Cloud Cult is proud to announce the release of a new special collection of previously unreleased songs from the past 15 years: “Lost Songs from the Lost Years”. These limited edition CDs are hand numbered and are available only on the Cloud Cult website. Although Cloud Cult released a limited edition version of “Lost Songs from the Lost Years” in 2006, that album quickly sold out and has been unavailable since then. The new edition of “Lost Songs from the Lost Years” includes a...

blink-182 have just released an exclusive Haiti Charity T-shirt. All proceeds from the sale of this shirt will go to the Red Cross. Each shirt is $15 and is only available on the bands official online store.

http://www.blink182merch.com

Altogether Now (Birds Bees Flowers Trees)is the U.S. debut release from the UK's Patrick & Eugene.  The album was produced by band member Patrick Dawes.  It's being released by the Tummy Touch Music Group, distributed by ADA/WEA. A number of songs have already gotten massive exposure thru various television and film placements including the VW Rabbit commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMpoBL5LZGM

The Patrick & Eugene sound is comprised of banjos, ukuleles and sunshine pop vocals com...

7dayBinge plans to release its debut, self-titled album via digital download portals on December 8, 2009, with hard copy release to follow on January 26, 2010.  The group includes Todd Harrell of 3 Doors Down on bass, Jon Nicholson of the Muzik Mafia on guitar and vocals, Kenny Olson of Kid Rock’s band on lead guitar, and Shannon Boone on drums.  “7dayBinge” will be released by Rock Ridge Music.  The band plans to tour in support of the album; tour dates will be announced as they are co...

New York, NY – Canadian pop chanteuse Jenn Grant announces the release of her highly-anticipated sophomore full-length, Echoes, out this fall in the US on Six Shooter Records and distributed by ADA .  The album is the follow-up to her critically-acclaimed debut album Orchestra for the Moon and features the talents of a heart-on-sleeve band of musicians led by producer/pianist Jonathan Goldsmith (Bruce Cockburn).  

Echoes was recorded and mixed with a full analog process at The Studio at Pu...

Sister Hazel, the Gainesville, Florida, rock five-piece, released their latest album, entitled “Release,” yesterday, and the title shot up the iTunes Rock Charts, where it went all the way to #1.  The album also found a spot on the overall iTunes sales chart at #8. 

“It was really fun process,” says band lead singer Ken Block of recording the album.  “Overall, it was smooth as silk.  Now even more fun begins:  the album is out, the tour schedule will be busy, and we’ll be playin...

New York, NY - …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead announce a North American headlining tour and tap fellow Texans The Secret Machines to join them on the road as main support for the first half, kicking off September 12^th at the Warehouse in Houston, TX. Joining the band as main support on the second leg of the US trek will be UK up-and-comers Future of the Left.  During this two month coast to coast tour …Trail of Dead will play at renowned venues including the 9:30 Club in Washi...

Nashville, Tenn.- Singer-songwriter Derek Webb unveils Stockholm Syndrome to excited fans and pre-release buzz this fall. Set for release on September 1, 2009, Stockholm Syndrome finds Webb once again facing debate head on. The album is the most provocative and stirring release of his storied career and Webb partners the much-anticipated release with a 20-date tour and a DVD documentary of the project.

Stockholm Syndrome delivers everything listeners have come to expect from Derek Webb: kille...

Critically acclaimed concert pianist Christopher O'Riley releases Out of My Hands, a new album of his trademark piano interpretations of contemporary repertoire featuring compositions by Nirvana, REM, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Tori Amos, The Smiths, Cocteau Twins, and Portishead, among others. I'm hoping you'd consider covering this amazing and nationallly renowned artist with a feature or CD review. These are based on his own groundbreaking transcriptions of the songs in question, following on ...

New York, NY – New Hampshire breakouts Wild Light have set the first round of their Fall tour plans and announce dates with Irish rockers Bell X1.  Kicking off September 18^th at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, these dates continue what has been a super busy year for Wild Light including current shows supporting The Wallflowers on select dates and stellastarr*on national tour.  Wild Light has already logged dates in 2009 with The Killers, Doves, and Tapes n Tapes.

Touring in support of their critic...

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...

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...

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...

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...