ALGONA, IOWA (October 28, 2008) - The "dirty boys of the underground," east coast rockers Kix, are set to bring their high-energy stage antics to America's heartland. Kix will play the inaugural Rock Gone Wild festival in Algona, Iowa August 20-23, 2009.
Founded in a Hagerstown, Maryland basement about three decades ago, Kix are known for an over-the-top show - complete with choreography! Kix take the phrase "hop, skip and a jump" to a completely new level. Band members made a name for themselves in the mid 1980s with a string of videos on MTV and the hit single "Don't Close Your Eyes" featured on the popular album Blow My Fuse. East coast fans know Kix intimately. Their New Year's Eve shows at Hammerjacks are stuff of legend.. Now, fans outside the eastern seaboard get the chance to experience real rock energy up close and personal. Kix are Steve Whiteman (vocals), Brian "Damage" Forsythe (guitar), Ronnie "10/10" Younkins (guitar), Mark Schenker (bass) and Jimmy "Chocolate&quo  |
HITS STORES OCTOBER 28, 2008
New York’s O’Death will release their new album, Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skins on October 28th via Kemado Records, their new U.S. home. The album, which was written over a span of three years, was co-produced with Alex Newport (Two Gallants, the Locust). Since 2007’s buzzed-about Head Home, the quintet, which contains vocalist/guitarist Greg Jamie, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Gabe Darling, fiddle player Bob Pycior, bassist Newman and drummer David Rogers-Berry have evolved the possessed americana-meets-gypsy-punk of recent years into a more urgent, unrelenting celebration of life, death and everything in between.
O'DEATH TOUR DATES
July 31 - River Rocks @ Pier 54 - New York, NY (with Flogging Molly)
August 13 - Cargo - London, UK
August 15 - Green Man Festival - Wales
August 16 - Brucken Festival - Nuremberg
August 17 - West Germany, Berlin
August 28 - Le Divan Orange - Montreal, Quebec  |
The Cure’s 4:13 Dream is in stores today. The 13th studio album from the seminal rock outfit was recorded, engineered, produced and mixed at Parkgate Studios UK by Robert Smith and Keith Uddin (Oasis, Madonna). Featuring “The Perfect Boy”, “The Hungry Ghost” and “The Only One” which all showcase Smith’s unmistakable vocals, the band’s jangly guitar-pop and undeniable melodic prowess it is clear that the record is another triumph in The Cure’s storied discography.
Fans can watch a live performance of “The Only One” on The Cure’s official site.
“The Only One” video link: The Cure : Videos : The Only One Live in Charlotte 6/16/08 |
PLUS FLAPES SIGN TO SONY JAPAN!
Fight Like Apes will be supporting The Prodigy on their sold out UK tour in December. Liam, Keith and Maxim are all big FLApes fans and personally requested the band for the gigs.
The Prodigy shows round off an extraordinary year for Fight Like Apes, which has seen the band play over 100 concerts in the UK and Ireland, taking in all the major festivals, and touring with The Tings Tings, We Are Scientists and Kasabian. The band also spent a month in Seattle working on their debut album – ‘Fight Like Apes And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion’ – with producer John Goodmanson. The album has charted Top 10 in Ireland.
FLApe fever continues to spread far and wide with the news that the band has been signed to Sony Music Japan for the far eastern release of their debut album.
The album will be released in the UK on January 26th 2009 on Model Citizen Records.
FIGHT LIKE APES on tour with The Prodigy – |
Let’s ‘Ave It!
· Noel and Liam Gallagher discuss the new influences behind their latest album, Dig Out Your Soul
· Liam reveals the inspiration behind the album’s tender ballad, Nicole
· Noel exposes his love for happy hardcore on the track, Wings Of Love
· The band reveal the new single, a sun-soaked reggae ska tune, Jamming In the Sunshine
· Liam discloses the secret to song writing, “ It’s not hard writing songs you know. It’s like making a sandwich with your face.”
Dig Out Your Soul, Oasis’ seventh studio has been described as the band back in rocking form, with many claiming that the notorious brothers Gallagher have finally got their swagger back. The best received Oasis record within the last decade, it’s has been compared to their world-famous debut Definitely Maybe. What the fans really want to know is, ‘what’s changed this time around?’ Have the band taken up yoga, gone all macrobiotic or has fatherhood sharpen |
This November two of Suicide Squeeze’s finest, These Arms Are Snakes and Russian Circles, go head to head on a whirlwind UK tour.
These Arms Are Snakes: A natural force, that thunders with constant contradiction and challenge. Self-described as, “Four men with a chronic black cloud overhead; bitter, bummed out, and bored,” they couple dark pessimism with an elemental energy that does not end.
On ‘Tail Swallower & Dove’ (released at the beginning of October) These Arms Are Snakes move through 10-songs with the cracked grace of bolted lightning, rolling and leveling, seeking a space to storm into. The band, comprised of Chris Common (drums, percussion), Brian Cook (bass, guitar, keyboards), Ryan Frederiksen (guitar, keyboards), Steve Snere (vocals, effects), have brought their non-stop work ethic of touring and beyond-intense performance to the studio with career defining result. Now they are hitting the road again to show just how it’s supposed to be don |
Part Of The Weekend Never Dies is a documentary into Radio Soulwax, a touring concept that for the past three years has showcased the talents of four Belgians (Soulwax) who themselves programmed and promoted, DJ’d and played live each and every night alongside a revolving array of their friends and some of the most exciting acts in modern music, traveling relentlessly through the four corners of the globe under the banner of “Radio Soulwax.”
Recorded over 120 shows with one camera in Europe, Japan, US, Latin America and Australia with acclaimed young director Saam Farahmand, their efforts resulted in two films. The first is Part Of The Weekend Never Dies, a documentary that captures the adulation, debauchery, ebullience, reflection, cynicism, tiredness, despair, delusion, ridiculousness, contradiction, revelation, exhaustion, homesickness of the life of a DJ/band on the road, which includes 2manydj's and Soulwax’s Nite Versions live footage, and also features James Murphy, Nan |
In Case Of Fire have been announced as one of the acts on 2009’s Kerrang! Tour in January. The band, who release debut single This Time We Stand on November 10th will be joining Bring Me The Horizon, Mindless Self Indulgence and Black Tide on the national tour.
January
13 Belfast, Mandela Hall
14 Dublin, Academy
16 Bristol, Academy
17 Cardiff, Great Hall
18 Southampton, Guildhall
20 Oxford, Academy
21 Norwich, UEA |
Warm wishes to you all from The Joy Formidable.
I'd like to kick off this mailout by thanking everyone who saw and supported us on tour - cheers guys and a note to White Lies and Post War Years for a very happy and inspiring 3 weeks. I'll be posting some pictures and stories in the next few days, so if you have anything to share from the tour please send to thejoyformidable@hotmail.com
Since returning, we've been furiously recording our second single Cradle and Japanese album; the freshly titled A Balloon called Moaning.
Cradle will be released in January 2009, with an opportunity to pre-order on December 1st; details to follow. Tracklisting for the single is Cradle, The Last Drop, Cradle (remixed by Kyte) MySpace.com - Kyte - Leicestershire, UK - Ambient / Electro / Pop - www.myspace.com/kyteband and The Last Drop (remixed by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs) MySpace.com - totally enormous extinct dinosaurs - UK - Electro / Techno / Powerpop |
The first video from Bleeding Through's new album "Declaration" is here! You may have seen "Death Anxiety" this past weekend on MTV2's Headbangers Ball, now you can watch it at Trustkill or below.
Singer Brandan Schieppati chimed in to say, "The first line in 'Death Anxiety' says, 'My body will be set aflame tonight.' We knew we wanted something straightforward with this video, performance driven and without some storyline or whatever. We didn't want to be playing in a warehouse while some actors do something 'spooky' somewhere else. With that being said, that first line in the song was too hard to resist. This video had to have fire!
The only thing we told Dave Brodsky, the director, is that we wanted it to feature the band playing the song and we wanted lots of pyro. And that's exactly what we got!
We shot the video in Los Angeles which of course isn't that far from where we live in Orange County. Jona joined the band well over a year ago but this is the first opportunity we' |
The Pretenders' "Boots Of Chinese Plastic" the first single off the band's ninth studio album, the Shangri-La Music release Break Up The Concrete, and the album dethroned Coldplay for #1 at the AAA Chart according to FMQB.
Fueled by the single, great press and a unique on-line campaign the album sold over 16,000's in its first week, doubling the number of copies of the band's previous album album Loose Screw, this all achieved in a depressed album sales market which is down over 40% from six years ago when the previous album was released.
Break Up The Concrete's 11 songs were recorded in 12 days making for an album both gritty and immediate which recalls the band's earliest days. Hynde, along with the other Pretenders: guitarist James Walbourne, bassist Nick Wilkinson and long time drummer Martin Chambers introduced new songs from the album on Late Show With David Letterman and the Today Show week of release.
Shangri-la Music took an unprecedented step of giving a new M |
CONFIRM LIVE "ROCKLINE" INTERVIEW FOR NOVEMBER 10
As MUDVAYNE prepare an aural assault on America with "The New Game Tour 2008"--with dates from October 28 in El Paso, TX through December 20 in Orlando, FL--their current single "Do What You Do" is tearing up radio and proving to be the fastest-rising single of their career. In its first three weeks at radio, the song has already reached #7 at Active Rock and #26 at Modern Rock, according to BDS. Fans can tune into the nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline" on Monday, November 10 to hear a live interview with MUDVAYNE (check local listings for air times). "Do What You Do" is the first radio track from THE NEW GAME, MUDVAYNE's first studio album in three years, due out November 18 via Epic Records. The deluxe special edition version of THE NEW GAME includes expanded packaging and artwork.
THE NEW GAME is an electrical storm of musical fury, a lesson in controlled chaos that tempers hard rock, heavy metal, prog rock and sadistic splatters of melody into |
A CROSS THE UNIVERSE DROPS DECEMBER 9th ON ATLANTIC RECORDS
Extraordinary things always happen when unexpected. During the 18 months the Grammy-nominated French duo Justice spent touring following the release of their monumental debut LP, "extraordinary" didn't necessarily mean "amazing", or "great", (though it sometimes did) but "surreal", "weird", "horrendous", "fascinating", or "paranormal", etc. To cut a long story short, it means that without anyone to film you twenty-four/seven, no one will believe or get the essence of every moment you'd like to tell them about.
So as Justice were about to tour the USA for the second time, multi-award winning directors and intimate friends of the band, Romain Gavras ("Stress" director) and So-Me ("D.A.N.C.E.", "DVNO") taped every second of that 3 week tour that looks like it lasted 3 years. This documentary ain't about how cool Justice's live show is (the bonus CD is here for that), but is all about the extraordinary things that can happen when a bunch of frogs gets dropped in dreamy America.
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Single released November 3rd 2008
There's a new single by Enter Shikari on the way. Its called 'We Can Breathe In Space, They Just Don't Want Us To Escape' and it will be on the shelves of record shops (as many as are left these days anyway), online retailers, and digital outlets in the UK from November 3rd. The single will be once again released on the band's own Ambush Reality label.
This version of 'We Can Breathe In Space' is a drastic re-working of a song originally demoed by the band way back in the mists of time (though popular amongst fans thanks to its brisk trade on file sharing / P2P sites, despite being missing from the live set for the past couple of years). The track was recorded in East London during the summer 2008 during a break in writing sessions for the follow up to the top 5 gold sales certified album 'Take To The Skies'. It is the first new recording to be released by Enter Shikari since June 2007.
'We Can Breathe In Space' was produced by Andy Gray who (aside from writing the the |
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Steven Soderbergh is creating a multimillion dollar 3-D live action rock musical about Cleopatra. The music is being written by Guided by Voices and the script was written by the band's former bass player, James Greer. Soderbergh is said to be in talks with Catherine Zeta-Jones to play the lead role, and Hugh Jackman is being courted to play her lover, Marc Anthony.
Nothing about this sounds go |
MTV2 have premiered the video for “18 Days,” the new single from Saving Abel. The clip was directed by Travis Kopach (Panic At The Disco, Black Tide) and features the band performing on the USS Hornet. The San Francisco based naval carrier won 9 battle stars for her service in WWII.
Saving Abel will be out on tour supporting Buckcherry and Avenged Sevenfold starting on November 4th. Check out the band’s MySpace profile page for all of the dates.
Direct video link for “18 Days”: 18 Days | Saving Abel | Music Video | MTV |
Tours with Anathallo.
Cale Parks is a musician living in New York. He is the drummer in Aloha and White Williams. His sophomore album Sparklace (a Cale Parks anagram) will see release on Polyvinyl Record Co. on November 4th and is the first of two solo albums he will release this year. The second album will see release on the upstart Normative Music Company label.
A little over a year since the release of Parks' debut album Illuminated Manuscript comes Sparklace. There is a stark contrast between the two albums. Sparklace stands as a more immediate album than its predecessor focusing on songs with a pop structure whereas Parks' previous output was more ambient and minimalisitc. Recorded in his home, every sound is original. If there is a drum sample, it is from Parks' drum set. The vibraphone is sampled as well. To say Parks has found his voice, is to miss the point. Rather, the sound of Sparklace is singular and electronic with born digital sounds. There is no wasted space, not a sna |
New York, NY – October 27, 2008 – 2K Sports, announced today details for the 4th annual Bounce Tour, the latest addition to 2K Sports’ series of live events celebrating the convergence of music, sports and video game culture. The tour lineup consists of Q-Tip (from A Tribe Called Quest), who will be supported by his live band, DJ Scratch (from EPMD) and the popular duo The Cool Kids, who will also be performing new material and other banging hits. The Bounce Tour is scheduled to appear in 20 different cities across the country from Nov.5 – Dec.3.
“Q-Tip killed it last year on the 2K8 Bounce Tour and we’re honored to have him back on tour with us. He’s a legend in the game, and one of the most influential artists in hip-hop culture,” said Tim Rosa, director of brand and lifestyle marketing at 2K Sports. "We’re also excited to have The Cool Kids performing new material on the tour. Their music is unique and positive, their vibe is independent and authentic, and they ro |
ALGONA, IOWA (October 22, 2008) - The famous Los Angeles Sunset Strip comes to Iowa in summer 2009! Great White will play the inaugural Rock Gone Wild festival in Algona, Iowa August 20-23, 2009. For the first time, fans are able to purchase seats in all three tiers: platinum, VIP and general admission. Fans should act fast if they want to get wild in August 2009 - tickets are going fast for America's preeminent rock n' roll festival.
Los Angeles nightclubs in the 80s are the stuff of legends. Great White cut their teeth in places like the Troubadour and other Sunset Strip haunts. The quintet gained fame with hits like "Rock Me," "Save Your Love" and "Once Bitten.Twice Shy." West coast fans know Jack Russell could hit the high notes in 1981.and he can still hit them today. Don't miss your chance to witness one of the best blues-based rock bands in the business perform live. Great White are Jack Russell (vocals), Mark Kendall (guitar), Michael Lardie (guitar and keyboard), Sco |
Guitar Center & Motley Crue Offering One Up-and-Coming Band The Ultimate Career-Altering Opportunity
Continuing its commitment to the support of aspiring artists, Guitar Center and Mötley Crüe announced today the 30 semi-finalists for the Guitar Center On-Stage – Your Chance To Make Rock History. Guitar Center and the world’s most notorious rock band will provide one up-and-coming band the ultimate, career-altering opportunity - the chance to open on tour for rock icons, Mötley Crüe.
Over the past six weeks, bands across the United States were invited to submit their music at MakeRockHistory.com - Home. From thousands of submissions, 30 semi-finalists have been selected to compete for the chance to win a prize package that includes an opening slot on Mötley Crüe’s 2009 U.S. tour (dates to be announced at a later date), $25,000 cash, $20,000 in exclusive new gear from Gibson Guitar, management from Tenth St. Entertainment, and a recording deal from Eleven Seven Music, Mötley’s management and record label.The top 30 bands were chosen from metrics including top fan votes and al |
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