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Brand New Music Video Someone You Should Know The Head and the Heart Web / Fb / My / Tw The [...]

New Music this Week Someone You Should Know "Anchor Home" by The Days Weight The Days Weight - Brandywine BOSTON - One of the first things that will surprise you on listening to The Days Weight , a little while after [...]

On Further Review by Julie Stoller It dawns like an early morning sunrise, with chorus, piano and strings drawing a pastoral scene. Punctuated by organ chords and soft percussive flourishes, the introduction is somberly recited by a man who is both observer and observed. I was laughing and in tears at the first song. But that's about right, isn't it? This is Leonard [...]

July 1st, 2012 :: Tickets on Sale 2/20 Roger Waters Tickets / Wiki / Web Photos by staffer Jeremiah Robinson

New Music this Week ! Dreams Can Come True Twin Berlin - Can't Take, Take, Take NORTHEAST ROCKERS MAKE GOOD - This is really a story about an album, but even more so about a band that's found it's way through the various stages of indie music, electro-pop, synth [...]

Artists headed for SxSW Someone You Should Know Jonquil - It's My Part NEW ! THE CLASS OF 2012 - Oxford, UK's Jonquil is back! Today we have a wild music video full of amateur mechanical bull riding, [...]

Artists headed for SxSW Someone You Should Know of Verona - Fall Like Roses EP The name of Verona comes from Shakespeare's earliest known play, Two Gentlemen of Verona, which has the smallest cast of any of the Shakespeare plays. The band imagined it as the underdog of sorts, surviving on the sheer [...]

From the Mailbag New and Right Now So, here's the deal. I can't begin to listen to, digest or publish everything we receive. About once a week in 2012, I will be randomly opening new mail and so long as the stuff is potentially of interest to our music-crazed audiences, we'll publish it. This week, we help celebrate the amazing accomplishments of the ridiculously good, second-year Patriots TE and future NFL Hall of Famer Rob Gronkowski , #87 for the AFC [...]

New Music this Week Highly Recommended The Minor Leagues - Ghost Maps THE CLASS OF 2012 - Our commitment to helping expose top new music talent is made all the easier when the bands sound this good on first listen. Meet The Minor Leagues , a seven piece indie-pop band [...]

Ra Ra Riot - Shadowcasting Groundhog Phil saw his shadow this morning in Punxsutawney, Pa. Phil's sighting of his own shadow means there will be 6 more weeks of winter. Ra Ra Riot Web / Fb / Tw

New Music Video Today New LP TEN$ION out 2/7 DIE ANTWOORD by photographer Roger Ballen Die Antwoord - I Fink U Freeky NEW BACK AND FREEKY - The World's most other-worldly [...]

NUMEROLOGY :: 2112 Numbers And Music - Written as a 7-Part Suite, Rush's 1976 concept album foretold of a very different 2112. Today is 2/1/12 and, of course, the year is 2112. Thought this would be the perfect time to remember this early progressive metal treasure. Everyone should know this one. RUSH Web [...]

New Music Right Now Providence, RI sound Brown Bird - Fingers to the Bone THE CLASS OF 2012 - BROWN BIRD's reputation proceeds them when it comes to New England folk music today. They've been stalwarts in the Portland, ME and Providence, RI scenes since David Lamb switched coasts in 2005, with a [...]

Red Hot, Brand New The Class of 2012 After a successful 2011 campaign, Keep Shelly in Athens can now look back on a nice road trip and their sold out vinyl while planning the year ahead... If this Jesus and Mary Chain cover is any indication, things are just going to keep getting better.. Keep Shelly in [...]

New Music Now The Class of 2012 INTRODUCING - Porcelain Raft is the ethereal pop project of singer-songwriter Mauro Remiddi. We like him not only for the otherworldly sonic meanderings but for the fact that Remiddi, who turns 39 this year - is so productive. I believe the man has produced nearly a handful of EPs and a full-length [...]

From this Week's Mailbag The Saturday Night Remix So, here's the deal. I can't begin to listen to, digest or publish everything we receive. About once a week in 2012, I will be randomly opening new mail and so long as the stuff isn't horrid (we do believe in fairness, but we do have our limits) we will publish something new. This week, the submission is a [...]

The Music Video from Someone You Should Know ON TOUR WITH THE KILLS - Hailing from here Massachusetts and now taking time off between tours these days in Nashville, brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall are JEFF the Brotherhood . The duo, who just recorded a new full-length album (details soon) just released the new video, "Bummer" this week. You will find themon [...]

The Music Video from Someone You Should Know LYRICS: I've been away too long and I keep my head in the clouds I'm just waiting for a way now to get back down Twenty some years put a lot of overlapping thoughts in my head don't matter wanna wash 'em away and just space [...]

Music News: Album out 2/7 Up for a SxSW Interactive Award! Experimentation has always been the order of the day for geeky-sheik indie rock band Vivian Darkbloom . On the cusp of their first full-length release; "Know Your Exit" (self release) will emerge on February 25th, the band have learned they are up for a SxSW Interactive Award for their new project. [...]

We Want You To Meet... A New Music Series in 2012 AUSTRALIAN BAND - San Cisco are: Jordi Davieson (lead vocals & guitar), Josh Biondillo (guitar, keyboard, & vocals), Nick Gardner (bass guitar) and Scarlett Stevens (drums & vocals). Schoolmates Josh and Jordi [...]