  | New release is follow-up to platinum-selling debut, Don’t You Fake It, with new single, “You Better Pray” out now 
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Virgin Records Jacksonville, FL, platinum rockers THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS have completed recording their sophomore album, LONELY ROAD, at the Valley Village, CA, studio of super-producer Howard Benson (Hoobastank, P.O.D., Less Than Jake, Daughtry, Seether, All-American Rejects), the follow-up to the DON’T YOU FAKE IT. Their debut breakthrough was two years in the making, a tribute to the label’s commitment to />... | Released this past April on Hydra Head Records 
Torche are a band who don't write songs like anyone else... it won't be surprising if in 15 years some young band on stage starts playing a riff from Meanderthal and the crowd goes nuts. - Decibel Magazine
And so it begins. We warned you that these things might happen, and they are.
2008 has been a momentous year for the human race, if for only having elected the first US president in years that the public />... |
Finally the new album of INFERNO is ready and is called "Pompa Magna"!! The exclusive preview of ‘The year of the Dingo’ is now available on their myspace music player in streaming.
"Pompa Magna" has been recorded and mixed as usual at Hombrelobo Studio (Rome) by the guys themselves, then mastered by Eddy Schreyer (A Perfect Circle, NOFX, Korn, Pitchshifter) at Oasis Mastering (Burbank, CA). ”The Second />... | VIDEO WERE ALL OF WINNERS OF THE ANIBOOM ANIMATED VIDEO COMPETITION 
MySpace Music the world's most popular music community, is proud to announce that it will premier Radiohead's three new videos starting November 21 with the "Weird Fishes" and following with videos for "15 Step" and "Videotape" to be premiered on November 25 and November 28 respectively.
The creative teams behind the videos are Tobias Stretch from the US for "Weird Fishes;" the German team of Wolfgang Jaiser and Claus />... |
Football and Rev Theory are set for a head on tackle this evening during NFL’s Thursday Night Football match-up between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Fans will get a little "Light It Up" action from Rev Theory and some highlights from the first two quarters of action right before the start of the second half. Catch the game at 8:00 PM EST on NFL Network and other local channels (check your local listings).
... | AT SOBE LIVE IN MIAMI BEACH, FL, ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 
NEW ALBUM "THE BALL STREET JOURNAL" IN STORES AND ONLINE ON NOVEMBER 25 ON WARNER BROS./SICK WID' IT RECORDS
MySpace Music is proud to announce that E-40 will be performing a free show for his MySpace friends at SOBE Live in Miami Beach, FL, on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008 - a show being powered by AT&T. The Release Show will have 200 tickets available for the 21+ show, and admittance will be handled on a />... |
Los Angeles pop-rock duo Oh No Not Stereo are taking their high-energy live show to the United Kingdom this December, where they will open for Bayside and Hit The Lights during a week-long jaunt. The group has enlisted Airin Older of Sugarcult to play bass for the tour, and will perform as a four-piece with Jussi Karvinen on second guitar.
Oh No Not Stereo are releasing their second full-length record, “003,” />... |
Australian singer-songwriter, Josh Pyke's music video for 'Make You Happy' has gone gangbusters on YouTube reaching 100,000 views with 80,000+ views in the last 36 hours!
Featuring a custom-made boat designed to the specifications of Pyke's favorite guitar, a Maton, the video was shot on location in Sydney Harbour.
Pyke, though unsigned in the U.S. is a household name in his home country having won 3 />... | Singles Label Hits The Road For A Select City College Tour 
Green Label Sound, a singles only music label designed to support emerging artists from a diverse array of genres, announced today that it will be kicking off a three date college tour with Green Label Sound recording artists Matt and Kim and hip-hop duo The Cool Kids. Both acts released exclusive singles on the label this year and the music is available for free download at GreenLabelSound.com. All shows are $5 and open to the public. />... | Black Friday Promotion Announced for Rock Gone Wild Fans 
Are you ready to get wild with Hardcore Superstar and Lizzy Borden? Both bands have joined the ever-growing Rock Gone Wild lineup. No other festival in America gives fans the chance to see bands from four different decades of rock and many countries in the world. And, for just four hours only, fans can enjoy a special ticket offer -- in time for the holiday season! Rock Gone Wild is slated for August 20-23, 2009 in Algona, Iowa.
... | 'Last Tango in Brooklyn' - It's Yours.... 
...Frightened Rabbit have recorded a new song entitled 'Last Tango in Brooklyn' for Australian zine The Lifted Brow. Here is Pitchfork's take: "It's a view looking back after a relationship has ended, and what once seemed bright and lovely has now turned cold and lonely. Starting with an acoustic guitar and building to a sad hymnal, fleshed out with chanting and tambourine, "Last Tango in Brooklyn" shows a quieter, less anthemic />... | Free download site reflects an exciting time for the Welsh language music scene 
Dan Y Cownter 3 is a free download site @ www.danycownter.com that features ten exciting new tracks from ten very different Welsh acts. With flavours of acoustic, jazz, indie, rock and hip-hop to sample, there’s certainly something for all tastes.
The tracks were chosen by the Radio 1 and Radio Cymru DJ Huw Stephens and youth groups from all around Wales.
Huw Stephens said: “Once again, Dan y />... | | |
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Bone Garden is the first single to be lifted from I Am Ghost's new album 'Those We Leave Behind'. Bone Garden is loud, fast and powerful, the kind of song to start a gig off with. It grabs your attention quickly and the tempo keeps you wrapped up in it right to the end. The most notable element for me is the production. Full and clear tones from the guitars are evident in Bone Garden and make it easier to here every note played with clarity, which in my opinion is vital to this post-hardcore style of music.
The song writing too is well done. It follows a very traditional structure but its a structure that works well across all genres. The verse is a guitar wielding monster which flows well into a chorus that's quite catchy, mixing singing and screaming to good effect. The breakdown is />...  | Full Time Hobby ![White Denim - Workout Holiday [Album]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/4/0/3/0/51qyyawwlzl__sl500_aa240_.jpg "White Denim - Workout Holiday [Album]")
There must have been some sense of pride in Austin when its goliath of a music festival, South by Southwest, finally had a local buzz band. And it’s nice to finally see and hear a much-hyped band that doesn’t look or sound as though huge worldwide success means too much to them. Which is just as well, because although bands are usually hyped as the next big thing, I suspect the hype surrounding White Denim has more to do with their potential to produce more genuinely brilliant underground records like ‘Workout Holiday’, rather than any potential to top the charts and festival headline bills. Here’s hoping though,,,or rather not. You see White Denim are one of those ‘Buddy Bands’, a band you share a love for with your mate rather than the world.
Opening with two short sharp shots of />... ![White Denim - Workout Holiday [Album] Author rating: 76%](images/rating/gars_8.gif "White Denim - Workout Holiday [Album] Author rating: 76%") | Elektra Records ![Tracy Chapman - Our Bright Future [CD]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/3/9/8/5/25s3dra.jpg "Tracy Chapman - Our Bright Future [CD]")
Twenty years after the release of her debut record, Tracy Chapman is back with a new studio album and is still up there with the best of today's singer /songwriters, which has un-disputably secured her place in the history of popular music.
'Our Bright Future' comes at a time when radio friendly music doesn't really seem to have a definitive trend - the music consumers' obsession with guitar based pop-indie acts like The Pigeon Detectives, Scouting for Girls and the likes now seems terminal and acts such as The Pussycat Dolls, Dido and Craig David are all equally matched and are competing for sales. This is obviously good news for Chapman, because this is one of the few periods in the last 2-3 years where taste has overpowered trend and people aren't afraid to buy music simply because />... | Mush ![Her Space Holiday - XOXO, Panda And The New Kid Revival [Album]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/4/0/0/8/xoxo_panda.jpg "Her Space Holiday - XOXO, Panda And The New Kid Revival [Album]")
It is generally quite easy to tell whether or not an album is good. You can listen to it a few times and perhaps occasionally add some songs into mix CD's you make for friends, or you can listen to a few tracks, decide it was a mistake and take it back to the store you bought it from. Her Space Holiday’s XOXO, Panda and the New Kid Revival however, is neither of these two options, because it is neither good nor bad. It is in fact outstanding, so much so that you become captivated by the melodies and lyrics so much that you loose track of time. Every time I find myself putting on XOXO, Panda, I find myself utterly mesmerized by it. Then again being a massive fan of Californian pop, I might be a bit biased.
After having been around for 12 years, Her Space Holiday will be leaving behind />... ![Her Space Holiday - XOXO, Panda And The New Kid Revival [Album] Author rating: 90%](images/rating/gars_9.gif "Her Space Holiday - XOXO, Panda And The New Kid Revival [Album] Author rating: 90%") |
On arriving at the venue, I was very excited, mainly because Frank was doing his soundcheck, but also because the venue was very small! Bring on the up close and personal music love. I then went to do my interviews with Frank and Chris, who are both wonderfully nice men, and got even more excited about the music love. Met up with my mates and then went back into the main room to find a room full of people sat on the floor! I was told this happens a lot at the Tower Arts Centre – but you can’t rock sitting down people! So we marched our way to the front which meant one half of the room had to stand up. Heh.
Chris T-T and his band The Hoodrats rocked out with mainly songs from his newest album, Capital – which is ace – and yet the second half of the room remained seated. Chris did try to />... | Epic ![Lemar - The Reason [Album]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/2/lemar.jpg "Lemar - The Reason [Album]")
Having followed Lemar all the way through the old-school Fame Academy series (back when the telly format was reasonably fresh!), I’ve always considered the Tottenham-born soulster to have more musical integrity and smoother grooves that many other R&B artists.
R&B is not my thing. On the surface I often think of the genre as pretentious, plain,and a straightforward blast of OTT production and lyrical egotism, but I wanted to give Lemar’s fourth studio album, new release “The Reason”, a fighting chance to prove to me that good quality commercial music is not a thing of the past. And also that stubborn indie-pilgrims can indulge in something more accessible occasionally!
On an initial listen it’s clear that Lemar’s bowled off in a slightly different musical direction, as I can’t find />... ![Lemar - The Reason [Album] Author rating: 60%](images/rating/gars_6.gif "Lemar - The Reason [Album] Author rating: 60%") | Geffen Records ![Guns N Roses- Chinese Democracy [Album]](http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/2/7/gnr_chinesedemocracy.jpg "Guns N Roses- Chinese Democracy [Album]")
It took 15 years and about $20 million to make Chinese Democracy. Considering there are 14 songs on the album, that's over a year and around $1.4 million per track. I heard the singles, so I already know it's not packed full of million dollar songs. But, before I really rip into this album, there is something we need to get out of the way. The name. No, not Chinese Democracy. Guns N Roses. I don't have a problem with the fact that Axl is the only original member in the band. What I do have a problem with is that Axl's ego is so big I'm sure he'd sue the pants off anyone who tried to take credit for any small portion of this album. For that reason, it is not Guns N Roses, it is Axl Rose. Now onto the content of the record (and further evidence that this is actually a solo album).
Let's />... ![5 People are talking about Guns N Roses- Chinese Democracy [Album]. Come voice your opinion!](http://hangout.altsounds.com/comment.gif "5 People are talking about Guns N Roses- Chinese Democracy [Album]. Come voice your opinion!") | Function Records 
Munroe Effect start off their EP with "The Escape (part one)". It’s an electronic based, finger picked guitar intro; think Radiohead’s In Rainbows. The Portsmouth based band lead you into a subtle verse with background guitar playing that can only be described as a harmony rich trance. The drums soon jump in and really kick off The Escape, it carries on building but doesn’t quite get you to that end your after. While you think your ending on an anti-climax, you’re thrown straight into the next song, "Death of a tin God".
To really appreciate the intro to Death Of A Tin God you need to carry a straight listen on from The Escape. If you are ever dropped right into the intro, it doesn’t really fit to the rest of the song. Despite this, the band deliver yet another cracking verse, with />... | | | From Zero-G the makers of Vocal Forge 
Background
In the modern world of music every day sees the rise of a new bedroom producer or DJ, crafting tunes they want to hear and some garnering massive success from it. The single most sought after thing by these guys would have to be good quality vocals and this is where Vocal Foundry from Time & Space comes in.
I often conduct remixes for competitions and for fun and when remixing, I am... | 4-ins/ 4-outs audio interface. Designed for advanced and professional DJs. 
As a home producer and music fanatic, it has always been my ambition to get the old vinyl out the loft and start manipulating music as a DJ. Space, money and time has always been the main factors effecting my decision to actually going ahead with this ambition. Having previously played around with Virtual DJ Pro software on my laptop, I had become accustomed to guessing where the mix will... | The latest version of the industry-standard DI box with speaker simulation. 
Features
The unit is a red box the size of a regular guitar pedal or a DI. It has a 1/4 inch "Line In" input and a 4x12 or "Combo" selector on one side. The other side is the "From Speaker Output" and "To Speaker Cabinet" 1/4 inch jacks. At the top there is a XLR Output which can power the unit via phantom power. If there is no phantom power the unit can also take power from any adapter from 6 to... | |
| | "I'm not going to pick up someone's shorts and show you his doo doo streak" 
I don't know much about rap or hip hop. I'm a southern white girl, so what has popped up on my radar over the years is the same bullshit party rap everyone has heard. You down with OPP? No, not really. (Hey, that rhymes, too!)
Years and years ago, I saw Ozomatli perform. It totally opened my eyes to a whole new world of music. I had never in my life heard someone flow like Chali 2na. Since then, I have loved everything the man has touched. Jurassic 5 remains my absolute favorite />... | "It's not like I'm trying to write shitty songs or something." 
The Plain White T's have done what most bands strive for. They started at the ground level and worked their way up to the bright lights of Hollywood. 'Hey There Delilah' was a massive hit for the band, turning them into major label heavy-hitters. Now out with their first album since their big break, Big Bad World, The Plain White T's are happy. Appreciative of their success, but essentially unaffected by it, PWT took the time to make the album they wanted to make, the way they wanted to make />... | "Do people buy CD's any more?" 
Altsounds: First things first, where does the name Hoobastank come from?
Hoobastank [Dan Estrin]: Well, the word "HOOBA" is Latin for "one with much passion for". STANK is Greek for "a woman's rectum".
Altsounds: Are you pleased with how the new single 'My Turn' is doing so far?
Hoobastank [Dan Estrin]: I haven't been following how the song is doing. our manager fills us in but I kind of just tune it out. I don't want to think about that right />... | "The Delgados really changed the way I thought about music and songs" 
So were coming to the end of a big year for you. What has been the highlight?
Each week seems to feature a brand new highlight for us, as we've been playing shows pretty solidly for the past few months... T in the Park was particularly memorable, though. And of course the day our record came out was rather nice.
Has releasing a Christmas single been a long held ambition?
Not terribly long. I've wanted to do an EP of Christmas songs, as I'm a huge fan of Low's one. But />... | "we're on the wall between Woody Guthrie and Color Me Badd. It's a very distinguished honor." 
All too often kids pick up instruments with the hopes of becoming rich and famous, only to find out that goal is nothing more than a fantasy for all but a select few. The road to stardom is lined with the bodies of unlucky dreamers that have been chewed up and spit out by the exclusivity of reality. The further an artist travels down that road, the more depressing it can be as the faces on the bodies grow increasingly familiar. Artists you've known, liked, and even played with never quite made />... | | | [Music Video]
Forgive Durden's video for 'Life Is Looking Up' from Razia's Shadow: A Musical - in stores now on Fueled By Ramen.
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Live at Loppen, August 30th 2008
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Katie Melua releases ‘Two Bare Feet’, an up-tempo good-time pop song with catchy brass and piano licks that challenge you not to tap your feet.
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Rev Theory - Light It Up Live from Kansas City ...
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Rev Theory - Hell Yeah - Live from Kansas City ...
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In todays Myspace oriented world nothing is more important than making sure your Myspace looks better than everyone elses. That's where we come in!
You can hire the Altsounds design team to completely overhaul your Myspace page and make it look better than any other Myspace site out... | | | The Altsounds Concentrate | Sunday 16th November 2008 
Altsounds is bigger than Jesus
LOOK AWAY NOW NAN! The Sacrilegious Edition.
Thanketh the Lordeth for gracing us all with Saint Christopher, master of web design. I'm telling you, Chris will not be satisfied until every beloved child under the firmament is chillin' on Altsounds. Here are some of the new blessings-
First of all, the search function hath been moved to the top. USE IT. Altsounds has some serious depth. It would take you years to see everything on the site. Do a quick search for your favorite band and find all of the related content Altsounds has to offer.
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