Nashville’s The Apache Relay has announced their Fall tour dates for the months of September and October. After joining Grammy-nominated Mumford & Sons onstage at Bonnaroo Music Festival in June (watch them perform “American Nomad” here) the band is ready to hit the road themselves, kicking-off in Wilmington, NC – check their tour dates.
Brazilian female-fronted heavy metal act, Shadowside, digitally released their new album titled, Inner Monster Out, yesterday through SHP Records. Their anticipated single “Angel With Horns” has a teaser music video on youtube as well. Get the album through pledgemusic!
Hercules and Love Affair’s myth started with the worldwide club smash “Blind”. Their self-titled debut garnered considerable critical and commercial acclaim around the world. It was named a “Breakthrough Album of the Year” by The New York Times and featured in Pitchfork’s “Top Ten albums of 2008”. Their second album, Blue Songs, was released this month and includes lead single “My House.” They’re currently wrapping up the Identity Festival Tour in CA. Watch their trippy video for the song “Painted Eyes.”
Long Island’s Blameshift has released their brand new music video for “Ghost,” which premiered on HotTopic.com and is also available for viewing on YouTube. Hot Topic also named them “Unsigned Band of the Month”. Check out their Facebook for tour dates and their upcoming EP, The Black Rose.
Shaun Boothe has just released “Phone Sex” to join the other hits that is his mixtape, Waiting Room. This video, along with hit “Let Me Go“, show the talent and skills behind Toronto’s freshest rapper – it’s “Soul-food in a fast-food driven market.” Facebook here.
All Time Low have released behind the scenes footage from their current “Gimme Summer Ya Love tour,” promoting their recently released new album, Dirty Work. The video gives an up-close and personal look at the band backstage preparing before a show. For updates, tours and the album check out alltimelowband.com.
Spoon has confirmed a headline appearance at this year’s Fun Fun Fest. The festival, which takes place Nov. 4-6 in Austin TX, will be Spoon‘s only live performance of 2011 and its first U.S. show since 2010′s Austin City Limits Music Festival. Other headliners at FFF 2011 include Passion Pit, Slayer and Public Enemy.
When Danzig, the band, grew out of the Misfits/Samhain lineage in 1987, leader Glenn Danzig went into the new project with even grander ambitions and a long-term design. His vision included a seven-album arc, each one meant to, in Glenn’s own words, “stand the test of time.” Recently announced are the US tour dates, “Special Legacy” hitting Chicago, New York, California and Texas and set album release date, The Essential Danzing, out October 25th on Sony.
Check out the White Wives in their live video session and exclusive interview about their music, album Happeners, and inspiration to come together. Two of the members coming from Anti-Flag this band has a lot of potential and strong jam sessions to prove it.
Online metal source Hellbound is hosting a free public stream of the newly-released Hereditas, the crushing EP from Brazilian grindcore warriors Desalmado. Hereditas venomously spews forth six metallic grind anthems in under 14 minutes, unleashing a flood of lyrical political angst and social unrest, in the band’s native Portuguese tongue – listen here.
Skrillex, dubstep extraordinaire, has a kick-ass music video that you need to watch. The song is called Equinox (First of the Month) and is illustrated by the video perfectly.
On September 27th, Atlantic Records will release Vice Verses, the eighth studio record from multi-platinum rock band Switchfoot. “Vice Verses is a record of tension and release. It’s an attempt to describe the polarity of the human experience. The sunlight and shadow. The highs and lows, laughter and pain, hope and fear, doubts and belief,” says lead singer/guitarist Jon Foreman. For more info check out switchfoot.com.
On September 6, Greensleeves is back with The Biggest Ragga Dancehall Anthems 2011, the go-to album to find the hottest songs that are running the streets and reggae mix tapes this season. The hallmark series offers hardcore bangers from dancehall’s most exciting artists including Mavado, Vybz Kartel, Bounty Killer, Assassin, Chino, Queen Ifrica and I-Octane.
The iconic Jamaican producers, Cleveland “Clevie” Browne and Wyclef “Steely” Johnson, created a rich catalog throughout their 30-year partnership. Steely and Clevie were best known for their 80s and 90s hits which helped revolutionize the digital dancehall era, but the duo created a impressive body of work in the early 2000s (before Steely passed away in 2009) that never saw the light of day until Memories. Set to be released on September 6 with VP Records, Memories is a collection of classic hits from the late 60s & 70s revamped with Steely and Clevie’s contemporary production.
Los Angeles based artist Zenith Myth is set to release his self-titled debut on September 6 via Vibra Cobra records. Zenith Myth is a personal collection of emotional charged melodic rock music that experiments in structure from the one-man-band.
Metric is pleased to announce the release of their remix album Fantasies Flashbacks, comprised entirely of fan-created remixes of songs from the band’s critically and commercially acclaimed 2009 album Fantasies. Due to the amount of remixes done by fans, Metric picked their favorite and put together this album, out October 11th. All proceeds from the package will be donated to the Center of Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Visit ilovemetric.com to listen and get in on the deal.
Family of the Year are excited to give fans a first listen to “St. Croix,” the title track of their new EP,. The St. Croix EP will be released on September 27th in partnership with tinyOGRE Entertainment and will also be available on the band’s website as well as at digital retailers worldwide. Family of the Year hit the road this September for dates up and down the west coast with Viva Brother and Group Love. For tour dates and music go here.
View Sleeper Agent’s behind the scenes and actual video for the single “Get It Daddy”.
Check out this amazing performance by Austin Texas trio Love Inks, live at the Daytrotter studios this summer. “You get this very calming feeling, in these silky, dance pop gems – not unlike those of Tennis, Summer Camp and Cults”, they said. Also stream their music on soundcloud and Facebook.
Miami hard rock band on the verge, Black Tide, shows off considerable acoustic chops in the newly released video performances of “That Fire” and “Fight ‘Til The Bitter End.” Black Tide’s musicality and soulfulness shine in these videos. Don’t miss a rare opportunity to see the band unplugged! Both songs can be heard in their fully electrified glory on the band’s new record, Post Mortem, out now – official website.
“We Can Make The World Stop” is the title track from The Glitch Mob‘s new EP, which just hit online retailers and independent record stores across the world on July 12. Check it out on MtvU. They’ve been touring all summer with various festivals and buckle up to head to Europe in October – website here.
