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Jay Leno are you listening? That goes for you too Conan and Kimmell. Why are your producers not booking Adelitas Way? They have the number one rock song in the country. They are ripping stages up across America and are the only new band on the headlining stage […]
Shazam and Sirius liquid Metal brought Bison B.C. into my life and I am now better off for it. The Vancouver based band hit like an all out assault on my senses from my Rockports, threatening to shatter my windows and take me off the road. I had […]
The hardcore supergroup, Vehement Serenade, will release their debut s/t 7” on September 25, 2012 via Fast Break Records. The two tracks, “Refuse The Lie” and “Scratched Off The Map” will showcase the bands dynamic and relentless vision of metal meets post hardcore. Both tracks are brutal to […]
Former Misfits frontman, Michale Graves, returns to Pittsburgh on September 25th for an all acoustic show at the 31st St. Pub. Michale will strum his way through his favorite solo and Misfits material. Opening acts include The Sablowskis and The Homeless Gospel Choir. This over 21 show starts […]
BROKEN HOPE will kick off their upcoming tour with headliners Obituary on the Carnival of Death next week! Additional support will come from Decrepit Birth, Jungle Rot, and Encrust. The tour is brought to you by Rock the Nation and sponsored by Fender. See below for a full […]
Harvard-educated producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur and recording artist Ryan Leslie will release his third studio album, Les Is More on October 22 via NextSelection Lifestyle Group/BDG (BDG is distributed by RED Distribution, a division of SONY Music Entertainment). The first single from the album “Beautiful Lie” featuring Fabolous […]
POP Montreal releases its full 2012 festival lineup… This year, POP will include a series of free shows from September 19th to the 21st at Mission Santa Cruz, brought to you by Converse. The headliners for these shows are DAM-FUNK, HOT SNAKES and AUSTRA. There are no tickets […]
The band of brothers known far and wide as Sleepy Sun don’t sit still for long. Though they remain real and spiritual citizens of the Northern California hive that birthed the band in the latter half of the last decade, Sleepy Sun is a rambling band—a certifiably vagabond […]
Eddie Van Halen underwent an emergency surgery for a severe bout of Diverticulitis (Diverticulitis is small, bulging sacs or pouches of the inner lining of the intestine (diverticulosis) that become inflamed or infected. Most often, these pouches are in the large intestine (colon).). No further surgeries are needed […]
New Album ‘Naught’ Hits Stores Digitally on September 18, 2012 and Physically on October 16, 2012 Avant-garde metal band STOLEN BABIES will hit the road next week with co-headliners Devin Townsend Project, Katatonia, and special guests Paradise Lost as part of the “Epic Kings & Idols Tour”! The […]
Yesterday, Detroit, MI’s BATTLECROSS finished their run with the TRESPASS AMERICA festival, also featuring Five Finger Death Punch with support from Killswitch Engage, Trivium, Emmure, Pop Evil, and God Forbid. Helping to cap such a defining summer in the band’s already accelerating career, Sirius XM Liquid Metal will […]
Dirty Ghosts’ front woman Allyson Baker has been a guitarist in both Toronto and San Francisco’s hardcore scene for years, and now she’s stepped up to the microphone with Dirty Ghosts whose “Katana Rock” video directed by Derrick Beckles (creator of TV CARNAGE, Adult Swim’s Totally For Teens […]
MACHINE HEAD’s Robb Flynn and Phil Demmel, MEGADETH’s David Ellefson, Slash, and FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Also Contribute While LAMB OF GOD singer Randy Blythe is back home in America after five weeks in prison in the Czech Republic, his legal problems are far from over. Manslaughter charges […]
SUNFLOWER DEAD and Revolver Magazine are pleased to unveil the band’s brand new music video for the track ‘Make Me Drown’ today! The video is directed by Danny “Ham Cam” Hamilton. The track is cut from the band’s brand new self-titled album, which was named Revolver Magazine’s “Album […]
Dead Sara will kick off their end-of-summer tour with The Offspring beginning August 30 at the On The Waterfront Festival in Rockford, IL. Neon Trees will join the following week with all three bands hitting the road together through September! Be sure to catch the band Rolling Stone […]
If you’re a fan of dream-pop, shoegaze, love songs, noise-pop, psychedelic drugs (meaning SALVIA), you’ll need to look no further than San Francisco’s own Young Prisms. The most recent LP, In Between, from earlier this year is receiving a second video for “Midnight’s When” following spring 2012’s dreamy […]
With just one week to go before the final dates of their two year ‘All You Need Is Now’ world tour, British rock band, Duran Duran, have been forced to cancel the remaining shows on the concluding North American leg, because keyboardist Nick Rhodes is too unwell to […]
Known as much for their progressive approach to melding psychedelia, opera and metal as they are for their captivating, and completely stunning live shows, there is never a dull moment in the world of YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN. YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN have released a new track as […]
Bleeding Rainbow – “Pink Ruff” from stereogum on Vimeo. Leading up to the “Yeah Right” album release, now set for January 29, 2013, Bleeding Rainbow will release a series of three limited 7 inches featuring the singles “Pink Ruff”, “Drift Away” and “Waking Dream” and the artwork of […]
Smoke & Jackal is a collaboration between Kings Of Leon’s Jared Followill and Mona lead singer Nick Brown. The duo’s first effort, EP1, is a 6-track EP that will be released on October 16th. Check out the tracklisting below. Click here to stream the first single “No Tell” […]
Papa Roach has been forced to withdraw from the Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival. Lead singer Jacoby Shaddix has been diagnosed with a nodule on his left vocal cord, and at the advice of his physician he will undergo corrective surgery to remove the nodule and prevent further […]
You know the dream? The one where you pack up your guitar and hit the road? You leave your dog behind and go traveling from town to town playing your music for strangers. Guess what? Fishman and American Songwriter want to make your dream come true with The […]
RZA ENLISTS THE WU-TANG CLAN, KANYE WEST, THE BLACK KEYS, CORRINE BAILEY RAE, PUSHA T & MORE The Man With The Iron Fists soundtrack and score will be released on October 23 via Soul Temple Records/STAX/RED Distribution. In addition to making his debut as a big-screen director, co-writer […]
Less than two years after the release of their last record, the critically-acclaimed Mammoth, BEARDFISH have returned with a new masterpiece, THE VOID, which is out today via InsideOut Music. The album is darker and heavier, and in some parts even has a bit of a metal edge […]
Having established themselves in record time as one of the earth’s premier rock bands with their Gold-certified self-titled debut, CHICKENFOOT will be re-releasing their self-titled, “Chickenfoot,” as a deluxe double disc version on October 16th, 2012. Frontman Sammy Hagar comments: “Chickenfoot 1 will always be special to me […]
Play Private Show At Soho House NYC, Thursday 8/30 @ 9pm Tour Dates With Two Door Cinema Club 10/18 – Commadore – Vancouver, BC 10/19 – Vogue Theatre – Vancouver, BC 10/20 – Showbox SODO (City Art’s Fest) – Seattle, WA 10/21 – Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR […]
“I grew up in the country, a hard working environment where your ass had to get out there and work,” laughs Ralph ‘Soul’ Jackson from Phenix City, AL, a rural city deep in the Black Belt across the Chattahoochee River from Columbus, GA, where the last battle of […]
Lancaster’s finest, THIS OR THE APOCALYPSE, have released a second album teaser in anticipation of their new record, “Dead Years,” due out next month. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 28, 2012 THIS OR THE APOCALYPSE RELEASE NEW ALBUM TEASER “DEAD YEARS” AVAILABLE 9/25/12 (NEW YORK, NY) – Lancaster’s finest, […]
Atlanta mainstays THE CHARIOT, have announced their participation in two tours this fall/winter in celebration of their new record, “One Wing” which becomes available tomorrow. The band will head out with FOR TODAY through the fall before finishing out the year supporting the mighty EVERY TIME I DIE. […]
Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and his longtime drumming collaborator Richard Stuverud team with singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur in the new band RNDM. The group’s debut album, “Acts,” features 12 songs recorded by Pearl Jam engineer Brett Eliason during a four-day session this April at Ament’s Montana studio. “Acts” […]
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