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Posted by Joseph Bridges on Wednesday, September 30, 2009,
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Artist: Sole & The Skyrider Band
Title: Battlefields
Label: Fake Four Inc.
Genre: Hip Hop/Rock/Electronica
Refreshing sounds emanate from the latest EP by Sole and the Skyrider Band called Battlefields. The title alone could be a statement against the prevailing piracy that squanders many artists out of profits. This is a statement posted by the band recently (With no editing):
“on behalf of soleone.org & fakefour inc, and musicians everywhere in the spirit of thomas jefferson and jam...
Posted by Joseph Bridges on Wednesday, September 30, 2009,
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NEW VERSION OF "TESTIMONY" AVAILABLE FOR FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD
NYC collective The Phenomenal Handclap Band has returned from the UK and are preparing to hit North America once again, this time alongside Simian Mobile Disco, Chromeoand Bajofondo among others. The band will be playing a very special show at Pop Montrealtonight, Wednesday 9/30, and will be DJing at select events and parties during this year's CMJ Music Marathon.
Led by Daniel Collás and Sean Marquand, (producers/musicians/...
Posted by P Shather on Tuesday, September 29, 2009,
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Academy Fight Song is proud to announce the release of Person L's second full-length record, The Positives, on November 17th. In anticipation of the forthcoming release, the band will be exclusively premiering the new album's title track on their Myspacepage today, September 29th.
Following the DIY nature of Initial, Person L's 2008 self-released debut, the band looked to Aaron Marsh, lead musician and producer of the band Copeland, to produce The Positives at his home studio, The Va...
Posted by P Shather on Tuesday, September 29, 2009,
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Verve Records is very excited to announce the release of Jamie Cullum's first solo record in four years. The record is called The Pursuit and is being released March 2, 2010. It's Cullum's fifth record in a genre-defying career that has entertained an ever-growing fanbase across the globe since his first Verve record was released in 2002. The title of the record is taken from Nancy Milford's classic novel, The Pursuit of Love, and the songs on it are wonderfully eclectic as always, mixing mod... Continue reading ...
Posted by Joseph Bridges on Tuesday, September 29, 2009,
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The Most Serene Republic had an ample amount of gear stolen last night after their show at the Biltmore in Vancouver. Included is a list of what was taken along with as much information about the items as possible. Please pass this information along to anyone who you might think could be of assistance. Contact chris@arts-crafts.ca if you have any info.
Thank you.
Make: Washburn Acoustic (Natural Finish) Model: D112 Serial #: 86028 Notes: Not original headstock, screw markings
Posted by Joseph Bridges on Sunday, September 27, 2009,
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Artist: The Nightgowns
Title: Sing Something
Label: Self Released
Genre: Rock/Pop
There has been a burgeoning scene lately of kids who went through an emo/punk phase in high school who are now going to college and discovering that there is something other than the music and clothing they have bought for years at Hot Topic. The overwhelming majority of the music they have latched themselves to though is an amalgam of horribly untalented bands regurgitating 80’s pop and trying to act...
Posted by P Shather on Friday, September 25, 2009,
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New York City's The Bravery announces that they will release their highly-anticipated third album, entitled Stir The Blood, on November 10th. The album was produced by John Hill, whose credits include Santigold and M.I.A. The first single, "Slow Poison," is now available for download on iTunes.
In support of this new release, the band will headline an ambitious US tour, which kicks off October 1st at The Ogden Theatre in Denver, CO. They will play shows in more than 30 cities across the ... Continue reading ...
"Real Estate waft in on vibes of hazy summers past. The New Jersey quartet of Martin Courtney IV, Matthew Mondanile III, Etienne Pierre Duguay and Alex Bleeker cut the sleeves short and the pop smooth to shade you from the midday heat. Every song works its way to that part of your consciousness that reveled in the fleeting waves of freedom that eked in once classes broke and the sun linger...
Posted by P Shather on Tuesday, September 22, 2009,
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The highly anticipated track listing for The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack is here! MySpace Music exclusively reveals the list of artists being featured on the hit film's soundtrack, which will consist of completely original music. While there's been much speculation about who would be contributing, it's now confirmed. Wondering who made the cut?
Check out the 'In The News' blog on the newly redesigned MySpace Music to see the full list: http://www.myspace.com/music.
Posted by P Shather on Tuesday, September 22, 2009,
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After a handful of east coast dates earlier this summer, Hatcham Social announces their first full-fledged US tour, with fellow Englishmen Echo & The Bunnymen. The band is touring in support of their debut album You Dig The Tunnel, I'll Hide The Soil which was released on tbd records (home of Radiohead) and produced by Charlatans lead singer Tim Burgess.
Hatcham Social has drawn critical praise from Paste Magazine, who compared them to The Smiths as well as their soon-to-be-tour mates. The ... Continue reading ...
When Tim Cohen told Shayde Sartin he was writing a song called "Be My Hooker," the Fresh & Onlys bassist looked at the singer/guitarist and said... "'There's no way we're gonna have a song with that title, dude,'" explains Sartin. "But sure enough, he laid a riff down and I was like, 'Jesus Christ, I can't believe you pulled something meaningful out o...
Posted by P Shather on Tuesday, September 22, 2009,
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Dent May & his Magnificent Ukulele
Jackson, Mississippi native Dent May grew up singing in local church groups, acting in school plays, and performing at nursing home gigs with a recorder choir. In high school, he wrote synthy power-pop with his band The Rockwells while recording erotically charged novelty tracks with friends on the side. After three unsuccessful semesters at NYU's film school, May moved to North Mississippi where he helped found the Cats Purring arts collect...
Posted by P Shather on Tuesday, September 22, 2009,
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Bobby Birdman
After three years of tireless tinkering, Bobby Birdman is back.
On New Moods, his most focused and complete musical effort to date, upbeat pop anthems jostle up against shimmering slow a cappella numbers, while New Orleans bounce, dancehall, and hyphy funnel noisily into each self-produced pop number. Sun-drenched guitars and Bobby Birdman's characteristic, unfuckwithable new-school croon wash over drumline weirdness and tyrannical sub bass, like a rogue wave on t...
The album, which will be released November 10th on both vinyl and CD formats, is now up for pre-order from the label. Black Numbers will press 300 copies of the LP (100 white, 200 blue), as well as a short run (200) of hand-screened CDs with liner notes personally written by PJ. No two of these limited...
Posted by P Shather on Tuesday, September 22, 2009,
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(New York, NY) The mind-bending band that gave us what is largely considered the decade's most viewed music video (even the Simpsons parodied it), the treadmill-manned "Here It Goes Again" is back. Never content to rest on their laurels, OK Go is preparing to tread anything but familiar territory with their upcoming new album, Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky releasing on January 12, 2010 on Capitol Records.
The 13-track opus is the long-awaited follow-up to their acclaimed Oh No, which spawned ... Continue reading ...
Posted by P Shather on Saturday, September 19, 2009,
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HATCHBACK'S REMIX OF "QUESTIONS," AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD
East London group Dark Captain Light Captain spawned a surprise hit in the US with their release of their full-length debut, Miracle Kicker, in fall of last year. The album received loads of glowing reviews and a place in some surprising end-of-year charts. Expanding to a six-piece live machine, they toured all over the UK before settling down for a well earned rest. Now the band is releasing a digital-only Remix EP, out now ...
Posted by P Shather on Saturday, September 19, 2009,
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Philadelphia's The Wonder Years, will be leaving for a seven-week tour of the U.S. beginning on Monday.
The Ghostbus-Tour will find the pop-punk juggernaut teaming up with Bridge Nine's Energy, as well as A Loss For Words, for 40 shows that cover both coasts and just about everything in between.
Posted by P Shather on Saturday, September 19, 2009,
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FIRST SONG "WHO WILL," AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD
22 years old and never been kissed, but with a whole lot of stories to tell, Will Stratton has once again composed, compiled and produced an album that is far wiser than his years. Having released his critically-favored debut, What the Night Said, at only 19, Stratton's follow-up, No Wonder, is the result of three year's worth of recording sessions sandwiched between his studies at Vermont's Bennington College. In celebration of his forthc...
Posted by P Shather on Wednesday, September 16, 2009,
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Lymbyc Systym
THE BROTHERS BELL FINALLY TAKE SOME TIME OFF FROM THE ROAD AND ENLIST A HUGE SUPPORTING CAST AND MIXING HELP FROM JOHN CONGLETON (EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, R. KELLY, MODEST MOUSE, ETC.), FOR THEIR SECOND MUSH RECORDS FULL-LENGTH, IN STORES NOV. 3, 2009.
With their new full-length, Shutter Release, Lymbyc Systym's Jared and Michael Bell are redefining what it means to be an instrumental band. The brothers make music that sings through you, and their impossibly personal...
Posted by P Shather on Monday, September 14, 2009,
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September 14, 2009 // Toronto, ON – Apostle of Hustle announces further dates to their much anticipated Fall tour in support of their latest album, Eats Darkness, which was released this past May on Arts & Crafts. The tour will now see Apostle of Hustle headline a handful of dates in Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, Peterborough, Kingston and Wakefield. Furthermore, the band will support the recently announced additions to the Gogol Bordellotour including Ventura, San Dieg...
Posted by P Shather on Monday, September 14, 2009,
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Free Download of "Not What You Wanted" Remix
LOS ANGELES, CA (September 14, 2009) - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club today reveal the tracklisting and cover art for their previously announced three-disc Live DVD due out November 10, 2009 on Abstract Dragon/Vagrant. The band is also giving away a free remix of "Not What You Wanted" to fans today via their website; www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com.
The DVD features over two hours of live concert footage from three sold out shows in Berlin, Dublin...
Toronto-based group Little Girls (Josh McIntyre and co.) are preparing for an extensive North American tour performing with Japandroids, Monotonix, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Wavves and Nurses among others. This fall tour will be in support of their forthcoming debut album, Concepts, an eleven-track album that spans from the very first Little Girls track ever written to brand new material. It will be available on CD, limited vinyl, and digitally, t...
Posted by P Shather on Friday, September 11, 2009,
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LAKE photographed by Sarah Cass
LAKE's new album Let's Build A Roof [KLP213], produced by Northwest legend Karl Blau, is sweet, funky and nostalgic - a paragon of psychedelic pop. Their previous album, Oh, the Places We'll Go, contained lighter, more upbeat numbers, but its theme of wonder and idealism foreshadowed the next album to come. Let's Build a Roof is like a travelogue of the places they went, the stories they encountered on the way, and the memories that were unearthe...
Posted by P Shather on Friday, September 11, 2009,
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With September being Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, pediatric cancer charity Lyrics For Life will realize a longtime dream and launch their first annual Lyrics For Life Day, which will be held this year on September 19th. Lyrics for Life is a 501(c)3 charitable organization founded by Sister Hazel front man Ken Block in memory of his younger brother, Jeffrey, who lost his battle with cancer when he was a teen. Music fans are encouraged to participate in any way they can, finding unique w... Continue reading ...
Posted by P Shather on Friday, September 11, 2009,
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NYC collective The Phenomenal Handclap Band is preparing for another tour across North America and Europe, this time alongside Simian Mobile Disco, Chromeo and Bajofondo among others! The band will also be playing a very special show on Governer's Island with Man Man and the Brazillian Girls in NYC in October, and will be DJing at select events and parties during this year's CMJ Music Marathon.
In celebration of their forthcoming air, land and sea adventures, the band is releasing their b...
Posted by P Shather on Thursday, September 10, 2009,
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In support of their debut album You Are Here, thenewno2 announce their much-anticipated, first-ever national tour, in support of Australian rock bandWolfmother.
thenewno2 has attracted significant attention from the press, particularly surrounding front man and multi-instrumentalist Dhani Harrison. He has been featured multiple times in Rolling Stoneincluding the magazine's Hot Issue, and appeared in the final issue of Blender. thenewno2's short history has already been punctuated by myr... Continue reading ...
Posted by P Shather on Thursday, September 10, 2009,
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On November 10, Atlantic Records will release Hello Hurricane, the seventh full-length album from the multi-Platinum, San Diego-based rock band SWITCHFOOT. Hello Hurricane is the group's first album on Atlantic Records and its first studio album since 2006's Oh! Gravity, which debuted at No. 18 on The Billboard 200. SWITCHFOOT has been hard at work on Hello Hurricane, tracking more than 80 songs at the band's self-built home studio and selecting the very best of them for the record. The band ... Continue reading ...
Posted by P Shather on Thursday, September 10, 2009,
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FIRST CFCF TRACK "MONOLITH," AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD
Montreal-based DJ and electronic artist CFCF (aka Michael Silver) is preparing for the release of his first full-length debut album, Continent, on Paper Bag Records. The twelve-track album is the followup to his celebrated Panesian Nights EP, and will be released on October 27th. As CFCF works his way towards Continent, he will first release, The Explorers EP, featuring label mate Sally Shapiro on October 6th.
Posted by P Shather on Thursday, September 10, 2009,
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Seattle-based quintet Minus the Bear are excited to announce a four-week North American headlining tour that will begin October 30th in Eugene, Oregon, proceeded by warm up dates in the Northwest and New York. Having spent the last 4 months in Seattle's Avast! Recording Co and Electrokitty Recording studios, working on their highly anticipated fourth studio album, the band is looking forward to debuting their new material to fans in a live setting. Produced by Grammy Award-winning producer J... Continue reading ...
Posted by P Shather on Thursday, September 10, 2009,
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Fredrik
Fredrik started out in late 2006 as the songwriter/sound artist duo of Fredrik and Lindefelt. The idea was to attempt narrative structures in music through the combination of electroacoustic composition and folk-infused musical form. Before the release of their critically acclaimed debut, Na Na Ni, the lineup was expanded to a 6-piece.
On stage the sextet could be seen playing banjo, clarinet, cello, wind up music boxes and hand made instruments along side bass, guitars...
Posted by P Shather on Tuesday, September 8, 2009,
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September 8, 2009 // Toronto, ON – One of Canada's greatest rock n’ roll success stories of the post-millennial era, the explosive Toronto-based rock group, Billy Talent, return to the U.S. this fall, headlining an extensive national tour in support of their new album Billy Talent III which releases on September 22 via their new home at Roadrunner Records. Full tour details are listed below.
The Brendan O’Brien (AC/DC, Pearl Jam, Springsteen) produced Billy Talent II...
Posted by Joseph Bridges on Friday, September 4, 2009,
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It says a lot when a major independent record label is willing to re-issue two of the four albums your band put out in the eighties. It is not so surprising when that band is The Feelies. Formed in 1976 in Haledon, New Jersey, The Feelies went against the modern day trend of the punk and new wave movements by layering their guitars and self producing their music to their own taste. There was little to interfere with the music, and that was just the way they wanted it to be played and heard...
UK label Lo Alternative Frequencies (LOAF) is delighted to announce the US release of a new project featuring members of UK group The Chap (Ghostly International), called Omo. With the release of Omo's debut, The White Album, the band and label are offering a free mp3 download of the song "Tea Break."
Omo is a new band comprised of pan-European rockers The Chap's keyboardist Berit Immig and visual artist, David Muth, both previously members...
Posted by P Shather on Thursday, September 3, 2009,
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MARIACHI EL BRONX, the border-bending reincarnation of LA punk fixtures The Bronx, announced the release of their self-titled debut today on Swami Records. Mariachi El Bronx is an offering of new songs in the grand tradition of Mexican folk music, hallmarked by elements of guitarron and trumpet. The band also announced that they will be performing as main support for The Killers on five dates of their upcoming U.S. tour, beginning on September 15th in Irvine, CA at Bren Event Center.
