundred shows in a very short time (including CMJ and PopMontreal this past October).
Volcano... Bloody Volcano is a />... | The Jesus Lizard Reform! 
Those fine folks over at ATP (All Tomorrow's Parties) have announced more acts to play their two May weekend festivals at Butlins Minehead.
Having been to their Sonic Youth currated festival a couple of years back, I can vouch for their brilliance - your gran owes it to you to buy you a ticket for one, hell BOTH for Christmas. What are you gonna do with ANOTHER scalf anyway?
The new additions are.....
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The FADER and Pitchfork, the two leading voices in emerging music and culture, have announced a partnership designed to extend the reach and enhance both brands.
The deal will include integrated advertising and sponsorship opportunities across all properties and platforms, including print, online, festivals, events, and unique content exchanges.
"We are extremely excited to be working with Pitchfork," said />... |
Heavy Mojo is currently on tour w/ the legendary ska / rock / reggae band Fishbone and Natives of the New Dawn. Their Choice Cuts EP is available at iTunes for .99$ - 3 songs for the price of one. My faves are “Later & Better” (included below).
On Tour w/ Fishbone and Natives of the New Dawn
12/3 Towson, MD – Recher Theatre
12/4 Willinton, NC The Sopabox Laundrolounge
12/5 />... | New service offers customers unprecedented freedom and value EMI Music, independents and music publishers join offering 
Nokia announced the debut of its pioneering Comes with Music digital entertainment service, which offers consumers a new way to discover and enjoy music. Customers who buy a Comes With Music device will be able to explore and enjoy a diverse catalog of music of international and local artists with unlimited access to millions of tracks for a year, keeping the music once the year is over and revolutionizing their digital music />... |
No rest for New York's Polar Bear Club as they continue with a heavy touring schedule in support of their Red Leader debut, Sometimes Things Just Disappear (released 03/11/08). Beginning on Friday, the boys will leave for nearly two weeks of shows in the U.S. with Fireworks, immediately followed by five days in Canada with Cancer Bats. Then in February, the band will travel overseas for a month of shows in the UK and Europe with The />... |
Director Wes Anderson’s critically acclaimed movies, from Bottle Rocket to Darjeeling Limited, have always been known for their idiosyncratic use of music, the result of his successful collaboration with supervisor Randall Poster, who has worked on every one.
The Anderson and Poster-produced soundtrack to the 13-minute Bottle Rocket short film, which inspired the subsequent feature (and attracted James L. Brooks as executive />... |
Only The Bumblebeez would be prolific, inventive and stupid enough to set themselves the challenge of writing and releasing 30 new songs in 30 days, and this December that ís exactly what they're going to do.
From this day forth, for the rest of December The Bumblebeez main brain Chris Colonna AKA Invisibl AKA Prince Umberto, with the assistance of his sister Pia AKA ViLa and no doubt a ragtag bunch of Braidwoods best, />... |
The second track from the Dandy Warhols’ Breathe Easy project has been released and is available for download on the Breathe Easy MySpace site (linked below).
Called “Kooks, Spindrift, Saul Williams,” the song -- recorded in three different sessions, from May 2007 to March 2008 -- is propelled by Williams’ powerful spoken commentary, which echoes over the instrumentation of Spindrift’s Kirpatrick Thomas and Dan Allaire />... | THE ELVIS PRESLEY VIRAL HOLIDAY ECARD THAT ALLOWS FANS TO SING A CHRISTMAS DUET WITH THE KING 
Sony Music Entertainment is giving Elvis Presley fans the opportunity to sing a Christmas duet with The King of Rock ‘N’ Roll. The “Sing With The King” ecard makes it possible for fans to record their own version of Presley’s classic ‘Blue Christmas.’ The ecard uses the same unique technology that allowed country superstars like Martina McBride, Carrie Underwood, and Sara Evans to sing along with Presley on the “Elvis Presley />... |
Atlanta-metallers SEVENDUST head to our fair shores THIS WEEK to take to the road with Black Stone Cherry and Stone Gods! They also have a number of headline shows lined up.
They're touring in support of new, seventh album 'Hope & Sorrow', which is released through ADAGlobal on Monday (Dec 8). New single 'Prodigal Son', taken from the album, is released THIS WEEK. Check out the accompanying video below.
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Breakout rock band Saving Abel will join Seether as openers for Nickelback on their North American tour beginning February 25th in Nashville, TN (full schedule below). Saving Abel’s largest outing to date will hit arenas in over 30 cities across the continent. Tickets go on sale beginning Dec. 5th at www.LiveNation.com (http://www.livenation.com/).
“We’re thrilled to be opening for Nickelback. It’s crazy, a year ago we />... | | | | |
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Lustra are a band that few people this side of the pond have heard of. They are perhaps best known for featuring on the soundtrack to one of the best movies ever made in the high school gross out genre , the 'does what it says on the tin' named film ‘Euro Trip’. The film stars Dawn from Buffy The Vampire Slayer and a few other random American twenty something pretending to be 17 and still at high school! The track from the movie ‘Scotty doesn’t know’ is included on this album as a bonus track, back to the glory days for some but a fresh track one would suspect for the majority of the music loving population.
‘What you need and what you get’ is a very accomplished slice of pop punkery which at times delves deeper and can become quite melodic and classic, this can best be seen on tracks />... ![Lustra - What you need & what you get - [Album] Author rating: 59%](images/rating/gars_6.gif "Lustra - What you need & what you get - [Album] Author rating: 59%") | Downtown Music ![Eagles Of Death Metal - Heart On [Album]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/3/9/8/5/phperpfutpm.jpg "Eagles Of Death Metal - Heart On [Album]")
What a name for a band, one of the best I have heard. Anyone not having heard of the band would assume Eagles Of Death Metal are actually a Death Metal band, but that’s far from correct. Jesse Hughes and Joshua Homme have something special here. They are just out to have a laugh, and what better way to achieve this but to create garage rock at its most unique through the majesty of song. The whole album has a southern rock vibe, with lashings of cowboy boots and spurs. At moments Queens Of The Stone Age pop into the track but then are violently tucked away with some cool funk influences. Comparing EODM to another band is very hard, they are original in their own right, influences are hard to spot and it’s difficult to tie them down to a conventional genre. This is the third instalment to />... ![Eagles Of Death Metal - Heart On [Album] Author rating: 80%](images/rating/gars_8.gif "Eagles Of Death Metal - Heart On [Album] Author rating: 80%") | 2 December 2008 
I am officially blacklisting anyone who calls Liam Finn a singer/songwriter... Not because he’s not technically a singer/songwriter – but so he doesn’t get pigeonholed into what comes into mind when someone is described in such a way.
Liam Finn live at Scala was nothing like I had imagined. Having picked up his debut album, I’ll Be Lightning a while back, I assumed he would be the typical ‘man and his guitar’ outfit, playing the songs directly from his album.
Good Lord, was I wrong. As soon as openers Connan Mockasin and Laurence Arabia had left the stage, Liam Finn appeared alongside his techs to set up his equipment – I thought this was odd, appearing on stage to tune your own guitar without the massive fanfare for an introduction, but everything was explained later in the show.
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Kenan Bell – ‘Good Day’ EP
Hailing from Los Angeles, California, 25-year old rapper is Kenan Bell has just released his debut EP, ‘Good Days’ and is setting the Hip Hop scene alight with his ‘shoegaze, minimalist’ Hip Hop sound. Apparently attracting fans from almost every demographic sphere both here in the UK and of course in the US, it’s not hard to see why once you hit play on the EP.
Hip-Hop has taken up many different persona's over the years since its inception in the Bronx circa 1970s and when a new artist comes along, some may find it easier to stick with the Hip Hop ‘establishment’. Instead I challenge you to sit down, relax and spend about 20 minutes in the company of Kenan Bell, well, at least through your stereo anyway… ‘Good Day’ is one EP that your ears deserve />... ![Kenan Bell - Good Day [EP] Author rating: 67%](images/rating/gars_7.gif "Kenan Bell - Good Day [EP] Author rating: 67%") | Vagrant Records 
Dustin Kensrue is better known for his work with post-hardcore band Thrice, but over the past year or so Dustin has ventured in to the solo market. Dustin’s first album Please Come Home was released at the end of last year and did pretty well. The Good Night Is Still Everywhere is a Christmas album and features 8 cover songs and 2 originals. Dustin is a big fan of Christmas songs and decided to express this through this album.
The Good Night Is Still Everywhere isn’t cheesy at all and is based on the more traditional approach to Christmas songs, including such classics as O Holy Night, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing and The Pogues Fairytale of New York. The songs are sung with a very warm tone and Dustin’s voice is so soft and easy to listen to. It’s Dustin’s passion for Christianity and />... | Sony BMG 
Much as these annoying cash-ins get squarely right on my breast area and are clearly some conniving little record label executive's mean way of ripping us all off; why don't you just come around my house and steal my credit-crunch cornflakes you mean-spirited cock! Anyway I'm getting way-laid with my argument here. What I was trying to say is much as these tie-ins bug me I have this urge to hear anything Glasvegas release and as such I dipped my hand into my ever emptying pocket and forked out for 'A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss)' which instantly outstrips Coldplay's little rip-off mini-album as all six tracks featured here are new to the Glasvegas canon.
So what does 'A Snowflake Fell...' tell us? Well for starters much as this is a Christmas album it's not the sort you'll />... | Atlantic 
Paper Trail is T.I.'s sixth studio album, and was apparently penned whilst T.I. was on house arrest awaiting gun crime charges back in November 2007. It is rumoured that this is the first time that T.I. has written lyrics on paper since I'm Serious', his debut album - hence the 'Paper Trail' album title.
The first single from the album is 'No Matter What', a rolling, snare-driven track that talks about his possible incarceration, losing his partner and child, revenge, and staying on top. Possibly not scenarios you and I may have experienced, but we can all totally understand the message.
'56 Bar Intro' contains quite possibly my favourite lyric in the whole world - 'I'm back on top like a toupee'!! Not every rapper can get away with that, surely?!
'You Ain't Missing Nothing' is a />... | LockJaw Records 
A girl 4 piece that can actually play their instruments? Never you say? Well listen and listen well. The Sheffield based punk rock band, Maeven, rock out harder than a Motorhead fan with tourettes. The girls have the aesthetics as well as the talent, making them a great musical package. Having toured through the Us back in 2006 with great results, they have obviously gathered some good experience before jumping in the never ending minefield of studio time. The record is produced by themselves and Matt Elliss, but does have a few tell tail signs of a DIY job. Digital distortion for one and some dodgy noise-gating on the drums. This is kind of a shame, as the material is very good. Potentially the record could sound stupidly good, but for a debut they have done a spot-on job.
With punky />... | | | Tube Stomp Box, Guitar Direct Pedal 
The H&K Tubeman is a floor guitar preamp. It has 3 channels - Clean, Crunch and Lead, all foot-switchable with its own dedicated switch. All 3 channels share the same eq controls and master volume control.
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Eq = low,...  | The ultimate kick-drum mic, the Artist Elite AE2500 dual-element instrument microphone features cardioid condenser and dynamic capsules combined. 
The Audio Technica AE2500 Dual-element Cardioid Instrument Microphone can simply be described as "the ultimate kick drum mic". The Audio Technica AE2500 consists of two microphones that can be combined or used independently that sit comfortably within one microphone housing. There is a dynamic capsule and a cardoid condenser, one being designed to perfectly capture the attack of the beater... | From Zero-G the makers of Vocal Forge 
Background
In the modern world of music every day sees the rise of a new bedroom producer or DJ, crafting tunes they want to hear and some garnering massive success from it. The single most sought after thing by these guys would have to be good quality vocals and this is where Vocal Foundry from Time & Space comes in.
I often conduct remixes for competitions and for fun and when remixing, I am... | |
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Andrea McEwan is an Australian songwriter, singer, musician and actress. In 2006, after moving to the UK, she was signed to Dramatico Entertainment as a songwriter when a demo of her songs found its way into the hands of Mike Batt. Early in 2007, she collaborated with Katie Melua on some songs for her then upcoming album. Out of their successful sessions came two tracks, “What I Miss About You” and “Dirty Dice”, which appear on the album “Pictures”. Andrea is currently working on her own album />... | "I hope more people will buy vinyl so it doesn't disappear like polaroid film" 
Toronto’s Lioness came together in the winter of early 2007, almost in secret, when Jeff Scheven and Ronnie Morris, the rhythm section behind the stomping disco pulses of controller.controller records, hooked up with Vanessa Fischer of soul-punk quartet No Dynamics. Haunting off-the-radar locales, playing low-key after-hours sets in dark, sweaty clubs, Lioness generated a noteworthy undercurrent of buzz on the scene.
Altsounds.com was lucky enough to catch up with Vanessa and talk to her />... | "I want to have your first born child". 
"Maturity is a bitch!"
So say Young Fathers, three shining young rap stars from our very own Scotland (We don't actually own Scotland, but it is close-by). Frequently compared to Spank Rock and The Cool Kids, and very favourably reviewed by both Transparent Magazine and the mighty NME, their crazy blend of rap, electro-pop and hip-hop teeters on the edge of overtaking the world. The big question is, will the Young Fathers do it in gorilla suits?
Altsounds: NME's />... | If you keep an eye out my hair's flatter on the first night... 
Tim Minchin is an angry man with an iron. Do men do housework when they’re angry too? It’s more likely he just wants to wear that shirt tonight but I am barely through the door before he’s letting off some steam (bad pun intended):
“If I would survive a fall off the top of a hotel I don’t think it’s good enough!” He’s talking about his latest lodgings on tour. I chuckle along as he continues to rant, “I just don’t like hotels that are low - hotels should be high things! - See I want />... | "His love of the world, his cause and his people is one of the most inspirational things that I've ever come across." 
Altsounds: Many are unfamiliar with This is Radio Freedom. This ain't on, guys. Could you give us a brief history of the band?
This is Radio Freedom [Matt]: Sure... we put this line-up together in January, after Sean, Dave and I drew what we were doing before to a close. We thought we'd put something together that had an obvious focus and mission statement, and see how much fun we could have shouting about things that we love.
Altsounds: Why will This is Radio />... | | | [Other]
The second of in the series of the Dandy Warhols' Breathe Easy episodes. Here, Saul Williams, the Kooks, Spindrift, and vegan sausage (?)
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Wolves shot live at Glasgow ABC on 18 October 08.
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The official video for Sevendusts's new single "Prodigal Son"
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Given Up by Linkin Park (c) 2008 Warner Bros. Records Inc., A Warner Music Group Company.
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While Nizlopi toured the UK in 2008 they stopped by Altsounds . com HQ in Cardiff for a quick chat and to play us an acoustic session.
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Video is becoming ever more important for bands as a medium to promote their music and as with all aspects of your band's look the way you are represented within a video can really help or hinder you.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
There are a lot of bullshit holidays, but none more bullshit than Thanksgiving. For those not fortunate enough to have a holiday celebrating the near-extinction of a race of people, you're not missing much. Cooking, eating, sleeping, fighting with family and American football. Nothing happens, really, and I'm not totally sure what the point of it is. I guess it's like a practice run for Christmas, but without any gifts. It's stupid.
Speaking of stupid... the absolute best part of this holiday season, so far, comes courtesy of America's new favorite retard- Sarah Palin.... | |
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Dandy Warhols - Breathe Easy Episode 2
Funeral for a Friend - ‘You Can’t See The Forest For The Wolves’ LIVE at Glasgow ABC
Sevendust - Prodigal Son
Linkin Park - Given Up
Nizlopi - Altsounds.com Exclusive Acoustic Session
PENDULUM ANNOUNCE EXCLUSIVE FAN COMPETITION - FILM THE BAND FOR THEIR DVD!
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