Southern California's UNWRITTEN LAW has become synonymous with the sounds of summer by releasing some of the most celebrated rock records of recent memory, touring the world to play for sold out crowds, holding the #1 slot on the Billboard Modern Rock charts and becoming a staple of the summer's biggest festival, Vans Warped Tour. Not only have they become rock idols but also they have overcome pitfalls that would end the careers of most bands in order to remain relevant as others from the scene fade away. Now UNWRITTEN LAW are set to return with SWAN, their sixth studio album due out March 29 on Breaksilence Recordings/Suburban Noize Records.Marred by drugs, alcohol and personal struggles, UNWRITTEN LAW ...
For the six men in UNDEROATH, whose members have evolved and thrived during a decade-long progression that has elevated them into one of heavy music's biggest successes, change has been ubiquitous. 2010 has been no exception for the Tampa-based sextet, who underwent and overcame what many consider their most significant line-up alteration yet. Yet in doing so, UNDEROATH experienced an artistic rebirth in the form of Ø (DISAMBIGUATION), its triumphant fifth album for Solid State/Tooth & Nail.Transformed by the arrival of new drummer DANIEL DAVISON, formerly of Norma Jean, UNDEROATH--which also counts TIM MCTAGUE, SPENCER CHAMBERLAIN, GRANT BRANDELL, CHRIS DUDLEY and JAMES SMITH--has delivered an...
The horizon. Where things end, where things begin, and the point where possibilities are limitless.Inspired decision, then, that Juno Award-winning trio Bedouin Soundclash should choose to dub their latest collection of west-friendly, world-pop Light the Horizon. Inspired. And fitting. "This record is really looking forward," says vocalist Jay Malinowski. "It's from the point where we don't have any baggage from the past. We're just genuinely in the moment with this record, for the first time in a long time." Soundclash co-founder and bassist Eon Sinclair agrees. "It's a really optimistic and hopeful record," he says. "That's been said about some of the stuff we've do...
PTEC Dojo derives unique sounds brought as a culmination of Paul and Eric's vision, passion, experience, as well as cross-cultural and multi-genre influences. In 2008, Paul Timmerman and Eric Caver partnered forming PTEC Dojo to bring their vision, and talents to a changing multimedia industry through collaboration and experimentation. PTEC Dojo has collaborated with an impressive list of notable artist such as Information Society, Collide, as well as Grammy Award winners Paula Abdul and Taj Mahal. PTEC Dojo continues to work with top media companies including video game behemoth Activision, Clear Channel Communications/Premiere Radio Networks and promotions and marketing powerhouse Marketing Factory Inc., to name a fe...
What do passion, MTV and Craigslist all have in common? These factors all led to the formation and growth of NYC indie rock band, The Assembly Line. Brought together by an ad on Craigslist and a passion for making music, the band has seen success in recent years with placements on MTV, rave reviews in the press and are ready to take on 2012 with their new video and song “Full Impartial.”In 2009, singer Thor Nguyen was stuck in his daily routine doing pharmaceutical research when he decided to pursue his passion for music. He recorded and released a 6 song EP and posted an ad on Craigslist to recruit musicians to join him and play it out live. He received responses from several local musicians including guitarist Chri...
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Jaloes is a composer of instrumental minimalist music. His songs, made with piano and computers, are described as relaxing, melodic, rhythmic and repetitive. Some of his major contemporary musical influences are Wim Mertens, Philip Glass and Yann Tiersen.http://www.jaloes.com ...
Ben is a songwriter and composer who works in Berlin (Germany) and London (UK). He has released twenty-eight full-length albums' worth of Pop, Folk, Rock, Neoclassical music and anything in between. He also releases instrumental music under the pseudonym Jasmine Brunch. Ben's music has been used in several hundred TV productions worldwide. Among others, Ben has composed music for The Gate Films (BBC, Sony, McDonalds, Kellogs, Unilever, Hoover, Barclays), Tsunami Music (Audi, Coca Cola, Warner Bros, Saatchi & Saatchi, Honda, Sky), The Sound Works (Siemens, BT, Goodyear, Canon, Sainsbury's, MTV), Cosmo Wallace (Panasonic, Simply Be, SPCA, Jacamo, Ubisoft), the Photolink Creative Group, Sweet Thunder Productions, Karmaloop ...
Glovez is by no means your typical rapper. Ask most hip-hop artists taking their steps out onto the scene where they want to end up and you might hear them say they want to be the next Jay-Z or 50 Cent. But not this adopted New Yorker."Personally," he says, "I just want to be me."It's an attitude that is strikingly different from the usual biters and copycats clogging up the scene from coast to coast. And it is no surprise that Glovez musical output is as unique as his personality. With the launch of his first official mixtape - ‘Corporate Grind - You're Fired Vol. 1", Glovez is about to take his new, exciting message to the widest audience yet. The mixtape is a throwback to the days when hip hop was...
COMEG are an original Rock band from Devon.COMEG areCoemgen Savage - VocalsRoger Pearson - GuitarSpencer Jones - BassDavid Cartwright - DrumsCOMEG's recording career began in 2002 in a basement in Devon on a basic home studio.Their first self produced album was released in 2003 and they have since recorded 6 more albums.All albums are freely available to download from the band's websiteCOMEG has also written several tunes for independent movies.The band are also played on both local and international radio stations and featured on Podcasts all over the world.The band have had a 4 year break from recording and playing ...
Songwriter, Loren (Nerol) Moore, a musician with a dream, creating his own work became unfulfilled with previous bands. Continuing to follow his dream, he created a band of his own under the name of, Sound of Sulfur.The band now having played together for 3 and a half years have created a solid energetic live performance that fans can expect a true experience with meaningful music still surviving today.Sound of Sulfur's purpose and message is originality, emotion and distinctiveness. With a combination of new age trance, alternative rock and a hint of the 80's, it's clear SOS has found it's niche in song writing.Whilst rising out of today's dead music scene, the band hopes to impress their ...
Safely guarded behind four pairs of glasses and an arsenal of awkward tendencies, the members of By Surprise have spent an equal amount of time combing through the forgotten dust- ‐filled grooves of 7- ‐inch records released during the 90s indie label boom, as they have with the off- ‐beat and inspirational works of Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, and Douglas Adams. Mountain Smashers, the band's first full- ‐length album, and their first with Boston based Topshelf Records, romanticizes with the feelings of reluctance we'v...
Rarely does an artist explode onto the music scene with the force and impact of a comet. But when it does happen — as it did when 26-year-old singer-guitarist Gary Clark Jr. delivered an incendiary debut performance of his song “Bright Lights” at Eric Clapton's 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival last June — the result is magical. Funky, hip, and badass, Gary Clark Jr. is a rocking soul man for a new generation. Weaned on John Lee Hooker, Lightnin Hopkins, and T-Bone Walker, Clark fuses his deep blues influence with a love of classic hip-hop and contemporary soul. His voice weaves between a melodic lilt and a seasoned blues howl with his guitar licks dancing and dodging between and behind the beat as if the essence of Sn...
Margot & the nuclear so and so’s third album Buzzard is primal and truculent, going straight for the vitals. Opener “Birds” finds the band going to places they haven’t before – lovely, languid verses progressing into fuzzed out, howling choruses throughout the song’s twists and turns – while still holding to the guitar-based ethos on which the album is founded. “Lunatic, lunatic, lunatic” may be familiar sonic territory for singer/guitarist Richard Edwards, but the (very) dark humor that slowly unveils is something that he has only flirted with (innocently) in the past. “New York City Hotel Blues” and “Claws Off” di...
If you don’t know Datsik by now, you best be learning. Datsik has been taking the dubstep scene by storm, blowing up dance floors around the globe with his original style of hip-hop future-tech bangers. In 2009 alone, Datsik had over 7 number one releases on Beatport, and vinyl sales through the roof on many other sites such as Chemical Records, Red-Eye and Juno. Aside from that, he has also done remixes for some of the biggest names in the scene such as the Crystal Method, Freestylers, Bassnectar, Noisia, Diplo, the Wu-tang Clan, and Apex from the critically acclaimed Lifted Music label; not to mention countless collaborations with some of the hottest producers in the scene. With multiple ant...
For over two decades, Avishay Mizrav has been following his musical passion.He’s relentlessly pursued perfection in guitar playing and composition.His path has lead to his musical evolution through several bands.Avishay Mizrav keeps his skills honed through a side projects that focuses on Classic Rock, Blues, Soul, Funk.Forgotten Melodies is Mizrav’s debut album, which he wrote, recorded and mixed.Two demo tracks from this album won First Place in OURSTAGE Instrumental channel: Knight Templar in August, 2008 and Radical Emotions in December, 2008.Knight Templar also reached the Semi-Finals on the ISC (International Song Competition) in 2009.By 2010 he had all the tracks...
Symfonia Members: Timo Tolkki (ex Stratovarius) - Guitars Andre Matos (ex Angra) - Vocals Uli Kusch (ex Helloween) - Drums Jari Kainulainen (ex Stratovarius) - Bass Mikko Harkin (ex Sonata Artica) - KeyboardsAs legends among the melodic metal community, none of these musicians need introduction. By sheer coincidence, they found themselves living on the same continent, in Scandinavia and decided to join forces and convey their talents in the form of a new melodic metal project entitled SYMFONIA. Honoring the heritage of their previous bands Stratovarius, Helloween, Angra and Sonata Arctica, SYMFONIA is a force no serious melodic metal fan will be able to ignore.The all-star lineup is gearing...
Take 2 parts Carolina moonshine, 1 part San Francisco liquid acid, 3 parts 4-track rap, and a pinch of 60s punk and you have the Fist Fam's new record 'Posted', a far cry from what any other hip-hop act is doing this day and age. In a world of over produced squeaky clean, polished horseshit, Insulting Roger Troutman rip-offs, and ironic hipster rap, the Fist Fam brings something different to the table. Low budget, grimy, soulful chaos.Not fit to conform to the standards of the day. The Fam has taken a new approach to an age old craft. Garage-esque southern twang feeding off the remains of the golden era of rap. From the unheard cries for redemption over the driving earthy groves of "Screamin' out the...
“The thing about us is that we always stayed on the ground level with the fans,” proclaims Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell in his proud Texas twang. “We never rode above the fans – I’m a fuckin’ fan myself – and we always had great interaction with them. They’re us, we’re them, we’re all for one and stronger than all.” Of course, it took the Dallas-based Pantera time to find their groove, shape their sound, and harness the right mix of combustible personalities. The band emerged in the early Eighties, when drummer Vinnie Paul and his guitarist brother Dimebag Darrell put Pantera together with bassist Rex Brown and ...
Bix Medard is a electro/trip-hop duo based in Brussels, Belgium and Tokyo, Japan.They started out early 2008. Debut album "Bix Medard" released early 2009.Collaboration with fashiondesigners "Y-dress?" during japanese concerttour, december. RemixAlbum "Bix Medard - Y-dress?" released early 2010."Bix Medard - Y-dress?" charted #29, CMJ RPM (Collegeradio charts, USA)Album "Take a deep breath" released in march 2011. ...
A solo artist bringing new music that is a creative sonic blend of rock music that remolds his sound, thought-provoking lyrics, while offering great melodies and arrangement for the modern audience. Upstate, NY musician whose music ranges from acoustic rock to heavier flavors who performs, writes, and creates all his music, has been a blessing for him, Palangi said due to some of his past medical issues. Growing up with those hardships but overcoming them with the passion and drive for music. Frank headed in to the studio with veteran record producer Rogers Masson to record his debut EP. The sessions were held in music center of the world, Nashville, TN at Soundstage Studios. Frank has written, perfo...
IRON MAIDEN charged into 2012 with two major news announcements. Firstly, March 26 sees the release of a live BLU-RAY, 2DVD and double CD soundtrack: En Vivo! Filmed during their 2010/11 Final Frontier World Tour, En Vivo! captures the show at the Estadio Nacional, Santiago in front of 50,000 Chilean fans. Alongside the live show, there is a bonus disc featuring an 88-minute documentary Behind The Beast giving a behind-the-scenes look at exactly what is involved in putting on an IRON MAIDEN concert. Secondly, in June, the MAIDEN ENGLAND WORLD TOUR gets underway. This highly anticipated tour is the next chapter in the History Of Ir...
For his ninth album, Lenny Kravitz found much of his inspiration close to home. In fact, the very spirit of BLACK AND WHITE AMERICA came from the locations in which the music was made—from a tiny, 400-person community in the Bahamas to the streets of Paris. And out of his experiences as a true citizen of the planet, his first new songs in three years became the most personal and diverse collection of his career. "No doubt, my environment definitely lends a lot to the creative process," he says. Kravitz has repeatedly shown what that process can accomplish. He’s been making records for over twenty years, since his landmark 1989 debut LET LOVE RULE. In that time, he ha...
Christopher Michael Jensen is an artist who is not afraid to push the confines of art and creativity. With a knack for making unique music, Jensen is a true emcee in the booming Twin Cites hip hop scene, mixing poetic introspection and commentary with lyrical dexterity and braggadocious rhymes.Born in 1986, Chris was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, coming up with a disposition for being different. He was inspired by the multitude of things growing up that bombarded his brain. Through the science fiction, video games, comic books, and other interests of his youth, Chris existed in his own world, letting his imagination run wild.As a little kid, Chris listened to rock and alternative radio and whatever compilation...
Korn's cathartic alternative metal sound positioned the group among the most popular and provocative to emerge during the post-grunge era. Korn began their existence as the Bakersfield, California-based metal band LAPD, which included guitarists James "Munky" Shaffer and Brian "Head" Welch, bassist Reginald "Fieldy Snuts" Arvizu, and drummer David Silveria. After issuing an LP, the members of LAPD in 1993 crossed paths with Jonathan Davis, a mortuary science student moonlighting as the lead vocalist for the local group Sexart. They soon asked Davis to join the band, and upon his arrival the quintet rechrist...
John K. Samson is the acclaimed singer and songwriter for indie rock band The Weakerthans. The band's most recent studio release Reunion Tour garnered praise from an assortment of publications including Paste Magazine, who said of the album, "If such a prize existed, it would be the leading candidate for this year's Punk Pulitzer." This year's live album Live at the Burton Cummings Theatre was recently nominated for Western Canadian Music Award for Rock Recording of the Year.John lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where he's also the managing editor of a small publishing house. His three -song solo EP, Provincial Road 222, is the second in a series of recordings exploring streets and h...
Anthems of heartbreak and triumph that tug at the heartstrings and speak to the masses. New-wave indie-rock that is smart and sexy. Pulsating dance-rock and contemplative ballads. Toronto's own Shortwave have managed to capture it all on their debut full-length album The Skyline Verses, available February 8 via EMI Music / MB Distribution.With seasoned producer Byron Kent Wong (The Crystal Method, Beck) at the helm, The Skyline Verses blends together vintage analogue warmth with a forward leaning attitude, creating an album that is as contemporary and immediate as it is reminiscent and familiar. It is also the long awaited follow up from a band that has recently shared the stage with an eclectic range of ...
Steelianos began his musical studies in Nakas conservatory and the National conservatory of Greece taking classical piano lessons at age five. Bought his first guitar and dropped off the piano experience in 2001.He started guitar as a self-taught but actually started mastering the instrument after crossing ways and taking lessons by two world-class virtuosos, Theodore Ziras and Ioannis Anastassakis, expanding his knowledge in different musical styles.Steelianos had been performing as well as writing music with many bands since 2002, experimenting in different genres (heavy metal, hard rock, progressive metal symphonic etc.) his general rule is that good ideas can be found in any kind of music.&nbs...
Bobby Liebling & PENTAGRAM have been churning out widely admired hard rock / doom metal for over four decades. Within its first, this D.C. band is largely regarded as pioneering not one but two subgenres of hard rock. At the onset of the 1970's, they helped procreate a behemoth called, "Heavy Metal." Nine years on, they'd be planting the dark seed of what would grow to be known as "Doom". 2011 marks the 40th Anniversary of this American treasure and sees the release of their new album, Last Rites, on Metal Blade Records.When asked about his old band's beginnings, co-founder and drummer Geof O'Keefe recalls, "It was 40 yrs ago in the fall of 1971. I'm not sure if it was liter...
