Artist: Team B

Title: Team B

Label: Tonacity Recordings

Genre: Rock/Pop

Between touring with outstanding bands The Arcade Fire and Beirut and stints in the recording studio with the likes of none other than Coldplay, Final Fantasy, The Macabees, and Bishop Allen, Kelly Pratt managed to put together his own band with Pat Mahoney, drummer of LCD Soundsystem, Richard Reed Perry, the bassist for The Arcade Fire, and Jon Natchez and Perrin Cloutier, who are both multi instrumentalist with...

July 21, 2009 // Toronto, ON – The Most Serene Republic, have announced a five week North American tour in support of their third full-length, …And The Ever Expanding Universe, which arrived in stores last week on Arts & Crafts.  The Ontario septet will bring their stirring and explosive live show from east to west and back starting September 9 in Detroit and wrapping in Montreal October 17.  The Most Serene Republic previewed material off Universe last month with a per...

Artist: Rural Alberta Advantage

Title: Hometowns

Label: Saddle Creek

Genre: Rock/Pop

Rating: 10/10

The best unsigned Canadian band no more, Rural Alberta Advantage rereleases their full length debut Hometowns. What a way to introduce the world to your music! Led by Nils Edenloff, who is from Alberta, and with the accompaniment from Paul Banwatt on drums and Amy Cole filling in every other instrument, the Rural Alberta Advantage forges what could be one of the best albums of the deca...

Artist: Eskimo Joe

Title: Inshalla

Label: Warner Music Australia

Genre: Rock/Pop

Coming out of nowhere with their third album Black Fingernails, Red Wine, Eskimo Joe ripped a considerable tear through the world of stadium style rock and roll. While that may have not been their intention, it worked-considerably well. With their latest album Inshalla, the band is returning to their original sound that endeared them to their fans in Australia. While Black, Red may have propelled them to an i...

Mixing classic pop and disco with an expansive, emotionally sophisticated attitude to indie rock, The Jezabels present like few bands in recent years. With front woman Hayley’s dazzling vocals, their on stage presence and purpose is emotionally raw, brittle, directed and genuine. Crowds can’t help but entrust themselves into the energy, intelligence and the gritty realism of the lyrics that is embodied by them.

Born out of a childhood in  Byron   Bay  on the north coast of  New South Wal...

Artist: Dead Weather

Title: Horehound

Label: WEA/Reprise

Genre: Rock

With a rattle and the hum of blasting induced guitars drilling through the layers of rock, Dead Weather propels into the sunshine a soaked and dense album of pure rock and roll. Jack White continues to build his repertoire of music while not sleeping for a few more years (We guess this is how he continues to put out music seemingly every day, or he is a robot.)

www.thedeadweather.com

In celebration of the bands 20th year in the music business, Eugene, Oregon’s horn-heavy, genre-bending, multi-platinum-selling Cherry Poppin’ Daddies are giving store shelves a double shot of musical goodness in September:  both “Susquehanna” and “Skaboy JFK: the Skankin’ hits of the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies” are scheduled for release on September 29, 2009, on Rock Ridge Music/Space Age Bachelor Pad Records.  “Susquehanna” will finally receive its national release, as it wa...

(NASHVILLE, TN)—Vince Melamed—the award-winning songwriter and sideman to such superstars as Bob Dylan, the Eagles, Jimmy Buffett and Rosanne Cash—now moves to center stage as the flagship solo artist of new indie recording label, Adroit Records. Melamed’s debut album, What Matters Most, will be released today.

What Matters Most is a gallery of Melamed’s self-penned hits and a sampling of powerful but lesser known songs that spotlights his genius as a songwriter and performer. Whil...

New York, NY - Owl City excitedly announces that “Fireflies,” has been chosen as the iTunes Single of the Week and will be exclusively available as a free download beginning Tuesday, July 14^th.  The highly coveted iTunes feature is the first to reveal a new song from the much anticipated and long awaited physical release debut Ocean Eyes.  Originally slated for a September 1^st release on Universal Republic, the iTunes feature coupled with overwhelming demand pushed the physical release da...

New York, NY – Brand New announce the release of their new full-length album, Daisy, out September 22^nd 2009 on the band's own Procrastinate Music Traitors, in partnership with DGC/Interscope.  The band also excitedly reveals the details for a homecoming event featuring a headlining performance at Nassau Coliseum on November 27^th in Uniondale , NY .  The band will be joined by a slew of distinguished guest artists they handpicked to share this special occasion with them including a performa...

Summer is the perfect season for pure, catchy indie pop, and while it's just turning to winter for Australia's Summer Cats, We are excited to ring in North America's warmest months with their debut full-length, Songs for Tuesdays!.

Summer Cats play upbeat pop songs in a Stereolab-meets-Go-Betweens style, replete with distorted keyboards, feedback guitars and hook-laden basslines and all accompanied by Scott Stevens' distinctive vocals. They are best played loud, in your bedroom, while your ...

Artist: Metric

Title: Fantasies

Label: Redeye Label

Genre: Rock/Pop

Rating: 6.1/10

It has been nearly four years since the female fronted Metric has produced a new album of original material. The Canada based band is now bringing us their fourth album in their career, and are trying to do the full crossover from indie to mainstream. Their albums have sold very well in the past, and with a good dose of relentless touring they have finally started to creep their way into the elusive �...

Artist: Naim Amor

Title: Soundtracks Volume 3

Label: Amor Music

Genre: Pop/Jazz

If you were asked to conjure a movie soundtrack in your mind based on the knowledge that the music came from a composer who grew up on France and was relocated to Tucson, Arizona, your mind might be a bit confused on what to produce as a set of songs set to an imaginary screen. Naim Amor now gives us his third installment of a series he started in 2000 with Soundtracks Volume III.

Naim sums his long last...

The best description of THE SCARE’s sophomore album titled ‘OOZEVOODOO’ could only come from the bands leader Kiss Reid. If you want to use the usual rock journo cliché, it’s the follow-up to 2007’s Chivalry. But in real terms, ‘oozevoodoo’ is so much more. The album which spawned the unofficial, tongue in cheek, anthem of 2009 “NO MONEY” is set to be released on August 7th via EMI records.
 
‘oozevoodoo’ which also marks the production debut of Daniel Johns is not a ba...

Artist: Grizzly Bear

Title: Veckatimest

Label: Warp Records

Genre: Pop/Rock

When you are putting together songs on an album that is named after an uninhabited island off the coast of Massachusetts, they better be of some content worthy of taking your time to listen and imbibe. Veckatimest is the third album by the home tape master Ed Droste and friends, and is by far their most far reaching album in scope and adventure.

While one listen will not conjure much in the way of originali...

Sister Hazel, the Gainesville, Florida, rock five-piece, has teamed up with the Ford Motor Company for the car manufacturer’s Sync My Ride website (www.syncmyride.com).  As the band who will be the face of Sync My Ride, Sister Hazel will be offering an exclusive track download for the Sync My Ride website.  An acoustic version of the title track from their forthcoming album, “Release,” will be available for download for free from the site beginning July 15^th.  As part of recent tour sch...

Beginning tomorrow, Denver's Esprit De Corps will hit the road for a short 11-day tour of (mostly) the East Coast. The five piece is playing shows in support of their newest EP, Under Constant Influence.

An entirely DIY, self-released affair, the album was recorded locally at the famed 8 Houses Down (Teenage Bottlerocket, Discount, Ninja Gun, Planes Mistaken For Stars) and was then hand screen printed on chipboard by the band. It will be available from The EDC at shows, but you can also pi...

Rising triumphantly from the hollowed indie rock grounds of San Diego, Lanterns. is set to embark on a sort of plan-as-you-go U.S. Summer tour adventure beginning today.

In late 2008 the band released, Apocalypse Youth, a fiery collection of noisy pop songs. As the opening chords of distortion ring out and the drums build to a sharp climax, there is a genuine feeling of excitement, and Lanterns do nothing to quell that anticipation across the EP's raging sound. The California four piece wa...

New York, NY – Steve Shiffman & The Land of No announce the release of their self-titled debut – out late Summer 2009 on Tiny Beast Records.  The band laid down tracks at The Seaside Lounge in Brooklyn, NY where indie stalwarts including The National, The New Pornographers, and Okkervil River among others, have also recorded.  Mixed by Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Lemonheads, Akron/Family) and mastered by Wharton Tiers (Sonic Youth, Nick Cave), the debut features 12 new songs.  Steve Shiffman ...

Al's Moustache, the latest 7-inch from New York / Philly's Higher Giant is now available for pre-order from Black Numbers.

The label, which is pressing 1000 copies on three colors (225 red, 275 yellow, 500 orange), will officially release the four song EP on August 11th, 2009. Each 7-inch will come with a free mp3 download. Additionally, Black Numbers is offering 30 exclusive package deals that include all three colors of the vinyl, plus a limited test pressing.

Featuring NYC hardcore fi...

Burbank, CA- Orem, Utah’s The Used, who have been tantalizing fans by previewing new songs during the Bamboozle and Bamboozle Left Festivals and during recent headlining dates, are proud to announce the release of their fourth studio album, entitled Artwork, on September 1, 2009.  Starting July 21st a deluxe pre-order package of the release will be available only at www.theused.net.

Produced by Matt Squire, Artwork is a raw collection of eleven songs that not so delicately teeter the line...

On October 6, Merge Records will release Lou Barlow’s new album, Goodnight Unknown. In the four years since his career-redefining, mostly acoustic record Emoh, Lou Barlow has reunited with Dinosaur Jr. and reissued three of Sebadoh’s classic albums. But as the brilliant new Goodnight Unknown illustrates, he’s hardly living in the past. Borrowing the live-band energy of Dinosaur Jr. and the stylistic reach of Sebadoh, Barlow has built on Emoh’s full production and written a set of imme...

Nestled in the Pocono Mountains and only a 2 ½ hour drive from NYC, EQUIFUNK is a unique and intimate music festival taking place September 4-6, 2009.  The perfect end to the summer, EQUIFUNK promises adults and children alike, a fun-filled musical adventure, along with a summer camp experience, complete with sports, crafts, swimming and more.

A refreshing departure from the massive festivals where the stage seems miles away, EQUIFUNK offers a cozy, friendly environment where friends, fans ...

NEW YORK, June 29, 2009 - Destructo Swarmbots, the New York City based Drone Pop- Experimental - sensation, have announced the dates for their upcoming European mini tour.  The Swarmbots open on July 6th in Einhhoven, The Netherlands and will conclude on July 15th in Trier, Germany.  The tour will also take them to Switzerland, Italy and Germany.

Tour Dates:

July 6, 2009     Eindhoven, The Netherlands                - Effenaar

July 8, 2009     Bochum, Germany                        ...