The Blank Tapes are all set to rock one of downtown San Jose's newest venues, Café Stritch , on Friday. Billed as a FanimeCon after-party, the show features The Blank Tapes as the headliner, with the more geek-appropriate Slime Girls supporting. No need to go back to the hotel and change in between – press materials stress that costumes are welcome. Oh, and B T dubs, it’s free. The Blank Tapes recently released Vacation on Oakland’s Antenna Farm Records. You can (and should) buy it here . Check [...]
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As the Who gears up for another series of shows featuring Quadrophenia, beginning on June 8, 2013 at Dublin, it's worth remembering that things haven't always gone so well for Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. In fact, during rehearsals for the original tour of this 1973 opus, with a film crew there to document things, the two actually - and [...]
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Directly after their album-release-tour for "So Electric" in early 2012, Wrongkong went back in the studio, to make best use of the sounds and impressions from their travels. The artistic output is immense, and “Kill The Should And Make A Do" is the result of the creative process that followed. The disco-pop single "See It Coming“ makes for a simulating first single as it's reminiscent to the New Yorker indietronic scene giving the project an instant backbone and forward-march direction. Wrongkong have found themselves. Based on instrumentation of bass, drums, and piano, they [...]
The final performance of Judas Priest’s "Epitaph World Tour" in May 2012 provided the perfect opportunity to offer a live video celebration of 40 years of metal. Filmed in their back yard at the famed Hammersmith Apollo in London, the band had an enthusiastic crowd and a performance that was clicking on all cylinders - once they got going. Things [...]
Fresh off a string of west coast tour dates supporting the likes of Kate Nash and Laura Stevenson and The Cans, Portland indie pop duo Dresses premiere a new song titled “Back To Life” in fluorescent fashion. Some describe the duo's music as "dream-pop" which I suppose is a pretty accurate description, but the reality is my obsession over them is far from a dream. In fact, with their artistic depth that clearly comes from a myriad of personal experience and influences from the Golden Age of music, Dresses is a treasure. [...]
V V Brown is back. Her songs are just so flagrantly intelligent, mixing her gift for making the personal sound universal (and slyly but not overtly political) with her own unique approach to melodic singing. V.V. is close enough to the edge of pop mainstream to work, but far enough to make you realize that she certainly is not your cookie-cutter songstress. KKS is excited to announce her return to music with details of lead single ‘Samson’ taken from her forthcoming highly anticipated second studio album ‘Samson and Delilah.’ 'Samson' initiates a new [...]
'Nightwalker' is Youan 's first release since his massively successful 'Girl' EP, which was played by a variety of BBC Radio DJs (thankyouverymuch). The track has been receiving a crowd-pleasing reception so this UK producer is offering it as a free download to new and old fans alike. The new EP called 'Your Trust' will be released in August and we're told remixes of Kastle and Empire Of The Sun will soon see the light of day as well. For some reason this is bringing on strong Summer anxieties in the best way possible! [...]
Deep Purple's new studio project Now What?! features an overt tribute to Jon Lord in the touching, waltz-timed "Above and Beyond." But it's not the only moment that reminds Ian Paice of the band's late founding keyboardist. Paice, in the attached video interview, says a lengthy intro to the song "Uncommon Man" was actually created in part by Lord, along [...]
When Pascal Le Boeuf set out to make a record with his young, dynamic trio Pascal’s Triangle, the intention was to produce an electronic-styled crossover jazz album, involving a layered recording process, programmed beats and the like. But, as Le Boeuf reveals, “I enjoyed the spontaneity of the more acoustic songs, and when I took the electronics away, the compositions [...]
Noblesse Oblige who made their debut on the site back in August 2011 have a new single coming out - Mata Hari which is set for release on June 7th 2013. Noblesse Oblige From the LP Affair of the Heart (Deluxe Version) - Noblesse Oblige which will be available from the 24th May 2013 on iTunes*. Join the Indie Bands Blog on [...]
Former Montrose and Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar is providing a glimpse of what's in store as he gears up for a series of retrospective summer dates. Warning: It won't entail of lot of music from his current band, which also features Joe Satriani, Chad Smith and fellow Van Halen alum Michael Anthony. "As far as Chickenfoot," Hagar says in [...]
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Somewhere wonderfully in between the sound of their debut and sophomore records, "Better Days" is everything I hoped it would be. Warm, funky, jangly and filled with quirks. It's the first track of twelve off of what will be their third record, set for release on July 23rd. You can download the track now from their label's soundcloud . Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros: Site // Facebook // iTunes
Though neither has recently recorded with the groups that made them superstars, Joseph Williams and Bill Champlin remain inextricably linked to Toto and Chicago, respectively, both on tour and in our collective consciousness. This new concert recording, which gives a headliner nod to guitarist Peter Friestedt as well, offers an opportunity to relive some of those musical memories, even as [...]
Paul McCartney is taking stock of the 1975-76 world tour that produced Wings Over America and the concert film Rockshow, just as each are seeing deluxe reissue. The album and film souvenirs recount a triumphal tour for Wings, celebrated in its moment as the first time McCartney had played live in the U.S. in 10 years - and that was [...]
Amazon.com Widgets Very soon, Jonathan Finlayson will lose his distinction as jazz's best trumpet player on the scene today without a record under his name. Coming out next week, Moment and the Message is a debut more than twelve years in the making, a destination Finlayson was ultimately going to reach when he joined Steve Coleman's Five Elements band as [...]
The Wack Album is out on the 11th June.
Back in February, Brooklyn hip-hop duo, The Underachievers released their excellent debut mixtape, Indigoism . Three and a half months on and it's still getting plenty of plays round my gaff. So, the news that a follow up mixtape titled, CHAPTER 23 , is due next month is great news. May’s Patience is the first track to be released and it's another good 'un - check it out below (and download it [...]
As we reported earlier, Queens Of The Stone Age will headline a show at the Wiltern on Thursday, May 23. That show quickly SOLD OUT, but if you were unable to get tickets, NPR Music will live stream the entire...
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