  | SINGLE “SOMETIME AROUND MIDNIGHT” CONTINUES TO CLIMB RADIO CHARTS FIFTEEN WEEKS AFTER IT FIRST ENTERED THEM 
Los Angeles' Airborne Toxic Event added 6 US radio dates to its busy schedule following a grueling 30 straight shows in 30 days tour in the UK. The US shows begin December 6 a mere week after completing the UK run with a show at Boston's Orpheum Theater.
While the band has wowed the UK press with the endurance it has taken to do the tour, ultimately it's the music that has won them over, with the NME writing, "Firmly on />... | Via Distiller Records 
The Chemists release their new single “Radio Booth “on December 1st through Distiller Records. The track was produced by the band and mixed by Adrian Bushby (Foo Fighters/Doves.) The single will be available on 7”/ download and a remix is provided by Haunts who have previously twiddled the knobs for Funeral for a Friend, Late of the Pier and the Enemy, amongst others. The track is taken from their debut album which will be />...  | Time+Space introduce free software and DVD bundle with selected products from the innovative audio hardware specialist 
From today, as part of an on-going promotion, selected ESI products will include Toontrack's EZdrummer Lite software and Secrets of the Pros' Modern Recording and Mixing DVD – absolutely free!
EZdrummer Lite is a special version of Toontrack's incredibly popular drum sampler EZdrummer which provides the user with a great selection of drums from the full product and, once registered can be upgraded to the full version for />... | Released November 24th on Warner Bros. Records / Machine Shop Recordings 
Multi-platinum two-time Grammy-winning rock band LINKIN PARK has announced a November 24th release date for ROAD TO REVOLUTION ( Machine Shop Recordings / Warner Bros. Records), an action-packed CD/DVD set featuring seventeen of the group’s biggest hits recorded live in concert.
The double-disc set captures the band’s June 29th 2008 show at the Milton Keynes National Bowl during the sold-out European leg of this past />... | Downtempo Funk and Soul from the 70s and 80s - Now available from Time+Space 
The follow-up and perfect companion to the best-selling Classic Disco, Satin Grooves recreates the great dance sound of the 1970s and 1980s from ballads to mid-tempo funk ´n´ soul and disco. This library is a goldmine for every hiphop, R´n´B, dance or media producer.
Contained in this library are 34 construction kits ranging in tempo from 60bpm to 100bpm that evoke the creamy soul of Marvin Gaye, Barry White, Anita Baker, />... |
Bleeding Through will begin an extensive US tour this February presented by their friends at Zambooie and Revolver Magazine. Zambooie & Revolver Magazine Present The "Declaration" Tour, the first U.S. headlining trek from Orange County's Bleeding Through in over three years.
Joining Bleeding Through on the dates will be Acacia Strain, As Blood Runs Black and Impending Doom. The US leg of the "Declaration" tour will />... | WATCH THE SHORT FILM STARRING SIENNA MILLER 
UK band The Hours are Antony Genn and Martin Slattery. Between them, they have worked with three of the greatest British poets and front men of all time: Joe Strummer, Shaun Ryder and Jarvis Cocker. Individually, in their illustrious past, have toured with Elastica and Black Grape; produced sessions for UNKLE and Grace Jones and worked alongside the likes of Brian Eno. Recently, they performed at The Red Auction at Sotheby’s in New />... |
Canadian melodic-rockers State of Shock will be digitally releasing their
album, Life, Love & Lies on December 23rd. Already a headlining act up north, the band have set their sites on the States with a supporting slot on Staind’s current U.S. tour. State of Shock have also just re-released their track “Rollin” which was originally released on their Canadian debut album. The slow-burning track will also be available on Life, />... | Altsounds.com favourites are back for more delights! 
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’ new single, “You Better Pray” is now available for download through iTunes. The song comes off the band’s upcoming sophomore album which will hit stores in early 2009. The band’s debut album, Don’t You Fake It came out in 2006 and sold well over 500K copies certifying it as Gold in the U.S.
Check out the song here: MySpace.com - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Jacksonville, Florida - />... | |
Guns N’ Roses will be world premiering their long-awaited Chinese Democracy on their MySpace page tonight at 12AM EST. The album will be hitting Best Buy stores exclusively on November 23rd. The band leaked a new song, “Better,” earlier this week and the title track single is all over radio.
Check out Chinese Democracy in it’s entirety at www.MySpace.com/GunsNRoses at 12AM EST tonight!
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Puddle of Mudd currently have two singles climbing the charts and the band continues to circle the globe promoting their new album Famous. Planets aligned, deals were struck and Puddle of Mudd will be main stage at Rock Gone Wild. The festival is slated for August 20-23, 2009 in Algona, Iowa.
The guys in Puddle of Mudd are hardened road warriors and quite at home playing in front of capacity crowds. From their />... | Out Nov 4th 2008! 
Hitting stores everywhere on November 4th, Only Way To Be Alone, is the debut release from Sargent House's Good Old War. Having played for quite some time as Anthony Green's backing band, as well as in their own musical endeavors, Good Old War has pulled a musical 180 with this album.
Not to be lumped in with the slew of recent indie turned country/folk artists, Good Old War makes no attempt to assimilate its music for />... | | | | | | | | | | | | |
November 8, 2008 12:17 AM by kat  | | | | Geffen Records 
It took 15 years and about $20 million to make Chinese Democracy. Considering there are 14 songs on the album, that's over a year and around $1.4 million per track. I heard the singles, so I already know it's not packed full of million dollar songs. But, before I really rip into this album, there is something we need to get out of the way. The name. No, not Chinese Democracy. Guns N Roses. I don't have a problem with the fact that Axl is the only original member in the band. What I do have a problem with is that Axl's ego is so big I'm sure he'd sue the pants off anyone who tried to take credit for any small portion of this album. For that reason, it is not Guns N Roses, it is Axl Rose. Now onto the content of the record (and further evidence that this is actually a solo album).
Let's be />...  | Hovercraft ![Ugly Stick - Still Glistening [CD]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/3/5/5/7/glistening.jpg "Ugly Stick - Still Glistening [CD]")
Ugly Stick return after 14 years to bring us a new album, the aptly titled 'Still Glistening'. Known back in the late 80s/early 90s for their pioneering blend of genres, culminating in the label Cowpunk, Ugly Stick like to mix up their sound with rock, country, student rock, indie, pop and hillbilly.
'Still Glistening' starts with a great track ‘Little Lynn’, this little number will have you singing along in no time, with it’s catchy lyrics, bouncing rhythm and beautifully melodic harmony vocals. This track sets the tone for 'Still Glistening' and re-ignites that sound which made them so notorious back in the day. Ugly Sticks' sound is something that is unique yet so commercial and accessible. The sound doesn’t seem that original now but considering they were playing this stuff 20 />... ![Ugly Stick - Still Glistening [CD] Author rating: 76%](images/rating/gars_8.gif "Ugly Stick - Still Glistening [CD] Author rating: 76%") | Napalm Records - Out 1st December ![The Modern Age Slavery - Damned To Blindness [CD]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/3/5/5/7/modern.jpg "The Modern Age Slavery - Damned To Blindness [CD]")
There is always an emphasis, from a marketing point of view, to convey the music on an album through the artwork, so that the purchaser can know roughly what to expect when buying an artist's releases. The Modern Age Slavery have got this one perfect, it is simply brutal, so much so that I can barely look at the mangled face on the cover, with all those instruments and hooks pulling at the blood splattered cadaver.
Damned To Blindness is 40 minutes of brutal metal, dancing in between death and grind and never really straying outside those two constraints. There is no relenting on Damned To Blindness, it is balls to the wall all the way through. Sometimes metal bands will chuck in an instrumental, interlude or some other music concoction as a way of creating a minor piece of diversity />... ![The Modern Age Slavery - Damned To Blindness [CD] Author rating: 64%](images/rating/gars_6.gif "The Modern Age Slavery - Damned To Blindness [CD] Author rating: 64%") | Diffusion Records - Out 1st Dec 
Fast, dreary, punky but not quite, its organised punk. The Front could be the Arctic Monkeys, not a bad thing, not a bad thing at all, that is unless as a band you want to sound like yourselves.
Structured, resolved, understood, point taken. I know I will forget about 'Me and My God' when I wake up later. With a title like, 'Me And My God' I'd like to be able to hear the vocals clearly, so maybe they need to be a bit louder; never the less, I would dance to this track if I were out and about and it came on; like the tarantella, I would dance. There is no way out but to dance.
What I don't understand though is how you can be in a band and settle for sounding like other bands who have made it. I mean, its OK to have influences right? But the thought that stops me from enjoying this />...  | Diffusion Records ![The Medicine - Stop! [Single]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/2/themed.jpg "The Medicine - Stop! [Single]")
STOP! STOP! STOP! Now, Stop by The Medicine is catchy, familiar and I could easily live with it. I hated it when it started, don't ask me why. The lyrics are personal and real, and the more it goes on, the more it grows in every way. Whilst searching for this band on Myspace I found another band called, ' The Medicine' who were also pretty good I might add!
Coming back to "The Medicine" in question, it's quite obvious that there is no cure for what I have. I have ears that are too fussy, eyes that don't budge from their point of view and a sense of smell that constantly needs to be challenged and if it doesn't then it stops working!! If you claim to be the drug, then blow us away. "The Medicine" are in danger of being the poison if played on repeat. As such I'll do as they />... | End Of The Trail Records - Out 1st Dec ![The Wasp Factory - Nothing No More [Single]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/3/9/9/7/m_fac6bb26ab01470e9b148dc48b4fadb7.jpg "The Wasp Factory - Nothing No More [Single]")
I don't know what it is about military drum fills and repetitive vocals, and the word 'nothing' that excites me?
Maybe because music making has become exactly that.
Another indie band singing something about a girl. In this case 'she's easy on the eye'. "Nothing No More" is a short song. A compact bit of sonic masturbation, but not too much. Yes I could imagine myself listening to this and it would sit nicely on the play list of commercial radio stations. Listening to another one of their songs 'Dynamite,' I found that The Wasp Factory have some quirky surprises up their sleeves. Coming from Grimsby and now Brighton, this alone for me is very promising. This combination of inspiration could be so powerful, and will [I suppose] one day reflect in The Wasp Factory's music, that />... | End of the Trail Records ![Shake! Appeal - Control [Single]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/2/shake.jpg "Shake! Appeal - Control [Single]")
Upon listening to Shake! Appeal various familiar sounds are grouped, rounded, composed, re-arranged, and regurgitated once again blaring out of my speakers, and you bet ya, as usual, there is a Ska sounding song involved.
Now I'm not saying I'm not a fan of ska music. Oh no, it's just that to a point I am slightly sick of it. I have spent a lot of time gigging in the south of France and let me inform you there are as many Ska bands there as there are sausages in the summer time!
So, nothing lavish, unique, or daring here. Generally speaking it doesn't really stand out from the rest of the gazillion bands that exist in the world today. Shake! Appeal can play well and the single is well produced. They seem young, so there will be plenty of time for them to grow and start adding the />... ![Shake! Appeal - Control [Single] Author rating: 47%](images/rating/gars_5.gif "Shake! Appeal - Control [Single] Author rating: 47%") | One Little Indian Records - Out 24th Nov 
Kelli Ali hails from Birmingham for the uninitiated but to listen to this album you certainly won't be thinking of endless motorways, traffic jams, and Frank Skinner (sorry I need to brush up on my Birmingham knowledge) instead you'll be floated above the clouds to some-sort of fantasia where we are all at peace, we have no war, we have no poverty, we have no damn credit-crunch instead in it's place where we have genetically made unicorns and we all own one, everyday meals consist of candy-floss, and everyone has a smile like a frickin' rainbow (upside-down of course)... now maybe this isn't everybody's idea of happiness but listening to this album you'll be able to conjure up your own little idea of heaven this is the magic of 'Rocking Horse'.
Written over the last few years as Kelli />...  | | | From Zero-G the makers of Vocal Forge 
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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... | 4-ins/ 4-outs audio interface. Designed for advanced and professional DJs. 
As a home producer and music fanatic, it has always been my ambition to get the old vinyl out the loft and start manipulating music as a DJ. Space, money and time has always been the main factors effecting my decision to actually going ahead with this ambition. Having previously played around with Virtual DJ Pro software on my laptop, I had become accustomed to guessing where the mix will... | The latest version of the industry-standard DI box with speaker simulation. 
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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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Altsounds: First things first, where does the name Hoobastank come from?
Hoobastank [Dan Estrin]: Well, the word "HOOBA" is Latin for "one with much passion for". STANK is Greek for "a woman's rectum".
Altsounds: Are you pleased with how the new single 'My Turn' is doing so far?
Hoobastank [Dan Estrin]: I haven't been following how the song is doing. our manager fills us in but I kind of just tune it out. I don't want to think about that right />... | "The Delgados really changed the way I thought about music and songs" 
So were coming to the end of a big year for you. What has been the highlight?
Each week seems to feature a brand new highlight for us, as we've been playing shows pretty solidly for the past few months... T in the Park was particularly memorable, though. And of course the day our record came out was rather nice.
Has releasing a Christmas single been a long held ambition?
Not terribly long. I've wanted to do an EP of Christmas songs, as I'm a huge fan of Low's one. But />... | "we're on the wall between Woody Guthrie and Color Me Badd. It's a very distinguished honor." 
All too often kids pick up instruments with the hopes of becoming rich and famous, only to find out that goal is nothing more than a fantasy for all but a select few. The road to stardom is lined with the bodies of unlucky dreamers that have been chewed up and spit out by the exclusivity of reality. The further an artist travels down that road, the more depressing it can be as the faces on the bodies grow increasingly familiar. Artists you've known, liked, and even played with never quite made />... | Pre show at The Great Indoors London 
He arrived out of the cold – a hand knitted scarf bundled the Big Grin (deserving of capitals) wearing earmuffs. It’s Bushwalla: The one-man boy band-cum-circus-magician-freestyle-ghetto-blaster, the Gangsta with a basket on his bike. You may have seen him all over You Tube, cranking spontaneous street side freestyle sessions alongside long-time friend, collaborator and fellow planet-saver, Jason Mraz. Or maybe you’ve seen one of his gangstamentaries, like the fairly recent W.T.F? />... | "If a listener is hungry for a real connection to good music, it's definitely out there" 
Altsounds: Rumour has been going round and I believe you've confirmed that a second album will be under production sometime in the future. Coming from your initial concept album, do you already have ideas about the content of the second?
Sixx:AM [James Michael]: Yes. After we finished recording the Heroin Diaries Soundtrack, the three of us knew that we would eventually find some excuse to get into a studio together and create some more music. However, none of us anticipated that the />... | | | [Music Video]
Here is the video for the new single by The Chemists called Radio Booth. The track is out on December 8th 2008
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See what happens this week when they reach their destination of the Union Square Taco Bell and face their arch nemesis: The Big Box.
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Watch the live video cut from this summer's Crue Fest of Trapt's song Contagious, off their album Only Through the Pain
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IPS unplugs don't stop at a radio station using iphones as percussion.
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In todays Myspace oriented world nothing is more important than making sure your Myspace looks better than everyone elses. That's where we come in!
You can hire the Altsounds design team to completely overhaul your Myspace page and make it look better than any other Myspace site out... | | | The Altsounds Concentrate | Sunday 16th November 2008 
Altsounds is bigger than Jesus
LOOK AWAY NOW NAN! The Sacrilegious Edition.
Thanketh the Lordeth for gracing us all with Saint Christopher, master of web design. I'm telling you, Chris will not be satisfied until every beloved child under the firmament is chillin' on Altsounds. Here are some of the new blessings-
First of all, the search function hath been moved to the top. USE IT. Altsounds has some serious depth. It would take you years to see everything on the site. Do a quick search for your favorite band and find all of the related content Altsounds has to offer.
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