The Next Big Nashville music festival and conference runs from Wednesday, October 7th through Saturday night, October 10th. NBN Kickoff Night will feature the Nashville Music Awards Opening Night Reception on Wed. Oct. 7 at Cannery Ballroom followed immediately the Nashville Debut of the new Ten Out of Tenn lineup presented by Brite Revolution with opening performances by Los Angeles groundbreaking vocal group SONOS, Andy Davis and others as well as performances in the Mercy Lounge. This year the Second Annual NBN Creative Conference will be held at The Martha Rivers Ingram Center for the Performing Arts at [...]
Last week, KISS announced that "Sonic Boom," the first new KISS studio album since 1998's "Psycho Circus," will be sold in the US and Canada exclusively at Walmart, Walmart.com and Sam's Club stores. The first single from the set, "Modern Day Delilah," reached radio airwaves earlier this month. The track is the band's first single since 1999's "You Wanted the Best." The new album will be part of a three-disc set scheduled for release October 6, 2009. KISS has also revealed tour dates for the band's fall US tour in support of [...]
Phil and the Osophers announce new shows, including a date with Miike Snow and Jack Penate, as well as one with new Kanine signees Princeton. The band recently recorded 2 obscure Michael Jackson covers ("Childhood" and "Cinderella Stay Awhile") for Butter X Face's tribute comp CHUM ONAH! Parallelo is out now on Cassette (oh, and CD) from Factual Fabrications. The album finds the Brooklyn 3 piece developing into a jingly and jangly artistic indie rock while retaining carefully crafted and philosophical lyrics. The band has a catalog of over 100 songs, and this new [...]
While I won't be writing too much on The Bye Byes (because I hope to be able to ask them some questions) I do just want to let you know they are a hot band. My brother told me to give them a listen and so I looked them up on MySpace of course. And even with the downgraded quality of MySpace tracks I really like their sound. The Bye Byes have a fresh vibe with a classic 70s twist. I love it. This is perfect Friday music, it's upbeat and cheery. With [...]
The inimitable Decoder Ring's much lauded fourth album, They Blind the Stars, and the Wild Team is digitally released today via iTunes. The album produced by Scott Coburn, who has recently worked with such artists as Animal Collective, Arcade Fire and Yeasayer is a multi-layered affair, heavy with soaring soundscapes and melodic crescendos. Critics far and wide cannot say enough about the album. Seminal music magazine, Mojo recently described the album as, "Mazzy Star and Virginia Astley go on a stoner picnic only to find Yo La Tengo in the next Field!" while Rolling Stone gave [...]
What do you think of their classics? I'm not sure I'd call any of them classics, but I would wear all of them as t-shirts. And with that said...has image become too big of a deal in terms of indie bands? Or any band really? Shouldn't the MUSIC matter more. *sigh* Make sure to pick up a shirt or poster !!! The Insound 10 Classic is a visual narrative of 20 years (1977-1997) of punk, new wave and indie rock, designed by Mike Perry. [...]
Loomis & the Lust aren't just riding waves in their home town of Santa Barbara - they're making their own. The quartet creates catchy, buoyant rock n' roll with flourishes of funk and dance. Noah Babcock's bass bounces through deep rhythms from drummer Jeremy Berisha, while Thomas Masker bolts down the riffs. At the center of the sound stands vocalist and guitarist Will Loomis, who propels the band into the pop rock stratosphere with his combination of vocal bravado and guitar gusto. Subscribe to Bring Me Up: The Sound by [...]
Exiles is meant to be an over-the-top listening experience, sonically, lyrically and thematically propulsive, bombastic and windblown, conjuring the desert's dunes, mirages and holy mountains as well as the outlaws, escape artists, searchers, wanderers, drifters, pariahs, prophets, misfits, mystics, miscreants and all the Sorry Suckers who've called the dusty road home. As dark as it may all sound, it was a hell of a lot of fun to make—and, we hope, an enjoyable listen. The album comes out September 8th on St. Ives records which is yet another offshoot of the vast empire of Secretly [...]
Montreal's Yellow Bird Project is partnering with like-minded non-profit organization Housing Works for a special event of music and charity. On Wednesday, September 2nd from 7-9 pm, Yellow Bird Project will present a performance by Elvis Perkins as well as a DJ set by members of Ra Ra Riot to take place at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 126 Crosby Street, NY, NY in celebration of the release of their Indie Rock Coloring Book. Tickets to the event are $15 with all proceeds to benefit Yellow Bird Project and its network of charities, and Housing Works [...]
Taking the US press by storm, Randolph Chabot aka Deastro is a brand new epic space-shoegaze sensation. Causing a stir on Pitchfork (Paste, Spin), the stunning debut album was released back in July via Ghostly International (School of Seven Bells). Listen: Deastro - " Orange Swimmer " (mp3) Subscribe to Bring Me Up: The Sound by Email Add to Technorati
Decoder Ring , long revered for their uniquely sublime soundscapes, will digitally release their new album They Blind the Stars, and the Wild Team on August 18th via iTunes. They Blind the Stars, and the Wild Team, a double album, was more than two years in the making and Decoder Ring's first since 2006's critically acclaimed, Somersault (OTS). To aid them in refining some of the many sounds they had amassed in the lead up to the recording, Decoder Ring enlisted the production skills of Scott Colburn (Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Yeasayer). Decoder Ring wash away [...]
Enter the Big Dave Matthews Band Cruise Getaway Sweepstakes for a chance to win round trip airfare and a cruise cabin for two for a 3 night/4 day cruise to Port Paradise for a private Dave Matthews Band concert in the Caribbean! This fall, a lucky group of shipmates will have the opportunity to see Dave Matthews Band perform on a small private Caribbean island. The Bud Light Port Paradise cruise sets sail to the Bahamas on October 23rd. Following on-ship parties and a sight seeing stop in Nassau, the cruise adventure will culminate on Sunday October 25th [...]
Leeds-based electronic trio, Heads We Dance , will be the FIRST act to stream the ENTIRE of an album pre-release on a dedicated iPhone app, as debut record, 'Love Technology' becomes available to hear through the band's new app a full two weeks ahead of its digital release. The record, which will be released on download on June 1st and as a physical release two weeks later on June 15th, is available to hear in full through the new app available via iTunes and App store on iPhones and iPod Touch. As well as the album, fans [...]
The Dandy Warhols ARE Sound comes out on July 14, on the band's own Beat The World Records. The album was mixed by Russell Elavedo, a GRAMMY-award winning soul mixing engineer whose credits include D'Angelo's Brown Sugar, The Roots' The Roots Come Alive, Common's Like Water for Chocolate, and Alicia Keys' Songs in A Minor, among others. The Dandy Warhols ARE Sound is, in all, a more mature, more pertinent effort from a band that's never been afraid of showing its emotion. It is truly the Warhols' record; the music that they wanted to release, how they [...]
Charleston melodic indie rockers The Working Title return with Bone Island the independent release is available digitally, and brick-and-mortar through RED on July 21. In a recent article, CMJ.com notes, "Bone Island has a more mature, emotionally raw sound than The Working TItle's earlier records." Singer/songwriter Joel Hamilton explains: "[We stripped] each song down to the bone and [built] it from the ground up like a bunch of little bone structures that made a skeleton house." With the help of friend and producer Jake Sinclair, the album was recorded in three weeks. [...]
The Twilight Sad announce details of their hugely anticipated sophomore 'Forget The Night Ahead' album. Already trailed by opener 'Reflections Of The Television' - which dropped on Pitchfork during May, and forthcoming single 'I Became A Prostitute' on August 3rd, the new album will be released in the UK on 5th October. In lyrical terms 'Forget The Night Ahead' is a darker set even than it's hallowed predecessor 'Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters', James Graham's portentous knack for unsettling lines, giving muforcefully delivered in his own Caledonian burr remaining very much on point. Speaking to Clashmusic.com at [...]
With a full North American tour just around the corner, Toronto-based group Rock Plaza Central's front man and literary award winner Chris Eaton has found a way to stay creative while spending time in the van. Eaton is teaming up with arts and culture zine Steel Bananas to write one story per day of no more than 140 characters, so that he may publish them for public participation on his band's Twitter account from the road. The tweeted micro-fiction project will be published in Steel Bananas' upcoming anthology, GULCH: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose, to [...]
Portal's release of Blood Red Tape shows them playing with as much intensity as before, but not sounding as muddy or gritty as previous efforts. Simply put, this is an album that should be used as an example of what hard rock music should really be: hard-hitting, musical, and emotional. Portal was selected Band of the Month for November on Sonic 102.9 in their home-town of Edmonton, and were selected for inclusion on Big Rock's Untapped Artists Compilation, due for release in tandem with the Juno Awards this Spring. Songs [...]
It started with two sisters, Jessica and Cristi Jo, of New York. A couple of guys and a girl later, they became what we now know as Zambri . The sisters write the songs and sing (with surprisingly huge voices for little bodies). Then join Chris, Andy and Carrie (who is seen playing electronics with her boots). Zambri generated some buzz after releasing their self-titled,debut EP last year, and became one amongst the few unsigned bands, to participate as an official act at both the CMJ & SXSW music festivals. Blogs and magazines try to pinpoint their unique sound, [...]
Economy is where the LA melody-mavens of The Tender Box score all their points. Specialized in rock music with a dark undercurrent, expertly equipped to do as much as it can with as little as possible. Some guitar, a throbbing bass line, an insistent drum pound, a touch of sampling and synth when it fits, and a perfect vocal melody or two – there's not much else these guys have use for, and it's a recipe that suits both the concert hall and the dance floor. Joey Medina (vocals, guitar), Ric Moon (guitar), Steve Mungarro [...]
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