I've never heard of Diamond Rings prior to seeing him open for Stars at Webster Hall. In talking with the woman next to me, she described him as sounding like Vanilla Ice. Haircut aside, I think a more relevant comparison is to either Klaus Nomi or David Gahan. For anyone who also hadn't heard of Diamond Rings, here is some background from Wikipedia on the artist: "John O'Regan (born July 6, 1985) is a Canadian artist and musician best known by his stage name Diamond Rings. In addition to writing, recording, and producing his own music, he is...
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Friday, September 28, 2012
Chicago new-wave quartet California Wives released their debut Art History (Vagrant Records) earlier this month and the band's tour brought them to Webster Hall on Sept. 22nd, opening for Stars. For Art History, the band worked with producer Claudius Mittendorfer (Interpol, Neon Indian, Wild Nothing) for the eleven tracks that present a cohesive gallery of modern‐day pop portraits framed with a retro '80s fit. The new Art History CD follows the...
While I have reservations about any lineup of the English Beat that doesn't include Andy Cox or David Steele, the David Wakeling-led reformation of The Beat seems to get consistently good write-ups in the press. I'm more intrigued by Paul Collins going back to his power-pop roots with "Paul Collins Beat".This Fall, English Beat will hit the road alongside The Paul Collins Beat. “It’s the essence of power pop, which is wider than continents,” says...
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Frank Tosi, the driving force behind New York’s DesDemon, resurrects his band Metadox after the demise of DesDemon and announces an open call for a vocalist. Originally established in 2001, Metadox had rose quickly in the New York metal circles when signing with Metal Mayhem Music, to opening for respected artists Dragonforce, Kamelot, and Moonspell. The band imploded prematurely during their studio recording sessions in 2006. Frank Tosi mentions...
D.C. post-punk band Deleted Scenes released their second disc, Young People's Church of the Air, over the summer on Park the Van Records and just released a new video for the song "A Bunch of People Who Love You Like Crazy". Young People's Church of the Air originated in frontman Daniel Scheuerman's basement and assumed a live identity over the course of 300 tour dates. Recorded at the Garden Center in Hockessin, DE, with Nick Krill (The Spinto...
Created by Peter Gethers and Daniel Okrent, OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES showcases five actors in a revue that pays tribute to and reinvents classic jokes of the past and present. Think you’ve heard them all before? Not this way. The show also features comic songs—brand-new and satisfyingly old—as well as tributes to some of the giants of the comedy world and to the Old Jews Telling Jokes website, which inspired the show. If you’ve ever had a mother, visited...
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Bloomington, IN’s gothic-folk band Murder By Death will release their sixth full-length album and Bloodshot Records debut, Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon, on September 25th. Murder By Death wrote Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon – their first album featuring contributions from multi-instrumentalist Scott Brackett (formerly of Okkervil River and Shearwater)– throughout most of 2011, testing and reworking the songs in singer Adam Turla’s basement-turned-practice-space....
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Believers by BelieversAfter listening to the debut EP from Columbia, MO's Believers, the disc struck such a chord that I started it over again from the beginning. The post-punk label that I used above really doesn't do justice to the band's new disc as the closest comparison is the post-punk, polyrhythmic experimentalism of later period Talking Heads without any of the pop dross/gloss that plagued the Heads' later albums. Columbia, MO's True/False...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Having grown up in Baltimore in the early/mid 80’s, nothing annoys me more than when people refer to Kix as a “hair metal” band. Yes…Kix opened for Whitesnake’s 1990 tour during David Coverdale and the boys’ hair-farmer days but Kix’s first disc came out in 1981 and the band is, and always has been, a high-energy hard-rock band in the same vein as AC/DC. Kix is one of those bands that should have broken out but I don’t think any of the 80’s Baltimore...
“Husks is by far and away is haarp’s most ferocious offering. All eighteen minutes of ‘Deadman/Rabbit’ seethe and writhe with terrible energy; it is a song that perfectly embodies the wailing and gnashing of teeth. The sound is clear and bright, without the filthy weight of sludge, with only the sheer weight of the pace of the track forcing the song to its knees, to crawl.” – About.comDue to unforeseen events which occurred late in the summer of...
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Johnny by Automatic ChildrenNew music from Automatic Children is always a welcome thing...We are so thrilled to announce that our new recordings for our second upcoming vinyl 7" are complete, and online for your listening pleasure! "Johnny" and "Now You Know" were recorded by the super-talented Mark Ospovat at Emandee Recording in Brooklyn, NY just a few weekends ago. You may have heard these newer tunes at a recent show, or the acoustic duet premiere...
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Cruiser EP by Cruiser"Cruiser, a solo project by Philadelphia native Andy States, was brought to life in the walk-in closet of a crowded inner city loft. States’ demos eventually landed in the hands of Jeremy Park, producer of Youth Lagoon’s The Year of Hibernation, who offered to produce Cruiser’s EP after hearing the songs. With its infectious melodies and beachy guitars, the Cruiser EP captures the carefree essence of the summer months. Whether...
Friday, September 14, 2012
Download: Mission of Burma - "Dust Devil" (lead-off track from Unsound)The new video (below) was directed by Michael Gill and is the first time the band has officially appeared in a video.From the outset, Unsound was not going to be like any other Mission of Burma album. As you would expect, the material is raw, primal and aggressive. They still have a signature knack of twisting even the most ferocious noise into complex structures. There are,...
Horrified by Repulsion"Repulsion were an early grindcore / death metal band from Flint, Michigan. Their innovations were significant to the development of the death metal and grindcore genres...By 1986 Repulsion's trademark style had matured; characterised by raspy shouted vocals, extremely distorted down-tuned guitars, overdriven punkish riffs, absurd rambling solos interjected as if only as an afterthought, rumbling bass lines, and machine-gun drumming. Repulsion was experimenting with a hammering, static clouded, lo-fi sound that was on a level...
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Academy Award® nominee Jessica Chastain (The Help) makes her Broadway debut alongside Academy Award® nominee David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck), Dan Stevens (Matthew Crawley on Downton Abbey) and two-time Tony Award® winner Judith Ivey in the Tony Award®-winning masterpiece, The Heiress. Written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz and directed by two-time Tony Award® nominee Moisés Kaufman, this star-studded production invites you to immerse yourself...
STREAM: James Iha - Look to Sky (The End Records)James Iha is proud to premiere his new solo album Look to Sky - an exciting collection of sophisticated pop melodies, lyrical sharpness and guitar driven rock - a week before it's September 18th release on Conan O'Brien's Team Coco.Look to Sky sees Iha returning as a solo artist after nearly a decade and a half, newly inspired, a little wiser and proud to share what he's learned and created. "I feel...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
DOWNLOAD: Aaron Embry - Live on KXLU Demolisten 2-10-12Former Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes piano player Aaron Embry will release his solo debut, Tiny Prayers, next Tuesday (Sept. 18th) on the Communion Music label. Embry wrote Tiny Prayers in the late summer and fall of 2011, at the tail end of his three-year stint with the Magnetic Zeros. He recorded the album in his Ojai, CA home over essentially four days in April 2012, playing every...
Monday, September 10, 2012
DOWNLOAD: D.O.A. - "He's Got A Gun"Inspired by Woody Guthrie, Canada's godfather of punk, Joe Keithley has always been out to change the world, through almost 35 years of D.O.A., he and the band have taken on all brands of oppressors. Now Joe is trying to do it from inside the system, he is seeking the New Democratic Party (NDP) nomination in the British Columbia riding of Coquitlam - Burke Mountain. The NDP are a party committed to fairness and...
Saturday, September 8, 2012
"Hardcore-influenced metal" band The Acacia Strain have announced that their sixth disc, Death is the Only Mortal, will be out on October 9th. This disc marks the band's debut for Rise Records and Rise is selling a bunch of cool and crazy merch. (Ninja Turtle Shirt, Lunchbox/Thermos, etc.) as part of the pre-sale. The band also just released the first song, "Victims of the Cave", from the new disc via YouTube.The Acacia Strain - Oct. '12 Tour Dates10/4...
Texas-based electronic metallers The Browning kicked off a US tour with Los Angeles industrial metallers Static-X last night in Sacramento, California.The "Noise Revolution" tour also features Winds of Plague and Davey Suicide, and ends on September 16th, just two days before The Browning kick off a headlining US tour with support from Casino Madrid and Amyst.This later tour is playing The Studio at Webster Hall on September 27th. Tickets are $12...
Friday, September 7, 2012
Local pop/rock band Emergency Service is playing two sets (9:10AM and 11:15AM) at Central Park's Bandshell for Sunday's (Sept. 9th) Susan G. Komen 'Race for the Cure'. The band's new disc drops on November 13th and the band will be performing songs from this new disc at Sunday's show.Fusing together elements of pop/rock and hip-hop with a dash of reggae influence, Emergency Service delivers a sound that appeals to a wide range of listeners - and...
Chicago new-wave quartet California Wives released their debut Art History LP last week (Vagrant Records) and have just released their first video for the song "Purple". The video uses artwork submitted from fans and other artists throughout the video.The band worked with producer Claudius Mittendorfer (Interpol, Neon Indian, Wild Nothing) for Art History and the eleven tracks present a cohesive gallery of modern‐day pop portraits framed with...
Thursday, September 6, 2012
From the slums of London to the heights of Hollywood, "Chaplin: The Musical" is the showbiz Broadway musical about the silent film legend the world couldn’t stop talking about — Charlie Chaplin. It reveals the man behind the legend, the undeniable genius who forever changed the way America went to the movies. The show is running into early next year at Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue). Previews began August 21, 2012 and opening night is September 10, 2012. Chaplin is a fascinating drama about Charlie Chaplin's...
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