Month: February 2015

Entertainment

Slash ft. Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators perform Bent To Fly on Conan

February 6, 2015

In case you missed the epic performance of SLASH featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators performing Bent To Fly on Conan O’Brien you can watch it below on the TeamCoco site: http://teamcoco.com/video/slash-featuring-myles-kennedy-and-the-conspirators-02-05-15 SLASH also joined Conan O’Brien’s other guest on the show actor/musician Jeff Bridges for a jam on “Someone Else” from the film Crazy Heart.  You can watch the full episode by visiting here:  http://tinyurl.com/oc9rpe7. One thing is for sure, when you take a listen to Bent To Fly, you are in awe of Slash’s stellar guitarwork and the incredible vocals by Myles. There is no wonder why we featured him on our 12 Days of Vocalists. You can check that out here: https://musicjunkiepress.com/12-days-of-vocalistsmyles-kennedy/ If you need more from SLASH, you can check out some photos from their amazing performance last year at The Fillmore in San Francisco. Here is our full coverage link: http://wp.me/p5rd2k-6Oy   Upcoming Tour Dates: DATE LOCATION VENUE MON 2/9 Osaka, Japan Namba Hatch TUE 2/10 Tokyo, Japan Studio Coast THU 2/12 Tokyo, Japan O-East SAT 2/14 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Sunway Lagoon Surf Beach TUE [Read More]

Band

Young Guns release new track, Speaking In Tongues

February 6, 2015

The London based rockers Young Guns have released a new song, Speaking In Tongues. The song is off their upcoming new album, Ones and Zeroes which is set for a June 8th release through Wind Up Records. Check out the infectious new song here: It is the perfect follow up to their first single hit,  I Want Out which shot to No. 1 on the Tunes Rock Chart in the UK. Both songs will be included on their set when they perform on the Kerrang! Tour 2015.  We had the chance to chat with Ben Jolliffe, Simon Mitchell and John Taylor after their set. Check out the interview here: ONES AND ZEROS was recorded in Bath, England and produced by Steve Osborne (Joy Division, U2, Peter Gabriel) and mixed by Damian Taylor (Arcade Fire, Bjork, The Killers,). The album follows the band’s 2012 debut and its title track “Bones,” a smash hit that rocketed all the way to No. 1 on the Active Rock Radio Chart. Exclusive pre-orders and bundles are available now by visiting now  www.weareyoungguns.com. [Read More]

Band

Let Shaman’s Harvest know you are Country as F@#k!

February 6, 2015

Last year we shared with you our interview with guitarist, Josh Hamler of Shaman’s Harvest. You can read our full interview here: Interview with Josh of Shaman’s Harvest. We have been rocking out to their latest release, Smoking Hearts and Broken Guns which released last year. In addition it has been awesome to hear their song, Country As Fuck being played on Sirius XM Octane! Now Shaman’s Harvest wants to know how Country As Fuck are You? And you can win some cool swag of theirs! So make sure to check out the contest and enter today! If you haven’t already seen their bad ass video for Dangerous, the first single off their album, check it out below:   Make sure to visit their social media sites and stay up to date on their latest news. ~ Marisol Information & Links: Website: http://www.shamansharvest.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shamansharvest Twitter: https://twitter.com/shamansharvest Instagram: http://instagram.com/officialshamansharvest iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/smokin-hearts-broken-guns/id895642428?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Alternative Rock

18th and Addison is our Band of the Day

February 6, 2015

Today’s Band of the Day goes to a 18th & Addison from Toms River, NJ. What began as an acoustic duo featuring Tom Kunzman who  was formerly in the band A Criminal Risk and DiBenedetto was one of MTV’s first recording artist with her band Just Kait (she is also the guitarist in the band What’s Eating Gilbert, the side project of Chad Gibert of New Found Glory) has since developed into a full live band. Together these two have come together and created their alternative rock sound cultivated from their influences of melodic rock, pop, punk and much more. They are capturing and bring back the honesty in music which is something so many bands strive for.  Kait explains,  “The goal for us has always been to push this music in a direction that neither one of us had ever attempted”. Since we’re both from two totally opposite ends of the musical spectrum, especially in our town’s music scene, that has come pretty easily to us. We now play live with a full band and the [Read More]

Alternative Rock

Interview with alternative hard rockers In Urgency

February 5, 2015

We recently brought you the sultry music video for Stitches from Los Angeles based alternative infused hard rockers, In Urgency. It is definitely a great track. We had the chance to interview In Urgency and are pleased to bring you that interview here: Music Junkie Press: Thank you so much for taking the time out to talk with us here at Music Junkie Press. We are loving the video for Stitches. First off, it is a kick ass track! Can you tell us a bit more about the song? Chris: Thanks a lot, we appreciate that!  The song originally started out as an acoustic track (as many do) a few years ago. I was in college, between bands, and was really infatuated with the grandeur dream of the singer-songwriter path at the time.  I’d kind-of gotten tired of the whole “band world”.  The politics, responsibility, having to rely on everyone to pull their weight: It’d just burned me out and I wanted to make music my own for once.  It was a pretty confusing time for [Read More]

Guitarist

Guitar virtuouso Robben Ford announces new album

February 5, 2015

Guitar virtuouso Robben Ford is set to release his new album, Into The Sun via Mascot Label Group on March 31st. The new album will highlight Robben’s artful contemporary songwriting and his spectacular playing in an 11 song set that he describes, “one of the top recordings I’ve ever done”. This new release will incorporate his timeless vocabulary of jazz, pop, blues and rock into a modern framework for his poetic lyrics and the most graceful, emotionally nuanced and melodic vocal performances of his career. All of the music and most of the lyrics come from Robben  but he also collaborated with ZZ Ward on “Breath Of Me” and enlisted the enigmatic Kyle Swan, whose own recordings liberally mix images and styles to build articulate modernist-pop tone poems. He explains more about the album, “The album is really upbeat. It has a positive vibe to it — a good time feel. There are a lot of different rhythms and colors and the way the instruments are used is really different on this. It makes me very happy to [Read More]

Metal

Progressive metallers id. offer free download of their new song, Sagittarius A

February 5, 2015

Progressive metal band, id. are set to release their debut EP ‘Sagittarius A’ on February 10, 2015. id.  is a multi-layered metal force with its progressive, heavy and catharsis songwriting inspired by Sigmund Freud’s theory on the levels of the human psyche. As they introduce their subconscious tendencies on their upcoming four track debut EP that touches on topics such as inner struggle, world views, self-awareness to what’s beyond in outer space. They are sharing with metal fans a FREE download of the EP title track ‘Sagittarius A’ on PureGrainAudio.com at the following link here. With more songs in their arsenal for a full length to follow this EP and influenced by bands such as Opeth, Mastodon, Devin Townsend, Gojira, and Augury, id is sharing with metallers what’s to come as they push forward to put themselves on the map. Employing a style that is different compared to other progressive bands, id. transcend genres with a line up of Vancouver metal scene veterans that includes lyricist and vocalist Jason Pennington (Makaria), drummer Kris DeBoer (Grudge, Infernal Majesty, Artep), rhythm guitarist Tyson Araszewski (AutumnEx) [Read More]