Tagged: sneakpeek

I’ll grant that I’m only a casual fan of Five Finger Death Punch. I kind of liked the anger and heaviness of their first record Way of the Fist, but my interest waned. I thought their second, War is the Answer, was a mixed bag, and I’m honestly not sure that I ever heard their last, American Capitalist. But when [...]

If you celebrated Free Comic Book Day this past weekend, you got your first look at the eagerly-anticipated new series Superman Unchained from the creative team of writer Scott Snyder and artist Jim Lee. Included as part of the Superman Last Son of Krypton Special Edition # 1, the sneak peek at Superman Unchained included a detailed interview with both Snyder and Lee, and a look at the special oversized poster that will be featured in the series’ inaugural issue this June. But if you weren’t able to make it out to a comic [...]

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An assemblage of musicians the caliber of Marc Ribot, Ches Smith and Shahazad Ismaily usually signals that this is going to be seriously nerdy jazz, but Ceramic Dog is, in many ways, the exact opposite. Sure, there are times that they play stuff that match their elevated skill levels, but the band isn't about that; it's just an outlet for [...]

The word is out, David Murray is back with what should be an exciting new quartet, consisting of pianist Marc Cary, bassist Jaribu Shahid and drummer Nasheet Waits. The Infinity Quartet effectively replaces Murray's Black Saint Quartet (which featured Andrew Cyrille on drums) and the album they're poised to release will be called Be My Monster Love on Motéma Music [...]

Emily Bear plays her piano with a finely nuanced touch, with both her comping left hand and a right hand that can cascade notes like sand pouring out of your hands. The song, her own, is a circular figure to which she discreetly adds graceful touches, such as lifting it up to a higher key and then bringing back down [...]

Since Black Sabbath began working on a new album with original singer Ozzy Osbourne and producer Rick Rubin, fans have been waiting for a taste of what was coming. The snippets in the band's studio videos were interesting, but now we get the first nine-minute long full course in "God is Dead?" The song starts slowly with a very dark [...]

Seven years after their last release, acid-jazz pioneers The Brand New Heavies signal a return to original form with "Sunlight." The advance single from their Shanachie Entertainment debut Forward (out May 21) is a tune that pulses with a thumb-popping bass line over a disco beat, a catchy, uplifting harmony, swirling Chic-styled strings and N'Dea Davenport's soaring vocals. The video [...]

Gregg Rolie begins with a simmering piano signature, then slowly settles into a greasy groove - setting the stage for some of his first new music since a 2011 solo EP. Before that, Rolie last issued a full-band studio effort in 2001, with Roots. "Struck By Lightning," however, doesn't mimic his earlier successes with Journey and Santana, so much as [...]

Always a proud individualist, the artist formerly known as the Artist Formerly Known As Prince, has a message on his new song: Be your own damned self. This latest song to leak in advance Prince's forthcoming new album is another nervy rocker, with a squalling vocal and this electrical storm of a guitar solo over a whipsawing bass cadence. But [...]

Can't wait for forthcoming expanded reissues of Jeff Lynne's 1990 solo album Armchair Theatre and the Electric Light Orchestra's 2001 release Zoom? Sample three bonus tracks from the April 17, 2013 releases here. "Borderline," part of the Armchair Theatre release from Frontiers, begins as a lean rocker - underscoring the rockabilly influences that have always been part of Lynne's core [...]

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WRFL 88.1FM, the University of Kentucky’s college and community radio station, presents its fifth annual, multi-venue, music and art festival— Boomslang 2013 —in Lexington, Kentucky, culminating during the weekend of September 20   - 22, 2013. A multi-venue festival,  Boomslang 2013 serves WRFL’s mission to bring innovative, non-commercial music of various genres to Central Kentucky, offering an eclectic variety of other arts oriented events as well. Confirmed acts for this year’s festival include esteemed spoken-word hip hop poet  Saul   Willams [...]

Chicago continues to offer fans unprecedented access into the progress of their long-awaited new project, as co-founding member Robert Lamm posts the step-by-step construction of a track called "Naked in the Garden of Allah." Chicago, which somehow has put out just one album of newly recorded original material over the last two decades, is suddenly on a tear. Just last [...]

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Color me surprised. When Queensryche split with singer Geoff Tate a few months ago, spawning a couple of bands named Queensryche and a real headache for fans and anyone involved in the band, my money was very much on the Tate-less version. I’ve found most of Queensryche’s post-Empire work to be bland and uninteresting, and I found Tate’s latest solo [...]

To paraphrase Ozzy Osbourne, who whines with a dark menace on this preview video, there's "no where to hide" from this monster riff as Black Sabbath offers a short preview of its forthcoming reunion project. The album art work for 13, which pairs Osbourne and original Sabbath members Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler together for the first time since 1978, [...]

Proof positive that Chicago is, at long last, working on some new music arrives via streams of two songs - still in demo form. In fact, these rough cuts don't even have the band's fabled horn section yet. Hank Linderman, who previously worked on Yuletide songs with Chicago, is helming this as-yet-unnamed forthcoming project - which would be just their [...]

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From above the world of “Cars” comes “Disney’s Planes,” an action-packed 3D animated comedy adventure featuring Dusty (voice of Dane Cook), a plane with dreams of competing as a high-flying air racer. But Dusty’s not exactly built for racing—and he happens to be afraid of heights. So he turns to a seasoned naval aviator who helps Dusty qualify to take on the defending champ of the race circuit. Dusty’s courage is put to the ultimate test as he aims to reach heights he never dreamed possible, giving a spellbound world the inspiration to soar. “Disney’s Planes” takes off [...]