Monthly Archives December 2011

Check out performer August Rigo’s fantastic rendition of Usher’s “Without You”!

With his new album What Were You Hoping For?, Van Hunt employs a spare but dizzyingly vibrant meld of day-glo psychedelic soul laced with glammed-up riffs and the acerbic energy of punk. The album sees the Grammy-winning musician/songwriter/producer turning up the volume on his genre-smashing songcraft and the results are altogether gripping. From the breakneck “Watching You Go Crazy Is Driving Me Insane” and “A Time Machine Is My New Girlfriend” to the metallic k.o. of the album’s first single,“Eyes Like Pearls,” Hunt unleashes a sound that reverberates with caustic wit, passion, and the thrilling excitement of an artist operating at the peak of his powers...

(MECK REMIX) Youngblood Hawke – Burning Down from Youngblood Hawke on Vimeo.

Inspired by the Herman Wouk novel of the same name, Youngblood Hawke was born out of late night creative musings between longtime friends Sam Martin and Simon Katz. Exhausted by two years of touring with their former band and the general turbulence that comes with music industry success, Martin and Katz looked for a more simple creative outlet where they could write and share music with friends and family without commercial pressures. Katz’s longtime friend Tasso Smith moved to Los Angeles from Texas to join the band when he heard the first demos, and Alice Katz, who was a key part of the original songwriting sessions, joined as well. To round out the lineup they recruited drummer and friend Nik Hughes.

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Snow Patrol has premiered their latest video for “This Isn’t Everything You Are”, from the forthcoming release, Fallen Empires. Previously unavailable in North America, the video, filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, showcases the band in the role of a tango bar’s house band. The heartfelt, “This Isn’t Everything You Are” encompasses the love, anger, reconciliation and raw emotion of the dance floor contestants in perfectly juxtaposed composition.

With the premiere of the new Snow Patrol video, we have also decided now is the time to unleash the essential mobile app for all Snow Patrol fans.

It’s packed with the latest news, Gary’s ‘I Can Hover’ blog, backstage photos, exclusive Fallen Empires Webisodes and an exclusive ‘Gary Close Up’ alternate version of “This Isn’t Everything You Are”...

Austin, Texas’ hometown favorites Electric Touch, who have made true believers of audiences at the SXSW (South By South­west), Lollapalooza, Warped, Coachella, and Austin City Limits festivals, and CMJ Music Marathon in New York so far this year – will commence a major North American tour supporting Nashville’s Hot Chelle Rae on February 10th at Family Gras in Metairie, Louisiana. Further North American dates in April will be announced in the months ahead.

The upcoming tour dates and the digital EP set the scene for the early 2012 release of Electric Touch’s first album on Island Records, details to be confirmed shortly. It follows up their self-titled debut album of 2008, on Texas indie Justice Records.

Electric Touch – Nottingham, England’s Shane Lawlor on lead vocals, Texas-bo...

“This has been a long time in the making,” says ANTHONY RANERI, lead vocalist/guitarist for BAYSIDE, about his upcoming solo EP. “I’m going to go into the studio and record four or five unreleased songs that I have written over the last three years. I always wanted these songs to see the light of day but I knew they wouldn’t work for Bayside.”

Breaking the news on Gumshoe Radio (the weekly idobi Radio-featured show that he and Bayside bassist Nick Ghanbarian host), the as-yet-untitled project will begin the recording process on December 13, 2011 at Hurley Studios in Costa Mesa, CA. Among the guests planned for the recording are Steve Choi (RX Bandits), Davey Warsop (Beat Union) and Jarrod Alexander (My Chemical Romance, Dead Country)...

Leonard Friend is making an R&B/Indie/Pop hybrid, drawing comparisons to Justin Timberlake, Jamie Lidell, Robin Thicke and Francis and the Lights. Check out the video for his song “Serious Music” below and be sure to let us know your thoughts!

About the video:

“The reason I came up with the seated idea for the video is because I tore my ACL and had surgery to repair it and didn’t want to wait until I was fully recovered to make a video,” Friend said. “I remembered a Michael Jackson performance at the Soul Train awards in 1993, where he sprained his ankle during rehearsal and performed sitting down. When I got up to dance that day at the end of the video, that was literally the first time I had danced in five months...

AWOLNATION has announced their first round of new U.S. tour dates for 2012, beginning January 5 in Anchorage, Alaska and highlighted by a live performance at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado on January 28. Additional tour dates are to be announced. The band, currently on the road performing at holiday concerts and festivals throughout December, recently wrapped their sold out “Fall Harvest Tour.”

The band unveiled the new music video for their latest single “Not Your Fault” exclusively on MTV. You can now view the video online. The song has been racing up the Alternative chart, where it currently sits at #17. AWOLNATION was recently chosen as the MTV PUSH Artist of the Week, coming off a breakout year in 2011 following the release of their debut album Megalithic Symphony (Red Bull ...