Lower Than Atlantis' album cover for their third full length record, Changing Tune, out September 10th.
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Following the self-release of 2011’s AVOHFASIH, Wisconsin’s ORWELL (www.aseatinhell.com) have survived on a steady diet of weekend-warrior road-dogging and homeland camaraderie. They’ve taken their blend of stoner metal/rock throughout the Midwest, to venues both large and small, and this August they’re hitting the road and heading to the West Coast for a run of shows.
After countless shows fine-tuning the live elements of their musical creation, ORWELL will be playing AVOHFASIH in it’s entirety across the nation. You can download the album in it’s entirety, on a pay-what-you can-or-don’t basis, at their bandcamp: http://orwellus.bandcamp.com/
Along for the trek will be fellow Wisconsin residents, three-piece sludge metal outfit SPEAKER EATER (speakereater.bandcamp.com). Having quickly established themselves as one of the heaviest acts hailing from the Midwest, Speaker Eater are gearing up to bring their unique blend of disorienting sludge to audiences closer to the Pacific. They will be touring the highly anticipated release of their crushing new album, Lords, recorded by Ryan Rusch at The Weightroom Studios and mastered by Dave Hill at Crane Song Studios. Speaker Eater is offering a song, the third track from their new album, Lords entitled “Inalienable Tongues,” availably exclusively on Metalinsider.net.- link: http://www.metalinsider.net/new-music/orwell-announce-western-tour-exclusive-stream-from-opener-speaker-eater
Aug 09 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Tree House
Aug 10 - Fargo, ND @ The New Direction
Aug 11 - Missoula, MT @ Zoo City Apparel
Aug 12 - Seattle, WA @ TBA
Aug 13 - Portland, OR @ The Know
Aug 14 - Oakland, CA @ Vitus
Aug 15 - Los Angeles, CA @ TBA
Aug 16 - Las Vegas, NV @ Yayo Taco
Aug 17 - Salt Lake City, UT @ TBA
Aug 18 - Denver, CO @ The Lion’s Lair
Both bands are proud to have created their own unique vision, producing and assembling all of their own merchandise, packaging, and promotional materials. “If you want something done right, do it yourself.”
The All-American Rejects are currently touring Europe with Blink-182, and have just shared a tour diary video from Italy. The clip, entitled “Itallian Translation,” covers the events of the band’s tour stops in Milan and Lucca, including eating Italian food, holding a meet + greet, wrestling, dancing, and more.
See the Reject’s complete upcoming schedule at allamericanrejects.com/events, and be sure to check out their imaginative new video for “Walk Over Me.” Kids In the Street is available now on iTunes. For more on the band, visit their official site at allamericanrejects.com as well as their Facebook and Twitter.
International videogame company Capcom, in close collaboration with Ninja Theory, has announced that Dutch electronic music trio NOISIA has composed the music for the upcoming DmC Devil May Cry videogame out January 2013. NOISIA’s specially curated music will be heard during the title’s cinematics and gameplay, including combat. NOISIA created over three hours of original music for DmC Devil May Cry and have been working on this project for over a year. NOISIA’s previous videogame soundtrack work includes their track “Groundhog” on DJ Hero; “Machine Gun” and “Seven Stitches” featured in three editions of the game WipEout; and “Stigma” and “Yellow Brick” featured on Gran Turismo. They were also commissioned to make eight remixes especially for MotorStorm: Apocalypse; the tracks will be released as free downloads on NOISIA’s Facebook page once they reach 300,000 likes at https://www.facebook.com/noisia/?sk=app_389514974442774.
Says NOISIA: “It’s been an awesome experience working with Ninja Theory on the game. We had great freedom but were also bound by certain criteria typical in the game world. These are challenging boundaries (for example; consistency in sonics over 180 minutes of music) but also lots of space in terms of dynamics & progression and instrumentation, being able to create soundscapes without having to worry about holding the attention of a dancefloor. Their music director was great to work with, good vibes. It’s great when you get to play to your strengths. Also, the game kicks ass!”
A free sample track of NOISIA’s DmC Devil May Cry is available for download and reposting here:
Listen: http://soundcloud.com/noisia/noisia-devil-may-cry-soundtrack-sample
Download: https://www.facebook.com/noisia?sk=app_176086382522580
Set in a contemporary world setting, DmC Devil May Cry re-imagines the original story of Dante, the brash protagonist of the Devil May Cry series. DmC Devil May Cry is developed by the award-winning studio Ninja Theory in collaboration with Capcom, overseen by senior team members from previous Devil May Cry titles.
NOISIA has kept busy in 2012. Following major performances at this year’s Coachella and Electric Daisy Carnival festivals, NOISIA recently premiered the video for “Tommy’s Theme” on MTV Clubland and mtvU. Watch the “Tommy’s Theme” video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjbiMXfe2NU.
Earlier this year, NOISIA re-released their debut album SPLIT THE ATOM: SPECIAL EDITION via the deadmau5-helmed mau5trap Recordings. A groundbreaking release in their career, Split the Atom illustrates the gamut of NOISIA’s abilities as electronic artists with tracks highlighting their production prowess in the realms of drum ‘n’ bass, electro house and breaks. SPLIT THE ATOM: SPECIAL EDITION takes that mentality to a whole new level featuring new material from NOISIA and hard-banging remixes from some of today’s most in-demand and up-and-coming electronic artists, including Kill The Noise, Moombahton star Munchi, dubstep kingpins Excision & Datsik, 16bit, The Upbeats, Posij, Loadstar and many more. Listen to the album here: http://on.fb.me/z2EVrN.
NOISIA will also tour across the U.S. on the Identity Festival this summer where they’ll join Eric Prydz, Excision and more. For more information on SPLIT THE ATOM: SPECIAL EDITION, check out: http://on.fb.me/z2EVrN. More free NOISIA downloads are available at: www.noisia.nl/gold.
For more information and exclusive content, follow DmC on Facebook: www.facebook.com/devilmaycry.
The band’s statement is below
First of all, thanks to everyone who has reached out in support of Randy and each of us in this terrible situation. It’s noted and very much appreciated. We have been keeping our heads down and not speaking out due to the fluid nature of the situation and the constantly changing information that even we receive daily. Within an hour things can do endless 180’s. It’s maddening to try and make heads or tails. We’re taking the time to speak to you as it has been a significant period of time since this situation began and while nothing is immediately clear to any of us, we are not trying to keep anyone in the dark. We have reached out and are making use of the resources we have acquired to help our brother who is still detained in Czech jail. In the two years since, we were never notified of anything related to this incident. Randy is our brother and we assure you, we are all staying very positive for him, working endlessly behind the scenes to provide any and all assistance possible. The best we can do is to stay positive and continue to support our friend that we know is innocent. We know that justice will prevail and we will continue to do our part to support our friend.
Abigail Williams will be breaking up after their upcoming U.S. tour. A message from the band is below
After much consideration we have decided to make these upcoming Abigail Williams shows our last US tour. This was a very hard decision to make but feels absolutely necessary at this point. I’ve had the best times of my life with this band and learned so much about what I want to do with music as well as what I don’t like about the industry etc and we honestly feel like its best to put the band to rest after making what we feel to be our very best album. Im honestly just feeling satisfied with everything we have done as Abigail Williams and I feel ready to put it to rest. We want everyone to know this has nothing to do with differences inside the band as we are still very much a family and these are still the same people I want to make music with now and in the future.
We think that 2012 is the perfect year for new beginnings and we definitely plan to put music out later this year in the form of a new band(s). It would be easy to give people the names to our new projects here but rather than capitalize off this announcement we would rather word get out naturally starting with our friends when the time is right. We want to thank our friends and fans who have supported us through the good and bad times over the years, we know its been a very bumpy road at times. We are still very dedicated to making music and this change will actually allow us to do more of what we want to do and be more productive. We hope to see everyone on the road for this tour that we booked DIY for the most part by ourselves. The dates are below even though some of them are still waiting to be confirmed. Also we want to emphasize that this is our last US tour and that we are open to touring overseas if the right tour comes up.7/26 Santa Barbara, CA @ Muddy Waters
7/27 Mexicali, CA @ TBA
7/28 Los Angeles, CA @ The Black Castle
7/29 Temecula, CA @ The Vault
7/30 Tempe, AZ @ The Rogue Bar
7/31 Las Vegas, NV TBA
8/3 Salt Lake City, UT TBA
8/4 Prince, UT @ house show!
8/5 Denver, CO @ Old Curtis St Bar
8/7 Midland, TX @ Pine Box
8/8 Fort Worth, TX @ Tomcats West
8/9 Austin, TX TBA
8/10 San Antonio, TX @ Zombies
8/11 Houston, TX @ Numbers
8/12 Baton Rough, LA@ Here Today Gone Tomorrow
8/13 New Orleans, LA @ Siberia
8/14 Tampa, FL TBA
8/15 Miami, FL TBA
8/16 Satellite Beach, FL @ Wynfields
8/17 Orlando, FL @ Bombshells
8/18 Columbus, GA @ The Plughouse
8/19 TBA
8/20 Johnson City,TN @ Hideaway
8/21 Roanoke, VA @ Coffin House
8/22 Baltimore, MD @ Talking Head
8/23 Frederick, MD @ Cafe 611
8/24 Pittsburgh, PA @ Smiling Moose
8/25 Columbus, OH @ The Shrunken Head
8/26 Lansing, MI @ Blackened Moon
8/27 Chicago, IL @ Ultra Lounge
8/28 Louisville, KY TBA
8/29 Nashville, TN TBA
8/30 Birmingham, AL @ The Nick
9/1 Kansas City, MO @ The Riot Room
9/2 Quincy, IL @ The State Room
9/3 St. Louis, MO @ Fubar
9/4 Des Moines, IA The House of Bricks
9/5 Milwaukee, WI @ Port of Hamburg
9/6 St Paul, MN TBA
9/7 Fargo, ND TBA
9/9 Billings, MT TBA
9/10 camping yellowstone
9/11 camping yellowstone
9/12 Boise, ID TBA
9/13 Spokane, WA TBA
9/14 Seattle, WA TBA
9/15 Portland, OR TBA
Albany, NY’s State Champs will be releasing their debut 7″ titled Overslept on September 11th 2012 on 7″/Digital via Pure Noise Records. Overslept was engineered by Jay Maas at Getaway Recordings.
Track List
1. Tonsil Hockey
2. Critical
3. We Are The Brave
4. Remedy
Catch State Champs on the Property of Zack Tour w/ With The Punches and Forever Came Calling starting July 13.
Dates:
Jul 08 The Waterfront - Holyoke, MA
Jul 13 The Loft - Poughkeepsie, NY
Jul 14 Freight Street Gallery- Waterbury, CT
Jul 15 Radiant- Nutley, NJ
Jul 17 Smiling Moose- Pittsburgh, PA
Jul 18 Hard Luck Bar- Toronto, Canada
Jul 19 Mickey Finns Toledo, OH
Jul 20 Grog Shop- Cleveland, OH
Jul 21 THMV- Indianapolis, IN
Jul 22 Mojoes- Joliet, IL
Jul 24 FUBAR- St Louis, MO
Jul 25 Rat Bastard Garage- Springfield, MO
Jul 26 The Conservatory- Oklahoma City, OK
Jul 27 Starwood Studios- Southlake, TX
Jul 28 Red 7- Austin, TX
Jul 29 The Ten Eleven- San Antonio, TX
Jul 30 Fitzgerald’s- Houston, TX
Aug 01 Coffee & Playhouse- Decatur, AL
Aug 03 Rocketown Nashville, TN
Aug 04 Long Branch Saloon - Knoxville, TN
Aug 05 Kingdom- Richmond, VA
Aug 07 Mt. Airy Firehall- Mt Airy, MD
Aug 08 The Barbary- Philadelphia, PA Tickets
Aug 09 Jumpzone- Sicklerville, NJ
Aug 10 Ethical Humanist Society- Garden City, NY
Aug 11 Bogies Albany, NY
Aug 24 Palladium Upstairs Worcester, MA
If you’re a fan of pure British indie who’ve captured the essence of quintessential British music and put a contemporary twist on it, then Kartica are for you. They’ve recently been making waves in the music industry, winning critical acclaim for their latest single ‘Don’t You Think So?’ and also, proving to be a stunning band to catch live.
NME has stated that they’re “Solid Sheffield Indie Rock” whilst The Silver Tongue over in the US have, “Kartica proves they have the proficiency and drive to be magnificent in their own right”. Whilst riding on such fantastic reviews, the band have decided to give away one of the bonus B-sides that come along side ‘Don’t You Think So?’, which makes it’s a tantalising package. Kartica are giving away ‘Wider Eyes’ for you all to enjoy.
DOWNLOAD ‘WIDER EYES’ NOW
Deftones are mixing their next album, and hope to release it in early October.
"It’s not a super fast or slow record. It’s very dynamic," Moreno tells Billboard.com. "Some of my favorite things about Deftones are the dynamics. Yes, we’re a heavy band, but we’re not just in-your-face aggro the whole time, punching you in the face. There’s a lot of aggression in some of the music, but there’s also this very soothing element where there’s a lot of soundscapes rather than attack, attack, attack the whole time. I understand that’s a big part of our sound, but I really feel like we reached a peak on our dynamics on this record with those two qualities — the beauty of something and just straight, ruthless aggression."
Carly Fanning (ex-Kenotia vocalist) gives us the low down on her new band’s record, Close to Home out now on iTunes and BandCamp.
In the Beginning, There Were Voices
We actually wrote this over a year ago, and we were coming off a heavy Game of Thrones kick. We were really just screwing around but in the back of my mind, I knew I wanted to use it eventually, and when we wrote the rest of the album, it worked in a weird way. So we put in on the album as the intro.
A World Away
This is the first official song we wrote together for this project. As far as the meaning goes, technically, at the time I was having a lot of dreams about a little kid, and it took me a couple of weeks of having this dream before I realized it was supposed to be my child. I ended up waking up in the morning sad that the dream was over, so I wrote this song. But obviously, that’s not a general feeling that everybody has so I wrote it in a way that could be interpreted any way you wanted to. Hopefully I pulled that off…..
Try
Try is a song close to my heart, and it’s really just about struggling in a relationship, whether it’s family, friends or significant other. It’s about feeling like you’ve put so much in and get little to nothing back and you start to realize it’s not ever going to change. It’s definitely not the happiest song, but I think it’s very important to get out those negative feelings. Coincidentally, it was also one of the hardest songs to sing for some reason. I did 4 or 5 versions of it over the span of 6 months and finally got it down to something I was happy with.
The Edge
Shawn actually came to me with the music already written and done on this one. It was one of the most fun to do because it’s different from the other songs on the album and most of the songs I’ve done previous to this. I was definitely seeing Mark Wahlberg in Rockstar the whole time I was recording this. It’s probably one of my two favorites on the album. For a minute the music threw me because it was so upbeat and I felt like I had nothing positive to say at the moment, but it ended up working for me. The song is just about the past few years and working in the music industry and basically how I haven’t gotten where I hoped I would, but even though it’s been difficult, I still believe I am supposed to do this. Fingers crossed!!!
Free the Flower Child
This song about killed me. Emotionally I’ve never had such a problem finishing a song but this one took me a long time. We worked on this for close to a year and didn’t get it right until two days before we put out the album. Last year my family lost a close friend very suddenly and we all had a rough time with it. I had written a few songs about how I was feeling and they were so horribly dark and depressing, I just couldn’t finish them. So I finally decided to write as if she were talking to me and what I’d like to hear her say. I had to take quite a few breaks while working on this but I knew the last time I heard it, that it was done. I still have a hard time hearing it though.
Shouting at Satellites
I love this song. It came out so easy once we started, I love it when that happens. The song is about my anxiety, basically. I injured myself a little while ago and it turned out not to be so bad but had the potential to be irreversible and ever since then, my anxiety has been through the roof. It’s just me questioning some of the rotten things in life and saying that sometimes I feel like no matter how much I ask for answers, or peace, I can’t find it and it feels like I may as well be shouting at satellites because nobody hears me. That’s also the reason we chose that as the name for the band.
Let’s Be Honest
The last song on the album was actually a surprise. We had everything else recorded and we were messing around with pro-tools one day and this was the result. It was completely random and not meant for the album but once it was done, it just fit. Without sounding cheesy, this is one of the most honest songs on the album, it reveals the most of me. I talk about times where I’ve been way too selfish, and disgustingly jealous of other people and about the fact that every day I have to fight those feelings to make myself the person I hope to be. The whole point of it though, is to let everyone know…hey, EVERYBODY feels this way. EVERYBODY has done these horrible things that they won’t share with other people and had feelings they are ashamed to share, but it’s not that stuff that makes you who you are, it’s how you bounce back and deal with all that. It’s the stuff you choose to do with those feelings that can make you bad or good. And if everybody truly WAS honest about themselves….maybe things would be a little easier?