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Tuesdays Travels Pick of the Week for Rock is CURRAN from UK

December 10, 2013

For our Tuesdays Travels Pick of the Week, I am excited to bring you CURRAN from the UK. They have an awesome rock n roll sound that will have you hooked from the first listen. CURRAN is Mark Curran on Vocals, Mat Anthony on Guitar, Dean Roberts on Rhythm Guitar, Enrico Terella on Bass and Kris Rich on Drums. Check out their video for their song, “Run Back to You” I just love that song. It has such a bluesy rock vibe and the vocals remind me of one of my all-time favorite vocalists, Tom Keifer. It has a great build up on the intro that is perfect for a stadium show. I love the gritty guitars and the solos are bad ass. I bet you want more? NO!! I KNOW YOU WANT MORE!! So check out their other video for their song, “My Love Won’t Let You Down” They are just incredible and I can only imagine how awesome they would be to see live. If only I could travel to the UK because they [Read More]

Day 2 of 12 Bands You Have to Know goes to Burnos!

December 10, 2013

Today is our 2nd Day of 12 Days of Bands You Have to Know and I have a great treat for you. How about the awesome music of Burnos which delivers kick ass rock with their new song, “Octane”. Burnos is Melissa Burnos on Vocals, Eric Friedman (Creed, Tremonti, Projected) on Guitars, Garrett Whitlock (Tremonti) on Drums and Brian Weaver on Bass. I have been listening to them on XM Sirius Octane channel and everytime they come on, I can’t help but be fully adrenalized by their high energy octane driven (pun intened, ha) rock. Melissa delivers strong yet clean vocals that take a hold of you. Garrett gives us precision fueled drumming, Brian is a bad ass on bass and you can’t help but love Eric as he shreds on his solo. Their song has us wanting more and more! You can pick up their song Octane on Itunes here and make sure to crank it up loud! You will definitely be hearing a lot from Burnos and stay tuned….I am excited to hear what is next. [Read More]

NEW TOUR 2014: COMBICHRIST with William Control and New Years Day!

December 10, 2013

We have just received the dates for the upcoming tour for Combichrist “The We Love Tour” with special guest William Control and New Year’s Day! The tour is set to start off on April 3rd in Charlotte, NC and you can check the other dates below: I am not surprised to see William Control and Combichrist on tour together since when we saw William Control play in San Francisco last month for “The Revel Without a Cause Tour” at the DNA Lounge, Combichrist was hitting the stage downstairs at the DNA Lounge on the same night! You can check out our coverage of William Control from that tour here. You can also check out a tribute video that Rockin Ryan put together which includes footage and photos from the San Francisco show: Combichrist has their new album WE LOVE YOU set for a March 2014 release and everyone is excited for this one! You can pre-order William Control’s upcoming album, Neuromancer which is set for a March 2014 release here. Also you can pick [Read More]

What??? Lincoln Parish no longer in Cage the Elephant

December 10, 2013

So it appears that guitarist Lincoln Parish might no longer be in Cage The Elephant! There has been no official statement released by Cage The Elephant but plenty of signs and tweets might give us the confirmation we need. Lincoln Parish has not been playing some huge gigs lately with Cage The Elephant, including their performance on Jimmy Kimmel live last night where they performed their recent single, “Come a Little Closer”. Lincoln has recently tweeted the following which may give us the insight we need in all this: What is exciting is that Lincoln will be doing a lot more with his songwriting and his production company, Talk Box Radio out of Nashville, TN. He currently is doing some work with Penicillin Baby which has some great psychedelic pop/70’s vibe music that you just can’t not love. So make sure to follow Lincoln on Twitter as well as his production company Talk Box Radio so you can stay up to date on what he is working on. I will also leave you with Cage [Read More]

Macaulay Culkin shows his love for pizza with his Velvet Underground Tribute band; The Pizza Underground

December 9, 2013

Ok, so we all love pizza right? When I think of pizza and Macaulay Culkin, I don’t exactly think of music. I think of one of my favorite scenes from Home Alone where he orders the pizza and plays the movie “Angels With Filthy Faces” which is a play upon the James Cagney movie from 1938 “Angels with Dirty Faces”. Well, with that in mind, Macaulay Culkin has created a pizza themed Velvet Underground Tribute band titled, “The Pizza Underground” where all the songs have the lyrics updated with pizza theme references. How about the take on These Days updated and replaced with Cheese Days or I’m Waiting for Delivery Man instead of Velvet Undeground’s original, Waiting for the Man. All the songs on their demo were recorded at Macaulay Culkin’s house on November 11, 2013 and is available for download on their band bandcamp page here. The complete list of songs are: I’m Beginning to Eat the Slice Pizza I’m Waiting for Delivery Man Cheese Days Pizza Day All the Pizza Parties Pizza Gal Take [Read More]

12 Days of Bands You Have to Know starts with Centerlink!

December 9, 2013

So here we are again, that time of year where you not only get in the holiday spirit, shopping mode but also a time to appreciate new music! This year we are starting our 12 Days a bit early so you can make sure to pick up the music in time to give or enjoy. Today we start one of our 12 Day Features…. 12 Days of Bands You Have to Know. Day 1 starts right now with the heavy rock trio Centerlink from Boston. We wrote about them earlier this year and you can read that post here. To relive that moment when I first listened to Centerlink….. “I went to watch it and was BLOWN AWAY. Seriously just BLOWN AWAY. I thought I had found the lost recording of Metallica of 1985! I went back to check the message so I could see the band name only to see David’s response to them about how the singer had some Hettfield in him! Oh ya, we were on the same wavelength! It was like true old [Read More]

Butcher Babies to join In This Moment for HellPop II Tour!

December 9, 2013

We have been thoroughly enjoying BUTCHER BABIES debut album “Goliath” and I love their just released video for “Magnolia Blvd.” They have had quite a busy year touring in support of this awesome album and finished the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem festival, supporting DANZIG on his 25th anniversary tour and we were glad to catch them at the Aftershock Festival in Sacramento in September. They will be having a brief break and then setting out on January 2nd for the 16 city Hellpop II Tour with Century Media labelmates In This Moment. The tour also includes Devour the Day and All Hail the Yeti. After the Hellpop II Tour, they are going to set out on the sold out Shiprocked cruise from January 26- 30th and then return to play some dates in Florida with Sevendust. Make sure to get your tickets for the Hellpop II Tour! We had the opportunity to catch In This Moment and All Hail the Yeti on the Hellpop I Tour that came to San Francisco just a couple weeks [Read More]