via press release: "Streetwear brands Diamond Supply Co. and Young & Reckless have teamed up for a limited edition collaboration tee. The concept behind the tee is to represent Diamond Supply Co.'s Nick Diamond's hometown of San Francisco and Young & Reckless's founder, Drama's hometown of Akron, OH, who now both reside in Los Angeles. The biker gang logo theme of the shirt represents that no matter where you are from, if you skate you are part of a international union with other skaters. Throw your flags in the air and wear [...]
Freeway puts in a day of work in New York. Recently Freeway hit New York for several press & radio appearances in support of his upcoming record The Stimulus Package. Stay tuned this week for more exclusive content with Honey Magazine, Kay Slay on Shade 45 and more from his trip to the Big Apple and peep the video below for an inside look of what's to come...
Click here to view the embedded video. MP3 : Harold T. Wilkins or How to Wait for a Very Long Time My own involvement with BenCo aside, I'm thrilled to announce that Fanfarlo will be coming to town to play The Summit on April 1st with Lawrence Arabia and Robert Francis supporting. (My previous thoughts on Fanfarlo here .) From the press release: Acclaimed U.K. five-piece Fanfarlo have [...]
"Rap star Lil Wayne has gotten a temporary reprieve from jail," reports the Associated Press: "for dental surgery." His lawyer apparently told the judge that Wayne needed to finish a string of p... Continue reading "Lil Wayne Saved By Bad Teeth" >
@ phillyfreezer hit New York for several press & radio appearances in support of his upcoming record The Stimulus Package. Stay tuned this week for more exclusive content with Honey Magazine, Kay Slay on Shade 45 and more from his trip to the Big Apple and peep the video below for an inside look of what's to come...
Torpedo Torpedo - From Russia with love (video) Références musicales : Franz Ferdinand, Gang of four, Elastica, Hot hot heat Torpedo - Accelerate (mp3) I'm in a rush. Do not have much time. Let's just give you a hint then: Torpedo has a new website . And there is the song Accelerate - that they released December 2009 - for free download with it. Now, it is also in [...]
Reuters goes for a clever pun that also points out a painful truth in their headline, Ringo Starr gets his Hollywood star at low-wattage ceremony A surprisingly low-wattage assortment of celebrities showed up to see the former Beatles drummer get his star outside the Capitol Records building, most of them holdovers from Roy Orbison's ceremony 10 days ago such as Joe Walsh, Jeff Lynne, David Lynch, Eric Idle and Barbara Orbison. Walsh, who recently became Starr's brother-in-law, addressed the 500-or-so fans, as did producer Don Was and folk musician Ben Harper [...]
While covering another artist last year, I came across another artist who caught my ears, playing a couple shows up in Vermont during the same time: Julia Brown. Hailing from Virginia and now residing in New York City, Brown falls into the singer/song writer catagory. Her 2008 album, Strange Scars , is her second album, and is an intense, emotional acoustic rock album. The press release for the album on her website notes: Your songs are just your life looking back at you, [...]
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Ariana Delawari 's psychedelic folk is epic. Her voluble wail is filled with power and vibrato that's rarely matched. The only voice that comes close to possessing the strength of Delawari's is perhaps that of Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond). There's a lot of passion behind "San Francisco" that keeps the song unquestionably fresh, and it's a sound that populates her debut LP, Lion of Panjshir . Delawari's mark was made between Los Angeles and Kabul, Afghanistan. Ariana mixes a common sound - consistent vocal [...]
The Magnetic Fields' newest album, released Jan. 26 on Nonesuch, is a wide-reaching panorama of mystical folk, cerebral hootenanny and lyrical mastery that rides the spectrum from heartache to the spastic imagination of childhood. Strangely enough, the album is titled Realism . It's hard to articulate Stephin Merritt's wonderful capacity for adaptation and renewal. But if you had to encapsulate the philosophy of "Realism" in two lines, it would most likely be a couplet from the album's first track: [...]
Ed Sheeran is one of the music industries best kept secrets, why one of the major labels has not put a large advance in his hand and sent him to a studio I have no idea. His music is clever, witty sometimes way beyond his years. Last week he opened a show featuring Iglu & Hartley/New Politics at Norwich Art Centre, the place was half full when Ed started but by the end of his set it was packed. There are many reasons why Ed holds a crowd. [...]
Well, isn't this good timing. Just three days before the Winter Olympics start in Vancouver, BC, everyone's favorite punk band the Thermals have penned an ode to the land of hockey, poutine, and mounties. And in typical Thermals fashion it's fast, loud, and INCREDIBLY FUN. It also proves my theory that Hutch Harris can write a better song in 30 minutes than most songwriters can in two or three years. "Canada" is silly, loose, off-the-cuff, and so much fun to sing along to. The story goes that guitarist Harris was sitting in a van in Buffalo, waiting to cross the [...]
Project Blowedian, Nocando recently dropped a new LP Jimmy The Lock (Alpha Pup Records), which was met with some positive press from Urb & LA Weekly. The single "Hurry Up and Wait" features production from Nobody. Download Nocando - "Hurry Up and Wait" Free Download Link (save as) via N: Nocando - "Hurry Up and Wait" (contains Dirty, Clean & Instrumental)
Former Iowa poet laureate Robert Dana died this weekend. The 80-year-old Dana had been battling pancreatic cancer. Still, he was writing up until the end. His most recent book, The Other, came out in 2009, and despite dealing with writer's block after its release, he was still working. I had the pleasure of interviewing Dana at his Coralville home in early 2009 for an article about the release of that book. As I wrote, you can stand at the back window of Dana's home, look into the ravine that serves as his backyard, and [...]
I'm attaching the press release below, so that you know what I know. But if this is at all a possibility, this is quite a bellwether warning for indie music retailers, as ear X-tacy is one the nation's most recognizable and lauded independent record retailers - a name that often finds itself in the same sentence as Electric Fetus and Amoeba Records... UPDATE: I will be attending this press conference and will be tweeting live on The Decibel Tolls Twitter John Timmons, founder of [...]
Just got a press release about a Svedka / Giant Step event tomorrow. I already have 3 things to do tomorrow so not sure I can make it but I thought you punks might wanna go get liquored up. Link:RSVP Here
I finally got a press release about MGMT's new album, Congratulations! It's finally official! The album is indeed coming out on April 13th like we thought it was ! The new album is a collection of "nine individual musical tours de force sequenced to flow with sonic and thematic coherence. One of the songs is titled "Lady Dada's Nightmare", which is a instrumental homage dedicated to yes, Lady Gaga. Weird. The album was self produced by MGMT, along with Sonic Boom. It was recorded throughout 2009 in Malibu, upstate New York, and Brooklyn. The band's live lineup [...]
MGMT will release their new album 'Congratulations' this April, the duo have announced. MGMT have put a countdown timer on their official website, Whoismgmt.com , which is due to end on April 13. The site also contains a webcam image of a beach. The tracklisting of 'Congratulations' is: 'It's Working' 'Song for Dan Treacy' 'Someone's Missing' 'Flash Delirium' 'I Found a Whistle' 'Siberian Breaks' 'Brian Eno' 'Lady Dada's Nightmare' 'Congratulations' Share this: [...]
I know what you're thinking, " Man, I haven't read Alt-Press since I was 16 Man, I've never read that mall-punk rag Alt Press." Just hear me out. This is one article worth your click. This Moment in Black History's Lawrence Caswell talks in depth about race and rock music with Tim Karan for the web cover story, It Takes A Nation Of Millions-- Black punk and indie musicians on the scene's current state of race relations . Among Caswell's choice quotes is this one, on the birth of punk and its relationship to racism [...]
Press release just came in the post. Would've been a great gig, but the second paragraph more than makes up for it... "Due to unavoidable circumstances the Drop Haiti's Debt gig this Thursday in Vicar Street has been cancelled. A full refund for tickets purchased is available from the point of purchase. On a hugely positive note, at the G7 summit in Canada last weekend, world leaders indicated they are prepared to drop Haiti's debt in its entirety in the imminent future. Full information on the status of Haiti's debt will be posted on [...]
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