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2014 Warped Tour Bands announced… First Batch Here:

December 4, 2013

Warped Tour 2014 has announced a few of the bands for 2014. Here they are: For Today Air Dubai Stray From The Path Mixtapes Teenage Bottlerocket We will continue to keep you updated!! For now, get your tickets here. Facebook For Today: https://www.facebook.com/ForToday Facebook Air Dubai: https://www.facebook.com/airdubai Facebook Stray From The Path: https://www.facebook.com/Strayfromthepath Facebook Mixtapes: https://www.facebook.com/MixtapesOhio Facebook Teenage Bottlerockets: https://www.facebook.com/teenagebottlerocketofficial

In This Moment delivers another spectacular performance for Hell Pop Tour

December 3, 2013

Last week, we had the pleasure of covering the Hell Pop Tour with All Hail The Yeti, Kyng, Motionless in White and In This Moment. From the first time I heard In This Moment, I fell in love with them. This was the sixth time covering their show and they never cease to amaze me with their performance. When you see In This Moment, is not just like seeing a band on stage with their backdrop, etc. is a production like no other and you can’t help but be adrenalized by it! In This Moment has Maria Brink on vocals and she has excellent stage presence. For the first time I saw her live, I haddubbed her the Metal Version of Lady Gaga, she just has a presence that you can’t ignore. Her vocals are spot on and is definitely a crowd pleaser. Then you look to each side of Maria and you are blown away by the guitarists; Chris Howorth on Lead guitar, Randy Weitzel on guitar and Travis Johnson who reminds my son [Read More]

The Broken Ravens new single; Pressure is out NOW!

December 1, 2013

It is that time! I told you a couple weeks ago about an amazing new rock band from Scotland, The Broken Ravens who were out Tuesday Travels Pick of the week. You can read more from that post here. Well, they just released their new single, Pressure and it is incredible. Hailing from from the Stornoway from Isle of Lewis, Scotland, The Broken Ravens are soon to be one of your favorite new bands. They remind me of a mix of Black Sabbath with Soundgarden. The Broken Ravens are Kevin Clark on Drums, Lotto Ferguson on Bass/Vocals, Calum ‘Thrash’ Macaulay on Guitar/Vocals and Bugsy Maclean on Guitar/Vocals. The band has been working hard on putting the final touches on their debut album. Kevin says, “Just now we are putting together demo’s for an album. We have quite a few finished (11 or so) and want to put out the strongest album we can. We are also releasing our first single in a couple of weeks, available through every major digital retailer, we recorded, mixed, produced and will be releasing ourselves [Read More]

Time for San Francisco to listen and “All Hail The Yeti”!

November 29, 2013

This week was an awesome one for music! On Tuesday we went to San Francisco for the Hell Pop Tour 1 with In This Moment, Motionless In White, Kyng and All Hail The Yeti! It was a great night. It was the first time for us seeing All Hail The Yeti and boy they didn’t disappoint for that first time experience. They came straight out and just bled their energy and soul out on that stage. They played songs from their self titled album and the crowd thoroughly loved it! One of my favorite songs is The Art of Mourning and you can check out a tribute video that Rockin Ryan put together with footage and photos from their San Francisco show here: It is amazing to see that this hard working band, with lineup changes and starting back in 2006 is finally getting the recognition they so very well deserve. “We’ve managed to prevail through all the bullshit,” says frontman Connor Garritty. “I have seen too many great metal bands die here. We had to [Read More]

Lions Among Us take Katy Perry to a hard core place!

November 27, 2013

First you know I love my metal and I love my Katy Perry. So can you imagine what would happen when those two worlds collide??? Well, you don’t have to. Hardcore band, Lions Among Us from Pittsburgh, PA did a cover of Katy Perry’s “Part of Me”last year and I am finally getting around to checking it out! Check out the song here: Lions Among Us recently released their new album, “Re:awakening” on November 5th and with songs like #Sorrynotsorry, Call to Arms and Silence The Ocean they are demanding to be heard! So if you need to heavy up your playlist, head over to Itunes and download Lions Among Us… We did! Make sure to visit their social media sites and stay up to date on their latest news. ~ Marisol Information & Links: Website: www.lionsamongus.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/lionsamongus Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LionsAmongUs Youtube: www.youtube.com/lionsamongus Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/lionsamongus Merch Store: www.lionsamongus.storenvy.com

French Metal band DAGOBA takes over San Francisco!

November 26, 2013

WOW! I know I told you about DAGOBA coming to San Francisco to open up for returning metal band, Dir En Grey but you can’t believe how awesome they were! I have been looking forward to seeing DAGOBA live since we have been playing a lot of their heavy songs from their latest album, LP “Post Mortem Nihil Est.” It was recently released here in the US only a couple weeks ago and on Sunday night they came to The Regency Ballroom on the Ghoul 2013 Tour with Dir En Grey. We had the opportunity to interview Shawter, composer and singer for DAGOBA and here is that interview: They really came out and put on an amazing show. They have excellent stage presence and this was their first time playing in San Francisco. Dir En Grey has a very tight following and it was awesome to see how DAGOBA won over the crowd. They even got them to do the Wall of Death, Mosh pits, Circle pits and more. The energy was fierce and their [Read More]

The Broken Ravens from Scotland are our Tuesdays Travels Pick of the Week!

November 19, 2013

A great new rock band from the Stornoway from Isle of Lewis, Scotland called The Broken Ravens are our Tuesdays Travels Pick of the Week for Music from around the world! You are really going to love this band, they remind me of a mix of Black Sabbath with Soundgarden. The Broken Ravens are Kevin Clark on Drums, Lotto Ferguson on Bass/Vocals, Calum ‘Thrash’ Macaulay on Guitar/Vocals and Bugsy Maclean on Guitar/Vocals. What is great about this band is that they each have very diverse musical influences and together they have created their own unique sound which has to be heard! We asked Kevin if they could name three of their biggest influences and here is what he told us, “As all our influences are so diverse, we nearly ended up in a big fight over choosing just three , but, after a struggle, we managed to get it down to 4. Our main inspirations are Slayer, Black Sabbath, Elmore James and Anathema”. The band has been working hard on putting the final touches on their debut album. Kevin [Read More]