Blog: MVRemix Rock

"And now for something completely different." These words, immortalized by Monty Python, would be the best way to introduce the strange and unique sounds of the relentlessly touring five-piece outfit known as Lower Dens. Originally the brainchild of Baltimore based noise rocker Jana Hunter, the group has released their second full-length album on Ribbon Music: Nootropics . A nootropic, also known as smart drugs or neuro enhancers, is a kind of chemical used to enhance cognitive functions like memory and intelligence. That being said, the intellectual sophistication of the album demands as much attention as the album [...]

Maybe it's only the Dexedrine listening, but as soon as I put on Ane Brun's album It All Starts With One , I felt like I was home. Brun's a vocalist from Norway who's been releasing albums for nearly ten years (and has collaborated with an assortment of talented characters like Ron Sexsmith and Peter Gabriel along the way) but I never heard of her before my overlords and overladies at MVRemix tossed her CD in my lap last week. I don't think I'll be giving it back. I used to know a drummer who played [...]

White Rabbits, Vacationer and Nash set to perform at MapleMusic Recordings NXNE showcase MapleMusic Recordings is proud to present White Rabbits (tbd Records), Vacationer (Downtown Records) and Maple's own signing Nash at The Mod Club during NXNE on June 14th, 2012. Download tracks from all three bands here . Show details: Thursday June 14th, 2012 Virgin Mobile Mod Club (722 College Street) Early Show - Doors at 6PM Set times: Nash - 7PM Vacationer - 8PM White Rabbits - [...]

New York duo MS MR reveal first single "Hurricane" Tour with Marina & The Diamonds in July and August through America Play Brooklyn on June 1st MS MR has made their single "Hurricane" available for download. Release date for the single to be announced shortly. New York's MS MR (all caps) are going on tour with Marina & The Diamonds in July/August through America, plus play on June 1st @ Glasslands in Brooklyn. "...feels big, the vibe feels grand - pop allure" - Disco Naïveté Tour Dates MS MR: [...]

THE KOOKS RETURN TO THE U.S. SPECIAL GUEST OF FOSTER THE PEOPLE TOUR IN MAY/JUNE May 10, 2012 — New York, NY — After a sold-out U.S. tour this spring, The Kooks are returning this summer! They will headline shows in Boston and Clifton Park, NY before hitting the road with Foster The People. The run of U.S. tour dates kick off with a May 26th headline show in Boston and end on June 10th in Columbia, MD alongside Foster The People, plus two already sold-out shows at New York's Rumsey Playfield/Central Park. The [...]

LEGENDARY ENTERTAINER KENNY ROGERS INKS LONG-TERM EXCLUSIVE RECORDING CONTRACT WITH WARNER BROS. RECORDS Warner Bros. Records and Iconic Entertainer, Kenny Rogers, announced today they will join forces once again to create sweet music together. Rogers made the revelation Wednesday night during his first of two sold-out performances at Ford Theater in Nashville as the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum's 2012 Artist-in-Residence. Rogers, whose catalog on Warner Bros./Reprise Records includes a string of multi-platinum albums and career hits recorded over the span of several decades, returns to where it all began in 1967 when his [...]

The Hives are pleased to reveal the new music video for "Go Right Ahead," premiering today on Stereogum. The video was filmed live during the recording of the album, at RMV Studio on the island of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, Sweden. The footage offers a glimpse into the gorgeous new studio owned by Benny Andersson from ABBA. The Hives - Go Right Ahead video The Hives elaborate, "We recorded large chunks of LEX HIVES at Rixmixningsverket. It is a new studio that Benny Andersson from ABBA built in the heart of Stockholm, and [...]

These United States Announces Headlining Summer Tour Dates, Embarks on Run of Dates with Heartless Bastards 'Superb..a rambunctious alt-country band with story-songs that are both tangled and aphoristic.' - NY Times Stream singles " Born Young " and " Dead & Gone " Watch the Album Video Teaser at YouTube Currently preparing for a southern string of dates with Heartless Bastards this week, These United States is pleased to announce a summer headlining tour commencing on June 14th in Philadelphia. [...]

• These United States - Dead & Gone

BONNAROO AND YOUTUBE ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP TO CREATE BONNAROO365 YEAR-ROUND ORIGINAL CONTENT TO PREMIERE MAY 7 FESTIVAL TO PRODUCE AND CURATE CONTENT UNDER "BONNAROO GOOD STUFF" BRAND WATCH RHYS DARBY VIDEO ANNOUNCING BONNAROO365 HERE: MY MORNING JACKET PERFORMANCE FROM BONNAROO 2011 AVAILABLE NOW FOR SEVEN DAYS Bonnaroo and YouTube are excited to announce Bonnaroo365, ( youtube.com/bonnaroo365 ). Set to launch on May 7, 2012, Bonnaroo 365 will take the approach of the festival that Rolling Stone named as "one of [...]

The Ghost In Daylight is the third effort from Gravenhurst , the vehicle of singer/songwriter Nick Talbot, and is an album that grabbed my attention right from the start. Talbot fills the album with solid guitar work, soft melodies, and a myriad of effects to set the atmosphere. The album name is one that is very fitting to this collection of songs. The Ghost In Daylight progresses through a series of soft songs that very effectively set a soft and haunting tone. There is nothing jarring or suddenly loud to pull the listener out [...]

Ever since Marilyn Manson exploded into the music scene with his 1996 album, Antichrist Superstar, he has remained the same person. A strange, uncomfortable, 'shock rocker' whose brand of music has been blamed for school shootings and teenage drug use. Now, almost 20 years later, he releases Born Villain, another album full of angry songs and teenage rage. Marilyn Manson never grew up, and his music has not evolved. Manson sounds just like he always does in this album, pissed off and louder than he needs to be. On Slo-mo-tion, Manson sings, "Prepare the laughter, of dead audience [...]

Norah Jones' new album Little Broken Hearts (Blue Note/EMI) has debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, also landing at #1 on the Top Internet Albums and Current Rock Albums charts. Little Broken Hearts—which has been receiving the best critical response of Jones' storied career—sold 110,000 units across all formats in the U.S. in its debut week according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album also made Top 5 debuts in 14 countries around the world including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, and the UK, as well as six #1 debuts in Austria, Belgium, France, Japan, Switzerland, and Taiwan. [...]

Nutid - Cityflowers | May 30 | New album from Swedish indie veterans Åsa Jacobsson & Håkan Åkesson of Nutid "...beautiful new instrumental album, Cityflowers [...] seems to beg for a film, which makes sense, since the group, comprised of Swedish indie veterans Håkan Åkesson and Åsa Jacobsson, call Cityflowers 'a mishmash of Belle Époque, the '60s, a silent horror movie and a suburban shopping mall. It's more or less a soundtrack to the movies that only exists in the mind of the listener.' Pick a song on Cityflowers and [...]

THOMAS D'ARCY PUTS SMALL SINS TO BED WORKING ON DEBUT SOLO FULL-LENGTH PLUS MONKS COVER ALBUM Former Small Sins frontman, Thomas D'Arcy, announced via their website yesterday that he will no longer be producing any new material under the name, Small Sins, but instead opting to continue his career as a solo artist. Small Sins released their final album, Pot Calls Kettle Black, in the fall of 2010, touring in support throughout 2011. D'Arcy has spent the first months of 2012 working on his new solo album, which he states is "[his] best to date." D'Arcy is tentatively [...]

MORNING PARADE CONFIRM LIVE DATES AS SPECIAL GUESTS OF WALK THE MOON TO RELEASE SELF-TITLED DEBUT FULL-LENGTH ALBUM ON JUNE 19TH, 2012 VIA ASTRALWERKS RECORDS "'Headlights' has choruses to spare and will definitely blow your mind" – Q Magazine "What do you get when you meld together the ebb and flow of 90s dance anthems with the crunch and tingle of indie rock? You get the soaring and catchy sounds of British band Morning Parade" – MTV.com "We can never have too many thundering beats, booming choruses, and guitar-driven songs in our [...]

THE WALKMEN RELEASE "WE CAN'T BE BEAT" OFF HEAVEN Fat Possum Records is pleased to release "We Can't Be Beat," the lead track from The Walkmen's upcoming album Heaven, on May 29th. The record is the band's sixth and was produced by Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, Shins, Band of Horses) in Seattle. The Walkmen just celebrated their 10th anniversary and are still comprised of the same members that started the group in 2001 - drummer Matt Barrick, multi-instrumentalist Pete Bauer, singer Hamilton Leithauser, guitarist Paul Maroon and bassist Walter Martin. The Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold [...]

The Wallflowers have announced they are back in the studio and putting the finishing touches on a long-awaited new studio album that will be released by Columbia Records this fall. Currently recording in Nashville at Dan Auerbach's (The Black Keys) Easy Eye Sound studio, the new album finds frontman Jakob Dylan joining original band members Greg Richling (bass) and Rami Jaffee (keyboards), with Wallflowers' longtime guitarist Stuart Mathis and drummer Jack Irons (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam) rounding out the lineup. The album is being produced by Jay Joyce (Emmylou Harris, Cage the Elephant) and mixed by Rich Costey [...]

Keane is singer Tom Chaplin, drummer Richard Hughes, keyboardist Rice-Oxley and bassist Quin. Four years have elapsed since Keane's last album Perfect Symmetry; two since Night Train, the EP which followed its three full-length predecessors to the top of the British album charts, securing them a place in pop history. If Keane's feverishly loyal fanbase wondered what the group's next album would sound like, they weren't the only ones. In the eight years following the release of 20042s 9* platinum Brit award winning Hopes & Fears, every Keane album has marked a clear progression from the previous one: the anxious [...]

FAMILY BAND TO RELEASE SOPHOMORE ALBUM, GRACE & LIES, JULY 24TH ON NO QUARTER DOWNLOAD FAMILY BAND'S "NIGHT SONG" NOW Grace and Lies. On the surface, the two concepts couldn't seem more different. One of them restores, the other ruins. One of them forgives, the other deceives. But to hear Kim Krans, frontwoman for Family Band, tell it, the two aren't opposed - they're intertwined. "Grace and Lies are two characters I envisioned last summer," she says, by way of explaining the haunting title track on the group's second record. "I couldn't get them out of my [...]

• Family Band - Night Song

The Lumineers Perform Tonight on TBS' Conan. Band Announces New Summer Tour Dates, Including Shows Supporting Brandi Carlile and Old Crow Medicine Show Denver-based band The Lumineers plays live tonight on TBS' Conan. The band will be performing their popular single "Ho Hey" from their recently released self-titled debut album. The performance is the band's second late-night television appearance following an appearance on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson. Since then, the band sold out 26/30 shows on the initial album release tour and will join Brandi Carlile and Old Crow Medicine on upcoming dates [...]