Metal! Steel! Blood! War! That sums up what Sacred Steel generally sings about. A traditional metal band since their beginning in 1996, they will remain that way to the bitter end. Metal is war as they stated on a previous record and they tend to keep the battle going until...
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Sacred Steel - Carnage Victory
Ninetail - Half Truths And Hand Grenades
Ninetail reigns from York Pennsylvania and have just released their sophomore album. Although I’m unfamiliar with their previous work, the promosheet did raise some expectations. Especially since they're heavily inspired by American Head Charge, Bloodsimple, Pantera and Lamb Of God.What is it with all those bands nowadays that just want...
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Thrice Post “In Exile” Video
Thrice’s new video for “In Exile” can be seen below.Click here to view the embedded video. ...
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Punk Siren Jemina Pearl Unplugs for SPIN!
She's Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore's protégé (they did a Ramones cover together for Gossip Girl); she collaborated with Iggy Pop on her SPIN-praised solo debut; and she recently dropped by SPIN HQ to perform acoustic versions of four new songs. Meet Jemina Pearl, former singer of Nashville's Be...
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Puppetmastaz
f you buy into their fictional history, Puppetmastaz is comprised of five puppets (Snuggles the Bunny, Ryno, Wizard the Lizard, Panic the Pig, lead by de facto statesman Mr. Maloke) who met in Berlin and formed their sound by cruising the street swearing profusely until they found a rhythm. Then...
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Wishful Thinking - A Waste Of Time Well Spent
Wishful Thinking is Paul Wold, he has a great voice and an album full of touching but melancholic tunes. ‘The Truth’ which starts the album (after a brief intro) immediately lets you hear Wold’s minimal and direct approach and vocal style which sits somewhere between Connor Oberst and Will Oldham...
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Turbowolf - Let's Die - Music-News.com
Its been a successful year for Turbowolf, touring the States, Canada and the UK, and their upcoming release of their new single can only prove more good things are in store.In the first seconds of TURBOWOLFs 'Lets Die eerie electronic sounds catch you off guard before your ears are bombarded!...
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Saving Aimee - We Are The Good Guys
British pop rock six-piece Saving Aimee has already toured with the likes of Enter Shikari, Simple Plan, Fightstar, Go:Audio, Kill Hannah and McFly, but have only just put their music to CD to release their debut album ‘We're The Good Guys’.Justin Hawkins, former front man of the Darkness, produces the...
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ANEW REVOLUTION Completes Work On New Album
ANEW REVOLUTION, the Austin, Texas-based band featuring former members of SLAVES ON DOPE and UNLOCO, has completed work on its second album, tentatively due in early 2010 via E1 Music (formerly KOCH Records). The follow-up to the group's 2008 Mudrock-produced (AVENGED SEVENFOLD, GODSMACK) debut, "Rise", was recorded at Spider Studios...
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The Pussy Cat Dolls - I Hate This Part - Music-News.com
The fabulous five are continuing to take the pop world by storm!Its hard not to admire how far the girls have come; they started life in Las Vegas as a dance troupe. After the creative magic wand of Joseph Khan- the man behind videos for greats such as Britney Spears...
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Japandroids - Post-Nothing (2009)
Kevin's little note down below made me realize that I needed to finish this review that had been sitting half done for about 3 months. I've got a lot of these, sometimes some prods from your peers is all it takes to make you finish.Japandroids. Yup, they are a Canadian band...
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The Spice Girls musical will be called 'Viva Forever'
The girl group have chosen to name the proposed musical after their 1998 number one hit and the script for the show is presently being written.The musical which will tell the rags-to-riches rise to fame of the five members, Geri Halliwell, Mel B, Victoria Beckham, Mel C and Emma...
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Smoke Fairies Sunshine
'Sunshine' is quintessentially English, sung in a magnificently aloof voice (shades of Vashti Bunyan maybe), whose cool reserve gradually burns off and builds towards a torrid ending full of reverberating guitars and soaring/sawing cello, that has just a hint of Led Zeppelin's explosive folkiness. If there's any justice, the video...
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The Answer - Comfort Zone - Music-News.com
Northern Irish 4-piece The Answer fall into the often difficult category of classic rock and new single Comfort Zone recalls hugely successful bands Live and the Goo Goo Dolls. It's big and anthemic in places but also rather laborious in others, particularly in lyrical content with repeating declarations of 'I...
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Kris Allen Kris Allen
To many, much of whatever credibility the Idol franchise still had, flew out the window when Kris Allen was voted the winner of the 8th season of American Idol. How he conquered any of the top five contestants, let alone eventual runner-up Adam Lambert, shall continue to astound. We’re (allegedly)...
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Barren Earth Our Twilight
I wonder if Mikko Kotamaki has a thing for the Twilight movie series. I mean, it seems like a little more than coincidence that his main band, Swallow the Sun, named their latest album New Moon and now his side-project’s first release is titled Our Twilight. Although, I guess...
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Point Juncture, Wa - Heart To Elk (2009)
Now I wouldn’t consider myself an expert on American geography, but I’m pretty sure Point Juncture, WA, is not the same place as Portland, OR, which is where this peculiarly-named band actually come from. Still, that minor confusion swept aside, ‘Heart To Elk’ is their new album, and it seems...
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Orianthi Believe
It is difficult to look at the C.V. of Australian-born Orianthi Panagaris and not believe it has been grossly exaggerated for promotional purposes. A 24 year-old blonde woman who has played with Vai and Santana, she has predominantly served as a backing musician for the likes of Prince and Carrie...
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Yonlu A Society In Which No Tear is Shed...
The introverted, internet-fixated Yonlu (real name Vinicius Gageiro Marques) died in 2008, at the age of 16, after he poisoned himself with carbon monoxide. He stayed online the whole time, writing his suicide note and posting messages on suicide forums about what it was like to die. After his funeral...
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