Fun for your Sunday: ► Fresh off a show at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, the Weeknd (that's Abel Tesfaye, pictured at Coachella) plays a sold-out gig at the Fonda Theatre. ► Sacramento rockers Middle Class Rut headline the Troubadour, supported by L.A.'s newest purveyors of Zep-styled blues, Beware of Darkness , who will celebrate the release of their first EP, "Howl," at this show. Secret Music also supports. Also: Styx, REO Speedwagon and Ted [...]
102.1 The X's Chili Cook Off, always a huge rock and metal fest announced its lineup for this year's festival. And it looks like they're staying on the mainstream rock side of things with a pretty good lineup featuring Cake , Cage the Elephant , Neon Trees , Middle Class Rut and Civil Twilight . The Chili Cook Off takes place on Saturday, April 14 at the Richmond Raceway Complex. Tickets are going for $19 this week only . Cake - [...]
JANUS - singer David Scotney, guitarist Mike Tyranski, bassist Alan Quitman and drummer Johnny Salazar - experienced great success with their 2009 debut album, Red Right Return, but the band's new album, NOX AERIS, reveals how far they've come. That musical revelation is the self-produced NOX AERIS, which drops March 27 on REALID Records (through Warner Music Group's Independent Label Group). The first single, "Stains," is already getting spins at WIIL (Chicago), KPNT (St. Louis), WBUZ (Nashville), WJJO (Madison), WWBN ...
Sacramento's Middle Class Rut has announced a spring tour, which kicks off on February 24th. The band released their full-length debut, No Name No Color in 2010.
We're only a few weeks away from the launch of Chevelle's headlining winter tour with Middle Class Rut and Janus. The band will be out on the road in support of their new album Hats Off To The Bull which was released in December and features the hit single "Face To The Floor." Chevelle didn't play in New York City last time they were on tour but they'll be at Irving Plaza on Wednesday February 29th and we want YOU ...
CHEVELLE has just announced new headlining tour dates with Middle Class Rut and Janus. The string of shows by the Chicago alternative hard rock trio kicks off on Friday, February 24 in Grand Rapids, MI, and heads east, making a stop at Irving Plaza in New York City on Wednesday, February 29 and crossing the U.S. before wrapping in Oklahoma City, OK on Friday, March 16. CHEVELLE-PETE LOEFFLER (Guitars, Vocals), SAM LOEFFLER (Drums) and DEAN BERNARDINI (Bass, Vocals)—recently released...
By Michel R Dussack AWOLNATION played to a nearly sold out crowd at Webster Hall in New York City, and proved to everyone there that they're constantly improving as a live band, even in the short amount of time from their sold out show at Bowery Ballroom this past July. It's a true testament to the bands incredible amount of talent when I say that I actually enjoyed them more in the nearly three times as large venue,...
Christmas comes early in L.A. with FREE TICKETS to see AWOLNATION at the Music Box.
AWOLNATION has announced they will be the musical guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , Friday, October 28, 2011, performing the soaring hit single "Sail," from their debut album Megalithic Symphony (Red Bull Records). Kicking off the AWOLNATION Fall Harvest Tour on November 2, the 15-date outing with Middle Class Rut and Twin Atlantic supporting will take the bands coast-to-coast with shows in Los Angeles at the Music Box on November 3 [...]
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Glasgow's Twin Atlantic has announced plans for a U.S. tour supporting AWOLNATION along with Middle Class Rut . The trek begins November 2, 2011 in Bakersfield, CA and concludes on November 23 in Philadelphia, PA. The band is out in support of its critically-lauded debut full-length, 'Free' , which was recorded at Red Bull Studios in Santa Monica, CA with legendary producer Gil Norton (Foo Fighters, Pixies, Jimmy Eat World). [...]
Sacramento alt-rock duo Middle Class Rut recently released new videos for "Busy Bein' Born" (from their 2010 debut CD) and "Hurricane" (Bob Dylan cover). The later video is a teaser for the band's new limited edition vinyl EP which has "Hurricane" on the A-Side and "New Low" (live at Maida Vale studios, 2010) and "Dead Set" (live at XFM studios, 2009) on the B-Side. Middle Class Rut Tour Dates : Aug 12 -- Idaho Center Amphitheatre Lot, Nampa, ID Aug 13 [...]
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While Middle Class Rut 's "Busy Bein' Born" is not what you'd normally expect from a band featured on Given and Taken in Ink , I was actually quite taken with this genre several years ago. I've heard the band mentioned as part of a "90s comback," and although it's true that 2011 seems to mark the reintroduction of sounds we last heard in the 90s (and thank God we're moving away from that silly 80s fascination!), Middle Class Rut does not sound like a 90s band. Rather, "Busy Bein' Born" strikes me as the continuation of a [...]
The annual Warped Tour rolls into Oceanport at Monmouth Raceway Park tomorrow. Doors open at 11 am. Tickets are still available and they are $40. See the line up below and for more information check out the official website page here ! A Day To Remember Pop Punk, Hardcore A Skylit Drive Rock, Screamo Abandon All Ships Hardcore Asking Alexandria Attack Attack! August Burns Red Bad Rabbits Big B Big Chocolate Big D And The Kids Table Black List Royals Black [...]
Tomorrow July 19th, Middle Class Rut are set to release a special a special 10" limited edition vinyl featuring the band's cover of Bob Dylan's "Hurricane" plus two B-side tracks: "Dead Set" live from XFM Studios in London and the first ever live, acoustic recording of their smash radio hit "New Low" from BBC's Maida Vale Studios in London. There will only be 1,000 copies created and they will be made available exclusively online and in person at their shows....
Reader John Schwarz alerted us to the existence of the Epicenter Festival, and if you told me that the show's bookers designed it specifically to make sure that no one from MetalSucks attended, well, I'd believe it. Look at this shitfest: There are a handful of insanely popular, maddeningly terrible modern rock acts not on [...]
Photos of Live 105's BFD from the Shoreline with Airborne Toxic Event, Snoop Dogg, The Strokes, The Limousines, and more!
That quote was tweeted by Jamie Walton this afternoon and it's basically the reason why I didn't skip last week's chart. I believe in this podcast and I'm going to persist, even if it means publishing a countdown super late. By the by, Jamie Walton is the founder of The Wayne Foundation , whose aim is to "provide women who have fallen victim to commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking with a means of leaving the sex industry for good....by providing individuals with a safe home environment that will empower them with the tools they will need [...]
Kind of like how on the Contrast Podcast, I feel like I should change the name of my blog to "Without Any Further Ado" because I say it so much! My wife even gives me grief when she hears me recoding an intro and then I start thinking about it and then i can't HELP but say it. Am I making ANY sense?! :) Countdown #49 ***Featuring*** The Black Keys Cage the Elephant The Cure Foo Fighters Foster the People Linkin Park Middle Class Rut Mumford & Sons Rise Against [...]
I swear I'm getting caught up and will start doing these during the week again. Maybe. I don't know. It kind of works to do it on a day when I'm not falling over tired. It's a work in progress, you know? Countdown #48 ***Featuring*** The Black Keys Cage the Elephant Foo Fighters Foster the People Middle Class Rut Mumford & Sons Rise Against Young the Giant
Ah, the Warped Tour. One of the last remaining bastions of a punk-rock tour in the U.S. Even though I've never heard of most of the bands that are playing the festival this year and the tour tends to cater to a much younger crowd (i.e. 12-16 years old, it seems), Warped is still an American institution that should be attended at least once. That being said, the main acts for this, the 17th annual Warped Tour, include the following bands: 3OH!3, A Day To Remember, The Devil Wears Prada, Against Me!, August Burns Red, [...]
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