The single "Pick Me Up" marks a new start for the esteemed Copenhagen-based rock band Stella Blackrose. It's still rock that is the lifeblood of the band, but the single portents a new, more poppy version of the band. Danish band Stella Blackrose has been in the labour camp to reinvent themselves and develop the sound that has already been struck on the first two albums. Rock music is still the foundation of the new style, but inspiration from bands like Paramore and Biffy Clyro is not denied an entrance. In the wake of the band's first two albums "Kiss the Dirt" (2010) and "Death & Forever" (2012) followed countless great reviews, lots of touring activity and a series of festival gigs - including Smukfest (second biggest festival in Denmark) where the national daily paper BT credited a 5-starred review under the heading "Stella Blackrose are the new stars" - as well as live performances on national Danish television. For the last year the band has been writing songs for the yet unnamed third album. A couple of these has been presented on a spring tour in Denmark with a never before seen acoustic constellation, performing stripped down versions of their songs. A rock band that stands out In front is still Rebecca Lou Armstrong, who with her devil-may-care vocals and poetic lyrics universe, invites the listener into a world of melancholy that also are recognizable from the first two albums. The vulnerable and honest lyrics are well preserved in the band's DNA, but a renewed positivity has sneaked in and presents a rock band that are not afraid to stand out, but at the same time write about something as trivial as love. "Pick Me Up” is homage to the person that bothers to stand by your side when you are feeling most imperfect. A reminder of that there’s beauty in our mistakes, and to find someone who can see through the insecurity and love it, is a gift.” Rebecca explains. See the video below. Stella Blackrose - Pick Me Up (official music video) Rebecca is backed up by established names on the Danish music scene: Steven Ardilsø on bass, Jakob Gundel on drums and Anders Bo Jespersen on guitar. "Pick Me Up" is the front-runner for the third album that currently is in the process of recording. www.facebook.com/StellaBlackroseOfficial www.stellablackrose.dk
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One of the more recent highly anticipated new bands, Nightmares, have announced that their début record "Suspiria" will be released June 2nd, 2014, via Rise Records. The band have also released new music in the form of "Cujo" which is taken from their forthcoming album. Nightmares will also hit the road on the Rise Records and Friends tour this spring. Fans can check out "Cujo" and pre-order the new album here. The epic and urgently dark new album features eleven of the most viciously powerful songs Nightmares have ever recorded. Carrying the emotional and psychological weight of a horror movie soundtrack, the ride begins with the blistering track "Frontiers" which uses an intricate digital manipulation of cinematic sound effects to set the tone of the record. Tracks like "Hands of the Ripper", "Suspiria", and "Carnival of Souls" are deeply filled with raw emotions which keep fans on their toes as they explore the various elements and layers that are true to Nightmare's sound. Front-man Carter Hardin expresses his delight: "We are thrilled to be announcing our début full-length "Suspiria" today, this record is the product of two years of work and we can't wait to share it with you. Our new song "Cujo" is a personal favourite. I wrote it about a Christian school I attended whilst growing up in a society where they forced their beliefs down our throats and wouldn't let anyone question anything. The main message behind the song it to not let anyone force you to believe something... draw your own conclusions and find truth for yourself, whatever that may be". Nightmares recorded "Suspiria" over the course of a full year with Drew Fulk at Think Sound Studios in Greensboro, North Carolina. The band also brought in heavy - hitter producer and engineer, David Bendeth (Bring Me The Horizon, Of Mice and Men, Asking Alexandria) to mix the album at House of Loud in Elmwood Park NJ. The Atlanta based five piece recently released a provocative new video for "In the Mouth of Madness" featuring Tyler Carter of the band Issues, which saw over 250,000 views within the first week of release. Nightmares will take the stage starting April 30, 2014 on the Rise Records and Friends tour with PVIRS, Alive Like Me, and Tamerlane. "Suspiria" Track Listing: 01. Frontiers 02. Let The Right One In 03. In The Mouth Of Madness (feat. Tyler Carter) 04. Tourist Trap 05. Cujo 06. Carnival Of Souls 07. Enter The Void 08. The Tommyknockers 09. Hands Of The Ripper 10. Suspiria 11. Irreversible http://www.facebook.com/nightmaresofficial CRASH MANSION Essex, England https://www.facebook.com/CrashMansionUK 2013 has proven to be a successful year for the youthful Southend rockers Crash Mansion, having snapped up a deal with Transcend Music, released their latest EP "Live For Something" as well as gracing the Jägermeister Acoustic Stage at Download. Furthermore as the lads look forward to supporting Stormbringer (https://www.facebook.com/events/239565636200946/?source=1) there is a real buzzing sense amongst the Essex music scene in that they are sure to deliver another sensational year, as 2014 beckons the young lads look to progress on amendments (Phil Maher had replaced Adam Dougan) and yet we could see them potentially begin the task of wielding their first album, watch this space..... EARLYRISE Israel https://www.facebook.com/EarlyRise?ref=ts&fref=ts Already taking Israel by storm, this unsigned Israel-based sextet are sure to make their sound well and truly heard across the world in 2014. Considered to be a more melodic and more powerful form of Evanescence, EarlyRise unleashed their debut album 2 years ago and for sure some people will think that that they are in overtime in regards to delivering their second album, therefore 2014 beckons to be the year this lusciously-sounding lot deliver that one song that will push them forward. 2013 proved to be a good year for the six-piece especially with their cover of Korn's 'Narcissistic Cannibal' reaching 1 million views on YouTube. Of course Israel is not generally well acknowledged on the rock map, so this is the time for EarlyRise to change that. SIXTYFOURS
Warwickshire, England https://www.facebook.com/sixtyfours/info Whipping together genres that stand so far apart is never easy, but time and time again a band goes the extra mile and does it spot on. Poised to make 2014 a big year for themselves is four-piece Sixtyfours whose infectious mix of rock, hip-hop and euro-dance is sublime to say the least. Their 2013 single 'All On You' featuring also the song 'My Sound' proved to be a hit amongst the media critics and as they plan their next musical assault, Sixtyfours could easily find themselves wound up at either Reading, Download or Leeds festival next year, they are that ready. Pumping out the rock 'n' rave is definitely on their plans, could they be the answer to the saturating rock scene? Letlive. premiere their music video for ‘Younger’ and their UK headline tour begins next week25/9/2013 Just as they’re about to embark on their first ever full headline tour of the UK & Ireland, Letlive. have premiered a new music video via Noisey. 'Younger' is one of the tracks from critically acclaimed recent album ‘The Blackest Beautiful’. Playing on the song’s lyrical themes of “Only the good die young”, the music video explores the workings of a cult and vocalist Jason Aalon Butler’s character’s turning the tables on the enigmatic cult leader in a dark and twisted fantastical scenario. Currently treating mainland Europe to their frenetic and already quite legendary live show, letlive. hit UK shores next week with Night Verses (whose drummer Aric Improta plays the cult leader in the ‘Younger’ music video) and The American Scene in tow. Having already been upgraded from the Underworld to the Electric Ballroom, the London date of the tour is now sold out, following the lead of Cardiff, Glasgow and Southampton, all of which ran out of tickets some time ago. LIVE DATES: 03 Oct 2013 UK Bristol The Fleece 04 Oct 2013 UK Southampton Talking Heads SOLD OUT 05 Oct 2013 UK Birmingham Asylum 06 Oct 2013 UK Leeds Cockpit 07 Oct 2013 UK Newcastle Warehouse 34 09 Oct 2013 UK Manchester Sound Control 10 Oct 2013 UK Belfast The Limelight 11 Oct 2013 Ireland Dublin Fibber Magees 12 Oct 2013 UK Glasgow King Tuts SOLD OUT 14 Oct 2013 UK Nottingham Rescue Rooms 15 Oct 2013 UK Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach SOLD OUT 17 Oct 2013 UK London Electric Ballroom SOLD OUT PRAISE FOR ‘THE BLACKEST BEAUTIFUL’: “one of the most affecting heavy records of the year.” – NME (8/10) “One of the returns of the year. One of the records of the year.” – Kerrang! (5/5) “The unhinged-ness that makes this band’s live show such a presence has finally made it to record.” – This Is Fake DIY (8/10) “Writhing and urgent, it’s the record that might make them stars.” - Q Magazine (4/5) "With this record, letlive. are in a league of their own." - Rock Sound (9/10) “This is the kind of record that changes people’s lives.” - Metal Hammer (9/10) “…genuinely flawless.” - Front (5/5) www.thisisletlive.com // www.facebook.com/theletlive // www.epitaph.com Critically-lauded singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Green will release his newest solo offering "Young Legs" on 17th February 2014 via his own newly launched imprint Moshtradamus Records. The album’s first single “Breaker” premiered on RollingStone.com - (Click here to listen) - who expresses the track, “…opens with dramatic keys and bracing percussion, and is an extension of the singer-songwriter's past work.”
Fans can share and embed the track here. With Young Legs, the Circa Survive front-man ventured further away from his punk / hardcore roots and pushed deeper into the lush, intricate, melody-driven brand of alt-rock. The album is a masterful collection of sprawling, lavishly textured pop. But while the album is Green’s most ambitious effort so far in a 10-year music career, "Young Legs" also bears a warm intimacy that proves both his strength and ingenuity as a songwriter. Made at Studio 4 Recording in his home state of Pennsylvania, Young Legs finds Green teaming up with Will Yip, a producer / engineer who’s previously worked with Circa Survive (as well as artists as diverse as The Fray, Lauryn Hill, Arctic Monkeys, and Beanie Sigel). “I wanted this album to sound bigger and more atmospheric than anything I’d ever done, and I knew that working with Will could make that happen,” says Green. For more help in broadening his sound, Green once again joined forces with Good Old War, the Pennsylvania-based indie-folk trio who served as his backing band on 2008’s Avalon and 2012’s Beautiful Things. In crafting the sonics of Young Legs, Green looked to a wildly eclectic range of influences that includes the Beatles, Peter Gabriel, Queens of the Stone Age, Fleet Foxes, Justin Timberlake’s latest work, and—most significantly—Fiona Apple and Frank Sinatra. “Their music is just so clear and cutting and really captures a feeling,” Green says of Apple and Sinatra. Besides the pained, yet powerful single “Breaker,” that lyrical intensity fuels much of Young Legs, such as “You Have to Believe It Will Happen” (an epic, soul-stirring number that Green penned for a friend struggling through divorce) and the quietly devastating “I’ll Miss You” (a string-accented tribute to a departed friend). But a brighter, breezier mood prevails on many of Young Legs’ other tracks, including the dreamy acoustic reverie of “Stolen,” the gently cascading and harmony-soaked “Shine,” and “Anytime” (a blissfully bouncy ode to Green’s younger son). “Most of the songs on the album were written for other people, or inspired by things that were going on in the lives of my friends and family,” explains Green. Describing the songs on Young Legs as “little presents to people I love.” Direct-to-fan pre-order for Young Legs is now available at www.anthonygreenmusic.com with exclusive limited edition packages: including a 1-hour private Skype session with Anthony, a unique hand painted 12" vinyl jacket, handwritten lyrics to a song of your choice, a new t-shirt, and more. Fans can also preorder the deluxe version of Young Legs on iTunes and get 5-bonus demo versions and a digital booklet. In support of the new solo effort, Anthony will take to the road for a string of CO-headlining shows with The Dear Hunter starting on 24th February 2014 in the UK and running through to 16th March in Europe. Anthony Green + The Deer Hunter European Tour 2014 24 FEB • Bristol, UK @ Thekla 25 FEB • Cardiff, UK @ Clwb Ifor Bach 26 FEB • Southampton, UK @ Joiners 28 FEB • Birmingham, UK @ Academy 2 01 MAR • Manchester, UK @ Academy 3 02 MAR • Glasgow, UK @ King Tuts 03 MAR • Newcastle, UK @ University 05 MAR • Nottingham, UK @ Rescue Rooms 06 MAR • London, UK @ Garage 07 MAR • Paris, France @ Fleche d'or 08 MAR • Eindhoven, Holland @ Dynamo 10 MAR • Hamburg, Germany @ Molotow 11 MAR • Berlin, Germany @ Magnet 12 MAR • Cologne, Germany @ Gebaude 9 14 MAR • Zurich, Switzerland @ Dynamo 15 MAR • Calenzano, Italy @ Cycle Club 16 MAR • Vienna, Austria @ B72 Tickets on sale Friday 27th September and are priced at £12 - £14. Available from: www.anthonygreenmusic.com |
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